skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great story - thanks for sharing. Your dad sounds great.
Please, the VCs are complicit in all this.
My retirement, only 18 years away. I'm real sorry I'm gonna miss this mess, NOT!
>I'm sure even the proletariat you sneer at appreciate their iPads.

Who said otherwise?

I wrote that for some people's use cases they are capable to be used and appreciated as tools -- which is what the parent contested.

They can be totally fine and appreciated web browsing machines for the average person, but that's a different thing that being tools (with the "productive"/"pro" element inherent in the term).
We do the same things!
The revolving door is a separate issue that I acknowledge is a problem.
If the company was into anything related to gaming, my assumption would be that they were looking to buy the IP at a knocked down rate by hiring you (or that the chance to get the IP cheap was one of the differentiators between you and the next best candidate).
Those are arsis and thesis curves; they're related to the movements of the conductor's hands but not 1–to–1 with such movements.
Is there any interest in Swift outside of the Apple ecosystem? I've been slowly adding to my iOS/Swift Topics on Github: https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.org

Recently, I've been tossing around the idea of creating a cross-platform repo. There seems to be some nascent interest:

https://medium.com/@iamjono/deploying-server-side-swift-to-l...

https://hackernoon.com/setting-up-a-swift-development-enviro...
Humans have been becoming dramatically less violent over time. So, it may act as evolutionary pressure even if it's not as useful right now.
Making a Chat Bot on Messenger, Slack, and the Web
"1040EZ" is an eaaasssy version of 1040. He is specifially talking about filling "1040".
Show HN: Source code for Historically-Important software projects
Yeah. It's so awkward looking because you've got these ugly borders when the screen is off, and on (frankly) most usage cases. The screen is rarely showing images that are white-heavy.
VSO+ConvertXtoHD+3.0.0.28+Crack+++License+Key
Well, they need to do a lot of things to have everyone, including programmers, use it.

It's not like adding an IDE is the last thing holding it from being 24x7 PC machine for everyone.
The type and amount of training required for those two fields isn't even remotely similar.
I jumped ship from iPads once I bought an 11" MB AIR. This ended me getting an email on the iPad, reading it, then deciding I wanted a keyboard to respond.

I do miss the simplicity for watching videos on flights, though.
Amount to add to NYC metrocards to avoid having leftover credit( as of 3/20/17)
Been wondering the same thing. It's one of the my favorite stories from the Walter Isacson bio. After listening to all the product mgrs for like 3 days in all day meetings describe their 20+ hardware products, he draws a 2x2. Labels one axis "consumer/professional" the other "laptop/desktop" and says "you get four products". Clarity in product offerings means you know who you are; the inverse is also true.
Sweet, this is basically want Lets Encrypt wanted, make the market go towards this free SSL model.
Full ack! To fix those issues and many more I started to use Spectacle [1] some months ago which steady improved my workflows. I could not even think about working with macOS without it.

[1] https://www.spectacleapp.com
Sure, but isn't 1/3 of coal mined in the US for non-energy use? A huge amount of chemicals are derived from coal.
I'm playing the heel here. Your point is well-taken, in that insurance prevents large absolute loss rather than the potential for large absolute gain.
Up vote for the Deepness reference! What a great novel, and I suspect the concept of a "programmer archaeologist" would be of interest to many here...
There's a finite number of dollars available for charity. There's a fine line between "raising awareness", and a zero-sum shouting match for attention.

Peacocks that invest energy into longer, heavier tails get more mates in the end, making it worth the investment for them and their offspring, but if all peacocks agreed to just halve the size of their tails, the species as a whole would suffer less predation and starvation (please ignore shoddy biology, take it as a crude analogy).
I'm curious; do you have a child of your own? Having one myself, it's hard for me to equate my dog to my son. It's not even close.
Depending on how vicious the company is when "crossed" you might find they can make it expensive for you for a while by trying to enforce it and making you put resource into fighting back.

Personally, if I don't agree with and and/or aren't willing to stand by it, I don't sign it. Of course for some less fortunate desperation means they have to compromise on such ideals.
Your problem is with the actions that they're lobbying for, not the lobbying itself. If H&R Block instead lobbied for clean water for all US citizens, you wouldn't have an issue with that.

It is ok to think that the cause (complicating the tax code) is wrong, but the methods (lobbying) are ok.
What about the iPad Mini 4? That's still currently in their offering.
>I'm pretty sure pedophile is near the top of the "you better make damn sure they don't get off" list.

It's not illegal to be a pedophile. It's illegal to possess child pornography.
apple is another one of those companies that really have wanted to get into social. I really don't see this as a snap replacement unless people move to instagram stories. FB and imessage are really for more personal social groups. Snap still has the benefit of being somewhat anonymous for not so personal contacts, like online only groups of friends. Could this eat into Snap's usage, very likely.
If you are flying to a destination outside the Schengen zone from Frankfurt, you have a strong chance of receiving a close frisk. The frisk is far beyond what is acceptable in U.S. culture and norms.
I think this would make a great science fiction setting. Where some clock error destroys most/all the magic tech out there and humanity is doing hunting and gathering on space stations etc.
My guess is that the purpose of this is intelligence gathering (assuming that it is security related at all, as opposed to being retaliation against unfair competition by state subsidized airlines as some have speculated). Perhaps something like this:

1. Some international criminal group has been under surveillance. Security agencies know quite a bit more about the group than the group thinks they do.

2. Security agencies do not have much information on the membership and organization of the group within the United States.

3. There is some good reason to believe that the group is about to undertake some major action, such as a terrorist attack, in the United States, and that a specific known officer of the organization will be traveling to the US to direct the attack.

4. Security agencies want to get some alone time with something that traveler will take with him when meeting with his comrades in the US, so they can install spying equipment like a listening device, a tracking device, a key logger if the device has a keyboard, and so on. They want this so that they can get information about the organization's US membership.

5. They don't want to do anything that would tip off the organization that their officer has been targeted. Hence, they need to cover up doctoring his electronics by making it appear that it is part of a very broad operation.

This restriction on electronics fits this well. Checked electronics will spend lots of time away from the owner, giving plenty of time to doctor it.
Exact same situation I observe, though I know a lot of parents who are instead opting for a Kindle Fire for their kids since it's much cheaper to replace and it's mostly used for videos and simple games anyway.
Show HN: I built a site using Google Sheets as a back end
I wanted to make a site that showcased a few things:
- The going rate for different professions in the tech field in one place
- How those rates were broken down between yearly wages vs. hourly wages
- How national rates compared to bay area rates

But getting a backend up and running is usually a huge pain. I wanted to use this opportunity to figure out a simpler way to try and process data and send it in JSON to the front end. I ended up using Google Sheets. There's quite a bit you can do using sheets to grab data from the web, but my bigger concern was translating that over to a site.

After quite a bit of searching and dead ends I found this blog post about publishing sheets to the web so they live update: https://coderwall.com/p/duapqq/use-a-google-spreadsheet-as-y...

It wasn't exactly correct but after fiddling with it I was able to create a live backend that could update itself or with my manipulation and would output in simple JSON format. This is the actual backend call here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1uFTr2qPpITgoJJrs...

This obviously isn't the most secure solution but I think it will work well for many designers who want to spin up a backend quickly. Parsing the JSON is pretty simple as well:
for(var key in data.feed.entry) {
console.log(data.feed.entry[key]['gsx$title']['$t']);
};

Happy to answer any questions. I thought this might be useful to some of you. Here's the site I made as well: http://getgoingrate.com/
The AMT calculation is tedious as hell. Considering that the yearly cost for H&R Block is something like 20$, it's well worth the money just to avoid needing to do that by hand, and that's not even taking into account all of the other time savings features of it. And the cost for the software itself is tax deductible as tax prep costs.
For anyone on the fence about using Heroku, this is a great value to those who know how to deal with certs but wouldn't mind them automated and free for the rest of the premium at Heroku.
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>I can think of very few other things with such poor reward systems.

Anything important has a "poor reward system". General education for one. Better eating. Advancing at a career. Playing a musical instrument.
Then is your position that businesses should not be expected to behave ethically, but politicians should? That's a pretty weird line to draw. There's no reason we shouldn't expect all members of society to adhere to a generally agreed-upon code of ethics, even if parts of that code shouldn't be made into law.
In computer science it's used to express asymptotic behaviour. This suppresses lower-order terms and constant factors, so O(2n + log(n)) = O(n). The most common ones used are upper bounds O(•), asymptotically equal behaviour θ(•), and lower bounds Ω(•).
You got this all wrong - the Council of Ministers has no power where it matters, on budget and policies, at all. It's just there to spoonfeed ppl who can't tell the difference between a symbol with nominal power (that's why you get Malta and Ireland to preside this group) vs a group with executive and decisional power (like the Eurogroup) who decides who's bank are going to be closed next (Ireland and Greece are pretty good examples).
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look at it!
this conversation in fvwm forum in 2k13 seems relevant: http://www.fvwmforums.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3010

seems like even with wayland, X will not be ripped out, and window-managers can run alongsides (ref: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_4)
Pixel is mass market, Nexus is not. Only enthusiasts know that Nexus was a precursor to the Pixel so that comparison will probably never happen to the average consumer. Heck Google even avoids saying the Pixel runs Android
In the finance category, so many posts are robo written now. If you Google just about any ticker symbol you get a very unnatural reading post about its recent movement. Just meaningless analysis that say nothing and recites some ratios. I spend about 2 seconds on those pages when researching a company.
That's fair. You can certainly make some big mistakes when buying/selling a house. E.g. neglect to have it inspected by due diligence deadline.

I used a realtor (with a discounted fee) for my first house. Now I'm buying the second by owner, because I know how the circus operates.
What do you mean with interactive usability exactly? I use PS daily and though I'm still learning I haven't got mcuh complaints so far, on the contrary, object pipeline vs text pipeline is a win imo for what I use it for. Depending on what version you use, make sure you run it in ConEmu (better terminal), have PSReadLine (readline, visual tab completion, ...) and Jump-Location (like z).
VSCode integration is good (debugging etc just works), Visual Studio integration as well probably but haven't tried that, yet.
So, because they aren't sane enough to figure out a naming scheme that makes sense, I have to waste hours or days looking at reviews just to understand what the difference is between the models? From what I could understand it's possible that the X67L is a good laptop, the X67LX is a crappy low-cost plastic netbook. How dumb is that.

Also, why do they ask me if my laptop is for work or home? What if I use it for both (which I do)? It doesn't make any sense.

I bought the new MacBook Pro mostly because of macOS, but also because I couldn't figure out how PC name their products, nor why they have to have 50 different barely-different models.
Or just happen to receive dividends...
Similar thing with my cat, Lancelot.

When we adopted him, we were told he was about 7 years, but he had a really shitty mouth from living in the wild (and a sore above his tail and an eye infection), so we planned on getting his mouth fixed ASAP.

We brought him in, dropped about $2k on dental work, but during prep for the surgery, they discovered he had a kidney disease that was only common in older cats, like 12-15. So he was around twice as old as we thought he was.

So on to kidney-healthy food he went and we prepared to only have maybe a couple years with our wonderful boy, when during a routine check-up to see how the food was working, we discovered a large mass. Cancerous or not, it was right on his pancreas, and any operation would have left serious doubts of recovery, especially considering his state.

We had him for about three months after fixing his mouth. He was a lot happier for it, and we don't begrudge the money and improvement of his lifestyle, but damn, to go from "we're fixing your mouth so you can have a long and healthy life" to euthanizing the poor guy four months later really fuckin' stung.

If cats weren't so stoic we could maybe have done something about it while it was still small enough to safely operate.
Where were you in 2003 when you could get a PowerBook 12? It had the same footprint as an 8.5"X11" sheet of paper and a full OS.
the mercator projection has a lot to answer for.
> I have not used CreditKarma's tax product, but I've heard folks say that it calculates some things incorrectly.

Can anyone else attest to this? I am going to start doing my taxes soon (for the first time in my life) and CreditKarma seems like a good solution for me.
I dno about comparable to northern Europe. Stockholm, Sweden has recently had a huge burst in deadly shootings, and a Swedish official got caught in trying to lie to the BBC saying that rape is decreasing in Sweden. Official statistics show an increase between the last two data points, the last one being from 2015 or 2016 if I recall correctly.

I have bit heard anything of the like in Japan, but as you say it could be because they don't have the same measures/report rate we have, or that I don't check Japanese statistics as much.
Thanks, though I am looking for something that I can manage myself. I won't say without a third party - using a VPS - but I am trying to build it such that I can pick up and move to a different VPS provider without a lot of pain.
Here's an interesting and topical example: the "billion dollar bracket" challenges you're seeing right now with the NCAA Tournament are all insured. The company offering the "prize" isn't going to be out $1B if someone hits a perfect bracket; they've got insurance to cover the event that someone wins. (The cost of that insurance is rumored to be around $10M.)

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/14/buffett-insures-billion-dolla...

Those challenges are all free, though you could get really deep and argue that consumers are paying incremental value for providing email addresses and marketing leads to the customer.
Ugh, your comment is so stupid I can't even be bothered to think of a proper reply.
After reading this article I re-watched videos of Fred Rogers' speaking in front of the Senate committee (highly recommended watching), his lifetime emmy acceptance, and his brief appearance on Letterman.

While watching them I was trying to figure out, what is it about this gentle, soft-spoken person that is so utterly captivating? Had he been speaking in front of the Senate today, I can't imagine a single person stopping to check their phone.

I'm sure the answer is multi-faceted, but I think a huge aspect is his head-to-toe, 100% Authenticity. I think there's an important lesson to draw there, and its something I see repeated elsewhere (blogosphere, TV, etc.). There's something captivating about authenticity.

The interesting thing is that it doesn't have to be as pure as Rogers'. Sometimes it is just an undercurrent with lots of stylization on top, but that authenticity somehow resonates with humans.

It also reminds me of an old Charlie Rose interview with Quentin Tarantino (to jump to the other end of the spectrum). He is talking about the process of writing, and how he has this inner voice constantly reminding him, "tell the truth", and how he can't watch his movies with some family / friends because it's too embarrassing: he's put a bit of himself up on the screen.

Now obviously Pulp Fiction is not a true story, but I think what he means is that under the hyper-stylized veneer, there is an authentic voice, even in a bizarre made-up world, and that, as much as the shocking revival scene, or hilarious Walken monologue, struck a nerve with audiences.

So my takeaway from Fred Rogers is to be authentic. Even if not as completely as him, make sure in whatever you do, there is some aspect of your true self in it. It resonates with people, and it probably feels good for you, too.
> All front loaders I know (Europe) have programs for all use cases (it's more complicated for sure).

My US front loader forced water saving mode, it sprayed a light mist of water, which quickly beaded off of synthetics.

It was otherwise a great machine, but until I moved out I had multiple large comforters I couldn't use.
This might get me back into iPads. I had a 4th gen, and it broke right around when I transitioned into the Plus sized iPhones. Spending $500 on a new iPad didn't seem like it was all that necessary considering my phone now did an OK job replacing it.

But at $329 it's a lot more attractive.
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Obsidian API Proposal
I actually find that it's really hard to pick a beer when I'm confronted with all the options: it would be a lot easier if a store just carried a lager and IPA and a stout (provided that the said beers were actually good)
A comparison of 20+ Single-Board Computers with pros and cons for each option
I would encourage you to take the time to just consider this in a different way. Animals that are loved are soulish, the incredible (but unfortunately not Catholic) Dr. Hugh Ross makes this easy to understand: http://www.reasons.org/articles/origin-of-soulish-animals. I would simply add that God allows us to form loving bonds with animals to provide a little heaven on earth --a loved [animal of your choice] is heaven on earth. But heaven being heaven, we won't need something as wonderful as our animal friends to make existence better.

Now if the misguided Puritans didn't have their way everybody would be able to die with the amount of dignity they need to make it to the end of the race. Why, because God has provided us with all the tools we need to control pain, but the powers-that-be (really they are the pain-givers either intentionally or just out of ignorance) deny this to us --think about all the places that put people in jail for growing a plant, or otherwise prohibiting scientists to their jobs to make things better.

My inner St Francis tells me that we euthanize animals at the correct time because of our love and respect for them, and there's no consequence for their souls. But for our fellow man, we provide care to its natural end so that we can all live forever.

Frank T. McAndrew did a great job with this article. I think about this stuff all the time because for me it's infinitely interesting, but in my case, I put a Catholic spin on it.
stat() takes a pointer to a struct where to write its output. This struct currently has 32bit values for time.

If you updated stat() to write 64bit values into a different struct, any existing program calling it with a pointer to an old struct would get garbage data (and a potential buffer overflow).

Renaming the function also makes debugging easier - after statx() is in widespread use, stat() could be replaced with a placeholder that raises the SIGTRAP signal, and immediately detects epoch-unsafe programs still in use.
1	proposer(v):
2 while not decided:
2	choose n, unique and higher than any n seen so far

26 lines.

It's pseudocode, so not really only 26 lines as it needs some more supporting functions to "choose n, unique and..." and other stuff to make setting variable states atomic.

Good way to explain the algo though.
I have to be honest, I'm surprised this is seemingly such a rare thing in the tech industry. I mean, in the various (admittedly small) companies I worked for as a web developer, I never had anyone worry about what I was doing outside of work hours. Heck in most cases they explicitly said I could do what I wanted outside of work and that if it made money... well good for me I guess.

But hey, they were small companies. Usually with a total staff count until 20. Guess it must be totally different at a multi national corporation with an actual legal team on call and what not.
I rejected an offer from a company that had a similar policy/procedure. Their contract stated that they own pretty much anything you do that's related to their business (which was huge and varied). But you were allowed to list any existing IP over which they had no claims.

That would have been fine and dandy, and probably even acceptable to me. But based on the wording of the contract, the IP clause still applied even after terminating your employment with the company. Which meant that while they might not be able to claim rights to my existing IP, ownership of any future IP could be called into question.

So, while I think your approach is good, there can still be issues with it.
It's almost that way - just that you can get the regular iPad with LTE, too.

Honestly, I wish they'd instead make all the iPads "pencil" compatible.
>There's something greatly fucked up about our society when we help our dogs die with more dignity than we do ourselves.

When my Mom died (complications from cancer and trying to remove it), she was essentially allowed to suffocate over the course of 24 hours while we slowly delivered her pain meds. We could request more pain meds every certain number of times. I had to sit there watching my Mom suffocate so that everyone could have the plausible deniability of being the one that actually were the straw that broke the camel's back and caused her death. Everyone knew she was going to die, the decision was made not to go any further, and we let her endure another 24 hours of suffering.

I had to put my dog down a few months earlier and the whole time staring at my Mom suffering, I thought exactly what you just said. It's a sad society when my dog has more dignity in death than my Mom.
You can set a Light theme instead under Preferences
pacemakers I worked on ran on 8 bit MCUs.