skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure that's really necessary with Django. Lavarel, like most PHP frameworks, require an HTTP server configured with just the right version of PHP, etc. just for development. Django is much simpler:

- django-admin startproject MyProject
- cd MyProject
- python manage.py migrate
- python manage.py runserver

That should give you a very decent development server without requiring VirtualBox or anything like that. I'd recommend following the official tutorial if you want to give it a spin.
That's not far off, at this point. We already have University students rioting to prevent "unacceptable speech" on campus.
wow, that's really cool. Why is it cheaper than normal wind turbines ? Maintaining drones that take off and land autonomously sounds expensive

I really like the idea of low environmental impact
You're going on about the value of "conventional methods" in a criticism of using HTTP verbs?

Understanding the difference between a GET and a POST isn't some new-fangled idea, it's decades old. Like Tim Berners Lee old.

I didn't even know what Thrift was until I Googled it, and found out it was developed at Facebook. Okay.

I'm stunned. Do you write code that runs on the internet? How did you even get employed?
I'm working on an Amazon Alexa app that can send your phone arbitrary push notifications.

Ever since I bought a dot, I've been frustrated with the relatively high friction of sending data from the dot to my phone (why do I have to open the Alexa app to see the full weather forecast? why can't Alexa send me a link to a full Wikipedia article? why can't Alexa start composing a text for me? etc). The solution is to build an app which can route you from an Alexa request (e.g. "Send me the Wikipedia article on X"), to your phone, to the appropriate app.

There are relatively few use cases that I've found so far, but I think the Alexa -> Push interface is a cool one to explore, and it's been really cool to work with the platform and finally get to the point where my app receives a notification from the Alexa cloud. Open to suggestions for this if anyone has any as well!
I would have found this incredibly useful when I was doing research to understand stock options that I have had in the past. Sounds like a really cool project. Keep at it!

Also, to get a more accurate estimation, you will have to know the amount of investment in each round and the permissions that come with different classes of shares. For example, liquidation preferences and investors deciding whether they will convert to common shares or not, etc.
That depends on your idea of quality. Is the repetitiveness of humorless demands for peer-reviewed studies to back every word you write, and culturally enforced cynicism and contrariness, quality? 8 years ago, HN was 99% bright entrepreneurs having genuinely intelligent and polite conversations. Now it's an echo chamber of self-styled 'scientists' that reminds me of Less Wrong meets RationalWiki.
I primarily buy Apple for the hardware, secondarily for OSX. I used Windows for years and years, there's nothing about it I can't get used to. If MacBooks weren't so great, I'd be using ThinkBooks, they're not terrible. But MacBooks are so much better that it isn't even a close consideration.

That might be the lock-in talking, Apple would have to screw the MacBook line over as badly as they did the Mac Pro line to get me to switch.
This is cool, but why does it need to do the heartbeat with dnote.io?

https://github.com/dnote-io/cli/blob/master/main.go#L272

This looks like the only place that you're doing a network request, and it really slows down the program.
Freedom House: Democracy Scores Decline in Many Countries
I read "YAML, which I call XML for lazy people"... and closed the tab.
package it up and you might
Awesome! thanks for sharing
Maybe then security is less to do with individuals and more so company culture ?
What about taxing things on the consumer side? I know a number of municipalities that charge people per bag of garbage.

What if that were extended based on toxicity? Enough so that throwing out year old electronics started to get expensive enough that consumers started valuing longevity again?

I don't think you'll get US buy-in for any sort of manufacturer-targeted externalities tax. See carbon tax debate. But, if you tax the consumer (either on the front or back end), demonstrate that the tax revenue is 100% funding something they believe in (e.g. toxic electronic waste fee -> parks, libraries, and after-school programs) then you might have a shot.

Part of the problem is that the 60s-00s were in Moore's Law, so there was a finite performance incentive to upgrade devices frequently. I'm hopeful as that changes, build quality becomes a key distinguisher.
Do you have a link to the history here? Would love to hear about it.
Is the goal for this to happen in real time?
Maybe not that unusual: my Xbox controllers have two sticks.
Yep [0]. They also made a cool TV show intro [1] out of it.

[0]:https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/63240q/rplace_activi...

[1]:https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/63amnd/rplace_heatm...
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: External monitor that 'just works' w a laptop, including window management across desktops

- DESCRIPTION:

Right now plugging in an external monitor vs unplugging and walking away from my desk results in a 'shuffle'. All my windows get strewn across the desktops seemingly at random. And even then, ALT+TAB mis-reports which windows are in which desktop. So tabbing to a window results in nothing ... but then that window will show up on the space it should've been.

This is to say nothing of the display drivers that I need to use to get the external monitor working. Just mirroring, no fancy resolutions here. And 1/10 times unplugging my monitor will result in a black screen on the laptop.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Engineer
I'm working on https://esper.com. It's a bunch of tools to get rid of useless meetings like auto-cancelling meetings if no one confirms they want to go, rating meetings, and tagging and charting calendar events.
That's Ireland.
> I understand you're curious how many people are using your tool, but this isn't the way to go about it.

Not OP, but what is the correct way to go about it?
Quick note - your homepage says 'try without registering', but clicking on the editor button prompts for a login.
> You might as well give up; those days are over...we might as well get used to constant spying.

I find it disheartening to see these statements on a site called "Hacker News"; the only way I'd be disappointed further is if I read such a defeatist missive within the editorial pages of 2600 Magazine.

Remember - they only win if we give up and let them win.
nothing to say, right!
I think the outrage is because it seems to many people that "outright fraud" and "blatantly lie" are pretty apt descriptions of what happened here. It seems like the lawyers involved don't agree, but from my lay perspective it isn't easy to see why not.

Basically, people tend to think "false advertising" is fraudulent, even if that is not true from a legal perspective.
There is plenty of analog work in the RF engineering careers. I mostly do digital but most of my coworkers started out and currently work on analog boards. Although we are moving a lot of our stuff to SDR so the RF board in the product is just getting smaller but needs to be able to handle larger bitrates.
Is it that big industrial corporations are bad at creating code? Toyota, samsung, synaptic.

I'm really beggining to think that code should be left to smaller and medium sized outfits. i.e samsung should buy or hire a small startup to independently develop and grow their next ecosystem. Large enterprises just seem too clumsy pull pull it off unless they wholly dedicate themselves to developing that one piece of technology.
I am still eagerly awaiting this generations racing. Active aero, traction control, active handling, augmented driver displays, etc. are all banned in racing. Where once was innovation is now a bunch of rich pricks and advertisers patting themselves on the back while they destroy their own sport. F1 is not alone, but used to be the pinnicle, so it seems the fall is further.
The absolute fastest "cars" in the world tend to be the jet-propelled vehicles solely built to break land speed records (I believe the current holder is this car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC)

A jet car isn't going to be able to be driven very easily on a closed race course, though. :)

Many cars are designed to be fast in one way, but not as quick in other ways. Cars designed just to go straight (like dragsters) do not need loads of speed-robbing downforce for taking corners quickly.

Formula 1 doesn't even hold the fastest lap ever recorded by a sanctioned racing series... as far as I know, that would be CART / Indycar, who achieved a 241mph (387kph) qualifying lap at Fontana (http://www.prnmag.com/columns/44-columns/66-who-holds-the-wo...).

But Formula 1 doesn't run on banked ovals like Indycar does.

Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has hosted a lot of series, including both Formula 1 and the NASCAR Nationwide series. There's a comparison of record lap times at the end of the Wiki article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_Gilles_Villeneuve). At least here, it seems that Formula 1 is a fair bit quicker than Indycar and loads quicker than the saloon / sport type cars. For this particular type of course, they probably are the fastest racing class.
I think of it as the closest thing I can find to a general engineering competition, on a professional scale. Build the device that best optimizes the problem space, and then give it to the most accomplished users you can get and see which device is the best.
I don't want to advocate for a more "pure" definition of open source. You can widen or shrink the scope of anything at any time. I am perfectly OK with a vague definition of open source that encompasses hardware too. But that is not an opensource definition that I personally (and I would argue most) care about all that much. Few people, if any, are interested in modifying the firmware inside their microwave or refrigerator.
Sure, at some point such firmware could become burdensome (e.g. coffee maker with DRM'ed k-cups) to the point where opensourcing the firmware would be something I could get behind. For you that tipping point is different.

Now coming back to the example, that is a great example. I think we can learn a lot from that. One thing is that 'open' is a large cafeteria. You would agree that simply opening the source is not sufficient in most cases. If the spec for EXT2 changed after every minor update to the kernel that would make your addition pointless. Same thing with the API at the I/O level. If that changed all the time, it would make your addition brittle and prone to breakage. So what is it that's really beneficial here? I'd argue that the source is the least important here. Open protocols, open data formats, defined interface boundaries, and the like are _much_ more valuable, really, several orders of magnitude than simply dumping several million lines of code onto someone.

Also.. its funny that you mention RMS since he is so vehemently opposed to using the term open source :P
> use admin (and ORM) for doing easy things, and don't use it for hard things. It works well!

With the ORM though there is usually a good reason for why the hard things are hard, and writing your own SQL where needed adds very little friction.

With the admin adding a button to kick off some task should be trivially easy, but for whatever reason involves either using all sorts of terrible hacks that make the codebase completely unreadable, or else creating an entire second admin. That doesn't feel right.
Advice from an IT dad: Don't even consider a career in IT
User feedback in software development – Short thoughts
If it's the hypercar I'm thinking of, it's target performance is that of LMP1 car. LMP1 cars are consistently 5-10 seconds slower around the tracks where they both compete. Impressive that it can come so close to an F1 but no where near "shaming" an F1. That being said, I find events where LMP cars race much more exciting due to all the different classes being on the same track at the same time. I love seeing the GT cars race even though I don't follow any of the series.
Exactly. This is how you do it. But you'd be surprised how complicated this is.
>Would be pretty close to the same thing?

And one day you forget the second > and boom. There go your notes. Or at least the notes before the last backup.
Why use a title at all if you're going to use the wrong one?
Two projects:
An FPGA based database accelerator:
paine.nyc/dau-site
paine.nyc/dau
paine.nyc/ffpp

Along with this im designing a PCIe fpga board to interface host the accelerator.

And,

A reactive algorithmic trading system for trading BTC/LTC/ETH across
multiple exchanges:
paine.nyc/algo-coin
Business opportunity for phone makers to make phone keep all non-OS data on a removable nano SD card.

This way person could just flip "real" nano SD card with "dummy" on a device before crossing the border.
You can also go out an buy near motogp tech in bikes on the market. An R1 is closer to a race bike than a ferrari is to a race car.
Perhaps the point is to identify talent for potential hires? Recruiters (and others trying to hire for their teams) often look to companies who are doing lay-offs as a source of talent that doesn't have to be poached.
I'm working on building something that will incentivize site owners who have some kind of creative content on their site to remove ads in favor of donations to their site. It's a pretty unobtrusive widget they can add to their pages and it makes it so the user doesn't have to leave the page to donate. Still a WIP, but it's getting there!

http://trussapp.com
Sorry the tone wasn't to your liking. For a more academic voice (and deeper technical dive), you might enjoy our LaTeX-typeset paper instead:

http://www.timescale.com/papers/timescaledb.pdf
Can you please not post unsubstantively, like we've asked?
Corinthian Robotics - robots that do housework

I'm building an inexpensive, autonomous robot that take cares of your laundry. While you're at work, it will wash your clothes, fold them, and put them away.
More than a hoodie: how we talk about developers
I was with you on your #1 until I saw 4 tracks- I'm not sure I could even get myself down to that few. I know the Beatles did it, but they were far greater musicians than I. I haven't listened to a cassette tape since 1999- how's the quality?

I think I could maybe do 4 tracks if it recorded to an SD card. Do you find the length of a tape adds to limitations in a way that keeps you brief?
Hi!
I'd be keen to beta some of the content!
Are you making it so tesla cars literally​ sell themselves?
Blood, Sweat and Laughter: The Beauty of the Build Engine
I've got a TV from them, 8 years old now. The connection from the component cables is slightly "iffy", but everything else has been solid as a rock. I've had 2 Samsung bluray players. The first was a refurb and still works 90% of the time, but the 10% instances are read errors from the disk drive. After 7 years of use, I was happy with it for the price I paid. The replacement player seems OK so far, although there were a lot of "features" to disable. My Galaxy Nexus is still my favorite phone. I'd pay a lot for that phone, but with upgraded guts.
What is the difference between a DSL and a configuration format?

I mean the essential difference. ;-)
They are cheaper to build because they require about two orders of magnitude less material for the upper parts, and at least one order of magnitude less foundation (for the same power generation). This saves on both building and setting it up and I would say there is pretty strong consensus on this part.

You are correct however that it is less obvious that it makes sense when maintenance is factored in, but we are convinced it does. For perspective, large modern wind turbines are much more sophisticated than one might think.
It's not the structure of the narrative. It's the writing style itself. Feels very detached and cold, very clinical. The characters have the emotional personality of shadows on a wall; they may have guts but have no heart. When people were dreaming in the 1960s about computers writing literature, this was the stereotype of computer-written text.

Meandering plot lines I'm fine with. I kinda like it in fact.
Maybe that's the compromise for a good user experience?
> I fear the admin site code has become so flexible and generic that it's difficult to extend, which is discouraging improvements.

It's doable. One of the former companies I worked for used to run its entire lead-management-based system on top of a modified 0.96 Django admin, that was ~10 years ago (said company was a mortgage broker). Monkey-patching is a hell of a drug. I'm pretty sure things are way easier to extend now.
The Button and Robin were awesome but this was on another level. I loved hanging out in the different factions' Discord servers and observe troops being rallied and defenses coordinated. It was an amazing 72 hours and I wonder how Reddit will top this next year.

I was also really impressed with how little obscenity there was. I fully expected it to be overrun by trolls. In retrospect I agree with the article that the technical limitation for creating was a contributing factor. If you want to see what happens when no such limitation exists and trolls get the upperhand, check out the timelapse of my own multiplayer drawing site:

https://youtu.be/qIJ3XFPRsSw
They can catch you. Lying to federal agents is not a good idea if you want to stay out of prison.
brock@creatorarcade.com
Every bit of unsubstantiveness has that much more flamewar-starting potential on controversial topics like this, so we ask that commenters take extra care to post within the guidelines.

We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14027528.
Neoprene compresses at pressure, which means it's less buoyant at lower depths.
Amazon Registry
What is it about ultraviolet light that causes skin cancer?
Yes.

https://top10vpns.com
Charles Schwab allows you to schedule recurring check payments - you just give them the person's name and address, and a check will show up in their mailbox.
I run my Clojure + OpenCL + CUDA code from Org-mode without problems.
Square is in talks to buy the Yik Yak team
Isn't much of Manhattan's subfloors already below sea level? I imagine there are already sump pumps in all of them that have subfloors. Cementing off the exterior of the first few floors and/or raising the street level with landfill (as your sibling comment tpurves suggests) seems like it would be sufficient.
That kind of turned me off buy maybe it's worth giving it another go.
Glad I read this before we plunged into EE. It will please the Trello lovers.
Thanks! :)

(I still reckon my mom needs a new phone though, there are other less severe exploits out there for this non-updated device.)
The iPhone makes and breaks entire companies
This is inhumane, we are gonna fix it! (but for Citizens only - screw the rest)
It would be pretty hard to defraud the government here. Either a complaint is valid, or it is not. If it's valid, then by definition it's not fraud, and the employer gets punished (fined, prohibited from hiring any further H1Bs etc). If it's not valid, then employee gets no green card, and their employer is likely pissed enough at them that they get fired. So collusion between employer and employee is basically impossible here, because either way, someone has to suffer the negative consequences.
The story is great, and I would probably watch those movies.
The responses in that thread give me a headache, has the daily wtf forum always been such a wasteland? One of the replies is "someone posted your software to the daily wtf so there MUST be a problem with your software, you should just accept it and here's how you should respond". Maddening
In Samsung HQ in Suwon, Korea, back in 2010 in the leadup to the launch of the Galaxy device series, each individual OS had its own literal skyscraper in the HQ campus. One for BadaOS, one for Android, one for Windows Mobile. I don't think they communicated at all, as a general rule. Even in the Android one where I was working, the whole floor was nominal software guys but only one knew how to compile the firmware everyone was working on! They actually had to fly in a team of low-level programmers from Samsung India to get the device firmware up to speed in time for the hardware launch. It was an extremely interesting organization to spend a few days in from an anthropological perspective, but I left swearing that if the experience was a vision of the future I wanted no part of it.
I guess what I'm asking -- Is simple username and password enough?

Is just a "user" level and an "admin" level enough? I guess this is perhaps a bit app specific.

Is authenticating against RADIUS, or AD a must? Okta? How about Google Apps? I don't think GitHub is important in my case. Whats come to be a given here?
Summertunes, a usable web interface for playing a beets music library: https://github.com/irskep/summertunes

This year I switched from streaming to MP3s for at-home listening, and I got fed up messing with 3.5mm audio cables, bluetooth, and switching between devices in general. So now I just run Summertunes and Spotify on an old Mac laptop hooked up to the speakers, and I'm happy as a monkey in a monkey tree.
As a former big fan, these is my "never gonna happen" idea to make the sport exciting again: award some championship points for the best qualifying performances, but then make the cars start the race from random or semi-random positions. This would force teams (especially the top ones) to optimize for overtaking instead of qualification time and reliability.
I am working on an app to organize the passport information. Like visas associated with it, expiration, date of leaving/entering a country.
Idea is to make it easy to get certain information of your passport when you need it without having the passport handy.
For now targeted towards immigrants in USA. Using xamarin to build the app. Plan is to finish development by April end.
pretentious.moi is already taken :(
Tesla owner needs to cash out and sell his tesla. Opens my app and gets an offer OR uploads to get offers from buyers. I am not sure. What do you think?
How to know if an article would fit there?
For example, I was thinking about adjusting my http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html (already with some interactive components) or writing about RoI polling (https://deepsense.io/region-of-interest-pooling-explained/ - by my colleague, but more interactive).

Would it be on-topic? (After changing style accordingly.)
Just hold alt/option when copying something and the Copy option will change to Copy path. The path can be pasted in the Go Menu (or with Shift-Command-G)
My guess because it will save them a few $$$. Millions at stake here. Why would someone do a MITM attack against 5 secs of intro audio?

Obviously the NSA would.

Edit: exclusives. https://qz.com/949942/spotifys-new-deal-with-universal-gives...
In the nineties.
Author here. We actually know the Citus guys pretty well, and spent some time comparing notes last week at PGConf (Hi Ozgun!). We're quite friendly.

At a high-level, Citus is solving a very different problem: general analytics and transactions at scale, ideally for B2B applications. On the other hand, Timescale is laser focused on time-series workloads.
Grpc-gateway: grpc services via HTTP, JSON and swagger
Why would the rules of one country stop you ? There are 194 other countries in this world.

http://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-ar...
What a cool idea! Writing is my least favorite part of development, just sent an email (loxias AT mit DOT edu), can't wait to try it out.
Please be careful.