skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it looks like a really big, scary problem from the boots-on-the-ground perspective.

I know that you are aware that I am homeless in California and have been for about 4.5 years. Every place I camp with my two sons, we urinate on the local bushes and trees to intentionally try to grow better cover for our campsite.

Where we currently are, we are camped behind what we thought was a dead tree. Large parts of it are covered in lichen. With being peed on for months, it grew a whole new section and developed berries. Birds began nesting in it. Nearby, what was previously essentially a dead zone is alive with insects and smaller animals.

The large bird that routinely perches above us has stopped screeching constantly -- a territorial behavior intended to drive off competitors for its food -- and we recently witnessed multiple birds of the same species gather nearby in a copse of trees. We think these are all golden eagles and we think they may have paired off to mate, though we aren't sure. It was somewhere between 8 and 11 birds that we could count and it may have been more.

I am homeless and live without a car (and gave up my car a few years before I walked away from my corporate job) and everywhere I pee, the flora and fauna flourish.

My "boots" are probably on the ground a lot more than yours, and to me it looks like it isn't that hard at all to make a positive difference in this situation. Though I have no idea how to start a "please walk more and please pee on a tree" campaign. Nonetheless, everywhere I go, people begin walking more and the local environment visibly improves -- a thing I have written about some: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/08/for-just-few...

I also have a deadly medical condition that is incurable and I am getting well when doctors claim that cannot be done. So I spent over a year at death's door and have spent a lot of years coming back from that. Thus, what we are doing to our environment looks solvable to me. I have done harder things.

But I am a homeless woman that everyone dismisses as insane because, obviously, only men in white lab coats can figure out how to help deathly ill people (for scads of money, of course) not former homemakers who are dirt poor because of a) being a woman that no one will listen to and b) having an expensive debilitating medical condition.

So, to my eyes, the big challenge is figuring out how to get an audience and how to present the information in a manner that will be palatable. If I can get off the street in the near future, I imagine I will work on that -- because we all need a hobby, I guess.
I just logged in for the first time in forever to say thanks for a really interesting and thought-provoking read.
I think I have used them in the past but did not have a great experience. Maybe I didn't rolled/tested them properly. Will try again. Thanks for the link.
What room is there for ignorance in figuring out how to conduct a technical interview?
I wonder if Zuckerberg would be helping with the current white house initiative, or if he wants to deploy his own 'free' internet?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/21/new-steps-deliver...
> For example, I’ve told recruiters about my salary expectations and had them laugh and say “no one gives that kind of [salary/equity/vacation/benefits].”

Some recruiters are seriously sketchy. Someone I know joined a company where the recruiter told her that they give all their employees at that level this same salary so there's no room for negotiation unfortunately. After she joined, she asked what other people were making, and found out that even a new grad had higher compensation than she did despite the fact she had several years of experience already.

Apparently, they tried to do the same thing to that other employee, but that other employee had another offer and just said that he would take the other offer, to which the recruiter apparently responded, "Oh wait, I'm sorry actually I think we can do something about that. I was looking at the wrong sheet."
Visualization of Hurricane Matthew winds
I used to listen to 7 hours of white noise with my earphones from YouTube for noise canceling. It kicks in in about 4-6 minutes.

Not doing it since I changed jobs and work remote.
Security isn't black and white. Maybe they aren't being as secure as they could be, but they're still more secure than someone who just uses a password. And maybe there's no real security concern at all, because both computers are desktops sitting right next to each other with the same user login credentials, so there's not really any reason why someone would need to cycle the key on one machine but not on the other.
For the lazy, a snippet indicating that no such tracking occurs:

What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?

The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.

Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.

In order to serve fonts quickly and efficiently with the fewest requests, responses are cached by the browser to minimize round-trips to our servers.
Nchan: Fast, horizontally scalable, multiprocess pubsub queuing server and proxy
I believe it's a deep feeling of "wait, we can't just perpetually be giving each other haircuts".

Consider the collective value of all the physical goods imported into the US. Without any production in the US, that sum would have to be compensated by non-material exports only, or it will, sooner or later, result in an economic imbalance.

While there are certainly some high-value services and intellectual properties that can be sold across borders, it makes people queasy that so much of the country's productivity is tied up in law, finance and other zero-sum arenas that are essentially masturbatory. It seems unsustainable.
On its own this is a bit underwhelming; a link might have been nice.
MySQL Product Manager here.

For a more general overview of 8.0, see: http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-0-milestone-release...

This feature is part of the optimizer labs release, which also includes CTEs:
http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-t...
> so grounded and feature oriented back then

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
My thinking is that if I'm the developer of codetree and

* the cost of development is higher than any multiple on earnings I can get

* I know the buyer's BATNA is developing the product themselves

anything that isn't a above expected development cost is leaving money on the table.
Read my links. Those Greeks were much more right than Plato or Aristotle. We know that today. The first one didn't measure anything. The second one was the teacher of Alexander the Great, but also not particularly good scientist, compared to these other Greeks. We know because we have even better tools today, and we compared. They were better scientists.

Conflict Thesis has nothing to do with the facts I've presented. I haven't invented any. Where have you found any error in these?
I learned to code by transcribing code for the Acorn Electron (which I didn't own or have access to) from teletext onto paper !

What I didn't know at the time was that some of it was encoded so that say "#" would mean "print", I didn't find out until the internet came along and I read stuff like the link [1] for nostalgia.

I still have a BBC computer and Cub RGB monitor - I have an SD card adapter for it nowadays. I have a BBC Forth ROM chip in it and so I have a Forth Machine at the flick on a switch with a built in A/D convertor, Speech Synthesis also in ROM and a 1Mhz interface bus. Pretty cool gadget still.

[1] http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/aab/revs/morley/Teletext...
Zuck?
This is absolutely ridiculous on their part, but like you say, unemployment sucks, and it sounds like you're fresh out of college. Accept it, get some experience, put it on your resume, and keep looking for more jobs. Oh, and no matter what you do, don't reveal your present salary to new employers.

My first programming job (out of high school, not college, and it was 2000 when dollars were worth a bit more) was also for a $15/hour 3-month contract. And then I doubled it with every job change, and it kept doubling far longer than I would've expected, until money was no longer a significant problem. I have friends that did similar - $15/hour webmonkey job to $75/hour contractor to $100K/year salary to...well, lots. It's not unusual (unreasonable perhaps, but not unusual) to start out like this, but you don't want to stay at this level unless you really don't value yourself.

Edit: Just realized that your contract may preclude you from taking other jobs during the 3-month period. If that's the case, seriously consider not taking it. You can probably get better offers in NYC even as a junior developer.
Yes, and what investors think of future prospects are influenced by hype.
I'm not really surprised to see this at all. The probem of non-technical users being asked to operate systems in what is a very hostile environment (The Internet) has been evident for a while.

My prediction is that this will lead to even more of a rise of walled garden style ecosystems, where this problem is at least partially managed for the user by the owner of the ecosystem.

So for example if I use iOS apps for everything I can let them handle authentication for me and use my fingerprint, which is a much much nicer user experience than remembering a load of passwords.

Of course that's not great for the open web, but this very much feels like a tragedy of the commons to me, everyone knows better security is needed, but no-one wants to be the body leading the charge as it's a really hard problem to solve.
Here is a demo of a QML sandbox in the browser using Qt+Emscripten if you are interested[1]. And the blog post in which I wrote about it[2]. It's quite big and not very well performing, but Qt might be useful for larger web apps one day.

[1] http://ovilab.net/projects/qt-emscripten/qml-sandbox/
[2] http://dragly.org/2016/04/27/experimental-qt-and-qml-in-the-...
I think the point was that they didn't do that, even though they could have.
Oh, absolutely. That is why I said "intuition". It doesn't matter what the license actually means. It only matters that it's a huge red flag that may prevent people from investigating further.
A note about the future of Quicken from Eric Dunn
I wasn't planning to add noise, but it may be a good option. I'll try this as well. Thanks
There is no denying FB is priced for growth, but it's growing like crazy while the rich valuation is coming down. Your $6B FCF figure is from last year and they are blowing that out of the water so far this year (+60% in the first 2 quarters). It's not fair to use today's stock price with last year's cash flow and decide that it's extreme.
Good point. Though the Wikipedia article on it gives the most general form as requiring our region to have closure with finite Lebesgue measure. This is necessary of course by the example another corner brought up about swapping the inside and outside. But that means it exactly can't rule out the existence of regions with infinite volume (outside and inside) and finite surface area!
Thank you for writing this. If one is going to eat meat, this is how one should do it.

I myself would not do this, and therefore (and for a few other tangential reasons), I'm a vegetarian. But I fully respect how you're living. If you're going to be a carnivore, BE a carnivore. Don't be under any illusions to the contrary.

You talk about having a dissociative experience, but it sounds like, on the whole, you're having a far more associative experience than most people. When I see people casually munching on cheap store-bought ham sandwiches, having no particular concept of what they're eating or how it got there -- and who would in fact recoil in horror if confronted with that reality -- then it seems to me like they are the ones who are being fundamentally dissociative. Not you.

Anyhow, ramble ramble, but from a person with a very different approach to life: respect.
Oh ya, I hear you. All kinds of problems! Was just trying to be helpful for ihsw if they wanted to muddle through.
Why is it "'free' internet"? I would think that it should be "free 'internet'", since the issue isn't that there's a hidden price, but that it's not really the internet.
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This was a year or two before the "computers are for young geeky white boys" (whizkids2) meme got started. Note the grey hairs as well.
> But seen from Earth, stars appear as dots of certain sizes or magnitudes. The only way stars could be so incredibly distant and have such sizes was if they were all incredibly huge, every last one dwarfing the Sun.

What?? Oh, Wikipedia fills in some crucially missing info in this hypothesis.

> However, early telescopes produced a spurious disk-like image of a star (known today as an Airy disk) that was larger for brighter stars and smaller for fainter ones. Astronomers from Galileo to Jaques Cassini mistook these spurious disks for the physical bodies of stars, and thus into the eighteenth century continued to think of magnitude in terms of the physical size of a star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_(astronomy)
Its a parody of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises".
> The problem is that this is a whole lot of cargo cult.
It does have the efficient parts, but it also has a lot of accumulated cruft, archaic limitations, arbitrariness, and plain bad decisions.

I don't think the problem is cargo culting. Replacing things with better solutions is hard. Take the venerable ANSI terminal. It's archaic and cryptic, I think most people would agree on that. Yet proposing a better, widely useful and backwards compatible alternative is extremely hard. Which is why no one has succeeded yet.

There is still a lot of innovation, though. 10 years ago, we didn't have git, or ag, or autojump. Gdb has improved A LOT in the past few years, even if it's not immediately obvious when you open it.
>They did this, and observed the ions changing in such a way where there was no driving influence and it's implied that the reason that this behavior was observed is because time symmetry was broken, which is just a fancy way of alleging that the universe is non-deterministic, I think.

Time translational symmetry and determinism have nothing to do with one another. Even a classical pendulum breaks time translational symmetry yet it's fully deterministic. In this cases they do break the symmetry in a more fundamental way, but it still doesn't say anything about determinism.
So, relationships, essentially.

An article I ran acrosss a few days back pointed out how the nature relationships also matters. It starts off noting that gender is often given as binary (M/F), when reality can be more complicated (though most of the complications are a distinct minority case). That's something I ran across years back looking at healthcare data, where "gender" had in some cases five values: male, female, indeterminate, other, and unknown.

Relationships, though: "friend", "family", "co-worker", "ex-spouse", "enemy", ...

Any thoughts on capturing something such as this (or of similar complexity) on a graph? Or references?

I suspect international or inter-corporate relationships might be similar.
This is Atom's great failing: it's trying to do the emacs thing, but it doesn't treat all buffers uniformly: your settings window, your terminal window, and the various text windows are fundamentally different. Until this is fixed, it's not even in the running as a usable editor for me.
Snapchat parent working on IPO valuing firm at $25B or more: WSJ
In other words "not end-to-end, but encrypted on all hops for most messages". Is there any evidence of email being intercepted by anyone who would wish to do anyone harm that isn't a public adversary of western intelligence?
> 5 ounces of wine (a single standard glass) is the legal limit for driving federally

No, its not. The limit that the federal government has recently been encouraging states to move to is a 0.05 BAC (Though the higher 0.08 that all states have adopted, in part, IIRC, because of highway funding laws requiring that as the maximum limit, might more accurately be described as the "federal limit", but lets work with 0.05 anyway.) The average adult male weight is about 200 lbs, for which a 0.05 BAC corresponds to about 3 drinks (a 5oz glass of wine is one drink) in a 40 minute period, not a single glass.

> Considering the side effects of alcohol, why isn't alcohol free wine the majority rather than a insignificant minatory of sales?

Because its more expensive, because it involves more involved process.

> (I've never even seen it for sale in PA except heavily salted and explicitly for cooking purposes)

I've never seen dealcoholized cooking wine, which makes very little (but not quite no) sense since cooking will already drive off most of the alcohol in wine. But Pennsylvania has, IIRC, fairly atypical regulation of alcohol, which may make both the usual marketing of dealcoholized drinking wines (typically colocated with regular wines in grocery stores, IME) unlikely and (if the restrictions apply to salted cooking wines, not sure what the boundaries are) might make dealcoholized cooking wines more sensible (so that stores that sold cooking ingredients could sell them, rather than the much narrower set of state/licensed wine and spirits stores.
From someone who is reasonably adept with ceramics and just bought another 100 pounds of clay this morning (aka I know how much 50 pounds of clay weighs) because I'm making a six foot tall piece in an intermediate/advanced ceramics class that I'm taking for fun: 50 pounds of clay is actually a lot, and not everyone can make a pot that big. So if someone managed to make one 50 pound pot, it would still require quite a lot of work. Plus, there's the assumption that the majority of the people in the class are interested in learning, so they will be trying to make something good.
Why one needs a high speed encoder for Video
yours sucks tho
I couldn't believe that there would be special laws for filming agriculture.. It seems I'm wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

Of note:

- prohibits "entering an animal or research facility to take pictures

- crates a "terrorist registry" for those convicted under the law

Fortunately it seems primarily only in the US and in a minority of states.
Diggernaut looking for some beta users luv
I don't want free internet. I'm not willing to concede whatever it is facebook wants in order for it to be free. We already have problems with ISPs injecting crap into requests. I don't trust facebook to provide something that crucial without screwing me over somehow.
Ask HN: Would a “Wechat for America and Europe” startup make sense?
Hi, I have been reading HN for years but never signed up).

My question is: Would it make sense a startup that created an all-in-one messaging app with:
-Text messages (both individual and for groups).
-Video calls (both individual and for groups).
-Streaming capabilities.
-Business integration.
-News integration.
-Conversational bots + HTML5 based light miniapps without having to install them.

Would that make sense? Or it just won't work in America and Europe? Is something impossible to do for a startup, provided that it would need millions of users to have a decent network effect? Are Google and Facebook trying to build something like this?
I see your point, though probably not in the way you mean. So let's pay attention shall we? FCS and FBS are collected from slaughtered dairy cows once they have exhausted their productive lifespans and rendered into meat. Details:

>After slaughter and bleeding of the cow at an abattoir, the mother's uterus containing the calf fetus is removed during the evisceration process (removal of the mother's internal organs) and transferred to the blood collection room. (3). A needle is then inserted between the fetus's ribs directly into its heart and the blood is vacuumed into a sterile collection bag. This process is aimed at minimizing the risk of contamination of the serum with micro-organisms from the fetus and its environment. Only fetuses over the age of three months are used otherwise the heart is considered too small to puncture. (4)

>Once collected, the blood is allowed to clot at room temperature and the serum separated through a process known as refrigerated centrifugation.

>It remains questionable as to whether or not fetuses have already died from anoxia (deprivation of oxygen) prior to serum collection. Nevertheless, no anesthesia is given, despite their possible ability to experience pain and discomfort.

Gestation period for a cow is around 7 months. Drawing an analogy to studies of human sentience (I am not an expert though), this is proprtionally well past the 1st trimester point where foetuses can feel pain. To speak in your language, FCS and FBS are essentially sourced from blood sucked out of the hearts of late-stage unanaesthetized 2nd-3rd trimester abortions. In this light it is not very difficult to see why vegans such as myself still have reservations about cultured meat.
Twitter where free speech isn't. There will be replacements and Twitter knows it.
Evil mode: it's the basis of spacemacs. If you don't want the complexity of spacemacs and you don't mind writing a bit of elisp to get your bindings working, it's worth looking at.
I certainly don't hate Snapchat, and I definitely agree that it's extremely engaging - that fact, if nothing else, has kept me on it for so long.

In my unsolicited opinion, Snapchat would do well to look into monetizing the celebrities/organizations that use their service. Anecdotally, the Snapchats of DJ Khaled, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc are (were?) extremely popular among my friends. It might not be popular at first, but charging high profile individuals/organizations for their special status (in addition to the news feed they've added) might be a way to open up a new revenue stream beyond the standard "blast the users with more advertisements".
Uhhh, that's a win in my book. The process helps you do things you think are actually worth doing, and not do things that aren't.
I tack a 2fa on all systems that are important to me.

At home I have a gpg-encrypted file that's my password manager. I don't particularly trust third party password managers with my roots of trust. :-)
Encryption won't help you when someone installs a key logger on your endpoint.
Surprised? I'd guess it would be easier to pass it here.
Here is an example:
http://mysqlserverteam.com/indexing-json-documents-via-virtu...

The optimizer will match JSON expressions to virtual columns w/indexes. So that means you can keep your queries in this form and have them indexed:

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM features WHERE feature->"$.properties.STREET" = 'MARKET'\G
I originally thought funding would play a big role, but the early, 2-3 year period of funding for both is comparable:

RethinkDB, 2009-11 = $4.2MM

MongoDB, 2008-2009 = $4.9MM

It's true that MongoDB quickly closed on a $6.5MM Series C in Dec of 2010, one year after their Series B. For Rethink, it took them another 2 years to get the last $8MM. There's no question that MongoDB was "better" at raising more money, faster.

I'm just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if MongoDB made a conscious tradeoff to sacrifice good tech to have better marketing & sales early on.

Crunchbase links here:

- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mongodb-inc/funding-...

- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rethinkdb/funding-ro...