skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was on Windows I used this - http://resoph.com/. Looks similar I think. Not sure that app is actively developed anymore (ins't open source). But it used to be good and only decent Simplenote client on Windows. Good to see options there.

On Mac I have been using NV so far. Though original NV hasn't seen any development for last 6 years it still just works. The last time I tried its famous fork (nvAlt) either something was broken (was beta or so can't recall) or I just saw that I don't need that at all. For my minimal and simple note taking vanilla NV is still what I need. NV is one app that I don't remember when it last crashed (maybe I don't use it enough).
Not in Toronto. We're having a hard time filling roles.
Introducing Pulse: An always on way for streamers and viewers to connect
early 2000 slr cost close to nothing these days though.
Remove Passwords for ZIP,RAR,ISO Hack 2017 – TechJunior
Maybe the solution is to sign up about 3000 people at every address you've ever lived at, if all of us sign up for hardcopy catalogues everywhere under every variant of our own names and fictitious names maybe they'll eventually stop or go out if business.
Sweet! Please add sorting by powder (hi to lo) combined with price (lo to hi) for an ultimate "powder per dollar" index. Thanks
As someone who was flagged with ADHD and shoved on Ritalin for 5 years, I'm sick to my back teeth with doctors just throwing around diagnosis's willy nilly.
Note that this is unrelated to Zcash, the zk-SNARKS based cryptocurrency perhaps more known to HN.
"Hey, want to buy a car?" "Maybe. What color is it? Manual or automatic?" "Why does it have to be a manual?"

It doesn't have to be anything, but I'm not going to buy a car (or invest time looking at a new programming language) if you don't even tell me what it is.

As others have noted, the design goals of the project make it sound like Lua would have worked quite well for them. They didn't pick Lua, so it suggests their project has some advantages over Lua. They don't need to justify their decision, but if it does have advantages over Lua, it would be interesting to know what they are. And even if it doesn't, it would be interesting to know why they made the decisions they did.

The point of asking questions is to find out the answers; it doesn't mean we're all prejudging them based on the assumption their answers are going to be terrible, or even that the answers might be terrible. It's okay to start a project just because you want to!
Personally, I don't bother. I went the route of requesting candidates go through a work sample project that I spent a considerable amount of time trying to standardize across all the languages relevant to the role. In the end though, management wasn't for me, and so I ended changing roles for something non-managerial
if you enlarge a film the traditional way for printing it goes way beyond 20M pixels. Probably closer to 50M pixela at least. Try enlarging a current 20M pixels digital picture to A2 format you will see a huge difference and film clearly wins.
Former Tesla executives plan to build $4bn Nordic battery plant
This was posted in Dec 2016
Well, no. That's a bit of a silly position.
> 1 in 3 companies fall victim to CEO fraud emails alone

Citation needed. I'm sure the number will look like that at companies who open and forward the email, doubt it's that high off the cuff.
Thanks, this is very useful.

The paranoid voice in my head is wondering if these forms don't actually opt me out of anything, and instead just confirm to these companies that the information they have on me is correct.
Founders and investors are generally at the same place in line. Both hold common shares.
Never knew CA was so anti-immigrant.
The ranking's a bit disingenuous since precipitation totals are notoriously hard to predict. There should be a huge sigma for each value, making it impossible to guarantee that the 28" forecast at a location will exceed the 27" forecast elsewhere. Accumulations will also vary after the clouds have gone, as wind transport can shift the distribution significantly, leading to that one side of the mountain that seems to be permanently scraped off or wind crusted.
somehow misread this entire post
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

I rather think the choices are self-destruction through violent conflict and self-destruction through lack of purpose/lethargy. But maybe that's only nation states. Or maybe I just have an unreasonably glum view of human nature.
I can't remember the exact reasons since it was something I was researching a couple years ago. I saw a few competing services that offered annual plans in the $50-$100 range and I think I divided that by 12 and then imagined what would happen when people got most of the value out of the service on first use. It seems to be a very niche market and I'm not sure how much of a pain point it really is to that niche.

I had some other ideas to differentiate, which were a bit of a gray-area hack. This included pulling from the same data sources that Spokeo and similar services use to be able to search for that data. That way, the user wouldn't have to enter any personal information other than say an email address.

You could then offer a free service that let users enter their email address and they would find all the sites you've crawled where you found their information (similar to haveibeenpwned.com), with an upsell to automatically remove it.

Once a subscriber was signed up or previously had used the free service and hadn't opted out, I would keep crawling services for additional data and then give them a warning email when their data popped up again.

It seemed like a semi-reasonable business model at the time, but just a really small market, and I had other business ideas I wanted to pursue.
That sucks.

That said, what is this?

a) "I cannot do X"
b) "But here is some advice on how to do X"

I mean... why would anyone listen to the advice that is proven to lead to failure? Serious question.
An argument for the usefulness of case law is that provides some damping and feedback against the consequences of judgments that the judge merely thinks is the best possible decision.
Where do you draw the line though? If you could short every series A or B company, you'd make a killing doing so.

As far as I can tell, the companies themselves owe it to no one other than their investors and employees to consider going public. If going public doesn't further their position, and private funding is available, the responsible thing (as perverse as that is) is to pursue private funding, no? So who's the one ultimately responsible for the current situation, the companies or the investors enabling them?
I'll never understand locking people up for having an addiction and treating them like criminals. I'm not too educated on how it's handled in America but in Australia you can go to your doctors and get signed up to a methadone program without worrying about any legal repercussions.

My fiancé works at a pharmacy in Melbourne, Australia and says some of the most lovely and friendly people who just want to get themselves together come in regularly to get their $5 dose and it's saddening to see how badly society judges them.
C++17 is not released yet and the current major C++17 implementations aren't ready for production use.

C++14 doesn't have many new features. C++14 contains many fixes on minor details which was implemented even in C++11 implementation because the Standard wording of C++11 is either ambiguous, impossible to implement, considered too harmful on that fixed part.
There is no "different implementation of IEEE 754" that could give a different result in double precision for that example.

There are reasonable criticisms of IEEE 754; that's not the issue.
Supposedly, assuming that the sequence doesn't harm the organism (or that the organism doesn't alter the sequence). Bacillus spores can remain dormant for decades, if not centuries, and date palms have been grown from millenia-old embryos.
It should, they're not the next Facebook. No social network is going to be. Facebook managed their growth rates, in a mostly open field, while not having to compete with another social network quasi-monopoly with 1.2 billion daily actives.
The second the interviewer changed the parameters people would start complaining that they were "Setup to fail." These threads commonly illuminate that interviewers simply cannot win, regardless of how genuine they are.
Google Play turns 5 today
Im curious. Is this actually illegal? Is there any requirement on how valid crypto currency is created?

I understand the network could implement a fix and prevent future transactions or even roll back old ones if there's enough desire, that's what democracies are about right?

But was there anything illegal about creating and then trading them? A rollback would hurt the exchanges, but if they didn't already have something in their T&Cs about currencies needing to be created legitimately (and what legitimately actually means), then is it anything other than morally wrong?
The one that surprised me is to learn that virtually all health insurance companies sell your personal health information. Most people think this is illegal because the data is sensitive. But it turns out that if it's generated by a business transaction (i.e. a claim between your doctor and your insurance company) then it's not considered PHI and it's not protected.
Mass accepting out-of-state students is most certainly not a solution, it's a band-aid (not to mention it basically screws California taxpayers). The solution would be to just increase state funding AND cap out-of-state admit rates.

It's very hard for Berkeley and UCLA to stay competitive with Stanford and Caltech (and the Ivy League) when their private counterparts not only offer better financial aid for at-need low-income students, but are also starting to be in the same ballpark for in-state middle-class students. Not only that, but the main idea behind the UC system is that it was intended for California students first.

UCLA had over 100,000 applications last year, the most out of any other school, public or private. I am completely okay with declining out-of-state students in favor of comparable California students. It's just that to afford that, the UC system needs more money. Heck, I even think price gouging out-of-state applicants could work.
The blog post[1] is probably more approachable if you don't have a background in both ML and cancer research.

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/assisting-pathologis...
Can someone please explain the difference between email marketing and spam?
Great article on the implications of weak AI for democracy
If there are many companies, surely it would be in their interests to leak one another for competitive advantage?
A bit late to this discussion, but the question of why someone would want to hide information from the government of today is not necessarily the right question.

Governments are not permanent. Significant changes in government can occur through democratic election, revolution, invasion (Ukraine?). Such changes can happen very rapidly. Records can not always be easily purged.

If the incoming government is ideologically opposed to something that you are or you declare (race, religion, political views) and they have a lot of information about you collected by the previous government - then you could very well be in mortal danger.

There are many examples of this in history.

So benign governments should aim to collect the minimum of information required to deliver good service to its citizens. Neither you nor your hopefully benign current government can trust the governments that are to come.
In addition to mitigating errors in copying as you've highlighted, there is also the possibility that some stretch of bases in your message would have some deleterious effect on the organism. Thus, you would need to include some kind of redundancy into your code so that a bit could be represented in several different ways. The computer that encoded the message could then try to optimize the message so that it would be maximally amenable to storage.
Wikileaks: Vault7. Year Zero. 9am EST
This is great. The rabble gets to pay for the roads. And the wealthy get to drive on them without some fool in his 1998 Honda Civic getting in the way.
they are truly scummy esp with their ADA shakedowns.

ADA was a great way for people with disabilities to get equal access but now I fear its future due to the constant abuse by scumbags like Prenda and others.
I would think less of a pop in future IPOs is also a good thing. It means that the markets are valuing shares in tech companies in a measured and reasonable way to begin with, which results in less market volatility, which in turn results in fewer of the kind of financial plot-twists that burn companies down and toss engineers out on the street.

Its only a bad thing if you're trying to short-term game the market with simplistic strategies. And if you're doing that you have worse problems.
Tech takes a softer initial stance on Trump’s latest executive order
senior level are fine everywhere i think :)
Pidgin IM Lead Dev Streams His Work
Which is why I think the #1 most important goal the USA has this decade, is altering the underlying democratic system. If you fix that, then everything else becomes fixable.
TL;DR anti-aliasing filter and dithering
Modern interviews are metrics and every smart system (human/AI) will exploit them. Metrics are always exploited. Job Interview is just another profession that requires a lot of training and preparation.
> A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine
> Put to words what I already mostly practise, it identified my issues I had with buddhism.

Could you elaborate a bit on this? What issues did it identify?
Journal editorial processes still require some financing, tthough arguably not what's been enjoyed of late.

The arguments for deadweight loss and equal access apply particularly to books.
Mods: What is the current rule on political-related stories? The lack of them on the front page can't be coincidence. Users would like to know ...

If it's was stated in a discussion somewhere, as has been the case in the past ... perhaps we could use a better way to communicate these things. Nobody can read every comment in every discussion.
MIT's dopamine-tracker is built for long-term reward
How to win ?
Hacker Geohot tries to buy a Model S and receives a call from Tesla's lawyers
Twitch introduces Pulse, its very own gamer news feed
The Science and Politics of the GMO – EdX Course from Cornell University
New Report Shows Social Media Preferences and Habits Among Generations
Sure, except in this analogy McDonalds needs to be 100 times more expensive than local restaurants.
Between the growth of medical technology and the aging population I don't think they will every worry about finding work.

Frankly, I think there are many medical specialties where doctors do need to worry about finding work.

E.g. go back 13 years and this was already happening: Enter the “nighthawks,” a generic moniker applied to groups of American-trained diagnostic radiologists located in India and Australia who provide immediate diagnostic interpretation of CT images http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/Crossroads/09_09_04.htm...

That's only going to get worse. There are many jobs that can be shipped overseas.
Yes.

Wall Street provides highly liquid markets to the rest of the world, but when it comes to the way the finance sector's own services are delivered, the pros excel at turning price-efficient markets into cozy cartels.
I sort of consider those things to be part of the abstraction level n :)

Understanding some properties of HTTP is a part of the abstraction layer of HTML. It's not a perfect abstraction completely shielding you from HTTP.
Which is a great thing for the whole
Who even compares Facebook with Snap? gooby pls
Not exactly. I worked at Amazon back when code piplelines/ecs came out. What happens at Amazon is that they have a system in place, but it's very specific to amazon tools, and dependent on so many things. So they take they idea and reimplement it more genericly. But they don't then re-use the new product.
You end up sometimes with something great, and othertimes not so much. Pipelines internal to amazon is awesome. One of the best things about working there. I still haven't found anything like it, though gitlab is getting close. AWS pipelines on the other hand, was built by the same people, but it really isn't great at all IMO, not even the same thing.

Now, core services such as ec2 and S3 are dogfooded for sure, but it is more like amazon doesn't eat their own dogfood until after the product becomes big.
Anyone have any luck with the CloudFlare leak search parameters?
The title is misleading, it looks like a linkbait generated by a funny xkcd substitution.

The article is a copy of the a press release. Other sites have almost the same title and text:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/ciot-nmc0306...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170306151722.h...

The original source is: http://www.caltech.edu/news/new-materials-could-turn-water-f... So Caltech is guilty of the horrible title.

The "new materials" are some new vanadates. They are using them as catalyst to use solar power for something like an electrolysis that produces hydrogen and oxygen from water. I'm not sure, but they may try to add some carbon to produce a more stable fuel instead of hydrogen.

A better title is: "New material could help to use solar power to produce the fuel of the future"
An unfunded mandate is entirely punitive. If we as a society valued it, we'd be paying for it.
No it wasn't members of the Californian assembly immediately moved to counter-act the program, we only had to to this because our budget was in dire straights, it was an emergency programme, you are acting like that this was a straight +E.V. operation, however if it was necessarily a straight +E.V. operation it would have likely been enacted in an environment that was non-emergency, however it wasn't, which shows that the state assembly when it really came down to it acted because it was a hail mary maneuver and that it really came down to needing $$$$$ if anyone remembers how those days felt. And they quickly acted to remove such deficits.

You are pretending that this was a no-brainer certain investment, this is an investment that produced significant gains, but the fact is that there should not exist any no-loss m, positive investments that make money without having some rebounding consequence anywhere else, otherwise this would have already been an investment taken, and because of the "No easy money clause" (E. Thorpe) related to investments and the literature on interest rates(LITERALLY the return on capital) we know that this is false.

You are trying to cite empirical evidence to lend warrant toward the thesis that this little out of state admissions thing was a very good thing with no downside, but as far as I know there are many no-go theorems or prohibition statements on that actually. As if there was that much free money and free wealth to be created from one decision that was an effective positive creation of wealth without any subtractive element on it!

There is simply no way that this decision was just sitting for us to take that provided this much of a net benefit, far above the rate of market returns. As if we are supposed to dignify a statement that acts like that space something operating in real time and space cannot be taken up and filled by the admission of out of state students and that this could not be filled up....... i'm sure your local taco stand doesn't fill up with the late-nite party bus of whomever out of towners comes to order food. We're all able to order right away baby, man, this is great.
Especially because a lot of the exploits end up being simple integer overflows or failed copy-paste
Spam is unsolicited email marketing. Opt-out and other dark patterns make the line blurry. Yes, there are those of us who sign up for marketing emails on purpose.
Ask HN: Who's still hiring interns for this summer?
Due to some conflicts between my university's internship program and Google's interview schedule (which seems to not be working out), I'm unfortunately finding myself without an internship lined up for the summer yet, with a lot of internship programs closed for applications. Since I figure there must be other people on HN in the same situations, are there any cool companies with dev internships still open for this summer?
When designing anything, "be the user".
There is no more important skill for a designer.

Even creating graphic beauty or a clear data visualization fall into this category--it's your own aesthetic or intellectual judgement you use, but you always have the user in mind.

No other general principles apart from the need to be creative and open to possibilities. (Creativity is a separate issue.)
Thank you! PS. The point about keeping to themselves is spot on.
Indeed. Everything that crypto-currency touches gets an automatic bug bounty. With rewards that are much nicer than limited editions t-shirts.
s/pseudoscience/fraud/
Frankly it's a travesty that the state is funding SF-LA high speed rail with questionable need and returns over its students.
Everything Is Fucked, and I'm Pretty Sure It's the Internet's Fault
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5v43rj/how_mike_p...

Also read other comments in the thread about history of needle exchange programs etc.
Could have one attendant supervising 2-3 vending machines in a busy venue. In supermarkets in Australia, one attendant supervises 6-8 automated checkouts and it works well.

If not vending machines, at least separate the expensive cocktail mixing from the beer and wine orders. It's painful waiting to order a round of bottled beers when the person just in front of you wants 5 random cocktails.

There are bars in Europe where each table has its own beer tap in the middle, and you are charged by volume poured. Nice gimmick.
Its cool people seem to finally care about those stuck on H1-Bs. But this isn't really anything new. USCIS does this when volume gets high. Its more likely caused by tons of people finally getting around to filing immigration related applications to USCIS before the door closes than a specific trump policy intended to actually close that door.

Note that they process more than just H1-Bs, volume elsewhere can result in longer wait times for other types of applications.
Some supervised injection sites are also able to test the drugs to make sure they're not adulterated in some way that could be harmful. That means fewer trips to the emergency room, less police paperwork, not to mention there's an opportunity to mitigate drug use with therapy and treatment.
> Her own child was turned down by her top three UC choices two years ago, despite SAT scores and a grade point average above the 90th percentile. Her daughter ended up at a fourth UC campus.

Why not simply follows Texas' Top 10% Rule[1] ?

> The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities

This top 10% rule, (in conjunction with a minimum SAT to avoid bad schools) would solve that mom problem (assuming the child is above the 90th percentile for that particular school).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_Bill_588
> unaccountably

Maybe because in ASCII-63 the _ codepoint meant left-arrow (which was preserved in at least smalltalk systems much past the 60s)?
Damn, we do the same. Their marketing truly is powerful that we pay for something we'll need "real soon"