skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a European this is just .. shocking. I was born in a city that has been settled for almost 2000 years, which has the oldest parts surrounded by walls that were constructed between the 12th and 14th century.

Even when I moved away from there to a new city the flat I bought was in a building almost 200 years old.

I know that America is "new", and that modern buildings are, by definition modern, but the idea that you don't plan for the long-term, and that buildings aren't old is very surprising.
There has been an unspoken freedom of privacy for thousands of years. We could go in our caves or homes and protect them via a fist, rock, spear, or gun such that we could live alone outside of prying eyes.

Now when we go online or go shop in a store, we are partially losing the ability to live privately. Eventually, our government could put cameras everywhere in our home to ensure that we behave, and some could abuse that. To prevent that, we need to solidify that freedom of privacy, rather than continue to consider it a privilege.

I also think that we should allow the government some amount of freedom to protect us. However, there needs to be a line drawn that shouldn't be crossed whether it's Target, the F.B.I., or an individual, and I think we should all be aware of data collection.
Algo VPN: 1-click IPSEC VPN in the Cloud
> IMO anyone who is passionate about their work will have greater success and generally be more innovative.

That is true, I don't dispute it. What I dislike is the shunning of those who want to do it just as their job.

Also, passion comes in different forms. For example, I am "passionate" (as much as I hate the term) about delivering reliable, secure and well-documented products. Sometimes a project will be focused on that and my passion will show, other times projects focus on things I just can't get myself to care enough about and will only do as much as is strictly necessary to get the job done.
Gig Economy and Mental Stress
>new type annotation stuff

xrange is now range?

>multiple ways to handle string formatting

This is a problem?

As for sanity:
bytes/unicode
integer division
chained exceptions
os.scandir performance

I'm keen for 4 when it comes. Clinging to the past is only going to make things harder.
yeah, i got it on my iCloud account a couple weeks back.
So not only will people still use apps while driving, now they'll do it while reaching their arm way out over the passenger seat.
No. The ISP is doing, effectively, an MiTM attack. Your recursive resolver's queries will just get redirected too. You'll have to run them over some kind of tunnel to obscure them.
How We Are Funding Our Startup?
Hi Julia,

Congrats on the success so far! Wishing your team and the entrepreneurs you are helping even greater success to come.

I don't know all that much about microlending, but I do know quite a bit about investment funds, so I clicked the link hoping to learn more and maybe help offer some feedback if relevant.

After reading your blog post I still didn't fully understand it so I went to your main site to try to learn more. I read through the FAQs too, but still have a couple questions:

For example: while exploring some of the projects on your site I came across Ms. Mwangi from Kenya asking for a loan to buy shoes and clothes for her clothing line. https://www.zidisha.org/loan/shoes-clothes-for-my-clothline-...

Ms. Mwangi is asking to borrow $509.00

The cost of the loan details show:

-Service Fee: 5% of $509.00 = $25.47

-Lifetime membership fee: $50.95

-Optional Pay into Zidisha Members Loan Fund in return for a higher starting credit limit: $428.02

The costs total: $504.44

To me this looks like costs and fees totalling $504 in order for her to borrow $5?

So my sincere apologies for any misunderstanding on my part. I realize microlending has unique risks and challenges compared to other types of lending. And of course a practical amount of money needs to got to Zidisha to help cover costs and expenses of the good work you guys are doing.

But how can costs and fees be $504 for a $5 loan? Is that correct? The costs to loan value seem very high to say the least. If you see this, I'd really appreciate a bit of clarity and info on these details. Thanks
I can actually give you a pretty good definition if you want one.

Competition sufficient so that no last mile ISP has enough market power to charge transit or content providers for access to their customers. That's the exact minimum amount of competition necessary so that you don't need network neutrality regulations -- enough so that the market does the job for you.
Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPTwpLIpDWE&t=8s
Ask HN: How you are funding your startup?
https://medium.com/not-so-startup/how-we-are-funding-our-startup-caf9666678b3#.n3zbjewo3
What sort of blue collar job do you do?

A part of me dislikes that I turned what was a genuine interest of mine into my job. Software was a lot more fun to do before it became a professional thing for me.
The reviews on wirecutter work pretty well for me.

They have a number of affiliate ads, but in the overall balance, if you want to make a decision in 1 hour or less it's a pretty good source that I use.
/etc doesn't generally have to be writable, and in a read-only root environment /var will be on its own slice.
The common person's utopia was very different during medieval times
At a rate of 0.5%, the job is going to have to be extremely unskilled in order to get enough hires.
When I saw the live stream, the first question I asked myself was: I wonder if they're filtering pornographic products and sex toys from that feed?

The answer is no.
i would assume that it would be a majority of the donations, i cant think of other ways people die where their organs could still be utilized? (drug OD // old age // etc)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. You may not be surprised to learn that TS sufferers often also suffer from OCD or other conditions within the same spectrum.

To answer your question, YES, holding my tics in generally does produce a feeling of intense anxiety. This can end up deriving similarly intense levels of anger, frustration, and sometimes even physical outbursts (punching the wall, biting my fists) if allowed to go on long enough. My triggers are almost entirely environmental or stress-related. Believe it or not, one of the best places for me to avoid tics is at the opera. I love music, particularly classical and jazz, which typically require physical discipline and quiet focus, but because I am a musician and composer, I get to a very serene place in these scenarios and therefore have very few tics. Same thing with my work - if I am in vim writing code, I can go hours without tics. But as soon as I hear someone talking about the elections, for instance, I am a completely different person.
I have read that unreinforced concrete structures can stand for thousands of years, which you confirm just by noting some Roman structures still standing.

You can build much higher and bigger with reinforced concrete, but they will only be up for at most many decades, because steel always rusts.
A professional does not work for free. Be passionate, work on your own projects, build stuff to learn.

But when it comes to the job, they get what they pay for.
If it's used for commercial reasons / business then it should be paid for per the developer's current licensing structure and should be overall a small expense for people that use it constantly. I think people can't get past the "I'm paying $70 for a text editor" idea when so many code editors / IDEs have often been free, but that's a poor excuse the brain tries to make. Just as a developer that uses Sublime should be paid for their work- the developer of Sublime deserves the same.

I have moved to VSCode for the time being (after trying Atom and others), since for me, my use of Sublime is commercial but on a very rare/hobbyist basis. It bothered me ethically to continue using it without paying for a license, once I had commercial uses for it. So, it makes more sense economically for me to use something free like VSCode for now.
Switch to self driving cars, problem solved.
The tests are an important part of the lesson for certain. Even better is the lesson that throwing a test spec over the wall to your development team may result in them writing code that passes the test but isn't necessarily ideal for production.

I've played many hours of this game and have committed many grievous programming sins to improve my scores.
Limitless is not quite right: at some point, the value of work drops below the level at which a human can subsist on it.

Of course, if we take away that constraint through some means, like for example basic income, then the same problem remains in a different form; the value of the work drops below the level that a human can be bothered to do it.

Because this minimum exists, there is indeed a finite amount of work, and as machines drop the value of human labor in certain areas, there is potentially less and less of it available.
I wonder when something like this will be available for mpv.
I'm getting mine thru iCloud.

Pity there's no way to just delete an event in Calendar, without accepting/declining. Both of those send a notification to the sender.
I didn't downvote you, but here's the source[1].

[1] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
Ask HN: USB Type-C 100W PD motherboards to charge laptops?
Hey all,

Looking to build my next right and thought a motherboard with 100W power delivery via USB Type-C would be an awesome way to charge my laptop and could easily justify increased cost by not buying a 100W power brick to bury behind my desk.

Problem is, nobody has ever reviewed or discussed such things? I have to be missing something or failing at Google.

I stumbled on these boards that claim to support 100W:

* GA-Z170X-UD3

* GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra

* GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming

* GA-Z170X-Designare (x2 maybe? can't tell)

Does anyone happen to have one of the motherboards and a laptop that supports high power USB Type-C charging, perhaps a XPS 15, Precision 15 or new MacBook Pro?

I'm looking for an excuse to build a new rig. Please support the madness.

[0] http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5499

[1] http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5891

[2] http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5808

[3] http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5811
But the question is when would they donate their organs? (Making the assumption that most organ donations come from people in car accidents).
Clash of Clans: Hog Rider 360°
A few of the lessons he talked about I've seen repeated on Casey Muratori's "Handmade Hero" series. Specifically point #3, he talked early on about writing simple code that fulfills one metric: it works. Afterwards you can see the implicit parts that should be made into functions, remove code duplication, and clean things up. However having that "full view" of a chunk of code makes the process easier.

Also point #4, he writes an interactive write-compile-test system using an executable hooking into a shared library which contains all of your code. That way you can compile and see the results quickly on a still running executable of your game. Very fast feedback without having to "respawn" to a part of your game to test.
> I just wish that the legal system was more common sense.

I doubt that it's possible. Law is a bit complicated for a reason: it tries to be as specific, and as general, as possible. It abhors ambiguity, or unintended consequences.

Example:

> "Information about a citizen shall not be collected and stored against the will of the citizen."

Sounds great – and it's pretty much the law in Germany. But – as a business – how do you prove the citizen has agreed to you storing their information? Yeah: a form, or a EU cookie banner -> and we're back at square one.
Outrageous! This is like a software company which pushes unwanted OS upgrades on its customers and then hides behind customers agreeing to a nag-screen exploding "offer" when the upgrade bricks some of the previously fine computers. Thankfully we in the software business don't have to worry about such things, because we are above such tactics.

All you little people, its really your fault for being such small fry...
About damn time. Distracted driving first broke into public consciousness as a serious determinant of injury and mortality in 02009 / 02010.

NHTSA could have demanded this from the '09 Apple / Google / Microsoft smartphone trifecta 6 years ago, and seen it implemented by '11 or '12. I'm rather disappointed that Secretary Foxx and the Administrative and Technical Teams under President Obama did not provision these countermeasures as a national technical safety standard earlier.

Cars are so much more dangerous than terrorism... this Times article puts it at 100 souls per day. Put differently, that's at least 10x more fatalities than 9/11, every single year, or over 150x more than Osama bin Laden's hijackers just from 2001 - 2016.

Shockingly, just in the lag between the 9/11 Attack and the Land War in Afghanistan, just about as many people were killed by negligent car crashes in the domestic United States than the 2,997 souls lost on 9/11... counting the hijackers.

So which is more urgent and important? Getting human drivers off the road and young, healthy, male living donors into donor transplant program recruitment funnels or sending our young, healthy males to fight terrorism?

It's a false dichotomy... we can do all three... but the first quantitatively outranks the second by 1.1+ orders of magnitude.
> There was a time when the maintenance cost of cars (traditional) were little.

And those same engines had no power.

If you want a Model T engine, it's really uncomplicated.

You just won't be able to drive on any modern highway.
Despite the histrionics of this article, its actually an interesting question from a legal perspective. In the case of an account the customer never agreed to open - are they bound by the agreement which opened their primary account, or is there no legal agreement in place?

Assuming the original arbitration clause covered the entire business relationship - not just matters specific to the account opened at signing then it ultimately is a question of whether the fraudulent account is a new business "relationship".
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised that it's a major source as well.

Looks like drug overdose is a significant (and unfortunately increasing) source:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/14/49779944...

Looks like suicide is significant as well, though I'm not sure how to interpret this section of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation#Suicide

Crikey. What a morbid subject. :/
This is actually very possible you'd be surprised. Find a keyless car system that also lets you start it such as in the Mitsubishi Evo X and test the range around doors and within the driver seat etc that it lets you start the car. Surprisingly accurate.

Key just outside the drivers door won't start and the boot won't open if it's basically where the tail light is etc. and that's 10 year old tech.
You answered your own question. By the time we see a serious drop in auto fatalities because of mass adoption of Autonomous vehicles, Id imagine we'll be able to 3D print organs that wont encounter rejection. Alternatively, you could always take a medical holiday to China.
That's great. Have you been writing vectorized code in Python then?
Agreed. Although in this case we don't if the initial report was fake or not. It's just unverifiable. It's entirely possible that some local cable tech decided to play a prank on a specific neighborhood where the tweeter lived. ...it wouldn't be the first time.
Everyone moved to advertising; since useful work ran out, its all about the zero-sum competition for eyeballs and capturing the biggest possible chunk of consumer spending.
Just learned that Alphabet is reusing names. CapitalG was used before: http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140422/NEWS/140429952
Sounds complicated. Musk has said that Lithium batteries are improving at a rapid enough pace that they expect impressive increases in capacity and duty cycles by the third iteration of the Model 3.
Advice to Someone Just Entering Our Industry
Mars has almost no atmosphere, being almost entirely composed of CO2 is the least of it's problems.
Do the schools cause the intelligence, or does achievement just measure it? Cause if level of schooling acts more like a measure of certain aptitudes, with the actual information learned being largely useless, then we still are faced with the problem of some people being increasingly unemployable.
I have trouble understanding this valuation considering that it just doesn't seem like a terribly difficult market to jump into. They aren't first to the table. Is there something that's protecting their market position/ensuring that it will get better?
Yes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5etop4/calendar_even...
Same here, just noticed today. The iCal event was sent to a bunch of permutations of my email address
I agree, and an extensive program like this might permit for a clean transition as even the make-work disappears; pay for public good work to doing whatever you want and sharing it with the world sounds like the ideal utopian outcome.
How much were you associated with it before the story broke?
While that's true, I think you can also have taxis stop at charging stations more often when they aren't in use. Particularly if you have self-driving taxis, you're not bothering passengers by doing that. You could even have trucks with large batteries which act as mobile charging stations.
I do not know which universe you are living on. /r/golang is one of the best programming communities I have ever seen. golang-nuts is the worst community I have ever seen.

This is double standards of the epic proportions, on the "official" Google group, you have a person call reddit "hive of scum" and what not and that's fine? doesn't the CoC shoved down our throats tell us to respect others? to not be an ass? or does it not apply to the "elites".

let me reiterate again, reddit might be an unwelcoming place, /r/golang is the most welcoming place ever, I posted a query of AJAX, I got two answers within half hour, one with vanilla JS another with jquery, if I had posted to your beloved google group, they'd have pointed me down to some obscure link and asked me to chase my problem on my own and that would have done probably being snarky.

/r/golang is NOT toxic.

edit:

my exp with /r/golang
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5dkobc/sample_webap....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/56mgxb/learn_how_to....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/50ih0s/whats_up_wit....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4zyjye/network_prog....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4kbup2/can_webapps_....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jxtdg/building_an_....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jaiun/updated_my_t....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4ihjk7/added_sessio....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46vb6x/want_to_disc....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/45uqpw/updated_my_t....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/439asd/simple_comma....

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing....

The fact that I do not have a single (+ve) link on go-nuts speaks volumes about which forum is toxic.

Just read this thread which I started on go-nuts

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/F4LJwyYZcX....

And tell me later which community is helpful.

edit2: formatting.
> AMD doesn't keep Intel's prices down, the market does.

This is a reductionist view. For the market to bring those prices down, there need to be at least 2 manufacturers of the same product who are not colluding. If AMD went under and closed down, the market that you have faith in would not magically create more companies manufacturing x86 components. This is because only Intel and AMD have the patents and the licenses to patents required to manufacture them. It's possible that someone would salvage those patents and licenses from AMD and try competing with Intel... but what sane person would do so after seeing AMD try and fail to do so for a decade.

In short, AMD's continued survival and success is required for a healthy x86 market.
Think of it in reverse. The survivor of the accident that doesn't happen donates their organs to themself. Organ donation is just one means to increase survivorship, but there are other means as well.
the value of work drops below the level at which a human can subsist on it

I agree with this analysis; the question becomes: how do we value a person's contribution to society, if not by someone's willingness to pay their wages?

I hope there is a solution in advanced tools for economic cooperation... imagine 90% of the population living off something like "GoFundMe for artists and educators".

If we can't or won't find such an answer, we then have the question: how many lives are we willing to subsidize who are contributing, by our best measures, a net negative to society?
Well I guess the point of my argument boils down to the problem of changing key functions in established code. Even Fortran when they adopted new standards, old stuff works fine, for the most part. The problem with python is more that it got really popular in the scientific community, because it is relatively fast and extremely easy to write in, but some of the packages were slow to adopt. I think this created a weird scenario where I'm not sure if python2 will ever go away. The scientific world fell in love with python because it was like a free MATLAB, but more useful. And by the time 3 came out there was a lot of code developed that wouldn't port. If we get down to it, I think this is more a problem of porting than anything else. The scientific community has already made headway into 2 and I will admit that we are really slow to adopt. Because of this I think 2 will stay for quite some time. Myself, I don't take the time to learn 3 because if I write in it I'd just confuse my team. I literally can't write in 3 because it'd be detrimental to my job. This is definitely true for a lot of the scientific computing world. There is always an inherent danger to adopting new standards to a language. And python shows where it can turn bad. Because it got really popular and even though it isn't that detrimental to normal python users it is a huge difference in the scientific world.

I will mention that as a more middle ground coder and physicist, scientists are horrible programmers. Horrible. In python I don't see a lot of uses of definitions, so there are A LOT of global calls. I don't think I'm a great programmer, but it is definitely a focus on "programming is a tool" in our sphere. So there is no real care about "future proof" or any of that. The real care, especially in academia, is "can I get this done". Really the only people that care about future proof are the national labs that are building libraries to be used in mass, something like PETSc. But you even get problems there because things like ARPACK have issues, because it is dependent upon LAPACAK (many might not know, but there is a compatibility issue there with the newest versions).

I myself get upset about this. But what are you going to do? I don't disagree with the science first coding second attitude. But there needs to be a conscious effort of making things, at least, more future proof. The problem is no one pays us for that. We get paid for results. We do not get paid for verification, mind you that is an EXTREMELY important part of science. And we don't, usually, get paid for software development, at least primarily (we do if it leads to results). So it is convoluted and this turns into a large argument about a lot of things. But it is nowhere near as simple as "python 3 is supposed to be the new standard therefore we should write in it." Being a tool, we will always work off of previous code base, and we will always learn what the writer (or HOPEFULLY someone that knows a semblance of what the code does) tries to do with the code/library.