skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works if you have an audience. I suspect very few of those who are just sticking the stuff up on Amazon are successful unless they happen to find a niche without a lot of other people doing the same thing.
International Apple keyboards layouts
On a side but related note, I don't understand why many programming languages and databases don't have a positive and negative infinity date placeholder/token value that is standardized and cross platform. Negative infinity date is "past", positive infinity date is "future". This would solve the common problem of what date to use when you are trying to talk about unknown date in the future or unknown date in the past, rather than using weird placeholders like 9999-12-31 or 1900-01-01 or other magic numbers.
Same here, I use it as a consumption device to stream video and read RSS mainly. If I need to create something I have a laptop, so I see the iPad as different use case that I have no intention of merging (such as with the Surface)
Perhaps you missed it at the time but I'm wondering if you can answer this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13438225
That sounds complex, not something you want to outsource to a random freelancer
Yes this is clickbait to get him traffic. This is Viperchill, very skilled writer and smart guy who unfortunately makes a living from "get rich by teaching others how to get rich" schemes. There's a grain of truth in everything he says but it's all greatly exaggerated in order to wow the less educated and later sell them something for a profit.

Just type Viperchill into google and watch the suggestions.

It's a sad day to see him polluting HN with his "work".

As the audience here is way smarter than his average followers I hope people with see through his schemes and do not promote him.

Disclaimer: I've outed him in the past.
It's just an API to implement. But YouTube for iOS in general is a dreadful piece of software so not surprised they haven't done it.
...and this is why I categorically refuse to work for an early-stage startup and why I despise startup culture. I have no desire to ever work for a company with fewer than 500 employees ever again (yes, I worked for an abusive startup in the past; I'll not be burned again).
You can still use Vine to do that. In fact that's all it does now.
So... Why?

The article didn't even answer their own question. Unless the answer is truly just "because he enjoys it". Which doesn't make this very interesting. He didn't even really get into what goes into writing a great Wikipedia article or the review process.

Wikipedia's review process, and community is great. And their attention to detail, and high standards for quality are part of the reason Wikipedia has become such a great resource. This article addresses none of that.
As we bring some of our revenue generating features online we hope to have the cash flow to fund regular third-party audits.
Physical supermarkets can still be really terrible. It always seems to take me over an hour to do my grocery shopping.

My idea to bring the industry into the 21st century would be take a similar route to Blue Apron et al, where all the ingredients are combined into a single package. The difference is that the work of preparation would be distributed to local restaurants looking to supplement their income, and people would just pick up their uncooked packages there. That would keep the cost down and scale well, while still being convenient for customers and allow them to cook new, interesting meals everyday.
I use the Galaxy S2 Tab for reading, and it's marvellous. Especially at night with the dark scheme, thanks to the AMOLED display.
Not sure about point 2, but 1Password seems to fit all the others. Really like it, personally.
No unless you can get a critical mass of employees to basicly say no FU mate.

We join with our existing T&C and length of service plus a signing on bonus.
I don't agree with Ebert, but it is subtler than that. You get to choose how to interpret the art, but it is still presented as the 'auteur' intended.

In a movie context, you don't get to pick and choose what scenes you see in what order. The author of the movie has complete artistic control of every moment on the 2D screen. Ideally. A photograph/painting is static.

I think if we had true 3D (holographic?) movies he'd argue those aren't art as well because you could walk to any position in the scene to see the action from a viewpoint you pick, whereas his concept of art is that the director / editor picked very specific angles for you to view the scene to evoke a specific feeling.

He'd probably argue the Lytro photographs aren't art, either, since you the viewer get to pick the focal plane.

That, I think, is where he gets caught up in choice -- and that's where I mean that his concept of choice is very one dimensional. I think he felt you making choices in the game takes away from the author's control, and that lack of control made it not art.

In a sense, he expects the artist to be active and the consumer to be passive, except for experiencing the art.

...I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got from his writing. (...and I think he was wrong.)
> There was no way I wanted to be in a position where I would feel like I had no choice but to accept an offer like this.

For me, that's the biggest takeaway from your story. When you're in a situation where you need money NOW, employers and creditors have all the power and can make your life hell with impunity. Most of us don't have F U money, but everyone should have a 3-6 month emergency fund and live comfortably within their means. It makes decisions like this one a lot easier. You can't put a price on having options.
And why are the net profits 1.7%? What are the major drivers of cost, and how might Amazon be positioned to combat those?

Also, Amazon running a business at 1.7% net profit for the sake of keeping existing customers happy and potentially acquiring more of them might be worthwhile.
What causes your brother to be able to do these tasks? Is it that the instructions are presented step-by-step? Is it because his mother cares about him getting it done?

Have you tried using lower-tech devices to help remind him? A paper agenda, Google Calendar, and alarm clocks/wristwatches are all techniques that other autistic people have used with varying levels of success.

If you want to test whether the Echo reminder would help, you should try a lower-fidelity prototype -- record your mother saying the reminder with a tape recorder or a Sound Recorder app on a computer, and then play it back at the appropriate time and see how he responds. (If it was me, I'd find it rather insulting and might respond angrily, but I wouldn't assume your brother acts the same way.)

Does your brother want to live independently of your mother? If your mother is the only social contact that your brother has during the whole day, then replacing her with an Echo might make him even more isolated, right?
So, there is literally no difference in how you would handle this with GraphQL vs a traditional RESTful API. All you have to do is pass query variables in your query... and then pass those variables to whatever model method / service RPC you call to grab location data.

If you are using React, you can learn more about request variables here:

http://dev.apollodata.com/react/queries.html

Variables are also how you submit data in mutations.

I highly recommend Apollo for a client side GraphQL implementation. They are the best
>does not imply "poverty would disappear if people lost money when it happened".

That's true but that's also not what I wrote. Your derived hypothetical has a vastly different meaning than "not profiting in transactions is the solution to poverty".

>First, because the truth of (A -> B)

Using strict math logic is not applicable to this. Instead, we're talking about the "logic" of human choices and how to parse English sentences.

>If something causes a problem, that doesn't imply that inverting the thing will solve the problem.

If we claim that "the problem of a child dozing off in class is that he works late at night" then yes, we are implying that the child should not be forced to work at night and instead get a full night's rest. This is how we normally parse things when proposing prescriptive recommendations.

(Yes, if we attempt to use a strict math logic framework, we could say that !B->!A == "he's not working at night therefore he's not dozing in class" which can't be 100% true since there isn't enough information. Therefore, valid negations in abstract math don't perfectly carry over to negating English sentences.)

In any case, do you really think "the problem of poverty is that it's profitable" is a meaningful and insightful statement? (I actually lived in poverty as a child and I find it ridiculous.) The journalist isn't just suggesting that "_a_ problem of poverty is profits" but provoking readers with "_the_ problem of poverty is profits".
Revamped Baldrige Examiner Training to Include Learning Lab
Pacifism in Hell's Angels
> In fact, it's probably quite straightforward to implement a docker-like system as a bunch of Nix functions

Oh, it turns out that already exists. Just came across some tests, which appear to chroot into another OS image and run commands. Complete coincidence :)

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/release.nix#L202
There is so much happening with launch tech in the next few years that when the people planning space missions catch up with the lower launch cost, I think a lot more cool stuff is going to happen. I may even see people land on Mars.
Its about the same level of complexity now as it was say around 2010

Same choices too - Macbook/Macbook Air/Macbook Pro

Hardest part for most buyers was determining what the spec differences would mean for them and if the price difference was worth it. Same issue now
The Coming German Energy Crisis
> humans exhale 300-500ml of CO2 a minute

A 20 foot shipping container has something like 39,000,000 to fill, from a quick Googling of their volume.

> But wasn't your argument just a minute ago that these tiny homes are for "walkable" cities?

Sure, if you can't parse the comma and the fact that the walkable cities portion of that response was to your "Humans need space" claim, not the "a person in a hotel room-sized house will suffocate from CO2 build-up" claim.
Whoa. So when I individually choose to get a product from a particular FBA seller on Amazon, it is not necessarily the one that originated from that seller?
On a longer time-scale, I plan to do the same!
No. Sell them then invest another $100 to restock. ROI remains at 1.7%.
Amazon offers the option to NOT commingle inventory, but the FBA seller has to opt-in. Somewhat counterintuitively, if you know that the third-party seller has done this, you're safer buying from the trusted FBA seller rather than Amazon.com. Amazon.com will ship you anything that an FBA seller has submitted under the same product identifier.

Amazon is getting very strict re: counterfeit and knockoff products, as they've absolutely flooded the marketplace, and they're starting to take the reputation hit from it.
Do you remember who the Seller was? Did it say "Oreilly"? If yes, then this is quite disturbing. How will anyone know the legitimacy of a Seller?

I think Amazon should start doing "Verified Sellers" like Twitter does with it's "Verified Accounts".
ah that's when you ask the Postman what the areas are like or use any of the websites that have this info.
I assume it meant an augmented reality centric OS.

Not necessarily the stupidest thing in the world if you combine it with machine learning.
5 Creepy Things Your ISP Could Do If the FCC’s Privacy Protections Is Repealed
That's great! As mentioned my initial take away was at least it was a good place to start researching companies that actually have FOSS positions available whose focus is on contributions and not just using/understanding FOSS.

After my comment I read more and it looks like they want more contributions and, I agree, being on HN probably helped!
Ask HN: Why isn't there more open source SaaS?
Open source projects routinely outperform their proprietary counterpart. However, it seems like in the age of SaaS our open source libraries, OSes, and other tools become parts of a SaaS solution, but rarely the solution itself (exception do exist of course). It just seems that compared to other types of software open source is very underrepresented in popular SaaS tools.

Why is this? Do you see thing changing?

I'm an idealist and I think it'd be great to wrestle CRMs amongst other things from proprietary companies for instance.
I think the Thompson NFA matcher could be pushed further if someone would bother to do it. One example is that since it finds all solutions to a given regular expression, it could be used within a larger backtracking matcher to support back-references.

Consider:

(a+)(a+)=\1

With an input like:
aaaaa=aa

The matcher will find these strings by the time it gets to the '=':

(a)(aaaa)=
(aa)(aaa)=
(aaa)(aa)=
(aaaa)(a)=

Each match will end up as a separate still-existing thread in the Thompson matcher. Instead of pruning them as soon as possible, keep them and recursively match the rest of the string with the back-reference set in turn to each until a match is found.
The Titan X(P) does not support 16-bit floats, or, well, it is supported but at 1/64th the speed of 32-bit floats.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(microarchitecture)

section 2.4 Chips claims the Titan XP uses the GP102 chip, and section 3 Performance gives the speed for computing with 16-bit floats.
Others disagree with your sentiment: http://www.thenewstrack.com/top-5-communist-countries-in-the...

Where is an example of a good system then?
Letsencrypt does not allow wildcard certificates.

And also greatly reduces the need since you can simply give every site/service a unique certificate instead of sharing a cert throughout all your deployments.
Latest SpaceX launch carries ARM MCUs for space station experiments
5x, too, I think.
Please see: http://www.archdaily.com/160892/the-pros-and-cons-of-cargo-c...

"For instance, the coatings used to make the containers durable for ocean transport also happen to contain a number of harmful chemicals, such as chromate, phosphorous, and lead-based paints. Moreover, wood floors that line the majority of shipping container buildings are infused with hazardous chemical pesticides like arsenic and chromium to keep pests away."

and

"Reusing Containers seems to be a low energy alternative, however, few people factor in the amount of energy required to make the box habitable. The entire structure needs to be sandblasted bare, floors need to be replaced, and openings need to be cut with a torch or fireman’s saw. The average container eventually produces nearly a thousand pounds of hazardous waste before it can be used as a structure."
so anything you create on paid time is theirs, fair enough.

'developed or promoted with existing Company IP' I wonder if someone writ a blog post on their company blog about their side project or something it would be company owned all of a sudden, or if they use an open source Github project?

'developed for use by the Company' what if the company just wants to use it and so claims they would be a customer so it was developed for use by them?

'related to an existing or prospective Company product or service' also sounds vague and how is something defined as related too?

I love how open they are about things but this still seems a bit onerous to me.
Thanks - the title here now is much better, to be clear though I wasn't criticising mods or OP here, since it was verbatim the linked article. :)
Bashford Dean and the Development of Helmets and Body Armor During World War I
You're stating as fact something that is very clearly up for debate. If you do a quick search you will find many different viewpoints on what he was doing. Ultimately only Trump really knows if he was mocking the reporter or not and I would say Trump's word isn't exactly to be trusted.
That's simply not true. SEPA explicitly states that all SEPA transactions should cost the same amount of money. Either your bank is ripping you off, or you're not using SEPA.

Clarification: that is to say for the same originating party. Different banks can charge whatever they like, but always the same amount for any SEPA payment, regardless of the target bank.
>I don't understand why this author is so vehemently against this kind of debt?

Easy: financial ignorance.

Debt is just one way to finance an asset purchase. As long as the asset returns are greater than it costs to service the debt, it makes no difference whether the asset is paid out of current income or not.

The corollary is that stupid purchases are stupid, whether you pay cash or go into debt for them.
yet.

There is no reason to think they wouldn't go down that path if it seems viable.
I believe there are different sizes of this table.
I tried both CreditKarma and TurboTax this year.

Credit Karma missed some things in my NJ state return that would have cost me a couple hundred dollars. There didn't appear to be any way for me to manually include a correction, so I ended up filing with TurboTax (free version).

This wasn't even a particularly esoteric exemption, I expect it would have come up with anyone who worked for two different companies in the same year. Aside from that, I'm a very standard case.

http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/njit16.shtml
It depends on the seller. Sellers can opt-out of commingled inventory, but it incurs additional labeling/packaging costs for them. If they've done this, then you're getting the physical item they've sent in to FBA. If they haven't, then you may get the physical item they sent in, or you may get some other item that someone else sent in under the same identifier.

As far as I know, there is no way to know whether an FBA seller uses commingled inventory before purchase. The only option is to ask and hope they're telling the truth.
Met police accused of using hackers to access protesters' emails
Opening line of that article:

> Meryl Streep, who makes millions of dollars doing what preschoolers do on the playground every day, ...

Why should I continue reading?
> If I'd agreed to that contract, there might not be a "raganwald" today.

Damn, that's poignant. Well, I hope you know you've had a massive impact on a lot of people. I greatly appreciate your technical and non-technical writing, and I evangelize Javascript Allongé whenever I have the chance.
Cool! I do agree this concept is under-utilized. Best of luck!

(Heads up: if you shall ever venture to patent this tech, I think I'll be able to present compelling prior art from like 1996. This was also a proxy-based re-writing mechanism for co-browsing and from your description it does sound kinda similar. It also happened to use HTML frames.)
I think that confusion is definitely there. Probably not worth mentioning it since noone can understand the gibberish they call TV appliance numbers.
Silicon Valley's Loop of Desires
Yep:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
I'm unsure of my current payouts on leave (assuming none). I was hoping non compete was separate like yours, then ignore it, but nope.
Lekker Lack Rack
CRMs aren't the best example of proprietary/closed-source SaaS. The CRM world is absolutely dominated by WordPress[1].

The reason open-source SaaS isn't more popular is that people don't want to worry about the technical details of the SaaS. I'm a software developer, and I'd still rather pay Trello a small amount of money rather than install and maintain my own open-source Trello. My time is much more valuable to me than the fee that Trello charges me.

The same is true of Gmail and all the other SaaS I use. I'm paying someone to maintain and operate these SaaS, not just to build the software in the first place.

1. https://trends.builtwith.com/cms
Sure, but that isn't the prime vector of E Coli and other illnesses spreading. E Coli literally comes from workers shitting in the fields due to the breakdown of the labor movement, as they are not allowed breaks or access to a bathroom with a place to wash afterwards. Thus how you end up with Chipotle serving up E Coli covered veggies.

Not having a store that your food comes from might make for a safer mental picture, but Amazon is going to go with the cheapest vendor every time, and they don't have the scale of Kroger or HEB to knock prices down anywhere near them, thus they must buy lower quality goods to hit the same price point.
From my experience it doesn't define it. However its becoming the standard for documenting your REST based HTTP API's and it's a focal point of the API itself to developers/stakeholders.
I would argue that by the time you've chosen Paxos or some other majority quorum commit protocol, you're already well aware that you're building a CP system, and that availability and latency aren't your main concern. A majority quorum is basically the most obvious (and somewhat brute force) way of providing serializable consistency in the system.

The one non-majority quorum commit protocol that most people are probably already familiar with is the "sloppy quorum" replication in Dynamo systems[1] (e.g. Cassandra, Riak, Voldemort, etc.). Basically, since the quorum is configurable on a per-cluster basis instead of being inherent to the protocol, and usually isn't a majority of the cluster, the system can still make progress when half of the nodes are unreachable. (But of course, as the paper notes, this means that you need to resolve conflicts some other way, which adds a whole bunch of complexity.)

1: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
The biggest issue I have with this is that app is absurdly ugly

I haven't actually read apple's design standards but it doesn't seem like it'd come close to meeting it

At the very least the dark gray + red color scheme clashes with every other apple app i can think of..
Quite a few accountants that I know use TurboTax to file for their customers.
My takeaway from the post was it isn't so much that he thinks it's fair but a legal necessity to protect the company. More of a criticism towards how current IP law is structured.
They already know I disagree with this: team, manager, and CEO.
I'm very happy to see more women gaining interest in coding. With anything, there are always contributions to be made in the programming world that men cannot "see" or "know" including web apps that don't yet exist, but that women would find useful.

How would a man know what a woman finds useful unless he talks to his wife or girlfriend who introduces the idea to him? And might develop it through her ideas, which could work out, but coming directly from the source: A woman could know how to design and develop for other women.

Unfortunately, when it comes to all major social media networks, a look at all the CEOs and creators reveals: they were all created by men. Products loved by men and women, but there are still plenty of things to create for women by women because men simply have no understanding of how to do it or reason to do it. Finding those niches leaves plenty of opportunity for women.

Women coders also inspire young girls to break the cliche: Knowing about computers, knowing about programming, knowing about how things work does not make any girl a nerd or a geek. Her curiosity will lead her to so much opportunity! It makes her intelligent and instills a sense of passion and creativity in her! Even if she is a nerd, she should own the title!
> HTTP/HTML is also an API, just a bit more cumbersome to parse than JSON.

No it's not, HTML can change anytime. It is meant for human consumption. "API" has the word "Interface" in it because there is a well defined interface to a service, and is documented, and is meant for machine use predominantly.

> API key

While I agree with you, I also think it is important to be able to disable applications that might be misusing the API quickly.