skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most obvious example would be the acceptance of homosexual acts in societies where the lgbt identity is or was not common. The most obvious example is the Roman Empire where same sex acts were considered something men did but the idea of gay marriage would be ridiculous, since marriage was about producing heirs.
Show HN: KITR – a customizable UI kit that exports your components to code
For the reason DEL is shifted ‘_’, see your friendly neighbourhood ASCII table, and/or one of the recent HN threads¹. The ADM-3A² is a good example of a bit-paired keyboard³.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13539552

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A

³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
I expect money laundering is only a small fraction. On the other hand, the use of Bitcoin to evade currency controls and take legitimately earned money out of China is probably a large fraction of total Bitcoin use.
A JIT faster than C? I thought in theory it would always have to be slower because you have the overhead of the JITing. Also, isn't compiling C to native, the best you can hope for anyway? What could be faster than that, except for asm?
How do you feel about PHP7?
If I may paraphrase: "Never forget that large monopolies can wield disgusting influence, but don't let hate for past monopolies blind you to modern monopolies either" :-)
>The artificial need for ever increasing growth and valuations is so destructive in this town, need to start rethinking some of those attitudes. We just have to hit this weird fake number with no basis in reality, or people's lives get ruined.

Silicon Valley is the only town I know where a thing like "profitability" is seen as a weird number.

Maybe I'm missing your point, but these jobs wouldn't exist if it wasn't for endless VC capital and ridiculous valuations, so I'm not sure the net effect is leaving these former employees "worse off".

>but maybe it's time for a different model.

Be self-sustaining or go under; why should it be any other way?
I like the idea of a social network of businesses first, individuals second.

The problem in this space (usually encountered when typing "Quickbooks Reviews" or "Quickbooks vs Xero") is the results do not feel trustworthy, mainly because there is no provenance of the reviewer. It feels like the reviews can be bought.

If you can build a high quality review and dataset, that answers detailed questions about the product in an objective fashion, that would be very useful.
> It is a shame that many major Linux distributions are dropping 32-bit x86 support.

Really it's that nobody who is interested in 32-bit x86 support is prepared to maintain it. In Free Software land, that's almost always the reason that stuff gets dropped. If it's enough of a shame, those interested would step up and make it happen. They haven't.
I have trouble buying that claim. In a world where gay sex happens but isn't acknowledged, I don't see how people engaging in gay sex would consider it "normal". As if it became "abnormal" only when we started labeling it consistently as homosexuality. Was "furry" sex also considered normal before we had a name for it?

I can buy that men who had sex with men wouldn't consider themselves gay (or bisexual or whatever) because that wasn't really a recognized thing. That doesn't mean that the gay sex itself would have been considered "normal" even by the people engaged in it.
Recommended reading: "The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century" by Stein Ringen [1], who is not some alt-right nutwing hack but somebody who made a career out of dissecting societies and took on China fresh off South Korea. I hope I won't excessively spoil the experience by saying that he would not agree with your assessment.

[1] http://www.hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.j...
Do you ask the guy at the hot dog stand what his position is on trade policy? Or the folks who bag your groceries how they feel about police brutality? Do you only purchase from Amazon vendors who make it clear that they support increasing taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year? Do you only buy TVs from companies that back legalization of marijuana? Do you only make bids on eBay for products sold from countries who support human rights progress? I mean you pay taxes on those products, which support those nations.

Should _companies_ define moral code or _people?_
To a certain extent I certainly find the current/modern fixation with classifying gender and orientation odd. It's not entirely clear to me why it's important that I know somebody is a "queer sapiosexual" or whatever else. But there are clearly a lot of people who think such things are very important.

And of course what seems a tendency towards needlessly complicated overly-expository self-labeling encompasses a lot more than gender these days. It feels like there's a subtext to a lot of it which sort of suggests that ideas can only be heard and understood clearly by those who own the appropriate labels (including gender), and so people seek to have expansive identities that give them the social bona fides necessary to have their opinions, thoughts, and ideas treated with respect and presumed relevance.

In other eras perhaps these social credentials came from wealth or class or other "accomplishments." But the modern world seems to have let an obsession with the the variously unfair, arbitrary, capricious, and discriminatory nature of these previous credentials become the basis for inventing new ones based around constructed identities, since such constructs are available to all.

In a way we can see this in how protest movements are labeled - it used to be that they were labeled by their goals or the problems they were trying to solve, like the "Civil Rights Movement" or the "Conservation Movement." But now we label things by their identity. Rather than conservation movement, at some point we ended up with "conservationists" and "environmentalists," which have given way to things like the "Women's March," "Scientist's March," etc, which seem to imply that identity necessarily indicates viewpoint - just by knowing what category/identity is marching I should know what it is trying to say.

As a lazy human being I find this not an all-together pleasing development, mostly because it seems to go along with a bit of all-or-nothingism, particularly for "allies," who, absent the appropriate labels, may only accept or not accept the broad determinations of those who own the operative label at risk of being excluded/denounced.

Anyway, I enjoyed the piece. Always enjoy reading about Victorian stuff.
I'm not sure what you could have possibly hoped to gain by writing this condescending "I'm so smart" response.
Real-time map of air pollution around the world
Why did people downvote you, it's an honest question? Anyway, I expect the Audi manu expert would consider this and make sure he doesn't design a system without that possibility.
I'm pretty sure most solutions on the internet consist of bubble gum, some tape and lots of handwaving. Gitlab's screwup is hardly unique, even if it was very public.

It's difficult and expensive to build and maintain a solid system, and even if you want to, time and financial pressures often just don't let you, on top of the issue of just communicating the need for solid engineering, as it usually only becomes apparent when the problems start occurring.
Ambitious doesn't mean trying to be president. It means doing more than eat, sleep, play xbox. Most people do more than that.
Wittgenstein is interesting in the history of philosophy as the guy who ruined it twice.

Had he lived longer there's no doubt he would have done it again.
It seems that contrary to discussion in yesterday's bitcoin thread [1], this is not 'unnecessary FUD.'

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13601083&goto=item%3Fi...
No, the reduced quality of life for existing dogs isn't enough justification for euthanization (except maybe in extreme cases).

I'd say it's probably unethical to breed more brachycephalic dogs, and by extension unethical to purchase those dogs from breeders (unless maybe the breeders have ceased to breed these dogs).
Yeah, but what do you want them to do? Nationwide tour of schools? Why only American schools? Why not highschools? Why schools at all; why not start hosting events in libraries?

But they're not. They're showing up at a few places, then doing other things. Fair enough, I think. It's not their job to do otherwise and you don't own their time.
Irony can be substantive. My comment was a laconic way to respond to the parent. Essentially what i said is "categorizing people like products in aisles brings unhappiness, let's stop doing it by NOT creating a label for the people who categorize". On its own my comment is useless, so i 'll remove it.
I started using Vim on the very first release of Slackware, back in 1993, I think. I've been using it ever since. Thanks Bram!!!
Why do you think it's OK to shun Nazis, but not OK to shun Muslims? Both are opinions/belief systems, hence a choice, and both are, in their extreme versions, quite brutal.
> SO being at that tier of school doesn't guarantee intelligence, just being outside of the tier doesn't exclude intelligence.

You continue to argue against straw men. I never said everyone at top schools is smart, nor did I claim that everyone who is smart is at a top school. Just that the average IQ at a top university is higher than at a random one.

Do you have any evidence to disprove that the average IQ at elite universities is higher? It's almost a farcical thing to argue against. For one thing, IQ correlates with SAT scores pretty heavily and SAT scores at elite universities are much higher. [0]

> That tier of school is an aim for both the child and parent from birth (probably before birth for the parents).

Oh give me a break. Have you ever been to an elite university? Do you know anyone there? My parents sure as hell weren't thinking about my college acceptances when they conceived me. I certainly didn't work hard to get there.

There's a small population of crazy Manhattan elites who are obsessed with preparation and education status, but that's far from being everyone who goes to a top school. Most of my friends were people who just happened to be very intelligent and (in many cases) hard working.

I don't understand what you are so hung up on.

[0] http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf?origin=p...
Baidu is one: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-at-baidu-powering-...

160 shards = 160 replica sets, and is already larger than Parse.
Generally I'd agree with you, but the parenthetical statements only make the sentence harder to read and do not change or add to the meaning at all, at least to me.
Judging by the number of joke and low hanging responses on this thread I think they should have held this article for a little longer.
Why? It's not a puff piece boasting about their backup plans, they're talking about their remote work strategy.

What's tone-deaf is the vitriol some people are spilling in this thread.
Nanobox is a portable "micro" PaaS, we don't provide servers, we integrate with your host of choice and provision servers for you. The cost and number of servers your application needs/uses is between you and your host (AWS, DO, etc).

The $99 you pay to Nanobox is for the use of the Nanobox Dashboard to manage your application on your host (Nanobox Desktop is free).
Hey, maybe this can cut my liquor budget in half!
Their Shopify store includes a t-shirt with a fricken' parteiadler on it. I think the label is entirely justified.
Artificial Intelligence a modern approach book review
That says more about the fact that that implementation pattern is a core part of the NT OS, and the underlying design of the two kernels is so different that just throwing Linux code in the mix would not make sense (in the way that hearing purple doesn't make sense).

WSL is a elimination of the Linux user mode programming environment. The fact that that requires implementing Linux kernel functionality is simply an artifact of the lack of a more modular design (or really any up front design) in Linux.
There was a very good documentary on the NatGeo channel here in the US just this week that did an excellent job of explaining all of it to me.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/gender-revolution-a-jo...

One thing I found especially interesting is toward the end, where Katie Couric sits down with Renée Richards and Hari Nef. It was interesting seeing Hari talk with Renée and realize they disagree on the binary topic.
Companies are run by people and consequently they're fallible. Every company makes mistakes occasionally. Gitlab handled theirs incredibly well. A more opaque company would have kept the problem, and the experience they earned handling it, to themselves. Gitlab's openness means we can all learn a little from their event. I think that's great. I wish more companies shared more when these things happen.
I found this interesting.

"if a physical law can be as complicated as the experimental
data that it explains, then there is always a law, and the
notion of “law” becomes meaningless! Understanding is compression! A theory as complicated as the data it explains is NO theory"...

Then saying that program -> computing -> output has to follow from small to large in size, ie the program is the algorithmic information and the output is the data it explains.

Looking at modern day web development we are seeing the opposite, where the program is many times bigger than it's output, suggesting to me that the modern frameworks do not come from any sound theory.
How confident are you that {{ site.url }} website has no JavaScript errors?
Do they need to fork? The reason given is "decreasing popularity of i686 among the developers and the community". If enough developers were prepared to maintain a fork, why wouldn't they just do it as part of the Arch project? As far as I can tell, they're not being turned away; it's being dropped because there isn't anyone to turn away.
Alternate solution - don't breed dogs with extreme anatomical features that mean if they get overexcited in hot weather they can suffer organ damage.
Communication is obviously not unnecessary, but Snapchat could not exist and everything would be pretty much the same.
What is your definition of "respect"?

- enough time to for them to see you physically in the office before you disappear?

- enough time for them so that they can complete their goals on time before you leave?
The situation really is complicated if you are committed to the constraint of keeping Octave free.

Sidekiq pro is just selling non-free software. It's not just the right to send email.

My second idea was to move to an open core model: hold
back more complex or enterprise-specific features from
the OSS version, sell those features as an "expansion
pack" on top of Sidekiq. Thus, Sidekiq Pro was born.
This proved to be popular and forms my business today.

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq?utm_source=n...

I can't tell about handsontable, but it looks like again it's just plain ol' non-free software, although they do seem to let you look at the source code under what sounds like a restrictive license.

pfsense also seems to sell a lot more than just an ebook. They sell backups, what sounds like another non-free addon "plus many more features". Maybe most people don't use any of that extra stuff?

None of this sounds like it's just a matter of selling stooge licenses, and the sidekiq guy even said that selling stooge licenses didn't bring in any noticeable revenue.
The assessment report on pollinators, pollination and food production [pdf]
Why Twitter Can't Make Money Off Donald Trump's Tweets
"If this had been a conclusion reached as a result of careful analysis, then I'd be interested"

Ironically, we could say the same about your post ;-)

The following is only a link away:

"[..] This way, the results show that higher powers of ultrasound, of nearly 40 W/L, in addition with the movement of the spirit, improve the extraction of phenolic compounds in a 33.94%, after seven days of ageing. Then, applying Youden and Steiner’s experimental design, eight experiments of ageing were performed, and the samples obtained by this new method were analysed to obtain information related to their physicochemical and oenological characterisation in order to determine the experimental conditions that produce the best ageing results.[..]"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417716...
I think one of the issues is the title is too generic. Maybe call out some specific schools on the tour next time?
I need to stop with the padding, it's going to evolve into a nasty compulsive disorder at some point :-)
New Close-Up Image of Jupiter's South Pole
As an example of this comment's point, one of the problems where I grew up is that when you told the guidance counselor you wanted to go to MIT she said, basically, don't bother.
The question is: does it work on cheese?
I don't know if we should advocate lowering standards of admissions.
What's the best-practice approach for taking backups that are significantly more frequent than every 24 hours, but also robust to things like an rm -rf or a DELETE FROM table;? Something like continuous data protection seems like it would be far too much data for an active database server, no?

(Or are we just saying that they should have been taking backups every 15 minutes or hour or so?)
> Nope, a static language will execute faster than a dynamic language, because the runtime knows precisely what type everything is and how much space to allocate.

asm.js is effectively a static language.
This is part of the issue that's being addressed in the current autopilot. Tesla throttles the autopilot speed to be no more than a certain amount past the posted speed limit. Drivers have been complaining that the posted limits don't match the pre-mapped limits already.
So what happened to the money in the account? I mean, when you close an account(s) of a deceased relative at a bank (presuming you have the legal right to do it - it takes more than just "showing up" and claiming such), the money is generally withdrawn and processed as a cashiers/bank check (depending on the amount - for certain large amounts, there may be a wait period) - and given the person closing the account(s).

...so - what happened to your mom's co-worker's money?
> That said, it was not feasible to analyze every image captured image from the PiCamera using TensorFlow, due to overheating of the Raspberry Pi when 100% of the CPU was being utilized.

Best laugh of the day right there. Really there's no excuse for the pi3 to not have some sort of reasonable stock heat sink for it. FriendlyElec does it, HardKernel does it, why can't the Pi foundation? Most any device should be capable of running CpuBurn at reasonable ambient temperatures without excessive throttling. It's like buying a 5 speed car and then being told you can't go past 3rd gear.
The fetishization of startups and venture capital is to blame. There's no concept of creating a sustainable business when you take someone else's money. Investors need 1000x + returns on investments because that's how it works. 1000 startups they invest in fail so 1 has to pull the weight of the others. This model is broken for sure, but I don't know what they cure is.
And Monk wrote that biography at the age of 26. I've wasted my life.
The Roman Empire collapsed centuries ago. I'm talking specifically about the claim that gay sex was considered normal before the 1950s, so let's say 1900-1949 in Britain.

Where is the evidence that in 1940 a guy could engage in gay sex and consider it normal and what the hell happened between then and 1952 when Turing was chemically castrated for engaging in gay sex?
Ok. Can I assume we agree that nobody is obligated to own or care for a dog of any sort? I apologize in advance if you don't agree.

With that stipulated:

If the benefit a dog obtains from living outweighs --- in all but the most extreme cases --- the suffering that dog will have due to its genetic defects, AND people are entitled to make a rational decision not own a dog, are they not ethically entitled to select any breed they want? How would it be more ethical to create no benefits for any dogs than to create compromised but net-positive benefit for some dogs?
I had always thought that thinking of sexuality as a genetic predisposition was strange and essentializing, especially given the rest of the discourse around that understanding of sexuality.

However, in the context of the larger cultural argument between people who are okay with various queer behaviors and people who did criminalize those behaviors, it makes more sense: the idea of 'genetic predisposition' is, I believe, an appeal to biases of the biased.

A similar but unrelated case would be along these lines: I am for total decriminialization of drugs, but I can see the value in the argument for "medical marijuana".

I don't particularly care about having just cannabis legal via prescription, but the people who have made cannabis illegal may be willing to compromise in that direction. That may be an improvement even if it's not a total victory.

And though it may not be enough of an improvement to spend time arguing for, I also don't see the need to make an effort arguing against the position, either.
Software developers are hopefully socking away a lot of their income while the days of great pay are here rather than spending it. When the housing bubble burst around 2008 many real estate agents found themselves in trouble because rather than saving while the going was good they were spending it on new cars, new larger house, nice vacations.

Edit: this isn't to say we are in a bubble that will burst, its to say that eventually developer pay will come down (as supply catches up)
Personally I would really love it if "git blame" were both fast and reliable. When working with other people's code I constantly look at file version history to figure out why things are the way they are. Unfortunately, big merges and renamings tend to break the history in Git.
Is there another location for official source releases? The Nix expression [1] builds from source from GitHub releases, but it could easily be modified to point to an different address on the web to stay more up-to-date.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/711a42e03aa44439142bb8...
Then maybe one of the very first computer scientist's take on philosophy would interest you. A PDF of his Antiphilosophical Dictionary is available here:

http://www.naur.com
> Because the latter requires pointer-from-property calculation for every single values access (which must be somehow optimised)

Global value numbering (GVN) should be trivially able to do this.
And responsible vets and veterinary associations are now starting to publicly say that there are problems with these breeds.

It's not even the ethics of purebred ownership in general - it's the ethics of selecting for known harmful traits, and people buying them in droves due to little more than fashion.
It's not about paying to pad the application. There are legit methods of expanding your kid's world/mind. Those method generally cost more money than sitting in the house all summer watching tv.
The 76ers have decided to pivot – to investing in startups
Given the complete backlash I'm seeing on HN it seems like transparency actually hurt you. Very sad.
Out of curiosity: what does it mean to you "targeted for Rails users"?

BTW, I was a Rails developer before I moved to Phoenix. Given that Phoenix is modelled after Rails that is the easiest transition there is (though it gets more and more different with every release and 1.3 will be a big step - and those are good changes).