skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hitler got regular injections of cocaine, meth and opiates: book
I am in Rio now since a week. I think this country has much more urgent needs then electronic payment systems...

Anyways, card payments are more common here then in some European countries, like Portugal or Italy (many EU countries can be traveled cashless). So I was surprised Uber accepted cash payments in Rio (nowhere in Europe, I think).

Maybe its because of the tipping ? Adding 10% service fee to any bill seems extremely universal.

EDIT: thanks ufo for the comment. I thought it extended to other services as well.

EDIT: I also found this background article on Uber cash payments in Brazil:
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/uber-cash-pol...
It says: 'Just 20 percent of payments in Brazil are made digitally' - so that is why cash was introduced
Ok, that's an argument against blended fruits. What about vegetables? I blend two packed cups of spinach, two cups mango, some chia seed, and some water. Yet this says I should stuff all this into my mouth whole. Why?
Relax! With the rumor that some fast food hamburgers had ground up worms, an answer was that the fast food place wanted to make money and keep down expenses, and per pound worms were more expensive than beef. So, no ground up worms in the hamburger!

Well, for human DNA in the hamburgers, sure, likely "more expensive than beef"! :-)
> Jekyll on Github?

Yep. That one is quite nice.

There is a bit of a learning curve, but actually using it is great. All your content is versioned, there are always backups, performance is most excellent, and security is a complete non-issue since there is no server-sided logic involved.

I also like writing articles in Markdown. It's a good fit.

The git/md combo also allows you to write anywhere without requiring an internet connection. I do write quite a lot during my train commutes, for example.
>Linux mistakenly claims using a cryptographic hash function helps avoid non-malicious collisions, but this is not the case.

of course it does. It is using a different field (cryptography) as a CRC that "really, really won't collide" because there is a whole field (cryptography) that is completely busted if it does.

Let me put it this way. If I really, really need a random distribution of white noise, I might use a different field, cryptography, to provide it: because if the distribution is not effectively random and uniformly distributed, that field in some fundamental sense is broken: no information is supposed to make it into the ciphertext, it should be indistinguishable from white noise.

So encrypting your source of white noise for the sole purpose of making it statistically closer to noise is a perfectly valid choice.

Actually in your commment you said it yourself: in as little as four billion commits CRC64 expects to see a collision. That is tiny compared to the search space cryptographers work with.

If you look at the history of git there was originally no reason to use cryptographic functions except in the same way as the analogy I just made (for white noise): he borrowed a property from a different field from the one he was working in.
Having animations 100% of the time to help with 1% use case of having an audience (if it even helps, I seriously doubt it) is horrible design. I also doubt that's the reason Apple had for putting them in, designers need to do something to prove they're useful so they add useless little bits of eye candy that really just slow everyone down.
Yes you're misunderstanding the point. It refers to southern US states who claimed states rights when seceding from the Union in the American Civil War.
Human driven cars have a bicycle problem as well.

Humans aren't very good at predicting or seeing them either in dense urban areas. Grade separation is the way to go!
I think it's important to realize that there are many causes of poverty, ranging from political to cultural to infrastructure to capital. What programs like GiveDirectly and the Grameen Bank's operations in Bangladesh are finding is that when the limiting factor is lack of money, giving people money helps, a lot.

There are other places in the world where the limiting factor is that if you give people money, some warlord will come in with guns and take it away. There are other places where if you give money, the local villagers will drink it away. There are still other places where you can give money and people will use it productively to grow more crops, and then the crops will rot in the fields because the transportation infrastructure to transport them to where they're needed doesn't exist.

In places like Kenya or Bangladesh where there is relatively peace, a relatively industrious culture, and the know-how to profitably invest capital, giving money helps. In other places - DRC for example, or rural Peru - the money just gets redistributed to people who will use it to keep the locals down.
In Brazil, tipping is only common on restaurant bills and it is very uncommon for other services. I have never seen anyone tip a taxi.
Power requirements aside, AMD is still lacking a Thunderbolt 3 implementation so Apple will have to stay with Intel when it comes to Mac CPUs.
You're probably working in the wrong places... I average about 2hrs a day of "learning" time... a lot of it on here, and reading related articles. Some of it updating software in github/npm. Bits of it exploring the db/codebase thinking of ways to improve things.

If you can't get 20% or so of your work time for self/team improvement, then your job is going nowhere. As for doing things on your own time... software development can be an engineering discipline... however, in practice it's more of a craft. Most of the better craftsmen I know, and know of, spend a lot of their own time working on their craft.
Yeah, but not just investors money. One of the sad things about Google is that it seems to soak up so many bright, highly paid minds - then puts them to work on relatively useless things.

It's inefficient allocation of humanity's intellectual resources.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Although, honestly, that only sounds like more reason to donate..
They don't have to start with technical writing. I didn't. I wrote a travel blog and shared it with my friends on facebook.

That transferred directly to my later technical writing.

You can also do technical writing, share that with a few technical friends, and get feedback.

I don't think any of my comment was about doing technical writing immediately though.
Ask HN: Is anyone using OpenStack Solum in production?
Solum[0] is Basically an OpenStack PaaS, but it's been limping along with not much development being done besides bitrot maintenance to keep it working with the rest of OpenStack's projects.
Android has that option, hidden in the "Developer Options" menu. Apple tends not to be friendly to customization, so I wouldn't expect them to add it.
typo here:
"Daniel, kind of a coder for more than a decadem but dreams to be the next Elon Musk, wannabe"
But even that has grown/changed... not as much as the broader dev community as a whole, but it's not like its' stood still.
thats not how money works. Just because you can afford one expensive luxury, doesnt mean you can afford all the other expensive stuff. Sometimes you do sacrifice all the other thing to get that one important expensive stuff
Back when this originally came out, Uber claimed "this incident was due to human error" [1]. Well technically, if you really twist the meaning of words, Uber could interpret this as "human error", considering:

- It was "human error" that the programmers who designed the self-driving AI failed to properly implement red-light detection and braking.

- It was also "human error" that the human driver in the front seat failed to notice the red lights and stop the car.

Uber's statement is effectively true, if you hideously twist the meaning of words. I fully believe that's what they did in their statement. There's similar wordplay for the word "natural", i.e. claiming "All pollution is natural", because humans are part of nature and everything we do is natural, so all consequences of our actions are also "natural". Deceiving yet ultimately, effective.

[1] Uber says self-driving car ran red light due to “human error” https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-looking-into-incident...
Ask HN: How to become a network admin. at 19?
This article casually mentions it's possible to be a teen network administrator at a large telecom company: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/894587.print/

How is this possible? I thought a college degree was necessary. (The article mentions the job at firm Global Telecoms and Technology in Bury, Greater Manchester, England)
I don't think it's a non-factual claim that there is a significant degree of horizontal occupational gender segregation in pretty much every advanced economy. A random search using terms similar to those above yields the following: http://imgur.com/a/lcHPU

The segregation seems to follow a pretty stereotypical pattern: men cluster is occupations concerned with abstract, impersonal systems or that revolve around physical labour and women cluster in professions that involve a relatively greater degree of social interaction. I am not making any claim as to why this is the case, merely that it is.

A good paper (IMHO) that does a thorough analysis of the data on vertical and horizontal segregation can be found here: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1177/0038038511435063

One finding I thought particularly interesting was that the countries with the highest levels of horizontal segregation are Finland, Denmark and Sweden. This seems counter-intuitive to me, though I cannot explain why...
You were marked as [dead] btw. Have vouched.
What if I want to suffer more? I want to be less okay with all my procrastination, my job situation, my lack of willpower in the face of adversity, and more. I want to take my failures more personally - I want losing to be painful like it is for Michael Jordan, I'm presently too content with it.
Why would you mislead me Jared? I trusted you!
More generally: Trey makes an excellent argument for the importance of user state, in a workstation context. This is a matter I've become increasingly despondant on myself, across numerous platforms: Linux desktop, Android, Mac, Windows.

The biggest sin I witness of any user-oriented software (as opposed to server or controls systems) is of failure to maintain state. The atomisation of tasks among different applications, with increasing fragmented and kludgy means for data interchange plays into this. The increasingly widespread use of computers is itself a tremendous part of the problem.

A recent OECD survey of computer skills among the general population found that fully half the general population has no or at best only the very most rudimentary computer skills. "Advanced" skills -- defined as the ability, say, to use a Search or Search and Replace functionality within a word processing app, was roughly 5% of the population.

If you're a HN / YC coder, administrator, or designer, you're some small fraction of the 1%.

The flipside is that general-purpose systems are not being built or designed with you in mind. This was a view I first saw voiced (explicitly stated) from the GNOME development leadership in the early 2000s, and more recently from both the Mozilla and Chrome browser development team leads. It's a cause Jonathan Zittrain has campaigned for, "generative computing", along with Cory Doctorow, for years. It's a battle we're losing.

And generally, tools for establishing and maintaining a complex system of state between numerous tools and applications ... is poor.

Trey's approach is to try to use VM snapshotting, at regular intervals, to create recovery points. That's an option, but it strikes me that it's operating at too low a level, and may well be preserving the state leading to whatever instabilities are crashing his system(s). Recovering to the point just prior to failure seems rather like Groundhog's Day.

A generalised support for history within applications, allowing for recovery and rollback to that application's prior state strikes me as far more useful. I'm increasingly thinking that Emacs, and its various terminal-support modes, may actually be that generalised model for many instances.

And, as I write this comment, I see that Firefox/Android has once again wiped out the 100+ tabs I'd been trying to organise and sort through, something of a task-list organisational mode I've found I use on browsers, or rather, try to, though its a usage mode they support exceedingly poortly.

I am not the target userbase.

Oh well.
The best way I've found is to blog what you learn. There is always somebody who is learning what you are learning and is a day behind you. They will benefit from your "experience" and being able to teach what you just learned means you know it well. 5 years and I haven't stopped learning. Http://maxdemarzi.com
Was he okay?
Nope the environment was not that much different than today, and the patterns of group behaviour leading to a now plastic disposable society and the increasing degree of wealth disparity were well established before any boomers were even a twinkle in their previous generation's eye.

It's just that the boomers were unable to overcome the grip from centuries of disparity, and failed to achieve perfection before having children themselves.
When I say 'processed', I mean meat like ham or beef - stuff that I would expect to be real meat, but instead it's sliced from what I guess you could call a mold of reformed scraps. I have no real problem with it but it struck me as unusual given how much sandwich shops charge for their food.
Don't forget - curation.

Librarians don't just hoard stuff.
The extremely asymmetric nature of cable modem internet connections will make this tough when you're not at home: your house will upload responses to you at a crawl.

That, or the "home server" component will be a separate mode / augmentation for what are still primarily cloud-based services.

I'd much rather locate my personal server (or VM) in a real datacenter and behind a better SLA than my flaky Comcast.
Talked to some Spanish girls two weeks ago that moved their office from Malta to Lisbon, because Malta was not exciting enough. Maybe it was because they were single ;-)

So on the positive side, Malta is a good place to get some real work done :-)
Yeah, they must be doing really well.
"I feel this journalist is trying to hurt the Uber brand more than reporting the facts"

"Brazil has a very high crime rate."

"If you consider the crime problem in Brazil, Uber is quite irrelevant on all of this."

The article is pretty clear about these points.

"It's undeniable that Brazil has a crime problem, regardless of Uber."

"The problem was that Uber started allowing cash payments without upgrading its weak registration system for passengers."

"Data showed a massive increase in the number of attacks against Uber drivers since the unveiling of cash payment"

The article also publishes Uber's counter-argument:

"The company says they can't be held accountable for incidents that could happen to any other driver, including non-Uber taxi drivers"

On the whole, it feels a fairly balanced article, discussing facts, and providing rational, articulated, reasoned perspective.
What sort of bookmark numbers are you looking at?

I currently have about 2000 articles on Pocket, and just tagging + simple search works for me.
Pro photographers don't do that.
How can that be true if no one can agree on the definition of the word "spiritual"?
In a further irony: Firefox crashed, again, as I was attempting to restore my prior browsing state, from history, one-at-a-time, as there is no mechanism for multi-recovering, or snapshot-recovering, previous state.

I was in the midst of attempting to file a crash report to Mozilla, and needed to reference a URL (Trey's initial article), but switching away from the crash-report screen itself, on Android, lost it.

It is 2017. Do you know where your user state is?
Violent tactics correlated to lower social movement success
This is precisely why, to this day, I hate all laptop keyboards... the feel, and spacing is just so different, it's hard to get used to. I'm typing this on a Unicomp 103-key modem-m style keyboard... spacing is closer to original vs 104-key. Can't express how much better it feels.

At work, I'm using a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches, to be (slightly) less annoying, but it's still a very different feel to it. These days, my only pain points are that getting natural scrolling outside of a mac is difficult (windows wants to keep resetting it back) and ubuntu removed it from the options, and it doesn't always work. And the ctrl/cmd characters on mac feel wierd... I've got cmd in lower-left and cmd at alt position, but in a console it's of course backwards in terms of muscle memory. And in mac home/end don't work as expected.

Not sure where I carried off into a hardware rant... but all the same, what you touch and look at are surprisingly important.
Who fights what exactly? I'm not disagreeing I'm trying to understand.

And are elites just one monolith? I don't think that's how it is. I think every group in society has its cool people and its narrow-minded, greedy cretins. I doubt that there's a single entity called the elite that acts in concert after the annual meeting.
From Monty Python: The Conditions for Creativity
Did you just make that up ?
Yeah, if he loses I see him trying to start his own firm.
Unfortunately, I don't think blogging improves this skill unless you get someone good at writing to review every post you make.

I read (or rather, try to read) plenty of poor technical writing linked on HN and Lobsters every week. Because a lot of people blog as a form of self-documentation and to improve their "personal brand" activity, people rarely give or listen to writing criticism.
How about starting with discrete radio and modem? Maybe a real LAN? Gaming GPU?
I daydream sometimes that lightning strikes and both google and facebook suddenly go out of business.

So many of the world's best and brightest software engineers work at those companies. Suddenly out of work they'd be motivated to start those little business they've always wanted to have. I think we'd see an explosion of cool new ideas & businesses pop up in the tech community.
As much as I despise Trump, I agree. I'd prefer HN remain relatively non-political. The minute it starts to resemble anything like the default front page of reddit, I'm going to be looking for the next HN.
The most important question is, of course, what's your Internet connection like? :-)

I think this is awesome. If this were one year ago (when I was newly single), I would've been on the first flight out to come visit for a month or so!
Probably isn'y the sky falling. But if knowing the length fixed all hash function issues then cryptographic hashes would just use a some more bits for length.
Considering the limitations of computer vision, this should really come as no surprise.
Anything niche but important enough to warrant a $1000 phone that could take another $xxx component is also something that could easily have a $xxx USB-C component.
> Pay attention to what is popular, and what isn't

So poorly written, navel gazing, clickbait titled, troll bait articles about how X tech sucks and we used Y and here's what happened next™ posted on Medium?

I'd rather not blog at all if what's popular on HN is our goal :-)
> Less sarcastically, what do people need >64 gigs for on a consumer desktop?

I use mine as a terminal server to some super cheap Raspberry PI machines that are basically just monitors running VNC software.

For good performance you need about 4 to 8GB per user. I don't have that many users personally to need 64GB, but if you have a bunch of kids having terminals is much cheaper than a real computer for each user, plus you only need to keep one computer updated.

You could easily afford a computer in each room that way.
Note the embedded Fake News:

the referenced "church shelter" in VA is referred to as a "hypothermia shelter" twice in the linked article... but the overnight low temperature was 51 degrees[0].

[0] http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/alexandria-va/22314/februar...
Don't pitch IT, they typically are focused on whatever nonsense testing or other process they have.

Pitch the big shots... OSX for execs is a great way to drive this sort of thing. When they cannot support it, byod is the answer.
Human drivers don't even follow the most basic bicycle safety rules, such as merging into the bike lane before making a right turn to prevent "right hook" collisions. From my observations, probably no more than one out of ten drivers does this.

I guess they think it's illegal to drive in the bike lane at all, even though the opposite is true: at least in California you're legally required to merge into the bike lane in the last 200 feet before the intersection when making a right turn.

http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/
Honest Yoyo Commercial (Funny)
Pacchi d'api
thanks for the pointers; I was curious about Dropbox's approach and found this thread in the rust sub, if others are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4adabk/the_epic_story...
> I'll make a general comment not specific to any group. When I hear a person produce a long list of excuses, blaming others or circumstance, never once taking responsibility for any decisions, adamantly denying that they had any hand in their fate, I know where the problem lies.

So, you believe that assertion applies to women in tech, since that is who we're talking about?
In France it's in 15/30cm, using imperial would sound incredibly weird and outdated.
So, I've actually been working on a bookmarks manager for myself (screenshot)[1].

I have this exact same problem.. so many links and no good way to organize them. My previous solution was a simple markdown file that I would add my links to and then generate an html page served through my website. But this got really cumbersome. I wanted something easier to manage/edit, so I made this.

Is anyone interested in trying this out? If so, check out my profile contact info and I'd be happy to discuss it :) I'm very close to having the mvp complete, and it would be nice to get some feedback before opening it up to the public more.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/LKSQuT4.png
The Price of Happiness: Horizontal vs. Vertical Wealth
Make what up? Ask any cyclist, and they'll be able to recite to you a long litany of horror stories involving human-driven vehicles. I routinely deal with multiple cars driving in the (non-grade-separated) bike lane on my commute every single day.
I'll just cut to the only relevant question in your reply:

> So, unfairly discriminating against people makes them "the most capable individuals for the roles they assume"?

Yes, it does. If you find a woman with ambition and potential, then train and mentor her to succeed, you'll create in that nurturing the manager you need.

Choosing a high-potential candidate based on gender is no more "wrong" than choosing someone for their school affiliation, their shared hobbies or how they "remind one of themselves at that age"; all of which are common, and all of which privilege the status quo (men).
Seiko will sell limited run of Steve Jobs watches from his iconic 1984 portrait
The G+ post was not meant to describe the plan, it was an overview of the situation for git users who aren't necessarily security experts.

The plan is outlined at https://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787163023435&w=2
IF I weren't already married and firmly attached to my current location, I would love to be a Digital Nomad.

I think the idea is wonderful, and I'm sad that it came along too late for me to enjoy. Maybe after the kids are grown I'll try extended world tour vacations that include work and play...