skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there are other ways that you could pay. I don't get though why directly paying for the content giving you entertainment is so bad? Being a digital good some people will choose to avoid paying, but I suspect that would be true of any other model used as well.
I gave up on Dropbox long time ago. Maybe I am wrong, but with data loss and other issues, especially limit on space, I found BTSync better suited for my needs. It's been working for years now.

I think Dropbox could've innovated much more then they did, to make their offering more compelling to guys like me. They didn't and that is unfortunate. I think they feel pressured now but it might be a little late and their solutions are kind of artificial and inspired by others... (paper for example)
Pascal in "Pensees" used this perplexing notion to argue for the reality of the soul. Interesting to see people grappling with these ideas through the centuries:

"And what completes our incapability of knowing things, is the fact that they are simple, and that we are composed of two opposite natures, different in kind, soul and body. For it is impossible that our rational part should be other than spiritual; and if any one maintain that we are simply corporeal, this would far more exclude us from the knowledge of things, there being nothing so inconceivable as to say that matter knows itself. It is impossible to imagine how it should know itself.

"So if we are simply material, we can know nothing at all; and if we are composed of mind and matter, we cannot know perfectly things which are simple, whether spiritual or corporeal. ...

"Who would not think, seeing us compose all things of mind and body, but that this mixture would be quite intelligible to us? Yet it is the very thing we least understand. Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. Modus quo corporibus adhærent spiritus comprehendi ab hominibus non potest, et hoc tamen homo est. [The manner in which spirits are united to bodies cannot be understood by men, yet such is man---Augustine]."
“Science Curious” More Likely to Explore Data Contradicting Their World View
Trello vs. Asana vs. Basecamp
The article doesn't mention whether or not these compounds are removed by using a filter (like a Brita filter).

I know Brita filters don't remove fluoride normally, but these compounds sound organic, which activated carbon usually does remove. Any idea whether standard filters remove this?
DHH used the same analogy in his podcast with Tim Ferriss: http://tim.blog/2016/10/27/david-heinemeier-hansson/
And they vote in shockingly large numbers, for example enough to get anti-vaxxers (who I think of as having a lot of overlap with fluoride conspiracy people) seriously considered for cabinet-level positions in the US.
Indeed. The time for apathy is over. When people have bad arguments and bad evidence, you need to say something.
Not everyone wants to abandon the idea of having patents.

That's funny. How much waste has there been due to people having to work around patents? Is waste only a problem if nobody can profit from it?

Yes, one can avoid that by paying the price of the patent; but the same is true with the GPL, you can follow the license. It's just a price in another kind. The waste resulting from not wanting to pay it applies to both cases.
Thanks, this is a much clearer description of the problem!
Unless you designed Lambda, this is an arrogant tone.

Sure, some of the things you mention are "better" or at least otherwise accomplished using event-triggered Lambdas. But there's plenty of reasons why you might want to run a job that takes under 5 minutes on a schedule.

For instance, daily or weekly "digest" emails. Or a nightly stats job, where expensive-to-calculate yet not-immediately-critical queries are performed and the results stored or exported. These are things where you want them to happen at a certain time. Cron does that.

It's possible that customers didn't understand why AWS thought Lambdas were there, but that's irrelevant. Suddenly, Lambdas were there, and people thought of more use cases (SQS triggering, connection to API Gateway, etc) than AWS had implemented from the start. That's not the customers' fault for being creative.
Not sure why parent comment put it in parts-per-trillion since I always see it in mg/L.
They have had Selective Sync on desktop for a while for Pro non business users. I've been using it for at least 6 months.
Let's you pick folders to not load locally. BUT it isn't the same as this new feature, just close.
friends of mine are working in the SAP domain. They just got hired for junior consulting positions at SAP consulting companies (smaller ones). There they got the (expensive) trainings for some of the SAP modules, which they then use to implement customer solutions.

From what I see here in germany there are lots of these positions available, since SAP is everywhere. It seems to pay slightly better then average developer jobs, but as consultants the people there are often away on business.
Mine does (EMC, now Dell) [1]. We've had serious issues getting lawyers to sign off on AGPL.

1. https://codedellemc.com/
Maybe I should have headed that "why weren't the risks obvious at the beginning?". According to the lawsuit DuPont had discovered the risks of perfluorooctanoic acid exposure by 1961. Industrial production of perfluorooctanoic acid began in 1947. Had it been a simple acutely hazardous chemical that killed rats hours after you fed them a few milligrams, the risks wouldn't have taken a decade+ to surface. I'm not trying to excuse DuPont's duplicity after they did discover problems, rather explaining why these sorts of chronic hazards are not necessarily known the first time somebody writes up a Material Safety Data Sheet.
I care because those people succeed at defeating fluoridation efforts; for example, the 2013 effort in Portland, OR[1]

[1] http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/05/portlan...
But meanwhile

1. We look capricious and incompetent to international allies, especially Iraqis.

2. The federal judges decision to stay parts of the order is not being enforced in its entirety. CBP refused to allow lawyers to meet with those being detained, in Dulles and in LA, even with Members of Congress attempting to enforce it in Dulles. This confusion among the rank and file about what a federal court order means is really worrysome and shows the checks aren't as strong as they should be. Real people are being harmed as a result of not at least explaining it in full to people who have to enforce it before it took effect.

3. The underlying motivations for the rule include discrimination against Muslims, as evidenced by Rudy Guilloani's statements that they were instructed to write a legal "Muslim ban". The word is out that the president, who is also a symbolic head of state and not just an acting office, is anti-Muslim in policy as well as rhetoric. No longer can we claim to take the high ground against ISIS or other radical Islamic group. (Edit: wrt religious freedom. As a commentor points out this obviously does not make us equivalent to ISIS)

This order will be mostly rescinded, leaving nothing but backlash.
> The only known white hole is the Big Bang which was instantaneous rather than continuous or long-lasting

Even if the Big Bang was a continuous long-lasting process of energy/matter appearing, wouldn't the effects of General Relativity make it look like, from the perspective of observers later on within the Universe, that all the energy/matter appeared instantaneously?
I'm not sure what Shanghai has to do with a discussion about travel time to Beijing. New York to Beijing is about 13-13.5 hours.

You claimed 20 hours. I'm asked 'from where' and you weren't able to answer.

I'm not suggesting Beijing is the ideal conference location, even though I live there, but there's no need to spread FUD about how it can take such a long time for a developer to reach there.

Oh, and it takes me the same time to get to SF as it takes an SF-based developer to get to Beijing. Hotels are cheaper in Beijing. Salaries are higher in SF.
I agree completely. I think people are panicking and being pushed one way or the other. We need to remember our kindness and empathy now more than ever.
The author suggests reducing clutter and then goes on to use four different type styles for a modal dialog. The header is italicised, in a different colour and different point size to the body text. The text in the button is uppercased and tracked out. Why? 90% of the time you only need one level of differentiation to create a sense of typographical heirarchy, otherwise you end up with exactly the opposite of what was intended in the article.

There is a huge disconnect between design thinking in the cultural and arts sector and design thinking in the technology sector. As a developer and designer working in the former, I find it both perplexing and frustrating to see the lack of consideration given to design as something that adds value rather than as something serving a purely functional purpose in the latter. I think the lack of modern design education in other, particularly more traditional formats for those focusing on digital design is partly to blame.

I would think it would be valuable for anyone with an interest in design to look at the work of many of the better graphic design studios practicing today who don't necessarily work in digital formats. There is a lot to be learnt about the subtleties of graphic design from a well typeset book for example. These blanket statements about things like white space are more often than not rehashed guidelines for producing at best mediocre design.
Previous discussion was flagged at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13525405. Not sure why, but the discussion looked very promising.

But it's certainly relevant to running a globalized business these days.
The scholastic imagination (2016)
Yes but pointing the finger at this is quite loaded in the current context. Much less would it be to denounce laws as desuete as this French law forbidding women to wear trousers: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/04/it-is-now-legal-for-wome... Of course the law itself was so antiquated that noone in their right mind would follow it.
textbundle.org is an attempt to standardize that. Not sure how much traction it has though.
This is analogous to why scientists and policymakers focus so much on CO2 when worrying about global warming.

Other compounds, like water vapor or methane, trap more heat than CO2. But they leave the atmosphere much more quickly: water rains out after a week or two, and methane breaks down in about a decade. But CO2 persists for many decades, perhaps even longer depending on the state of the biosphere.

So despite that fact that CO2 is harmless to human health at atmospheric concentrations, and actually beneficial to plants and some animals, the systemic harm due to its longevity can be huge.
What do you want to know about the problem?

I wrote the bug report that this thread is about. I think my reasons for arguing there should be a way to disable Widevine are very clear.

To sum it up again:

- Widevine DRM has usability issues (mostly because of HDCP) ad well as stability issues, as outlined in the bug report.

- I am politically opposed to HTML EME and I don't want it enabled in my browser. I would like it better if it was unavailable to begin with.

- From a security perspective, allowing every web site that I allow Javascript on to talk to some dubious blob behind my back is the last thing I want.
It really depends on the relative utility of that $5 to you. For some it would be a barrier, in that they would have free time that could have potentially been spent watching a movie but they didn't want to spend the $5. For others, the $5 is such a small amount that the barrier is time.
But the costs certainly don't. :)
People want to watch movies. Maybe at theaters, maybe not. Hollywood will be fine.
No, RR is the de facto standard for the React community. And they're not doing training just on RR.

Claiming that because they made the most popular routing library for React it's shady to provide tutoring about it for profit is very much of a stretch in my book. Care to explain where exactly is the conflict of interest? Does that mean it's also shady to work as consultants? Where is the line drawn?

Do you really believe that noone is going to call them out if they started doing things deliberately to maximize profit (i.e. breaking changes without actual improvement, harder to understand than necessary APIs, etc)?
A home grown heirloom tomato is amazing. The stuff that they try to pass off in the stores as a tomato is awful.
Not sure this is what you meant by "blue collar," but I was just thinking this morning about driving by the NeXT logo in Fremont, the stretch of Mission connecting 680 to 880. I believe they actually built the cube there, but I could be wrong. (I'm sure someone reading this can confirm or deny that.) Not sure if anyone still assembles computers in the Bay Area anymore.
The billions that have already been wasted on software patent could be used to pay developers making better software rather than reinventing around patents. That some handful companies decides to re-implement existing software just so they can go after developers with patents is a waste, one that most companies can't afford nor would it be good if they could. A total waste, caused by law that over-reaches with no legal or conclusive definition (According to the European Patent Office).

Software is protected as works of literature under the Berne Convention, yet a work of literature is not patentable. We don't patent underlying methodologies of writing a story. We don't have hundred of patent with slight different wording of the concept of "hero and villain", nor trolls trying to sue every time someone writes a successful book. We don't have patents of "every day concept, but this time its a book". That would be a total waste, caused by over-reaching lobbyists that get to write their own laws if they just spend enough money on the winning candidate.
Ask HN: What customer support-related topic should I do a talk on?
Man wtf Dropbox. There are literally thousands of smaller updates and increments you can be making to the product. This type of stuff doesn't have a market! Fire your design team and start over. It will keep not working!
"load the whole runtime on each request" is nothing new. That's also how PHP and other cgi technologies worked, where for each request a new process was spawned. There are certainly ways to speed it up (maybe only for a pre-spawned process?) - but I guess for a lot of lambda use-cases performance is simply not an isssue, similar to like it was not an issue in old cgi-based web applications.
At the same time, you've got disgruntled Pebble fans such as myself who were dying for the Pebble Time 2, and majorly upset about not getting it.

Unless they actually launch a revised Time 2 under a different name, I'm flummoxed as to how they'll capture my interest.
"That chaos has the potential to be very bad for business. Tech companies rely on immigrants — including from the predominantly Muslim countries covered by Trump’s temporary travel ban — to fill many of their most important engineering positions. Energy companies count on being able to move workers in and out of countries around the world. Manufacturers have supply chains that cross international borders. Even temporary disruptions to travel and trade could cause problems; more permanent barriers could prove disastrous."

Key point. Companies are slow moving entities and cannot adapt quickly enough when treaties are cancelled, [0] employee movements are restricted and supply chains are disrupted. Stability is a keystone of successful trade.

[0] https://twitter.com/sdonnan/status/826101429156904960
I ranked every Intro to Data Science course on the internet, based on data
Not 100% true

I don't understand what part you're disagreeing with. If anything, you're very strongly reinforcing my point.
(not GP) I'm actually building something that would require running large amounts of containers of varying usage (some almost never used, some constantly queried) that serve up webapps and other network services, and being able to run services inside of containers instead of functions from fission would be awesome.
> likewise no human died of cyanide poisoning until the 1800s AFAIK

Cassava roots (tapioca) have been killing and otherwise causing problems for humans for millennia through cyanide poisoning. Bitter almonds have been causing trouble for almost as long.
"Early-riser" is sleeping from midnight to 0900hs for me. Not sure HOW early you're aiming at.
I'd like to put together a breakfast for startup operations folks in the next month to discuss customer support related issues that are important to startups. What topics are people interested in? The idea is I'll get the best speaker available given the topic.
Mike bostock, the founder of d3.js

* cool blog articles: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/

* Beautiful dataviz and tips on twitter: https://twitter.com/mbostock

* github: https://github.com/mbostock/
‪During the 20 years of Berlusconi in Italy, we called this tactic "weapons of mass-distraction". Indeed, they worked.‬
> The Way of the Gun

I'm fairly surprised that they were able to make that one so cheaply. Not only is it full of well known names, it was extremely well done (it's also a favorite of mine). I imagine most people involved didn't take their normal rate (or worked on residuals).
It's not so much anglo-centrism as it is political bias. They flag terrorist attacks in France for the exact same reason that they flag any article that is even neutral on Trump: it goes against their narrative.
> How long had you been doing the night owl schedule before that?

Probably for about 13 years (since I was ~16).
I should have added: the LGPL is fine; we use lots of LGPL components. The LGPL tends to be my choice for my personal projects as well. I think it strikes a good balance, allowing use in products, but requiring users who improve the component itself to contribute those changes back.
It's important to remember that no part of the order has been deemed illegal yet. The NY court just granted a stay so that people affected would be able to proceed with the case on American soil.
My father was a Ph.D. organic chemist who worked for DuPont at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, DE. We admired and even loved DuPont while I was growing up there in the 1950's and 60's (the "Better Living Through Chemistry" era).

Now I am learning the sad truth about DuPont (and many other industrial chemical manufacturers). Despite the many great achievements of their employees, DuPont was a diabolically evil company. The history of their GM partnership and their promotion of tetraethyl lead in gasoline alone is justification for this statement.
> That's a bad thing for everybody, not least the immigrants themselves.

I don't see how it is a bad thing, as an immigrant. It seems to me it's better to get a job (and relocation) to US at slightly lower rate than US-native professional, but still much higher than one I'd get in the origin country. Note that once you're in the US, you can build the network, find better job, apply for green card, then citizenship, etc. And, of course, for many to benefit from safer environment, higher quality of life, etc.

> When companies like Tata are fulfilling government contracts, they _should_ be filling those positions with local labour at local rates.

If local rates are significantly higher, I am not sure - why taxpayer dollars should be spent more abundantly than private investor's dollar? I don't care too much if Sergey Brin loses one of his billions, it's not like he's going to raise the price of Google searches, but if my city doesn't have enough money to fix the road because they spent too much on other stuff and now have to raise taxes, that hits me right in the wallet.
Thank you for your feedback!

> It has a lot of whitespace [...]

Whitespace can be reduced across the board by adjusting a variable:

https://github.com/thredded/thredded/blob/1a60bcc7618270afeb...

For the homepage, I'm going to try removing the vertical spacing between the cards.

> on a desktop [...] maybe put the name besides the post instead of on top

Definitely going to try that!

> A lot of elements have dynamic positions (e.g. the date, the author) which makes it quite hard to quickly scan the overviews for them.

I didn't realize there is a use-case for scanning through these. No good ideas yet on how to improve this.

> Image support?

By default only externally referenced images are supported, but integrating with third-party uploading services is easy. For example, here is how to do it with Shubox.io:

https://shubox.io/blog/2016/08/05/how-thredded-uses-shubox
Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans
Cancelled Tesla 3 reservation over Musk involvement in Trump administration
There are no official treatment recommendations for PFNA, PFOA, PFOS that I know of but they can be treated with activated carbon, RO membranes or some combination. GAC seems to be pretty effective and you could feel pretty safe with a Brita filter, a multi-stage undersink system or a large whole house filter.

The issue with chemicals like these and treatment is that without extensive testing there isn't much information about breakthrough rate and contact time and the relationship, so repeated testing is really the only way to know when you need to change media.

Manufacture cartridge change recommendations generally are pegged to chlorine removal only, so a filter may deplete it's PFOA removal potential in a 1/10 the recommended change interval.
Otherwise, what is the incentive for them to create anything?

I'm not entirely convinced that indirectly killing off art for profit as a market would be an even mostly bad thing. Those that remain would be those that do the work they love because they love the work, not because they were expecting a payoff of some kind.

For a direct comparison, examine the entire open source software ecosystem.
Don't do it as much now, though have consistently over long periods in the past. Some benefits I experienced (subjective):

- Thoughts do not have a grip over how I act as often.
- probably related, lower likelihood of compulsively doing things.

- Feeling more collected and relaxed in traffic and 'stressful situations.'

- More likely to be able to pay attention to who I am talking with, what I am doing, etc, right now instead of thinking of things besides that.

- Start of realization that who I am is not the internal dialog and procession of thoughts. This one is hard to explain. I think I am certain things due to my thoughts; that's just my thoughts though.

- Noticing that thinking constantly about things using language puts reality into categories that are essentially made up.

Anyway, your experience may be different. I highly suggest trying it.
Why is this flagged?! Cursory glance at the article looked like perfect HN material.
Ex Machina had huge amounts of effects. CGI is a case of "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
How "accurate" are credits lists though? Couldn't it be that the credits simply list every employee of every company that did any contract work for the film? It seems plausible that many of the people listed didn't even work a full day on the film.
Why do we need to get people into theatres? I think half the reason they still exist in any great number is because they get time limited exclusivity. Now that a lot more people have huge TV's and decent sound systems theatres are even less compelling.

I'd much rather much just about any movie from the comfort of my couch, sitting in my undies (depending on company), with popcorn I made for 20c and the sound not drilling into my skull.