skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bought logos and some other design stuff on Fiverr - have had mixed results, occasional good stuff.

I've also hired a couple of people to do work through Upwork (when it was oDesk) - I did have some good work done but I was not convinced that the same person was always doing the work, it seemed to me that it was being farmed out from one account that had good ratings.

The best result I have had (but the most pricey thing I have paid for) was design work done by a local agency (https://weare2ndfloor.com/). I spent a lot of time googling, looking at portfolios etc before getting in touch with them, but in the end it was worth it, I am very pleased with what they produced.
As someone who has a very hard time feeling unqualifiedly good about anything, I find the naive sincerity refreshing, and welcome it to a degree. I mean, is there really something wrong with taking pride in something interesting you did, and sharing it with people? Note that the original trip takers are not necessarily responsible for their wide audience (nor did they necessarily want it).
>> it wouldn't be allowed as you would end up submitting to HN just 'because' and without direct regard as to whether that post contributes the community

Yes, "Not all posts are HN related", but some of my websites always are HN related.

I don't have one general website for all purposes, I have almost "one website per purpose". One for cloud/infrastructure/k8s&docker/... posts, one for programming posts, one for business posts, ... All of those are quite likely to be "interesting enough" for the HN community.

Of course, for my personnal stuff, for my french stuff, for my music & video & photo stuff, and all the other stuff, I wouldn't even think one second of using HN as comment system.
Wow - I stand corrected.
It's not matter of if, but how far the US is willing to go down that path.
It died quite a while ago, which is why you see it almost nowhere anymore. But: it's open source, file an issue if you have a better starter idea. Everyone'll win.
>He revealed what everyone interested was already suspecting. The reason Russia shelters him is that he was working for them

Yeah, Russia (e.g. not USSR, but the present second-tier world player) has so many spies in the US, including in major government agencies, and people affecting internal politics and decision making so much.

/s

It's time people understand that not all nations are alike or of the same power -- there is a single global bully who gets to do whatever they like and influence whatever it wants mostly unchecked and mostly unchallenged. And it's neither Russia, nor China. China has meddle somewhat in Asia, but it hasn't been in war or toppling governments and setting up Banana Republics at Europe or Latin America or Africa. Others had.

The only enemy to this single power, if it can even be called that, since unlike 99.9% of actual enemies in actual history it hasn't done to it an iota of damage statistically speaking, is the fanatic islamists -- random people from 20+ countries, including goat herders, conspiring, without even a single nation state daring to openly support them. In fact, their biggest supporter, state wise, is also in bed with the single power. Go figure.
> It is however relieving to see how much progress has been done on the graphics stack since

Really? Most distros still use X11 by default 5 years later. That's pretty bad progress in my book.
Sure. Good luck getting the unwilling to follow the structure, though.
I wonder if the UK system is better at sieving natural talent whereas the French system is better at teaching? Personally I hated music (in the UK) because we never seemed to get taught anything, we we largely expected to just know things or magically learn through awkward repetition.

Knowing what I know now, I think there are a lot of ways we could have practised music early on that would have helped those of us not born with perfect absolute pitch. Most people have perfect relative pitch (afaik I fall into this group). Perfect absolute pitch and tone-deafness are both quite rare.

It sounds like the French system is optimised for the majority, forcing everyone to practise interval differentiation, including those who don't need it (and the small minority who will never be able to do it).
As the article says, Musk will be speaking at the IAC conference on September 27th, and hes expected to give some details on how he plans to colonize Mars.

The conference will be doing a livestream here:
http://livestream.com/accounts/4426843/events/6315496/player...
If you can find any links that make sense in that article, then you are probably a master detective who dresses up like a bat to put fear into the hearts of criminals. It's just a bunch of rambling nonsense gathered from National Geographic and Wikipedia with a nice clickbait title. I have to wonder if the writers at reason.com are being paid by word count given how vapid most of their articles are.
Ah, due to the two party system that has a stranglehold on the US system and the nature of our primary system, there are A LOT of unaffiliated independent voters. There would likely be a lot of unaffiliated candidates if the number in the House was drastically and suddenly increased. There would be no party whips to whip. There might not even be enough representatives of the major parties to even form a collation, at least in the start.
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LOL, because where else would he go? Some western country in bed with the US, or some third world place where people mysteriously "disappear" and anything can happen?
Why we use progressive enhancement to build GOV.UK
> the article only devotes a single sentence to the
> core of the argument, at the very beginning: the
> author has come to believe that life is either
> hallowed or not, and he prefers to believe that it is
> always hallow, and killing always wrong

I'm not sure that's the core of the argument, simply as I don't believe life is hallowed, nor I do support the death penalty, and I don't think there's any dissonance in this position.

I can't explain to you any sort of moral basis for feeling life isn't hallowed, and isn't indeed particularly special, but I know I've felt this way for most of my life. Death often causes loss and suffering in those around the dying, and often in those who know they're about to die, but the dead are incapable of caring that they're dead, and everyone's going to die.

However: the death penalty seems simply ineffective in any of the goals it sets out to achieve, and so I don't support it.
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> those of us born in other countries have the same rights too

Not in US law we don't. To my knowledge there is no internationally agreed and enforceable privacy law. Now, as a UK citizen, I'm not exactly jumping with joy for either what the NSA or GCHQ have done but, from the point of view of US courts, spying on me is not something that bothers them hugely.
The article sort of delved into this but there are some convicts that strangely find comfort in the future of being executed. In some ways I can understand this as the thought of being in American prisons for an extended period is rather terrifying.

Michael Shermer examined this in a recent article in Scientific America [1].

I'm sad to say I don't have that many strong thoughts on the subject because as (some other commenters have posted) there are just so many other atrocities that far more concerning both quantitatively and qualitatively.

[1]: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-death-row-i...
My teacher always said "music is about tension and the resolution of tension". So in A minor if you play tense chords and then resolve them to A minor, you're in A minor. If you resolve them to C, you're in C major.
> "Riot is more than a messaging app"

This said to me "Riot is just a messaging app" and I bounced. I'd recommend changing that tagline to indicate briefly why a user might use Riot instead of Slack or Whatsapp
One feature of JSFiddle I miss instantly is the ability to pull in a web framework via a dropdown. A reasonable counter-argument is that they're available as Google-hosted libraries[1], but you have to go hunt'm up yourself.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/
Or... finally fix your broken judiciary so he can have a fair trial.
Who are these generic Americans that think that Snowden should be condemned? Everyone American I know is very grateful for what he did. And I know quite a few.

I've only ever heard official policy statements condemning him. I am not even really sure those stating such policy agree with what they are saying (at a personal level).
I suggest reading http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill for a pretty good overview of the arguments in favor of the existence of "free will" (which itself has many definitions).

Which isn't to say you're wrong, but I think it's pretty uncharitable to say there aren't any "coherent" arguments in favor of free will. You did say you haven't "seen" any arguments, which I suppose is not the same as a claim that are none, but a cursory glance at that article should be illuminating for you. People have been thinking about this for a very long time, and no consensus seems to have emerged. :-)

You might also be interested in http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative, which seems to fit what little you've said about your current thinking.
He might not have a luxury of choice soon. If Trump wins the elections, Putin might well hand him over as a friendly gesture.
"The point of conventional instruments is that once you learn them - which takes years - you can instantly express almost any musical idea using all the possible degrees of freedom available on that instrument."

But the degrees of freedom of conventional instruments are severely limited compared to what is possible.

Let us also recall that every "conventional instrument" was at one time not only unconventional, but even radically new. The piano, is itself only a few hundred years old. I'm sure when it was invented there were some people who argued against its use and that one should instead stay with "conventional instruments", which then did not then include the piano.

I strongly recommend a talk[1] by Jordan Rudess, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest living keyboard players.

In this talk, Rudess discusses and vividly demonstrates the greatly expanded possibilities that innovative keyboards bring to the table.

Novel instruments that somewhat resemble conventional instruments like the keyboard are only the tip of the iceberg of music interface possibility, however. There are plenty of novel music expression technologies that don't have even the remotest resemblance to conventional instruments, and allow ways of expression that were hardly imaginable a hundred years ago. Things like whole body position tracking, which allows you to make music through dance.

Of course, mature musicians like Rudess who've spent their entire lives learning and practicing on traditional instruments will be unlikely to switch to something radically different, as they'll be starting from ground zero on those instruments. But others with less to lose will be more open to learning something completely new.

It's impossible to tell which novel instrument will become the conventional instrument of tomorrow, but it's very likely some will, because that's how we got all of the conventional instruments of today.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h-TsqoSWgo
Granted. It's just that to my ears, Larry Ellison's announcement scores the wrong check marks:

bluster: check
hubris: check
realism: nope

I would have expected that someone who takes marketing very, very seriously tries to sound realistic, not overoptimistic or full of that which makes plants grow.

Saying "oracle's database rocks" and asking for a stiff price has a certain touch of realism. I can see how a good salesforce can do that with success. My question is along the lines of: Can a good salesforce use bluster as a main tool to sell something shitty, such as oracle's IaaS offering? How does that sales process work?
A local web GUI for easier "content management", and a flat-file storage scheme of the content (without needing a database to store the content); that's what makes lektor different from other static site generators (SSGs). (The dev team behind this platform is great by the way!) Beyond these benefits, the rest is very similar to what other SSGs offer - including both the good and the bad that comes with any/all SSGs.

While lektor ultimately didn't meet my needs, I suggest that you give it a try, and see if perhaps it fits your use-case.
The relational model is useful for being well understood and part of the reason it is well understood is that the relational model is founded upon relational algebra and another part of why the relational model is well understood is availability in the wild roughly corresponding with the creation of the personal computer.

Search versus query [for some definitions of 'search' and 'query'] seems like a case where business logic suggests an advantage of one approach versus the other.

Good luck.
You can sit on one of the benches in the busier areas and easily spot the pickpockets and see them going in people's bags and backpacks and taking stuff. This isn't a rare occurrence and it does not take a practised eye to see. The pickpockets are always well dressed (usually very similar to the tourists). I like visiting BCN and I think it's a wonderful city, but it is completely infested with thieves targeting tourists to a degree that I have not seen in other European cities.

I'm surprised this is not common knowledge among people from there, maybe try 15-20 minutes people watching anywhere along Las Ramblas and see for yourself. Busy, sunny days with lots of people and police around are the best times to spot the thieves. You'll also frequently see tourist couples speaking to police reporting the robberies. You can watch the body language and gestures from a distance and it is very obvious.
That was a few years ago, the pound was significantly stronger back then. But even at the current exchange rate, he sold it for over $35k.
The plot is weird:
The title of the plot ("Isens alder (år )") literally means "age of the ice (years)", so the x-axis should probably have gone from 0 (being year 2016) to 116 (being year 1900), which would sorta have made sense.
None of the 'Generation 2' stuff uses Nimbula.
The Revolutions podcast has dedicated 19 episodes (around 10 hours) this year on the Haitian revolution, particularly the French occupied half, in which the coffee plantations feature prominently.

Of particular interest is the fact that in 1825 Haiti was forced to pay reparations to French ex-slaveholders, in the order of $40B in 2010 dollars, which they only managed to finalize in 1947.

http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2015/12/index.html
I strongly prefer a Unix approach to tools: each tool does one thing, Vasili. One thing only, please. That eases understanding of what is going on. Users are better educated and troubleshooting bugs/flaws is vastly easier. I consider a corporate decision as to what my computer will do irrespective of my wishes to be a flaw.
But not everyone believes one of those two axioms. If you do not believe that killing is always wrong, and you do not believe that justice requires execution, you must inform your choice some other way.
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Buying a Mattress Online Was Easy. Now, About the Return
I believe this is because I live in the UK. Apple seems to have invented some kind of bizarre hybrid layout between the UK and US ones. Shift-3 is the £ symbol here.
Juries are in no way bound to find even the most egregiously culpable defendants guilty of committing a crime. Choosing not to do so is not claiming the person did not break the law, but a claim that the law itself was wrong.

It happens every once in a while and is an important feature, not bug of the American judiciary.
Just to confirm, yes I was being sarcastic :)
New podcast Pessimists Archive about why people fear technology
Riot is based on Matrix. If you scrolled down, it would tell you that it's got strong crypto, you can run your own servers, it's got really good cross-protocol bridges, and a ton of other stuff. And it's totally free, save the cost of running your own server if you choose to do so.
The author talks about why founders should be more critical about taking venture capital, and how it polarizes the possible outcomes of the company.

I think Eric put together a strong piece that missed commentary from being published on Friday.
I think the parent is right that society should not regard life sentences and capital punishment differently with regard to permanency. Yes on an individual level, there exists the possibility of reversing a life sentence any time prior to the inmates death, but I think it's wrong for society to regard a life sentence as somehow a "less serious" sentence than a death sentence. Yes there are some innocent people serving life sentences whose convictions are overturned before their death -- but there are also some innocent people sentenced to the death penalty who are freed prior to execution.

We cannot ignore that there are also innocent people who are sentenced to life in prison -- who die in prison. From the perspective of maximum damage, surely society has harmed these people (and their families) more than it harms the innocents who are executed.
It's not about "switching" languages - it's about making sure the languages you do use solve the problems you care about. Honestly, nobody cares what language you use as an individual other than perhaps your coworkers.
I was the one suggesting Habitat for Humanity and I agree with you that it isn't the most efficient way to support home construction. This was one of the reasons that I had to be persuaded to go.

Obviously, professional construction workers would build homes faster and better than us amateurs. On the surface, it appears that I could simply have done what I am good at (software) for two weeks and pay professionals to do the building in Hungry instead.

While working in Hungry I had time to reflect upon this for two weeks. Most of the volunteers there did it because they wanted to help people, and most didn't think about the economic efficiency of they way they were doing it. A few of us (some Stanford MBA's and I) talked about it.

In retrospect, the issue is more nuanced. Habitat for Humanity is the world's largest non-profit homebuilder [0]. They require the future owners to contribute a significant portion of the effort in construction of what will become their home. This, they claim, results in better care for the home after they move in. If so, it seems like a useful model (but see the criticisms of Habitat for Humanity on the cited Wikipedia page).

Couldn't this be done using professional builders and not volunteers? Perhaps. However, let me relate something that was said to me in the small town where I was working. We were building a home for a family of Romani Hungarians in eastern Hungary. These people, sometimes called Gypsies, are not always treated well in rural areas of Hungary[1].

At one point, I met a townsperson that spent some time speaking to me. He said that at first the townspeople couldn't understand why people from the USA had to go to Hungry to find work. They were surprised that we were not being paid but instead had to pay for the privilege of working in Hungry (there are local trade's people involved with the construction that must be paid, construction supervisors, electricians, plumbers, cement companies and materials have to be paid for by our donations).

He told me that the concept of charitably taking care of someone not a family member was unusual there, and the whole town noticed us being there and doing it. We were well treated and the people were very friendly to us. One benefit of the trip is that we gained an appreciation of a different culture and so did they.

The remarkable thing was that he (the townsperson) described to me how seeing us volunteering to help people we didn't know in his own town inspired him to do the same; he had actually taken time in the past to work on the build too after seeing the volunteers from the US doing it. I realized that it isn't just about economic efficiency.

I still have mixed feelings about Habitat for Humanity, but overall I continue to believe that it is a form of "volunteer tourism" that has pluses and minuses but ends up being a net positive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_for_Humanity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Hungary
It's the Koch brothers afterall
How to be more Empathic
> On that note, a friend of mine (unknowingly) used water he thought was clean, but that came from a glass my cat had been drinking from, to dissolve heroin for injecting. The resulting infection nearly caused him to lose his leg - the lab analysis of the wound revealed the infection was caused by cat-saliva bacteria.

> Anyway, just saying there are dangers from pets and allowing them to share your environment.

While that's true, the particular dangers from injecting cat saliva are usually pretty minor (not low harm, just low probability: you mostly run into them if you get bitten by a cat so that it draws blood, and you deal with them by treating that -- rare -- event as an emergency requiring immediate attention.)

The real danger revealed by the incident you describe is using poor cleanliness standards when injecting drugs (in this case, recreational, but that's irrelevant to the hazard, though its probably a lot more common with recreational drug use than otherwise). You don't use water that you merely "think" is clean for any purpose associated with injection, whether its cleaning anything used in the process or, worse, actually injecting.

> Although, I let my cat take bites out of my food sometimes, and that seems OK so far.

You probably shouldn't, though ingesting material contaminated with cat saliva its still probably much safer than injecting it.
Amsterdam gets world's first fleet of autonomous boats
> "- Here's one that I've never seen mentioned: is it just me, or is there an abnormally high amount of poserism in London? It's fucking posers everywhere, trying to show you how they know THE BEST place to eat THE BEST food and drink THE BEST wine. Who gives a shit? Is your life so uninteresting that you spend it thinking about food?"

I can see your other points - but this one seems kind of strange. I've not lived many places, but I'm pretty sure everywhere has people talking about the best restaurants, breweries, bars, etc. It's a part of culture - food and drink! It's a thing literally every human partakes in.

Beyond that - is your life so full of engagement and interest that you literally don't think about food? That just seems pretty exceptional to me. Not trying to judge - there's a reason that products like Soylent exist! Some people legitimately don't care, and I get that. But let other people enjoy whatever they want to - and try not to get upset if they share that with you (:
Careful, though. The GPL has a no-added-restrictions clause which says that if you receive the work covered under the GPL and additional text that has additional restrictions, you may disregard the additional text. It's like a failsafe against homebrew license writers who might want to distribute the work under the GPL plus some other shenanigans.

Removing restrictions is always ok, though. That's like the linking exception GNU Classpath:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
> Lastly, and perhaps more importantly, you will fail to address the the clear and present danger of allowing a government to perform dragnet surveillance on its citizens without suspecting them of criminal activity.

Dragnet surveillance that is being abused.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

"Most incidents are self-reported", which says to me that they do not have effective monitoring - there are doubtless abuses that have gone undetected.
Could you expand on your reasoning here?