skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odds are decent the majority are held by companies, these things were selling for multiple times what the drivers paid for the cars themselves.
It's fascinating to think of a counterfactual world where humans don't need sleep -- sometimes I wonder how much more could be done. Sleep seems to be a biological constraint that could be optimized around.
Font Awesome Accounts
Disgraceful
I have almost this idea too with some interesting twists; it's probably going to be hard to complete with Dropbox though as a one man team. At least this is only a component of what I plan to build and probably the least important bit...
Humans can intellectualize anything which is why we end up in some very dark places. That's why it's important to listen to many voices and avoid certainty.
Parse is just "doubling down on its amazing bet." No failures here!
Because it's not right for the banks to lose money on a loan?

If someone invests in a taxi medallion, why are they more worthy of aid than someone who invests in a restaurant?
Curious. Did Trump promise a Muslim ban on the campaign trail? If so, how does he claim with a straight face that this isn't the Muslim ban he promised? I mean, what do people expect? He's doing basically what he promised to do, as racist as that sounds (because...it's meant to be).
The GPL hobbling software patents sounds like a massive plus, and anyone who considers it not a massive plus to be the sort of people the GPL was explicitly designed to protect against.
> International law

You can renounce an international treaty easily enough. In fact I'd say the refugee convention is well based it's use by date. I't basically only accepted by the western world when there are many countries that would be better positioned to accept the current refugee population.
Can I ask what you ran into? I'm thinking about starting a side project with .Net Core for my API and React for my front end. I'm wondering if it's even worth it to use Core at this point or switch to Go or Node.
Text Editors: What’s your fav?
Hey all, I'm the creator of comm.guru. I'd be glad to take feedback and/or questions!
Ask HN: Is there a better way to handle dupes on HN?
A recent post of mine was marked as a dupe and it sudddenly dropped from #1 on the front page to #172. I couldn't find any past links article so I asked HN to investigate. Here's the conversation that followed.

HN:

The top comment in that thread links to the Hacker News discussion of another Harvard article from the same day. The titles of these two articles don’t overlap very much, surprisingly, so it would’ve been difficult indeed to have found the previous one.

ME:

Understood. But why mark my post as a dupe, especially because 172 days have elapsed since the first post. What criteria do you use to mark articles as dupes? My understanding is that this practice is encouraged by YC. And why did my post drop from #1 to #172 on the front page?

HN:

Ah, sorry! I should’ve clarified that stories are considered duplicates if they’d received significant attention in the past year or so. I know this seems like a long time, but it’s surprisingly effective for balancing new with older-but-still-relevant content. Duplicates are then given a heavy rank penalty so that they don’t push other stories further down.

ME:

This policy seems short-sighted. You essentially killed the momentum of this thread. If you actually read the comments, I think you would agree that the level of quality during this latest iteration was very high.

I think this policy is a form of de facto censorship, because of the way HN works (top articles trend for short periods and then the crowd moves on to something else).

The long-term solution is obvious (at least to me) and it would obviate your current policy. You need to write software that merges duplicates in a rational way. It should be reliable, automatic, and transparent to the community. There should be only one canonical HN link to a given article, and it should aggregate all comments about the article throughout its history on your site.
https://forums.tesla.com/fr_CA/forum/forums/what-happens-if-...

Issues with needing to be in the vehicle, "warranty voiding", manual stating "do not tow"...
Because I didn't want to make the title obscenely long:

People who backed Font Awesome 5 through Kickstarter are beginning to receive emails where they can register their own Font Awesome accounts. Currently, I'm only able to update my name and my password; I cannot link my GitHub account yet (perhaps due to very high traffic).

Once the GitHub issue is fixed, you should be able to access the Font Awesome Pro repository here: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro
>High-quality free state-run secular schools is one of the most important social achievements.

Libertarian here. I find this idea a joke, and I believe in it just as much as the person who made the comment with "High quality state run Party schools" does. State-run schools (secular or not) is a great way to make sure that there is only one point which you need to overtake (through elections or corruption) when you want to push your ideology through the school system.

>I never understood why in the USA parents are allowed to radicalize their children out of society.

I never understood why in the USA the state is allowed to indoctrinate everyone's children into their version of Ideal Vision of Society(tm)(r)(c)(patent pending). This is not a clash of religion vs secularism, it's about individual freedom vs state power. If you are interested in understanding the side that advocates individual freedom, I would suggest reading [1], [2], and wherever the links take you on that blog.

[1] https://anarchistnotebook.com/2016/10/19/dont-let-your-enemy...

[2] https://anarchistnotebook.com/2014/09/20/satanic/
In the text of the EO, "minority religions" are permitted waivers. That would appear to be a religious test.
"Then, there were major protests that clogged up the airports this weekend, which turned out to be a Delta computer failure that stranded everyone."

You realize both of these can be true right? I flew out of BWI last night on Delta. There were hundreds of protesters at the airport, but they didn't delay us.

We did have to wait 4 hours for the Delta computer systems in Atlanta to be restored to service.
Those are links to a whole other issue that deserves its own discussion. Why not the following from the article itself:

"However the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury puts blocks on this market. According to Techrasa, Apple has sent the following to Iranian startups attempting to upload apps:

“Unfortunately, there is no App Store available for the territory of Iran. Additionally, apps facilitating transactions for businesses or entities based in Iran may not comply with the Iranian Transactions Sanctions Regulations (31CFR Part 560) when hosted on the App Store. For these reasons, we are unable to accept your application at this time. We encourage you to resubmit your application once international trade laws are revised to allow this functionality.”
Thanks for your personal experience but I was talking about scientific studies [1].

- [1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12076414

- [2] (a narrow google search that i'm sure i could find more) - https://www.google.com/#q=melatonin+dosage+site:.gov+OR+site...
> If not what are the reasons for a startup to stay away from .NET CORE?

.NET's text-to-speech isn't available in .NET Core, much less on Linux.
If you're not on the right it must be an enormous coincidence that you're repeating the same conservative talking point being posted all over HN and the internet.

No one believes the US is only bombing militants, but obviously they are not intentionally targeting civilians either. The bombing of the hospital was clearly a huge, unfortunate mistake, but somehow has been twisted by those with an agenda into "Obama has a policy of bombing hospitals", which is absurd.

For the record I was opposed to Bush's original invasion of Iraq and subsequent military actions in the Middle East, along with Obama's (and now Trump's) continuation of said military actions (including the aforementioned use of drone strikes), and I fully agree that America should get the hell out of the Middle East because we're clearly doing more harm than good in the region.

That being said, Trump's blanket ban targeted normal, lawful permanent residents living in the United States, and as implemented left them stranded and unable to return home to their families if they happened to be outside of the country on Friday, for no reason other than what passport they happen to hold, so I think it's entirely understandable why people are so strongly opposed to it.
But it had a tiny ($15m) budget, which is opposite of what this thread is saying is possible (lots of CG, not much money).
I used to eat tomato sandwiches made from tomoatoes grown in my parents' backyard. These beefsteak tomatoes were huge and sweet. The store variety are noticeably bland.

Going back to the backyard and starting again. I think the hard part is finding the right seed.
Cool article! Gray codes are used in cryptography sometimes too; the most well-known example is probably the Offset Codebook (OCB) authenticated encryption scheme, which uses a Gray code to compute tweaks: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/ocb-full.pdf
In my opinion the most damning sentence in the article is this:

This was the day of first bitter truth of Tesla: even you have a new car covered
by warranty, you will need to wait in line for a few days to get it checked up.

This says one of two things to me, both of them bad. Either there are so many Teslas with issues that the technicians are constantly booked up days in advance, or Tesla doesn't care about providing even adequate customer service for customers with serious issues like this. In reality, I'll bet that both are at least somewhat true.

I get that not every car that rolls off the production line can be perfect (though I suspect that Tesla's defect/lemon rate is a lot higher than most other manufacturers), but at least the other established manufacturers have a network in place to remedy issues like this when they arrive, and to minimize the negative impact to the customer.
At least in Chicago this is true, there's this data in the article: https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/06/...
And they eat like pigs at a trough. I don't go to the cinema anymore, I can't endure the 'human' element in between the quiet moments on-screen.
Peter Thiel was wrong
The whole medallion scheme just reeked of utter rent seeking. It was just a transfer of wealth from the poor (drivers) to the rich (medallion owners) for no reason. As you state, the city could still have restricted the number of drivers and cars though direct-to-driver licenses without the need for medallions.
Are you running out of local disk space by any chance? macOS has a feature where files stored in iCloud are removed from the local computer if disk space is getting low.

You can change the setting in System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive Options. Uncheck “Optimize Mac Storage”.
Congratulations on completely failing to answer the question.
The 1951 Refugee Convention, in particular Article 3.

Legal issues are well beyond the area of my expertise, so I have no idea if Trump's recent actions contravene this per se, but the point is that we do have some obligation to help refugees under international law.
Or move the entire department overseas.
I spent about a month working with a tiddlywiki while I was looking for a good way to take notes and organize myself. Ended up ditching it for org-mode in spacemacs. I found the wiki format extremely clunky, and it lacks so many basic features that I want from an actual note-taking organization app, like scheduling a task and getting reminders.

If you are looking for a way to digitally implement GTD, imo, a personal wiki is a terrible way to do it.

I'm currently using this setup: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html. That link is a literate programming doc that tangles into the org-mode config, cool stuff. This is the only sorta self-contained way of doing GTD that I have found personally. I think you could do it with a wiki and a few other tools pretty well, I tried mushing tiddlywiki and notational-velocity (deft in emacs I think) into my own GTD system, but couldn't really get it. Maybe I was doing it wrong though lol.
I went from being the most anxious, scattered mind person in the room to the most calm and focused. I went all in - 4 hours a day for over a year. But it's made a huge difference. It's given me many insights into life - one of which is that you ultimately choose whether you want to be happy in life.
The embargo makes it illegal for an American company to do business with Iran. It has been this way for decades.
Add Good Will Hunting to that list. It was made for around $10 million and generated $225 million at the box office.

Also My Big Fat Greek Wedding (got solid reviews at the time). $5 million budget, $368 million box office.
Jeff Bezos normally doesn't really care that that much about other human beings. Why start now?

Working conditions are deplorable in many Amazon warehouses and he has destroyed many small businesses all in the pursuit of raising Amazon's stock price by a few pennies.

He's doing this as a personal vendetta against Trump. During Trump's campaign, he said he would pursue a federal lawsuit against Amazon for their monopolistic tactics.

This is actually something I hoped Trump would do. Amazon has been abusing their online marketplace monopoly for far too long.
Pre-launch startup here.

The tooling side of things is surely a pain, but it's getting better. I liked the project.json style, so i'm a little disappointed they are moving back to csproj.

Aside from that, it's a great, intuitive, fast framework that we use in production and I love it more every day. I'd chose it again and again.

Watch out for the lack of performance monitoring solutions available so far. Most of them haven't got support for .NET Core yet. New Relic does not.
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Can you elaborate please? This seems like an opinion without supporting evidence, but evidence probably exists? I just don't want to reject your argument out of hand because the health of the open source ecosystem is important.
> Surely, you must be joking. WP has been pretty blazen in disregard in their "facts" during the election and have most blatantly been pushing an anti-Trump agenda under Bezos's guide

Can we please not allow HN to become the type of place where garbage like this is allowed? Pointing out bias is one thing, but the campaign against reputable news sources is ridiculous. If you believe they are wrong then provide evidence, any sort of alternative viewpoint.

The wholesale writing off of news (previously reputable) news organizations is nothing more than a brazen attempt to weaken trust in the media and remove their ability to act as a check on government actions. The washington post is "fake news", they can't be trusted, the story they just broke which is clear and reliable evidence of watergate level misconduct is obviously a lie.
FIRST TIME WRAPPING a CAR GOES WRONG
List of Trump supporters and those with serial problematic behavior in UX
Cubans are trying to escape a repressive regime and face real consequences if caught or sent back. Obama sides with the regime and starts sending the refugees back, unilaterally changing longstanding US policy in the last week of being in office.

All I heard was crickets.

In this case, we have 7 countries already designated as requiring enhanced vetting due to terrorist concerns.

Suddenly, outrage.
Did they actually test for taste in that research? This guy has and he disagrees:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/07/how-to-store-tomatoes.htm...

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/tomato-taste-test-refrige...

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/why-you-should-refrigerat...
Yes, he is recorded on video as saying it, the most mentioned quote being: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."
Security founder sessions – RSA Monday (13th)
What Happens If Net Neutrality Goes Away?
These auto-playing adverts with audio are very annoying.
I'm pretty sure they use classic .NET on Windows and don't use .NET Core. It would likely be a very large effort for them to switch to .NET Core.
Haven't we allowed minority religions facing persecution historically?

Is this "I'm a christian so please let me in" or "I'm a christian/wrong kind of muslim (sunni vs shiite) and facing persecution so please let me in"?
https://www.site44.com (I'm a founder.)
Cirru: an editor for AST
When you've been doing it for a while your mind will be blank all the time, which sounds kind of bad but it's actually great, but the interesting thing is once you can control your own thoughts you'll start to realise that not all of them are yours.

People are like radios and broadcast their thoughts, and you'll be picking them up without knowing it. You'll also be able to project them i.e influence people. Those powers known as 'siddhis' are just a fraction of what you can attain.

Much like everything western though guided meditation is a horribly bastardised version of the real thing, if you're interested look into Raja Yoga when you're ready.

Edited: http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1906-09rajayoga.pd...

This is the definitive course guide, the first lesson can take a year, 10 years, or a lifetime, don't go past the first lesson till you're ready. You'll know when you are.
Ultimately they need people. At some point they will be forced to hire somebody. This happens today with C/C++ knowledge. Ideally somebody joining to work on a massive C++ code base would know the language. 10 years ago it was practically a requirement to get hired. But very few people are coming out of university with that knowledge these days.

Interview tip: Come in knowing C++ and your interviewer will be impressed (assuming the team uses it).
The use case is when you want any and all modifications to be contributed back but not force anyone using the library to open source whatever is using it.
The Curious Linguistic History of Pineapples and Butterflies (2014)
Kind of terrifying since I just read this article on the targeting of specific groups: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-ca...
Well the city wasn't the one that sold them for so much money, it was the aftermarket that drove them up (because essentially no new ones are being issued).

A refund wouldn't do much and in general if you buy an asset that decreases in value you have only yourself to blame. Medallion owners are no more special than anyone else.
> There's a reason for the existence of dealerships: they are local businesses that local jurisdictions can hold accountable for such things as lemon law refunds.

I'm not sure this argument holds water. Civil and criminal law hold all sorts of corporate entities accountable without forcing them to franchise out the business of sales and service. We have a sort of "protected status" for car dealers now in order to prevent the manufacturers from squashing them unfairly after setting up local markets and goodwill.
Meh. We were hiring people in US /AND/ abroad - when getting an H1b was easier and not connected to luck (= random lottery). Since H1b are hard to get now (= random lottery) we are only hiring abroad and remotely, but most likely not in US. I see more and more companies doing this.
I'm also confused. "API as a service" sounds to me like "service as a service"... ok, it's a service, but what does it do?
I know what a monad is from Leibniz.

I know what a monad is in APL. (APL is the second computer language I learned, following Fortran IV.)

I know that "Monads come out of the sky and they stand there." from Yes.

dictionary.com tells me that monad is

1. Biology.

any simple, single-celled organism.

any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.

2. Chemistry.

an element, atom, or group having a valence of one.
Compare dyad (def 3), triad (def 2a).

3. Philosophy.

(in the metaphysics of Leibniz) an unextended, indivisible, and indestructible entity that is the basic or ultimate constituent of the universe and a microcosm of it.

(in the philosophy of Giordano Bruno) a basic and irreducible metaphysical unit that is spatially and psychically individuated.

any basic metaphysical entity, especially having an autonomous life.

4. a single unit or entity.

I liked this article. It was well-written and easy to understand. I thought I might have learned something about a stumbling block which I encounter every time I try to learn what FP is about.

coolsunglasses then says that the article is all wrong but gives very little information about what FP monads really are.

> It's a useful pattern that can be reified in a sufficiently expressive type system.

Is that not usually called a template?

All of my programs were functional. If they didn't function, I would not have been paid.
> Nonetheless, concepts like dignity and justice wouldn't exist if labor and other activities didn't have some kind of intrinsic value, however indefinite or indeterminable.

I think this is wrong. You're trying to derive human worth from economic value. You can't do it. (And even if you succeeded, it would be at the price of reducing humans to their economic output, which is really dehumanizing.)
You are absolutely correct, and it is my fault.

I seriously got my directions mixed up: I truly meant western Europe. Serious fault of mine - I mix up right and left as well - it doesn't help that I'm an immigrant myself, American living in Norway, and I automatically assume all of Europe is East. I'd edit the post, but it is far past the time.

You are absolutely correct on your assessment. The further towards Russia or the middle east you go, the harder it is to make it.

Heck, I don't want to go back at this point, especially if I happen to have a tan... because I defnitely look arab then, and I'm a citizen.
Running the run-time time gauntlet
Supplementing with Melatonin can cause your body to down regulate natural Melatonin production, so coming off of it can be troublesome or cause insomnia in some people. Another way to shift your circadian rhythm without the rebound effect is to use SAD lamps or gadgets like the humancharger which work with photoreceptors in your ear.
Type Driven Domain Modelling – Evolving Models with F# – Lucas Reis' Blog
I agree 100%. My last place was a 100% MS shop and while .NET core seems like it will be great we ran into endless problems, specifically with compatibility and existing libraries. We couldn't get anything more than a toy project to work.

I recommend anyone looking at .NET core to use Java for now. The languages are basically mutually intelligible and while java is a bit less syntactically pleasant it gets the job done, and the tools are quite mature. Arguably Java has, and has had, 99% of what .NET core is trying to achieve for many years. Using the right frameworks it's incredibly fast, multiplatform, and even serverless.

The biggest problem that you run into with Java is too much choice, the opposite of the .NET framework. Deciding which tools to use takes a fair amount of research because the ecosystem is so massive. I've been cutting my teeth on it for the past couple months and I would say go with these frameworks:

DropWizard
Play
Jersey

running on Grizzly, Jetty, or Netty depending on which project supports what.

Database-wise for ORM nothing beats Hibernate. Entity framework is basically a slower more confusing copy of hibernate, coming from someone that's used both. The main advantage of EF is LINQ which Hibernate can't quite match in theory but usually does in practice(the queries generated by HQL tend to be a lot less....stupid)