skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great new addition to AWS. Amazon's pace of releasing new things is just astounding.

As an API provider I'm pretty excited to find out how this works and whether the AWS marketplace is really ready for 3rd party services.

Having tried mashape a couple of months ago I like the idea but found their implementation a bit cumbersome and confusing. I hope Amazon's approach will be simpler.
"It pretends that vanishing institutional knowledge of growing food isn’t a problem; we should be TERRIFIED that fewer than 1 in 100 Americans actually knows how to grow enough food to feed a family or more."

Why? There are many other vital survival tasks that the overwhelming majority of the world's population cannot perform. This is merely the consequence of living in modern society; such efforts are abstracted away from the consumer. People will educate themselves when such information becomes necessary.

Also, fabricating dramatic statistics doesn't help anyone. I can quote a Farm and Dairy article from three years ago which stated, "One in 3 households are now growing food — the highest overall participation and spending levels seen in a decade." And that, "Households with incomes under $35,000 participating in food gardening grew to 11 million — up 38 percent from 2008."

Should I be less "TERRIFIED" now?
Looks great so far, but is it possible to make it work on windows ?
Seriously, try this:

https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-...

Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for life

Learn why soil is so important, how it’s being threatened and what we can do to protect this natural resource so vital to our lives.
Very interesting! Though I can only think of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U as products that still use the Presto engine.
Even if the miracle occurs and you get bought out and get shittons of money thrown at you, you've already built a company with a "fake it till you make it" culture. Even if you get to hire great new engineers to build your product the right way, your existing team is a ragtag bunch of amateurs who don't know how to build things properly and block any attempts to improve the status quo. I've been there. You can't build castles on the foundation of mud. You'd have to throw it all out and start again - and that's a recipe for disaster.
For the second one, you must have been receiving a lot of traffic for template rendering to be such a bottleneck. Why not upgrade the server?
Comparing Inutition Between Humans and Artificial Neural Networks
New tool forces JavaScript code correctness
I love TheFamily and have watched many many of their videos online, in French and English. In one video by Oussama Ammar -- one of the three co-founders and a very entertaining speaker -- said that a startup should be like a cult. Unique, with a powerful vision and culture. Because of this, Oussama says, working in a shared space with other groups is almost certainly a bad idea -- instead of a unique cult with a powerful culture, you become just another startup in the factory/garage/office. I wonder what he might have to say about Station F.
It's self-paced, so it's kinda up to you. There are "deadlines" to help keep you on track, but they're optional. To pass, you just have to pass all the graded assignments by the end date. But if you're getting close to the end and are behind, you can always shift your enrollment to the following session - but you keep all your progress and everything. It's pretty cool in that regard. Very low pressure.
I have not personally used gump but I am going to have to download and try it out. Side question, does anyone know if you can put gimp on a rasberry pi ? hmm and I wonder if you can usb a drawing taplet to pi.
That article is from 23 October 2016. The tax haven talks are relatively new. I first heard about it as being part of the plan just a few days ago, from British media.
Yes, but you can sell in Italy, right? I mean, the customers have to pay upfront, but they can pay and you can service.

Compare this with the need to incorporate in Italy, have people hired there, an office presence, and so on. The barrier is not 0, but it's not even remotely as it is outside EU.
As with Brexit so with Trump, the one side only won because the alternative was only barely, if at all, better.
Signal Processing with Stateful Transducers
I just posted this above, try

https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-...
The was no reference to border control in the referendum ballot.
> then you can mutate the struct Foo like this:

You couldn't because it'd be immutably borrowed.
Thanks for posting this Ethan. Jasonette made creating this app a breeze for a 'non-dev' like myself.
I can't remember which podcast episode it was, but I do remember him mentioning a professor in South Korea had once told him he was using his blog posts for his CS classes.
Oh, I know who owns it. Doesn't make the brand's continued existence any less repugnant.

Think of it this way: do you think anyone could get away with selling Triangle Trade Rum?
The parent comment does not make an argument. It makes a set of unsupported statements about the intent of the EU.

"Democracy in Europe is seen as a war risk" is not an argument. By whom is it seen as a war risk? What are your sources for this? Are you going to attribute this to generic "elites" without being specific?

Rather a lot of people have argued over the years that the purpose of the EU is to prevent war, going all the way back to the Schuman declaration: http://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/europe-day/...

There's a source for you. Now, how about unpacking that "democracy is seen [by whom] as a war risk [why? how?]"
The UK is simply trying to divide the EU, by cosying up to some members.

Of course the UK has control of borders: they are not even in Shengen! Besides, only EU citizens are allowed to move around the EU.

It is unfortunate that the EU has allowed the UK to amass that much financial and intelligence clout, and something that I hope will be corrected in the near future, by distributing the financial center around the EU member states, and by building up a world class intelligence service.
Evan is creating Vue.js https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
After reading all these articles about octopuses lately... I felt so bad watching someone in a video on YouTube who fished one of these and was laughing about how it traveled on land.
> Does Nylas Basic support all mail providers?

> Today’s release supports Gmail/G Suite, Office365 Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and FastMail. Full support for self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers is coming soon.

I am a little curious why this is so limited. All of the above solutions support IMAP, so why is this so specific? I could understand if they're trying to support, say, Gmail-specific features of your inbox, but a provider like FastMail is pretty much entirely standards-compliant, AFAICT.
http://www.postgresguide.com/
https://pgexercises.com/
I'd say it wasn't due to technical debt, more a start-up like development approach to a company that trades millions within seconds in full automation. It sounds like the deployment process wasn't that complicated for a company of that size, but it was deployed without a single check by a second person.

If you're trading automatically, you'll need a very, very solid deployment and audit process, even if you're just a small company. The reason banks are so slow in deploying software is because most of them lost a few millions at some point due to some bug.

Startups that think they can act faster than banks just haven't had that bug yet. That's also why I'm rather negative on the whole Fintech scene at the moment.
Sort of. I worked on a project that gradually lost customers due to instability and a lack of new features.

It's still around and still being maintained but it's a shadow of what it once was.

I've worked at multiple other companies which have gone through rounds of expensive rewrites.
Makes me sad that they pushed AMP vs creating a standard format for how 'reading mode' content is selected.

This probably would speed up loading times as it would only have to display/load certain content.

I love 'reading mode' on firefox and safari (mobile). Unsure what other browsers support it but they all should.
Epitaph
The performance is gonna be pretty terrible if it does work.
Different countries change over time for different reasons, and Apple tends to change them in bulk.

Are you arguing that the massive drop in the pound isn't due to Brexit? As far as I'm aware even the most rabid Farage-fanciers don't argue that, but argue it's a good thing (Cheaper exports! As though we don't import most of the raw materials, but that's not as snappy).
"They" are not even "they" anymore. At this point, Opera is pretty much just a brand name making a mockery of the former program.
The Falklands are a pretty poor example imho. The fact that people were not there does not imply they couldn't get there. If they had no sheep, there would be no point staying.
I second this. I prefer reading on pdf, so I bought the ebook[1]. The book explains indexing perfectly, and it shouldn't take you more than a day to finish. I can't recall a book having a better benefit/time ratio. I wish the author would release more books in this vein, but he hasn't. So right now I'm looking at Designing Data-Intensive Applications to learn more about different kinds of databases [2].

[1] http://sql-performance-explained.com/

[2] http://dataintensive.net/
There are systems (basically what looks like a long sideways L) but you're right that romanization doesn't record pitch accent. But there are big regional variations in pitch accent and people won't have trouble understanding you if you use the wrong one, mostly (and you could level the same complaint at hiragana or katakana, after all).

Nevertheless, that's a fair point that I wasn't really thinking about.
Comparing Gimp to X-Windows window managers is pretty apt, actually:

"In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry's standard naked emperor.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
- Jamie Zawinski"

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
- Peter F. Drucker
> To me a referendum is a clearer mandate than any general election

It's potentially a clearer mandate on, at most, exactly the question asked in the referendum, but it's not a mandate for any particular method of implementing it nor is it a mandate for any party's or leader's judgement in pursuing it, nor is it even a mandate for any choice on balancing that one priority against others.
Would be interesting if they enabled integration with Ethereum for API monetizing. But that is probably unlikely as they would go against their own payment platform.
Thanks, will take a look. Caddy looks pretty cool :)
Clear mandate to achieve the aims campaigned on. A large part of the the brexit campaign revolved around control of immigration.

Now control of immigration predicates leaving the single market as one of the principles of that is freedom of movement, so there's literally no way to achieve the stated brexit campaign goals without leaving the single market.

I didn't say anything about the majority of the population I said people who voted in favour of the referendum. The reality of our electoral system is that you just need the majority of voters, not population (well unless you're scotland in the 70's that is)

EDIT : in case anyone wants to argue that immigration wasn't a key part of the leave campaign... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/eu-referend... a key pledge related to immigration directly and another was closely associated
How often is often? I've never seen that in my life.
why do you need to do customs declarations in Finland? Where are you based? Where are you buying from?

Buying from any other EU country should free you from customs declarations.
Whilst I sympathise with the sentiment of parent, I believe the downvotes are for failing to understand how mandate works in our parliamentary democracy.

We, the voting public in the UK, never vote directly elect our government. We give a mandate to our local MP and then they decide who forms the government.

Further, we vote for our local MP knowing ahead of time that they could change who they decide will form the government at anytime before the next general election.

Even if we don't like the current government, they do have a democratic mandate.
AMP and Chrome are two completely independent things.
Not really. Developers choose a pricing tier for their apps. Apple sets the price of apps in each tier for each currency they support.
Every word in Japanese has a standard pitch accent and some otherwise homophonous ones differ in pitch accent. However, from one dialect to another the pitch accents on the same word can be totally different so I don't think they're usually a big hindrance to communication. Pitch accent differs from English stress accent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
>I'd set it up as an actual business, make profit and expand, I wouldn't wait for some investors coming in throwing money at me, I don't get why people in tech cant see that.

Quick exits, early retirements
Yes, but... The native Americans colonized an empty territory and very important here - they didn't had anything to do with it being empty and available for colonization. And also, to be honest, reading the Beringia theory, I think they paid their ticket in full for that land!
The communication barrier is enough to ensure that the nature of the relationship is not necessarily agreed upon by both parties. It's like that trope in movies where someone visits another (generally less developed) culture, spends some time with them, and then discovers that they've been married into the group without realizing it.

Cats in particular are clearly not in agreement in regards to who is in charge in our relationships with them. They'll tolerate our paternalism on account of our superior size and power, but once you're no longer in the immediate vicinity compelling them they pretty much do whatever they want. They're teachable, but not really trainable.
Template in one database table I can live with (pros and cons, multiple front-ends, etc). One template broken up in to 12 tables requiring an 100+ line SQL statement with concat()s and HTML interspersed is insane. Had there been an API or utilities with it to manage it, it might have been manageable, but nope - just "write some queries".

Also, just repeated your comment to a friend who said "that's the worst thing you've seen? can i have your job?" :)
Probably unsafe to use by now, since not updated and full with vulnerabilities.
> The EU is not "a single country"

That's certainly the endgame. What couldn't be achieved by world wars, is being achieved by the EU project.

> US and Canada... very similar countries

I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic here. And if not, don't you think it's pretty disgusting to suggest the culture of Canadians and Americans is pretty similar? Don't you think that culture is something to cherish and protect, rather than pretend doesn't exist?
This makes me miss Steve Jobs, a lot. So much of what he says seemed dead on about the struggles Segway faced. For all his faults, I think he had a great sense about what consumers wanted and loved about a product, as well as what would frustrate them or turn them off, and I think it's been one of Apple's struggles since he passed.
I think Amazon.com is heavily tested, not so sure about AWS. I'm happy that it's Web 1.0 (i.e. fast), but it often seems as new functions were just added to existing design. Some pages might need reorganization/redesign to make them a bit less complicated to use.

The problem is that people often associate a redesign with switching to SPA. Which I really hope they won't do.
„...because it has high information density...“ +1!! If you look at the Sellercentral backend (for sellers on Amazon) it is breathtaking what kind of Analytics, inventory reports, etc you can generate.

Would love to have this kind of level of information in an external (own) ecommerce-shop/system.
> I would suggest that a large percentage of that 52% voted based on "control the borders" rhetoric.

are you suggesting that (as long as that percentage is less than 95%) the majority of total voters were against 'border control?'
Yes and no: the project had a lot of technical debt, but by the time I left the company, the project was still barely alive.
but the implementation of "control the borders" (a key brexit tenet) requires leaving the single market, the EU has made it crystal clear that you can't remove the right to freedom of movement whilst remaining in the union.

EDIT : in case anyone wants to argue that immigration wasn't a key part of the leave campaign... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/eu-referend... a key pledge related to immigration directly and another was closely associated
Its fascinating that author `prestocore` posted this on Feb 11, 2016 and it remained un-noticed for about a year.
if you want to do JSON to CSV, TSV at scale, fast and with sse42 optimizations you could try: https://github.com/tamediadigital/je
Then again Firefox was itself a strip down of a rewritten Netscape suite. Stripped down in that the suite included not just a browser but also a email client, IRC client and a HTML editor, and the UI was done using JS and XUL markup.

What Firefox devs did was to take the browser part, make it stand alone, and replace much of the XUL UI with native widgets (GTK on _nix).
They aren't at odds, really. You see the 3x%+ increase for your existing plan, and downgrade because of it.
I like 4chan because it is as close to a meritocracy as exists online. There are no "reputations" or "karma", your ideas and opinions stand on their own merit. It's one of the last bastions of free speech and anonymity that exists.
Isn't one of the issues with the EU government that it's recalcitrant to reform? Brussels feels like they have a cozy little cocoon. Any attempts to make them work for the people in a meaningful way get rebuffed.
Right, which is why the UK, very successfully, blocked every attempt at EU integration and secured opt outs out of Euro and Schengen for itself.

As a European, I believe I'm not alone in thinking it's great that the biggest obstacle to EU integration is leaving the EU, we're just all very puzzled as to why considering the UK had the best deal possible in the EU.
You were lucky that's all that happened. Athlon's ran notoriously hot to the point that they would literally catch fire after a few seconds if no cooling was applied.
TheFamily Education – 12 Chapters (videos for entrepreneurs)
We need a second referendum on what is finally agreed with the EU. The people are allowed to change their mind.
Dear deity, why do that read like the development history of everything Linux bar the kernel itself?!
You actually can add any IMAP server. We just haven't tested all of them, so we're only officially supporting a few at launch.

Here's how to do it: http://imgur.com/a/WBdXe

(I work at Nylas.)
I asked an honest question. But it seems a gobject codebase in C must be a delight to work with. And then you wonder why it takes long to implement new stuff.
Update: This is not from 2016, but actually a Fresh New post I published this morning (in 2017!) but messed up the timestamp with jekyll, sorry for the confusion!

Hi guys, I wrote the post, but the creator is @smcavinney1 on this thread, please ask him any questions :)

I personally thought this was really cool because it's a Slack bot that actually does something useful, and am super glad Jasonette enables cool projects like these.

p.s. Could someone with the permission update the title so it doesn't say 2016?
Good question, also it was only a remark that the phone number or email address is not owned by the IM system. They can change anyway.

I got my mobile number in 1999 and already switched twice with the number. Sadly it is kinda expensive to take the number with you, 25 to 30 euros.
Zebra shark surprises scientists by giving birth without male
Not true. Article 50 stipulates the maximum negotiating period, not the minimum. T-May could quite legally declare Article 50, negotiate for a day, then join NAFTA the day after...
Kudos to cloudflare team for doing this!
I'm guessing you hit the top tax faster in Sweden, the people I know with an degree will get above 50% fast, just anecdotal evidence though.
Finished that and Thief 2 on max objectives on every level. Not because I'm particularly fond of rock hard gameplay, but because you got to appreciate the game to its fullest extent.

Games that up the difficulty by making the mobs bullet sponges, meh.

(With that said, some levels in the first were a real grind to deal with all the guards.)
The last place I worked at will die because it will take them years to migrate from Oracle to postgres due to "technical debt" (the codebase is coupled with the database to a hilarious degree; business logic in triggers, huge plsql packages, plain sql queries in the java codebase, halfassed homerolled ORM). They're not getting as many new customers as they could because, for various reasons, the Oracle licensing terms are now unacceptable for the new customers they have been in contact with over the last two years.

That's the most concrete reason I can come up with why the technical debt will kill them, but there's plenty of vaguer reasons why it's been killing them for the past 5 years and will finish them off over the next 5. The attrition rate have been around 20% a year since I joined. For most of the time I worked there they compensated somewhat by hiring new people. Word has gotten around though, and they've run out of qualified candidates willing to work on their mess. Hell, we even had a couple of gifted hires leave after a month or two while shaking their heads.

My current workplaces main product is using the same tech, is the same size (loc) and has the same functionality of the other company, but serving a different market. They did the oracle to postgres migration in 2 months. 2 MAN months, one guy.

New workplace: 15ish developers, serving the same amount of customers, doing similar revenue, making stable releases every week

Old workplace: 80 developers at its peak, doing non-hotfix releases around every 3 months. Just a mess in every way. Mostly stemmed from the codebase and the architectural choices that had been made along the way.
Or use 3scale or WSO2?
I understand, pricing point of view, amazon will be 10 times or more cheaper. But level of effort required and limited features set, you have to decide what you are trying to do with your time & skills.