skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embarrassed to admit I'd not heard of Humboldt. What an astonishing man, and those are some powerful ripples from his life.

The description of the late 1820s has some notable parallels to today's mood. Gives me some comfort to be reminded there have been dark periods before that we've overcome.
I hear so much about traffic and congestion, its ill effects, disadvantages and just rants of frustration. I face and feel it everyday. So why is it not solved already ?

Here's why : 1. Traffic affects those who cannot/will not make a significant difference to the problem and 2. the ones who can make a difference don't face it/ don't consider it a top tier problem / can pay for a way around it (live closer, don't have to drive the same route each day)

You also won't hear any political/marketing campaigns about reducing traffic and congestion unless public transport becomes a private thing. I believe there's tons of money to be made here but the initial funding required is astronomical and not to mention deep connections in the public sector (licensing) required to even get this off the ground. I can imagine a decentralized mechanism to do this but there are just too many failure points in any strategy that I can think of. Not a problem that a bunch of kids could start solving in their garage you see.

I don't see this getting fixed anytime soon anywhere.
Arbitrage that only exists due to the technicalities of market microstructure is parasitic to me. True HFT identifies trades with no risk; a long and a hedge at the same microsecond. That's just fractions of pennies that true risk takers lose, every day. They don't care at all about the intrinsic value of the security
git style version control would be ideal: retain the old but allow for minds to change; goog's cloud office suite already does it

personally i find the editing almost as important as the content(o)

seeing what people change and when can illuminate context that would be hidden from a first thought best thought adherence

(o) http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/yal.00049.001_...
Thanks!

For those who want to try on firefox:

1. clone the repo

2. about:debugging. Load temporary -> select any file in repo

BTW, did you not figure any other way other than setTimeout() ? There is a flicker because of that.
ok so what do they have exactly that is worth 1B? I mean sure, sounds cool but what is so unique about them?
>It's even possible that some day we see a unicorn startup with a solo developer.

already possible. this allows you to create a ZERO person startup. you can be a contractor to a software algo.
there is one light rail line, and it runs like once every 30 mins. I can't speak for the bus system, since it doesn't make sense for me living in North Austin. It took me 15 mins to drive to the train station, 40 mins train ride into Austin, and then 15 min walk to my office downtown. The drive into town is half that if you come in early, so I opt to drive.
Facebook's ZStandard compression library appears to be both faster and better at compressing than zlib. Is there any reason to continue using zlib for new projects that don't need backward compatibility?
Wow, that's awesome! Can you expand on this a little either here or at ellie-app@humblespark.com? I'd love to hear how this helped.
Awesome! Anyone else having issues in chrome? The buttons along the top bar are missing for me. Woks fine in Firefox and Safari.
Yes those were the bad old days when we used nested tables for layout with rows and columns. We are much more sophisticated now. We use nested divs with classes like "row" and "col-md-6".....
I like the new header tho - jet black / blue is a good look.
The weight-in-gold metric was first passed by the B-58 in 1956. So 60 years on and we're now at weight-in-platinum I think.
Inherited wealth is if anything a generous comparison, since those eligible to inherit wealth are often encouraged by their parents to jump through sizeable work-ethic related hoops to ensure their inheritance, and inheritance is usually with good reason more heavily taxed than most money transfers. UBI is all about assuming that it's entirely unreasonable to set thresholds of need or effort to state handouts when we could instead deny them to people solely on more reasonable criteria like whether they had the decency to be born in a particular country.

So yeah, I actually am against UBI for the foreseeable future, regardless of how well that sits with the HN crowd. Since in the real world we're a very long way from hard AI, replicators and post scarcity economics, UBI is - at best - redistributing from each according to his ability to each according to their ability to prove they're not a foreigner. Sure, the world isn't particularly fair anyway, but let's not pretend it's a step in the right direction to removing any assumption the welfare state is supposed to be a social insurance system for people that have paid into the system and are genuinely looking for work, and replacing it with the ethos that $nationals have a fundamental and inalienable entitlement to the fruits of other's labour (mostly non-entitled foreigners') if they're not particularly interested in trying to earn it themselves.

(Of course there are plenty of arguments against UBI that don't rely on notions of "dignity of work" like the important practical question of how much you're willing to slash existing welfare or raise taxes to give state handouts to much larger numbers of people that haven't indicated they need or want them, but that's probably a tangent to this particular article)
Lots of Sun machines, including in the database racks. Oracle I assume.
hey guys, Ryan Petersen here, CEO of Flexport. Sincerely appreciate this feedback. I'll make sure I always link the posts to our careers page going forward, and will try to cut back on the hyperbole. Apologies just trying to stand out in a crowded space and it's easy to get carried away.

I was lucky this time that a member of the community cared enough to call this thread to my attention.

Email me anytime if you have more feedback ryan@flexport
Regarding #1. It has been my experience that the folks who are affected by traffic the most tend to think about it the least. When asked, they are bewildered there are even other options.

"I can't take the bus/train - it doesn't go to where I need" - start with the 5 whys and it's a pain to get even halfway to the conclusion. The car (and the supporting infrastructure!) is just assumed in most folks' minds. At least in the US.
How about Infosys, Wipro, etc.? That kind of programming might employ a large number of people. I think many jobs which now only use spreadsheets for arithmetic may transform into programming jobs. Even some jobs which appear to be only words, like law, might become programming.
zlib is one of those packages that's often the root of all packages.

(Were you expecting "evil?" That's only in packages distributed without checking GPG signatures of sources verified by strong web-of-trust, built on well-secured build farms and implementing end-to-end chain-of-custody for distribution artifacts.)
Worth noting: Safari 10 is 3X faster at parsing than Chrome 55, according to their chart. (See the MacBook Pro lines.)

This is not mentioned or discussed despite all the thoughts on how to speed things up. Anyone know what Safari is doing?
Have to say, when I saw the dark top-bar, I presumed it must be part of another go-dark internet protest about something, and wondered why there was no announcement.

Glad to see I can get rid if it (in Chrome at least).
>> Now that we're automating mental labor, what is left to shift to?

Creativity and innovation, those are far off in AI. Once AI can do those then we will be pets maybe but I don't know if creativity and innovation led by AI will ever have the value that it would with human creativity, at least not to us. An analogy might be we have fast food but people prefer food cooked by a good chef. Will AI be able to have a unwritten signature like a good movie director? writer? or musician? a home designer? etc.

Robots and AI will take over lots of jobs but will create lots of work like computers did. We aren't even off this planet yet or doing much in space or below the surface or oceans yet, so much work to do.

Just like computers and the internet did, robots and AI will empower smaller and smaller groups to achieve amazing things. Single people can have companies of bots/ai to compete more quickly.
We compile the client-side Python code to Javascript using Skulpt (http://skulpt.org), and we render the visual components in HTML, but you interact with them entirely in Python.

This creates a much less "leaky" abstraction than building a new framework directly on top of HTML/JS. It also lets us offer things like blocking I/O operations (no more callback hell!).
Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. To ‘Curry Favor’ with Trump
See also: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/02/10/the-happy-city/
He isn't kidding about the state of computer 'science' in the UK being atrocious.

Up until sixth form college, it's pretty much 'how to use Microsoft Office the class', with programming being mostly non existent and even coding in HTML being rare in a lot of cases. So anyone who doesn't study IT past the age of 16 or have an interest in computers outside of school is likely going to be absolutely clueless in regards to how to use a computer.

Once you're in sixth form college, it's then hardly any better, with the worst ones literally being 'how to use Microsoft Office, Access and Front Page edition'. So you could theoretically get away with not writing a single line of code until university, despite doing 'IT' as much as humanly possible.

Add the lack of extra activities, and well... anyone who's done programming at all may as well skip GCSE and A level IT altogether, since it's got absolutely nothing of value to someone with even the simplest computer skills.

Thank god you don't need a degree to get work as a developer in this country. Otherwise we'd have barely anyone interested in programming at all.

He's also right about the internet of things being a security disaster... but hey, absolutely everyone with experience in this stuff knew that already.

That said, he should probably get out of this blackhat stuff now rather than later, since it's very likely he'll be caught and end up facing a pretty long prison sentence at some point in time if he doesn't. Especially when you realise most people will see what he's doing here and think it's somehow as serious as breaking national security.
Isn't the check `if(host == "github.com") {` redundant because you have it in the manifest anyway?
Mark Otto (@mdo) said that the `header-dark` class will be going away soon [1], so we can't be sure how long this extension will still be working.

Personally, I like the dark bar, though at first it was confusing since the dark bar is usually associated with GitHub Enterprise.

[1] https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830149416556191744
I like the dark header. Wish they make an optional dark theme.
People want the personal freedom of driving cars, they want yards, and they want room. They don't want to be packed into stacked boxes.
I'm paid a salary in fiat but the company I work for prefers payment in ETH, with Bitcoin its second choice, and our clients are generally happy with that.
You can already do that. Parties entering into an analog contract can agree to binding arbitration with a mutually-agreed-on arbiter (like a "chair expert"), instead of resolution in the courts. Again: what is being gained by smart contracts?
What is the cost to maintain/upgrade our current car-based transportation infrastructure? Streets, parking, enforcement, etc all have a cost and it's not $0 and 0 square feet.
Ho!
A wargame situation.

What about a real situation?

Insurrection in a city, and a budget of 10M$ for the defenders.

Cheap old schools baloons (like WWII), drones maybe, 1000 persons paid to watch and use high EM beams to direct at planes, maybe 2-3 hackers asked to read the papers on how iranians where able to spoof GPS signals to steal drone ....

I don't know, but war is assymetric. It has never been about who has the best weapons, but who can take with an inferior budget the expensive weapon of the opponents, using any trick possible.

The allies attacked the nazis on their weapon's greatest vulnerability: resources and energy.

That's the reason why the dam in Germany were bombed, and africa was invaded to cut access to oil/lubrificants.

Having complex weapons to fight in situation you don't know is stupid.

IED for instance are costing 100$, AK47 way less then USA guns. Still, Iraki & Afghanistan have proven they are efficient... against a better doted army.

Vietnam with cheap radars and missile batteries was a pain for USAF. And aerial domination did not helped win the war.

And well, given how it is a mess in middle east and how USA may not have the most solid allies there, what would happen if someone attacked the oil tankers or ridge?

F35 would still fly, but what about the economical situation? How long can USA debts inflates and still stays sustainable for USA's economy?

Remember Reagan triggered an arm race that resulted in USSR fall, not a military win. But, USSR army after that was way less of a threat.

So, yes, cool F35 can export and if you buy it you probably have a super weapon. Will it be a good cost/benefits investment though?
Downvoters, care to explain yourself?
> very easy to describe all your successes (project not canceled) in terms of your team's greatness, and all your failures (project canceled) in terms of other people's capriciousness.

I see this belief in probably about 80% of people I encounter, and it has little correlation with how smart one is.

I like to hang out with people who take responsibility for their failures rather than complaining about how circumstance, "The Man", or other people have it in for them. Such people are far more interesting. Unsurprisingly, they're also far more successful.
Can someone explain what the dark header is?
Should you move to HTTPS?
Here are some GUI Tools which are showing promise.
(not affiliated with any of them)

Here were my basic needs:

* Ability to be understood by a non coder (not necessarily web novice).

* Simple Reusable Components - Drag & Drop tools to create simple CRUD apps

* Code Generation - Have enough scaffolded code generated to hand off to a coder to wire it up. (from Elance etc)

* Work on at least 2 of 3 platforms - WebApp (JS, React or Vue), iOS & Android

* Have ability to create simple logics - If/Then or Show/Hide or even JSON digestion

Here are the tools:

https://neonto.com/reactstudio - A drag n drop Mac tool for developing React apps. All three platforms.

http://creolabs.com - Design tool for Mac (this guy rewrote UIKit). Only Native ios/android. No Webapp.

https://www.protopie.io - Prototypes for now, simple code export on the way.

http://www.appgyver.io - Data Driven drag/drop webapp. All 3 platforms.

https://creator.ionic.io - GUI tool for Ionic (Angular).All 3 platforms.

https://material.io/stage/ - Google's upcoming tool (From Pixate & Form team). Unknown.

https://polymer-designer.appspot.com/ - A Crude Polymer layout tool, looks like Google abandoned it.

http://www.getnoodl.com/

Prototyping tools like Facebook Origami (http://origami.design/) have refused to spit out code. So I didn't even bother learning it.
what is that is stopping you to do the same with normal contracts?
You can get the chair experts with a normal contract and a blockchain one.
arguably much, much, more easily with the former one.
This is a bummer. I'm a buffer user and really enjoy the product. I still think they could gain a huge market by offering their platform to reddit users. I ran a small subreddit for a while that I would have loved to buffer posts for so their would be regular content updates.
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To echo your thoughts, I lived in Cow Hollow and on the days of big events (blue angels, union street festival) I stayed inside. I don't mind tourists, and I love busy streets, but I'll pass on the traffic and asshats, that generally don't care about the neighborhood, that large events like these invite.
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Yea I'm playing the config. Trying to reverse proxy with nginx and it is causing issues. I'm just going to change it back to straight Cowboy
that was the most interesting bit of the article for me, so i went to see what the anemone wikipedia page said and i found

> Triactis producta is found in shallow waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean, its range extending from the Red Sea and Mozambique to Hawaii and French Polynesia. It is inconspicuous, often growing in crevices and concealed among the branches of stony corals. It often occurs in dense clusters of what are probably cloned individuals.

i really wonder how that quote got into the article - was schnytzer somehow misquoted? was he talking about years ago when the anemones were seen on the crabs but not yet found in the corals? it seems unlikely that he would simply be wrong about scientists not having found out where the anemones lived in the wild.
Oftentimes because the change holds no benefit to them and they were not consulted. This creates a default 'change wariness' posture.
nftables "mark" would behave like pf "tag" if you can filter a packet further downstream based on the value of the mark. (It looks like the mark functionality is also present in iptables.)

If people are using marks for policy-based firewalls a la tag in pf, it doesn't look like a particularly common practice, based on a quick Google search. Anyway, it's a start. Thanks for the pointer.
More JS processing my page? No thanks.
I personally would like to see a "mandatory non-car-transportation day" here in the US. Office workers and the like would have to travel to work without a car one day per week/month. Work from home, bicycle, carpool, public transportation, whatever.
Sure, but it still holds just as true.
Doc Brown was probably right: "that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore," in the Soviet Union at least.
More things need dark themes!
This needs to be optional, it looks terrible.
But against what target? A poorly-equiped fighter with no EW capability, one that doesnt move becausr it doesnt see the threat? Lets see how the amraam handles a 4th or 5th generation fighter. There are stories of f22s having trouble downing f4 drones.
More than anything, I'm curious about the reasons behind the change?
> But superheros are touched by the gods: they are blessed or cursed with magical powers, and then we read about their adventures. That's what makes them super. Their stories are human stories filtered through literally superhuman powers, in almost exactly the way that the myths of the old gods were. Some superheroes are the old gods!

There's a gross difference between Gilgamesh (2/3rds god, 1/3rd man from his mother) and Superman.

Gilgamesh was a god-king who set of on adventure. He took what was his (aka: everything) and came back as a king.

In contrast, Superman was born into an adopted farm family and lived ~15 years without any superpowers. He's never seeked political power (and often when he does, its to his detriment. Like the time he got rid of all the nukes through the UN and then Doomsday attacked)

Even Bruce Wayne had to go through the period as a "normal joe" through the recent 'Dark Knight' movies. He gives up on his wealth and becomes a ninja... essentially. When he comes back to wealth-and-power, he's in better control over his own emotions and his fortune.

Green Lanterns are literally just normal dudes. Hal Jordan and John Stewart get rings from space aliens... but their connection to Earth and "normal people" is what make them exceptional Green Lanterns.

All of the popular American Superheroes are basically competing with each other to be more of the "average joe" than each other. Capt. America, Spiderman. Even Thor loses his powers and is forced to wander the Earth until he learns humility (aka: from being a normal person)

The only popular character I can think of as "Greek-god classic" is basically Wonder Woman. Everyone else is relatively unpopular (Aquaman, Nemor, Martian Manslayer) or even an underclass! (Mutants may have superpowers, but they are treated as a "lesser class" of people in virtually every X-men storyline).

Only in America would superheroes would the "underclass" get blessed with superpowers. Just saying.

Iron Man and Wonder Woman are the only exceptions I can think of. Iron Man is basically a counterbalance to the rest of the market however... being the rich asshole.
Isn't the low cost solution just to ban cars or tax them ridiculously and install a network of buses, instead? Cars have terrible density, in theory and in practice.
I much prefer dark themes, but I find the new header really ugly and clashing with everything else. A full dark theme could be cool, though. Just changing the header is lazy.
why don't you go to github.com and see for yourself?
I use this GitHub theme for Stylish, which makes GitHub so much better.

Stylish makes the most sense, because it is a CSS-only solution. Using javascript for this sort of thing is hackish.

https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark
I really dislike the dark header - it draws attention away from the content and towards the nav because the contrast is so great.
Is this not almost tautologically true? Will not any collection of related information have the potential to be represented by some sort of hierarchical structure?
Previously Github's navbar used to be black icons on light gray, and today it turned into light icons on black navbar.
For those curious about the announcement:

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
Keep in mind that you're talking about getting caught in a window that was 34 minutes long. So you'd have to be pretty unlucky, not to mention oblivious, to push through a market sell order at that time.
I think Ethereum undermined their whole reason for existence when they did a fork in response to a valid contract because enough people did not like the results.

The fact that they called it a hack when it explicitly followed the Ethereum guidelines calls into doubt the sincerity of the people behind Ethereum.

http://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists/

If people want to actually have malleable contracts in the case of fraud, the courts provide a much more accountable process that has had centuries of fine tuning.
You would be right in the case of UVA light [1]. Though it's interesting that we have photoreceptors for UV light in the first place.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21646980
It's not really funny (though it kinda is) but back when all the talk was about how the Japanese were eating the US's lunch a frequent claim was it was because they got a fresh start after WWII. Someone or other--don't remember who--then once retorted that the problems of the US steel industry probably wouldn't be solved by dropping an A-Bomb on Gary Indiana.
Not right now, but it's on our roadmap.
oow ok... thanks!
Sure, but also TAX the property based on it's /potential/ value.

A land owner close to where the city is now shouldn't be able to squat on that land at the cost of the opportunity it can provide to the neighborhood(s) around it.
Oh, that's what I'm seeing. There's no difference with the screenshot.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould
My point is simply calculating expected value. If you can't actually do that calculation, there are a lot of activities you should stay away from. The lottery, poker, and startups all immediately come to mind. You may also want to reconsider getting in a car or crossing the street. Low probability of an event multiplied by a large outcome is not zero. It may be low (I do get in cars and cross the street) but people do regularly win the lottery, make money from stock, hit a straight on the river, and get hit by cars.