skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go that far. I think that freedoms made on the basis of making life good for individuals, should not necessarily apply to governmental organizations and their mouthpieces.

Individual rights have to be protected because individuals are generally powerless.

Governments, on the other hand can reasonably duke it out, power versus power, and protect themselves.

If Russia (as a country) wants to spread destabilizing propaganda that might weaken another nation, I don't think it's the "right" guaranteed by free speech. If Russia, were a free nation though, then the views of RT would just be the views of a random newspaper, speaking words with no more privilege than mine or yours.
TINA??
>Nobody owes you a living. "Contributing to the labour force" isn't a religion; it is a necessary condition of life, without which we starve. There's no free lunch...It is self-delusional

100 years ago this may have been true, but there has been this great thing called automation (letting machines do our work for us) which has flourished over the past century (especially in the area of food production).

Food production is a solved problem. ~40% of food goes wasted in the US every year.

So no, we don't need "all hands on deck" to keep us from starving anymore. Insisting on such in the face of obvious surplus and an obesity epidemic is what is delusional.
> Funny you mention Fukushima, where zero people have died or gotten sick due to radiation, and experts say that the toll will probably stay at zero.

This is the problem with the pro-nuclear approach to nuclear safety. Fukoshima was a massive safety failure. Something that was supposed to never happen did, the cooling failed, the reactors melted down, the containment breached and radioactive isotopes leaked and kept on leaking. At that point, it's not engineering that's protecting people, it's sheer luck and we don't even know the odds of the bet or the stake. We don't know how likely it was for an even bigger containment breach to occur, for things to have gone far worse, because the whole event was outside of the plan. Not only that, it was due to an issue that had already been pointed out by TEPCO's internal planning documents and ignored. (Then there's the huge economic costs of the radiation leaks.) Just ignoring this as a minor incident is inviting further failures which may not be so kind.
I could not agree more. I had a medical marijuana note in CA, and it turned my stabbing pain into more of a pins-and-needles feeling (sorry, pain is difficult to describe in words). It also drastically reduced the tremor in my right hand.

But since moving to Florida, I have to take a drug test every month before my pain management doctor will prescribe anything. It's on the ballot in Florida next month.
They are different, but a lot of the skills are similar. SREs need to problem solve and while they may need to have more domain-specific knowledge I'm not sure a facts quiz administered by someone non-technical is the best way to do that.
According to the article 150 people die / trillionWh due to wind power.
According to wikipedia 269 birds die / trillionWh due to wind power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_p...

So the death rate for birds is nearly the same that for people? Seems strange. We can protect clueless birds better from the turbines, than the intelligent and educated working people up there??? Or something is wrong with either of the estimations...
These are all nice for static visualizations. But the only thing I have found that can stream lots of data on the fly is PyQtGraph. Doesn't look the prettiest, but is very powerful and fast. Although I wish it was more intuitive to setup sometimes, it can be tricky to tell when to use Qt stuff or the plotting libraries as they are pretty closely coupled.

http://www.pyqtgraph.org/
Feature!

Under those societies it could. And there was little endogenous reason why that might suddenly change.

We've retained all the same exogenous risks, and added considerably more endogenous ones to boot.
The media can write stories about the spurious prosecutions (to wit). It's going to be hard to gin up charges to suppress those stories. So I think the media is well positioned to deal with the problem, and I think the prospect of breaking a story is a lot more top of mind for reporters than the financial resources needed to fight potential prosecution.
Show HN: Event Horizon with AWS DynamoDB (CQRS/ES in Go)
I have now added some very early support for using AWS DynamoDB as an event store, which could be a very nice use case. Any thought on this?

(I have previously posted about Event Horizon from the user maxpersson, but I got married and had to change my username.)
I'd like every editor to have a universal function to show a list of keyboard shortcuts, for instance the F1 button (because this is regarded as "Help" in Windows environment).

I often use different editors (and on different computers), so keyboard shortcuts may differ. Sometimes I can't remember the shortcut for what I want to do, so it would be very handy to press F1 and see a little cheatsheet of all the available shortcuts, instead of opening the settings menu and clicking through 4-5 submenus to find it.

Other than that I'm quite happy with todays editors. I'm coding in both Windows and Linux environments and all my editors works great for both.

For larger projects I use Netbeans 8.2 (Web backend and frontend). It comes with everything I need out of the box, the only plugin I sometimes use is the Zend HTML thingy (for creating HTML markup macros).

For Python projects I use Jetbrain Pycharm.

For anything else where I don't really need advanced features like PHPdoc or autocomplete I tend to open Atom (previously Sublime Text until the Atom hype got me).
Perhaps they just need some project / startup about this idea to buy it :)
I think some of the fear is justified.

Climate change is a very real threat and it's justifiably scary. Our government, in the last 8 years, used remotely operated drones to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens -- including a teenage boy. Our security state now engages in mass surveillance of us in a time when our government is engaging in extraordinary rendition of suspected "terrorists" in secret with limited oversight. Economic inequality is worse than at almost any time in human history, including the gilded age prior to the great depression.

That's not rhetoric, those are simple statements of fact. Those things are scary and fear of them is justified.

We may be -- in this very moment -- at the safest point in human history. But the fear isn't about where we are. It's about where we're headed.
Nailed everything. My goodness. It's like the world needs an EMP day every week.
> when you start up a game it just starts loading everything it can into RAM while you play.

That's kind of what happens now (loading screens), but the problem is that console hardware is designed to barely pull off and play acceptable games and no more. From what I remember, the Xbox 360 was originally designed with 256 MB of RAM, but got bumped to 512. Games up until a few years ago had to deal with that. Many games go through many build cycles of simply optimizing RAM usage. When you have more demands on RAM during gameplay, there isn't any left over to load future levels. Add in that many games today are open world, and you don't know where the player is going to be, it's not worth it. Even PC exclusive games don't have this feature.
Diet pill mentality. People don't want to put in an effort to lose 25 lbs, they'd rather take a pill. Same here. People don't want to put in the effort to make something better, they want Google to do it.
Some more thoughts on that worrying trend by larry summers (unfortunately behind firewall but readable here: https://www.google.com/?q=Men+not+at+work:+Lawrence+Summers+...)
No, this does not depend on Docker for OS X. They both use the underlying driver.
Apple has a predefined and very limited line of hardware, so it's obvious that Mac OS is well integrated with Apple devices.
This is entirely true, but I have never worked with someone beyond the leader of my immediate who though the same. Most managers don't care what cruft is in there when it ships.
> Costs

The politicians are not "drafting rules to require more safety" just for fun. Not regulating nuclear energy makes it cheaper but seems rather unsafe.
(because humans, you know)
This is blocked by my corporate proxy. Maybe because of the ".space" TLD?
Sure, or a lead-bismuth eutectic, but there are always more issues to be solved, and the maintenance costs and risks are through the roof.
As an Apple shareholder, I am thankful Apple has shelved plans to dump billions into a cyclical, low margin, low return business.
Just promise to issue a mea culpa if they ever indict specific individuals like they have in the past.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-five-chinese-milit...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-a...
Agreed, the price is way too high for this decent crop sensor camera. Many people like the aesthetic of the Fujis, including myself (I have an XT-1). In the end, the low-light performance and build quality of this great little camera just wasn't good enough and I got a refurb 5Diii body for about the price of this new model.

While certainly more limited than the selection for Canon, Fuji does have some really nice lenses for these X series cameras. The 23mm 1.4 (=35mm FF) is truly fantastic.
Fewer than a statically linked binary, they rely on a bunch of brand new kernel APIs.
I'm not telling you what to do, which is a necessary component of the finger wagging. I do enjoy when people accuse me of the actions they are taking, though. Very human. Very, very human.
Writing my own blogging engine that will work for my needs. Not themes. Not related to anything existing.
> The vast majority of users are simply "throwing issues over the wall" without trying to contribute any fixes or discussion.
> I would love to live in a world where everyone attempted to produce more than they consume, but we just aren't there.

We're not going to get there, either. The number of users with the time available to dig in any depth into an issue they find is always going to be dwarfed by the total number of users contributing issues. That number in turn is dwarfed by the number of users who don't even go that far, and just work around problems they find (probably by silently switching to an alternative product). This isn't a moral issue, it's simple economics.
it's on the official repos https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pint...

it's also on pacman https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pinta/
> This is especially true when your goal is supporting development teams: with something like Docker, normal users don't need root just to start a daemon on a privileged port or write to a couple of files. If you work in a large or security-conscious environment, that's a fairly big draw.

On the contrary, any user that can run arbitrary containers (such as rootplease[0], for example) has root-level privileges on the host system.

[0] https://hub.docker.com/r/chrisfosterelli/rootplease/
Well, a Geiger counter will only give you audio. If you want video, you can build yourself a cloud chamber (there are how-tos on YouTube).
"Stocks and bonds are more expensive than ever."

Which is what you would expect most of the time in a growing economy.
You're implying that all Christian denominations believe this by your blanket use of the term "the church". I don't know where you get that idea from.
I don't think it makes much, if any difference. The internet can be used to spread misinformation, but it can also be used for fact checking. So the net outcome is not that obvious. I'm curious to see some hard data on this subject.
Is it OK for journalists to mine stolen private emails?
To be fair, this is a fairly old article (2011). D3.js only came out that year.
They'll know soon enough that the AMP sites load faster. Even if they don't know what the AMP actually means. Likely they'll think AMP is this big, huge site that just has faster content.
Mobile app design: from blueprint to masterpiece
After reading that even developers got out of business by disability, I'm happy that I got an insurance for this last year.
I want this adventure style learning format for everything from here on out
"a judge, sitting in public, dictated the letter to be signed by the woman"

This, cannot be called justice or law, in any non-corrupt country.
TINA -- "There is no alternative". Many people in 2016 are being talked into stocks and bonds on the conviction that central bankers give them no other choice.

Or on its corollary, that central bankers are committed (and are capable) to keep the prices of stocks and bonds elevated to fight global deflation.
Gamers who spend 2M dollars in-game
Isn't this mostly a Protestant idea? Most all Catholic/EO christians that I know dismiss 'end times' theology.
Bringing a Note 7 on board could cost you $179,000 in penalties
"how would it solve anything to listen to the demand of people"

First of all, maybe they'll be less scared?

You see yourself as a filter who will determine which requests are reasonable and which aren't. This is where trouble is.
I came to the conclusion that the impact I can have on the world is dwarfed by the suffering that keeping up with news causes me; thus, I crafted the opposite type of echo chamber, excluding most news sources. I am much happier now, and can focus on where I feel I can have real positive impact, like our industry.
"you can also do something to reduce the atmospheric CO2"

Would you mind sharing this 'something' that magically makes CO2 disappear? Because unless you're suggesting to stop using cars and electricity, there'd be a lot of people interested in that method to stop climate change.

"Take a small country like Switzerland. We cannot afford to lose any land."

Meaning since Switzerland can't afford to lose land, other countries have to. But then why not just built nuclear power plants outside of Switzerland and import power instead?

"I don't care about the probability, I care about the possibility."

No, you always care about the probability. There is a possibility that tomorrow a big asteroid crashes into Earth and extinguishes all humans. But the possibility alone doesn't justify the trillions that would be required to mitigate that risk.
I don't doubt you know someone who has affluenza, I'd just advise you to be careful about writing off studies where they go past 'I know a guy who' into sampling and research because you know someone who is lazy.

There is massive mental illness stigma in our society at large, there are many hard working people who remain employed who are suffering long before they go unemployed and that suffering is never voiced and is discredited when they drop out of the unemployed market to become 'no longer looking'.
Electrical energy does not accumulate: it's a movement of electrons, and we can't "store" a movement.
The best we can do to "store electricity" (note the quote) is to create a system that can easily produce this movement of electrons as needed. Here are two examples :

- A chemical reaction that creates a movement of electric charges during the reaction. This is how your regular batteries work. Rechargeable batteries like the one found is Tesla cars, your laptop, ... use a chemical reaction that can be "rewinded" if an opposite movement of electrons is forced by an external system.
- A big hole in the ground is divided in two parts with dam that is fully closed. Both parts are half full of water. To recharge the "battery", the water of the left part of the hole is pumped in the right part of the hole using electrical power. When electrical power is needed, the dam is open, and water is forced by gravity from the right part of the hole to the left part. the water passes through a turbine that generates power that can be injected into the grid.

There are dozens of ways to create batteries like these, but none are actually storing electrical power.

Please also note that there are no perfect batteries : you always use more energy to recharge the battery than you get when using it.
Glushkov has build a unique PC too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR_(computer)
It does suggest, however, both "de jure du jour" and "du jour de jure".
The amount of time I've invested in LINQPad scripts means I'm going to keep dual-booting Windows in the foreseeable future.
>Is incessant fear-mongering manipulation the inevitable dystopian end of a society that is always connected to channels of mass communication?

No, it's the result of leaving nonfiction communication to the lowest-common-denominator of market forces. Just look at Great Britain: sure, they've got Rupert Murdoch, but they've also got the BBC.
> It's more packages I need to download. Doubly annoying because 95% of the packages are just "thin wrapper around foo, because we're too hipster to use libraries directly like peasants".

"Number of packages" is not a very meaningful metric. The combined filesize isn't that large (not by the standards of an image editor anyway), and under any modern package manager installing a package with dependencies is no harder than installing one without.

> It installs system-wide services I have to disable/mask just so other programs don't mistakenly use them because they think I run KDE and they have to integrate into it.

Really? KDE tends to be a well-behaved crossplatform citizen IME (unlike Gnome) and not rely on anything system-wide. (There was some horribly ill-advised semantic nonsense in KDE 4, but I don't think it ever affected Krita).
Very common now. The burden is on the banks to make sure their customer aren't breaking any US laws. US law extends its hand to any banks using dollars. It would be reasonable to assume that if there was a possibility principals in RT could be on the sanctions list banks would avoid doing business with RT.

Personally I've found the worst way to read the news is from one single "unbiased" source and the best is to read from a bunch of sources who do not hide their bias. When I see what facts are universally agreed upon then I make my own decision. I do the same thing with business decisions too.
Set back the system clock.

I watch movies on my laptop while I exercise. One day I was about to start exercising and Windows was like "Would you like to update now or in 10 minutes?" And I was like "I'm going to watch my movie," and set back my system clock, and surprisingly, it worked.

(I find this experience funny because moving back the clock was a knee-jerk reaction and it actually worked)
Contrary to what we like to imagine from outside, in prison you don't get the most favorable conditions for meditation. It's still an effort to get your mind serene and ready for heavy lifting like math. It's way more productive to focus on things that both have a lesser mental demand and touch your interest on a deeper, personal level.
If you escape the unsafe characters it works everywhere. I've been doing this for ages.

Source: https://codepen.io/yoksel/details/JDqvs/
I agree that it's a major failure, but doesn't that just mean that nuclear is even safer than people expect?

Safety systems, backup safety systems, backup-backup safety systems can go down, and yet, the plant kills nobody. Even though the radiator had a meltdown, it was passively contained and the radiation didn't leak out in dangerous quantities.

You mention that we don't know how likely a bigger containment was to occur, but I think there's barely a nugget of truth in that. The way the radioactive material was contained is very well understood. The safety systems worked, despite anything TEPCO did.
Why is our most secret court for _family_ matters of all things? I thought this was going to relate to national security in some form.
Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
My reply is off-topic, but I cannot resist.

> I think you missed his point. He was speaking generally [..]

shawnee_ --> hackeress.com

> What is a hackeress?

> A hackeress is a female hacker.

Bad form to assume all people are males in this domain (or even the majority for that matter, regardless of the actual statistics).

Use the form "they" when referring to someone whose gender (or gender identity) is unknown to you. Or check their profiles ;)

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Well? What's a wiser choice? I know nothing about investing and only started making $ a few months ago so I'm curious what the alternatives are. Just put it in ETF's, rebalance yearly, and wait 20 years?
Project Time Off thinks American workers should take more vacation time
My sentiments exactly.

I used a fuji X-E1 before I picked up my A7. I really enjoy the Fuji X series, but the prices are so close to the Sony A7 series that the extra expense is more than worth it for the clearly superior Sony FE system. I mean, the X-T2 is pretty much the same price as an A7ii.

I do love the build and feel of the Fuji XF lenses though, particularly the lenses that have the aperture ring.
Bitbucket experiencing major outage for repositories connecting via SSH
So Apple change to the approach that Google have been taking all along?
What if your laptop battery catches fire two hours before your presentation? It's just about as likely.

I am surprised to be asked by adults to think of a solution to a broken laptop given two whole hours in which to find a solution. (Hint: borrow somebody else's laptop.)
Yes I should clarify not all denominations believe this, but it is the most dominant view within Protestant circles (see Left Behind, etc).
> Mainly due to politicians drafting rules to require more safety out of nuclear than any form of other energy solution.

I wonder if that's because of things like Fukushima...

You can't have it both ways.

1) Nuclear is safe because there are regulations - Fukushima just had bad safety policies implemented. That's all

and

2) We can't have too many nuclear regulations - that would make nuclear too expensive!

Solar/batteries are the future. They are both going to drop in price by multiples over the next decade, and then some more after that.

I also think there are very few companies that wouldn't rather build solar/battery power plants now, even if more expensive to build at first, but much cheaper to maintain later, than deal with the complexities and regulations and uncertainties of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear should've "won" 30-40 years ago with the whole "too cheap to meter" thing. It's too late now. There are much better alternatives that are close to being competitively priced, or will be soon enough.
Ask HN: Integrating early-days startup with giant CRMs – like SAP?
Hello everyone,

I'm a technical cofounder at a 6-ish months old startup. We do route planning and data collection for direct sales -- currently on a niche market.

We've been recently presented what seems like a potentially great opportunity from a big client. After some negotiation, we settled on an initial step that would be integrating our end-user app (for collecting data from the salesmen) to their CRM. This brings us to the present day.

I immediatelly started investigating ways to simply fetch data from their CRM (in this particular case, it was SAP), and right now I am completely overwhelmed by the amount of apparent complexity and how much locked-in and buzzwordy this ecossystem is. It worried me even more after reading Paul Graham's essay [0], on which he says he'd never worry about competing startups working with Oracle (I'd probably put SAP in the same bag).

So, my question is: Does anyone have related experiences or advice to share with us? Here's some added context:

- We're bootstraped;

- We don't pay rent;

- We don't have employees beside the founders;

- We have only two technical people (me +1);

- We have two clients so far;

Thanks a lot in advance.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I think you missed one other important difference. Unlike WWII/Vietnam, recent wars are being fought by volunteers (those who, knowing the risks, willing signed up to fight), not working men forced to be soldiers as in the drafts.