skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it could work in places like the United States, if it is implemented correctly. I'm skpetical that a correct implementation will be possible because the incentives that created the haphazard system of poorly designed transfer payments we have today aren't just going to go away.

It's too easy for someone to say "Group X needs additional support for Reason Y" and end up with something just as expensive and complex as what we have now. I know, because I've managed to bait people on both the left and the right into doing it for different values of X and Y.

By "correct implementation", I mean one that replaces all welfare, social security, and probably some parts of the tax code. Healthcare maybe you can get away with treating separately.

I don’t know enough about Kenya to say one way or the other.
Probably because the people who buy into these types of arguments are not the ones they're trying to persuade? In any case, they make their values rather clear[0].

[0] https://stream.org/ten-principles/
> After I had opened up all the windows in the house and cleared out the smoke, I removed the back plate to observe the damage and hopefully see if the hard disk had survived.

> Didn’t look like it:

I agree. This is the first time I've seen a hard drive transform into (what looks like) an SSD under any condition.
Nice of you to take the quote totally out of context. Why didn't you include the words directly before that: "if he keeps going at this pace for another 15 years, there is a very good chance..."
I notice this alot with the team I work with. Our team's tickets are not assigned automatically: there's simply a queue and people are encouraged to grab what they can. Unfortunately, what I've often seen is that people see something in the description that they're not familiar with and refuse to touch the ticket because they don't want to ask for help, which means that it languishes in the queues. The end result is that the same person ends up taking the same kind of ticket over and over because they're the only one who has any familiarity with the program in question.
I don't think that hoping for quality work and a promotion of good values from someone with a track record on those issues is an irrelevant criterion. I may end up being repeatedly disappointed, but I'd rather weigh it than not.
While I was getting my PhD(in History), my advisor told me about meeting Lawrence Stone towards the end of his life (Dr. Stone died in 1999). Lawrence Stone had spent a great deal of his career investigating early modern and late medieval marriages. Grossly summed up, he argued that marriages and child bearing in this era were defined more by convenience than by love and it was only in the eighteenth century that love became the defining prerequisite for marriage (I'm being very broad here). My advisor very gently probed Dr. Stone on how he felt about new research that largely puts the lie to Stone's thesis. It was a big deal, because Dr. Stone's theories had defined how we think about marriage and the family for about a generation.

Dr. Stone said that "no quest for the truth is wasted." (that's a quote from my advisor, not Dr. Stone) And he's right! Even if we've got a far more nuanced view of marriage and the family now, he turned over new stones and raised questions that people had to address. His methodology made further research possible. Even if he was wrong (and he thought that he had gotten it wrong), he still made it possible for later historians to do great things.

All that's to say: I totally respect the attitude of having fun doing the math. (as I think parent does as well) This kind of effort is never wasted.
He's only ever spoken out against immigrants who are either (a) from nations or religions associated with terrorism or (b) entered the country illegally. The idea that he somehow has something against all immigrants is leftist propaganda nonsense totally unsupported by reality or facts.
It may not have been too late to save 'extinct' pigeon
Simple C Macros for the Test Anything Protocol
On motherboard integrated graphics is still a thing. They can still use main memory ect, but now the CPU is smaller increasing yield and lower temperature.
Coming soon: Oil spill-mapping swarms of flying drones
I'm criticizing ideas that you wrote on the Internet, not how you spend your time. Apart from the fact that you comment here, I have no way of knowing what you do with your hours.
I don't know if it is a sensor or just a timer but my 2012 MBP warns me about my battery nearing the end of my life.
It's a great book, very well written and fair. But the first time I read it I suffered a certain amount of zealotry: "Google is amazing! I should rewrite everything to be more like them!". Really a subcaption everyone should keep in mind is that the book defines how Google built systems for Google. YMMV.
A world turned upside down
Full quote, for context:

Being conservative, let’s say it makes you 5% more productive.

It's subjective. I'd like to see a before and after study, but empirically measuring code productivity is -- a hard problem.
I flew to eastern Europe three years ago and had a stop-over in Tegel both ways. It was like traveling in the US before 9/11. I felt like a human being whose rights were self-evident. It was civil. I felt human. I also felt ashamed of the industry my country has built out of fear.
Well it did shut down according to the article, but it was probably too late.
Introducing the Google Summer of Code 2017 Mentor Organizations
Apparently the parent comment does as it appears to be blaming the victim
Yes. I paid $100 because I want to encourage volunteering.

> To Marc Andreessen. From Joel Parker Henderson. Hi Marc, what are some of your favorite charity causes that could benefit from pro bono coding help? I work at [X] and we have many programmers who volunteer for social progressive causes; we love coding and we love to help. Thank you, Joel
I'm not sure that figuring out the tooling for indie publishing is too difficult these days. I recently published my first novel, and while it actually isn't self-published--it was accepted by a small press I'd worked with before--in terms of the tooling, it's being approached as a self-published project: I did the typesetting myself, for both ebook and print. (Like Zack Hubert, I used Vellum for the ebook, although I did the print version with LaTeX, which I'll probably write up a short guide to sometime.)

While my press paid for the cover art, printing, ISBN, and other stuff, and they've done some advertising, a lot of the promotional work is left up to me...and in a lot of ways I think marketing is a much harder problem to solve. My novel came out of an intensive workshop led by a Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner (Kij Johnson), has a blurb from a recent Nebula novel nominee (Lawrence Schoen, author of BARSK), was available for pre-order, and I've done what I could to promote it...and it turns out all those people saying it's tough to get your book noticed are, surprise, absolutely right.

tl;dr: while I'm interested in how Mr. Hubert produced his book, I'm more interested in how he finds an audience for it. (Beyond writing an article about it that gets linked on the front page of Hacker News!)
I've had similar experiences in the past. In my situation it was because the Seniors were.... un-helpful to the Juniors, to put it nicely. This is where having a solid group of helpful Seniors can help everyone work better.
This little game called Pokemon Yellow.
Thank you for this series of posts, it's full of practical advice on how to design things. I especially like how you've condensed what must be months of experimentation and experience in a few short paragraphs, with diagrams and everything.

Very useful, thanks again!
WHO report is 'major step forward' in fight against drug-resistant bacteria
Honest question: If I want the diversity of a Ikea catalogue with higher price and quality, where should I go?
Scientists create 3D-printed scaffold for ACL reconstruction
I've been interested in using vim and am not completely useless at using it, but I haven't quite been able to commit to it. The main reason is that I'm not sure it's any faster than using IntelliJs products well. Last time I mentioned to a coworker who is a vim user, that I was thinking if switching to it, he said he was thinking of switching to Idea after seeing me use it.
On Leadership and Culture
Yes I am well aware of the benefits of Lithium tech, and I agree that the alternative is not attractive, however your analogy is flawed.

Most people (adults) understand they are dealing with a controlled explosion (the engine), and the adult is always (presumably) monitoring the car whilst the engine is on. "Adult" and continually "monitoring" are the keywords here.

The difference is that these things are consumer items that my little son plays with.
Damn. Very sad to read this. I have been using B&H for IT hardware purchases for work to lessen reliance on Amazon a bit and their service has been great.
Take Winamp vs Spotify for example.

Spotify, even with much less features and a pretty simple interface, lags out every time I load it, for 10 seconds or so, and overall isn't very responsive. Thats on a pretty good system. Winamp does everything instantly.

I see things like Electron as a form of debt in technology. You can build things cross-platform really quickly, but you're taking out a lot more debt to do it, the problem is that the app can become so popular that they never pay it back.
Of course that apple will end up carrying a scary agricultural pest from Canada to the USA.

Really, this is totally over the top. It's not like we're talking about a an apple that you couldn't buy on either side of the border without any differences whatsoever.

And it could easily be that that apple was produced in the USA to begin with (or further South).

From a pest spreading perspective this makes no sense.

Going through the Southern barricade on foot I could see the point, going from Canada into the USA by bus with an apple it makes zero sense, especially since the pest you so helpfully linked here is widespread on both sides of the border anyway, besides the fact that it was extremely unlikely to carry that particular pest since it was sold as fit for consumption.

Or did you feel that because it came from Canada that there was some terrible risk that would not have been present had it come from any one of the other 49 states?
what air ducts? this is a mac we are talking about, not a thinkpad. There are thin inadequate slits in the case, they are the reason any cpu load results in 80'C, and every discrete GPU mac dies to be eventually grudgingly covered by some small time window "we care enough to not get sued" recall program.
Some of America's "Christian Taliban" communities support pedophilic marriage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/...

Others are campaigning to make polygamy legal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sister-wives-case-utah_u...

Some support pedophilic polygamy: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/warren-jeffs-trying-to-lead-poly...
Tone policing is a real thing, and you engaged in it. Being a person expressing socially undesirable ideas (as you yourself note) makes me a person lacking privilege (in this conversation, at least).

As noted by many sources, it's a privilege to be able to express your ideas without people being reflexively offended and angered by them. As you yourself note, I lack this privilege.
The question here is: does your answer worth $1? anybody here can share experience on that? :)
Why do we require shirts and shoes at work? Why do we tell our children to say "Yes, sir" and "No, ma'am"? Why do we not wear hats indoors?

Yes, words are just words. It doesn't matter if you replace Fuck with shit or damn or pussy. The expression of the word is, in some situations, completely disrespectful of those around you.

Respect. There's a severe LACK of it now-a-days.
I think it's a pure fantasy that most people can be passionate about their jobs.
From the abstract of the paper cited, "vehicle-kilometers traveled increases proportionately to roadway lane kilometers for interstate highways and probably slightly less rapidly for other types of roads." Congestion may not decrease but building more roadway lets more people get to travel where and when they want.

Cities are powerful because of ease and variety of people and businesses you can interact with. A fast point-to-point transportation system where one can travel with up to 40 tons stuff seems to me to be a great system. Cars and trucks have large external costs that we should vigorously try to reduce (physical pollution, noise pollution, land use for roads and parking, energy use, time wasted driving, etc.) but forcing people to use less desirable modes of transport by having the desired mode suck more due to traffic seems quite regressive. If we had instant teleportation from point to point, but the machine took up a city block and belched sulfur dioxide, I would hope the impulse for society would be to research decreasing the size and pollution of the machine and not to just restrict by law that there is to be only one machine per city.
https://medium.com/@thesurbhioberoi/the-equality-project-355...
I have added the data sources on the blog.
yikes. I have two very swollen lithium batteries in my shed from two old mbps I've been meaning to ditch. I had no idea they could spontaneously combust. I'll be getting rid of them tomorrow!
I'd be interested to know how the bathroom tiles look and whether people recommend to do the same in a similar situation.
Previous thread (featuring Ben Horowitz on 21.co): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13485488

Two takeaways:

1. A response looks like this: https://monosnap.com/file/CbRNrj7TUUhaLolVTLYJhrPxUdsYOK

2. A16Z invested in 21.co when it still was a Bitcoin mining hardware startup: https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/18/what-is-21-co-really-doing...
Whenever I hear allegations like this I always wonder what reason the company could possibly have for this. I like assume, perhaps naively, that there was some reason other than "we don't like Latino people and want to avoid them." Even as a black man it seems bizarre to me that at this day in age that kind of racism still exists. In no way do I mean to relieve B&H of any responsibility because in the end the actions are the same regardless of the intention. It just seems really, really weird.
It sounds like you might have some form of Topographical Disorientation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25578-mindscapes-the-...

Every once in awhile (maybe a couple times a month) I'll have this sort of experience (though not as dramatic) where everything is a mirror image. I expect a store to be on the opposite side of the street for example, and it's momentarily disorienting. I've learned to not rely on my intuition when navigating.
Back in the day, I had a removable white polycarb macbook battery swell. Brought it in and they gave me a quick swap (no charge). I was pretty happy. I wonder how much the extra work dealing with internal batteries cost a company.
Just to clarify, that was specifically what that part of my comment was about. The fact that ctrl+f'ing "reference" finds nothing in that article is rather telling.

addendum: If you're going to throw away relativity, step up, stop being a coward: straight up throw away relativity and say Einstein was wrong. Again, you need to come up with some very compelling evidence and a seriously strong theory, but don't weasel around the fact that you're saying that just as Newtonian mechanics accurately models a subset of relativity's domain, relativity accurately models a subset of your theory. Present that new theory or acknowledge you're a mad man that accepts variable physics; don't do neither.
Considering I once worked at a company (in the US) where one programmer had for his Do Not Disturb sign a page that said "FUCK OFF" in giant letters, um... yeah? Granted this was in the video game industry.

But actually even in my current corporate business application development job there's a healthy amount of swearing within the department, even from the boss. We don't use it when communicating with people outside the department though (well, usually).
You have to pay $1 to find out.
New species of parasitic wasp discovered in the eggs of weevils in Africa
Also almost the exact width (between the legs) of a server rack -- hence the "Lack Rack"[1]

[1]https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
Boy Survives Spider Bite with Record Dose of Antivenom
@mgonatav . we are building an internal ERP for our manufacturing business. We use our sales data to try and predict what our future sales will look like. We try and produce what we think we are going to be selling in the next few months. Right, if we sale 3 items a day we just do a straight math and assume we will sale 3x10 in 10 days . I would like to talk to you and see how your service can help us
What is your opinion on publishing a math-heavy e-book (like, equations on every page, inline and offset)? I don't think I will be able to do better than having a physical book paired with a pay-to-download PDF.
I've always been wondering if there is some secret that I've been missing and that these VIM or Emacs gurus keep to themselves which makes them "more productive".

All these abstract claims in blog posts and on forum pages about productivity are completely worthless. Go watch a stream where you can actually see someone program. Maybe you'll pick something up that they do better/faster/more elegant than you. Other than that, the best advice is to ignore these kinds of topics.
Yes, we all would hate to be that farmer, unfortunately for you that farmer as far as we know does not exist and is a hypothetical. There are as far as I know no pests that exist North of the border that do not exist South of it (though the reverse does occasionally happen).

Of course all the good little boys and girls will only eat apples locally grown to make sure such terrible dangers will not befall the local farmers and to avoid 'needless risks to public health'.
What then is the (likely) root cause of these laptop battery fires?
I wasn't speaking about skin tone, but also physical features indicative of African descent. At any rate, in the United States (which is the context of the holiday), class, nationality, and ethnicity don't contribute to perceptions of race; it's effectively the presence or absence of indigenous African physical traits, skin-tone being but one example. Perhaps class, nationality, and ethnicity could be used in 'tie-breaker' cases where race isn't visibly apparent, but that's the extent.
Buried in my footnote is the real gist is: learn your editor, deeply.

IntelliJ is a great tool, too.
In general I think there is a discount to working at a non-profit. I'd expect a salary bump if I went back to industry. That said, I think it is not uncommon. Non-profits span a wide range of organizations. There are well-funded non-profits like the Gates Foundation, Simons Foundation or the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, medical research institutes and research hospitals, health insurers, and leading museums. Non-profits report salaries of officers, highly paid and key employees. Have a look at ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer [0]. Look for IRS Form 990. It's pretty interesting. As tsunamifury says, if you can demonstrate strategic value to the organization you will be in a strong negotiating position.

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
This quality/price curve you describe seems to come about naturally now in our world of mass-produced things. Cameras, Furniture, housing construction, appliances, cars, etc. It's straightforward to find 'crappy', and 'nicer crappy', it's reasonable to find 'truly premium', and it's very difficult to find 'solid, but not quite premium'.

There is definitely a hollowing out of the middle ground, and I think you are correct in that much of it comes from a lack of informed customer base. Only a fleeting few are willing to educate themselves to recognize the difference between 'nicer crappy' and 'solid' even if in a well-informed market they should be about the same price.
This is a really difficult situation, in that lowering regulatory overhead would mean getting automated solutions to the public faster, and even if they weren't optimally safe they'd likely be vastly better than human drivers and the sooner we could reap that benefit the better. However, there is a substantial long-term risk to the viability of self-driving cars if any high-profile accidents do happen, because outside of Silicon Valley people generally trust themselves more than technology. So on the other hand it might be better to continue the dangerous status quo for longer, until regulatory framework can assure safety, so as to make the rollout of autonomous cars actually result in adoption of autonomous cars.
> All three of those have an access to a very sophisticated immigration scam operatives.

While that is true in many cases, in many others it is not. I lived on a border town for a few years and made friends with some DHS agents there. Listening to their stories re drug trade I got the impression that many of the people carrying drugs over are actually poor, uneducated, uninformed, etc. While some of the techniques may be sophisticated, I got the impression that the traffickers themselves frequently were not. I would imagine basic abrasive interrogation techniques would be reasonably effective.
I wish they'd combine the relay server functionality into syncthing itself so that it could automatically use peers as relay servers.

I'd prefer not to rely on the generosity of others or running the relay server and having to manually configure syncthing clients to use it.
I'd like to know this too. I've got the same model as stated in the article. I'm weary now that it may cause a malfunction
Ask HN: Does anyone still read Techcrunch?
I remember when it was thee place to go for a certain type of startup news.
Speaking of distros and considering your background. What would be the "best" Distro for running Kubernetes ?
Faced with phenomena I view as self-affine, other students take an extremely different tack. Most economists, scientists and engineers from diverse fields begin by subdividing time into alternating periods of quiescence and activity. Examples are provided by the following contrasts:
between turbulent flow and its laminar inserts, between error-prone periods in communication and error-free periods, and between periods of orderly and agitated ("quiet" and "turbulent") Stock Market activity. Such subdivisions must be natural to human thinking, since they
are widely accepted with no obvious mutual consultation. Rene Descartes endorsed them by recommending that every difficulty be decomposed into parts to be handled separately. Such subdivisions were very successful in the past, but this does not guarantee their continuing success. Past investigations only tackled variability and randomness that are mild, hence, local. In every field where variability / randomness is wild, my view is that such subdivisions are powerless. They can only hide the important facts, and cannot provide understanding. My alternative is to move to the above-mentioned apparatus centered on scaling.

-Mandelbrot, in the foreward to Multifractals and 1/f Noise.

it's worth saying that Mandelbrot was apparently a large influence to E Fama, who proposed the efficient market hypothesis in the first place.
No, it's a pain for everybody and I'm not a masochist.

What the UK wants to do to its own citizens is their problem, they can vote to change it.
For those that are a little skeptical of NYPost, here's the DOL press release:

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/20160225-2

And here's the same story on some other news sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/nyregion/bh-electronics-s...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/us/bh-photo-lawsuit/
Strange, I always thought that Expedit (now transformed to uglier Kallax) took over the world, not Billy.

For my taste Expedit looks nicer and there are many hacks that involve it.