skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little more Lovecraftian Horror than science fiction, but I loved Matt Ruff's "Lovecraft Country". Equal parts what you'd expect, with an exploration of how shitty America was for black people in the 1950s.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25109947-lovecraft-count...

Ted Chiang's "Stories of your Life" have been recommended here a bunch, since Arrival was based on one of the stories in the collection.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_L...

Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia are both excellent explorations of the human mind and consciousness.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight and https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490708-echopraxia

Bonus: Echopraxia comes with an optional audiovisual component that stands alone quite well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30ED0756E00786E2

And don't let the mention of Vampires scare you off; this isn't a Twilight wannabe, and it's very likely not a take on Vampires you've seen before.
Why My Synchronous API Scaled Better Than My Asynchronous API
> One step at a time. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

And on the flip-side, don't let good stop you from reaching perfect. This is a good step and one that should be applauded, but at the same time recognising that there is still work to be done is valuable.
I disagree. I think it's entirely likely things started along the lines of "We gather here every year this season to share in the peak hunt festival. Let's make a mark upon this place" and over a few centuries that grew motivating enough for people to incrementally build more elaborate megalithic structures. This is just my view, and I'm certainly no anthropologist. But I would point out this narrative exactly matches what we see at Gobekli Teki: layers of megalith construction, each covering and supplanting the previous.
This is a really interesting idea. I would expand it further... OkCupid for employment. Outsource algorithmic and language knowledge measurement to something like TopCoder and add that as a potential dimension on which to match. Education, clearances, experience: these could all be match dimensions.
Joel's article on the Trello spinoff is instructive: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2014/07/24/trello-inc/

tl;dr - Gave investors the ability to invest solely in Trello instead of all of Fog Creek.
> The chain of causality was this:

> Low pressure causing high pollen density causing respiratory illness.

The news article you're citing literally makes no mention of the barometric pressure. Your citation does not support your claim.

> "The humid weather change last Monday caused pollen, most likely from rye grass, to burst into tiny particles that were able to be inhaled through the nose and enter the lungs."

This quote clearly does not support your claim. In no way is humidity the same as barometric pressure.

> And I repeat myself from 20 hours ago

I don't know why you're sure insistent on this. You have basically no data to support your thesis that air pressure changes are meaningful to health. You've definitely got no evidence that they're going to cause asthma. You don't even have any evidence that Russian meteorologists actually give health advice based on barometric pressure. You've only "been told that a Russian or Eastern European weather forecaster sometimes gives health advice based on the air pressure changes."

This whole thing makes no sense. You started with the thesis that we're retarded for not having meteorologists give medical advice and you've continued to defend it by claiming with no evidence that air pressure changes have hospitalized thousands, that people with respiratory problems should wear masks when the pressure changes, and that you could pressurize a house to counteract the change in barometric pressure. Your starting point is flawed and the conclusions you're reaching are absurd.
There are a bunch of complicating factors here, though.

The first is that fallowing isn't exactly equivalent to supply control. It's partially an inertial, special-interests effect, and partially an attempt to maintain high productive capacity for bad seasons - food is vital, and has a long production cycle, so funding unused capacity is a sensible hedge against bad conditions.

The second is that nature works almost as hard to kill crops as it does to keep them alive. Indoor/greenhouse farming solves the problems of insects, frost, drought, and heat at a stroke. Hydroponic farming roughly solves soil depletion (and fertilizer runoff) issues, and relocating to the northeast circumvents water shortages. That last point is particularly significant - a lot of arable land in the western US lacks the water rights needed to farm it cost-effectively.

I agree that the fundamental economics of indoor, semi-urban lettuce farming are laughable for bulk products. No one is going to outprice Iowa on corn, and I doubt lettuce - even avoiding transport costs - is cost-effective without a lot of specialty markups. My first guess is that this is "pesticide free, sustainable, locally grown lettuce" being sold out of season to people who pay extra for those traits. Even so, indoor farming does have some traits to recommend it when dealing in crops less fundamental than grain.
Node is JS. And JS isn't a browser language. And similar things like Scala.js [1] have been quite popular for quite a while.

https://www.scala-js.org/
Did HEG make any acquistions after becoming part of Cinven? If it's the exact same assets, going from $667 million to $1.82 billion in three years is some pretty good work.

2013 acquistion: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-19/cinven-bu...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113094 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, of course, but a futures contract definitely adds cost, is my point.

Google is in effect doing the same thing as 'buying a future' and it's unreasonable for him to make the argument that this is 'inherently a better thing about green'.

I could buy a futures contract for Oil today and would it be fair for me to say 'Oil is has more stability in prices'?
Spring Security Generator
I can't see any code in the repository. An example would be helpful.
Shit, I have people on my team who click Edit -> Copy and Edit -> Paste. Sometimes they might right click and paste, but keyboard shortcuts are foreign to them.
It'll be interesting to see how well they pull this off. I read the novel and enjoyed it, although not as much as I had (hoped|expected|whatever) based on the premise. Still, the movie adaptation should have a chance to be pretty interesting.

And on a sorta related note... I just started watching Black Mirror and halfway though episode one (if not earlier), I was thinking "this is like The Circle by Dave Eggers".
Animals get depressed, and manifest all the same behavior patterns humans do during depression. It's a much older phenomenon than human society.

There are a number of good theories on what the function of depression is. The best I've seen is that it's the brain's deep problem-solving mode for when an organism needs to hunker down and deal with hard problems it doesn't know how to solve easily. The mind slips into rumination mode and turns a problem over again and again in hopes of discovering some new insight about it and cracking it.
Is Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet, or Pining for the Fjords?
With only "2 encrypted emails a year", it's not surprising that the author is giving up. I wonder if he has any real secrets to exchange with anyone else, or if setting up keys and participating in a WoT was really just a hobby.
Big companies are diametrically opposed to the practice of hacking. Hacking consists of making computers and other more-or-less formal systems (sometimes—as a joke or in security—ones which include the responses of human operators) perform unexpected tricks. The status quo is established by the actions of large-scale corporate and political actors, among them the computing industry.

It's important for hackers to be aware of the actions of corporations and governments because they will have effects on us and we can exert some influence on them in return, but I don't see how this logic applies here.

"[Going] from idea to production" is such a vague concept that I find it hard to pick a sphere of human activity to which it can't be applied. It certainly doesn't explain why this article is appropriate for discussion in a niche which actively brands itself as catering to hackers.
Had the analogue of this experience at Maker's Academy in London, £8000 for a 12 week course, claims that you'll get £60,000 pa job within 3 months.

Lots of bullshit from the people running it as well, including talk of knowing everyone in the London tech scene and its great reputation.
42k gross a year (not uncommon for a junior from a good engineering school)
=> 2695 net a month before income tax. (12 month)

Income tax for 32340€ (assuming you're single)
=> 3093€ a year

net salary after tax: 2437€

CQFD.
3000 people in one room in an old train shed. With occasional shipping containers. This is is their idea of a startup campus?

Someone else mentioned [1] Nantes' La Cantine. That looks more usable; it's a big collection of little shops under one big roof. Looks like a repurposed mall. Repurposing an unused mall for this sort of thing might make sense. Rentable spaces of different sizes, good HVAC, power, and sprinklers, plenty of parking, not much heavy construction required.

[1] http://jonathanwinandy.tumblr.com/post/3198051103/ouverture-...
A crash is never the right solution. It is, however, likely to be a better solution than whatever random default behavior you might get.

Regarding the linked comment, if the default had been to crash on overflow (or whatever the FPGA equivalent might be, if there is such a thing) then the problem would have been apparent the first time it happened, and they wouldn't be describing it as "a nasty bug" in the first place. A crash would not have been the best solution there, but it would have been miles better than the wrap that they actually got.

As far as real life stuff, my understanding is that it's pretty common to fail fast and design the system to restart quickly so it can get back to work. If your needs are more sophisticated then you'd need to actually analyze the problem and come up with ways to handle unexpected data gracefully, not just hope that default behavior from the compiler ends up doing something sensible for your problem.
Green Earth, Our Earth :)
Those statements are so incredibly antithetical to the ethos of science. It amazes me they could say something like that and keep face among their peers. My hope is that history does not look kindly on such words.
To elaborate slightly on what my sibling commentors have said:

Rust has a feature called "debug assertions". This is a compile-time option to configure, well, debug assertions.

Rust-the-language says that when debug assertions are turned on, overflow checks must be in place, and will panic. When debug assertions are not on, overflow is considered a "program error", and while implementations are not required to do the check, they may. if they do not, they must implement two's compliment wrapping.

rustc currently does not check when debug assertions are off.

Cargo has the concept of "build profiles", and there are a number of different ones. By default, "cargo build" executes a "debug profile" build, which, by default, has debug assertions on. "cargo build --release" executes a "release profile" build, which, by default, as debug assertions off.

If you want wrapping behavior, use https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/num/struct.Wrapping.htm...
Source Available at -

https://github.com/farrelmr/spring-security-generator

And tutorials -

http://www.glenware.com/spring-security-generator/tutorial.h...
Apple includes their suppliers, retail stores, offices, and customers' product use in their carbon footprint (in addition to data centers) [1]:

When we measure our carbon footprint, we include hundreds of suppliers, millions of customers, and hundreds of millions of devices. And we’re always looking for ways to make the biggest difference in five major areas: manufacturing, product use, facilities, transportation, and recycling.

[1] http://www.apple.com/environment/climate-change/
Quantum Bayesianism
Thanks for the comment. I know that most projects don't work out. The world doesn't owe anyone anything. I'm 100% okay with that. I'm just tired of other people shitting on me while I try my hardest.
The marijuana thing shouldn't make sense, you're right - intensive lettuce growing systems don't translate to hemp well at all. Height, root structure, nutrient needs, schedule, and practically everything else vary and mess up your structure.

As other people here have pointed out, they really are growing lettuce. If they wanted to be ready to switch to hemp, they'd be using a closer analogue like tomatoes.
This is by far the most Stephenson book that he's written. Hopefully without giving away any spoilers, the Engineer-types are the most enlightened good guys, the Soft-Sciences folks are about as evil as it's possible to get, and the book ends very abruptly not once, but twice.

If you like Stephenson, read this, but if you've never read one of his books before, I would not recommend this as a first.
Ah, rEFInd, I have it along with a debian image on a USB drive I labeled 'magic stick' because when all else fails, it will work.
>Note that C has some really ugly behavior here. Signed overflow is undefined behavior, which means that the compiler doesn't need to check for it, but also that it can assume it never happens and optimized based on that. Many programmers don't realize this, or don't notice that they've accidentally written code that depends on overflow behavior, which can lead to many entertaining bugs: https://lwn.net/Articles/511259/

That's because different CPUs behave differently. To avoid undefined behavior, you have to have an "if" at every +.
Hey Avi! I'm making this discussion with myself as well.
Let's talk (it's Dotan :)
dotan@paracode.com
Interesting.

I don't propose that Keybase is adopted on the hole, but somewho we need to able to connect authentication system (centralised or not) with the protocols we use for chat. Maybe these can be made pluggable. Seems like a hard problem, Im thankful that nobody expects me to come up with a solution.

Whats the best information on the current Matrix identity stuff? I did not find really good information how this currently works.

Thanks for your work.
Maybe you're selling it wrong, or presenting yourself inappropriately. Namely, if I want to climb everest, and I walked up a local hill - it would seem silly to say "Look everybody at me I'm on my way to climbing everest!" - even though that could be a true statement.

Maybe you need to be more modest about describing it, especially if you can't handle the feedback.
This story is clearly political.
I'm working on a codebase right now which uses ed a lot in scripts. I probably wouldn't write new code which used it --- I like awk --- but it actually does the job pretty well.

Admittedly, the code does date back to 1984 in places.
This story is political.
The fact that best practices when building an application don't suggest running the build multiple times, benchmarking the results and choosing the fastest, suggest that compilers are generally assumed to be deterministic.
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Exactly. ... And this is that article claims, right?
Extraterrestrials May Be Robots Without Consciousness
Every time I see this "doing anything green is bad for shareholders" meme, it involves an assumption that PR is worthless. If that's not what Google's leaders think, than the complainers should buy a different stock. Free market and all that.
This kind of "hall of shame" websites are interesting to me. However, most of the regular users do not know nor care about this stuff.

Well, in a semi-ideal world, there would be a comprehensive "hall of shame" database containing the information about the tricks, problems, dark patterns, etc. for all websites. Then, some helper apps or browser extensions could warn us about these issues while a regular user is browsing.

One of the problems with this idea is that it gives a huge authority to the owner of that database and there would be lots of questions about its neutrality.
They use a protocol where they never have access to your password (and the secrecy of all the data they store for you hinges on the secrecy of your password), which sounds awesome, except that they serve a webpage to handle logins to their accounts, which means they can (& can be compelled to) serve you JavaScript which sends them your password out-of-band.

These two factors (all secrecy depending on your password and their ability to get your password) mean if you can remember your password, then Mozilla can brute-force your password, and if you have a strong password (e.g. 7HlipLbGliwUmUdWHKeq4p), then Mozilla can — or can be compelled to — serve you targeted JavaScript and steal it.
That's right, with the numbers looking similar when looking at proportions of energy consumption in buildings which is slightly different from just CO2 footprint.

The operational phase is where to look at having the largest impact. In buildings looking at a 75 year time frame you have the operational phase accounting for 94.4% of life cycle primary energy consumption. Where the manufacturing phase such as production of building materials, transportation and constructing the building accounts for 2.2% of life cycle primary energy consumption. [1]

1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778803...
I wonder if there have been any cases of consciously using the phrase "incredible journey" as a form of hidden message. When you want to consciously communicate to your users "realistically, everything's gonna be shut down 6 months or a year from now, with little notice", but are prohibited from doing anything but put on a smiling face.
Hiring VR developer in LA area
Vertecx is now looking for talent or experienced VR developer(Unity) to work on mobile VR project to build something that’s going to change the way of social behavior and our lives. The goal is big and unabashedly bold: to seamlessly and completely bridge the Virtual Reality and social life.
It sounds like you have two issues, your social group and your product.

I can't help you with your social group. It's up to you to associate with the dream killers or not.

The product market is very interesting and counter-intuitive. There are countless cases of where the best product is not the most successful. Spend some time studying sales and you'll find product quality is secondary to how you position it.

This may not make you feel good about it, but that's the cold truth behind success. The way I personally deal with the quality vs sales issue is to focus only on product quality and have my partners focus on what's needed on the sales side. Finding a partner with good salesmanship might be your way over the slump that you're in.
Normal facial features are a nose with two nostrils that can intake air in a specific way, a mouth with lips and a palate of a certain shape, etc. mental illness isn't a mole on the cheek, it's a cleft palate that's prevents swallowing normal food.
Tell them to suck it.
I tried it. The documentation is not helpful at all. I couldn't manage to create a simple chart with basic features.
Clever! They have bought land and are selling "plots" where one's ashes can be scattered. The idea is that these forests will be protected by the combination of private ownership and legal protections for cemeteries.
The first 2/3rds of the book is just too heavy duty and depressing to be much fun for me. I wish that were some kind of brief initial thing so that the rest of the book could be in the 'new world' part which is fun and interesting and barely explored.
Do you mean like the single-level store that is used by the AS/400 (iSeries) machines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store
I'm currently testing out Riot with the wife, as a potential Telegram replacement.

So far matrix/riot are my favorite in terms of vision, but I have to say that the ux is still rather unfamiliar for my limited set if non technical users.

Still, thank you for matrix, awesome job so far.
HEG includes Heart Internet and 123Reg, two of the worst companies in their field. They're welcome to them.
Oops, I apologize for the curt comment, I misunderstood the intention of the title and might have reacted emotionally. I often come across articles/comments about how JavaScript is a "terrible language", the ecosystem is a "mess", it cannot be used for enterprise, etc. Some are valid arguments and I agree more or less, but so much of them are subjective, negative attacks. So I had this context in mind when I saw the title.

I really like the simple, clean design and functionality of the site (looks like Material UI..?). The list includes many/most of the major tools that I use or have used in the past, and I think the list is useful as a reference.

It must have been just the word "mess" that I reacted to: looking at the list of libraries and tools, my feeling/experience is that each of them is respectable and organized - the opposite of a mess, at least in my mind - like a constellation of familiar stars.

So, thank you for sharing your work, I just wanted to give my first impression of the title.
Funny you should mention Pebble, a company currently in its death throes. I hope reMarkable survives longer than they do, since I have now pre-ordered from both companies.
But that is in Nantes. Paris is (sadly) where business happens in France.
Previous discussion on LinkedIn dark patterns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063178

And the linked article to it: https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...
No--it's probally bought very reasonably in China, or whomever offers the cheapest quote, and the best aluminum?

When one claims to be a saint, it's human nature to to look up and down the chain.

Especially, at what they charge? This is one company I don't give a free pass to anymore.

(I did hear they bought the best aluminum from Australia a few years ago.)
The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas
Spirit airlines is a user of dark patterns. But its almost like a game on their site trying to avoid all of the up-sells!

I may stay away from LA Fitness just because of this article.
Thanks for sharing. What I would like to add is that to a certain extent you just need to love what you do and tell others to f*ck off sometimes. Yes, it's nice when others praise your work but what should really matter is how happy you are.
"I don't understand how people can work more than 100h a week."

It works like this: they are always working.

Basically anything they do that is not 'work' is a 'break'.

So food, gym, maybe watching a film. That's literally in their view a 'break' from working.

I know people like this - and I go into this mode myself sometimes.

Your default behaviour is to be 'working'. That's what waking hours are for.

Mind you 'reading HN' probably counts basically as 'work' in their minds, similarly reading the news.
Which is why the optimal strategy is to be optimist most of the time, but fall into depressive mood when we encounter a lot of obstacles. Use that depressive time to assess your situation and then start changing it, fueled by your normal optimism.

The issue is, if the obstacles we encounter are too many then we remain in low mood for too long, and that state becomes permament. Early in human evolution, when we were all living at savanah all the dangers and obstacles were short-term. This is entirely different in civilized society.
No numpads? :/

That K-Type looks nice, and I'm in the market for a new KB, but stripping out the function keys and especially the keypad makes it a deal-breaker for me.