skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there's an indirect way to get cheaper earthquake insurance, by investing in industries or companies that would benefit from an earthquake, or maybe by taking bets in a prediction market.
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John Glenn, First American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95
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> They store your entire contact list server-side, your plaintext group membership, group info like plaintext group name and plaintext group avatar, etc etc.

One has to remember that Signal also stores some social graph data, which is equally problematic.

I can’t reocmmend either.
> Safari on macOS is the only browser on this planet that implements color management correctly.

This is one of those things that I almost never noticed until I was working with a site that was using one specific color of orange that was dramatically different from what I had in photoshop. It usually isn't something that concerns me too much, but I was adding the ability for content editors to select primary colors of pages (think a super advanced, easy to use CMS), and with the images selected it was painfully obvious. Took me hours of tweaking settings in photoshop and comparing it to various browsers to finally give up and accept that color management in browsers is broken.
Orbital platforms that are still operated by Earth-based astronomers, no? I don't intend to argue semantics, just think it's a poor (and somewhat funny) choice of words.
I wholly agree. My point is that you'll still see crappy characterizations of hacker-as-trope to serve the needs of different stories, contrary to the claim of the MIT article. It's not because it's sci-fi vs. drama - all writing takes place in a genre, even if that genre is 'suburban contemporary'.

(Mind, I'm being very literary theory here, rather than using entertainment industry shorthand. From this standpoint Law & Order is a restorative comedy despite the grim subject matter and lack of humor, because in a restorative comedy everything goes back to normal at the end. The show revolves around the lives of the cops, not the perps and victims, who are simply props for the police officers to relate to in each episode. If a recurring character dies or two cops go from being friends to enemies, that individual episode is a tragedy. But if the cops end an episode with equal or stronger bonds than they began it, then the episode is a comedy even if the subject matter was horrific.)
Just to note, not all for profit education is bad.
It would be interesting to see the same chart extended back another 50 years...
Well, they screwed up filing docs for a friend of mine, we haven't gotten an EIN after a month, and the bank account with SVB is really limited (SVB won't do a credit card for those accounts, for example).

I used them primarily to get the bank account with minimal fuss and now I'm regretting it. :)
If you have an interest in U.S. politics, check out the github/unitedstates repo, which is full of data and assets, particularly about legislators and their votes:

https://github.com/unitedstates

Sunlight Labs, the tech arm of the Sunlight Foundation, is sadly closing down, but they passed many of their projects to ProPublica. Here's a writeup of that to give an idea of what the projects contained (in terms of data): https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/sunlight-labs-takeover...

Just in case you don't care about the U.S., it must be mentioned that the UK has the best country-level data repository: https://data.gov.uk/
He was great in one episode of Frasier.
Yes, expect is really cool. I haven't used it heavily, but had used it some earlier, to automate small command-line tasks to good effect.

Also:

1. I had read much of Don Libes' Expect book. He had a unique style of writing in that book. Hard to describe, partly since it was some years ago, and partly because I can't find the words for it. But I think anyone reading the book would notice the style after reading a few pages. It was not a bad style by any means, just ... something different.

2. I've read that expect was (maybe still is) used heavily in the electronics/EDA industry, though I am either not sure or don't remember how exactly they use it, or rather, for what. And also maybe it was used heavily by GNU software for testing. Maybe someone here can confirm.
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> Oh and in this case it wasn't a question of frugality, but scaling.

Just throw 95% of all applications into the bin before even reading them. That scales as good and you don't look so awful.
For me, it feels a lot faster, and drains power a lot slower.

I agree that the dev tools are poor. But I've gotten into the habit of running a "dev" browser and a "user" browser, so Safari works out great - I do dev work in Chrome, and when it (infrequently) crashes, I don't lose my personal stuff.
"As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." - John Glenn.

RIP sir.
Can you share this repo? I really like that idea.
You are right, Im sure most people, even the best, have to deal with this at some point.
I mean the title is the whole context. If you're worried about the table not being static, one can ideally refer to an archive [0] (just saved it) or since this is an open source project that is version controlled, the specific revision [1] displayed.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20161208203812/http://kangax.git...

[1]: https://github.com/kangax/compat-table/blob/559825d41e7b8773...
Signal requires the Google Play Services to work, and includes several proprietary libraries from Google in their app, too.
I've often heard it said that FAA regulations are written in blood. Meaning, if a rule exists, it exists for a damn good reason.

For anyone interested, NASA's ASRS [1] (Aviation Safety Reporting System) is what the parent commenter is referring to regarding reporting near misses. The idea is, anyone can submit an incident report with NASA, a neutral separate party from the FAA, which is placed in an anonymized public database and cannot be used to justify punishment against anyone involved in the incident. This promotes transparency and learning from the mistakes of yourself and others, instead of covering them up. Frequently, the person who caused an incident in the first place will promptly report it to ASRS, as the FAA looks favorably upon those who come forward to ASRS on their own and dimly upon those who do not.

I think more industries could use this kind of transparency in reporting sketchy situations.

[1]: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/overview/confidentiality.html
> I see career section after career section offering the same kind of perks with much smaller companies. [...] you don't have to be a multi-billion dollar company to afford those perks.

Many of these smaller companies are VC-funded startups that have zero revenue and are burning VC money to provide these perks.
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This is great, but I wish Apple pushed out updates to Safari (particularly on iOS) more frequently - as it is, we might not see this on phones until September 2017. Not to mention WebRTC, Service Workers... you can't polyfill them like you can ES2015.
Any incentive system you develop will be gamed.
Or you could just use DuckDuckGo and an ad blocker.
Couple corrections. React uses a "virtual DOM", which is a tree of plain JS objects that can be diffed between renders. "Shadow DOM" is a browser feature related to the Web Components spec.

React's biggest advantage is really not the virtual DOM, but rather how it enables you to think about your application. The phrase "easy to reason about" is kind of overused by now, but there's a lot of truth to it. React encourages use of small components that can be composed together as needed, top-down data flow, and Functional Programming principles. Also, its rendering approach lets you think almost exclusively in terms of "given this state data, what do I want my UI output to look like?", rather than "_If_ this div was visible, I want to toggle it off when there was a click here, but only if..."-type transitions. Overall, that makes it a whole lot easier to understand what is going on inside the application.

There was a recent Reddit thread labeled "What were the biggest 'aha' moments you had in learning React?" ([0]), which has a lot of good comments. You might also be interested in reading through some of the posts on "Thinking in React" ([1]) out there, as well as some business case arguments for using React ([2]). Both those sections are part of my larger React/Redux links list ([3]), which has links to numerous tutorials, articles, and other resources on React.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/5gmywc/what_were_t...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
No smartphones, no internet, no entertainment-on-demand, fewer rights for minorities, fewer rights for women, less capable medicine, more expensive food and clothing, fewer shopping hours, less safe transport, less safe workplaces, more expensive and shorter-ranged travel, less environmental protections, etc, etc, etc.

All this stuff is conveniently ignored when comparing against previous generations.
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If they are emulating Win32 x86, surely they can end up emulating Android, complete with a Google Play Services replacement?

Windows Phone was always smoother, just suffered from absolute shit app store and no clear commitment to devices.
Yes, but this comment[1] makes me nervous:

> However, Node v7 is based on V8 54, whose async/await implementation has some bugs in it (including a nasty memory leak). I would not recommend using --harmony-async-await in production until upgrading to V8 55; the easiest way to achieve that would be to wait for Node 8.

Also, I'd rather not use a non-LTS version in production since I don't want to have to keep track of changes. Most of the stuff I maintain sits untouched for months between releases; I think there might even be a few things still running on 0.10.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/promises/issues/4#issuecomment-254...
I'm an electrical engineer and know people who were on the first iPhone team. I think it was about as close to 0 to 1 as you get in a big company like that.

I worked for a major RF test and measurement company when the first iPhone came out and everyone was blown away that a company could design and tool up production for a cell phone without tipping anyone off in the industry.
I'm not telling them to say that in the interview. I'm telling them that's what the interviewer is trying to discover and filter out - as you've just demonstrated.

I haven't given anyone such a weakness. That's what weakness is; a strategic disadvantage.
As a Cleveland-native, I will never forget John Glenn and how his legacy brought honor to the area.
So every "language" basically becomes a "hub" language, with lots of sub-componenent syntaxes, dedicated to a specific task. Functional programming would be the future of all "Hub" programming, if it were not for the performance costs.
The "language" a project is written in, boils down to the percentages one or several of the tools of the swiss-army-knife Hub language are used- or even subverting (as in replacing) another language. You could create a sort of functional-programming-tool in assembler - if your project is performance thirsty.
So i guess the next step is to allow architects to limit certain language features to prevent architectural decay.
Templated Packages that adapt the language percentage of reused Components to the projects needs?
Wow, where is that?
Anyone familiar with the economics behind this? Seems like things tend to go south when the government tries to mess with CEO pay. Public companies required to publish CEO pay, pay rises as CEO's have a baseline for negotiating.

I like the idea. I've always admired Whole Foods' hard limit on CEO pay but I'm not sure what ramifications this has.
> Wasn't it already obvious that it's impossible to define 'politics' with any consensus?

Oh yes, but what wasn't possible to foresee was the community reaction, and whether a functioning consensus would develop in practice. It did not.

I don't think moderators have quite the power you describe. We can take that approach, but only if the community supports it overall. That proved not to be the case here in two or three important ways, and we're fine with that.

> I hope for more experiments in the future

I'm glad we're not the only ones who feel that way!

> Going to ever try the 'pending comments' experiment again?

"Pending comments" morphed into what we called "modnesty" for a while and is now known as vouching, and has been probably our biggest single success in terms of introducing new mechanisms.
John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95
Most people don't write papers or create spreadsheets. Their phone is their computer.

The market that Microsoft seems to be after seems small to me. You already can do Chromebook like stuff with a phone and bluetooth keyboard and I do see people using that combination, just not very often.

What are the applications that have an interface that will scale well between a 4" handheld display and three 28" desktop 4k displays?
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vasaulys says> "I think making the decision to have kids instills a bit of discipline to get something stable in life."

I think this is not necessarily so. However...

I've seen a number of persons who have children and who believe your statement (or similar statements, e.g., "Having kids makes you more responsible", etc.) to be true.

And so they promote/hire a younger person who has chosen to pursue a family path rather than a more qualified person with a superior skill set.
Secret investment (or VC it out). Reputational risk is a real thing.

I do wonder how much coverage glass would have gotten had it not had the Google halo around it.
Most of the attributes in question (office environment, perks, etc) are just semantics around the product/market. The semantics matter a lot especially when your team is critically dependent on a high-turnover potential staff and require talented smart people to stick with your company, or they need an environment that helps them be creative and think out hard problems.

It's similar to questions of programming language, infrastructure options, etc. They are important supportive aspects to the core business but mostly the core of the business could still operate even if those supportive aspect were mediocre/non-optimal - just not as effectively. On a longer time scale that stuff starts to matter in a highly-competitive market.

Most startups and small businesses don't really have those issues, or at least they aren't critical at that stage of the company when the core business hasn't been figured out. So emulating them at a high cost is a bad idea.

The context of everything is important. Sadly most advice dolled out in business books is extracted and formalized without considering the context of where it worked and why.
RIP.

I have to wonder, these first missions, did the astronauts have any assurance they would make it back to earth? What was it like to say goodbye to family, not knowing if you would return or not.

Am I way off here? Was this mission uncertain or did NASA have reasonable assurances?
You seem to assume that the inverse correlation of tornadoes and trees is because trees prevent tornadoes, rather than alternatives like the presence of tornadoes either directly making things inhospitable for trees or being a product of other factors which make things inhospitable for trees.
If you speak to a large group of people anonymously it's not private.

If it's not private, what you say, how you say it and when you say it can be analyzed to identify you.

It's a people problem not a technical one.
Good move for AWS and Canada :)
One thing that really annoys me about lego, is that lego mindstorms kits are still relatively expensive despite tech improving. It is hard for most parents to justify this costs on a toy. In fact, the price has gone up with time rather than decreasing as would be expect. The newer kits are more expensive than the older kits by about $40 when adjusted for inflation.[0][1] Sure, the new kits feature an arm processor that runs linux and has bluetooth, but these things have gotten cheap.

I am somewhat surprised the chinese haven't started making counterfeit smart bricks with the same capability.

[0]http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/9747_Robotics_Invention_System
[1]http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/31313_Mindstorms_EV3
Aw, thanks :) Sadly I don't think I'm going to have the luxury for pure art for the next few years.

But if you're hungry for more of this, check out Slavoj zizek's film criticism, I think The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is on Netflix.
I also find games through Steam, but I do wish I found games through a different avenue. I've also had to promise myself that I'd strongly vet any early-access games I was buying. I've just been burned too many times.
> Interest rates are a much more likely culprit.

To expand on that a bit: Supply and demand in houses doesn't work on the price. Supply works on the price; demand works on the monthly payments. When interest rates go down, the same people can now spend more on a house for the same monthly payments, and so the price rises.
40GB/s??? How does amazon expect to put an entire region in there and to share the 40GB/s with the other hosts already up there (OVH)?
They were all test pilots, they knew what the chances were.
As another commenter said, for me it's about my personal lack of control over the outcome -- that you're completely at the whim of others (the pilots, the maintenance crew, air traffic control, etc.), which compares unfavorably with the illusion of control one has with driving.

Traffic fatalities do occur to people who were not 'at-fault', and despite there being lots of good statistics on driving accidents [1][2], I can't any good ones on the ratio of serious injury or death for non-"at-fault" drivers vs. at-fault ones.

Meanwhile, it would be illuminating to interview people who never drive themselves -- rather, they are always passengers -- whether they feel safer being driven, vs. flying, and the like.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/#/ [2] http://www.iii.org/issue-update/auto-crashes
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The rate of evolution is proportional to the population size. For every bacteria there are around 10 phages.
I would argue if the candidate is taking their security light enough that they would submit to such invasive software to be installed on their machine, they should be automatically disqualified but I guessed Amazon has different opinion about it...
"elsewhere in society" also education, health care
Legos did that too! I had a spaceship and a boat in which a battery was connected to lights and a siren via bricks.
Init sure why you think this has anything to do with the people who are already working for the company. My comment was only about their hiring practice and potential candidates.

I do not hold moral high ground over the folks that made Amazon this attractive a tech place to work in the first place.

Still, just calling out their "current" hiring practice as evident from recent experience posts as creepy, stupid and something to be ashamed of.
>it still bugs me that Evil mode treats C-] word boundaries differently than Emacs M-.

This is Emacs, not vi: If you don't like something, you can just change it.
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I'm not saying the market doesn't exist, just that it's probably not going to take off.

I too use a dock (or port expander) but haven't had a lot of luck since I started moving to high-dpi displays a few years ago. Do you have a laptop that can drive a couple of 4k displays?
They violate everyone's privacy, selling your information to anyone, spying you and hiding search results...

Haha, go home Google.
Your business is censorship and fake news.
Pay your taxes to countries!

Did I forgot to mention also that they are regulars in Bilderberg meetings. Lol!
Isn't this to be expected? That overall, the population will maintain its purchasing power relative to itself, and inflation will rise to match in a relatively stable environment?
Depression is a subjective measure, not an objective one. It's clear that giving people insurance makes them feel better.

Increased visits is a cost (about $1200/recipient), not a benefit.

I agree that we should have run the Oregon experiment a lot longer and tied the implementation of Obamacare to the outcome.
Is someone wealthy just because the house they own has grown in value? Practical wealth is how much you have relative to the cost of living. Someone in a $1M house is not necessarily more wealthy than when their house was $100K if all their other living expenses have also grown 10x.
I was kind of wondering how this didnt happen earlier.
I have been to US 3 times. NYC, Vegas, San Fran, Los angeles etc. and one thing I noticed was how unhealthy alot of americans lived compared to europe.

Obsese parents together with children as small as 6 years old were all dining at fast-food restaurants eating massive amount of food. The kids were very obese too.

The entire culture seemed for _me_ as its rather normal to eat your dinner at kfc or mcdonalds than making food at home. When we took the flight fra NYC to Vegas we noticed there were more obese people than "regular sized". But when we took fra SF to London it was opposite.

And whats up with the size of the meals served in restaurants? its huuge. alot food for little money. Sometimes we split one dish in between us because it was too much for a single person. The same when we went to movies, we got to choose size of coke and popcorn. So we picked medium coke. Medium is like extra-large in europe.

I think its sad because americans are missing out on really great food. It is the food you cook yourself thats not only healthy but tastes so much better and authentic.

I hope nobody is offended my post but I just felt its an area to improve on.
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If it comforts you, think of Emacs as a VM, which happens to automatically boot into a text editor.
> Texas is actually the only state in the United States that's susceptible to every type of natural hazard.

Texas has zero active (or even merely dormant) volcanoes, so that's at least a little bit of an overstatement.