skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've met too many front-end devs who are unable to separate the architectural pattern from the implementation of the library they are using."

That's because front-end development is based on a core of HTML/CSS/JS which itself does not lend very well to architectural paradigms.

People 'starting out' on the front-end, in some ways, never learn how to write propers software. They've been using weird ideas from the start.
>This is twice in recent memory that the majority of the United States was overruled by the minority.

Which means nothing because they were not playing a popular vote contest. We will never know who would have won, on that day, in a pure popular vote contest.

Winning the popular vote and losing the contest means you miscalculated, and misprovisioned your campaign resources, focusing too heavily on areas you already won.
I had to hit enter and wait...and wait...and wait
> Another stable solution is an unpleasant-sounding caste system, where everybody is nice to people of higher rank and nasty to people of lower rank.

Yes, to some extent. I suppose there is an argument you can make that there's another Nash equilibrium at the point of extreme inequality, where a couple people are rich and everyone else is essentially starving. But that sort of seems besides the point, given how complex and interconnected our current economic and political structures are.

> Almost all large corporations have extreme salary inequality, but they're still relatively stable and successful entities.

On what time scale? I would argue that if governments were even 1/10 as likely to fail as large corporations the world would be quickly reduced to rubble.
I am very glad I found a reference to Planescape here. I'm relatively "young" to have played P:T, I played it when it was already an old game, but the story really stuck with me. The best story I've ever seen in a video game.
"Like the first (at first), I've "started" the second a few times by now, but not making it more than 2 hours or so each time."

Try to save the results of those, then pick up from there next time you're in the mood. I've had all kinds of games I've played across years that way.
IPX and NetBIOS (which MSFT called NetBUI) were introduced after the C64 came out.

I would say DECnet phase IV or IBM's SNA were the biggest contenders, along with X.25.
I know this is a late reply and such - but my first modem was a 300 baud screamer (heh) - so a slow connection could look fast to me otherwise (not as fast as what I have currently, tho).

As far as getting 10 acres to work for me - well, I wasn't thinking that route (ie - farming). More just doing odd jobs to make the tax payment; I'm pretty good with mechanically inclined stuff - I also can work a welder, plasma cutter, grinder, etc. Or - maybe I could get a cheap 3D printer and/or laser cutter and do stuff with that.

Everything else would be completely paid off, and otherwise I'd be off-the-grid (electric from solar/wind, water from a well, then a septic tank - I guess I might have to budget for maintenance of that stuff, too).

I'm thinking, though, I might still be able to commute into jobs - where I'm thinking about locating isn't too far away from work - though it'd be a long commute (50-75 miles each way).
Sounds a lot like Codefights (www.codefights.com), but with the overhead of actually managing the code in git and the benefit of actually devoting brainpower to real problems rather than toy examples.

Also, since you appear to be the person who wrote this, perhaps this thread should be in the Show HN format?
Well, I think shell scripting is fun, so I might agree that you'd hope users who had spent at least a little time using the CLI _could_ write a bash script. That said, I suspect a lot of people, devs included, just haven't needed to automate/batch things outside of whatever their normal toolset is - and don't know what they're missing. Portability makes shell scripting especially nice - instead of fiddling with rbenv or npm or pip so that your elegant little script can run, your handy.sh is going to be easier to move to another box...
Cyanogen will close Seattle office, more layoffs happening, Kondik could be out
D8Bit an open transport indipendent match making protocol
CREDIT SCORES ONTARIO: USE YOURS TO SCORE THAT DREAM DATE
If I could offer feedback about the pricing structure -- I think if I didn't know (from the article) that it's free to create unlimited logos, I wouldn't have figured that out by looking at your pricing section.

And I know it says "It's free to build unlimited logos. Only pay when you want to download" right there in plain text under the headline, but my eyes skipped over that part. I expected clickable price boxes too. I think it looks so similar to a typical SaaS pricing page that I assumed it works the same way. I don't know how best to fix it, but it might be worth testing different arrangements to make it clearer that it's free to sign up and create a logo.
So, I went through the whole logo creation process and got stuck at the sign up screen. I don't mind signing up, but when I used last pass to generate a password, I got told it was too long. I only tried to generate one that was ~9 characters long. If you are checking length, might want to put the requirements on that screen
That's still the case indeed.
Sri Lankan President meets teen who hacked his website
Their is a login form on the website on a page without HTTPS. You should change that.
thenormal, is this your project? If so, it qualifies for a "Show HN:" in the headline.
You're right.

I apologize for assuming that you had seen the comment and for believing hga's assertion that you had reviewed his comments and determined that the good made up for the bad. This was entirely my mistake, and is probably a testament to the effectiveness of a veneer of respectability over cold-blooded hatred.

That a long-time commentator could call for ethnic cleansing of myself and my family upset me greatly and I apologize for letting that emotional reaction extend to the moderators.

If you would like to remove this subthread, feel free. I don't want people incorrectly assuming that HN mods don't care.
Chasm – Secret Sharing Cloud Backup
Link to the original PDF that does not endlessly nag you to subscribe to the newsletter:

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
There are three big things to look out for on the software side. Are you using deep sleep? Are you putting your sensors into shutdown mode between measurements? How long does it take to take a measurement, connect, and report?

On the hardware side, consider using a switching power supply. Many cheap/small ESP8266 breakouts use inefficient linear regulators. You may also consider adding a big capacitor across the battery +/- lines. This will help smooth out the large current pulses consumed by the device, which can be quite important as the battery voltage starts to drop.

The ESP8266 is pretty power hungry, but you should be able to get much more than two weeks on those batteries. Even in the worst case scenario, I'd expect about three months.

I'd be happy to take a look at your schematics and code. (email in profile)
SQL Subqueries
The point was to make you remember something from that Chemistry class years later.
The name of the game that's being played is gerrymandering.
One thing is the intimidation factor. 3 months ago, I had 0% confidence that I could do anything that even touched ML. I'm still very new to the game, but once I started learning about it, it became much more approachable.
Amazon Employee Driven to Suicide Attempt by “Performance Improvement Plan”
There's a lot of buzz about LoRa WAN networks which use long range lower powered RF chips that can last years on a coin cell. When designing loggers and sensors power consumption of the sensors and networking stack are obviously critical to battery performance.
It may have disappeared from the internet, but there was a great satirical newspaper at Georgia Tech back in 2001 or 2002 called "Shaft News". They ran an article about a calculus professor complaining, "How can I be expected to teach when the students don't even know basic Chinese?!"
Technically, it isn't a number. It's a calculated value. It's a different number every day.
Ports might be unaudited, but OpenBSD base has lots of useful stuff that many people don't know about. Like OpenBSD's own web server, LDAP server, IPSEC/VPN implementation, time server ...

All priv-sep'd, simplified, pledged

Also, these days the preferred MTA is OpenSMTP, and the preferred name server is NSD
Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people
React Native Touchbar
This. Or Attiny85 with external programmer and then read the microcontroller's datasheet to see how you can enable various sleep modes.

The attiny85 can get to μA while sleeping.
I think you'd like my `git sed` script.

https://github.com/devlinzed/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/git-se...
That may be, but several of my classmates in grad school told me that they regularly wrote their papers in Chinese and sent them to a translating service for English. These were students who were conversational in English. It makes you wonder how much the translator changed the content.
Type a word or phrase then press ENTER. (Suggestions are scrolling below.)

THEN choose an icon from the suggestions. Clear your typed input, repeat.
Clinton?

- Revolving door: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/two-big-reasons-hillary-...

- Torture: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/24/the_neoliberal_fantasia_of_h...

- Taxes: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-sanctioned-ta...
Hmm, that's a very good suggestion. I'll reach out to the mods. Thanks.
How to ideate for the next big thing
That guy is awesome.
Dawson, how did you decide what were the simplest things that needed to be done first?
Their website is broken because of an HTML syntax error.

Cases like this remind me that success is often "right place, right time." Notch is another good example of bad engineering going far.
Why did the founder of a $2.0B tech co build this bot? He wanted it for himself
I'm floating in the same social circle right now. 99% of my friends and family have an apple device to communicate. I just kicked the text-messaging subscription bucket.
my question was serious, i don't see why i should get down vote for this.
i'm actually curious to understand what's the reason to build this. it may be fun, but once it's built you trow it away. it's like baking a cake and don't eat it.
Anticipating Worst from Trump, Internet Archive Is Building a Backup in Canada
Information.

Personally I imagine we're better off when we share information for free, but I haven't tested the hypothesis.
Realistically, both Canada and Russia are countries likely to be net beneficiaries of global warming. Taxes won't have to be increased as much to deal with the effects; more taxes will be generated from increased agricultural productivity; and heating costs will decrease. Must be some way to hedge your personal losses from global warming with investments there.
Citizens United vs FEC is only ~7 years old and, if I recall, Hillary only ran in one election during that time frame. The same number that Trump ran in.

Regardless: The whole idea of campaign finance reform is that it's too powerful: Most politicians can't do the right thing because it would hobble them too much in elections.
The Mighty Mouse charge port is indeed a WTF, but what's wrong with the Apple Pencil? The charging setup looks ugly, but it allows the Pencil to be charged on the go without needing an extra cable that people would lose or leave behind. And it's fast enough (15 seconds of charging for 30 minutes of usage) that the awkwardness hardly matters.
Ask HN: How are mapping organisations notified of land border changes?
In the news today is a land-exchange between Holland and Belgium [0].

How are - if indeed they are - the Ordnance Survey, Google Maps, and other entities notified of the precise changes, coordinates that allow them to recreate the division in their maps?

[0] - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/world/europe/belgium-netherlands-land-dispute.html
> My dad is still running a John Deere M tractor from at least the early 50s, and all of the implements that we hook onto it are at least of that vintage

My tractor is about five years old, but the haying implements I hook on (specifically, the New Holland 271 baler) are about as old as I am (45).
I emailed the mods about this comment thread. In retrospect, that should have been my first action (instead of commenting under the assumption that they had seen it).
He resigned, and in his successor is from the same senior leadership team in charge during the behaviour that has gotten Wells Fargo into trouble.
At the moment, yes we are.
Got it. It seems that the NFL has always been political in some way, from racism and homophobia to the military-industrial complex. I reckon it depends on where one sits, though.
wat... "your time is more valuable than any of the people".. i couldn't disagree with this more... but the concept of using time where best placed I agree with.
People who live in cities aren't real americans. They are the white collar elite. THey don't deserve votes worth as much as those hard working, blue collar gents in the Heartland of America.
For me, anything based on JavaScript is a struggle plate...
According to the bit at the top, it's proxied from gopher. The column width limit is probably automatically inserted by the intermediary.
The NYT were enthusiastic supporters of Fidel Castro, who was a communist. He visited their offices in person, mentioning that he couldn't have gotten into power without them. It could be that there is systematic bias at the NYT opposing democracy, except as a rhetorical technique to appeal to its readers. Castro's chief executioner had this to say:

A foreign reporter -- preferably American -- was much more valuable to us at that time (1957) than any military victory. Much more valuable than rural recruits for our guerrilla force, were American media recruits to export our propaganda.

They didn't seem to like Hugo Chavez(mentioned in the article, and a socialist) at the time, which is evidence against it being a general trend. I'd need to look at other leaders to see if it is systematic from the NYT. Maybe Hugo just wasn't as good at dealing with the media: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/venezuela/chavez2.htm

There could be bias from this specific author, though. If this author was going to write any article at all, it was going to be about Trump destroying Democracy. The same author used to work at Vox and there are many other articles comparing him to a dictator: http://www.vox.com/authors/amanda-taub

How much independence are NYT writers given? Does the company take a stance on certain issues? Is there selection bias for certain employees, even if there's no explicit company policy on politics? This could be measured to some extent by checking political donations from employees associated with the NYT. I think that data is public.

None of these necessarily oppose their argument, but good evidence and arguments subjected to enough selection bias can say any story you want it to. http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/

Does the difference correlate well with immigration patterns? A lot of the European countries are admitting many refugees and migrants from countries with a lot of corruption. The US might have many migrants from Mexico or other Central or South American countries with a higher corruption index. It could be that the migrants don't care about democracies, because they weren't raised in a culture that cares about democracies.

I'm 27 and prefer a Republic to a Democracy, since it keeps more power closer to the people governed. I haven't looked at their study to see if I would count as a younger person opposed to Democracy.

Sanders is a socialist and he seems to be pretty popular. It could be that people are warming up to socialism or communism. That's different from the system of government, but depending on how they did the study they could've said that socialists are not in favor of democracies.
If the asm was written a little more cleverly, the syscalls would avoid almost all moves, because the compiler'd put everything in place:

_syscall5:
mov %r9, %r10
_syscall3:
mov %rcx, %rax
syscall
ret

And then:

extern unsigned long _syscall3(
unsigned long, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long);

extern unsigned long _syscall5(
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);

#define syscall0(NUM) _syscall3(0,0,0,NUM)
#define syscall1(NUM,A) _syscall3(A,0,0,NUM)
#define syscall2(NUM,A,B) _syscall3(A,B,0,NUM)
#define syscall3(NUM,A,B,C) _syscall3(A,B,C,NUM)
#define syscall4(NUM,A,B,C,D) _syscall5(A,B,C,NUM,0,D)
#define syscall5(NUM,A,B,C,D,E) _syscall5(A,B,C,NUM,E,D)
Media's always been controlled by certain interests, yes -- but one of the worst things ever was when Reagan repealed the Fairness Doctrine - it was the beginning of the end of true journalism -- that required equal time for ALL sides of an argument. Now it's all opinion pieces and slanted news is now the norm.
The same people who would do so for an incitement to immediate violence, intimidation, or terrorism (which are generally illegal under other criminal laws alreadyn whether or not destroying
a flag is involved): prosecutors, judges (trial and appellate), and juries.

Can these actors be unfair and express biases not in the text of the law? Sure. But that's more an argument for policies to address that problem than it is an argument against additional criminalization of a subset of a category of generally already-criminal acts. (And against which, I should add, there are plenty of other arguments.)
Thinking in the very long term... energy?

Though even that, it seems it'd be cheaper to transport the people to the energy than vice versa.
The Whole Earth Catalog might be useful for people interested in these topics. I first read it as a kid. All kinds of very interesting and useful info for gardening, farming, food production, makers [1], living partly off the grid, health, etc. etc. Don't know if they still produce it [2] or if there is anything equivalent these days. Would be interesting to know.

[1] e.g. the Japanese saws that I mentioned in one of my recent comments - I read about them in the Whole Earth Catalog.

[2] Update: Just googled and found this:

http://www.wholeearth.com/about.php
I got past the signup screen but was then presented with a scrolling list of empty logo options (testing on my iPhone 7).
Lief: The Smart Patch That Fights Stress
Probably referring to the 'neuralyzer' gadget from the movie Men In Black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralyzer).

But could also be a reference to the 'visual knock-out capsules' from Alfred Bester's SF novel 'The Demolished Man':

"They were cubes of copper, half the size of fulminating caps, but twice as deadly. When they were broken open, they erupted a dazzling blue flare that ionized the Rhodopsin - the visual purple in the retina of the eye - blinding the victim and abolishing his perception of time and space."
The problem is that this hasn't been a problem since the late 1800s. It's only in the last few elections that the combination of people moving to cities, polarization of most states, and capping the house have created a situation where you can actually lose the popular vote and still win the presidency (it's always been possible, but it didn't happen for over 100 years for good reason).
This feels like history repeating itself. The Flash version still runs better for me than the WebAssembly version, and the Flash version worked well on people's systems 5 years ago! It seems like half of the things I see on HackerNews is JavaScript poorly doing that other solutions did better a decade or more ago
Yeah the EU is almost a free for all. Plus if they were going to follow the EU, some nerds would come out and spoil major plot points of every single new Star Wars movie.
A free visual guide to CSS
Well there's a few things to keep in mind. For one, `sizeof(char)`is guarenteed to be `1` - the standard simply says so. That doesn't mean that a `char` is 8-bits long, however. On certain systems, like TI DSP's, `char` is 16-bits long, and thus `sizeof(short)` is also 1. `sizeof(int)` may be either 1 or 2, I can't recall (both are standards compliant).

All that said, POSIX requires `CHAR_BIT == 8`, which then basically ensures what you wrote to be true. So if you're willing to target POSIX (or POSIX-supporting systems) then such a thing is perfectly fine.

The `stdint.h` types are still better though, IMO, because they make your intentions a lot more clear.
Semi-related but wow: /app.php -- hadn't seen that in a while. It's like bumping into an old friend in the street.
I'm not sure this is really ML based. It looks more rule based.

There are 3 or 4 different layouts and a selection of fonts and font pairings which are likely categorized(probably pulls that from Google fonts etc). I smell snakeoil even if this is a useful product. Putting the AI stamp is probably just for marketing.
Novel life forms and technology could be valuable, especially technology that's hard to replicate (due to proprietary processes/trade secrets or whatnot).

Fissionable materials might be valuable to planets that have none of their own and want to make use of nuclear power.

People are a resource of their own that may be wanted on sparsely inhabited planets (especially if birth rates on technically advanced planets are similar to those in developed nations here on Earth).
exact quote:

>"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

Krugmans response to criticism:

> First, look at the whole piece. It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

>But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing.
Now would be the right time to start pushing for something like IPFS, if it's ready for mainstream use.
I forgot two:

Compiling Linux to WASM (yes I know it has been done for single-threaded Javascript, but it would be interesting to know how this would perform on WASM, with threads).

And compiling VirtualBox to WASM would also be cool. If only as a performance indicator.
Docker for AWS Public Beta
Looks great! Made a logo in like 5 min that looks amazing. Letting me share it before buying lets me discuss with other people on the team before making a decision.
Rural Democrats: We Tried to Warn You
Perl is usually my goto language for that sort of task. It has loads of built in features for interacting with the system.
hi.
you should use http for now:

http://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2
This is an especially cynical and petty comment, and that's coming from someone who isn't exactly a glass is half full type of person.

As someone who's launched several ventures, this solves a big pain point and it is very apparent that a lot of thought went into putting this together.

There is room for improvement, sure, but to dismiss it so casually or attribute its success to dumb luck because of a syntax error really sounds jaded.
tried it in firefox and it worked fine.

I simply ignored the "chrome only" warning