skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that it was a key factor for many voters, as, for many of those same voters, was the belief that it could be done while retaining the benefits of the common market.
Corporate social responsibility want a thing on the silk road, but we expect it now.
The download page is blank for those of us who disable javascript.
I don't know how particular this is to South Korea, or any nation. White collar crime has, at least since the 1980s (very possibly earlier, I simply have no knowledge of the topic whatsoever from before then), been normalized in the wealthy subcultures of industrialized nations. White collar crime kills more people, and does vastly more economic damage, than street crime does and has for a long time. But society looks the other way, and punishes it very little. As a result, it has become so commonplace amongst the wealthy that it would no longer be appropriate to refer to it as deviant behavior. It is normal.

(The Teaching Company produced a course called 'Explaining Social Deviance' which had a couple lectures specifically about white collar crime. That's where I learned about such things.)
I dont know if this is the right place to ask it, but I will go:

Sometimes I see job offers that ask for experience with large websites, large databases, large servers, etc, etc, etc (you get the idea).

How do you land those jobs if getting in that kind of subject is impossible alone? You can't simulate that kind of things at your home, so unless your side project grow and you must learnt it the hard way, or you had luck to be at a company where they allowed you to be involved, how do you learn that? Thank you
In this day and age, open source tools are usually more private than their closed source counterparts. Usually. But, they also usually require you to do extra configuration or setup to get the privacy benefits
Mannys Laugh ( Blog Post )
MA gov lets small towns fade away without broadband
It's Like Westworld, but for Real
TextQL – Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
I'll let you know if I come up with something!
Publishing a Website on Bitbucket Cloud
Its up, now running GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.16.0-rc3-ee 4ec848c
That's only in a libertarian dystopia with "Caveat Emptor" as its motto and no contract in place to guarantee safety as long as the car works properly.

In the real world, it depends on the situation.

In this particular situation, if the car was driving so fast it does not have time to break for, the fault most likely falls to the manufacturer for writing software that defaults to reckless driving in an urban environment, and inmediately after some of the fault might fall to the city or the inspectors that approved the manufacturer if it is concluded that the approval was given either knowing the software was like this, or failing to account for it in their testing procedure.

If there was a mapping error, it depends on the map provider's license to the car manufacturer.

All other situations (car breaking down due to lack of maintenance, breaking down unexpectedly, pedestrian making an illegal move, etc,...) are already handled by current law (obligatory "some exceptions may apply").
I'm not sure what your point is. Nylas looks pretty cool, but is it doing so much more than other 10 year old email clients? Is it features or implementation choices that lead to relatively high resource usage?
Link for those interested:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1472439058
I know, I'm not actually as broken up about it as I make it sound sometimes. It was a mistake, and it could "technically" cost me 10 grand, so it's a nice number to remember when I think about the time I'm spending setting up and testing my backups. (And it's a fantastic story to tell others which can often get them to start using a backup system)

In the end, it may end up being net positive in my life when I save something huge later.
HVDC does have advantages in certain scenarios (very long transmission lines, for example) but parent is still correct--the majority of the grid makes way more sense with AC.
Criticizing Google too strongly e.g. kill google is a surefire way to get downvotes. Which is pretty much the same logic you described. HN is frequented by googlers, even if it is not exactly a duty to downvote comments like yours, it makes some sense.
Or maybe I'm just seeing things.
Latest MacOS Sierra Beta Warns You If Display Is Using Significant Energy
The cloud service is also open source, like the client. And they specifically said in this blog post they've actually reduced the dependence on the sync engine, the client now connects directly to mail providers, and the cloud service is needed only for specific features of Nylas.
An unladen swallow.
and what is... reinforcement learning (you give the objective function)? supervised deep learning (you give labels)? or did they mean hard AI, a long long way off.
I remember reading some rumors that part of the dev team behind Thief also works on Dishonored. Thief was a fantastic game, so is Dishonored, and the similarities are striking. It would be interesting to know if this fact is true.
Call it "process debt", or "management debt" (i.e. the lack of investment in proper management and the culture that goes a long with it -- in favor of a "STFU and just add that feature now! I need it yesterday!" mentality). Either way, part of the same boat, basically.
Right now I have a 3 and 5 year old

while they are not complete blank slates at this point, their range of future possibilities have not been significantly narrowed at this point

I've tried to put some thought into how to direct them such that their future possibilities won't be narrowed simply by wasting time aimlessly trying one thing after

here is the best I've come up with:

1) develop universal skills

There are some skills that are universally useful, regardless of what they wind up doing, My immediate thoughts about what would make these up are: reading skills, persuasive speaking skills (selling/negotiating), persuasive writing skills, some basic knowledge of the main ideas of human psychology, basic knowledge of the main ideas of rationality and logic, basic knowledge of the main ideas of probability and math, (added later after I considered it more), probably some basic financial literacy, probably some basic economic theory, (another edit) knowledge about processes to improve creativity

until you reach perhaps the top 10% of ability in each of those skills, any time you spend improving those skills will have good ROI, regardless of what you wind up doing in life

2) read a lot, and pay attention to the law of attraction

more skeptical readers will think this is BS, and in strict terms, it probably is bs, but it strikes me as useful bs

what I mean by this pay attention to what naturally peaks your curiosity, to what you don't have to make your self want to learn more about

our attention streams strike me as a mysterious but powerful force, sometimes you have to fight against them and do things that don't really capture your interests, but the less energy you can spend trying to redirect you attention, the more energy you can spend productively

3) the library is an amazing resource, when something captures you interest, dive as deep as you can for free at the library, dive deep at the library before you dive deep in life,

think being a programmer would be a good path?

Googling "book list for computer programmers" go through the first page, try to find 5 books the seem to repeat on those lists

read them, still interested? yes? great, now you have a lot more information to take next steps. no? that's ok, now you know a lot more about what computer programmers do

you can do this for any path in life, its a significantly cheaper method, in both time and money, for trying out a lot of career paths than getting formal credentials, and then getting a professional job in something (not that you shouldn't do those things, but those are expensive steps, you should take cheaper steps first)

I think this is an interesting blog post about diving deep:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/12/breakdancing-universe/

I think this is another interesting link, only tangentially related http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/
I've seen projects die not because of the technical debt existing, but because of lack of addressing it. The developers got sick of working around the debt to do trivial things, they left. Customer support personnel left because of the constant manual "tweaking" they had to do due to the technical debt. Management focused on tacking on features instead of paying off any technical debt which was having rippling effects throughout the company.

Technical debt destroyed the team.
How does one limit city density? Population growth creates cities. Not the other way around.
This is why I never use bash for scripting, and opt for Ruby instead.

You can use the `Pathname` class to treat paths as objects, which you can concatenate only valid paths with. Aside from obviously all the other sanity-saving features.
Why Aren't We Doing More with Our Web Archives?
I love Nylas, and I've recommended it to people in the past. But what new funding model has enabled this change?
I'm one of those frustrated mobile users. I like to think I keep up on tech trends (being here for one example) but I hadn't heard of AMP before. I have experienced it, though, without knowing what the issue was until now. I like to share news with friends, and recently more frequently when I try to send the url it was google instead of the domain I expected. I had to go out of my way to send them the actual source, but it didn't happen everywhere. Now I know why.
Thanks for the mention, I also have an article that walks through not what I'd call advanced but it's at least intermediate SQL here as well - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/09/12/fun-with-sql-compu...

Whenever I do come across blogs that have good articles we aim to feature them in Postgres Weekly, so if you want a regular stream of that type of content it's worth checking out - http://www.postgresweekly.com
Atom with vim-mode. And vim for quick edits.
But if it was taken by a third party, Opera aren't distributing anything, are they?
Nylas Basic is free forever. We hope you'll like it so much that you'll upgrade to Pro.

Essentially, we started as a free beta at the very beginning, launched with free trial last year, and now have switched to freemium (with a free trial on the Pro version still there).

Does that make sense?

(I work at Nylas.)
OpenDrop – Desktop Digital Biology Laboratory
The upper classes do have higher average IQ, an effect which is more pronounced the more meritocratic the society. Yes, there are lots of stupid rich people and tons of smart impoverished people, but we are talking about averages here. As most people desire wealth and intelligence is your capacity to realize your desires, intelligent people acquire more wealth than less-intelligent people. As intelligence is very heritable, this has unfortunate class implications. I’m not endorsing this description as normative, I just think it is accurate. This state of affaires is allowed to be both true and objectionable. Natural selection is a horrible process that runs on death and suffering, it would be very odd if it shaped our variations in a manner that matches our ideological preferences.

> Programming is nothing but an area of work which is more suited to people with a certain analytical skill sets.

If you think you can turn 100 IQ people into productive programmers, you could make billions by training your own staff and undercutting everyone else. Give it a try.
Minimalist design is not even remotely about fashion. At least not as applied to UX and conversion flow. It's about intuition vs cognition. Amazon is blind to how extraordinarily bad their UI is probably because they are putting too much value into A/B testing and/or leadership has a belief that "everything at once" is some how more helpful to users then a directed flow.

A/B testing is a very useful tool for a very constrained problem of comparing two or more alternatives of the same thing. It cannot tell you which overall UX approach is more effective. Good minimalist design is about creating user flow which often consists of multiple simple steps. Each step avoiding cognitive overload by maintaining a context and limiting the current scope.

Actually these multiple steps happen on complex pages too. The difference is that on complex pages the user gets no help from the UX to accomplish their goal. It needn't be fashionable, it needs to be functional not in the theoretical sense, but in the actual sense accounting for real user behavior.

Amazon and people who mistakenly believe that "information density" is necessarily good, often not true, and that a "lot of words" == "information density" which is also often not true fail to realize that following a link or scrolling a pages is actually less difficult then visually searching a cluttered information scape.

Even users who do not become frustrated by the UI will 'pre-filter' it once they figure out how to do the one thing they want. This has the effect of making most of the interface invisible to then from that point on. It's like driving to work, they will tune out all the visual noise around them after the first few trips. So at best the information density has no value because it is ignored, and at worst, it's adding a heavy friction to conversion.

It's bad, pre design 101 bad. Amazon only gets away with it because they already won the market long ago.
NewStore Is Hiring Technical Writers in Berlin (Germany)
The industrialized world is turning against circumcision. Why not in the US?
Gary King is a pretty prominent political scientist. It's unlikely that this is unoriginal work. Yes, that's an appeal to authority, but I think the methods used are what's novel. And don't discount just having some evidence!

Here's the article:

http://gking.harvard.edu/50c

edit: it's also in the apsr, which is one of the poli sci journals.

There are a lot less people doing this kind of analysis in an academic setting than one might expect.
Let's not forget Japan Post's CSV for all the Japanese Address data that contains some lines that are line-wrapped, that is, one record spans two or more lines in the CSV file. A line-wrapped CSV... I just can't even.
Javascript gets used everywhere because it successfully commoditized programming. It requires very little knowledge to get it to work, so anybody can pick it up without much effort. For businesses, this means an endless supply of cheap labor. Most people here on HN and elsewhere believe this is a good thing. It furthers their dreams of programming becoming a basic literacy, like english and math.

Keep in mind I don't agree with the above at all, but this is what a lot of people believe.
Sounds like the software managers were not on top of things, otherwise how would they have allowed this type of design to be implemented?

Not to say I haven't seen this effect myself many times...
This is exactly right.

(I work at Nylas.)
Designing a platform to discover email newsletters on iOS
oculus home vs VR sales on Steam. My guess it's oculus home by a huge margin because GearVR.
That's not a startup approach. That's an enterprise approach. Believe me, I've fought tons of resistance in automating deployment operations in the enterprise. There's a perception that automation is dangerous, and you need human checkpoints. In practice, I've worked on projects much, much larger than Knight Capital, where the deployment process was driven by a huge spreadsheet, and orchestrated by non-technical overseers telling techs what commands to run based on the spreadsheet in front of them. It's incredibly vulnerable to human error like "Oops, forgot to deploy to one of the eight servers in the cluster".

In the enterprise, this is called "mature" and is a sign of great sophistication.
It is much much much much much faster now. :)
I do understand the need for a better modern open source email client (not trying to start any kind of client war here), but I really want something that doesn't rely on an external server.

1 - any suggestions for an open source alternative that provides email snoozing on linux (that's a big part of my email processing)?

2 - any good guide on how to self host the Nylas server on my home server (I know they have the project on GitHub but the instructions are a bit too complicated for me, although that's perhaps my sysadmin skills are quite low)?
Globalization generally makes things cheaper and easier for consumers, but will also reduce employment in certain areas.

Restoring that employment is a separate track than reducing globalization - that is to say: you can de-globalize and exit whatever trade treaties you like, but those jobs you lost to globalization will not magically come back.

Citizens have been sold a bill of goods in both directions when experts and politicians under-report the side effects and exaggerate the benefits.
Show HN: Find all the bugs, testing C with incremental failure injection
It's sort of is.

I recognize that they are solving a real problem for users and I don't want to throw out a baby with the bath water.

At the same time I am VERY concerned with caching aspect of AMP. I am holding back on my judgment until they have some time to address some of the concerns, to see if I feel better about it.

But may be people on this thread are right, and a more aggressive stance is warranted...
Researchers have mapped the US by people’s fear of romantic intimacy
Thank you for this comment. This belongs in a sex education textbook.
Maybe I'm weird, but it's worth more than 10min/month to me not to have another recurring charge on my CC, before the amount of money is even considered.
Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. This used to be true but Nylas Mail now uses a totally client-side sync engine.

If you're on the Basic edition, your emails never touch our servers. This was a huge undertaking (it's not easy to port a sync-engine written in Python and designed to run on servers to run efficiently on desktop machines) and is the major reason why we can now offer a freemium service. We're going to put out a blog post soon with more engineering details soon!
I am right now, but I can't take a step back and fix any of it because that wouldn't be "Agile". The project won't be declared a failure though, they will just keep adding more and more "resources" aka people to get the same amount of work done.
I previously wrote about why we switched to a paid model last year. https://nylas.com/blog/nylas-pro

> We already sync several hundred terabytes of data for our users and are adding tens of thousands of new users each month. It’s costing us real dollars.

This is now changed with the new architecture in Nylas Mail.
A new rfc archive
I imagine they do, if they're like most other multi-currency platforms. If the license terms are on a percent of revenue basis, they'd more or less have to.
> What part seems serious? That the offspring are not useful for replant?

There is that, but also the cost of maintaining such seeds (seems to be higher than for regular seeds). I get the economy of scale though.

There's also the problem of single point of failure. I cannot help but think that if farmers were self-seeding, the system would be more resilient. I'm not sure.

Yet another problem is one of control. If Bayer controls our seeds the way Alphabet controls our data, this isn't going to be fun when start using that control for something we didn't expect. I mean, it's food. We need it, and they know it.

I don't trust them. I've seen a documentary talking about Indian farmers committing suicide when they noticed their wonderful F1 crops could not breed properly. They thought they they were making an investment. And that's without the even more obvious problems associated with planting crops unsuited to the local climate or weak against the local pests. A crop (F1 or not) that thrives in Arizona may not fare so well in Ethiopia. I believe the "oops it requires too much water" has happened before.
I find it reassuring. If we could do that 100 hundred years ago, what are we doing now with the added century of experience and the new tech?
Probably because then you have to use Gmail, and store all of your private data with Google.
> Sure, it's anonymous. But the short-term nature means that the prime objective when posting something is to get replies. So you get some troll bait or other things sure to get replies.

This can be traced to updates to 4chan's post linking system that highlight replies to your post with a (You). Like upvotes, (You)s are a feedback signal of attention.
Yes.

I wrote a complicated and horrendously ugly scraping PHP script with hundreds of regexes to generate a PDF file from a CMS. It worked in about 90% of all articles, and for the rest only needing a few manual fixes in InDesign.

I always intended this as a stopgap measure till we implemented a clean document structure, of which both the web page and the PDF could be created. But that never happened. Then I left the company.

A few years later the company made a redesign of the website and totally scrapped the PDF feature.

However I still sometimes see these PDF pages out in the wild, mostly saved by the authors of the articles on their own web sites, because authors are allowed to link to their own content for free. It's a shame because I think these PDF versions of the articles were beautiful. But as you would say, technical debt killed the feature.

Another project for a NPO has been written in Python using an ancient back-end. When the shared hosting provider made an upgrade, the back-end died, and I was not able to repair it and I was not paid enough to invest too much time. I bluntly told the board that their project is as dead as a dodo, and they accepted that.
Ok. I'm being a dick. I should calm down. I apologize.

I should have replied "Sustainable ranching is harder than you'd think." I might remove my comments this afternoon, after you've and had a chance to see this apology.

I've worked with ranchers to conserve wildlife, especially apex predators. Indeed, I predict ranching will become a niche source of protein as vat-grown meat comes online (20 years) and taxpayers decide to stop subsidizing it (10 years?). The draughts, draining aquifers, and scourge of wildfires will also make ranching less viable. But I can't guess the timeline of climate change on ranching.

If you've met any (independent) ranchers, you'd see they know their world is coming apart.
I'm an electrical engineer 12 years out of college. I did design work for 5 years, became an electronics quality manager in operations, then design validation test manager in R&D, and now questioning what to do with my career ... I'm leaning towards data analytics guru ...
Libreboot is just a more strict about freedom coreboot from what I understand. As in it is literally a fork/derivative of coreboot.
hm, try again?
Browse WITHOUT CLICKING
This is relatively recent, and caused quite a stir when it was introduced. Certainly not around during Toy Story 2.

edit: More info:

https://lwn.net/Articles/327141/
Why the EU was necessary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE

To divide and disunite Europe and make a complete pig's breakfast of the continent.
We don't need another federated network. Administrators of those nodes are putting themselves into danger. What we need to develop is a purely decentralized p2p network that is resistant to censorship and eavesdropping.
Yeah. You'd think that Nylas would want an announcement like this to reach new users; why not throw a paragraph up front explaining what they are?
That is depressing as hell: we'll just throw money at something that makes good propaganda rather than makes sense to invest in.
I had the exact same experience. I see this sort of issue commonly. Surprising companies don't just link you back to their homepage when they promote their product with a blog. Seems like an obvious thing to do.