skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'd recommend not buying a moleskine, the quality of the paper seems to have dramatically gone down the hill over the years to the point where you're getting ink bleeding through the paper.

I'm a big fan of the Rhodia notebooks with Clairefontaine paper :)
"new amenities as centralized cooking and catering within a development". Hah. A few years back, my sister rented a place in a 1930s block of flats in London that was designed to have a central restaurant rather than individual kitchens. The restaurant was converted to more apartments due to lack of demand. I guess sooner or later, everything old really is new again.
While this could turn out to be a logistics nightmare, I think this could be absolutely wonderful for Out-Of-Warranty users. There's a desire for people to have access to replacement parts but, for example, Apple doesn't sell their service inventory.

Some repairs (such as iMacs) do require a substantial amount of care. Even after 8.5 years of Mac repairs I still found myself running into issues - from "fat fingering" connectors, to defective Logic boards that still pass all hardware diagnostics sent to us - some of this stuff is not for the faint of heart. Imagine using a plastic "pizza cutter" to cut off the VHB tape that holds the incredibly fragile $800 display of an iMac, and then remembering to connect the display back up before you put new tape on during reassembly.

My guess is Apple fought the NY bill because they know how these machines are designed. There's a reason they charge a flat rate of $39 for Labor, but then only when a hardware repair is actually completed.

On the other hand, the charge to backup your data is $99 for a drag/drop or a time machine backup - something you should do yourself. :-)
How do you think they'd respond to government-sanctioned beatings as punishment?
There can be no action/reaction without time. If there is no past and no future, there is no cause and effect, so everything is either pre-ordained (odd) or it just 'is' in a completely trivial sense.
Katrina only affected a relatively small area: a small portion of the Gulf coast. So of course help poured in. It's not like the entire US was hit by a Category 5 hurricane!

An economic disaster is different: it hits the whole country at once, and then other parts of the world because of trade disruption and other economic ties. There aren't going to be any places left to "pour in" help; they're all going to be suffering.
The assumption among the SETI guys is that the messages they are after are made with the only purpose to attract the attention to the senders.

Which doesn't have to be cleverest thing to do, and maybe we should also be worried enough to care.

To make a computing analogy, maybe taking part in the "galactic internet" without the latest "firewalls" and "spam filters" can be really the matter of life and death for the whole planet ("what you didn't know that we send the 'energy beam of death' to those who don't respect the protocol, well the whole galaxy knows, and you won't do it again, heh, heh" even if we avoid other trivial issues like a galaxy "superhighway" which has to be constructed in our neighborhood or simply that humans are maybe very good to be used as food or work animals from the point of the possible invaders). So we should learn about the others but really try to stay as undetected as we can until we know more. And maybe other aliens think like this paragraph argues too.
I find that the unlimited and instant choice I get with Spotify make me enjoy the music less. There are many songs that I constantly pass over on Spotify but am absolutely delighted to hear on the FM radio.
> They make a lot of money off phones that needs to be replaced every 2 years.

Someone is vested in making money every 2 years alright, but it's not Google - it's Qualcomm.

> With their strict control over OHA, they can easily mandate PC style platform standards to reduce e-waste, fight planned obsolescence and offer real security updates

Unfortunately due to Linux's intentional lack of a stable driver ABI, the ability to upgrade Android depends on Qualcomm's willingness to write drivers for old chipsets on newer kernel versions, but that is a rather unattractive proposition for Qualcomm since they want as much demand for their new chips as possible. Qualcomm is a member of the OHA, but they are effectively a monopoly and I doubt Google could push them around.
I wouldn't believe any assumptions around how Uber ratings affect drivers. In many cities Uber's demand outweighs their pool of available drivers. Its not in their best interest to remove drivers from their platform other than the most egregious cases.
Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms
Fixed with IRC.
I don't think this post really articulated any concrete reasons why AMP is good or bad. It just said it is.
Are you able to talk about Google Drive in particular? What kind of automated scanning goes on when I upload something? I know child porn is scanned for, what else?
The voice transcription has never worked for me. I've had my number since 2009 and I've never received a single voice transcription.
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> It's sort of like the question 'why did life arise on Earth and nowhere else that we are aware of?' - the only reason we can ask the question is because we are the result of exactly the factors that would produce a consciousness that _could_ ask that question.

Sounds like the Anthropic principle, which is not accepted by all scientists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Couple of points:

- Someone is still scanning e-mails, except now it's a judge and/or lawyers rather than cops or business

- Moving things to the legal system imposes potentially very high friction costs, since your bank/email provider presumably has context about their relationship with you that the judge (or law enforcement) doesn't have. As we all know, context switches are inherently expensive.

- Emails aren't exactly the same as transmitting money, because reading emails tends to violate more of your privacy than the metadata about who you send money to. Also it's illegal to, say, send money to finance terrorists, so some checking has to happen at some level no matter what. You can say 'get a warrant', but if cops don't have access to data, and banks can't look at who you send money to, then how can cops have sufficient data to find probable cause under which to ask for a warrant? You're putting law enforcement in a situation where it's impossible to lawfully fulfill their duties to the public, unless your model is literally that judges always get all data without a warrant, and a court decides what's suspicious.

You might think that the incremental improvement in liberty is worth the friction cost of having lawyers and judges run everything, but I'm not sure everyone would agree.
If you share an AMP page it will indeed link to Google's CDN but if you click it it immediately redirects to the full article on desktop:

http://i.imgur.com/43i9X4e.png

The full URL is still part of the shared link, so not much of a value has been lost, but the gain (speed boost) still outperforms this "inconvenience".

I don't really feel the hatred against AMP, it works as intended and for me as an end user that's all that matters.
It is possible, but sometimes it is not. If you sent money to wrong account, bank can't just take it back from other party account.

On the other hand, I by mistake sent bitcoin to a wrong address and couldn't believe that someone who owned that address sent me all bitcoins back week or so later. There are good souls out there :)
The right way to solve this is not via legislation, nor it is to expect Uber to be "morally upstanding"

Corporations are amoral, always have been, always will be.

The right way to solve this for people to stop using Uber, stop expecting the ultra low rates, just stop

The way to force morality upon corporations is for the CONSUMERS to be moral, and stop using the products and services of corporations that have policies they disagree with.

I love it when i hear people bitch about how terrible uber treats its drivers but continue to use them as their primary mode of transportation. THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

As as example, I dislike Walmart, I have not stepped foot in a Walmart store in more than a decade.

If more people would vote with their wallet companies would change their policies, instead they look to government to use violence for force companies to change because anything else would inconvenience them.

it is the lazy way out.
>"The researchers found that black women have a mortality rate of 10.1 per 100,000. For white women, the rate is 4.7 per 100,000. Past estimates had those rates at 5.7 and 3.2, respectively."

Let's check the numbers here.

5.7 per 100,000 is 10.1 per 177,000. The rate of cervical cancer among black women with intact cervices is given as 10.1 per 100,000, and the change in estimate is ascribed solely to changing the methodology to consider only women with cervices, so 77,000 of that 177,000 had hysterectomies, or 43%. The corresponding number for white women is 30%.

This number seems far too high. I can't find a reliable source for the US, but [0] says "up to a fifth of women have had their womb removed by the age of 55" in the UK. Is the rate of hysterectomies really 43% for black women, or is someone lying about the statistics?

[0]https://www.womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advice/factsh...
Well, I've been programming 30+ years.....

I think one of the main things that makes a good programmer is someone who cares about the final product. Ironically this doesn't necessarily mean you have to be super good at writing code. I have seen people with what seems basic coding capability very methodically build some really nice software. This is because they are very focused on the "end" not the "means". You see the thoughtfulness of what has been designed in. Sometimes, in the quest of writing "good code" it interferes with writing good software because the emphasis becomes getting good at the means to an end above the end itself.

Not to say improving your coding capability isn't of value, but it's done so you can create even more fantastic things.
Out of interest, is there anyone who wants to defend the current Google AMP (not the concept of lighter webpages, but how google has gone about it?) I haven't found anyone yet personally.
>As for Trump, he's done 2 of the "Seven actions to protect American workers" he promised for the first 100 days in office (PDF)

Pretty easy to hit milestones when the goals are low. "Announce intent" and "Stop bill that was never going to pass congress" aren't exactly adroit acts of statesmanship.
All you've said here is "python packaging sucks", with no explanation why, and with no alternative. Not a substantial comment, and I'm disappointed that it's been voted to the top.

I'd ask for your reasoning but it seems sametmax has done a good job of that for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13460490
Firefox Release channel has been logging console errors for this for at least two years.

"Password fields present on an insecure (http://) page. This is a security risk that allows user login credentials to be stolen."
This is the same signaling used by most of the NYC subway system and (if I understand correctly) is the reason they can't simply add more trains to the tracks despite the current overcrowding at times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_of_the_New_York_City...
The "drivers can choose" argument is important because it shows that for at least one driver it is genuinely preferable to sleep in his car and work 70 hours a week than do anything else. Clearly, drivers are facing unemployment, poverty, or working conditions that are even worse.

It would be very easy to regulate the hell out of Uber and turn the unicorn into a donkey. However, that wouldn't improve the conditions that those in the economic class of drivers are subject to, it would just make them less visible. Fixing the Uber problem without providing any alternative employment options is a superficial placebo to make the wealthy feel more comfortable, because it doesn't correct any of the underlying economic problems. Those drivers will still exist, they'll just be pushed into agriculture, sweatshops, and dingy housing projects; hidden places, where nobody else has to look at them again.

There's a very good article called The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics[0] which states that "when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it", and "if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster." This seems to be the case with Uber, where they make money from a social and economic problem where there's an oversupply of unskilled labour, and thus get blamed for the working conditions that were already a reality for so many hidden and unnoticed people, even if they incrementally improve those conditions.

This is not a call to give Uber free rein, but rather to consider drivers as more or less rational human beings capable of making their own choices, and to consider driver wellbeing in that light.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160806191858/https://blog.jaibo...
Interesting. Check this gem https://github.com/k-tsj/pattern-match/blob/master/README.rd...
Not sure. I personally know four projects using mLab and MongoDB Atlas. Maybe the poll just buried in other posts.
I believe that GCC, when running on LTO mode, embeds exactly this kind of 'hairy metadata' (IIRC the gimple code for the function) and is capable in principle of identifying ODR violations. I have to try this capability myself though, so I don't know how effective it is.

edit: reading the docs again, it seems that it only detects ODR violations of the layout of types (and vtables).
It was developed by the NSA based on Google's Bigtable paper, so it has a lot of US government users. I think Apache HBase or Cassandra are far more popular NoSQL solutions for most users.
1. "It would raise complicated questions, but might not be unconstitutional, if only because of bad precedent"

2. Isn't referring to a ban on Muslim immigration, but on a registry, which is a whole different beast

3. Banzhaf isn't a constitutional Lawyer, he's the one quoted by breitbart, btw, and what he glosses over is the very relevant 'detrimental to the united states' aspect of the Plenary Powers doctrine. It is much easier to make an argument that we should suspend immigration from a state we are at war with than from a religion, since it is practically impossible to make the argument that Muslims are more detrimental to the united states than Christians or Atheists.

and your fourth article concludes by saying

>It does seem reasonably clear that, if a proper challenger could be found, the courts very likely would be open to hear their claim. And it would not be a sure thing that they would lose in that forum.
> And, while doing so, pay attention to how you feel.

Absolutely. Excellent point.
Personally I think the most important thing is a thirst for knowledge. There are plenty of people I finished school with that were much better engineers than me out of school, but they don't learn in their free time and they've stagnated. If you love to learn and you put your time into it, you will continually improve. With time you will run laps around those who don't.
Oh no it's terrible here, rains all the time, you'd hate it. Should probably stay in the Bay Area.
One of the great old stories about "FITYMI" would have to be that of Sierra Online's Ken Williams:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Williams_(game_developer)

Basically, he moved across country with his wife (Roberta), because (somehow, IIRC the story) he got hired as a software developer by a company in California - but he had no programming experience.

So - on the long drive from where they lived, he crammed learning how to code from a book for the language (don't recall - maybe cobol or fortran, given the time period), and was able to show up, day one, and code for his job.

At least, that's what little I recall about the story. I probably have a few details wrong. Regardless, its an even more amazing story when you realize this was at a time when Ken would have had no access to a computer until he got to his new employer's office (at the time, desktop PCs were virtually non-existent, and laptops were but a dream of Alan Kay - at best, you had a green-screen terminal, if you weren't submitting card batches)...
I just read an article about obsolete features in homes. One was garages. They claimed the rise of ride sharing and self driving cars would mean people need less space to store their cars. My first thought was that those things would not mean less driving going on, perhaps fewer total cars, but then where would those self driving and uber cars be stored?
In the Case of some of these Uber drivers, they are kind of arbitraging costs. They live in Sacto but work in SF. But yeah, I'd support a tiered living wage (more for over 25yo, less for younger adults to give them a way to get into the labor force).
> I heard anecdotally that drivers with ratings below 4.6 have their Uber driver accounts shutdown.

Uber and Lyft say they do this, but I've personally seen drivers with lower ratings kicking around. Anyone know what's up with that?
Sure, they're great for entertaining when you don't have kids, roommates, or pets running around making loud noises at the same time.
The article is too heavily weighed down by personal bias and some weird hatred towards physics as to be reasonably readable. (I'm not a physicist nor a chemist.)
Facebook isn't necessary
Ask HN: Does the new touchbar have any cool features yet?
I don't have a new Macbook pro. But I use duet display, and it enables the touchbar on an ipad running as a second screen.

I looked through the apps I use, and none seem to do anything interesting with the touchbar – if they use it at all.

Is there anything neat you can do with it so far? For example, someone made this useless (but fun) project: https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat

Has anyone made useful ones? Are there shortcuts you've coded in you've found useful? Do any apps have features that really shine with the touchbar?

Note: Duet's touchbar can't use touchid. Other than that, I believe it has all the features of the regular touchbar.
Docker sounds heavyweight for this purpose, given that it essentially spawns a complete userland separate from the host.

I work on Guix; it provides a 'guix environment' command, which is sort of a generic 'virtualenv', and IMO is a simple lightweight alternative: https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-enviro... .
Yes, but it's also quite hard to get hired as a dev without either qualifications or experience. If you've got the qualifications you can go in directly.
If you have kids, get them the HPV vaccine as soon as they're eligible.
You've touched on a cultural misalignment - and here's another - who in the USAF would be willing to fly it?

It's essentially an assignment to the minor leagues of air combat.

Moreover, such planes would depend heavily on air supremacy gained by the Mach 2+ stuff.

OTOH, it would probably be a helluva lot of fun.
As a single guy, I almost never leave my bedroom. The family room with the huge screen TV is rarely used since I torrent most everything. I have a laptop for bed and an attached bathroom. Food delivered by postmates on a lazy day.
And another thing: it breaks the iOS reader feature, so it's frankly worse than the full fat page.
This is why I use Lyft over Uber. It's anecdotal (though remarkably consistent, even accounting for confirmation bias), but when I get in an Uber — which isn't often; I don't even have the app installed on my device, so I'm only getting in one if I'm with someone else who summoned one — I can expect assholery in traffic. And I just don't see that with Lyft drivers, even when I'm riding with a driver who takes fares from both.

It's like there's some sort of un- (or under-) stated thing amongst the Uber drivers, such that fare turnover beats traffic safety.
Google Voice gets its first big update in five years, adds new UI and features
But it does! :p

It's a stupid app that helps you decide on who to vote (US elections) based on issues you type in. Try typing in "death penalty" or "crazy".

It then dynamically finds latest google searches and tweets about candidates. And charities that help the issue.

The app had to "solve a real problem" and use paypal. Not our favourite 2 things for a hackathon. This (useless and non-profitable) is more our style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySU703VXSNY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463940
Sounds kind of rube-goldberg-y compared to automatically generating and managing a unique password for every site.
Can you recommend any tutorials/components for making Android UIs with minimal effort? I'm pretty comfortable with JS as a language, but have very little UI experience and my previous attempt to make a simple Android messaging UI was quite painful.
Google should reward fast / jank-free websites instead of rewarding websites that use one particular technology (AMP).

On SERPs, both the "flash" icon and the AMP carousel are AMP-exclusive which suggests that Google is abusing its market power.
Vlad the Astrophysicist [ Video / 2010 ]
Developer - "FIPS-140 has been compromised by the NSA. We don't want government spies in our servers."
For athletes, the most important part is recovery. They only spend 3-4 hours per day "working", the rest is spent traveling, preparing, eating and sleeping. The key is good recovery, to be fully energized and focused at "working" sessions, for maximum quality (and productivity).
It also helps if you have a coach, a manager and a private chef. And I think the same also applies if you want to be a successful entrepreneur: Quality over quantity. You have to love it though, because it's often hard work, and painful.
From my experience, most large companies have support policies that basically blacklist all forms of help that may incur cost for the company. What I found works quite often though, is drafting a formal letter (can be email) referencing your country's consumer protection act and sending it directly to the corporate office :). I've used this method with ISPs, Godaddy, a few other companies.
The source is "Ira Glass on Storytelling".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE
Ask HN: Map overlay of solar radiation?
I'm interested if anyone has a Google Maps overlay or equivalent with estimates of solar output in specific locations, taking into account Z-axis stuff like nearby mountains and buildings, as well as tree canopy cover.

The closest resource I've found [1] has the kind of UX I'm looking for, but it's geared toward properties rather than any Lat/Long location. There's other resources out there [2] but most are pretty basic. Tree canopy cover specifically seems challenging to estimate and there's some research [3] on estimating that, but it doesn't look like it's been applied yet.

A friend who is considering a solar installation in a remote location asked me, and I was surprised given the growth of solar that this kind of data set isn't available or hasn't been created. It sounds like something that could be a valuable resource.

Thanks HN!

[1] https://www.mapdwell.com/en/solar/sanfrancisco

[2] https://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/solar-mapping-resources

[3] https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/power/publications/Bode_2014_RemSensEnvir.pdf
Who is this advice for? UC Berkeley grads? If you don't have personal projects or previous professional experience to talk about the only thing you have to bring to an interview is a university degree. Are you proposing the OP just does nothing? How is OP supposed to land an interview in the first place?
Global economic downturn linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths