skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent 12 months as a digital nomad in SE Asia and AirBnB was a godsend for me.

If you're checking in at some place you've never been to in the middle of the night, then of course a hotel is a better option. Likewise if you can't be bothered to tidy up a bit before checking out, then a hotel is the way to go. Personally, for short stays, like a few days or a weekend, I'll go with a hotel. But for anything of a week or longer, AirBnB is terrific.

Through AirBnb I was able to book very nice condo apartments, with awesome amenities (rooftop swimming pools, brand new gym facilities etc) and very gracious local hosts who showed me things I never would have been able to discover on my own. Moreover, with AirBnb I don't have to worry about landlords ripping me off like I would if I actually signed a rental contract in a foreign country.

I think most of this criticism is rather petty. AirBnb isn't a hotel or hostel replacement and it isn't supposed to be.
>The second stage of the Falcon 5 will be similar to the Falcon 1, and the Falcon 5 will sport a larger payload fairing, three meters in diameter. Like the Falcon 1, the Falcon 5’s first stage is designed to be recoverable, and hopefully reusable.

Truly amazing how far we have come from the era described in that article. Now, we're on the aphelion .. indeed, Musk has landed his rockets safely, successfully now.

/back-on-topic:

I think Musk might have something with the e-shingle concept, in the Australian market. All he'd have to do is open-source the thing, and provide some capital incentives to build a few fabricators in the Australian deserts, closer to the source of the materials needed..
CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos for the first time
Fantastic. Sachen are another "well known" bootlegger of cartridges. I first encountered their gameboy carts, but they did NES too (which are now $300+ on eBay!)

Edit: is the site broken, or is the author blocking archive.org?
Capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is the active component of Capsicum plants (chili peppers), which are grown as food and for medicinal purposes since ancient times, and is responsible for the pungency of their fruit. Besides its multiple pharmacological and physiological properties (pain relief, cancer prevention, and beneficial cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal effects) capsaicin has recently attracted considerable attention because of its antimicrobial and anti-virulence activity. This is the first study of its in vitro antibacterial and anti-virulence activity against Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococci, GAS), a major human pathogen. The test strains were previously characterized, erythromycin-susceptible (n = 5) and erythromycin-resistant (n = 27), cell-invasive pharyngeal isolates. The MICs of capsaicin were 64–128 μg/mL (the most common MIC was 128 μg/mL). The action of capsaicin was bactericidal, as suggested by MBC values that were equal or close to the MICs, and by early detection of dead cells in the live/dead assay. No capsaicin-resistant mutants were obtained in single-step resistance selection studies. Interestingly, growth in presence of sublethal capsaicin concentrations induced an increase in biofilm production (p ≤ 0.05) and in the number of bacteria adhering to A549 monolayers, and a reduction in cell-invasiveness and haemolytic activity (both p ≤ 0.05). Cell invasiveness fell so dramatically that a highly invasive strain became non-invasive. The dose-response relationship, characterized by opposite effects of low and high capsaicin doses, suggests a hormetic response. The present study documents that capsaicin has promising bactericidal activity against erythromycin-resistant, cell-invasive pharyngeal GAS isolates. The fact that sublethal concentrations inhibited cell invasion and reduced haemolytic activity, two important virulence traits of GAS, is also interesting, considering that cell-invasive, erythromycinresistant strains can evade β-lactams by virtue of intracellular location and macrolides by virtue of resistance, thus escaping antibiotic treatment. By inhibiting intracellular invasion and haemolytic activity, capsaicin could thus prevent both formation of a difficult to eradicate intracellular reservoir, and infection spread to deep tissues.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643145/
Yes, these type of services help get around the headache of supporting multiple platforms / versions of the same platform, and their different notification APIs.
Interesting, never encountered that during testing.
At the highest level, the trick is to actively do things to increase momentum while avoiding things that reduce momentum. Pick a stack you know, build a way to collect money, release before you've even written code, etc.

I wrote a post titled Side Projects: Avoiding Failures to Launch[1] a few months ago that touches on these same ideas in more detail.

1: https://blog.benroux.me/avoiding-failures-to-launch/
That's a few days of photos when on holidays
These are the kinds of comments that keep me coming back to HN. While I don't share your view, it's articulated so well and definitely gives me something to reflect on. Thanks.
Ah, sorry, that comment was for those playing along who might want to see the listed glyphs.
Is the problem that the US has been doing it? I would argue that, with the internet, massively increased global communication, and a massively different economy from 1853 when the Perry expedition occurred, the problem isn't that the US used to do it long ago when imperialism was the norm, but rather that this form of globalist capitalism is becoming the norm worldwide, to the detriment of the lower and middle classes across the world.
I agree for the most part. But Eclipse has gotten a bit better in the recent years. I'm mostly on Intelli-J now, but when I was forced into Eclipse for a project, I didn't completely cry.
Wonder what other sins are there. A couple of years ago when iCloud was first a thing, I did a couple of password changes in quick succession. It resulted in me having different login passwords for different iCloud services. It worked for a short time then broke and another reset fixed it all.
I don't see how that is adding anything to the discussion. If you want to be the leader you actually have to lead. You have to be the one that figures out "the future" and have the solution people didn't know they wanted before other people do. The "perks" of mobile payments should be fairly obvious to anyone who has experienced it, I suspect you and the parent just aren't one of those people. No one is going to stop the US to remain dysfunctional in infrastructure, but it still has a price.
Article is about testing in the TDD sense, not the QA team sense.
New NASA Radar Technique Finds Lost Lunar Spacecraft
The classic example is IBM's famous Black Team.
http://wiki.c2.com/?BlackTeam
Aubergine voor meer gezondheid en snel afvallen?
> My problem is that they are coupling security updates and user-interface updates.

Welcome to data-driven software development. Good luck turning back that tide....
It looks possible to have rooms generated that are impossible to exit. For example, I'm up to L3, and can't get out of the room with the stairwell. And on L2 part of the map is cut off from a similar map defect. Is that intentional?
US spies still haven't told Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet
Yeah I think New York was a bad example, but as someone outside the US I have always been fascinated by the US concept of suburbs (showed in a lot of movies and series), big yards, green gardens, big trees, family friendly environments were kids can play outside without any major worry.
Might be? I know they are. For one, they make healthy but boring food taste great without adding fat, sodium, or simple sugars.
Viber to launch secret chats that self-destruct and prevent screenshots
Or when a politician uses a warm day unironically to prove climate change is a concern.
Plaid – Relaunching our API
It would, if [some fields of] the database is encrypted. Then the attacker could only get the content from accounts with weak passwords, not yours.
What you can learn from the movie “THE FOUNDER”?
It would have to work without the site's permission, so the browser (or maybe a third party service) would do a basic vulnerability scan. Maybe orange could mean "a script kiddie could pwn this site in under an hour", and yellow would mean "we don't see how your ISP could mitm this, but server side providers (aws, google, azure cloudflare) definitely could."

FWIW, my personal website uses let's encrypt, so it would be yellow or worse.

Anyway, I like the idea of tying the security color in the url bar to an attacker model, since it at least gets people to think about attack models.
They're not fine with an employee being tired due to their own side-projects, if you were underperforming you'd get told off by your manager, asked to improve e.t.c. all the way to getting fired.

You being able to own the IP to things you create outside of work does not mean that you suddenly don't have to work during your actual work times.

Also, if an employer gave that as a reason for them keeping my IP created outside of work hours I would very seriously reconsider accepting a job with them (other reasons such as those outlined in Joel's article make a lot of sense).
Yeah, the most obvious benefit is being able to share validation logic across front-end and back-end. All validation is necessary on the back-end for security reasons, but it's convenient for users if it also happens on the front-end, because they don't have to send data to the server before finding out it's invalid.
MSDN is a piece of shit.

The documentation is shallow, it does not even consistently describe all the parameters of everything. It's often wrong, it does not carry any information about bugs and lacks an easily reachable diff for older versions.

Yes, it has a page for everything. It's just that most of the pages are useless.

It used to be the best thing around, but it's not the 90's anymore. Almost all mainstream development platforms out there have better documentation than MS. (And it does not help that almost all of them also have saner APIs.)
These are all very neat and polished projects. And you have the advantage of doing web sites / apps which is a lot easier to release than a native app. The stuff I do simply isn't viable on the web (or even if it were, it wouldn't be fun) and I'm not particularly interested in working within a browser sandbox.

It's much, much harder to get a project to a state where someone can git clone, build and run it. Depends a lot on the target platform and the nature of the project, some languages and platforms are easier than others.

No need to be arrogant, though. Nice that you have the time and the ability to finish but don't expect everyone else to have the time and the capabilities to do so.
I wish I could get to the bottom of this. I've seen all kinds of arguments for and against whether or not to unit test and how much / when unit testing should happen. I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

- I heard it mentioned before code reviews found more bugs in an experiment more than unit testing did (I heard this study was mentioned in Code Complete but I haven't checked the source on this). I wonder if reading code catches more bugs than writing code wouldn't this be an argument for spending more time reading our code rather than writing code that tries to understand it?

- Unit testing has the added benefit that when you change existing code or refactor you know that the behavioral unit tests guarantee those same behaviors happen after refactoring (my first point above doesn't give the same benefit so this may be worth a lot more than finding bugs in code reviewing new code (as it isn't reasonable to read all the existing code over again).

- I've also heard that code coverage is a terrible metric and can cause bad unit test practices, trying to cover all lines of codes instead of trying to test for specific behaviors.

- Some unit tests may become irrelevant as the design changes and also have maintenance costs

Since my team does unit testing while striving for 100% test coverage of our back-end web service code, we put a lot of time into unit testing (quality of the unit tests might be questionable sometimes as we aren't testing for all behaviors only ensuring all code is covered), so I wonder if we spent all the time that we spend unit testing and instead would read over all the code areas affected by the new code we and other teammates are writing to ensure we understand how it works, would it be more beneficial to read the code than to unit test it? I'm not convinced either way myself
Making Drupal upgrades easy forever
10 Year Reflections: Korea in the World
The difference between the New 3DS and the original 3DS is actually quite substantially technically.

New 3DS:

* ARM11 MPCore 4x @ 268MHz

* 4x VFPv2 Co-Processor

* 256MB FCRAM

* 10MB VRAM

* Dedicated Hardware Video Decoder

(* It also can play SNES Virtual Console games and can also play Xenoblade Chronicles for New 3DS)

(* The menu screen is also substantially faster)

3DS:

* ARM11 MPCore 2x @ 268MHz

* 2x VFPv2 Co-Processor

* 128MB FCRAM

* 6MB VRAM
I've said it before and I'll keep ranting about it. It's not the updates. It's the way the updates force a restart while the computer is in use. In my opinion it is worth letting some users go without updates than to kill machines out from under users in full screen apps (which has happened to me), or repeatedly rip people out of games. My issue is particularly bad because for whatever reason windows randomly resets the time zone on my gaming pc (that ubuntu has no problem with), so even setting "usage hours" is not a fix. It's the most frustrating user experience I have ever had with a computer to know that it is essentially crashing intentionally on me to install updates which can take a while.
Because he ran a bloody rocket company and a software company and that means that you have to understand the basics.

Or did you feel that 'being a nice guy' should protect you from legalities or the responsibilities that go with the job title?
habanero is my personal fav. it's tasty, it has a wonderful smell and it isn't too hot - as in, you get a decent amount of taste without having to overdo the hotnsess.
Fortunately (?), the SA government is from the opposite party and has been blamed for the power outages, and would love nothing more than proving the Federal government wrong. Especially since their is a state election next year and this will be a major issue - there are already TV ads about it.

The SA government has been in power for too long, and a change would be good, but the opposition party is just woeful. Last campaign they ran on the idea of the state funding the Adelaide Oval upgrade, but instead of building a new hospital (which we need) they proposed the idea of upgrading the current - asbestos ridden - one, while it was still operating. There was just no way that was a viable option - it was an entirely stupid plan, and they lost just like they deserved to.

I was hoping for better this time, but currently they are planning on getting rid of the SA renewable energy targets, and using "clean coal". I just can't vote for that. (And ironically they also decided to oppose any nuclear industry or power in SA too.)
This article starts by using an example of 8 "bad" password rules, but by the end of the post, Jeff ends up suggesting 5 of the 8 anyway. This post really should have been called "special character requirements are bullshit."

I'd be willing to bet that a future version of Discourse will also disallow using your previous password as well. Then we'll get another password blog post talking about how hard passwords are and how we need more rules for passwords. Experience is a funny thing.
The article has a link to the original research paper. If you read it, you find:

> Total mortality for participants who consumed hot red chili peppers was 21.6% compared to 33.6% for those who did not (absolute risk reduction of 12%; relative risk of 0.64). Adjusted for demographic, lifestyle, and clinical characteristics, the hazard ratio was 0.87.
Sure. As long as you're playing with hypotheticals, you can imagine any outcome you want. And you can poke holes in other people's scenarios all day. That's why it is generally pointless to rely entirely on thought experiments and never study any real-world behavior.

I pay $349/mo to Uncle Enzo's Thing, who kidnaps the CEO of Blackwater, cuts off his ear, and douses him in gasoline. My neighbor is a lifetime OG in the local Compton Crips franchise, and the worldwide org takes out 80% of the board of Triple Canopy with simultaneous drive-by shootings. Sachs-Chase-Salomon-ExxonMobil-GE-AT&T-Shinra drops a nuke on all of us. The Lysistrata Society shorts contraceptive stocks. Hydra-TransUnion-NewsCorp merges with SPECTRE-Facebook-Experian and changes the combined corporate motto to "Evil: It Makes Good Money." Real estate prices for secret volcano lairs rise steeply. The King of Tonga sends two war canoes up the Potomac and decisively conquers a barbecue stand in Northern Virginia, forcing it to put pineapple on its pork sandwiches. Cats and dogs, living together--mass hysteria! Chaos!

They say an armed society is a polite society. Mutually assured destruction is a whole lot scarier when you have competitors waiting in the wings to snatch up your dissatisfied customers that want to switch providers because jaw-jaw costs them much less than war-war.

As mentioned in a cousin post, the assumptions embedded in the hypothetical scenarios make the imagined outcomes useless, just like that novice physics student neglecting wind resistance.
Mixed reality for enterprises
>Everything sounded far too crisp.

That's the way felt when I started wearing glasses at age 33. Everything was suddenly in HD.
The analog computation of dendrites looks like a very big deal. Is it about weight or something else?
> Their ego rises when they tell the developer that they were smarter.

I've been in QA for a few years, after an initial career in development.

I do find great pride and joy when I break things, and I do laugh sometimes when I see silly behavior. Testing can be thankless, and even anti-appreciated, so the validation of finding something is welcome.

But I never "tell the developer that I'm smarter," and I've never thought that way. They are merely two different roles, with different focuses and different allocations of time. The tester role exists in part because we are not perfect.

The relationship between the two roles would be much better without "I'm better than you" or "you can't do what I do, so you test" attitudes. Both sides, and the organization, profit when we work together with respect and appreciation.
This correct answer was one of the first posted on this story. So color me disappointed that the top comment is now some unrelated rant about AMP and how evil Google is instead.
If we are receiving the FRBs, the focused beam must be pointed towards earth. So the spaceships with light sails must be headed in the direction of earth. Get ready for the invasion!
I believe he did, Bob.
> For the content producer, Google only publishes their content via AMP if the content producer permits it. Indeed, it is up to the content producer to make the AMP version of their content.

Content producers are being strong-armed into this by Google because AMP capable pages are being given preferential treatment in the SERPS.
Quick question: how isn't this just more monopoly abuse a la Internet Explorer?

They have a monopoly sized market share of desktop computers, which they are using to unfairly boost their Dropbox competitor.

This seems very similar to the very behavior that earned them an anti-trust smackdown.

Then again, I don't blame them, with the current administration you could probably murder children and not face any real push back from the DoJ.
> What's he point of Himmler's quote? He wanted to reduce deaths in a system in which the end goal was extermination?

My point is that you are denying the systematic genocide of the Native Americans. Just as the Nazis denied the systematic genocide of the Jews. Using exactly the same arguments.

> The fact remains that the majority of Native Americans did not die due to systematic extermination. It is indisputable.

It is also true that most Jews survived the Holocaust. Your point?

I have not read the entire book, as it is very long, but as far as I know Mein Kampf does not actually talk about genocide at all. It was not untill 1941, after the war had started, that Hitler first publicly mentioned the idea http://ww2history.com/key_moments/Holocaust/Hitler_talks_of_... He was hateful. Yes. But Donald Trump is hateful too.

> Hopefully when Trump does not become Hitler 2.0 you will admit you were wrong.

I don't think that Trump will become Hitler 2.0. But his supporters may well commit a genocide and cause either totaltarianism or mayhem. If they do not, I will not be wrong, just as I would not be wrong, if I were to say that cancer can kill a patient who subsiquently survives.
And the On-Board Software Group's rivalry between the development group and the verification group: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
I had to check moments ago, and you're right. It must have been very recent!
To my own astonishment, I've started using Bing to avoid AMP.
Announcing Plaid for iOS
That's a distinction without a difference, good software testing is still an ethos of imagining boundary conditions and corner cases to "break" the code. A bad tester will create a test with a few basic inputs, see that it looks fine and be content with that.
Didn't read the article, but it's always fun following these lines of thought. We have no evidence of life outside earth, but darn it...we can't be the only ones here...I mean we can, but that just doesn't sit well with me. I wonder if almost any civilization would end up using lightsails powered by beams or if many skip it in favor of some other technology.
Using Just CLI for .NET Core, Azure and Docker
That can be fixed just as easily as reducing the number of requests.
Using the matrix – improving enterprise and exchange networks
Yeah, I stopped working on "infrastructure" utility libraries and similar projects because the maintenance burden is too high. Some people just don't get it - I'm not in it to provide a free service to anyone.

Luckily I live in a country where the law doesn't allow an employer to forbid releasing projects done on free time, so I don't have your issue. I would seriously reconsider my employment if I were given such restrictions. As little as I finish stuff, the ability to share and receive feedback from strangers in the internet is still positive to me.
Not sure what book the above poster used, but Sipser is an excellent book for learning about DFAs.
Or the FRBs are built using the least efficient beam design ever constructed ;)
APM is making users happy and frustrating content providers grey patterns for retention. Seems like a win-win.
I'm from SA too, and as I said elsewhere: This would solve SA's problem completely.

There are no "border crossing negotiations": it's just the SA government. That could be a problem, but they are motivated to find a solution.

50 degrees isn't a huge problem. Tesla has a similar system in California in similar climate.

artificial market policies dictating the generation of power - unclear what you mean by that. Gas plants aren't economic because we've sold all our gas in long term contracts overseas. New "clean" (ha!) coal stations are expensive investments and not particularly cheap to run either. Wind and solar works well and is cheap when it is running, but it intermittent.