skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done! I take it group chat is now in place as well?
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Indeed. On the other hand, median incomes don't decrease very much as you move away from the downtown core of Vancouver, while prices drop significantly; head out to Coquitlam (roughly the same distance as Hayward or Palo Alto are from San Francisco) and that $955k condo turns into a $400k condo.

Metro Vancouver is a curious beast: The City of Vancouver itself is relatively small and very NIMBY, but the suburbs are far more pro-development. Between Vancouver's geography (on a peninsula), residents' opposition to development, and its lack of transportation corridors, I find myself wondering if by 2100 people will be asking "why is the metropolitan area named after a small suburb?"
Is there something like this I can run on my computer (or self-host)?
Suggestion: when searching for TV series, I'd try to sort results by decreasing season/episode (SnnExx), or at least simply by time.
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No, hipsters are only just upgrading to tapes.
Asking for money in return for binaries of GPL/FLOSS apps uploaded to the app stores of proprietary platforms seems like a decent way to fund FLOSS development. Folks there are used to paying anyway. Folks interested in FLOSS will be using platforms like Cydia, F-Droid or Debian/Fedora anyway.
> Isomorphism simply didn't work.

Care to elaborate? I'd really like to know your opinion as this is an important aspect of my developer-life.
And right after watching this video, I understood that Manning really deserved the sentence.

This is war. The video clearly shows that soldiers made a decision made on an honest, although tragic, mistake. They have to make this kind of decisions all the time - and I fail to see how anyone can say, from information that was available to them, that the decision was in any way wrong.

The fact that this story had to be covered up says more about idiocy of public and the media that would've (and did) make a baseless witchhunt. I finally 'got it' after watching "Eye in the sky" (spoilers!): if hollywood screenwriters and moviegoers really think that killing one innocent girl to prevent two suicide bombings is some kind of a complicated moral dilemma that's worth more than three seconds of deliberating, then may be this kind of public really shouldn't be trusted with classified information.
Thank you for making the sync engine work client-side! It's a huge step towards making Nylas a viable choice for privacy sensitive folks like myself.

The next step would be to make features like "read receipts" that necessitate signing into a cloud optional. Being able to use the app without having to sign into a cloud platform would be a much more valuable feature for me than any feature such a cloud platform could enable.

Aside: as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, tracking pixel based read receipts in particular, is overwhelmingly only used in spam and newsletters and I personally consider it to be a liability rather than a feature.
I can pop my ears by plugging my nose and making a "k" or "g" sound. Comes in handy since my Eustachian tubes are essentially useless.
Fascinating. Though my gripe with these kinds of posts is they always use trivial examples: nobody needs to filter lists by evens or odds, I wonder what real world examples of this might look like in code.
Did the diplomatic cables contain information that the US murdered innocent civilians?
How many trustworthy and well administered XMPP servers are out there?

BTW, for anyone wanting to setup a modern XMPP server, check out this:

http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2017/debian/modern-and-secure...
http://www.trueelena.org/computers/howto/modern_xmpp_server....
wow Super fast.

Interested to know the tech stack.
I saw Caddy as the frontend server with https.
and you use "C" below.
Yep. Very obvious from the shady email address on the home page

> will+instaprofessor@will3942.com

And he has also posted on BlackHat Forums saying

> Free accounts for the first 100 (or a few more) people to PM me.

> Runs on Mac and Windows 7+.

> Use unlimited HTTP/HTTPS Proxies.

> Virtualises a device so it is harder for Instagram to block.
what benefit would arise from being "not a coward" in this context?
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Why are we so afraid of Petabytes?
Clarification for those who parsed this (incorrectly) like I did: localStorage does work in Firefox in Private Browsing Mode[1], it's IndexedDB and the DOM Cache API that throw. (Although Firefox has private browsing support for IndexedDB in the works. That effort is tracked on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982.)

1: But it's exclusively memory-backed and will be forgotten somewhere between 0 and 20 seconds after the last active page for the origin is gone. It is not persistent for the lifetime of the private browsing session. However, because Firefox has a back-forward cache ("bfcache") that keeps pages around (frozen) for a while after you navigate the window to another location, the storage may be kept alive for some time even with no active windows.
The house value does not need rise enough to offset the interest + taxes unless you're buying it and leaving it unoccupied for all this time.

If you need a house to live in, the monthly rent for a 1MM house is likely going to be over $3k. Over 30 years this will come out to be $1.08M, much more than the $870k in mortgage interest + taxes for owning the house. On top of that there's the 20-30% tax discount on the mortgage interest that will make owning even more favorable.
it doesn't seem like they said you did.
This is a fairly inflammatory comment.
I would agree that as sciences, biology and medicine still have a long way to go.
However, I definitely disagree that well conducted trials constitute 'nonexistent' evidence. Trials have their problems, but they still provide credible evidence.

MD also.
They should put it in a torrent
Why not call them out then? It should take only one or two blog articles to explain why mongodb benchmarks are bogus. I fail to believe it is hard to teach some database knowledge (CAP and others) to your potential customer when they are developers. Heck, it would even boost your SEO by a ton.
Another reason I don't like the customer/product split is because it pits the Customer team against the Product team. Who is the most valuable? Gee, clearly the Customer people because they bring in the money... Product is then treated as a cost center
A made a simple clone (https://github.com/wincent/corpus) of nvALT in JavaScript because it was easier for me to make an app from the ground up in Electron than it was to hack on a foreign Objective-C codebase (a little out of practice). I wouldn't recommend that anybody actually use it though because it is far from complete, albeit good enough for me to use it every day.
A good summary that goes well beyond the collateral murder video:

https://www.thenation.com/article/long-list-what-we-know-tha...
People have been using begs the question "incorrectly" for decades.

Which begs the question: Who, then, is wrong?
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The printing hack was pretty nice :)
I own a $1MM townhouse in SV.

I used to live in Back Bay, Boston, where prices are well over $1000/sq ft, so I'm not shocked by the prices at all.

Weather is nicer in SV. Not everything in life is about financial decisions. Living "big" in midwest means you need to live in midwest, which will decrease my standard of living tremendously, the social aspect at least.

Places that are equally nice are also expensive, e.g., LA, Zurich, NYC, London. I just prefer to live in a nicer area than to live in a 7 bedroom house with a 10 car garage.
That seems like an unrelated question. I thought we were talking about Clinton's one-time budget to improve roads that included a tax increase to cover it. Clinton wasn't governor in the previous term, he wasn't the one that under-budgeted the roads originally.
People weren't doing that because they weren't capitalized or there were barriers to becoming capitalized in the other country. Like there was no way to send national currency to the exchange in the other country because you couldn't get a bank account in the other country. But it was possible to send bitcoin to the exchange in the other country.

So people would create a routine circuit where they have dollars, buy bitcoin on US exchange. Send bitcoin to foreign exchange, sell bitcoin for that national currency (sometimes dollars). If possible, that exchange would allow wiring out, back to the user's real bank account. In other cases that exchange would have a bitcoin or national currency market of another cryptocurrency, like litecoin, where an arbitrage opportunity MIGHT still persist.

The litecoin would be moved and liquidated back on a US exchange.

Got to calculate it yourself and figure out why the arbitrage opportunity is still there. Usually there's a good reason. Sometimes there's a good reason that you are exempt from, and in those moments you borrow as much as a can get your hands on and make 5% profits as much as possible.
JetBrains DataGrip is also worth considering - another polished quality app from JetBrains: https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
So don't pardon Snowden. Commute the charges against him. Like 97% of the cases that go to prosecution in this country, let him plea to a lesser crime and serve a 10 year sentence, minus time served in Russia.
It's reasonable to point out this, true. But in the scope of the parent discussion, it was about NSLs from hosting in countries with compromised providers. If you are running your own mail server, you have mostly the same security issues you need to zealously guard against, wherever you put it.
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I wasn't trying to contradict the OP on the bulk of their post, which is clearly spot on. You were saying something about being jerky and irrelevant?
I don't think it was that hard to see that there might be some bias in the polling data itself. Trump seemed very much like a candidate which would get a nontrivial number of votes from people who would not "admit" that in a poll. I'd say he's exactly the kind of candidate that has people that will very loudly say they voted for him or keep completely quiet about it and less of a middle ground.

Granted hindsight etc.

I'd say the same will be true for some of the middle-right wing parties in Europe. Notably I think AfD in Germany will (unfortunately) get more votes than polls will indicate in the upcoming election(s). Le Pen in France could be a similar case but I'm not well informed enough on French politics to feel sure about that statement.
There was a guy who tried that, he wrote code so bad that no one else could understand it. In the end, the company fired him and hired someone else to rewrite his code from scratch. It's not worth it, just write good code.
Going back 15-20 years, there was the ZEBRA battery which was looking pretty good. I don't know what happened to it. According to ZEVA the power output was fairly low so maybe that was the issue.[1]

At least one company[2] is pretty close to bringing a redox flow battery to market, which should have most of the advantages of molten salt / liquid metal batteries without the downside of having to keep it molten. The limiting factor seems to be electrode lifespan but even then the cycle life is huge (~3600-4000 full discharge cycles). Also from the numbers they give, round trip efficiency seems a bit lower (~80%) than LiIon / LiPoly.

[1] http://zeva.com.au/Tech/Batteries/
[2] http://redflow.com/
The blog post for the release [1] and the migration guide [2] will give you a good idea:

[1] https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-2-2-the-final-release-76c...

[2] https://webpack.js.org/guides/migrating/
I really appreciate the time and effort to share such an analysis. I disagree with the perspective that users think the product is in the open source tools market. Open source tools market is where the company ends up as a consequence of the product not being compelling enough for a commercial use case.

5-6 years ago I thought wow this is a really complicated product (a better database?) and I hope they pull it off as a startup.

IMO the biggest issues are (a) a database is a complicated product and (b) there are many options that are good enough and stable. You have to do 10x better than the status quo and that is very hard to do in a space where products are complicated.
Did you ever consider partnering with a larger vendor?

Figuring out the right GTM is tough, and the timing was weird, but GOOG and MSFT must have been pretty desperate for a NoSQL solution 2013-2014 to compete with DynamoDB. Firebase got scooped up in October 2014, but it wasn't until April 2015 when Azure announced DocumentDB.
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Can you explain what each of those types are and how they map to the three machines discussed in this post? It's pretty non-obvious to me.
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I think that mechanism is to write an email to hn@ycombinator.com
In AES' case at least, it sounds like this is their main value-add. According to the article they don't manufacture their own Li-ion cells, so my guess is they're more in the business of building and installing 'safe' enclosures that can withstand (and contain) catastrophic battery failure.
Money works perfectly fine as compensation for boring work :)
I don't do web development or design, but is tracking the selection of text that will be copied more difficult that tracking clicks in actual practice?
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> How is that different than with error return values?

Compare: https://gist.github.com/nickretallack/1462f2652cda6fc2a97283...

If you can find a way to improve these code samples, please suggest it.

> Exceptions seem to hide the problem.

I haven't used Java in a while, but I recall a feature where it would force you to handle exceptions. It knows what kind of exceptions a function can throw, and it can check if they are exhaustively handled throughout the program.
Uh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sky_plc_logo.png
Not a software engineer, but my perspective might be useful.

My current job contributes positively to society, but I would love to have a job like this. Long ago, I joined the military because I naively thought we could help put a stop to human rights abuses around the world (too young and stupid at the time to realize we were only going to make things worse). So, this would be something of a dream job for me. I would even do it for a compensation package that's slightly below market rate. However, I couldn't justify either to myself or my family, financially crippling the rest of my life by taking a job significantly below market rate with little or no benefits. If I could do it all over gain, if I were young and single I would much rather have spent my military years working for an organization like yours. However, I have too many responsibilities at this point.

On a positive note, I think if you found a way to establish some kind of a part-time volunteer effort, many people would be willing to help for free. It might be difficult to manage, but I think it could work. I'd even be interested in volunteering at least a few hours a week (although my coding skills are approximately at the level of an intern.)
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Be careful using psychedelics while depressed, it can get even worse and you can have a very bad trip. At least don't do that alone and have somebody sober to watch over you. Personally, I've found small doses of LSD having better, longer lasting improvement and causing less side effects than antidepressants.
As an aside, the actual article is not as long as the 100 pages it may seem from the scroll bar. There are a lot of comments on the page.
I didn't mean to start some kind of innovational penis-waving contest. Just trying to show that it's easy to be blind to local innovation when it's around you. I'm not saying that no innovation is coming out of Ohio. I'm saying that the parent poster "as a Swede" probably doesn't see any innovation that comes out of Ohio. Just like an American doesn't see any innovation coming out of Sweden. Hence the "everyday" kind of examples.
The PSU is a Nofan P-400A: https://www.quietpc.com/nof-p-400a

No graphics card, just the internal GPU of a 4th gen i7 (purchased 2013).
I am using RethinkDB in PartsBox (https://partsbox.io/). I initially picked it because I wanted a JSON document database that has a correctly implemented distributed story. But later on it turned out that the realtime-push (changefeeds) functionality is actually fundamental for me. I used it to build an app where every open sessions gets instant updates.

Right now I don't know what other database I could use, because I found no other solution that supports this kind of functionality, especially in a distributed setting.

I agree with most of your analysis and I think that the most important part is about "worse is better": many of your potential customers won't understand or won't care about correctness or consistency.

That said, I really like RethinkDB (oh, it does have its warts, but overall it's great), I'm very thankful for it, and I hope it will continue as an open-source project.
Which is not the current owner's "fault", but not the tenant's either, which to me makes the fact that it was the supposed 'triggering event' rather unfair.
If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?
"The jury did find that 145 lines of A10's implementation of the public "Aho-Corasick algorithm" constituted copyright infringement, and assessed $60 million in damages. These lines of code were removed from A10's product last year." [1]

Re-use of code in an implementation of a publicly known algorithm -> $60 million in damages. This is not the kind of liability you will ever want to take on.

1. https://www.a10networks.com/news/a10-networks-receives-jury-...
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For over two years I helped co-host a science/comedy podcast at Stanford called Goggles Optional (http://gogglesoptional.com/). We never hit hockey stick growth, but kept plugging away week after week. When I left, I think we had somewhere between 50,000-100,000 cumulative downloads from around ~90 countries. It's still going today.

I learned a lot from doing the podcast. Consistent, deliberate practice where you get feedback from others and from your own listening is a terrific way to improve over the years. As a result of the podcast, I became a more engaging speaker, a punchier writer, and even a better scientist. Spending hours thinking about how to best tell a story around a scientific concept really builds fluency, even if you think you already know the concept well.

If anyone is thinking about doing a podcast, feel free to email me. We found that having a big team with specialized roles and work rotation helped make the work sustainable and enjoyable. And as others highlight, content matters far more than tools or editing.
Are you really complaining that a site that is dedicated to copyright infringement might be misusing a trademark? I have a feeling that is the least of their legal concerns.
Well, biometric data has already been proven to be worth less than a password - because once it's compromised, that's it for life. You can't change your fingerprints.

But yes, pieces of plastic/paper don't require the user to have an expensive-yet-easily-lost doo-dad that is also hard to replace. Have your phone stolen? Now you have to wait not only until the banks do their bit, but also until the phone shops reopen so you can start buying things again. Not to mention that if you forget to charge your "money", you can no longer use your "money". It's also not an option for those in poverty, or for the plenty of people who don't have a phone, let alone a smartphone. "Dollars" come in a lot of forms that you can use at any point in life and in any state except perhaps severe mental illness. High-tech electronic-only money certainly does not.
Why is building good tech hard?
This part in Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talk [1] had a lasting impression on me. It really drove home the point on how a build up of complexity (one of the most common forms of tech debt, and one of the hardest to avoid) can eventually "kill" a project in exactly the way you described, slowly and painfully:

"But I have all this speed. I'm agile. I'm fast. You know, this easy stuff is making my life good because I have a lot of speed."

What kind of runner can run as fast as they possibly can from the very start of a race?

[Audience reply: Sprinter]

Right, only somebody who runs really short races, okay?

But of course, we are programmers, and we are smarter than runners, apparently, because we know how to fix that problem, right?

We just fire the starting pistol every hundred yards and call it a new sprint.

...It's my contention, based on experience, that if you ignore complexity, you will slow down.

You will invariably slow down over the long haul.

...if you focus on ease, you will be able to go as fast as possible from the beginning of the race.

But no matter what technology you use, or sprints or firing pistols, or whatever, the complexity will eventually kill you.

It will kill you in a way that will make every sprint accomplish less.

Most sprints will be about completely redoing things you've already done.

And the net effect is you're not moving forward in any significant way.

[1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
It took me I wanna say three years to reach senior and six to reach staff. This is uncommonly fast, but not way outside the ordinary distribution. I don't know what they're paying the kids these days, but I wouldn't be surprised if the entry level comp for a kid right out of school is topping out at $140k.

The salaries at these levels don't start out at the top number. Like many other company, it is a band, so that you can continue receiving smaller raises for a few years after you are promoted.
It's a combination of a number of reasons but yes, it is in large part due to zoning and NIMBYism. SF and the Bay Area as a whole are incredibly expensive places to build housing. Much of the peninsula is completely hostile to density, and to an only slightly lesser extent, so is SF. It doesn't help that through subsidies such as Prop 13 and rent control, a large part of the voting block is essentially insulated from the horrible policy decisions they support.

In addition, you shouldn't be so surprised that this is what has become of the former hippy capital of the world. SF style liberals aren't actually nearly as progressive as they would like the world to think. Many of those who you might identify as hippies are simply self entitled white people from middle class and above childhoods. The real working class of this country didn't have the ability to move to SF in the 60's to be part of the whole counter culture movement. It should come as no surprise that those who did aren't too fond of poor working class people living in "their" city.
Or you could argue this reminds people they are on equal footing with the other.
oh yes. i've always had that. going out of a building into sunlight often makes me sneeze.

I've heard that is true for 1 in 3 people. It actually has a reasonable explanation. The optic nerve bundle passes near the olfactory nerve bundle at some point. Its just signal cross talk. God's PCB designer having an off day.
My favorite was all the pirated copies of Windows 10 that were floating around that supposedly had the telemetry features removed. It always confused me who exactly those were targeting.