skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Life has never been better."

Tell that to all the trans people that now have to worry if "Small government conservatives" are going to legislate what bathroom they can use, or if employers can discriminate against them. Tell that to all the Dreamers who now have to wonder if they're going to have a future. Tell that to the 20 million or so people who are worried that their health insurance will be ripped away from them, with no replacement.
No networking OR file system access in the free implementation.

You'd be hard pressed to find a Swift project that doesn't depend on Apple's proprietary Foundation because Swift needs it to talk to the world!

I don't understand what IBM is thinking.
No. In (idea) capitalism it would be normal for the energy to be sold and a price emerging from the supply and demand.

They are not 'stealing' the energy 'from other citizens' they are using the energy that the bad repressive government of Venezuela provides. Its the governments prorogative to subsidize energy, and they have to deal with the consequences.

I however agree that 'in the midst of a socialist hell' is not an apportierte way to write an article.
More often than not I read _only_ the comments and don't even bother to click the link unless one of the comments raises my curiosity.

The comments are what make HN good.
Jim, great work! Don't let the haters on here get you down. This is an amazing idea.
Why You Should Consider Moving from NTP to NTPsec
Same. Seems like the wording on some questions could use tweaking. Not bad overall, though.
Clocks by Zeno -- helping atomic scientists on their journey for the past 111.1111 meters.
Interesting idea for a site. However, is there a version of this for people in countries outside of the US? Because as someone in the UK, I'd love to know what elected offices I'd be elligible to run for over here.

And I'm sure people in places like Canada, Australia, France, etc would be interested in a similar site for their country as well.

Still, seems pretty neat so far.
I've used ffmpeg/x264 professionally and personally and I'd not suggest this for the average user. It's a bitch to get all the settings right.

If you're building an automated system to transcode video ffmpeg/x264 is great (or better yet, use an online transcoding service). For an average user go with Handbrake.
Google to block .js attachments in Gmail
From a quick Re-reading of the teleport readme, and the teleconsole one - I'm a little unclear if there's an easy way to "self-host" a complete teleconsole-setup including the nat-proxy?

I suppose if you have an Internet-facing server to run teleport on, there are fewer reasons to use teleconsole - but I could see it still being useful? (for eg help troubleshooting workstations or servers/clusters behind firewall/Nat for people outside the organisation - volunteering, "helping a friend" or consulting)?
One of C++'s most glaring problems is that everybody only ever uses some subset of some version of the language, but you still need to know basically the entire massive, monstrous language because not everybody uses the same subset and you need to be prepared for anything. On top of that, you're lucky if your employer or potential recipient of contributions (e.g., FOSS project) or whatever has actually codified the subset they want to you to use: most of the time, you need to infer the allowable subset from the existing code.
At this point I read the comments more than the articles, too.

I wish there were a "favorite" feature for comments, because I'd certainly make use of it.
Happy babies! As a point of interest, this type of engineered T-cell treatment has its roots in research at the Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv. They demonstrated the use of CARs modified T-cells in curing leukemic disease in rats and mice several years ago.

Their research was expanded to human trials at Univ. of Penn. where 27 of 29 patients with incurable leukemia and most of whom had a prognosis of death within a few months went into remission and showed no sign of the disease.

This modality may work with other forms of cancer; engineered T-cells that can enter every capillary in the body could potentially wipe out entire colonies of cancer cells. The potential is enormous, as are the challenges; cancers can be very difficult to differentiate from healthy tissue.

[1]http://www.timesofisrael.com/breakthrough-cancer-cure-has-de...
Part of a scientist's job is communicating results to non-scientists.
I searched for Athens, GA, and two positions in Chicago were included in the results:

https://www.runforoffice.org/elected_offices_search?address=...
I guess my point is that "ls" shouldn't be an answer. Typically it will print out multiple files on a line. If it's just checking for output and not the actual command someone entered, there should probably be more than one file in the directory to show that it will actually print one file per line.
This reminds me of G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday[1] where a government spy infiltrates an anarchist organization only to find out that the other members are also government spies.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday
Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer may have just tweeted his password
Is that what finally got them to behave? "Noooooooo!!!! Anything but math!!!"
Physical security is the primary concern.

If access to data "after the fact" is what you're really asking, then you use the strongest encryption possible (a few options), and have a deadman switch to physically destroy the hardware (e.g., melt the platters/chips) including any caching mechanism(s) that's off-drive.
That's nice to say and all, but there would seem of necessity to exist a point at which the incoming audio data is present on a server you control but has yet to be encrypted. In any case, since all the encryption and decryption necessarily takes place on hosts you control with keys you hold, your claim of privacy comes with a whole constellation of caveats which you choose not to mention. This fails to inspire confidence.

Perhaps I've misunderstood how your service works, and these concerns have no basis in fact. If so, it would be awesome to know that! Such information might make a very good fit for a privacy policy, which I'm having a very hard time finding any mention of on your site. (Yes, I saw the brief, breezy dismissal of such concerns in the FAQ section of your pricing page. That doesn't count. And, no, I haven't tried it. I shouldn't need to try it to get some idea of what you actually do to mitigate these risks.)

I hate to seem overly harsh on this point, but these are uncertain times, and your service is one which invites people to trust it with the sort of deeply personal information which, in the wrong hands, could be misused to ends from embarrassment to social and professional annihilation. Perhaps you have given this hazard the degree of concern it merits, and engineered your service to minimize it to the maximum possible extent. If so, you might do well to present the appearance of having done so, too.
Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.
That's going to very much vary depending on the size of the jurisdiction of the office but for NC they only have state level positions which will all be full time.

As far as I know anything above a very small town position will be full time.
"Could it be that the rise in terror incedents recently may in fact be caused by this inequality and not just radical religious zealots? "

The prosperity of nations is not a zero sum game.

Many of those 'terrorist nations' have ample natural resources, in the way of Oil - and would be prosperous, glorious civilizations were it not for their totalitarian means, and total lack of intelligent social organization.

The USA is not 'rich' because of something the Middle East gives them. The US purchases Oil from some of these nations, giving them massive trade account surpluses that they should be using to build their civilizations. But they don't.

I'd argue the 'root cause' of their failure may actually have a lot to do with their 'cultural ideologies' which are related to their specific local religion. I'm not against religion or Islam, rather pointing out that some flavours may be detrimental to some forms of secular progress.

Surely - the perception of inequality and anger may be a driving factor, but their anger may be misguided. Also - I think many of them understand this - the #1 ire of terrorist groups such as ISIS etc. is not 'The West' - it's what they perceive to be their local tyrannical governments: Saddam, Assad, 'House of Saud' etc..
jpeg2k is far far more complex, hard to implement, is far more computationally complex. The quality of the results arguably aren't that much better. Revisiting the encoding of the DCT coefficients shows tremendous gains can be had there. After digging into jpeg2k I was never a big fan.

IMHO for image compression there's a balance between algorithmic simplicity, computational efficiency and image quality.

I'm looking for an article some months back about DCT coding sans huffman, but here's a quick page on how using arithmetic coding in the JPEG standard cuts jpeg file sizes down 5-12% http://www.rw-designer.com/entry/1311

Okay one DCT based recompressor is "lepton" which is 20% smaller than jpeg with the identical DCT quality: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compress...
Apocalypse is 30 seconds closer, say Doomsday Clock scientists
Really cool! I signed up for your mailing list, eagerly awaiting when you can offer materials other than plastic.
What's the pricing like? Or is it quoted per order?
I just got one of the Voodoo manufactured "coffee stoppers" from http://www.crushtomizer.com/ in the mail!
As an Iranian, I have to say it's mostly boring. This article, originally written about Malaysia, hits close to home:

https://tompepinsky.com/2017/01/06/everyday-authoritarianism...

What you hear in the news about Iran is not its everyday life. Imagine if you lived in a country where the only news you saw in the media about the US was violence and police brutality and just all the bad stuff. How would you have imagined it would be like to do something mundane, for example go down the street to buy some milk? You would have imagined that you would get mugged for sure, maybe shot during mugging, then tased by the police that decided to arrest you when you called 911 for an ambulance, and handed a million dollar bill for the hospital stay, and then you have to spend the next 30 years in a for-profit prison as a slave getting constantly sexually assaulted.

The interesting thing is Iranian media portrays the US in the same caricaturistic ‎manner that the US media portrays Iran. My family were legitimately concerned about my safety when I announced my intention to go to Texas for a PhD. Probably as worried as you would be if you had to move to Iran.

(I ended up going to Canada instead, so it's all good.)
I hardly think a treatment costing $4000/dose to manufacture is inexpensive.
What a surprise.
Private insurers are too fragmented and small to negotiate a reasonable price for treatment. They lack the leverage that something like a national single-payer system would have.
dupe... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13493396
We have internal support for IE9. Our non-internal traffic for it is almost non-existent. We were getting a small portion of traffic from the stock Android browser as well, but we were finally able to convince them to drop support for it.
A glance at the board's membership suggests the clock is a side project. Their daytime pursuits include nuclear research, environmental policy, public health preparedness against bio-attacks, climatology, and quantum physics. http://thebulletin.org/science-and-security-board
> First they came for the Iranians

No, first they came for the immigrants, muslims, women, and leftists with this guys good conscience. Then Trump was elected on those premises and came for the Iranians. But somehow he's surprised when it affects him personally?
To watch Netflix for instance.
To cure cancer and live? Seems pretty cheap to me.
you're delusional
It seems to accept any command that produces the expected output, though. That question should specifically say that it only wants the filenames, which would make it clear that `ls -l` doesn't produce the desired result.
So they are not scientists? They haven't done anything to solve the worlds problems? I take it you are in a position to judge, since you seem to be handing out judgement even more freely than they are?
The media loves to do this, but those quotes are taken out of context. Basically everything Trump says is wildly taken out of context.

The context of his nuclear weapons comments are basically, "If someone thinks they can beat the U.S. in nuclear capability, they are wrong. We will always be the best, so don't even try Russia and China."

That's it.
> So if you can afford a 400 000$ housing unit, and you assume half of it goes to pay for the land

Why would half of your cost be for land in a high-rise condo? If understand your link correctly, these numbers are construction costs only. My argument always was that value of land is what makes SFHs expensive, not their construction cost.

> A lot zoned for an high-rise building will be worth many times what a lot zoned for single-family houses is worth even if the two lots are adjacent

If a developer buys a plot of land and rezones it for high-rise, they maybe gaining some value from the mere fact of rezoning, sure.

But as a consumer, say in Toronto, if I'm looking for housing right now (and I actually took a brief look at Toronto RE market in the past), available SFHs are as a rule significantly more expensive than condos, especially in the same neighborhoods.

In addition, if you're looking for something not older than 20-30 years, many SFHs force additional extra space on you (an extra bedroom or two) even if you don't need it -- it's very difficult to find a newish SFH with only 2 bedrooms for example.

So yes, in many cases, I'm forced into an apples-to-oranges comparison of a 3-4 bedroom SFH and a 2 bedroom condo, but as a consumer these are the only choices at times.
I wonder what the offer amount is/was.
Latest, completely relevant Hardcore History just released yesterday.

http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-o...

Certainly worth a listen.
Thanks! What type of materials do you want or need?
I see what you are trying to say. You are saying Clojure is not the right tool to do top-down design. I agree with it. It is however a very good tool to do bottom up design.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0
If he can keep his emotions under control, he could just go on working on DIY HMDs, just having kicked off a whole chain of economy of scale improvements while having the ressources to buy what ever he desires to make it better. He doesn't have to think about BOM for his personal headset. 2 4K Screens? Sure, just get the ones from Sony's Xperia 5 Premium. Display Drivers?

He can pay for the right chips & people...

I just wonder where his non-compete clause starts and ends.
This is a great demonstration of the ways that people with technical skills can contribute to improve their communities. Enabling others to exercise their civic duties is just as valuable as exercising them yourself.
It's also Singapore, A city state.
Mostly profit to pay back the investors for billions of dollars in research and development, and baked in liability insurance.

Some of it also goes to pay for the R&D of other drugs that never make it to market.
See Retric's comment and link. Short answer is, can.

A more common transmission mechanism is itself a virus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus) .

But, remember unlike bacteria or a virus, cancer isn't typically "invading" and you aren't "hosting". It's a malfunction of your own cells resulting in unregulated growth. For the most part it isn't really something you "get", so much as a failure mode of you as a system.

We do use the terminology "invasive" but not because it came from outside the body, rather that it is leaving one organ or tissue and entering another.
I didn't say it wouldn't be worth it, just that it's expensive. There are certainly access issues to consider here if this comes to market.
Can confirm that it really works. I suggested to an old mentor a couple years back that he should run for office. He eventually (somewhat reluctantly) did, and found that it was surprisingly easy to get into, even without a large network of influence. It's pretty positively telling that even he, a fairly socially awkward guy, could get as far as he did. Since lots of tech folk fit that mold, it would be great to see more like him run for office. Hint, hint, y'all. ;)

Btw - any thoughts on what kind of applications can be built here?
We also use them to print keychains http://imgur.com/a/yGbFv
What will Google do to guarantee privacy against Trump?
Given Trump's rhetoric, many Americans as well as non-Americans who use Google services (Gmail, Google Calendar) are nervous about how their privacy may be impacted.

I know after the Snowden revelations Google announced the hardening of many of their internal infrastructure as well as services, against snooping (using encryption).

Does Google plan on doing anything further to protect its users against future government demands on snooping?

I know Apple has claimed that their encryption is no longer breakable even by Apple, so that in the event the government wants access, Apple simply can't provide it.

Does Google plan to follow suit? Or is Apple the choice for people who want their privacy protected against future Trump-initiated government demands?

It would seem that encryption-that-Google-can't-break would break Google's business model, which is at least in part based on (machines) reading the contents of email for the purposes of building profiles and selling ads. (but presumably this doesn't happen with paid google apps accounts?).

But is Google willing to hold on to this model (at least for GMail and Google Calendar) even if it means they can't protect their customers?
By taking such a sweeping view, you're glossing over a lot of individual suffering. Even if we're better off now than prior to WW2, the >50MM casualties of that war would probably disagree.
While I also find the comments more compelling than the links themselves, sometimes a thread degenerates and gets marooned on Pointless Island. It helps to be able to identify PI from a distance and hence stay away.
This (local political action) is something I've found interesting for a while, but never enough to actually get involved. Seeing this made me look up some data for the area around me, since I was curious and the OP didn't have enough data for my area.

Apparently the town council elections are coming up soon, with several slots available. If I'm reading through this data correctly, it would take about 2% of the town's residents to vote for a council member to knock out the incumbents, based on last year's election. Someone somewhat active in the community can probably arrange that.
The thing I like most about HN is the comments. Upvotes (and therefore discussion ranking) tend to be awarded to comments which add new knowledge and expertise to the discussion.

The format isn't the special sauce, which is very similar to Reddit. I think the special sauce is the audience doing the commenting and voting, who seem to me to be experts who enhance the content in the links.

Like several others, I confess to mostly just reading the comments here, and mostly not the articles (the headline is usually enough).
If you have to reply to the e-mail to acknowledge it, just say something along the lines of "Sounds great, thanks for letting me know!"

You don't have to say you're applying elsewhere. Him asking you not to apply elsewhere, is not the same as him demanding you to tell him if you are doing so.

Business deals fall through all the time, I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket. A contract is not a contract until it's signed. Even if they sign it, there's no guarantee that they will keep you on.

A minor issue, but something still to note: Your boss said the contract "may" be secured, not that it "will" be secured.
Come on—trying to determining the risk of a nuclear war or any global catastrophe and communicating that risk to the public seems pretty important to me.

Don't fixate on the "imaginary clock" aspect, it's just a representation.
"Often times it is in the interest of certain capitalists to get our government to engage in imperialism, or destabilize certain regions, which helps lead to the awful conditions for some people in the Middle East, and I think this helps pave the way to religious extremism."

This is patently false.

The US - and 'capitalists' do not want 'destabilization' - over and above all they want 'stability'.

Case and point: Saudi Arabia. Here you have an 'extremely conservative Islamic state' - which is culturally the furthest thing from the American ideal - and yet the Americans are their protectors - doing pretty much anything to preserve the stability of that regime. And for what: direct access to Oil - at market prices. That's it.

Same thing for Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Tunisia. And almost Libya until Gaddafi went to far oppressing an uprising, and remember the US supported Saddam so long as he wasn't invading allies like Kuwait.

Prosperity is not a zero-sum game. 100% of the Middle East could be thriving and plentiful if they organized themselves in a responsible manner. Most of them should have ample Oil surpluses to found basic progress.
It seems somewhat inline with epipens being 600 dollars..
A lot of events can happen between now and then - they have made no hard promises (and to their credit they seem to have been truthful about why), but if they don't get a contract secured, then you're out of a job and delayed in a search for for a new one. That describes a path where one set of outcomes that can basically delay your life progress.

It seems you don't have any hard stake in the startup, you have a soft stake in the work relationship there - but I would suggest that if that relationship doesn't stretch to accommodate the risks of both sides than it really wasn't that much of a relationship to start with.

You can be as kind as possible and say you're not looking specifically to leave, but that you feel you have to keep your options as open as possible too, and I think that is perfectly fair on your part.
That's funny, seems to me it's the other way 'round -- a man was elected who arbitrarily lashes out depending on who hurt his ego that particular day, erasing millions of dollars of shareholder "value". And, for once, it's not a matter of political views. It's a matter of being a decent fucking human being, which our president is not.

I agree with your 2nd paragraph. We're happier, healthier, and safer than we've ever been. And we're going to need to work REALLY hard to keep it that way.
Looks like the OP has rediscovered the commonplace book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
Love this idea and love that you built a tool for it. I have been toying with a similar idea literally for twenty years. This is very inspiring.
I really like this; reminiscent of the Python Challenge, but for shell.

You should support bash's double-star wildcard, which works recursively. Several of the challenges that currently require

find -name 'access.log*' -print0 | xargs -0 somecommand

could just use

somecommand **/access.log*

instead.

You might also encourage people to look up manpages. For instance, someone who doesn't know about "grep -h" may want to look at the manpage for grep. You could make "man grep" link to http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grep.1.html .

Tab completion doesn't always include all files; for instance, it doesn't include split-me.txt

Have you considered logging all unique successful solutions (filtering out minor whitespace differences) to each challenge? That would let people who have completed each challenge see other potential approaches to the problem, and perhaps learn about new commands.