skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really in a state I can show yet. The working logic is currently a python script that dumps the processed data to a text table from the command line. on the app side I was trying to use this project to learn React Native, but I hit a major snag and I think I'm going to switch over to just plain native development, so I'll be starting over from scratch.
Also Firefox on mobile is already much better.
Being a physician or attorney confers additional compensation in the form of social status and prestige which I think it's fair to say we don't get by virtue of working on code. I also think that as a general rule there is a fairly small percentage of people who like programming, and can sit in front of a computer and focus on code for hours at a time and consider that a fulfilling way to make a living. I doubt that percentage is ever going to be much higher than it is now.
AFAIK, Leaflet is much easier to use. Other than that, I don't really know.
Because the laws are outmoded and terrible.
What about the dark profiles? You're in all your friends/family's address book. You'll get profiled even without FB or Whatsapp.
Ask HN: Motivation
Background:

I'm 22, I work as a Full-stack dev & solutions architect. I work full-time for a local company and continue to work at home on a SaaS that I've built and some ideas for other SaaS I would like to at least prototype.

I typically put in my 8 hours at work, get home (gym -> eat -> work on my stuff). Mon - Fri. There where lazy days but I was always able to pick up where I left the next day.

Recently however, I'm finding it difficult to get stuff done. At work, I drone the day away. Working without any thrill. The work is mundane and repetitive. When I get home, I often lay in bed after gym and eating.

I keep telling myself that I'm tired that night, and that I will wake up at 6AM and get stuff done before work 10am. I wake up at 6am, but still lack the motivation to sit down in-front of my computer and do it.

I should mentioned one of the things I keep putting off is updating my resume so I can find another 9-5.

Question:

I'm I burning out? Is it habit I just have to retrain? Anyone experiencing something similar?
Grocery Prices Are Plunging
Although the data commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein almost always backs Hamburg’s commissioner.
Do you mind describing what are your daily tasks in broad terms?

Asking for a... uh, for a friend. Yeah.
I don't understand why anyone wants to use MD by choice. I don't have an opinion about the web looking similar (has pros and cons) but what I know is that MD looks just not right and at times very weird. I understand that everyone has a different taste but, for example:

http://mdbootstrap.com/components/forms/
I can't imagine any designer let alone regular user liking the way these forms look.
Quantum computing a step closer to reality
Elixir ETS/DETS/Mnesia vs. Redis
Now now, let's not get into poor arguments and logical fallacies. First off, read the rest of my comment, there is more to it.

Second, you pose an interesting question. I am assuming this isn't what you did, but let's pretend for a moment that it really is what you did. Let's also assume that HP printers let you use your cheaper ink. Again, you start printing things with your cheaper ink and suddenly your papers are bleeding onto the back of the next page as they sit in the printer tray. Your photo prints don't come out looking like the photos on your screen or your phone. Your prints fade easily. Your prints don't hold up to even a small amount of water dripping on them. Your ink cartridge heads start to gunk up and won't print. Now what do you do? Do realize that you bought cheap ink and that the ink you bought it not up to the quality you wanted? Do you call the cheaper ink manufacturer and complain? Or do you call up HP and complain their your printer breaks?

You are a smart engineer. You would realize that you did not buy a quality ink product and you got what you paid for. But would everyone?
You can calculate the significance using the difference in differences method popular in econometrics. I derived this result for a previous employer and it worked well. I can look up my notes and explain the method in more detail if anyone is interested.
Number 1 reason why I didn't pick up an Panasonic 4K TV, because i knew Firefox OS will be dead some day. And number one reason why I REALLY want an APPLE TV Set rather then Apple TV STB.

Most of the Smart TV on the market today are total piece of Junk. They are what "Smart"phones were before the iPhone came out. As a matter of fact, SmartTV from China are pretty good on the software front, and lacking ( price cutting too much ) on the hardware.

Just wanted to mention about Mozilla leadership. And so call leadership in general, HOW DID these *&@^$% ever got to their position? This is speaking from a user who has been with them before the Firefox era.
Front end developer, large IT consultancy, £35k, no bonus. Feeling underpaid.
It was a reasonable default. These days it's far more suspect. TeX in general has the feel of an application that's been stuck in the 80s for a long long time.
9% vs. 3%, 5%, and 6%.
Fair point, I was only thinking of things at that scale when writing, so requiring big investment and infrastructure - phone networks, social networks, water, etc.
Most if not all the ISP companies in my home country used to ask you to access google.com while troubleshooting connectivity issues. They would eventually assume your Internet was working as expected if at least Google loaded. Recently they changed the strategy and now use Internet speed tester which come with the requirement to have Flash installed and enabled.

Many people in my country still believe that Google == Internet so I am pretty sure that if Google stops serving for whatever reason here the majority of people will get cut out of the Internet because they don't understand how to use the address bar. I have even seen people accessing google.com just to put facebook.com in the search form instead of simply typing that domain in the address bar, I cringe every time.
You're countering (A => B) by claiming they are saying (B => A)

A = Belief that some students "have" it

B = View the distribution as bimodal

Even with a standard gaussian distribution, one may still believe that some students have it and some don't.

This is exactly what is happening. Many of the distributions are Gaussian, yet they are seeing it as bimodal.
> but people who accepted these kinds of TOS and then complain when they do what they state they would do, that I don't support.

German law says ToS can not contain surprising terms.

That also means if an ad says "we won’t share your data, ever", no ToS change, unless it’s more publicly published than the original ad, and as easily noticeable and understandable, can undo that.
Yes there is. Call in legislation to fix the missing things.

US data protection laws are a joke. EU leads the way. We'll see more in the future, I am positive.
Feedback: live demo page eats almost all of my core i7 cpu (70% avg, 100% 2/3 of time, Win10/Chrome).
I understand the page is very large and loaded with js but that was my first experience with your site, I clicked on Live Demo link and all of a sudden my mouse cursors became unresponsive/slow.
Dutch police use eagles to take down illegal drones
A recruiter for IBM contacted me, actually. I didn't respond to an ad.
Interesting question: do we think the Facebook people actually believe the "usage is voluntary, so we can do whatever we want" line of reasoning? It's clearly a very persuasive PR argument, but there are some smart people at FB, especially working on WhatsApp.
Thanks to you and lifepillar for posting the video! I found the link to the slides on his "news" page. I thought a few of the slides would help show, for example, the level with which you could parameterize METAFONT fonts.

There was a story recently that was talking about parameterized web fonts, and I found it interesting how few people realized you could do that with METAFONT. I think quite a few people think of it as a bitmap format. I find it to be more akin to svg.

The slides of Font Blvd are just plain fun. No surprise that he turned to cataloging diamond signs later. :)
Can you imagine what it would be like if every Linux distribution tried to build a competitor to Linux instead of a competitor to other distributions? That would be a hard problem even in the relatively small Unix desktop space.

That is how hard the problem was to solve for Mozilla OS. They were essentially building a competing OS when they could have just been building a competing distribution.

Android (AOSP) + Firefox + Firefox Market + Firefox Mail could have been amazing.
All the more reason to shop more at NewEgg.
Huh.

There was a time when cost per (large format) page (high to low) was inkjet, laser, electrostatic.

In fact, with our print volumes, switching from inkjet to the $100k electrostatic would pay for itself in 3 months. Inkjet prints cost $1.40 per vs 0.10 for electrostatic. Laser was somewhere in the middle.
Stallman never said to avoid using consumer choice. People publishing lists of bogus printers is stronger than just choice because it could coordinate a larger group.

I wonder what would happen to stock prices in printer companies if it became common practice for the the EFF, FSF, and several other noteworthy, but not yet large groups published lists quarterly saying not to buy HP printer and recommending good competitor devices.

It would be a good service to the public and could possibly attract more donations and if just a few news outlets ran with it there could a few % points dropped from HP stock price. If the shareholders ain't happy, then nobody at HP is happy.
Epson did it: http://www.epson.com/ecotank

I didn't bought it because it was too big to fit on my desk and I don't know if I will buy an other Epson because they drivers are bad on my Debian. I should try to upgrade them. HP is pretty terrible but the Linux drivers are impressive.
Agreed. Fantastic tool. I've used it for everything including live maps, data visualization, and even as a layer for handing image zooming :P
Actually, the font is "Roboto" from Google Material Design guidelines, so I think we've got it right. As for the speed of animations - we'll surely look into it. Thanks for the feedback!
Isn't the whole point of Musk opening Tesla's IP to be able to sell more batteries? It's not charity, it's a business strategy.
In many cases you even saw the soundcards and CD-ROMs bundled together (and a pack-in demo CD or even a game) as that was such a common path to buy a computer, then upgrade it for sound and CD at the same time.
Clown locator.

Please.
So you tell me it's reasonable that a frozen tab makes the whole browser unresponsive. Nice.
You could go to the census fact finder, grab some data (scoped at census block level) and a few census block shapefiles for your state, and get to work. Repeat for counties, cities, etc. Census data is seriously cool, and easy to work with.

[0] http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

[1] https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php
Sounds like mother & father's nuclear DNA, injected into the nucleus of a 3rd party's donor's egg cell, which contains its own mitochondrial DNA. Since mtDNA is normally inherited 100% from the mother (since the mother's egg cell supplies the mitochondria to the embryo), if the mother has a mitochondrial genetic disease, 100% of her children would normally inherit it.
Open color is a color scheme for UI design
For activists I think you are biased by the fact that by definition you only perceive activists that are rather social. I, for example, consider myself as very acivist, but also very unsocial.

For politicians my perception is different: one might be tempted to call them privacy activists, but only for their own privacy (for obvious reasons), but not for passing laws protecting the privacy of the ordinary citizen.
There is such a thing as being a good citizen on the net and part of that should be that these privacy violating features be "opt in" so that people can use them if they want to.

Maybe NY State where I live will pass some privacy laws.
Taking away those things doesn't make it not Linux. Adding those things wouldn't make it not Android. These guys could have had the best of both worlds.
On Scala, Functional Programming and Type-Classes
It's nice that there's such a simple alternative to opting out for some people, but if you have no such injury you might be violating 18 USC §1001.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
Leaflet is fantastic. I was going to use it for a project, but then I didn't do the project, so I haven't had a need for it yet, but the system is incredibly approachable and friendly.

If you're wondering what the project was: I was trying to integrate a Pokemon Gen 2 (G/S/C)-style battle system into a Go style map. Why? because I really wish that Pokemon Go was less disapointing, and G/S/C was a nice middle ground between interesting and incredibly difficult to implement.
In my case, 2000 square foot house in St Louis with a two car garage. A large enough place to have children comfortably, market value about 200K. I am working remote for a SF company, and I looked at relocation. Anything even remotely equivalent was a couple of million. That's way more than 5K difference a month right there.

I bought my house when I was making about 60k. My last local job paid 220K, working for a company that is now being bought by Bayer, so I have seen the difference between 80k and 150k. 80k in a cheaper place is far better, especially if you are renting.

As far as dropping off your laundry, then you also have to consider that you are spending more money per load of laundry than I do by using the washing machine.

Now, what is true is that cost of living calculations are not linear: A simple multiplication doesn't really capture the differences between making 30k, 60k, 80k and 150k in the same location: There is a point after which cost of living doesn't matter: In St Louis, for instance, I'd argue that anything more than 70K or so is just flat, past tax rate differentials, because you are talking luxuries that are about the same everywhere. That line, however, is way past 150k in San Francisco, because housing cots are nuts.
Elad started his career with a PhD in cancer biology prior to starting the mobile team at Google, so I don't think "academic imperialism" is an accurate descriptor.

I think you'll see more people with these hybrid skills over time. They take years to develop, though.

If we want advancement in medicine, can we really do it without deep collaboration between biology and computer science? If so, isn't Color Genomics a model of particularly deep cross-disciplinary work, not academic imperialism?
The lawsuit was not about the VM.
This Chimp May Be Smarter Than You
They put sponsored tweets (tailored to individuals) in the timeline.
The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science
Swift also uses reference counting because the people at Apple think it's outright better, not just because of the Objective-C heritage. Whether they're correct is certainly debatable, but it's not a compromise in their view, it's the best choice.
You suggest using that monstrosity as a phone?
Remember "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?". I look forward to more countries declaring themselves high-privacy zones to attract tourists.

Except for the privacy intrusion from all the other tourists, I suppose :-)
It's pretty silly to require a degree. Like, you only get so many job applicants, and you have to filter them down somehow into job offers, and everything that isn't "how good is their code" ends up hurting how good of a programmer you wind up with.

Granted, sometimes you want to make the tradeoff - there are some truly toxic people with zero professionalism and beautiful code, after all. It's just obvious to me that I'd rather have better code than someone with a piece of paper from a university.
You made a false statement about me. Have the decency to admit it instead of doubling down.

Obviously I didn't get appointed CEO with a plan to leave Mozilla as quickly as I did. This does not mean I was "forced". I resigned, I've said this many times on HN and of course, at the time, on my blog and in a message to Mozilla employees. That my sole official statement is open to interpretation is industry-standard, and its being vague does not give you license to make stuff up.

No "staff" made my prior "pilicital donations" more widely known. Tim Chevalier had already quit Mozilla in 2013 (see https://tim.dreamwidth.org/1832202.html). Your typo and the easily falsified reference to Tim demonstrate that you are phoning it in. Up your game or give it a rest.
Interesting. The photo looks kinda bulky, but it's pretty zoomed in. I guess it's more DS sized?
There are all kinds of useful structures that you can make out of conses: trees (with two cells per node), infinite lists, and so on. They're also useful in conveying intent.
Yeah, that sums up a lot of their problems really well. They were basically attacking a market segment that wouldn't exist by the time that they had completed products on the market.
That's something we're currently working on. And by currently I mean that by the end of this week it should be solved. Thank's for noticing.
Yeah, apparently the Tor project considered those first but they weren't able to compile Firefox [1]. And they seem to be abandonware at this point. I didn't immediately find any indication of their performance costs.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-55a4-hardened-r...
> Any books you recommend. Primary management skills where I lack:

- FYI: For Your Improvement, A Guide for Development and Coaching> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847538.FYI?from_search=tr...

- High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Manage...

- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9512985-the-personal-mba?...
Dont.

We haven't monetized hackernoon.com at all and have instead focused on good content and we are now well into the millions of monthly uniques. Its not worth the time to monitize 3k visitors
Yes, it happened. Thanks Steve!
Twitter isn't exactly profitable at the moment (quite the reverse) and it's pushed past it's coolest-kid-on-the-block stage of the internet platform lifecycle.

I dunno about anybody else, but this gives me Myspace flashbacks - an entrepreneur offloads his slightly over-the-hill social media platform to a passing old media dinosaur in exchange for a ton of money, and leaves them holding the bag throughout it's inevitable decline. With Dorsey's leverage as a Disney board member, Twitter might be able to pressure or convince the company into doing things it wouldn't otherwise do, if it was thinking straight.

Maybe I'm wrong, of course, and Disney does have good plans for Twitter, but there's a little alarm bell ringing here.
Working 10hr per day looks bad even inside London!
You are right.

It came to me, that after all, they have to, if they want to display ortophoto or satellite tiles.

I was thinking more in the terms of street maps or thematic maps, where mapbox-gl-js displays them in a very nice way using vector tiles.
Another simple and free alternative is the Paper Bootstrap theme from Bootswatch:

https://bootswatch.com/paper/

Which is available via CDN:
https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/bootswatch/

It's not as polished as the nice library here but it works in a pinch.
You are misunderstanding. WebRTC itself already needs a central server.

Also, what you described is certainly a good thing. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't _have to_ be done in a browser.
I just looked at the Jolla devices as well and they are also out of stock. I imagine it's probably harder to coordinate selling these devices in small batches; I wish there was at least some kind of availability list I could sign up for.
The lack of package management and standard kernel/modules is a huge issue from Android. It keeps it from being truly open. I wrote a post about this a while ago:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/

The TL;DR, Android needs to be fixed so ASOP can be installed on any phone, just like Linux/Windows. The current state is bizarre for what's essentially now a general purpose operating system.
This comment is exactly on point. I also used to think you could go without a car...then I had two children. Taking one infant or toddler on the subway was difficult. Taking two were nearly impossible. Many stations have no elevator, so you lug the stroller+child up and down stairs and hope someone helps you out. Uber? Not so much -- it is illegal to have a child in a taxi w/o a car seat. We used to carry around a child seat on our storller. Then we had two children and it is literally impossible, so we purchased the car.

I'm not trying to argue over the merits of living in a city vs a suburb. The parent stated that cars cost the same in KC and SF and I'm providing a realistic alternative -- they do not because of parking and ancillary costs. At this point it is obvious we need to move out of the city and it is down to an optimization problem of how much space we want vs how many hours a week i can see my child (e.g., I can live in NJ, but i wont be back home in time to see kids 4+ days out of the week.) I imagine the calculus is the same in SF, but I cannot say firsthand.
Support for abolitionism was political suicide at once point, too.

I reject the idea that "political feasibility" can ever be a conversation-ender, especially when put against a true injustice.

Prop 13 (and all other subsidies for special interests) are unjust and unsustainable; they persist due to the support of these special interests (and the indifference of everyone else). With the proper education and elegance, one can hope for a day that we can see through this and implement the right policies.
This is inaccurate. Most bars in SF are open until 2am, and The Endup is open all night and into the morning.
I recommend making a web form using Google spreadsheets - which takes 3 minutes, and making the spreadsheet read-only.

When I last posted an open spreadsheet to hacker news it grew, then got defaced with all the data deleted. Someone restored it but it was work to ensure no data was lost.
I don't think you will find many uber drivers who quit a stable job in order to drive.
PHP Developer in the Southwest of UK (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset etc) 25k, no bonus - and that's about average. Living here isn't the cheapest either, £600pcm for a 2 bed flat, over £1,000 a year for water.

Really need to move towards the midlands (Bristol, Birmingham, Leicester, Staffordshire - cheaper rent, cheaper water, higher pay)

I've been a Dev for 7+ years.
Part of the "product/service" is the protection of privacy that was promised and since breeched. It is because of network effects that make it hard for users that understand privacy and value it to move to another service such as Signal. If there were that form of "user liquidity" then our privacy would not be violated for users would simply switch to a product that valued their privacy.
Guns Facts USA
Yes, but no violence, or even force, is used by the thief in this example.
That's not really word for word. But I can see what you must have been thinking now.