skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a killer travel app at all, sorry. As of now I wouldn't trade having some Wikitravel pages offline for this Google Trips app. Let's wait and see before calling it a "killer travel app", shall we?
I feel very differently about this. Arguments come from people looking for a reason and finding one they don't like.

What an argument attempts to do is change the outcome by providing a logical explanation for an outcome.

Many things classify as being a good reason but may also be easily out weighed by other concerns.

For instance the color of a bike shed is of no concern unless the color is dangerous in a specific location. If you are building a bike shed at an apiarist's house the color of the shed does matter as some colors effect bees differently. [0]

If your house is near a forest and you need to find your shed painting it in camouflage is probably not a good idea.

I feel everything should be argued until you can be sure you've considered all view points and can come to the best (in your use-case) decision. This is the case from everything ranging between colors of sheds to technical discussion.

As long as there is a valid reason behind it, it is fine.

[0] - http://resteasypestcontrol.com/bees-and-wasps-facts-which-co...
I believe opinions do have to be based on fact. That's the difference between opinion and faith. People have faith that God exists, even if they don't have proof. But opinions are really just your interpretation of the facts you're presented with. Opinions change as you get new facts, faith persists even in the face of facts. If you believe something even though fact says otherwise, that is not an opinion. It's faith.

And yeah, it's fine to believe that Snowden went too far while also believing the NSA went too far. But you specifically are not arguing against what I said. I said "you can't believe Snowden is a traitor...", you said "yes I can", and then went on to say "but I don't think he's a traitor". So... anyway.
It's on US News And World Report:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta...

Seems like a decent summary...
That's splitting hairs, in my opinion. There is a distinction possible between "established by treaty" and "established by an Act of Congress pursuant to a treaty", but I didn't think it was necessary to make it upthread.

My main point was that foreign states need not become one of the United States to be protected by certain rights clauses in the U.S. Constitution. The key question is how to make the agents of the U.S. obey U.S. laws when outside of U.S. territorial jurisdiction, and there are many possible answers that do not involve extending U.S. territorial jurisdiction beyond its current bounds.

If there are no district courts outside U.S. territory, suing the U.S. as a foreign person may become prohibitively expensive in relation to the magnitude of the offense. The suit could further be impeded by using immigration laws against the plaintiff, possibly impeding discovery or appearances. Retaining a local attorney would be de facto required rather than optional, and hourly rates might combine with currency exchange rates and national economies to ensure that the price tag is simply too high.
I think you should decide what your single most important goal is:

1) launch a project

2) learn a language

Learning a new language will derail your project completion and launch indefinitely, often permanently.
> There would likely be a lot of unaffiliated candidates if the number in the House was drastically and suddenly increased.

No, there wouldn't. The electoral forces that drive duopoly operate the same almost independently of district size, changing the number of single-member House districts with first-past-the-post elections won't reduce duopoly.

Changing the electoral method might (and doesn't require changing the number of districts.)
You should camp in wilderness with a military base near by. Canoeing in a REMOTE lake and I get buzzed by 2 jet air craft. OR they decide to do night bombing on a site not used in 20 years a few miles away. That stuff is scary.
No, I'm pretty sure it's http://azure.bikeshed.org/.
This has been obvious to me since COPS came on the air. It glorifies brutality in every scene. I got to think that recruits are influenced by growing up with this awful example.
There is one built into Chrome now.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/prof...
What? Communist countries are ruled by a single communist party and do call themselves communist. As well as socialist. The terms have their differences, but "communist" is used.
> Also, "all men" is referring specifically to white males, since at the time women were not treated equally and, you know, they had slavery back then.

Different people involved with the writing of that document had different ideas, and there were many drafts, and it was a creation of compromise. That it was left as open as it was, when prior revisions had specific clauses critical of the slave trade removed[1], is a testament to how contentious it was. That it was still used as later evidence for the abolition of slavery is to the credit of those that fought for a more inclusive wording. That it didn't include specific reference to women... well yeah, that sucks, but at least you can argue later that "man" was meant in the sense of (or should be interpreted as) "humanity".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal#Slav...
The most important thing is to use the right tool for the right job. If the project has networking and doesn't involve building a GUI or graphics, then Go is a great choice. (Not that Go can't do GUIs or graphics, but there aren't very robust and mature libraries for those things yet).
Eh. Calling it a “fifth” is making it clear that the label is an ordinal number: first second third fourth fifth ...

You need to think of it as “if the bottom note was the first note of a scale, where in the scale would the top note be?”

As with many questions of indexing, off by one errors are tricky.

It’s a system that confuses names for notes in a scale with names for intervals between notes. You’d rather they called them by cardinal numbers representing some kind of “distance”, instead of a count starting at one.

But that would be applying a later mathematical understanding on the earlier system. If that’s what you want, you should just use a log scale and count twelfth roots of two.

Ideally we’d switch all our indexing to start at zero, and use half-open intervals everywhere. Start at 0 AD, call the ground floor of a building “0”, start spreadsheets with row 0, switch Matlab to index from 0, et cetera. This is pretty unlikely to happen though.
I have spent about 9 months cumulative in the coffee-producing region of Nicaragua, known as Jinotega, and have been fortunate enough to spend some time with small coffee producing farmers (fincas), and have followed the entire production process that they have in-country from drying the beans to roasting and packing. I have also spoken to various coffee importers here in America, in my local metro area, about how they purchase, both fair-trade and not. I have also spent about a year cumulatively in Haiti, and worked for a Haitian manufacturing company. I hiked from sea level to the highest point in Haiti, and saw a lot of rural areas in the middle portion of the country, but I didn't see much coffee growing in Haiti personally, although I did drink a lot of Rebo brand Haitian Coffee. I would agree that the technical level of coffee production in Nicaragua is likely higher, and that they do at least appear to have a larger export market. I have heard stories about how it's challenging to export agricultural goods from Haiti to the US, in general. Technically it's an ITAR restricted country, which is not a good starting point at all, for any kind of exporting. Beyond that, while both Nicaragua and Haiti have had massive amounts of political instability, it's just more expensive to import all sorts equipment to Haiti, because it's an island. You can get all sorts of coffee grinders and roasters in Nicaragua by driving it down from Mexico or wherever, but in Haiti it would have to be brought in by boat or from the Dominican Republic. This creates an expertise/knowledge bottleneck. Multiply this expertise/knowledge bottleneck out over every industry, and every piece of equipment. Also the geography and infrastructure doesn't help. Nicaragua has a huge highway leading from the coffee producing region, so it's an hour drive from Managua. Back in 2004 it took more like 4-6 hours to drive there from Managua. In Haiti...you have nothing of the sort...it's just crappy roads, pretty much everywhere. Multiply that cost over the cost of importing vehicles, parts, the lack of mechanical expertise, etc...everything is just more expensive. So it's also a distribution problem. That's basically how I see Haiti in a nutshell, compared to Nicaragua, not just in the coffee realm.

The comment about, "things being done for charity rather than business," is both true and not true...it's an over-generalisation. There are a lot of people making money and producing things in Haiti as well. I don't have an official breakdown of charity dollars vs. non-charity dollars.
You're right to be cautious and with any charity it's reasonable to expect transparency. I've donated to Watsi for a while, they send a lot of updates and freely share what procedures cost, the steps they are on and when they were performed. It's my understanding, they cover their operational costs from other sources (and asking you when making a donation). It's never free to run a charity and I can respect some higher expense ratios having worked for one. Assuming what Watsi is putting out isn't flat out lies, they seem competent and trustworthy.
I do. This may not be popular opinion - but the mere fact that they can build what you can after you have "proved" the market for them is always risky IMO. Ofcourse, bigcos may not be able as nimble as you are - so there's hope. Incidentally, I asked a question today due to the fear of same thing.
First I read «Why isn't it the Fucking Kind of .NET?». Go ahead and downvote me :P
Has Oracle given any details about their underlying technology, other than what we assume was acquired from Nimbula and others? Do they know how to build a datacenter for IAAS/PASS at the same level as Amazon, Google, MS?

Amazon and other large players have made fundamental innovations in how they construct custom X86 servers, Virtual servers & custom layer 2/3 networks at large scale. They don't just rack together Dell/HP servers & connect them with Cisco switches/routers, then slap a webui on top of it. That would just be putting lipstick on a pig. It doesn't matter if its a large pig with 64 Cpu cores.
More like Omni Consumer Products, amirite?
Operation Moon Bounce
At first I thought this was a total hoax, but the account has been deleted and the incriminating posts are over 2 years old. Here is a pastebin I found of online information linking all his profiles together: http://pastebin.com/NmXcUC1X

This is pretty incriminating.
AWS isn't just about EC2 though.

They offer quite an extraordinary breadth of managed services, whether it be queuing/messaging/Notifications (Kinesis, SQS, SNS), to databases (RDS, Aurora, Redshift), cluster based computing (EMR), object storage (S3), quite fine grained access control (IAM), monitoring (cloudwatch), infrastructure as code (cloudformation)....

The list goes on, I don't see this Oracle offering much more than just being a bit of a cheaper version of EC2
PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Python - pick one.
Does Go do networking better than Java?
There's a trade-off being made by picking proprietary software vs. open source and it's entirely about control, strange as it might sound. A good CTO/CIO has some measure of power over their vendors and can boss them around a bit like they're an employee. If the primary account manager is golf buddies with him, endangering the relationship with arm-twisting on either part isn't just business it's personal and can be viewed in some respects as stable. With open source software, you don't really have anyone you can hang over a fire that holds the kind of political weight - you don't want to have to talk to every single open source project lead or something as a super busy F500 C-level, you want less throats to choke and that your hands are big enough to wrap around them. For open source, the trend has somewhat shifted into each major open source product having a corresponding company offering the full support cycle like any other closed source vendor (Red Hat, Chef, Cloudera, Sqrrl, Puppet, etc.) so things are looking better for hybridized open source efforts today as they grow, but without some consolidation they're not going to be a full enterprise "solution" due to most of them being too specific in applications for their technologies.

As an engineer, I like to think of this primarily social problem like trying to focus a huge, distributed system architecture upon as few languages and platforms as possible. With most enterprises having grown through dozens, maybe hundreds of mergers they have a huge zoo of different stuff to support culturally. You could try integration approaches like message buses and such, but there's a lot of people overhead involved there and it gets really ugly when everyone disagrees upon the message bus (and in sufficiently large groups, conflict is inevitable).
Nice list. Comprehensive list. Obviously, they'll put themselves first, but I don't mind especially considering the transparency:

> Cons: “Free demo” is very limited. You need to pay to get anything done.
I've read an entire book on the history of the British Empire. I'm well aware of the differences. South Korea suffered far more brutal treatment than India did: Korea was conquered by the Japanese who are still notorious today throughout Asia for their rampant brutality in war, then it was cleaved in two by a communist revolution. Compared to that an organised handover of power from the colonials to home rule is a stroll through a grassy meadow.
Maybe I'm completely ignorant of the situation, but it just sounds like he was trying to keep some email addresses private, in anticipation of some kind of potential release. Is that bad?
Stopping killing by execution is 100% solvable, and most other countries have done so. [1]

Stopping going to war is much harder and there are only a few countries that have done so. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country
When She Walked into Target, She Never Imagined She’d See This
It was more of a lack of abstraction than anything. The server reflected more or less what the OS presented -- an add and a delete rather than a move. Putting the pieces together later to present better information to the user was difficult. Not sure what they do today, but I remember many talks about ways to put that abstraction in place as close to the OS as possible. Reconstructing multiple, quick, renames/moves after the fact proved to be somewhat difficult from the frontend, which Aston worked on.
Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion
> that keeps our House in the hands of the two parties

Single member districts, first-past-the-post elections, and the Presidential system (which creates a big winner-take-all election, and makes the parties competitive for that election even stronger relative to other parties than they otherwise would be in downballot elections) are what keeps the House (and Senate, you will note, so the gerrymander-proof nature of the Senate is no defense against duopoly) in the hands of the two major parties.

Gerrymandering may effect which of those two parties is likely to hold which seats in the House, and effect competitiveness between the parties for particular seats, but is pretty much irrelevant to duopoly.
The other big thing is that US per-capita steel consumption (including imports and finished products) is significantly down since the 1970s.

This says that US steel consumption per capita went from 622 kilograms in 1979 to 451 kilograms in 1988: https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:373b3927-26ff-4591-8e7...

More recent numbers here say 348 kilograms per capita in 2003 down to 297 kilograms in 2015: https://www.statista.com/statistics/185031/apparent-steel-us...

With a US population of 225 million in 1979 and 322 million in 2015, that means that total US steel consumption is only 68% of what it was in 1979. It doesn't look like domestic production has declined much (if any) faster than domestic consumption since the end of the 1970s.

Cars are lighter than in the 1970s, cars last longer than in the 1970s, and non-steel materials are increasingly used in roles that steel was used for in the 1970s. Like parts of cars and making beverage cans.
I got a malware warning (using chrome) from that site 3 clicks in. I won't post a direct link but it was site -> products -> starter packages -> any starter kit
Still exists. https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?q=Hardware%20IO%2... is the link you're looking for.
thieves target tourists.
I used it during a my trip to Ireland and it was fine, not great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence
Drew built the MVP for dropbox as a side project while working fulltime for another company, that's how it was "funded before it was funded."
This is very misguided. There is, fundamentally, always somewhere around an infinite amount of possible work that can be done. The most important thing in actually getting anything of value done is making sure that you get the right work done. Because if you get sucked into one or another effort sink (of which there are an endless variety) then you won't get anything of substance done.

This is even more important in business, because while you're faffing about sinking precious effort (which is, remember, hard currency of the greatest value) into meaningless tasks the competition is getting ahead of you, and stomping on your face in the market, relegating you to insolvency and the dustbin of history.
> My suggestion: stop the project, burn the code.

> Seriously, by splitting up the dev effort between yet one more project, the open source community ends up with even more competing standards.

Oh come on: there is no lack of developer time, so many developers are rotting away in front of TVs.

There is however a lack of developer motivation to do open source projects.

If anyone wants to work on this instead of wasting their life in front of the tv, thumbs up from me.

+ as already has been pointed out, matrix seems to go way way beyond irc.
Should you be able to publish academic research under a pseudonym?
Yes I was a little put off by getting asked for that directly

Would be nice if the front page had some more info about what you are trying to do and how why I want to use it (What's in it for me). There is more text explaining the site in the comments thread that I could find on the site.

Would like to have my view of Congress simplified.

I followed H.R. 1301 and your site doesn't have that it passed or what the bill is about. On top of that you have this scary picture of multiple huge dish antennas. I was a home owner and the ham next to me said "Hey, go look up H.R. 1301" and I saw that picture I'd be in a full panic.

Good luck, I bookmarked it, I'll come back and see if things are any better in a few weeks.
There's now a post in /r/exchangeserver that's making fun of this old post[1], but is there a link to the original (or has the post been deleted?).

I'm still rather skeptical of things I read on /r/conspiracy.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/exchangeserver/comments/53ick9/remo...
Yes it's pretty clear that the content of the email is not to be adjusted, just the To/From fields.

This seems to be legitimate work before an anticipate public release of email.
You could probably cover the Sahara in solar panels and still have a lot of sand there

Silica is not the bottleneck
Silicon Valley VCs Pay the Highest Rent in the U.S
Since the magnetic field of the earth, which protects us from the solar winds among other things, is generated by spinning of the molten outer core, do you happen to know how much of that energy would be available before adverse effects happen?

It's obvious that the answer is less than 100%, since a completely solid core would provide no magnetic field. Is there some way to tell whether it's closer to 0.1%, 1% or 10%?
The rise of the superstars
We don't know if we have accurate fatality numbers for Teslas though. IIRC, the first fatality was unreported for a couple months.
A lot of the entities we deal with in web apps are complex, multi-table structures when stored in a relational database. Think about blog articles (tables: article, author, tag, comment), user profiles (tables: user, friends, follower, interests, etc.), photos, tweets, ads, and such. The beauty of something like MongoDB is that you can store all the data as one "record" in a collection. You can also retrieve it with a simple query. These "records" are structured as something like JSON, so you can just take the data structures you're using in your app's code (particularly Python or JavaScript), and store it as-is with no conversion.

Compare this to an RDBMS-based web app, where to display a blog article for example you'd need to make multiple queries of different tables: first the "article" table to get the text, then the "author" table, then all the comments, tags, images, or whatever. The NoSQL way is much easier to code for this sort of thing. The lack of ACID doesn't matter so much because these kinds of data are usually written just once, read many times, edited rarely, so there are few opportunities for inconsistencies to creep in.
That depends on whether there are enough real people on it, and it is a vicious circle because everyone would think the same. That said, if you can create one without all the stuff people hate about current social networks, you might make it attractive for enough people to join and set the ball rolling, and I might consider joining. (I am not being facetious.) So it being run by pro profit or non profit is a non issue.
I believe it, but can't he just claim coincidence on the Reddit handle?
>Spiders, as all insects, don't learn

>Spiders

>insects

For shame!
A Big Tobacco Moment for the Sugar Industry
About failing, frustration and winning
This is similar to the improvement Facebook made when they added a few emotion buttons beside the like button. It's technically a pretty small change, but it affects what is seen as one of the core features of the website.

What's Facebook? Oh yeah, that thing with the like button. What's Twitter? Right, it's that thing with the 140 characters.

They must have spent a long time deciding whether it would be worth disrupting what made them popular in the first place to add a new feature. And in Twitter's case they probably also waited until single SMS messages were no longer really necessary.
On the topic of ETW is worth mentioning UIforETW [0] and in general Bruce Dawson's blog [1].

[0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW

[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
2020? that's like a century away in internet years.
I disagree with you on these particulars. But, overall, I feel like both sides are pulling a little bit too hard on the rope in this particular game of tug-of-war. Of course, I agree that House Intelligence is stretching as far as they can to portray Snowden in the worst possible light.
If your long term thinking indicates that you need to grow the food you need to eat, that year, then how does coffee or aid enter the equation at all?
The Internet was going to be an instrument for elevating discourse.

Twitter turned it into the opposite with the 140 character limitation.
Tim Berners-Lee's plan to reclaim the web from Facebook and Google
Twitter enabling longer tweets
Yes, chat bots are a revolution