skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the wrong perspective.

Software is a tool. What you do with it is an outcome.

A bulldozer is a tool. The house is the outcome.

So, we already invented a bulldozer (some piece of software) and it's trivial to duplicate it and reuse it all over the world. But when we need a new type of machine it's harder because, well, it's new.

In the software engineering world the goals is generally not to facsimile something like e.g. a house. It's to create a legitimately new tool. And since there are no real capital investments required (unlike building new tools in the physical world), and folks often value their free time at a weirdly low marginal rate, you end up with tool proliferation in a way not seen in the physical world, which makes it easy to think that we're building houses when in fact we're inventing the bulldozer.
An ice berg sunk the Titanic and "science" doesn't bother to measure the part that did the sinking.
Rape culture isn't about rapes. It's about a pervasive culture of misogyny that constantly demeans, shames, and objectifies women. Please go out and become educated on the subject rather than getting all of your information on this complex, multifaceted subject matter.
original announcement is still being discussed on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792928

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> Total cost for the little plastic dinghy and crew was $25000. The mining company was fine with this.

Because if they piled a couple of guys into the dinghy, and it happened to capsize, they'd end up paying out seven figures at minimum to the dead technicians' families.
Civil engineering just pouring concrete?

The plan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWmRQ1_uAE

Reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L32wC2qNAY
I can always tell when Twitter is in trouble, because I get a security notice from them that there has been suspicious activity on my account, it has been locked, and I need to login with an assigned password. (I never use my Twitter account). Happened after the last quarterly earnings report and also yesterday.

In other words, "We need more active users, so please log in soon so we can count you as an active user."
I've given up on a whole unifying program or application. I've also been burned by either closed source apps or web apps. Very hard to get your data if support stops or you just don't have it. I try to stay as close to plain text as possible these days.

Bookmarks - Pinboard with weekly backup to json/text.

Notes - A bunch of markdown files in folders (diary,projects,etc). Every day is a new file. I have @tags littered all over my notes for searching. Beauty is that there are many apps that can write markdown and search plain text.

Finance - ledger-cli, well, actually my own version with better reporting abilities, in my opinion.

Task management - to-do.txt. Again, many apps to choose from to manage the file.

Syncthing - Sync all of the above everywhere, plus other stuff.

Backup - restic and rclone.

Also, everything I've mentioned is cross-platform. Maybe not the application, but the source data is, and has an application that can modify it on almost every platform.
Looking at the company page again, M looks like a great piece of work. Because the interaction section is near the bottom of the page and because the page is long and because interactive elements on the page are not visibly different from non-interactive elements, I was not prepared to understand it by the time I reached it the first time I visited the page.

Without your reply, I would not have gone back and visited the company page. Without your reply, I would not have looked at M again or understood it or appreciated it.

I think the company page is aesthetically well designed. Yet, the product, M, and it's marketing and promotion may be somewhat sacrificed for the design aesthetic if people landing on the page do not understand what M is, what it does, and why they should care. A webpage design that obfuscates the product, may help poor products, but it probably hinders good ones and M seems like it might be a good product.

Good luck.
Norway does not have a compulsory conscription they only elect to enlist those who are motivated to do so and you can object without any legal repercussions.

That is weird because a few years ago I had a friend from Norway and he was forced to serve. There were ways out - like the mental health route, but that left you with rather unpleasant entries in databases you'd rather not be in.

I forgot about the Swiss, but it seems that they are also going to be or have started conscripting women as of 2016.

No such thing is happening in Switzerland. At all. There might be some discussion about it, but if so, it's not serious.

I don't really care about the "civil service" option. It is still forced labour and violates human rights. Hire people or let them be, that also applies to the state. I have plans with my life, I can't just give a year here and a year there for some random governmental institution that forces me to mostly stand outside and wait or humiliate myself in front of sadistic military superiors.
I've found this wrapper library for IndexedDB very pleasant to use:
http://dexie.org/
I was just offering an example of another indicator, not that it was proof of anything by itself.

Some technical indicators: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
just killin it.
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There is the option of running a charity, one that would be ready to help at the right places by reurbanisng and reorganising territories. If you benefit from the charity (=if it gives you credit for politics or if you get a salary for the full-time job), then you're profiting.

Be a consultant in XXIth century urbanization, be it to save energy, reduce pollution or to prepare for the worst. Once we get +2 degrees, countries might understand why +6 degrees might be harmful and massively subscribe to your services.

Or start a weapon industry. See that Daesh thing? That's what happens when there's a slight draught every summer.

Start a boat people company. They'll be in very much demand in 20 years.

You'll object that you have much more money than that and you're not aiming for a mere salary. Well, you'll be happy to have the skill everyone needs when the rest of the world is fighting for survival. Just imagine what if the world votes on a complete ban on petrol and puts the world on an energy diet. Which is the only thing we must do.
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Keep in mind that Adams wrote Hitchhikers for BBC radio and it was first broadcast in 1978. This means that he developed it in ~1976 to 1977. The first Seiko digital wristwatch, the Astron, was released on Christmas 1969, and popular adoption can then be assumed to be ~1970+. So, for Adams, the digital watch was only 6-8 years old, still fairly new. I mention this, as it puts the quote in the context of the time. Adams meant that the digital wristwatch was an amazing thing still; such amazing precise time, so cheap, so small. And then Adams says that this amazing tech is just a pittance to the rest of the universe. It's typical British humor, but in a different way than we see it now.

So, when you say "People who wear watches as a status symbol wore elaborate mechanical ones, people that just needed time used their phones." you are wrong in the context of the time Adams was talking about. Digital was very much 'cool' back then, or at least not 'cheap' as we see it today. Also, no-one had a mobile in 1978, as they were first introduced in 1979 (and had no clock).

As for today, fashion works in cycles, and among hipsters the digital is 'in', but who really knows. We do know that the Casio F-91 is the watch of choice for IEDs and Casio admits that they sell "well" 25 years after introduction. I remember reading that the F-91 is a graduation 'gift'/shibboleth for IED school grads, but I can't find the source. I guess that earns a fair amount of street-cred or 'cool' in certain circles (of bastard child-killer terrorists). If you do see a group of people with a lot of old Casio F-91 watches, I really hope they are not company you keep!
Because people who make "awesome X" and "curated" lists do it for the GitHub stars and just accept any suggestions/PRs without checking if they're good or not.
I thought the same.

On the other hand it took me a bit of time to figure out what's going on.

But I'm not C dev, so that could be the issue here.
What about non competes for low wage workers like subway and mcdonalds? Cuz thats beeen starting to happen.
This sounds like Gavin from Silicon Valley.

"Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure."
Parent post here. And, you know what? You're very right about a lot of things. You might be really interested in hearing Bell Hooks speak (she has a lot of awesome talks up on YouTube). She talks a great deal about how feminism is for everyone and the patriarchal structures we live under harm both men and women greatly. Men being killed in the street are not being killed for being men, unlike women who are killed for being trans or refusing sex. Do you see the difference here?
Thanks for this post. The description of the attempt to treat scientific knowledge as a commodity reminds me of a quote I like by Dr. Ray Peat:

"Knowledge isn't a commodity, especially not a fungible commodity, as the medical business sees it. Consciousness and culture are part of the life process. It is exactly the commoditization of medical knowledge that makes it dangerous, and generally stupid. Doctors buy their knowledge and then resell it over and over; it's valuable as a commodity, so its value has to be protected by the equivalent of a copyright, the system of laws establishing the profession. Without its special status, its worthlessness would be quickly demonsrated..." -- Ray Peat, PhD.
People with these skills do exist. Perhaps it has something to do with your location. For instance, your name is EpicEng, which might mean that you work for Epic, the large medical record company in Wisconsin. Epic is not located in an interesting place or a place conducive for career growth with other companies, in contrast with say, SV, NYC, Boston.

Alternatively, if it is important enough to the firm, they should be offering significantly more money than they are.
I think you mean bullshitting. But it is you who are doing that, unfortunately.
ground breaking.
* Pencil (usually a small, well-used stub that fits in a shirt pocket) and paper (various notebooks, from Target pocket-size spiral-bounds to Moleskin to whatever is at hand)

* Camera - https://www.simongriffee.com/photography/

* Simplenote - https://simplenote.com/ and Notational Velocity - http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

* Website with tags powered by Hugo static generator - https://gohugo.io/

Someone please make a browser-based wiki that works offline (HTML5 local storage) and can be used on any computer, including pocket ones like iPhones, and keeps your information synchronized between them.
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Depends on the state. I live in Illinois. It's been enforced plenty of times here. They tend to argue over what is a 'reasonable' restriction, and it goes back and forth. For example: http://www.w-p.com/Articles/Illinois-Non-Compete-World-Now-E...

And in 2013, the TekSystems recruitment company sued its former employee (a recruiter) over a noncompete and it got upheld in Illinois court: http://paulporvaznik.com/court-can-shorten-overly-broad-non-...
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I attended a talk on DrK by Yeongjin a few weeks back at Georgia Tech. Keep up the awesome work guys, and welcome to the front page of HN ;)
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It would be so much easier without that pesky democracy thing. /s
Russia probably isn't unique in that sense, although progress continues everywhere. I've actually been pretty shocked that no one in the current Missouri governor's election has brought up the fact that the "not a politician", "I like to blow shit up", "like Trump without the creepiness", "I donated to my nonprofit before I took a 6-figure salary from it", Navy Seal, Republican candidate Eric Greitens is Jewish. Of course, if he were running as a Democrat, I imagine someone would have printed some "educational" flyers.
Scary :(
Except the CEO is also leaving.
> It's to create a legitimately new tool.

More likely: to create a minor variation on an existing tool. There have been relatively few instances of legitimate new tool creation but many 100's (and probably 1000's) of instances of re-creating slight variations on the same tools.

For instance: build tools, programming languages, libraries (95% duplicate functionality with some other library, and of course an inconsistent interface) and so on.

> And since there are no real capital investments required (unlike building new tools in the physical world)

Software requires enormous amounts of capital, in part due to all this re-invention. We even have a name for it: NIH, and we have a term for what happens to a software project that is a few years old (technical debt).

Our tools and our processes are ill equipped to deal with the challenge and what is supposed to be building houses more often than not ends up with people re-inventing the bulldozer.

Now there are times when that is the right thing to do, but most of the times it isn't.
Why the jump over to the DDOS from last week? No one is saying it was Russia, so you want everyone who previously made statements about other, ostensibly unrelated hacks to clarify that they don't think the DDOS was related to Russia?

As far as the email hacks, there are a couple of recent pieces laying out the case for tying them to Russia:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49791/russian-dnc-emai...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...

As the Motherboard article says, there is no known smoking gun, but the targeting of the phishing campaign has a pretty strong overlap with Russian interests.
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I'd love to be educated about this topic. I am always eager to learn new things and broaden my horizons. I don't shy away from complex, multifaceted subject matters. It's just that, to learn, I need facts. I need something tangible and you fail to give me that.
What is this feeling I feel...
equipment is leased, and the leasing companies finance it and make earnings on the margin of rent and payments. a $100k truck or $250k crane costs shockingly little on a monthly basis. construction finance companies are getting into the technology finance industry, by the way -- they have reached out to me many times - to them there is no difference between a tractor rig and a Xeon/GPU/SSD/40G compute rig. in fact you could argue that tech is more resilient than construction, from a financial point of view. anyway, i digress...

as per usual, the people are what is expense, even 'cheap' construction workers. likely those people are being sent around to multiple jobs because the crew+foreman are experienced and reliable and unlikely to cause general fuckups or financial liabilities.
Promises often end up "infecting" every async function. Promises are easy to add, but hard to remove.

To my understanding, the following code examples do the same thing:

readFilePromise("file").then(... txt ...);

txt = readFileSync("file");

txt = await readFilePromise("file");

Why not use the one in the middle ?
I think it's too heavy for mobile phones. The demos don't load.

https://imgur.com/a/oOxpt
Oh snap, he-she said. Can you say 'gimme money for a grant pleeeeeeaaaasssseeeee.' http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reache...
There is much evidence to suggest that exactly the opposite is true: an excess of social liberalism leads to the downfall of a culture. Social conservatism means stable families, strong men, and social cohesion, which translates into a stronger nation. Social liberalism, as it has now, degenerates into identity politics and political paralysis. As Aristotle put it, "Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."

The greatest time for the middle class in the United States, for example, was in the 50s, when society was much more conservative than it is now. (That's what the "Make America Great Again" is all about.) The 50s are the last decade that the conservative WASP aristocracy was in power. Every election since, groups like African Americans, women, and Jews have increased their power and brought about with them big government. How is that an improvement? Surely, you agree that big government is disastrous for the country?

There's a book "Sex and Culture" by J.D. Unwin that actually argues (convincingly in my opinion) that a suppression of sexual energies (i.e. control of women) is a necessary (not sufficient) condition for a civilization to succeed. Check it out.
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I'll take a look when I get a chance - from a glance at the Phoenix docs looks it like a railsy MVC framework though?

The pattern I'm talking about is dicussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945513
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The point is that there's a market for rides in nice cars. It's unreasonable to think that's going to suddenly go away if they become driverless.
>That is weird because a few years ago I had a friend from Norway and he was forced to serve. There were ways out - like the mental health route, but that left you with rather unpleasant entries in databases you'd rather not be in.

I have family and friends in Norway there are tons of easy way outs, they don't even call the majority of people if you don't show up or refuse early they don't bother asking you twice.

I don't know what happened to your friend but it could be that he agreed, signed up and then regretted it.

"Norway employs a weak form of mandatory military service for men and women. While 63,841 men and women were called in for the examination of persons liable for military service in 2012 (mandatory for men), 9265 were conscripted.[6] In 2015 conscription was extended to women making Norway the first NATO member and first European country to make national service compulsory for both men and women.[7] There is a right of conscientious objection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Armed_Forces#cite_no...

>I don't really care about the "civil service" option. It is still forced labour and violates human rights. Hire people or let them be, that also applies to the state. I have plans with my life, I can't just give a year here and a year there for some random governmental institution that forces me to mostly stand outside and wait or humiliate myself in front of sadistic military superiors.

Well then we have a different set of values on one's role in society, I believe that civil service needs to be highly encouraged if not mandatory, I would even put something like a voluntary social year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_social_year) as a mandatory activity in a university or college and some institutions do have that where you need to vulenteer for a few semesters during your degree.
> It is small startup so CEO may not be aware of this poor management.

Can you manage-up? That is to say can you show some leadership initiative to add value to the enterprise? What would the next iteration look like? Ping the heads of business development/sales/marketing to see if they have anything you could help them with. That might also smooth over the push-back issues on new feature implementations.

It may be helpful to consider your role as almost a FT retainer, on-call as needed. During your down-time, suggest doing some cutting-edge research, create important projects that apply to the business. This could be a great opportunity to create your own space for professional growth.
No collusion here, I genuinely wanted to know.
> the comment never once referred to anyone externally as a racist.

"X didn't explicitly say Y" is the online commentary version of holding a hand an inch away from a sibling's face in the car, saying "I'm not touching you".
The software is open source with reproducible builds. I'm not saying this is a magic wand, but it's a significant difference from the other cases.
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http://smmry.com/about is the closest I've seen, but can't do the same kind of translation from corpspeak to plain language.
Log Littering
> Coastal cities are unlikely to be flooded in our lifetimes. We're looking at about 1m [1] sea level rise in 100 years, or 50cm in our lifetime.

Thats true, but what most people don't know is that sea level rise don't necessarily mean catastrophic floods. A far bigger problem -- in our lifetime -- is aquifer salination, that is the intrusion of saltwater into coastal freshwater aquifers. This is already happening, in the Nile-valley, Benin and Cyprus but also in Louisiana and California.

When the salinity of coastal Freshwater aquifers reaches a critical level, growing crops in coastal areas can be all but impossible.
Slashdot, Reddit, and HN are different tools. On the surface they seem similar, but so does a Philips head screwdriver and a Frearson, yet they really are different tools.
InternMark is an internship-job board, that specializes in finding internships. I built it because I was myself looking for a place where I could find all the available interships right away and focus on applying quickly. Instead, I usually found myself going from site to site looking for different intern jobs.

It's not yet what I hope for it to become, but I really wanted to share it with you and ask for your feedback.

If you like this and agree with this concept/idea, post your internship jobs here so everyone can benefit from having a central place.
We probably agree on many things but I do fundamentally disagree with the concept of a "patriarchy" (in the west). There's no need to gender what is essentially a synonym for institutionalized power. A lot of that power favors women (c.f. our educational system).
Since Google Fiber started we got a fiber network in my area from Cincinnati Bell that allowed me to kick Time Warner in the nuts. It was more satisfying than the ending to Breaking Bad. I've saved money and gotten all the speed it promised. I don't know how much Google's example was involved in bringing this to us, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
There is an argument to be made that a larger organization might be able to take your idea and run faster than you with it.

In practice though, most of the time your idea is too small or too risky to be on the radar of those organizations.

A bit like how when you wake up a dream you had makes perfect sense until you try to describe it to someone else.
What does compliance with your rule look like? The media only talking to designated spokespeople on recorded video? The media just publishing press releases? How do they investigate things that the government PR doesn't want to discuss?

I have a problem with the way access is traded on, but I think the solution is to convince some media companies to have some backbone (we invited Titus J. Stuffington on tonight, he didn't want to talk about the bribes he took, we decided not to get some damn fool to defend the bribes in his stead), not to ban them from talking to government officials.