skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I'm changing the user-agent to access web version of Skype from Android Firefox. It's also "not supported" but it works fine for occasionally checking the chat.
I wonder if any company is seriously considering nuclear-powered planes? The energy density alone would make it extremely competitive.

And, let's be honest, in case of a crash, I'd rather walk away (or be hauled away without a limb or two) to die of cancer ten years later, than be burned to crisp in a huge fireball. Fear of radiation is overrated.
Wikipedia people updated the graph already, nice work!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency
"thanks for reporting this, I'll pass this to the tech team"

It's not something they can say. The product is unsupported and the "tech team" won't care.
So over 1/3 of Messengers total users is on chatible?
Edit: I'm retarded
Using your Cloudron as OAuth 2 provider
Brilliant read. I hope enough time has passed now for you to laugh about it.

You seem to have an unfinished sentence, part way through though. [italicised]

>She tells me that it has been declared ‘non relevant’. I can’t even. She says it’s doubtful that they will issue a cheque for that amount
Yes I Still Want to be Doing This at 65.
> I think there may be a disconnect between individual "farmers", who are perceived as rugged individualists, and well-connected farm companies with deeper pockets and lobbyists

Disagree. Small family farms provide the votes, farming companies provide the lobbying $. They're symbiotic, and both benefit from subsidies (to the extent that small family farms own the land they farm, which many do).

In any case, the "rugged individualist farmer" myth is a myth. And as long as my tax dollars subsidize their profits, I'll continue to point out the hypocrisy.

99.9% of farming really is just one more inter-connected industry these days. There's nothing wrong with inter-connectedness and inter-dependency, BTW. But it is extraordinary hypocritical to appeal to one's self-sustenance as a justification for preferential legal/policy treatment when you're working in an industry that relies not only a myriad of other industries, but also huge federal subsidies.

> Would large farm lobbying groups fight against Deere's practices, when harming small family farms drives business to larger agri-businesses?

Sure. Decreasing maintenance costs helps their bottom line too. And decreasing their operational costs is probably a more sustainable and probable way to drive out family farms anyways.

> It seems like John Deere's restrictions are more harmful to small family farms than to large agricultural corporations, right?

Really only in the sense of diminishing marginal utility of money.

(As I said above, I'm not siding with John Deere. So we agree. But I'm also not siding against John Deere because of any level of sympathy for farmers' romantic self image of "independence".)
> After all, you consider C# an uncool language.

That couldn't be further from the truth... I love slinging C#, it's far and away my favorite. It doesn't have that HN hot-shit cachet that Go or Rust or Scala or Lisp-likes or ML-variants have, however.
Rackspace Leaking Data When IP Addresses Are Recycled
What Did Viking Music Sound Like?
Was hoping for a cleaner solution, none of us have had much time to evaluate. That's a good idea though, worth setting up on the next attempt.
Researcher Found Critical Code Execution Bug on LastPass
>As it turns out, no. The installation of red light cameras in Chicago has actually increased rear-end collisions that result in injury by 22%.

You're misrepresenting the results of the study. The study recommended the continuation of the program. The rear-end collisions were less severe than types of collisions it reduced, it was a safety improvement overall.

From the findings section of the actual study (emphasis mine):

>Quantitative studies conducted in this project demonstrate significant safety benefits of the current RLC program. As a result, it is appropriate to recommend continuation of the program. Most of the intersections have experienced an improvement in safety, particularly in terms of severe angle and turn crashes, albeit with an accompanying increase in less severe rear-end crashes. The safety benefits extend beyond the immediate vicinity of the RLC intersections, evidenced by a significant spillover effect. However, some intersections appear to experience no significant safety impact. Recognizing that crashes are the result of complex interactions amongst many factors, and subject to considerable randomness, these deviations should be used as opportunities for detailed investigation and learning to design and deploy more effective automated enforcement programs

http://www.transportation.northwestern.edu/docs/research/RLC...

Similar benefits have been demonstrated in other cities. Doesn't mean it will work in every city, but there is evidence it works in Chicago.
I had exactly this argument with someone. It broke down to me figuring out where most of the new medicines are developed and it was something like 98%+ of medicines are developed by universities with public funds.

Of "new" medicines developed by actual pharmaceutical companies about half are just jamming two medicines that ought to be safe together into one.

Combine that with how most of the that R&D budget is to get drugs certified by the FDA and not to invent new ones and I fail to see how patents help the situation. It might be that without patents pharma companies might feel compelled to innovate more to stay ahead of their competition, but that is pure conjecture.
Ah the correct url is: https://repo0.com/app.html

I will push a fix shortly.
Really glad to hear that! We're really excited about this direction and think it'll be a game changer for DevOps. Of course there's more to come. Take a look at our direction[1] and join in the discussion!

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#deploy
UK&US ban electronic devices in cabin from several Muslim-majority countries
Does imgfave make any money? Surprised to hear it's a YC company. I remember it.
Any documentation / talks / videos about the gitlab + kubernetes integration ? Thanks for the awesome product. At work we switched to gitlab for new projects and loving.
You don't know when this code was written or what the original purpose was. User agent detection used to be a best practice. Onedrive for business is a mountain of legacy software going from sharepoint to groove to who knows what. This bug could be buried in some library that was written 5+ years ago. Maliciously going out of your way to not support Linux sounds like a good way to have your code review rejected.
I would personally use Base64 or Hex encoded binary data too if I controlled both sides of the communication.

However, the original commenter was worried about stuff "that's outside the JSON standard,". Storing byte-sized numbers in an array is well within the JSON standard, and any system that could consume json would be able to consume it without issue, and without additional dependencies.
I find your perception of DBA work to be quite narrow. Too many comments on here are based purely on colloquial evidence and not enough actual communication and understanding.
Meanwhile, Opportunity keeps going after 13 years.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html
> Self selecting?

Yes, probably. http://bit.ly/high-performance-survey

Though some of those questions might be input as weights/qualifying factors in the results.
You make it sound like I said, "No computers, no internet, no cameras, nothing!" It will also strongly depend on the temperament and character of the kid in question, but putting that aside, there's a difference between total control and not giving someone a smartphone.

Play. Get dirty. Take risks. Life is full of all of that, and most of it doesn't haunt you forever. Kids and smartphones though, it's just a bad combination.
Thanks! Its only recently released and I'm beginning to work on marketing now so the user numbers are really just friends of mine (like less than 50).
I used NoScript roughly ten years ago and it was a lot of work to manually enable JavaScripts all over the place. I used it for a couple of years solid, but eventually gave up on it, since I was practically just enabling JavaScripts on every site anyway. Everyone I tried to introduce it to gave up on it after a few weeks at most.

To NoScript's credit, it did block a phishing site that I otherwise would've fallen for once.

That was before the era of single-page apps. Like it or not, JavaScript is mandatory for even basic functionality on the modern web.

Telling users to introduce 4 clicks to load every new domain and potentially experience some significant breakages (e.g., I remember some checkout processes failing because they'd bounce the request around between scripts from processors, fraud prevention, etc.) just on the remote chance that they'll encounter malicious JavaScript is simply a non-starter. Something like Ghostery that mostly-transparently blocks things is a better proposition for ordinary adoption.
It's true, but the flip side is don't offer a web based product if you can't support a wide range of web browsers on multiple OSes. This gives me flashbacks to old (hopefuly dying) "web based" enterprise apps that were browser accessible only by a one magic version of windows explorer with a giant slew of automatically downloaded browser extensions. Just produce an app if that's all that can be supported.
That's a very very weak argument for conforming to a potentially harmful set of behaviors, and an old argument at that. "Go to church or your neighbors will shun you!"

What an absurd amount of power and choice to cede to companies and people who do not care about you.
My experience has matched yours. The best jobs were found by who I knew, not applying with a bunch of other folks. Thanks for confirming for me!
> We found ourselves on an over-capacity lifeboat but with an immense supplies cache. We've mistaken that supplies cache with the capacity to sustain ourselves indefinitely, a story which I suspect will end poorly.

Well put. This is why I get excited about SpaceX news. It, and other commercial space ventures, seem like the very beginnings of a formation of a plan to shuttle people to the other lifeboats we see around us. It doesn't actually solve the problem, but often it's easier to make better decisions the second time around...

> I'm quite aware that this is not orthodox economic thinking.

I wouldn't say it's entirely unorthodox economic thinking, just unorthodox practice. I would hazard most economists understand this, and likely agree to a greater or lesser degree, but sit somewhere around "believe it will self correct", "don't know how to change it" and "don't think it's a problem" on what to do about it depending on ideology.
I ran Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo laptop for a year or so.

The graphics and wifi drivers broke down every now and then and sometimes it broke the OS completely so I had to reinstall the OS.

Need to fix multiple config issues and compatibility issues when I wanted to install some Linux-alternatives for Windows applications.

Plus I need to do video editing and Android apps so I still have to constantly switch back to Windows with dual-boot.

Mac just seems to be a perfect balance, giving you all the standard terminal stuff plus everything just runs out of the box.
Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable
Or to your computer since the device they were using is a modem:

> Netgear® Nighthawk M1 powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon™ X16 LTE modem.

https://www.netgear.com/about/press-releases/2017/NIGHTHAWK-...
My first thought was "Wow, a whole country that reacts to scientific articles and statements about the lack of controlled studies."

I'm assuming, it's not the country reacts, it's that Sweden's single payer system refuses to pay for it any more.

Health technology assessments (HTAs) are done by a lot of countries like Canada and Australia. Basically they make a judgement on the value of a healthcare offering and if there is no evidence it works, they turn off the funding.
Ask HN: Feedback on a non-profit idea to expand access to private grade school?
So I was tossing this idea around and I wanted to get feedback from any of you - especially those of you who may have kids in private school now.

I was thinking of making a public, tax exempt charity that would take in donations and issue grants to students and schools to help them pay for tuition at private grade school (K-12). Ideally, parents would donate to this organization about 10% more than what the tuition would normally cost, and then their kids would apply for scholarships that the organization would give out. The net effect is as follows:
1. Parents get a tax deduction for donating to what would effectively be a scholarship to their kid, and although they're paying a larger nominal amount, they get a higher net benefit if their tax rate is > 10%
2. Schools would be able to get more funding, and the organization would use these excess funds to help kids who normally couldn't afford private school to get in.

The parents' donations wouldn't be earmarked to their kids, but because they'd be giving more than what the schools need there would be enough for more than the kids who would be applying for scholarships, and therefore we could expand the enrollment to disadvantaged students, or help schools expand their facilities, or hire new teachers.

As an example of my napkin math:

Tuition: $10k
Parent's income: $100k
Tax rate: 20%

Parent donates $11k to the organization, their kid wins a 10k scholarship.
Parent's net income after tax is: $89k * 80% = 71.2k

Parent's net income normally: $100k * 80% = 80k - 10k tuition = 70k

Does anyone have any feedback? I'd appreciate if we kept it non-political.
Messenger has over 1 billion users.
I don't actually like them, but it still bothers me when I see a cannolo referred to as cannoli. Thanks for educating me on tamales.
I very much doubt this was intentional. If this was a small company targeting unsavvy users to try and upsell them something, sure. In this case the payout might be worth the fallout once people inevitably figure it out.

In this case, I doubt someone thought "hey, let's mess with Linux users and serve them a bunch of garbage, it'll encourage them to move to Windows".
FWIW, I see this kind of thing regularly because I have the RandomAgentSpoofer extension installed on Firefox. Sometimes the page will look at the UserAgent and think it can't run X or Y so I will get an HTML-only version.

It's actually kinda interesting to see what the website does when it thinks my browser can't support certain stuff (which it can...I just like to avoid fingerprinting).
GoDaddy and Sucuri: Building a Security Platform for Every Website Owner
Creating a Role-Based Auth System with Express, JWT and Angular – Part 2
The most depressing thing is getting to work in the dark, and then leaving work after dark. Especially when you're leaving early...

It's finally spring, at least.
Nobody is suggesting old jobs should be deleted from your database (I doubt any job listing website would do this). Just that the old jobs are too irrelevant to display by default as visitors are generally only interested in current vacancies.

Keeping the old jobs as a separate search option (eg "[ ] include historic items") de-clutters the primary purpose of the site. That matters when you consider that few people enjoy the process of job hunting so will quickly abandon any platform with a poor signal to noise ratio.
Um, Facebook has 1.86 billion monthly active users.
More likely something like:

resolve_renderer_module(user_agent.os)

where the osx/Windows ones are already loaded in RAM, but it has to try (and fail) to load the linux one every time somebody tries.

This is classic Hanlon's razor stuff.
Yea, call my cynical, but Microsoft Office is one of the few applications that doesn't have a good alternative on Linux. So this seems like a ploy to stop people from using Linux. At least the ones that would like to use Microsoft Office.
Well, if we get wsj links, half of HN complains. If we get links from decent websites that have adblocker-blockers, the other half complains.
This whole thing is just a variation of the "you aren't doing it right" syndrome. Be it Scrum, OO, FP, XML, JSON, whenever you criticize one of them people will tell you "this is not what it was intended for" even though a lot of people use it that way.
Ask HN: What are some events that included remote employees that were successful
The company I work for has a number of remote employees and while I am on the development team the remote workers mainly consist of sales/account managers. The company is looking for ways to involve them all more and specifically for events that we can all take part in together. I thought HN might be a great place to ask as there are a number of companies and people that work remotely here.

So, what events have you planned/ran/participated in remotely that you thought worked well?
I'm guessing that the customer service rep has no idea what the term "User-Agent" refers to. He just saw the word "Linux" in the post and then replied with a canned response.
http://dev.convos.org/ - anonymous structured conversations for your team

reach out to rolando [at] bandd.co if you're interested
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Last I heard FB Messenger had ~1 billion monthly users.
I'd love to make a project to sum up every TED talk in 140 charaters. This way one could consume their whole set of ideas worth spreading in under an hour.
Multimillion could be 2 or 10 and as far as running your own metal that's not really a big purchase relative to your average Fortune 100's IT budget.
That is hilarious. The humblebrag one was pretty good, too.
FYI this comment has been quoted by The Atlantic...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/uber/...
Pudi – A Color Matching Game
"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
The public release of the report (where the bounty hunter talks extensively about the right and wrong ways to fix the issue) is a nice feather to put in your cap, even if the cash is not a lot.
>can ruin your entire life

Thanks to the society that tears everyone suspected and doesn't mind reporting or judging on minor crime feelings. I see what Ubik tries to bring to this thread, but noticed years ago that cultural differences effectively disallow that sort of communication.

In simple words: Social justice over real justice. It is $subj's society that is wrong, not police officers.

Police CAN do mistakes and WILL do them and they can take LONG time to fix. That's because police does actually a lot of work instead of doing nothing. It is okay to spend few time in PD for everyone. It is okay to be suspected, because every crime has several suspects, filtered out by evidence collected over time. It is also okay to take a compensation for your time and inconvenience.

What is NOT okay: to live in stupid society that does ruin your life when you're charged.

Single data point, but pretty common in my country: I was locked for 4+ hours so many times in my life that I cannot remember the exact count. I was suspected at least in stealing things, threatening and robbing people (well, I did things, but nothing of that). Sometime you get half-day off because an investigator asks you out on a date. It is no big deal at work and many relatives make jokes on that.

But for $subj people I am probably a monster. Their laws and principles exist in theory, but do not actually work because of themselves, not because of database records.
Lots of small changes, including this interesting one[1]. Why anyone was monkeypatching `len()` with a version wrapped in a `lru_cache` is beyond me!

Another good one is this[2], which improves the speed of creating dictionary literals with constant keys by 30% (i.e {'a': 1, 'b': 2}.

The full changelog is here: https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html

1. https://bugs.python.org/issue28991

2. https://bugs.python.org/issue28731
> I don't want to watch a video

And that's doubly-so when the video is confusingly-produced.

It's fairly slow, and isn't very information-dense, and, though it sounds like it's scripted, its grammar doesn't actually make any sense. I transcribed a pierce below:

----

"The bottom line is that LBRY, like HTTP or Bitcoin, it's a platform or protocol that, once unleashed into the world, no one will fully own or control how artists, authors, video and virtual reality producers how they'll use LBRY to discover and transmit, buy and sell content, that'll be up to them and the demanders of content, so watching this spontaneous world evolve, it's going to be very interesting, and I'm delighted to be a part of it."
I've been using this for over a year. I am still surprised how often I am tempted to click "report spam". I have no problem with the email, but it's amazing how many days in a row I only receive junk mail. (And this isn't the local spam that the USPS gets paid to deliver, someone really made an envelope with my name and address on it, stuck their junk in, and put a stamp on it.)
> I've not read your paper, but I'm willing to bet [...]

Offloading all burden of proof onto the partner in a conversation strikes me as.. odd - esp. if said partner already provided a paper on the very same topic that you did not even read.
Sad part is that Android could have been there, except that Google got into a civil war between Android and ChromeOS, with the latter winning. Thus Android as anything more than a glorified media player OS sat stagnant for 5 years.
tixyy.com (site is offline) - an event ticketing platform with multiple viral ticket selling features built in, think mini eventbrite. Ran it for a couple years with real money coming in.
Yup, YC S12. It does, but it's hard to cover CDN costs these days. CDN costs have gone up, mostly due to gifs, and ad rates have fallen over the past few years. Never quite got to the size where I could do direct brand deals for higher CPMs.
I don't think that's true. Gary Vee has said things like that in the past but more recently said he devotes weekends to family, sleeps more, and vacations more[0]. Tim Ferris literally got famous from a book titled "The 4 Hour Work-week". Mark Cuban is frankly on a different level (the 3 comma club really is different IMO).

Hustle and grind are traits not mutually exclusive from being healthy.

I'll go so far as to posit that most highly successful entrepreneurs (I'm talking big, high-growth companies here) end up sacrificing at least one of the following: sleep, free time, relationships, starting a family, or general health.

The real question is–between the success and the sacrifice–which one causes the other?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2ShSnO72w
What your boss doesn't want to hear
Thanks for that, lotryn, that might be my favorite quote today.
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No. ML functors are about parametric polymorphism, classes are about subtype polymorphism. There are some inherent similarities between the two, but also some differences that are non-trivial to reconcile (such as early vs. late binding). C++ templates come close, but that's because they also are about parametric polymorphism, not classes as such.

ML functors are modules that are parameterized by other modules. A common use case is that the parameter module contains several types and the logic for their interaction. Unless you've got sufficiently expressive virtual types or an equivalent mechanism (C++ templates), you won't be able to approximate that with inheritance alone.

Scala in some ways approximates the expressive power of ML functors, but at the expense of being hugely more complicated. One of the virtues of ML functors is that they are fairly straightforward, both in terms of use and implementing them in a compiler.
USPS transfers to Canada Post, so in fact it is Canada Post that is choosing not to charge you terrible fees like the other ones.

But yes, always use USPS to ship to Canada.
Feedback from support teams is pretty much the only way the engineering team learns what we need to improve.