skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoking is my "afterburner" - the ace in the hole. I love the smell of smoke - better if mixed with chocolate and coffee - but I have asthma and it comes back if I smoke more than two days in a row. So I keep this treat for the moments that I need to overcome some extra mental challenge, work all night long, etc. Or, sometimes, to get a "high". Before anyone asks, I do it very infrequently - thrice a year at the most.
Oh, I see. They replaced one bill with another long before they broke the filibuster. That replacement was to get around the "this bill must originate in the House" requirement. Getting past the filibuster was done completely legitimately.

They shouldn't have done that, ideally, but the rule of which house a bill starts in is pretty unimportant.

I don't see how reconciliation could be used to help repeal the act, because the reconciliation was not key to getting it passed, and neither was the trickery used to say the bill 'started' in the House.
Also if Apple fails who will replace its market share? Microsoft?

What if it's failure to keep the lead in innovation? Maybe being on the ropes and being declared dead or irrelevant is what it takes to motivate innovation? There was a time when Steve Jobs was told he should sell off Apple's assets and shut the doors. Right after that is when one becomes desperate enough to do something really new.
Oh, the Republicans don't want health care to be provided by the government, but that's not the same thing as saying they don't want everyone to have health care.
Isn't Cerenkov radiation effectively analogous to a sonic boom? You don't get to see the nifty Mach cone, but I've heard it's the same basic phenomenon.
Additionally federal funds at least in 2009 were about 1/3rd of PP's budget. http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/
This seems like the sort of thing FOSS advocates should lobby for (hopefully FSF is looking at this).
He was fired, according to Tim Cook, because he was acting too much like Jobs -- he was "difficult" and "political"

That's misguided Silicon Valley maneuver #1 -- acting like Steve Jobs, even when that's not the best thing to do at the moment.
Sure they can.

Torches, gasoline, and guns do wonders to motivate social change.
How do you guarantee a non-terrible job to people with minimal skills?

And how do you finance it? With a UBI you don't have to pay as much because people can supplement it with an actual job even if pays less than current minimum wage, and everyone who works is offsetting part or all of their own cost by paying taxes. 100% of people can collect the UBI because most of them will still be working and paying taxes, and if they don't it's only because the amount is too high.

What if 85% of people choose the "basic job", and the only way to change that is to either make the "basic job" degrading or have it pay less than a living wage?
Bug: (where do I report this?)
Number A, Number B.
A receives text. "B" is set as my default but I see A's message in my inbox. I reply. The reply is sent from "B".
azlyrics is far from what I would consider simple or clean. It took over 30s to load for me and had way too much junk on the page.

Yes, there are many factors, and I clearly don't know all of them. I definitely see the problem that Google's inline (or amp) is trying to solve, but I think encouraging the right sites to grow to the top is a much better solution.
I’m with you. Obviously wealthy children will have more advantages no matter what, but I personally grew up with one working parent (dad was a teacher with a summer job and some small side jobs) who was able to support me, my mother, and 5 siblings in a smallish US town. I was able to receive a good public education, and we had all the necessities (if nothing else – no nice vacations or fashionable clothes). It was a safe town… sports programs, extra-curriculars. Cheap homes. That one working parent was able to buy a 4-bed home, renovate the attic, add an enclosed porch, re-side and re-shingle, and pay off the mortgage while raising this family. This scenario would be entirely impossible in San Francisco and even most of the Peninsula.
If you were curious like I was, about why this fork was necessary, I found this on their About page:

KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX which aims to incorporate stalled pull requests, features, and bug fixes that have never made it into the main KeePassX repository.
I mean, what's stopping you? Just pool some money, buy some plots of land, and then 2% of you at a time can rotate into doing the farm work - the rest of you can just do poetry. Utopian society in an instant. Wow, modern technology!

Also: shameless plug for my blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467783
Russia: Life After Trust
> way he did Mexico and Mexicans

Cite?

I've heard him speak about illegal Mexican immigrants, but that's not the same thing. I'm the first to admit I've not heard everything he's said, though. He's said a lot.
This looks amazing, but it's a bit vague. While it may be satisfactory as "functional" skin, does it have nerves?
I understand, but it isn't a goal. Their goals are to get government out, get costs down, get quality up, and if universal care happens as a result of that, great. Priorities matter, and wanting something is not the same as making it a goal.
They're nice for journaling. If you need to organize things a bit more, I'd recommend Leuchtturm 1917. Very high quality paper, dotted, line numbers, comes with an index. It's really quite lovely.

Both run circles around moleskine, which by now mostly coasts on the name.
> This article is so filled with naive melodrama.

Well, of course it has to be full of complexities and life melodrama; this is Bukowski after all. It is his trademark.

But his life story has a beautiful twist, which unfortunately is not covered in OP's piece. From the interview[1] with John Martin, his longtime friend and editor, and the guy who paid the $100 per month:

"We sat down with a little piece of paper. I sat there with a pen, and he listed out all of his monthly expenses—and you've got to remember, this was 1965, when his rent was $35 a month. He had $15 in child support, $3 for cigarettes, $10 for liquor, and another $15 for food. And yet, even though that sounds pitifully small, at the time he was feeding himself and had nice clothes, drove a very old car, and lived in this completely or partially destroyed unit in East Hollywood. He could get along on $100 a month. I was only earning $400 a month, so I was giving him 25 percent of my income. But as soon as the thing took off we did much better.

At the very end, I paid him a retainer so I wouldn't owe him some horrible amount of money. Eventually I paid him $10,000 every two weeks. So he went from $100 every month to $10,000 every two weeks, and then, at the end of the year, I'd make up whatever I still owed him. Later, the really big money came in when we started to sell his books for movies and stuff like that."

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bukowskis-longtime-publis...
yeah, basically lived frugally for a few years, saved up about $50K USD, didn't spend much beyond rent ($550/month for a studio apartment in Portland, OR in 2010), food, utilities.

Ended up rejoining the working world when I saw a job ad for something that was "perfect" based on skills I had, interviewed and got it.
I think all this is, is the veracity of a hungry mass with nothing to lose.
If you are too nice and polite, you show a weakness. Dealing with someone who has unlimited power in a limited area is difficult business; I usually act as a polite but a dangerous asshole.
Looked into it some more. Mexican adults who are turned away at the border are not counted. Adults and children from other countries are put through removal proceedings, and that counts. Sometimes those proceedings take a few days to weeks, but it still counts. The point is that the policy of what counts and what doesn't had changed under Obama.
Yeah, I made much less than that ~$40K (2007-2010) and ended up saving around $50k during that time. Just have to have not many expenses.

Now I earn more and spend more, too, lol. Enjoy it just the same though.
And when 2to3 didn't work, he didn't attempt `2to3 --help`?

I guess if everything went smoothly, he wouldn't have had a blog post to write.
Nobody in the room could bring themselves to mention the other reason why there was demand for robots with real human skin.
2 years off in my 20s felt pretty much like retirement. Loved it.
I really like AMP. As a web company, it reduces our hosting costs and is a cheater way to improve the rankings of our sites.
You are not taking in consideration that poor countries have high inequality and disproportionally rich people at the top. So no, that's not correct.
The real problem seems to be inability to aim. Google fired a ballista at Facebook with G+ and missed completely.
Also Apache Geode (distributed, in-memory, consistent, durable, crazy fast) -- seriously solid tech.

http://geode.apache.org/
Tin cans and string are more intelligible than Lync, aka "Skype for Business". It's the worst thing I've ever used in this space, by an absurdly large degree.
This has been proven true more than once. Whenever "their turn" candidates run, they loose. See Kerry, McCain, Romney. Socioeconomics aside, Americans love novelty. With Trump in power, the game has been elevated to a different level and I think none of leading Dem politicians can unseat him in 2020. After a sufficient time has passed, when his novelty has worn off, some red blooded alpha-male type has to burst into scene and start challenging him. I am looking at you, Jason Kander!
Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?
Not sure if there are any experts here, but if there are, I'm quite curious about the following:

1. Do we have any technology (independent of cost) existing today to have a fully automated farm? Meaning, set everything up and it'll just spit out yield? This would include taking into account weather, planting, removing weeds, etc. The input into this "system" of course would be the "ingredients" such as soil, soil, and of course, sunlight. [1]

2. What's the maximum yield we can get out of an acre these days? If I wanted to buy, say, an acre (for food) and start a small town in southern United States and feed 1000 people easily, is that possible? For simplicity let's say everyone is vegan.

[1] Here's a snippet of research I've done that may be of interest to readers.

Air and soil: There's been some advancements in sensors which is an obvious requisite towards the auto-farm. However I haven't read anything recently about this. Most recent was (http://gizmodo.com/swarms-of-soil-sensors-may-help-farmers-water-smarter-d-1713098054)

Robotics: I know they (farm bots) exist (http://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/5-robots-on-the-farm/), but I haven't heard of them actually being more productive than existing high-yield solutions. I do think in the end they'll be superior.

The single most advanced modern farm I've heard of is: http://seedstock.com/2013/01/24/indoor-grower/. Anyone know of anything that surpasses this? Just making farming (perhaps one of the most labor intensive things you can do these days) less of a burden will prove to be a game changer (e.g. you may find a single person willing and able to maintain an entire one acre farm).
I haven't tried it yet, but maybe this will address some of my pet peeves. My primary peeve is that, in keepassx, there is no fantastic way to handle password changes. I can generate a new password, but the only way to get it into a webpage without overriding the old password in the database is to show it on the screen and then copy the visible text.

(My second peeve is that the "type the password" feature types the username and password, making it useless for the more annoying disabled-paste password prompts.)
Shame they don't actually say what it is... Some sort of calendar/reminder thing?

Maybe it's a nicer styled google location history?
To be fair, the level of depth one person knows about algorithm was a lot less back then.

Today everyone is reading CTCI book and prepping. So if you aren't at that level, you will be behind. It's just like that guy who refuses to use steroids while trying to be competitive in MLB/NFL.
It is one of the most annoying things to use, and might actually get me to switch my default search engine. I often search for stuff where the results come up on Reddit. I want to see the comments, but AMP helpfully hides all replies, and only shows like the top 5-10 comments. This is useless. So now instead of getting to the page I want right away, I have to scroll down to the button that says "see more comments". WTF?
To oversimplify, there's two ways of pricing things: what the market will pay, or taking the cost to produce and adding a markup.

We price hours of work by the first method, but I started wondering what it would look like if we used the second.

For both a CEO and a janitor the cost of one hour of employment is one hour of their life. So from that perspective, we should be paying everyone the same.

I can't think of how to make an economic system work based on that, but it was a curious thought.
We have "until at least April 2020" before django 1.11 (the last that works with 2.7) is EOL. Python 2.7 is EOL in 2020 as well.
Or like calling all of GNU/Linux "bash"

(yes Microsoft, that's you)
You may be, but trump didn't say anything about Muslim immigration, he said a and again, I'm quoting his website:

> a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

A shutdown of entry, to use your own words.
Rolex is a fine brand. It's a "safe" choice in the mechanical watch world. Not super high-end. Not total BS schmaltz wrapped around an off the shelf ETA movement.

What it reminds me of most as far as products go is a vintage Land Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser, pre-Chrysler Mercedes-Benz, or air-cooled Porsche. You know the brand will support and service the watch forever and you can expect to find qualified technicians all over the world.

If you're buying a watch not just to show off today, but to pass down through your family, that's worth something. Rolexes generally hold their value well, are durable, keep the same style for decades, and have a relatively conservative look.
Not to mention that the security of your letter increases quite nicely when you use thick paper and seal it shut. Yes, with wax.

No, it's not super-secure, but it stops most casual snooping attempts. Taking off (and reattaching) a seal without breaking it is quite a bit of work if you choose the right wax.
Hugo Barra is leaving his position as head of international at Xiaomi
"no reason"?

I can think of one, maybe they pair them at assembly time using a public/private key exchange. If they change, have to change both.
The direct link is https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
Are you sure it's a "stockpile", and not just a "stash"?

If you include .22, I probably have 25,000 rounds in my closet in my apartment. That's only about a year's worth of ammo for practice at most.

People who shoot regularly go through seemingly ridiculous quantities of ammunition. It takes hundreds of thousands of rounds to become a skilled marksman.
So much wrong with this logic: "If autonomous cars are even just 1 percent safer than humans, we should still be using them." Does that "humans" include drunks, idiots, and teenagers? If so, I'm sorry, I would never use that car. I'd like to think I drive 2x safer than the average idiot out there.
Based on the wikipedia article, I think the 1.6bn USD is in 1977 USD. That's going to be roughly 4 times as much by 2017 [1], or 6bn USD, giving about $2,000,000/MW capacity at Bath vs $1,900,000/MW for Tesla.

Compensating for the fact that only the upper reservoir provides power, storage cost is around $180,000/MWh for Bath vs $475,000/MWh for Tesla.

Still significant but at least in the same order of magnitude, and this technology is still improving more rapidly than pumps and turbines. And, the batteries I could put close (or in) cities, potentially saving another 5-20% on transmission losses.

I'm now wondering how the operational cost of this will look. Rotating equipment will show wear and I'm assuming Bath has quite some cost on that side. However, that thing has been in operation for over 30 years, and tesla only gives guarantee for 5000 cycles on the powerwall, or about 15 years (assuming 333 cycles a year). If you would actually need to replace the batteries after 15 years then I don't see them beating pumped hydro in the short term, if you can use them for 10'000 cycles with just a loss of capacity, then I think the finances can make a lot of sense.

1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100+USD+in+1977+conver...
From the text it looks like one of the selling points is integration with apps like browsers so you don't have to copy/paste passwords, as with KeePassX.

Personally, to me that sort of integration has always seemed like a bad idea. I'm glad that my password database can't talk to my browser programmatically. One less thing to go wrong.
Hopefully no one is hunting a predator with a shotgun long range but it makes for good internet forum keyword attention grabbing. younger and stronger isn't just a metaphor, when supplies get thin the most capable will take what they want. Maybe not younger but mostly younger.
Thank you, very exciting.
Good Luck Mr. President, Please, Keep America Great
It hardly seems accurate to say the average software development job is in any way analogous to what Bukowski describes. We're well compensated professionals who, relative to the other professions, tend to have reasonable hours and a lot of latitude in what we work on and when. Yet, we have a supremely weird tendency to identify as some sort of labor slaves.
As far as I'm aware, the currently prevailing theory is that many deeply depressed people may be be having suicidal thoughts, but their depression is also so strong that they don't have the energy and/or motivation to actually go through with it. Apathy is winning. As the drugs start to lift you out of the hole of apathy, you suddenly start to have more energy and motivation, but you're still depressed. So you still are suicidal but now you have the ability to go through with it.
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Cassandra has 2 components to its primary key - 1 that sets the partition (which includes which nodes get the data), and 1 that sets the clustering/sorting/ordering within that partition.

If you use a clustering key, scans become trivial within a given partition.
you seem to be making the assumption that there have to be crap jobs, and that somebody has to do them. the only reason there are crap jobs is because there are people to do those jobs who don't have any choice.

suppose for a moment that everybody has fulfilling work in their lives, or they are independently wealthy. suddenly, nobody wants to be garbage men, or work the counter at mcdonalds, and so on. in the case of the garbage men, local communities won't have much choice: they will either have to pay more, or make the job more attractive somehow: better trucks, better working hours, and so on. and maybe fast food places just won't be economically viable anymore, if you can't get high school kids to work for you for practically nothing. no big loss. and if it turns out that some people do perceive that as a big loss, then prices are going to go up, instead.

there doesn't have to be soul-crushing jobs. that's just a consequence of the societal rules we live under right now.
You could go all the way back to Henry Clay if you want.
> If you mean UBI and a job guarantee, I suppose not, however it's going to cause inflation to spike pretty high.

Not a job guarantee, just normal government spending on infrastructure projects, as compared with the underinvestment we've seen over the past decades.

> It actually kind of is. Wages have stagnated, the wealth of the 1% has ballooned, infrastructure is crumbling and the far right is on the rise.

What I mean is we're no longer willing to put unskilled workers in dangerous jobs with no training and stand by while they get killed or kill other people because they don't know what they're doing or they lack the disposition to work safely with industrial equipment.

> Just guaranteeing paid work to the ~30% unemployed is far cheaper than giving a stipend to every person in the United States.

Only if you count the taxes someone "pays" but immediately gets back as a UBI as "costing money". If you use the same accounting that gets used for means-tested programs, the "cost" of a UBI turns negative for everyone making a below average income and costs about the same as existing means-tested programs for people with above average incomes (depending obviously on the amount of the UBI).
Any organization that's not profitable won't be saving people money for long.

Generally there are two scenarios:

1. The company is not profitable, and VC money is subsidizing the cost. Eventually they'll either close down, in which case you will no longer save money (arguably it's harmed you indirectly. The money could've been used for a more sustainable venture that would [definitely] save you money), or they'll raise prices.

2. The company is already profitable, and whatever product or service you're purchasing that's apparently saving you money in actuality has a cost, that may not affect [you] per say, but the company definitely is making money off someone.
This is for a certain livestreaming platform. The article is probably just an ad for the company [0]. The world wide records belong to e-sports. the League of Legends world final had 36 million unique viewers [1]

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[1] http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/articles/worlds-2015-viewers...
I wonder what punishment he'd suggest for an illegal immigrant migrant worker who's a woman.
I took that statement to refer to the cumulative effect of autonomous cars -- Those people you describe are already on the road with you, whatever car you're in.
So sure?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
Also there has been roughly 400% inflation since 1977, so you have to multiply the older cost numbers by 4.
> They also awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages.

Which she didn't receive.
Virulent Android malware returns, gets 2M downloads on Google Play
Hangouts does basically that. All of that. With just HTML5 (though they only support Chrome). appear.in does most of that too. And a dozen other tools out there.

"impossible"? Hardly. It's even been done.
But the point is that the problem was diagnosed and solved in a few minutes. Literally, not more than three. Just making sure that everyone @here was paying attention would have taken two minutes.
> Caveat: this only works if you're good at what you do and difficult to replace.

So it only works for a minority of people then. I'd also say "or difficult to replace", the ones that are good at what they do tend to make themselves replaceable.
The Basecamp Way to Work: Workshop Retrospective
Why not encourage the drunks, idiots, and teenagers to use them though?
Given the collapse of civilization, I'm confident that I could be producing basic automatic weapons (submachineguns) in less than a month. Six months on the outside before I could be turning out high-quality automatic rifles. The hardest part would be the barrel rifling, but even that is doable. This is without electricity, of course.
Every entry should have a complete history of all passwords. I'm not sure why you'd be worried about the new password overwriting the old one. It's not gone forever.

You can also customize the auto-type on a per site basis. Only the default types U + P. It can be anything you want it to be.