skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deserved or not, Uber has (and perhaps even takes pride in) a reputation for being amoral and Ayn-Rand-inspired. And this is a topic which has a strong moral component. Lyft would have been fools not to capitalize on the moment.

(FWIW I think Uber deserves that reputation and I consider the strike a legitimate protest against an immoral action. But my statement above is dispassionate and should stand even if you have the completely opposite opinion on these issues)
> Muslim ban

Rudy Giuliani: “When he first announced it, he said ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.'”

> Holocaust Memorial Day

They intentionally omitted mention of 6 million Jewish people killed by the Nazis, as it "wasn't just Jewish people"

> Neo-Nazis in government

From Stephen Bannon’s ex-wife: Bannon “went on to say the biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend. He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”
>> "there is a little book you can get of vowel charts for all of the major languages in the world that tries to document the exact vocal position of each symbol."

What is the name of the book? Do you have a link to it on Amazon or the ISBN for the version you're recommending?
I don't get it either. Given the status of Uber drivers as independent contractors, I'm not convinced it's Uber's place to call an action like a strike. Such a decision should come from the drivers. On the taxi side it sounds like there were unions who clearly have the representation to make this sort of decision.
No it doesn't. Uber reducing prices means that less drivers will be available, making it harder to get a ride.
ELI5: My understanding is that this version of clojurescript makes it feasible to import arbitrary javascript libraries into a clojurescript project (including npm package support) and then use pretty effective "dead code elimination" over the entire code (js libraries + clojurescript) to output a very lean production js file.
These blanket platitudes are kind of annoying...the same liberals who like saying this stuff over and over in Canada also have damaging policies towards the economy in general.
US Senators on Muslin Ban
Expensive if compared to various VPS offerings, so it totally depends on if you can offer enough value around that core to make it worth it.
As kowdermeister pointed out, lots of the visitors come from Hacker News (~50%). I figured the site would be popular here based on the popularity and regularity of threads like this one! Since launching, I've continued to submit one new interview from IH to HN at the end of each month, and they usually make top 3 on the front page.
Java web crawling library, 1.1.1 released
> Rust will be like Go.

Perhaps in adoption, but Rust has a huge feature over Go, which is that it can be integrated into existing codebases through FFI conventions, such that you can slowly incorporate Rust in safety critical areas (as an initial starting point).
It really is the same. He very much could branched off your branch and once merged just start syncing with master. And I see that better than waiting for your PR to be merged.
> or if Trump had walked back the hateful insanity once in office

This is what I thought would happen. I'm surprised he's going on about the wall as well. Politicians say a bunch of crap they never actually carry out (just look at Obama and his talk on ending war or stance on surveillance pre/post election).

A Federal court has already blocked his executive order on immigration, as they should. I wonder if it was intentional; that he and his lawyers knew it would be blocked, but would kick up some ideology to keep Americans fighting and to focus blame. Same thing with the wall; he should know it's not going to get built. So is he pushing it just so he can blame the two houses later?

The alternative is that he truly believes all this stuff. This seems unlikely. Politicians know it's all a game. They don't care. They have to be a high functioning psychopath to make it up to that position. They have to be good at the game, and not care that the game affects peoples' lives.
I would hope that intentional destruction of artifacts would result in jail time and also the offender never being allowed near artifacts again in their lifetime. Hopefully as recording tools become more prevalent, such crimes become easy to expose. It's one thing to dump alcohol in an experiment that costs $10k and can be replicated. It's another order of magnitude to destroy something that can't be recovered.

People some times talk about alternatives to grants that are like UBI, but the mechanics seem odd and hard to get right since you need some sort of filter, unlike UBI. I think a better way may be to find more career staff scientists and fewer "trainees." The idea being that PIs can no longer just use up the formational years of dozens of smart people and then foist them onto a job market with no prospects, and that PIs would have to hire career scientists that get paid enough to, say, raise a child or put a small percentage away for retirement. The disadvantage being that a 2-3 year fundinf cycle can still be fairly destructive if somebody has to find a new lab potentially that quickly. So longer term commitments of smaller amounts of money may also may make sense...

There's no easy solution but fortunately the NIH and NSF seem more interested in changing these thing than they did 10 years ago.
Thanks, corrected in edit.
Well, turns out the average dev doesnt really know much about marketing. Some are even against learning it. I simply work with them to establish an online presence, a core brand (based on their skills and goals), a content strategy (what to write about in order to get the markets attention), visual branding (logo and website design), and time based plans to help them take action. Its like a sort of marketing makeover. But without any BS because I hate mind games.
Apple has allegedly begun removing Iranian iOS apps from the App store
Depends what you mean by profitable.

http://sites.creou.com

It took about 4-6 weeks to build (fairly significant hours during that time). It currently only has 1 paying customer, but they pay about 10% more than it costs to host, so it technicaly makes profit month to month, but is unlikely to ever make back the costs I sunk into it.

(Main problem is that although it was intended to be able to be used to build lots of sites, I think in the end it was too closely tied to what the first customer wanted, so although they love it, I've never been able to sell it to anyone else, I've more or less given up on it now)
In the blog section of IndieHackers he talks about this. Primarily HackerNews. It's a good read.
How interesting. I taught a course on your site and the distribution mirrors my experience (as it should ). Congrats on releasing.
Motivation gets you started discipline keeps you going
Trump filed with FEC for 2020 reelection on Jan 20th, 2017. Huge implications
Perhaps governments shouldn't try so vigorously to make it expensive and legally risky to hire people?
Apparently it is also preposterous for young-ish adult working-age women to be good programmers.

(Mackenzie Davis, the "Halt and Catch Fire" photo, is in her late 20s, and Alice Wetterling, the "Silicon Valley" photo, early 30s.)
Some time ago I've found out that the macOS say command does support IPA. However not all word seem to work.
I found out that job descriptions are often vague about the minimum requirements - like "BS or higher degree in CS".

From what I've seen, HR creates a short list of candidates, this is before the hiring manager step. When a company is hot, they receive a lot of Resumes. HR maxes out the requirements in order to create a quick short list. This is purely based on the content of your Resume. They run a simple search in their system by maxing out all the requirements to see which candidates pop up first. In 2017 you'll be surprised how many candidates have more than the minimum requirements! If you haven't applied through referral and if you're aiming for a big conpany, you'll get filtered at the very first and automated step - HR.
Gas stations, if you're up for eating gas station food, have had that kind of computer ordering for many years now.
autocorrect and I have a strained relationship
Why will Uber not pull their heads out of their ass and have any moral-basis for operation? It's not like they don't hire a ton of Green Card holders...
it's the same trope as the "all people with autism are secret math geniuses", "nerds lack social skills", etc. the ending of the abomination, "the big bang theory" show will hopefully usher in at least some change... but unlikely, hollywood hates prejudice, but somehow can't overcome stereotypes.
Ransomware locks a hotel's guests in their room
Slavery could not have postponed this. Automation is inevitable. We would still have things like the tractor and the combine even if slavery were still permitted.
The hydrogen bomb could be thought of as a solar bomb. The sun is made almost entirely of hydrogen.
Please don't pour fuel on flamewars.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512254 and marked it off-topic.
The Closure ecosystem definitely evolved a bit differently from the rest of the JS world, but it pioneered some techniques 10 years ago that the rest of the community is only now rediscovering, like isomorphic rendering and type checking. Soon we'll probably see something that minimizes CSS (I'm joking - I'm sure there's a webpack plugin, but I'd be surprised if it were as high quality).

It's an interesting case study in why developer UX is so important - Closure never really "fit in" with other tools, which I think really hurt its adoption.
kickass used to release dumps. Maybe skytorrents can follow suit, since it is ad-free, no-JS.
> Build a product. Add Stripe. Profit. Not exactly rocket science.

I don't think you realize just how much of a naive statement that is.

That is honestly, genuinely, terrible advice that does not take in to account that building a business means building a BUSINESS not building software.

They are two very different things.

The idea that you can "build it and they will come" has been proven to be a fallacy many many times over.

With regard to your other comments - Yes - I wrote that post with the express purpose of drawing attention to my product. That is called marketing and that is how you build a business.

The trick is to always try to give value while you do that, and from reading the general tone of the comments here I believe that aim was achieved.
This Tiny Submarine Cruises Inside a Stomach to Deliver Drugs
A "Permanent Resident" is permanent. That's not a guest any longer. And if kicking someone out of their home isn't a moral issue, I don't know what is.

> If I invite someone to live with me and they stay for ten years

If you sign a contract saying they're allowed to live with you for ten years, and kick them out after 3 years, I would argue that it is evil (not to mention illegal).
We could say the same about the government (in fact, the protesters were saying that).
Have you built a SaaS? I mean this genuinely, not as a jab - it seems like many commenters here who have built a SaaS agree that it was life changing and/or gave them a sense of meaning, so I'm interested in hearing other viewpoints from those in the same position.
But the system has five-nines security!
source article linked there already on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511759

please check for dupes and submit the source articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What I'm not clear on is why these mods had to look at all at some of these pictures and videos.

There are published hashes of files known to contain child porn and the like.

sha1sum matches? Bit length matches? Contact LEOs with relevant details, delete the post, block the accounts, and move on.
It doesn't matter if they're entitled or not, they did it, and then Uber did what they did, and people are now evaluating those actions based on the facts and their values. You don't have to agree with every protest. There isn't a universal rule that says all protest is good. But every protest can be judged on its merits, which is what people are doing, not reducing the motivations to "just because they are unhappy".

Implying that this protest was started "just because they are unhappy" is disingenuous and refuses to engage with the issues in good faith.
Shutdown the computer
I'm pretty sure the article is incorrect on that topic, in that the postal service receives indirect subsidies that some estimate to be worth $18B a year: http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/

I'm sure you could argue with the dollar amount estimate, but not that it isn't a form of subsidy.

However, one thing everyone agrees on is that most of the mail I receive sucks. :)
Just a suggestion, but you may want to include an "Edited" statement in the original comment, as this thread is a bit confusing to follow otherwise.
Intel FPGAs Break Record for Deep Learning Facial Recognition
because presumably they'd be missing init scripts...
Wow. That is definitely a recipe for carbon monoxide poisoning. I encourage you to find some other way to survive, because it's unlikely you'll survive long doing that.
TBH, if Zero Hedge accurately reported that the loss of wages was due to the executives who authorized the R&D for this system half of their readers would immediately denounce the site as Communist propaganda.
> Yet somehow the World Tribune lays the blame for some future job losses in the fast food industry at their feet? Incredible!

I don't think anyone is blaming Bernie and Clinton, it reads to me that they're criticizing the idea of a $15 minimum wage as counterproductive. And mocking the politicians who support it, sure.
I am very curious what is the target audience for this project ?
Given its long history (dating back to 2011) it does not look like just an experiment or hobby project. I would have assumed it to be a solution for porting legacy programs but it implements a custom basic dialect so that is largely out of question.
Is it intended to be a solution for rapidly prototyping performant systems applications ?
Yes, I didn't see those in the article. :)

Sorry if the gold rush analogy was cryptic. Another analogy: before the dot com bust, a lot of revenue came just from startups buying ads on each other's sites with VC money. When that dried up, turned out a lot of those start ups weren't actually viable.

So with your business catering to other SAAS businesses, made me wonder about the viability of single person SAAS businesses catering to other kinds of people.
A U.S.-China Role Switch: Who’s the Globalist Now?
How did you get admitted to a Masters program without a background in CS? Most CS departments (Masters, PhD) look for standard courses in programming and data structures. I ask a fellow pure math degree holder with little CS coursework. I intend to pursue a PhD in CS and enrolled as a post-bac to make up the coursework to then apply for graduate programs.
You are welcome. :)
They're referring to CAIR here and given Breitbart's journalistic integrity or the lack thereof, they went with that provocative headline to stir up their outrage-junkie audience.
As usual, the voice of reason is downvoted while many people believe silly narratives.

No one needs AirBnB to "facilitate" renting out a home to refugees etc. Refugees know and use Ebay classified ads, Craigslist and others.

This whole thing is blatant Twitter populism, in fact the same thing that Trump is doing.
Rollup creator here. You're thinking of this tweet[0] which states that correctly configured Rollup bundles are always smaller than Webpack bundles. Closure Compiler on the other hand is currently far more sophisticated than either Rollup or Webpack when it comes to shrinking your code. It's just a little bit harder to use and makes certain assumptions about your code, which is probably why it often doesn't get quite as much attention (though Malte Ubl's splittable[1] provides a nice interface onto CC and supports code splitting — well worth a look).

[0]: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/820304090332876800
[1]: https://github.com/cramforce/splittable
I always see them as being a match to the a10, not sexy but incredibly valuable for their role, probably unappreciated by air force leadership.
Despite Trudeau's posturing today that "all are welcome", Canada bans single men from Syria and has overall quotas. So, in fact, not all are welcome.

If you want unlimited immigration in North America - open borders - go ahead and say so. Let's have referendums on that in the US and Canada and see how those do.
For any meaningful discussion on this subject to take place, we have to first specify what we mean by "great coders". The skillset required to win programming competitions is very different than what it takes to build maintainable & scalable production systems.
towngas or coalgas that is piped in for cooking is hydrogen and carbon monoxide, has all the other possible sources of carbon monoxide been ruled out before nailing it on the laser cutter or 3d printer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas

i'd prefer it that the 'authorities' do a thorough and scientific investigation and release the results in public on the internet, this needs to be proven beyond all doubts that it is caused by the laser cutter or 3d printer

if this is not done, it would stir worldwide unnecessary panic about laser cutters and/or 3d printers by saying that laser cutters and/or 3d printers produces carbon monoxide and is dangerous and hence cannot be used

i'm not sure about laser cutters but normally 3d printers is more a fire hazard than do anything else, i.e. 3d printers main hazard is fire, but carbon monoxide is likely 'fake and invalid/assumptions/speculations'
Here in Austria McD recently installed the second version of ordering machines. The first one was not bad, but it was deployed inconsistently and seemed like a trial run. Now just about every McD has at least 2 of those HUGE terminals with a reasonably responsive and friendly UI. You can order gluten free options, choose ingredients for every dish, and even choose kids' meal goodies (they call that Happy Meal here). It's also integrated with their smartphone apps, so you can order in the car and then just pick it up. At the same time, they restructured many branches' service counters into two sections - one for ordering with an actual human and one for picking up your finished order. And I think they already reduced active staff by 1 or 2 in the process (for most branches).

I have to admit, it makes for a more streamlined process, and your order is always correct (or it's your fault if wrong). One downside is that staff at the takeaway counter is very stressed since there is no switching between tasks - they become handing-out-food-machines.
> but 1-based indexing is more convenient for about 99% of the code written in Fortran, Matlab or Julia.

You could make the same argument for octal literals over the scary hex numbers with letters mixed in. 1-based indexing was invented by mathematicians using conventional notation without fully appreciating the problems it causes in computing systems. There is no reason to continue the insanity.
That's a pretty good idea IMO. Give cops the same as Google's 20% time, to help with things that bug them (which probably also help the communities they're serving in).
Business-wise SaaS seems vastly superior compared to traditional one-off software selling but lately, I have begun to recognise the areas where the latter excels. Selling SaaS is hard. You have to care of support, billing, failed charges, churn and thousands of other little things to get it off the ground. In comparison, selling small apps, plugins, and desktop software — while may yield lower revenue per month — is something more doable as a side-project. You can bank on platforms like Fastspring and App Stores, ship your product and expend less hours fighting fires.

If my memory serves right, Eager Apps, one-man company behind Postico, makes around $10K / month selling a Mac App for Postgres administration.

I think being entrepreneur is vastly more fruitful and less stressful with small stepping stones and for a start, it's a better to sell small things on side then dive into growing the $10K Month SaaS.
"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable."

No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has that kind of capability.

"And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."

For 'digital watch' replace with iPhone, iPad, Playstation etc

http://aufbix.org/~bolek/download/guide1.pdf
Show HN: Data exploration and visualisation for Elasticsearch
Of course you are not dumb, just disingenous
> A higher minimum wage may have accelerated the process, but this would have happened regardless.

That's precisely the point: a higher minimum wage does accelerate the problem.

Deciding whether a restaurant hires a servant or purchases a vending machine is a decision made purely on cost. If a politician decides to increase the cost of investing in a specific option (hiring a servant) to the point that the alternative option becomes the best option available to the business, that politician needs to be held accountable for his actions.
Isn't it a weird question to ask? It would be like asking What is better? Hawaii? or Ferrari?

You can't compare/chose between the two.
Interesting about the T-962 problems. I've been using my T-962A out of the box on PCBs for a few years and have had no problems. I get even soldering with no scorching and no cold solder spots either.

Perhaps the larger T-962 is afflicted by problems the T-962A does not have? Or the variability in design is significant? Or my PCBs are all small enough to avoid problems?

But thanks for the link and comments about KiCAD. I'll look in to those improvements.
While Im in agreement that finishing anything you set out to do adds or creates to a sense of accomplishment, this type of advice seems to prey on people who are looking for one.

So often you end up hearing things like "upset? Aimless? Start a company!" Dont do that. Building a project or something as a learning experience is great. But dont put your hopes and dreams into something like this. Dont pray itll lift you out of depression. It wont.

The best you should seek and hope for is to advance your knowledge and understanding and take pride in that accomplishment.
Microsoft, Uber, Apple, Google: How the tech world responded to immigration ban
Open Letter from the Canadian Startup Community: Diversity Is Our Strength
Should the company decide on behalf of the workers whether they must join a strike? Shouldn't Uber drivers be the ones to make that decision?
What do you mean by anti-serotonin agent? One of LSD's (and many other classical psychedelics) primary mechanisms of action is as a serotonin receptor agonist. That means the psychoactive molecules enter the system and essentially behave like "extra" serotonin.

Also, taking it every day would quickly result in no effect. Tolerance builds extremely rapidly to psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin. Allowing at least a week between doses will ensure that tolerance is not a hindrance.

My perspective is that taking sub-psychedelic doses of LSD foster a feeling of having "arrived". There's nowhere else to be, so putting off projects or tasks seems silly; work, even the uncomfortable stuff, becomes more of an engaging puzzle or challenge, and there's a heightened awareness of the body that makes it trivially easy to make good choices (one just really wants to eat that fruit and use the standing desk that day).

Just one psychonaut's $0.02
How do you monetise?
Seems like there's an uptick in new accounts today!