skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WOW, are you serious? After all these huge amounts of venture capital, Uber still uses bird's distance rather than (easily obtainable) estimated travel time in all areas?

What a joke.
I don't know if there are any studies, but the single-digit approval rating of Congress says it quite clearly.
> What's weird to me is Republicans say regulation is bad

What's really weird is that Republicans love markets and hate regulation, but don't seem to realize that every market is created by regulation. There's a complete lack of nuance among vocal Republicans.
Cygwin or msys2 would probably have let that dev run the build scripts.
creator here: Just added a big new feature to our Chrome extension (which got its start on HN several years ago). Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on both the concept and the technical implementation!
There's basically no detail to the video, so I'll just join the chorus of disappointed former customers here. I had a System76 netbook ~6 years ago, and it is truly one of the worst pieces of hardware I ever encountered (and I had a PowerBook 5300c).

Sure, Linux ran on it, but the keys were awful, the build was flimsy, the trackpad was atrocious, and the battery was at once underwhelming AND protrusive. Nothing to recommend them by.
The race for the smallest CSS files continues
We need a Canadian Taxi hailing app. We can make it.
It's definitely interlaced output, though in most display modes the content is progressive (i.e., both fields look the same) - which is a bit of a dumb arrangement, really, since you get all of the flicker and none of the benefit.

Fortunately there's a command to switch it off, and no TV seems to mind displaying 50.08Hz output rather than 50Hz...
If you could n-gate every article as it's posted, that would be awesome.
I have had to use the win32 API within the last year. I left that job, I regret nothing.

As much as I want as few layers between me and the hardware as possible, I would rather have many sane layers like much of the web than 1 insane layer like the win32 API. It doesn't follow good C, C++, std library or other conventions. Many functions have multiple poorly documented modes based on which structs you pass are empty or null pointers. It also just fails often for no reason I can understand, and the distinction between windows application and console is quasi magical and counterproductive.

Posix... Is a blessing by comparison. Every time I need to touch it it take me something like a single hour and I have a function that works reliably and just does what I need. Until we get to X11 and manipulating those windows. Then I just want to punch everything, but at least X11 works once the code is written, even though its inside out and backwards.

Now I just strongly prefer to use a good library to get at OS facilities. Things like SDL, boost or Intel Threading build blocks, etc. They are fast and generally tight enough I can open them and understand down to the hardware when I want.
Hahaha good one.
Show HN: Mexican RFC calculation library
>Who in the right mind would propose cutting EPA budget?

Once set, the EPA budget is untouchable? That seems like a terrible way to run government. I'm not for or against the budget cut, but I don't think anything should be off-limits.

>do not support Trump

You don't say....

>If one day voters are given a secure voting application they can vote on all issues, it will be great.

I think you'd be surprised for how many people "internet privacy" is completely and utterly irrelevant to their daily struggles.
I used Let's Encrypt and don't see the error myself on mobile Chrome (latest version).
So before America can accomplish anything, we need to get a highly educated population that is rich enough to be able to afford the time to research complex local, statewide, and national politics.

There's a hell of a lot of symptoms between us and the goal, and the current system seems to be doing everything it can to prevent us from reaching it (defunding education, defunding healthcare, preventing efforts to get out the vote, gerrymandering).
Except that that likely ended up baked into a system that is hard or impossible to upgrade. So when the certificate is revoked or changed the system stops working.
You can achieve fractional scaling by first setting Gnome hidpi to an integer value and then adjusting the screen with xrandr [0]. It's not great, but it works.

Source: I have a 4K display and no problems

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#GNOME
Their argument is that Internet privacy is the FTC's job, not the FCC's job.

This raises the question: Have they set up the FTC to do this job before taking away responsibility from the FCC?
OpenSSL Re-licensing to Apache License v. 2.0
It of course doesn't have hedge funds, which are black box. And Renaissance is the "blackest". I find it suspicious that the only funds with long term performance that "beats the market" are unpublished and secret. Madoff's fund was on of the few that beat the market consistently too.
No, Gnome only supports integer scaling for UI (@1x, @2x, @3x).

I don't know why they don't support fractional downscaling from @2x like Apple does. I guess nobody expected 13" 1080p laptops and 27" 4K screens seem to become mainstream :(
"Where would you draw the line?"

Where it stands now. The solution is to keep the spotlight on the cockroaches, and inform your friends and family of what's going on. Protest. Make your voice heard.

Just because you find it offensive and consider it a threat to society doesn't mean it should be illegal; that was the argument behind Prohibition, Blue Laws, and the current War on Drugs.
Pinning is a good thing, assuming you have built in a reliable upgrade path (oh hey, browsers update themselves automagically now so yay!) but when you have occasionally connected devices that have low bandwidth that have a long deploy lifecycle, it's not always feasible, or even a good idea.

It's even worse if said device is embedded and has severe hardware constraints for compliance and regulatory reasons, and those same reasons prevent you from deploying patches on the regular.

Layer in some "built by the lowest bidder" and "accumulation of 30-odd years of poor practices for smart payment cards" and you have a big mess of a situation to unravel.

Oh yeah, and lest you think this is not an issue because this is browser related, may I introduce you to the world of services that proxy legacy green terminal applications into web front ends, ranging from IBM HATS to bespoke AJAXy things that unwrap screen scraped terminal emultor content from XMLHttpRequests.

Jeez. Remembering why I used to drink more when I worked in fintech :)
The Air Force Considers Retiring the F-15C/D for the F-16
(I work at Stripe) We've thought about this a little, and while we'd be excited to make Radar available more broadly (i.e., even to businesses not using Stripe for payments), for now we're focusing our efforts on improving the product.
Fair enough. But I just ate arugula at a Panera. Fifty years ago Italian was considered "ethnic" food in the American Midwest. It's also worth pointing out that Flushing isn't just down the street for most new Yorkers. Commutes within NYC can be well over an hour and/or two expensive can rides away.

I'm just saying the "no culture in the flyover states" meme is long overdue for an update.
I pay for Soundcloud so I can cache the mixes I follow. If anyone from Soundcloud is following this thread, it's all about the mixes and the caching!!!

They are too far behind Spotify for individual tracks, maybe they could get some exclusive podcasts or something but please for the love of God don't take away the mixes or the caching it's such a huge value add in my life.
even if I accept that, my point is that one side has come much closer to facism than the other has marxism.

Or fine, if you don't agree with that even, my point is simply why just hand-waive that it's the same. Let's discuss if the republicans have moved too close to facism without mentioning the democrats who are out of power and aren't a factor in this particular topic.
You think the US is bad? Try Japan, South Korea, or China.
I agree. My comment was not meant as an endorsement, simply a statement I think that's how they've 'solved' that issue.
I made an Ask HN related to this earlier that got no traction [0]. Due to this regulation repeal, I don't consider VPN's optional anymore. I asked people to share their VPN setups. I'd like to have my router route my traffic through one.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942059
I think the government here is taking a good approach by putting down at least empty pipes, which can be filled by anyone who wants to run fiber through them. This is a reasonable compromise in my opinion.

Personally I'd rather they put the fiber in themselves and lease it out, while also giving others the ability to pull their own lines through the pipes.
Not every Cambodian restaurant is the same. I promise you the best Cambodian restaurant in Des Moines is nowhere nearly as good as any half-decent Cambodian restaurant in New York. Same goes with Italian and Japanese and Spanish and Thai and Korean. Are you really equating the food scene in Des Moines with that of New York by the availability of cultural cuisines?
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There's a benefit to having multiple platforms on your development team if you are developing something for multiple platforms.

It's too often I see projects with "supports Linux, OSX, and Windows" only to find that none of the maintainers actually own a Mac and therefore it is filled with bugs and often requires the user to "find their own dependencies".

If we are talking days of time and not weeks, the benefits of making (and keeping) your whole system cross platform could pay off big time in the future when you or someone on your team wants to switch, or you just want to easily test on other platforms.
This isn't just true for web development thought. If you worked on building some piece of hardware, a few years later you'd be hard pressed to see any of that hardware still around. I guess you can keep one on your shelf as a memento, but it's not like it would work any better as a demo.
Liar's Poker was written as satire. Michael Lewis found it perplexing that some of his audience thought the characters in there to be ideals to emulate.
> Republican prefers smaller government and prefers more conservative approach by eliminating regulations

This is a claim, but rarely actually seen. More money is thrown at "defense", while less is put into supporting the American people.

What if we instead of building new fighter jets, we spent that money on fixing out infrastructure, getting faster internet to everyone's homes, better education for our children?

The military industrial complex in the US is structured such that every state and by extension Senator and Congressperson, wants to vote for things like new tanks and planes, because it creates/preserves jobs in their districts. But this has little long term benefit to their districts. Wouldn't it be better to invest that money into the future of their districts to improve the lives of the people there?

It's disingenuous to say the least the R's prefer smaller government. What they prefer is less regulation and redirection of tax money into corporations.
I disagree. The political elites in both parties serve the interests of the capital holders. It's just that each party targets their propaganda efforts to appear as if they don't serve those interests at different audiences.

They've each done a very good job at convincing people the other team is pure evil, though.
I fucking voted. Do I get to complain now?

Ah, no. I have to abide by the result of the vote.

Except that my vote counts less than others due to the electoral college, and party officials colluded to smear my voting sector and prevent the candidate I wanted to vote for from even appearing on the ballot.

So, no, my vote never counted.
I suspect that the interests driving denial are planning to ride the crash. There are probably developments in favorable locations. Land. Security. Infrastructure. Resources.
>On Win32[0], the blinking caret can be shown anywhere inside a window, not just on a text field. (...) I'm sure other operating systems have this kind of facility - after all, how does the built in text edit control draw its caret?

The "built in text edit control" IS a native text field already.
Do you all honestly think that the US or what people there think is the biggest issue effecting pollution?

Last time I checked as a nation we are working hard to reduce emissions have some of the lowest in the world. Perhaps it would be more useful to go and bash China and India, two countries in which seeing a clear sky in a large city is a rarity.
Thanks for the example. I expected a higher price for the self-hosted version: it's only 3 months worth of the highest saas plan.
Does that mean you're interested? If so, let's get some people together, organize an in-person or virtual meetup, and get the ball rolling.
Ask HN: Should I do full-time (W2) or contract (1099)?
I've been given the opportunity to choose my payment structure for my newest job.

I have the following two options:

1.) $10,100 per month contractor (1099)
2.) $100,000 annual salary full-time employee (W2). This included benefits, equity, etc.

I'm only interested in what my best option is in terms of take-home pay.

I live in California. I am a software engineer.

What should I do? I'm also considering negotiating the full-time to $120,000, if I choose full time.
Uber drivers are not employees. They are independent contractors. Uber, as part of their service, collects money from riders, giving both the rider and the driver a comfort factor as they don't have to deal with cash. As "hobby" businesses they each individually were enjoying the exemption. Now they will not - because we can't have "hobby" businesses causing discomfort to the well connected.
Oh, the commie card. I call bullshit.

Now the fascism part we're seeing that actually move forward in real time, so you get half a point.
Not parent but here you go:
"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Money is not interchangeable with free speech. That's a myth promoted by the moneyholders. Free speech law in the US protects content, not form.

If government can prevent people from rallying near a party convention, government can prevent people from bribing candidates for office.
The big objection to Javascript is likely arising from what you've seen 10~20 years ago. The fact is, the older you are, the more likely you will reject it.

I'd say look hard at your own skepticism and actually test it out. While it doesn't make sense to write a blog using React/Redux, what one needs to get over is he fact that Javascript is no longer just "rendering documents" but the next evolution in software development as everybody moves to using a common codebase and components.

Why build complicated native applications when a thinly wrapped SPA in Electron will be indistinguishable to the customer? The only objection here is the engineer's ego and reversion to the familiar.

Enterprises will still run on Java, but minimizing code and weight the ROI on managing existing legacy technical debt for a simple CRUD desktop application vs. utilizing current Javascript technologies will be a continued pattern as Javascript wins more buy-in from the corporate executives.

This is coming from the biggest Javascript skeptic. After learning that the problems Javascript were solving were already very difficult, I feel more comfortable speaking the most active language on the web. Nay, I feel anxious that I've not fully caught up with Javascript technologies.
The Fall of the House of Node (2016)
Personally, I like the hackerrank or leetcode automated challenge as an initial first filter. It can be gamed by cheaters of course but that requires some work on the cheaters part. It allows me to start the test at a convenient time and in a standard format. Hopefully, it allows the company to be less stringent about skill sets and other resume keywords and simply test more people. Hopefully it makes job searches harder for resume spammers, cheats, and fakes. I suspect even a few really easy problems from these sites would be a useful filter.

Then perhaps a phone interview so that the company can confirm I'm likely not cheating.

Finally an onsite white board interview or written test or at the computer programming test. Yes I get nervous doing white board interviews but if the difficulty level of the problem is not too great it is a useful filter.

I dislike long take home work because it requires too much of a time sink and it could be abused by employers fishing for ideas, competitor information, or just wanting free work for one of their problem areas. Algorithm tests on hackerrank or leetcode or wherever are still useful practice but take home tests can be too job specific and therefore prematurely requires candidates to commit to learning a particular companies needs without the company committing anything in return.

Questioning candidates about their experience in an informal manner by conversation may be of some benefit, but is likely just testing how well the candidate has prepared various stories about their past employment and past projects. Unfortunately, abandoned projects that taught a candidate a lot and served their intended purpose may not make as good a portfolio or story as completed projects that were just cookie-cutter implementations of projects found in books or tutorials or elsewhere.

The important thing for all of these filters though is that they be carefully calibrated in difficulty to the companies needs and job sourcing pool. If your large top-N company carefully optimizes it's customer funnel with a/b testing but has no real employee hiring sanity checks, then that is not good. Randomly have one employee at the company white board interview another employee at the company from a different department. Secretly test your interview process with known good programmers from outside the company.
Right now I am just working on getting it to understand "topics" such as Technology, Science, Fun Facts, Business, Politics etc. and then use those topics to create a personalized channel that pushes you updates of the "best/hottest" stuff. Right now the topics are going to map to subreddits and news sites since the category data is there. Eventually I hope to add tracking for companies(or stocks), actors/directors, and bands/artists to add to the stream.

So you could just tell it "Hey can you keep and eye on Taylor Swift for me?" and it will know thats a musical artist and give you album updates or related news. Or "Track Hugh Jackman" and it will let you know when he is in talks for a new movie or whatever.

The next step after that would be getting feedback from the user about the different articles it pushes to them and then building some kind of intelligence into that data. Or just being able to say "Hey I'd like more tech and less science, please" and it would adjust the ratio accordingly.

Yes! I'm just starting with this idea using Rails and Wit.ai but I think it could have some legs and would love to collaborate with you.

email me at seanmgrahamnj at yahoo
You're espousing what some have termed the "Kantian correlationist" perspective. A very reductive summary is:

"...correlationism is a form of scepticism for it asserts that whether or not things-in-themselves are this way is something we can never know because we can only ever know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves."[1]

It's worth noting that some philosophers, particularly Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux (whose work the above quote is given in the context of), have argued strongly against correlationism. Though they don't claim we might ever have a completely unfiltered view of what objectively is, they argue that the absolute limitations on knowledge of reality imposed by correlationist thinkers are mistaken, and that we can make progress by degrees towards an ever fuller perspective on reality. So, even though you assert

>Thus, even if there is an objective reality, facts are nonetheless subjective because the actual basis for believing in facts is subjective.

as a factual (somewhat ironically), it should be noted that this too is disputable. Also I would argue that Tarski (or any formal mathematical result) does not necessarily have implications about "our objective reality." As Alain Badiou would say, mathematics is ontology - i.e. the language with which we might speak most precisely about "what is" - but this does not entail that mathematical concepts are real in the Platonic sense.

I agree strongly with gp that we shouldn't err on the side of formally foreclosing on the possibility of finding truths about the world. It literally legitimizes ignorance to espouse the correlationist worldview.

[1]https://euppublishingblog.com/2014/12/12/correlationism-an-e...
Oh my god, all that time my backups were worthless.
I think, more simply, most members of both parties push to increase their own power. It wasn't supposed to work that way. The Federal government was supposed to be limited to a few, specific enumerated powers. But there's too much power in the free-for-all do-anything control-everything leviathan it's become.

You'll never stop the corruption until the power is taken away, i.e., more carefully checked and balanced, and where appropriate, cut back.

Everything should be controlled at the smallest, most local level possible, not the largest.
Who said it's the spinner in that case?

After all, it IS syncing at that time, which means it does a lot of stuff.

Whereas the issue here is with the caret shown when the editor is idle.
With regard to the PRUs, I don't think the BB Blue has anything the BB, BB Black, and BB Green don't. They all have the PRUs. It's a function of the AM335x Cortex-A8 SoC.

At this point, you need a time machine to get a BB Blue, anyway.
I'm curious where the idea that SVM are "older" than neural networks comes from. The SVM wikipedia page claims that they were published by Vapnik & Chervonenkis in 1963, while Neural Networks date back at least to Rosenblatt's work in 1958, if not before.
Utterly irrelevant. My vote won't count more either way. I have no control over swing state voters.

If maybe there weren't swing states, the outcome would have been different. The system is set up this way for a reason - so that people like you can tell people like me that if they only voted, things would be fixed. Maybe they would, but, like I said, my vote doesn't count, so I can't really vote for it, can I? :)
As much as I hate the two party system, it does force moderation (generally) on both sides. Democratic senators running for office can't climb on a rooftop and scream "I'm gonna take away all your guns!" Nor can a republican shout "Ban all muslims!" Wait, no, sorry nevermind.
> This current government.

> This current government.

> both parties are dirty in their own way

one of those ways seems more troubling, though.
Rotten Tomatoes is 'the destruction of our business,' says director
“My boss admitted that he pays me next to nothing because I'm a black woman.”
Ya, it definitely happens. But if the company didn't need to move on to raise more money (probably the biggest argument for YC is that it will be easier to raise more), I would question whether YC was really necessary in the first place. Was YC the only place you could have raised $100k? And if you were able to do it by raising only 100k, perhaps you could have done it without their money.