skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people aren't aware that the Cannonball Run was a real race long before it became a cheesy eighties movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shinin...

There aren't any male seventies motor heads that were not excited by the idea of the race. Things had started to change in the seventies and it was the last final hurrah of the street race tradition that dates back to the nineteen twenties in America.

http://theoldmotor.com/?p=115758

My dad told me of seeing grainy copies of C'était un rendez-vous at antique car collector meetings. I keep a copy handy whenever I need to quicken my pulse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous

I remain hopeful that a future generation will break convention and begin street racing anew.
This was exactly the subject of one of the episodes of Black Mirror, a very interesting short TV serial from the UK specifically about the impact of technology on current and near-term society.
its not renaming its an alias if you have a complex sql statement having aliases just makes it easy to get you head around the code.
Which personal attacks would those be?

I've claimed that I think you're acting a certain way, but that's not a personal attack: it's a specific claim about how you're acting (and how it impacts others) based on specific and cited things you've said. Calling you out for your behavior isn't "attacking" you, even if it's uncomfortable for you or violates your social expectations.

> I don't really care about your views now, because you're obviously a lost cause.

Yes, I suspected that you would refuse to engage with someone who disagreed with your view and called you out on your behavior, because it would force you to confront the reality of how your actions impact people rather than the social fable you tell yourself about them. Notice how you call me a "lost cause", but clearly never even talked to me in this exchange. You just said the socially approved phrases at me. I think the reason you haven't actually addressed my specific points is because at some level, you know you can't. That what you're doing really is oppression targeted at a disabled group you've been socialized to find "deplorable" rather than "unfortunate".

It's just much easier to deny your bad behavior and fit in.
A poorly posed question. I assume the OP meant to ask how much of HN readers are women.
Looks like that worked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673881
I'm completely deaf in one ear (no amount of amplification will help) and severe-to-profoundly deaf in my other ear. I wear a hearing aid in that ear, and it allows me to function normally in everyday society.

In the last 5 years, we've gone from merely amplification to having digital processes for filtering out background noises, like air conditioning or traffic. My current aid has Bluetooth, which syncs directly to my phone. It's a total game-changer. I can now stream the audio directly to my ear, bypassing noisy (in both senses of the word) transfer from voice to microphone to speaker to microphone to ear.

That said, ever since digital hearing aids became a thing, I've been adamant that someday it will benefit Hearing People just as much as it benefits me -- if not more! Hearing People can take advantage of the background noise filtering, singling out specific voices in a crowded room, or having a Siri-like speak directly into your ear.

I can't wait for the technology to shrink to the point where even I can take advantage of those things, and as much as I do enjoy the headphone jack (wearing headphones means my hearing aid battery isn't drained by BT usage), I'm genuinely excited at the possibilities of having powerful computers embedded in the ears. Think Google Glass, but Google Ears instead. Exciting as hell.

I'm stoked!

That said, and let me digress for a moment, there are two major complaints that I wish Resound and Siemens and the other hearing aid manufacturers could fix, and that I hope Apple, et al, tackle when they build these devices.

First, battery life is decent, but not great. I change my batteries approximately every 5 days, and it often dies in awkward situations, like mid-phone call or when I'm in a meeting. There's a short warning period that allows me to gracefully exit the situation and replace the battery, but it's still frustrating.

And the second is water-proofing. I am completely deaf in the shower, in the pool, in the hot tub, when it's raining, while kayaking or surfing, or running through the sprinkler with my niece on a hot summer day. Swimming is one of my favorite activities, but because I can't socialize like Hearing People, it's an extremely frustrating activity, as well.

Hopefully those two problems are on the minds of the engineers building these devices, because I think those will be two of the hardest problems to solve moving forward.
Ah! I did indeed miss that implication. Okay, the logic of wanting to test your interview process does hang together, but still... this is at the stage where you are trying to convince the candidate to join your company; requiring them to test your interview process might end up being an expensive way to gather data points, if it gives some candidates a bad first impression. Are you sure it wouldn't make more sense to ask people to do interview process testing after they've already been in the company for a few months?
Exactly. Most people getting cancer are pretty old. Time to death might make sense in paediatric cancers, but not in 80 year olds.
Why sad? Why should elephants have tusks. Elephants perhaps evolved tusks because they were useful weapons and tools in the past, but for generations of elephants now the tusks are the reason they are killed. So, they are evolving without tusks to counter the biggest threat for their survival, humans.
Right, I've been concerned about the same thing. I can make roughly $1k/mo from every extra 100k pageviews/mo, and I have a lot of room for traffic growth, so I'm focusing on that right now. But eventually I'll hit a ceiling beyond which it's hard to grow traffic, and I'll have to find out what to do from there. Hopefully that won't be before I can pay my rent etc from the revenue!

I'm going to be writing about all my decision-making in a lot more detail on the blog pretty soon (https://IndieHackers.com/blog). Indie Hackers is all about transparency, after all.

RemoteBase is cool, btw! I'd love to feature you on Indie Hackers this week if you're interested.
Funfact: We're in a thread talking about how terrible companies are at assessing candidates... and you say that companies have special tracks for elites candidates, even though they are not able to identify elites candidates in the first place. :D
> my verdict is: technical reasons, mostly

This conclusion is not really supported by the facts.

The failure of decentralized VOIP services to achieve mass adoption was not due to technical reasons. Let us remember that SIP was standardized in RFC 2543 in 1999 and had a head start over Skype. The first STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) RFC 3489 to help solve the NAT traversal problem was published in 2003, the same year as the first release of Skype. There was no technical reason stopping the SIP community from building reliable VOIP clients to compete with Skype. One might object that due to NAT, SIP required most users to use a STUN server. But this is not a technical problem: it is similar to the situation with XMPP, which required users to register and then connect to an XMPP server, yet XMPP is still a decentralized protocol.

Besides, decentralized services encompass a lot more than just VOIP. For example, they includes instant messaging, file storage, and social networking. The first Jabber/XMPP protocol RFC was published in 2004, even though the server software had been open sourced since 1999 or so. The decentralized file storage service Tahoe-LAFS was first released in 2007. The micro-blogging service and Twitter-alternative GNU Social was launched in 2008. The Diaspora decentralized Facebook-like social network was launched in 2010. None of these services were able to compete with their commercial counterparts, yet there was nothing technical stopping them from doing so.

These services and their spiritual descendants have failed to gain mass adoption because they didn't have the same resources as their centralized commercial counterparts, and so could not offer users a better or comparable product in terms of quality, features, usability, reliability, or even "cool factor".

There is a parallel here with the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, which never seems to arrive.
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That mostly says something about Drupal and Wordpress.
> I was disappointed when
> Python added its
> f-strings instead.

What's the difference, other than syntax? (I've only a basic familiarity with JS.)
Git was designed for the Linux kernel source which everyone using android or another Linux distro is interested in. That helps a lot because if it can handle that project surely it can handle any other codebase.
TagSpaces is an open source personal data manager
Yes. It is so they don't waste time tracking tuskless elephants.
And that brings the circle back 'round to where it started (again). SIDE (but related) NOTE:Check out the book "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus."
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If you're using MS SQL Server, this tool is popular...

http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt/

... and this tool appears to have similar refactoring capabilities...

http://www.ubitsoft.com/products/sqlenlight/index.php
Naturally occurring mutations / variants are the raw material for natural selection. Nothing contradictory about that. :)
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Keeping the population in line by fattening them up and distracting them only works if they believe in something bigger than themselves.

With the lack of community and the focus on individual and the self, people will not be fulfilled if they know someone else is doing so much better.

It's the classic monkey experiment with cucumbers. If all monkeys get cucumbers, they are all okay with it. If one monkey gets a cherry while the other gets a cucumber, the cucumber monkey feels it's unfair and gets angry.

You can keep humans in shitty conditions if they believe in something bigger than themselves. That the shitty conditions are justified and therefore fair.
Why is length automatically associated to spaghetti? I've seen way too much spaghetti clean code to agree. Soon everything is its own 20 lines class file and you're buried in well documented technical debt and drowning in files; locked inside your own pretty cage.

It also doesn't have to be ugly; beauty should be in how it works not how it looks anyways. I would much, much rather focus on simplicity and let beauty emerge naturally. I've seen many projects fail even while following best practices all over the place.

Get its inner workings pretty first, then make the appearances pretty. Its incredibly harder if not outright impossible to do it in the opposite order.

If you think of performance after profiling for the first time, you've probably already wasted 90% of it without even realising it - the CPU is just that fast. Optimising at the macro level should be an habit; its the micro-level you want to optimise after profiling.

Most software today could easily be orders of magnitude faster. Doom and Quake just happen to be built on top of very well engineered foundations, which they then made pretty before releasing it to the world - it most likely wasn't that nice during development.
I don't think any of those things he suggested would work. See going to the moon wasn't a goal in itself that would directly cure a disease or solve a problem. The fallout from going to the moon did though. I think the goal needs to be scientific in nature and involves humans doing extraordinary things.

I think something better would be: humans in orbit around the sun, visit an asteroid, setup a moon base, send an entire crew to the bottom of a trench (establish a base there)....

Just my thoughts!
> Why is everyone so obsessed with this hashtag and the fact that it was in Twitter’s trending topics list the morning after the first presidential debate?

Probably just surprised that Twitter even allowed it. If Twitter wasn't in the middle of trying to sell itself off, it would've probably been censored. But now that the acquisition is off the table, don't expect to see such hashtags again after the second debate.
As a useful public resource, it could be. Along the lines of ICANN?
For example:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/invasive-phone-tracking-new-ss7...

The NSA and GHCQ, among others, were constantly reviewing the phone standards for use in secure products + SIGINT obviously. The were putting experienced breakers and security engineers on it, many with extensive COMSEC background. The phones their defense contractors produced had few to none of these weaknesses depending on security vs usability tradeoff. Many private suppliers, who sold to governments, did the same. The internal presentations whose details leaked in various papers around government programs and defense products also showed they consistently knew risks of transmission mediums. It's actually the only form of security they know through and through down to emissions of analog components. They mastered it decades ago with only real challenge being people wanted benefits of insecure phones. :)

Then, they not only allowed these standards but endorsed them for the general public and businesses. They also made it illegal for us to buy their Type 1-secure phones or TEMPEST-certified devices. That last part is how you go from "were they just incompetent?" to "they're deliberately keeping us insecure to enable SIGINT!" If they say it's to stop reverse engineering, then ask why the recent devices are supposed to be field releasable where enemies might pick them up but citizens of Five Eyes still can't buy them. Excuses getting thinner and thinner even if we never get some contractor leaking the proof we need from somewhere in Hawaii. ;)
Regarding lower-case/hungarian notation etc, the membership table in my database is:

tblMember
---------
MemberID
MemberUsername
MemberDateJoined

etc

Is this very non-standard formatting for SQL?
Not so long ago, we’d say “That’s an NP-complete problem” with the implication that it was hopeless to expect an efficient solution. Now (to exaggerate a little) it’s more like a sign that there probably is an efficient solution using some powerful solver.

LKH is a lovely piece of work. I used it a couple of years ago to find a counterexample to an unimportant but fairly long-standing conjecture in combinatorics[0], and the list of scientific applications[1] is impressively diverse.

The best SMT solvers are also hugely impressive. Z3 has an excellent interactive tutorial and online solver.[2]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5108
[1] http://webhotel4.ruc.dk/~keld/research/LKH/ScientificApplica...
[2] http://rise4fun.com/z3/tutorial
I absolutely love Fossil. I'm really glad to see it show up on HN. I've never heard of it eating data before.
nRF52 is M4. Not that it makes a big difference if you want to run XNU.

(We build LoRa + BT + NFC radio modules for prototyping purposes at work. Nordic Semiconductor is in the same building so we got our hands on their new chips very early)
The solution is to tax assets directly (i.e. the asset owes the tax) in combination with large consumption/VAT/GST tax and not tax income at all. These two taxes would be very difficult to avoid and not bias against investment verses consumption (provided you got the mix right).
Did you mean an analog quartz watch? A date function there shouldn't have a huge impact in battery life, though if you don't want the date, you may as well conserve. But on a mechanical watch, many common movements have a calendar wheel which is powered by the gear train, it doesn't use a disproportionate amount of energy from the mainspring (compared to moving the hands).
they could make it a onomatopoeia and call it PeeLanguage
Thad almost certainly Apple's long term plan.

Rumours earlier this year said that they dropped plans to add a cellular radio into this year's watch due to battery concerns. Give it another year or two and they may solve it.

Then you could leave the house with nothing but a watch and wireless headphones and do various tasks from working out, listening to music, calling and messaging people, getting directions or booking an uber. No phone required.
If their entire site disappeared your backups would be gone too. You want to be able to move to a different provider if necessary.
That does seem odd. OTOH probably the cheapest way of procuring a watch is to let you order one from Amazon.
Samsung phone exploded then the company accidentally texted him
Perhaps, but you would have to look at more than just neighboring pixel color to take advantage.
Reverse engineering of software – what are the legal boundaries?
Look at WhatsApp.
Jekyll also has the (perhaps unfair) advantage of being baked into GitHub pages, making it's workflow super easy
I'm not sure it is healing though, it seems more like avoiding the inevitable rather than facing the truth, and just prolonging true healing.

I think whether it is true or not, I'd wager that there is a reason we bury our dead after looking at their dead body instead of mummifying their corpse and leaving it in their favorite rocking chair. Burials aren't for the dead, they are for the living.
I didn't intend to imply that IQ tests are okay (although the test I suggested is in fact what you have to prove). I'm actually concerned by the suggestion that IQ proxy tests are any different. They are bound by exactly the same requirements.
I'd argue that craftsmanship is about delivering a well crafted end product to the user. The user (hell, even the interpreter/compiler) doesn't give a damn what convention for variable names you use.
Literally made from carbon!
Apps like Discord are the new IRC.
Funny, I thought more people would have gotten what I was saying here.
I think one the biggest draws of something like Hugo would be that it's amazingly fast. You can check out the video [0] here that shows a benchmark. It generates 5,000 pages in around 6-7.

Another is that it's a single file to deal with. This may be different when you get into making your own themes, but to get going you just need to download the single file for your platform.

[0]: https://gohugo.io/overview/introduction/
Twitter hasn't gone down in ages. (At least 2-3 full years.) It's reliable enough that hundreds of sites use Twitter as their "if our site is down, check for updates here" alternative.
Not having savings doesn't mean others are stealing from them. Frugality is a way to build up savings and get out of the rat race, even if you don't earn much. But it requires conscious choice and sacrifice. Buying a $40,000 truck is completely incompatible with long term economic freedom for most, yet they're selling in huge numbers because of the relatively cheap financing available.
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/qc_who_worked_on_julian_assang...
Well all the research basically shows that productivity goes down when distractions increase, so you won't even see anyone quoting research to justify their decision. The executives who make this kind of decision generally know they will always have a nice office so it won't hurt them (and maybe the unsaid reason is that deep down they know that only them having an office helps the little people to understand their place in the org).

It doesn't help when the cool kids like Facebook endorse this kind of idiocy - other companies feel it is safer to just follow what others are doing. We need to have a new major tech player endorse the idea that the goal of a company building is to make the workers as productive as possible - you get better work from them, they enjoy it more and it will become easier to retain or recruit people.
CIA Can Anticipate Social Unrest ‘Three to Five Days’ Out in Some Cases
I doubt 50 people is enough to even field the various legal requests Twitter gets during a normal month.
My main reason, as funny as it may sound, is that it has one static binary.

I do use Jekyll, but given that a site will live for a few years at least, babysitting a ruby app isn't something I look forward to. Maybe my server has a different ruby version from my desktop, maybe some ruby gems are installed by my distribution and some others I have to install manually via gem leading to an inconsistent system state, every now and then something breaks, some functionality is provided by a gem I have to install manually and oops, I forgot to ssh to my server and install it there too. Oh, some gems can't be build because my server is hardened. Maybe jekyll got a new version and this leads to new ruby adventures.

Hugo has some other niceties too, like a built-in server with live reload and some clever link translating while testing on localhost.
Haha that's brilliant! Nice touch with the recursive link.
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's correct. They used to have tax holidays regularly in Ancient Rome, and it caused people to learn to wait for the next tax holiday.
Insurance for robot and A.I. job loss?
There's Rocksmith. It's essentially Guitar Hero just with a real guitar. So you do actually learn to play the instrument.
What is the support for streams like in P?
I think that what you refer to is coined under "user experience".
> And yet you are dodging the argument again -- the argument is that allowing Uber to dodge all regulations is bad for Uber employees (while it is of course better for customers). And Uber is not the only company capable of writing a simple mobile app for taxi services. Taxi services certainly can do it (it is not hard) and will.

I disagree that it is bad for Uber employees. Yes, if you regulate Uber, the employees that remain will be better off. However, there will undoubtedly be fewer of them, and they will have a much less flexible relationship with their employer. Those are real costs that you can't simply ignore.

> If it were the case that allowing certain companies to use slave labor were good for the economy (it is) then should we allow that as well? It would make every single person on earth better off. Well, so long as I don't include the slaves that's the case, but as you've chosen not to include the Uber drivers in your characterization I think that's fair.

It is, at best, arguable whether slavery is good for the economy [1]. However, that doesn't really matter, because slavery violates basic human rights. Two consenting, informed adults entering into a voluntary, temporary agreement to exchange a ride for a fee violates nobody's rights.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economic...
there's some crank out there with a "vortex theory of the universe". But from you description it seems like vortex is a subset of particles (but not the other way) because there are plenty of particles that don't obey 1/r force laws. Moreover, extending vortices to three dimensions is tricky, due to the hairy ball theorem.
or the government finds a way to finance itself in a way that doesn't exclude itself from economic activity

just a thought, worked 100 years ago from before it started financing itself with a passive income tax

it is entirely possible, also consider that no form of better tax compliance would solve its budget problems. The idea of paying 'fair share' is disingenuous when it is funding embezzlement within the military and defense sector waaaaay before it funds an an oft cited road or school

the biggest irony here is that I'm not a tax protester. maybe closer to a historian.