skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landscape is shifting yes, and it's harder to make money. But consider that the last 150 years of mass literacy and spare time to consume vast quantities of media is already a historical anomaly. If you look at the sheer quantity of culture produced and consumed, it's hard to see it as anything but a golden age. The fact that it's harder to make money in these conditions makes perfect economic sense.

But on the positive side, I think this gives us a helpful sign post on the way to UBI/post-scarcity society. Consider that one of the biggest political impediments to UBI is not just the puritan work ethic as applied to others, but perhaps even more fundamental is the individual's own need to feel useful. De-coupling creative output from ones livelihood does not necessarily have to be a terrible thing.
Uber rebuilt its navigation app with drivers in mind
> Anecdatum: I wrote a series of Medium posts this month with a Patreon link at the bottom: 70k hits, $0 donations. It's hard for me to imagine reaching 70k people with my writing in 1910 and still being a pauper.

False equivalence. 70k hits means that 70k people somehow reached your page. Most of the probably closed the browser/tab before even fully loading the page.

I think in 1910 it would have been like counting people passing by the newspaper stand as "hits".
I'm not saying anything's wrong with it. The "unfortunately named" bit is from the article, and I'm just pointing out that the author's snark is ill-placed.
> First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates."

Depending on color model and individual visual anatomy, red and green aren't necessarily complementary [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors
The FDA thinks it should be the one to regulate everything. There is a culture of sociopathy and fascism at the FDA.
Hardest part was synchronization

- to end the main thread only if all tasks are done

- when every running task can produce multiple new tasks

- with limiting the maximum number of running threads

- always running the maximum nubmer of threads if possible

semaphores to the rescue
If you're visiting a culture, you generally try to adhere to its norms as much as reasonable, to avoid causing offense.
I have a feeling this topic will degenerate quickly...
Yes, but see QVC v. Resultly, where the robots.txt was considered binding, not the human-readable TOS.

We are getting small wins, but it's going to be slow going until we can get Congress to adjust both the CFAA and the Copyright Act, or until we can get SCOTUS to seriously alter the way these acts have been interpreted with reference to internet access.
I'm not sure why this is a caveat or how it is responsive to the post you are responding to. losteverything's post wasn't about "rewarding your waiter/ress for their service". It was about the disproportionate effect a little extra money can have for someone that's desperately poor. That applies even more so for dishwasher, bussers and line cooks as it does for servers.

Pooled tips across both parts of the house are a step forward on a broken system. It is unfortunately very difficult to do legally in NY.
Oh, super interesting.

My mother has macular degeneration and the only thing they even said was possible so far is injections with Eylea, Lucentis or Macugen.

I guess she manages currently, but it's interesting to see that there are other options
Oh cool! I loved his WWI series but I couldn't really get into the ancient history (King of Kings) series given the time commitment involved. So it's great to have a new episode.
Best to ask here:
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/
Maybe this is a thing that is starting up north and slowly working its way south? In Brisbane, nobody asked for, or per se expected tips, but a tip jar was present often with a handwritten sign that said "Tipping is good karma" or "Tippers are sexy" or similar.
Sounds like a Twilight Zone opening monologue.
Show HN: A polyglot repository for ProjectEuler answers
Yes good points. I envisioned it more as a first stage and partial 2nd stage replacement. You'd still need to bring some fuel like you said.

In my design the vehicle would feed its rockets from an onboard fuel tank which would be constantly replenished from the pipe/tether. At detachment time it would still have a full tank to manage drag, getting up to final speed, and circularizing the orbit.
It is not "mine" podcast, I just listened to it. I edited my original comment to include "finishing listening" - I am not sure it is correct English, but at least I think clears this misunderstanding.
So the position is that the Flood killed off the dinosaurs?
Thanks :)
You might be right, of course. I hope so.
It depends on the weight distribution of the remaining mechanical parts. I say we get a dc4 and pile weight into the back until it tips.
This looks amazing. I'm especially curious how well it will work at identifying Gene/chemical nomenclature since it is fairly consistent like English spelling. For named entity recognition in biomedical text this could be really useful!
If you are in high a tax bracket you are actually paying way more to pension than you get back. If you saved the money yourself you would be better off.
That's the American right propaganda sinking in. Times of higher tax burden have been economically more productive. It's already the government's money. Redistributive taxation is parsimonious use of funds.

Great chart in here about USA tax burden being below average: https://taxfoundation.org/comparison-tax-burden-labor-oecd-2...
This is a repeat. It hasn't even been 3 months before it comes up again?
I appreciate your point but you're describing charity more than you're describing tipping. Furthermore you make it sound like you're entitled to tips and charity... Which undermines both.
Show HN: Discover and Redact Sensitive Data with the Data Loss Prevention API
Isn't the internet archive solving this problem?
I guess I am taking them for granted and should donate.
Coupled with the question "how many words are you willing to memorize" I was trying to offer a sense of scale to the absurd.

If looking up words in dictionaries is sufficient, how many words should you memorize offline? If everyone agrees learning words is outdated, what will they use to speak? Orwell's newspeak?

Most communication, as opposed to art for instance, works both ways. You listen and read, but also speak and write. Dictionaries help you with the first part, but you'll need a little more effort with the second.
They didn't exactly make it search engine friendly either, given that the name is quite generic/short.
Someone could write something very opaque and a bit random and if it were told to me that it was a holy text, it might inspire an equivalent amount of lifelong struggle
If I read this right, that 1% number is a guess. That is, they know it orbits in 28 minutes. They don't know the radius of the orbit. They guessed what the mass of the black hole is, and from that solved for the radius of the orbit, and therefore found the velocity - but it's all based on the guess of the black hole mass.

Or did I miss something?
There will be losses, as you may expect, in the retail trade, but there will also be growth in the industries that will be required to support the growth of Amazon. Couriers, the vehicles they use, fuel, tyres, servicing, the drivers need to eat etc. The list, I imagine (without much thought) could be very large in terms of support of said growth. The drones that are mentioned, well, someone needs to make them, and make the parts that make them...and so on..
NIS, LDAP etc should have used a unix socket interface to talk system daemons using well-defined API. This is what happens in practice in any case, but it is done over hidden protocols unusable outside glibc.

As for the resolver, then consider that on Ubuntu/Fedora etc. there is hack to set the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 which runs a local caching resolver. However this is broken for local name resolution with multiple interfaces as DNS replies do not include interface name. So in a better world glibc simply talks to a system daemon using well-defined protocol. Instead right now to expose, say mdns into containers, one has to spend too much efforts with various hacks even if one does use glibc in a container application.
Ask HN: Underemployed and anxious. What would you do?
After a brief career in publicity, I decided to make the switch into engineering. I enrolled in a bootcamp—knowing full well the laudations and condemnations of the bootcamp model—and graduated in November.

This maybe isn't the place for a full postmortem; suffice it to say that I came out of the program confident in my own enthusiasm for programming, and less confident in how hiring companies may interpret the presence of a bootcamp on my resumé.

In the months since, every day, I have:
—Applied to two jobs here in NY, taking my time with cover letters, following up where appropriate, researching the companies, etc. These are overwhelmingly junior front-end or full stack positions.
—Studied compsci and new technologies so I'm a stronger candidate
—Practiced whiteboarding-style questions so that I'm prepared for interviews
—Freelanced so that I can pay rent and continue surviving
—In my spare time, worked on solo projects

I have gotten very little traction. I receive form rejections in response to almost every application. I've gotten far along in the process at a few places, but repeatedly hear some version of "You seem great...for a junior! Be in touch when you're mid-level." It feels like, as months go by and the hole on my resumé grows, my chances are only worsening.

I get it. I'm an unknown quantity, and the bootcamp on my resumé isn't a strong guarantor of quality. Still, I feel like I'm scrabbling for purchase. I had entertained fantasies of someday moving into games/simulation space, and that feels further and further away.

How do I get out of this hole? Do I drop the immense time suck of actively looking for work, live off my meager freelance work, and put my time into a project that makes employers take me a little more serious? Do I keep throwing good time after bad, keep my head down, keep applying to junior positions, and not ask any more questions? Do I need to go back to school?
Trump’s budget is everything scientists have been fearing
The contingency table shows these very clearly, but I believe the question is about the future popularity table.

The future probability table shows that Swift is to the left of (smaller future probability) of Objective C. The coloring of the chart shows a much darker square for Swift -> Objective C than for Objective C -> Swift.

It seems surprising given your contingency table that your analysis would show that Objective C is going to be the more popular of the two.
Dan is definitely a bit long-winded at times, but for me, podcasts work best when the person behind the mic has a real persona that you can relate to. I tune in to Dan Carlin because he's a smart, insightful guy, but I also just love to listen to him talk and feel that I am connecting to someone when I do. To that end, I actually enjoy the intros and asides as much as the historical content of the episode!

I feel that Ira Glass (This American Life), Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) and Roman Mars (99 Percent Invisible) all have this same effect.
I remember getting that issue years ago, it seemed like over-hyped fear mongering then just as much does today.
In my understanding the approach is based on game theoretic principles that do not extend naturally to more than two players. If that's correct then it's not only a computational issue.
See
http://www.nature.com/news/how-rival-bots-battled-their-way-...
Oh, I listened to all of his episodes and King of Kings was one of my favourites (together with WWI and Eastern Front series). Goes to show everyone has their preferences :-)
I think vastness has a lot more to do with people not being found than anything strange.
I feel like I've read the same article about the decline of the Gros Michel, the rise of the Cavendish and the eminent extinction of the Cavendish at least once a year for 10 years.
If your btc wallet is left unencrypted in your hard drive, either spinning or ssd, you have bigger problems than someone rummaging for your used hardware
As a Mexican, every time I go to the Bay area and take a taxi, it amazes me how the taxi payment terminals have the option of 15%, 20% and 30%.

Why would you tip a taxi?
A former mentor of mine asked if I'd be interested in doing a bit of Web dev for him back in early 2013. After that, he put me in contact with his client to do more on-going small project work. Today I'm doing $35k/year with this client and have found a few other clients (actually they found me) which then led to more word-of-mouth advertising which led to a few more clients.

I only recently started an LLC for this work and have started marketing my services online. No leads from the website yet but have caught the attention of a few others on LinkedIn who noticed me adding the LLC to my profile.

I'm mostly interested in working with local companies (Dubuque, IA) so LinkedIn has been a good resource for me to reach out to local SMBs.
As an American, I am realizing more and more that the world doesn't (and never has historically) had the "Disneyland" mindset I seem to have grown up with living in the wealthiest parts of the wealthiest countries in the world.

Forget the big things like War, Hunger, and Torture - even just the personal independence (from family / society) or freedom (ability to do what you want, when you want) aspects of our nation are a strange notion to history.
You do not use the road alone.
30-40% of people read to the end of the articles
Congrats to the Guile team. Remember -- Guile goes with everything.
I feel the same. I would have no problem with this rate, but I would like to see some things done better. How money is spent, how gov contracts are given out.

It feels like there is a huge amount of money lost on inefficient markets and efforts.
At certain sizes and orbits, tidal effects come into play, and your star falls apart.
I realize that the article indicates that these old films were just lying around untouched for decades, but what you are missing is that this data is "declassified." That doesn't mean it wasn't analyzed between the 50's and today, or that it doesn't exist in other media forms in classified channels - which it does.

The US government does a lot of replication of effort because most agencies don't know what the other agencies are doing. The DOE/CIA/DOD/DOS NBC program is massive, and the simulations and modeling teams have all of the extracted RAW data that exists on past tests, including the ones shown here.

I think this is a great effort, but all the teeth gnashing about how all of this data would be otherwise lost if not for this effort is - at least in this case - misguided.
I love your last stanza. I keep re-reading it.
I think that is wrong too. I think that copyright laws should make a distinction between making and distriubuting a copy by a person (for example uploading copyrighted file to a website) and technical processes that happen inside a computer. Copying something from NIC buffers to memory should not be "copying" under copyright law.
Don't forget all that debt service. That's literally redistributing tax dollars to people and organizations with wealth.

Paying high taxes makes more sense if debt service was rather trivial.
Nitrux OS: A new distro based on KDE and Snap packages
Not allowing discussion of something (including, if not especially, religion) should be the "bannable offense" by any intellectually-honest institution, especially given the significant impact that unsubstantiated religious belief has on the world.

The key to avoid flamewars (this from someone who has moderated many many discussions including those of a controversial nature) is to stick as close to facts and secular ethical reasoning as possible. Where there are no facts nor secular ethical reasoning to be found, one cannot impose one's view on others, and one cannot successfully argue any case, simple as that.
Things you should know about Objects and Immutability in JavaScript
Invest in books
I use wordpress for now. I am working on something more custom for my sideproject. But if you just want to start writing with minimal setup, Medium is also nice.
a shakedown, extortion
How cool - asking the question "does gravity propagate at the speed of light and if so what impact does that have on orbital dynamics" was the event that led me down the path to my PhD, so it's awesome the answer to the question is now (or soon to be?) baked into a science toy.
The term I have heard for this is "productive debt" vs "unproductive debt".

Productive debt helps you make money. For someone starting out, that might be a modest car loan to get to work.

Unproductive debt just helps you consume. Once your car is past the basic point-A to point-B automobile, a loan to but it is unproductive debt.
Perf sched for Linux CPU scheduler analysis
Antigate can solve things that would give OCR fits, like animated letters and the like.
yup, exactly. i tried tesarract before (nothing too fancy), it didn't have problems solving it, but at some point it became really hard.

I think part of it is how you crawl (phantomjs, for example, seem to hit captcha almost every time), but things like ip&proxy usage could make this trigger more often.
Some of us get Bay Area salary in hyderabad and bangalore. Why should we not get bay area salary when we deliver the same or better. I have no control over my cost of living but i do control what i will work for. No matter where.
As a driver, sometimes you need to go the extra mile (no pun intended). There are times I need to help passengers carry things, go through drive throughs, catch trains using offensive driving, stopping for drunk people to puke and even serving as a makeshift therapist. The option is there, obviously I don't expect a tip for a 5 minute ride.
NASA budget would cut Earth science and education
Just because one branch/department is wasteful doesn't mean others are. Trim that military budget and you'll start seeing efficiencies simply because they don't have that extra trillion to spunk up the wall.
Since we're sharing, this is my open-source uuid library for C++, designed to be fast, cross-platform, and straightforward to use: uuidxx [0].

0: https://github.com/neosmart/uuidxx
It still boggles me how liquid virtual assets are.

My family had an old-school mentality and put up their assets in housing where they could. Unfortunately, that ties them to cities around the world, and incurs a penalty in terms of time and maintenance that goes far beyond ("let me build a few backlinks") + school taxes, municipal taxes, condo fees, sewage etc. etc.
I agree with you. I used to think of working with color mathematically, until I started researching how color perception actually works. I was working in an imaging science lab at the time. That made me realize how difficult it is to come up with any sort of mathematical approach to creating a color scheme.

It's much better to find color schemes that are recommended by experienced designers. And if you're working on a diagram, trying to design it to be effective with some large number of colors is probably futile, if color is going to be the sole visual discriminant. It's better to keep your number of elements small, if you can. And if you can't, pick a small number of colors, and combine them with textures to get a larger number of combinations.
This is important work. I would also recommend any of the Peter Kuran documentaries (Trinity and Beyond, Nukes in Space, Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio).

What's really interesting about these is that there is a visible frame count on some of the videos and that you get to see a few frames before the detonation. E.g. the Androscoggin test opens on frame "-8" with the first flash visible at frame 0. You can see this by pausing the youtube videos and advancing frame by frame with the "." key.

There are a whole bunch of really interesting but rarely-seen effects that occur in those first one or two frames.

Here's an example from a different source of the "Teller Light" that immediately follows the initial release of gamma radiation from the initial nuclear fission in the bomb core: http://www.americancrisis.us/images/2013_08_30_013709_1_tell...

There's a neat description of this in a paper from 1958 here:

"The glow is known begin immediately (well within a shake) after gamma irradiation of the air, and has an apparent brightness of the order of that of the sun."

https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/4814701

It would be really interesting to see the first few high speed frames of a detonating multi-stage weapon. Presumably this would reveal details about the sequence of energy flow from the exploding fission stage to the compressed fusion stages. Indeed, there were diagnostic pipes like this fitted to some of the early H-bomb test devices, e.g. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/IvyMikeDevB1600c20...

Sadly, all of the multi-stage tests I have seen in public sources begin a few frames after detonation, or, like these, they are shot from far enough away that you just see a single diffuse glow.
...In­terior tried to build its own data­base to track law-enforcement actions.... The result, the ­Incident Management Analysis and Reporting System, is a $50 million ­Database to Nowhere — last year, only 14 percent of the several hundred reportable incidents were entered into it. The system is so flawed that Fish and Wildlife has said no thanks and refuses to use it.

I know, this is normal, and one shouldn't get upset. It just feels like $50M is enough resources to accomplish quite a lot, if it were properly allocated. It feels like people should be in prison for this.
This makes the problem worse. There's 20 years of legacy sRGB images that will not display correctly on wide gamut displays without display compensation in software. iOS and Android are basically repeating all the mistakes made in color management on the desktop, by allowing opt outs by apps and not taking a holistic color management approach. And where the content is created, on the desktop, again if you're using any sort of specialized tool there is a high likelihood the color space information is being ignored or is even stripped out of the image - making it impossible to render correctly downstream.

Changing image encoding from sRGB is change for the sake of change - the vast majority of real world image content fits in sRGB.
Sounds great! looking forward to it
D-Wave is the original Theranos.

- They make bold claims that many people plainly say don't make sense, before seeing any evidence.

- They use hype to buy time to do scientific research.

- The successes of the D-Wave machine have the same characteristic p-hacking profile of Theranos's Edison machine. That is, try 200 problems, and find 1 that appears to work, which could just be due to chance.

- Apologists talk about "there are a lot of smart people working" there or blame "marketing," but who haven't seen the product and don't know any more than anyone else.

The main differences are (1) the lack of an enigmatic founder. (2) D-Wave publishes, and then in later analysis their claims don't hold up.
Tks email sent. I've added my email address to my profile in case anyone else wants to contact me.
"...being stabbed in the belly..."

If I am not mistaken that is a quote attributed to Sir Arthur ("Bomber") Harris [1] who led the bombing campaign of Germany as Commander-in-Chief of the British Bomber Command during World War II. In an interview he was asked if dropping bombs on cities full of civilians was moral. His response went something like this: "Name me one thing in war that is moral. Is sticking a bayonet in a man's belly moral?".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet...
Finally put this "out there". Nice to see it on HN, says the guy from the meetup who can mix Hex colors in his head.
selenium with webdriver(io) or phantomjs. I like selenium more, though.