skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you wonder what's the market for this: film making. I have friend that's in the sfx/field recording business. They engage in sneakernet type of trading of sound libraries. He's got terabytes of meticulously tagged SFX.

They seem to have have lotsa fun. A couple of years ago he went to Finland with a leading game developer to record people shooting cannons and other weapons from the ww2.
> Once you get over the fact that JS is basically a functional language where everything is given a false veneer of the object-oriented I'm not sure it's really all that bad.

I was going to point this out, too. I haven't written JS in an Object Oriented way in years, and couldn't be happier. Its a beautifully simple language that can do a lot if you approach it right.
Then you used it wrong, as you should never tie your simulation to the frame rate. Given same input, Box2d is deterministic.
It looks like a lot of this is variance by specialty:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/878129_5
love(prolog) :-

love(logic_programming),
love(elegance).
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
I guess I misspoke. You understood what I mean in the end, so I guess mission accomplished?
I've found writing documentation and trying to explain to others why the API is the way it is frequently makes me completely reconsider and redesign the API to be better. So no, you really should start on documentation right away, because what you're calling "waste" right now is a feature.
It's not too difficult to do yourself.

http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
Slack Custom Emoji Downloader
Free is about transparency. Not snooping on my files, do machine learning mumbo jumbo on my habits, surreptitiously nudge in the direction they want is huge part of it.

Free is a promise, a promise that I do what I say. If the software doesn't, it is for all the world to see my deficiencies.

Free is also about not being an asshole. It is about accepting the fact that, just because the users use my software, I don't get to control their lives.
Sorry for my pessimistic outlook, then! Thanks.
Could be possible. For example, when a child is deprived of any human and humane contact, they end up with a very very impoverished linguistic system as well as delayed development of all cognitive abilities. Could be because the lack the unsupervised training phase.
Did you know that a lot of important climate change data comes from satellites? And that observations of the Sun, Mars, and Venus also supply important data related to climate change?
it seems like this is trying to solve the same problem as ipfs https://ipfs.io/

It's pretty neat when you see two people/groups working on the same problem independently.
A goodly chunk of electrical tape, thicker near the charger and tapering off farther away, can provide some bend protection and strain relief.

Also, when you wrap the cord around the charger, use your index finger to prevent the first bend. You need to tape protect near the MagSafe adaptor as well. And stow it in your bag with the first bend facing out of the bag (less strain) rather than in the bag (more strain).

I'm on three years with a MagSafe. It looks like hell but it still works.
I've often thought the same thing. There wasn't anything about the Central Powers that made them uniquely bad at the time of the Great War, no great principle was at stake --- this was much more an imperial shoving match than a contest between freedom and authoritarianism. We basically dared the Germans to sink our civilian maritime traffic by sending arms to the U.K., and we had picked sides long before the Zimmermann telegram -- it's no wonder the Germans wanted Mexico to start a war with us.

Who's to say what might have happened if we'd stayed out of it. The Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires almost certainly would have collapsed anyway. I suspect an exhausted Germany, with the Eastern front pacified and a stalemate on the Western front, would eventually have sued for peace with an equally exhausted France and Britain.
This article mentions that had the US not entered World War I the likelihood of World War II happening was much lower.

I'd like to propose the idea that World War II, in all it's horrificness, saved us from much worse.

In a rather bizarre and twisted sense, we may be very very lucky that WWII happened and that it happened at the exact time that it did: happening late enough that we saw how awful modern total war is, but not so late that we would have the weapons to truly eradicate ourselves.
I misspoke. The sibling comment summed up what I meant:

> We individually value getting a good education but far too frequently ignore how education as a whole is beneficial to society.
Still not convinced. It doesn't need to be for everyone in the beginning.

The early web (when I entered and before) wasn't for everyone. And thats OK for me. Actually I think it is a good way to start.
It sounds like what you're describing is something like Adobe Bridge but an online version of it and additional features to clip images from the web.
What do you play on it?
The valuation difference between Uber & Lyft is staggering. Based only on brand recognition and valuation Lyft seems like the better investment today. Lyft's biggest risk is probably Uber's ability to withstand losses that would kill almost any other company but Lyft has refused to die. They might be the surprise leader out of those two companies 10 years from now. Unless Uber has made great gains in their profitability they seem likely to be messy on the public markets which will lead to all kinds of problems.
YC and Stripe: Insights from Y Combinator W17 founders building online businesses
I think the point was that ours is "Veterans' Day", on which nobody mentions the events of 100 years ago, whereas "Remembrance Day" is actually about the Great War.
A lot of assumptions in this article with no reasoning behind them.

tldr version: US not entering WW1 means the war would have ended anyways in a year or two and there would have been no WW2 and no military industrial complex.

Seems like quite a stretch on many fronts.
Nexus/Pixel phones have already been fixed:

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html
There is some harsh reality in your quote when you say the 4th highest UK Lifestyle app only just covers costs with ad revenue.
You're playing it extremely fast and loose with concepts like "low-level prerequisite knowledge" and how exactly does something "rel[y] on that knowledge", though. These aren't physical quantities like temperature where we -- as a species -- have the massive amount of low-level prerequisite knowledge that allows us to make rapid high level judgments that rely on that knowledge. The previous sentence is an example of how easy this reasoning is to abuse.
Don't forget the Yalp-store, which you can install from F-droid. Yalp can get you all the non-FLOSS software. Like Minecraft PE. ;-)
> However, I must mention that I been in contact with so many really bad HS staff (teachers, principals..) all with legitimate credentials, that I am starting to wonder about their significance? A principal should probably have some teaching experience, but seems to be like more of an MBA/business type of background?

Teacher raises and admin positions are all about box-ticking with the right pieces of paper. It's typical (though not universal) for admin to do the minimum time teaching (half-assing it, obviously) they need to for any kind of higher degree/cert they want (I want to say for a lot of programs it's 2 years or something like that) then move on, so yeah, many have little teaching experience—ask any teacher, nearly all teachers suck and don't know what they're doing the first couple years, that's just how it is, so you don't get good in that time, and you probably also don't get a sense of how periodic curriculum shakeups and such screw with teachers doing their jobs (not to mention their private lives, when they lose their evenings to some stupid new paperwork that you've introduced which could have been derived from other data you already have if you weren't a moron).

Education, Ed. Admin, and related higher degrees are ridiculous. You'd probably have to dig hard to find a program that's not a joke. The reason is that schools give zero shits about where your degree is from or what the program's like, just that you have one (and maybe your GPA, if it's for hiring—if it's just for a pay bump, they don't care about that, either, it's just automatic). There are lots of teachers/school admin. Consequently, many universities, even otherwise kinda-decent ones, have joke master's and PhD programs for teachers/admin, to rake in that sweet sweet teacher money, since the teachers/admin mostly just want 1) easy, 2) convenient (online or evenings/weekends, and as few hours as possible), and 3) cheap enough to justify the effort in a direct cost/benefit way (trivial to calculate from pay scales). The classes are nearly pure busy work.

If they don't just want to tick a box to get a raise or to go into admin and actually want to learn something, they get a non-education higher degree (usually in a content area of some kind—English, Mathematics, that kind of thing)

Source: am married to a teacher and, not through her, good friends with several others.
Ask HN: How can we do better for Earth Day?
I'm deeply concerned for the future of humanity over climate issues. I'm planning to join the March for Science protest on Earth Day, but I'm afraid it might not get the attention it deserves. I feel at this point, it's all or nothing.

How can we do better?
Galileo’s search and rescue service in the spotlight
Not a good article, but I generally agree.

Using JS all over the place is stupid, it feels faddish and cliquey, and that you always have to keep up with the Jones'. I have been moving my career towards the back end, where the culture is a little more mature and stable. Y'all can have your 27000 framework world.
Serious question- what benefit do you get out of this? I had an SLI setup with Linux for awhile as well, before realizing that the second GPU was never being tapped into at all. It's recognized, and is getting power, but it's wholly under-utilized (if at all).

From everything I've found, Linux doesn't benefit from SLI nearly as much Windows can.
>I'd be happy if they could just bring the Xbone back to the level of usability that the 360 had

My housemates and I purchased an Xbone and realized before long we were using the 360 more because it was vastly preferable for netflix/youtube/etc. Have since switched to a chromecast for that stuff, but the Xbone is absolutely a massive step back in UX. Not to mention the ads on the dashboard. There is advertising on the dashboard of my $250 console, that requires a paid subscription for online play. Why is that acceptable?
I hope you write cuda code with that.
Well, Glimmer actually compiles opcodes to just numbers. So it wouldn't be `a(e,"id","bar")`, it's actually [1,'id','bar']. Opcodes' wire format is an array. I haven't see it being a tree yet. If this is the case, stream parsing is definitely possible.
SMRT is owned (bought out) by Temasek. It's not traded anymore. Even before the privatization, Temasek owned a majority of shareholding
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/majority-of-smr...

Comfortdelgro is certainly widely owned - but they're into busses and taxi mainly, not infra heavy stuff like subways.

For various reasons, Governments will make state owned companies publically traded. That doesn't mean they're not going to toe the government line in decisions if it has majority stake.
There's no difference side-by-side between 1080p and 4K resolution if you're 5ft or further away from the TV[1], all else being equal.

However, all else is rarely equal, and 4K TVs now have lots of other features and technology that make them just better (prettier) buys in general.

[1] http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
Let's label them inertial conservatism and objective conservatism. Where the former is the sense of "we should do things the way we've previously done them" and the latter is "we should do things the most conservative way out of all of our options, even if we've never done it that way before."

NASA during Challenger would have been an example of the former [1]. In a way that I think many overly bureaucratic organizations are.

The other sense is somewhat oxymoronic given that conservatism is generally resistance to change. So when safety situations arise where the safest option requires acting novelly, who is there to lead the charge? I suppose in that case you'd want a radical safety department.

[1] From the NYT article on the findings of the Challenger commission, "As Commissioner Feynman observed, the decision-making was 'a kind of Russian roulette. . . . (The shuttle) flies (with O-ring erosion) and nothing happens. Then it is suggested, therefore, that the risk is no longer so high for the next flights. We can lower our standards a little bit because we got away with it last time. . . . You got away with it, but it shouldn't be done over and over again like that.'" http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/10/science/shuttle-findings-l...
Yes but in soccer, both teams start with 0 points and can tie. You can't do that in racing (a tie does happen but is so rare, it might as well never happen). Would you like to just watch cars draft each other for 3 hours and never actually overtake or try to win? Because that's what F1 is kinda is, a 15 second death scramble at the front of the poll followed by a non-competitive Sunday drive at extreme speeds. The damn time trials for poll in NASCAR are more worth watching, at least they are trying to go fast.
Can I choose who's content I pass along? I am ok distributing my own feed, that's presumably why I am joining the network. I am not OK passing along someone else's hate speech, porn, warez, malware, spam, etc. I'd like to be able to review the feeds available and say "Yeah sure I'll pass that around." If everything in a feed is encrypted then I'd need to decide. Also yeah my brother who's feed I follow and pass may upload a really nasty bit of content and I may relay it.
Ombudsman, an Open-Source Zapier App for the Microsoft Store Analytics API
Tools for thinking and analysing
It's true a big part of the certification program is acclimating to the underwater environment and learning emergency procedures. I guess I should say it would streamline the certification course. It would probably reduce the all-day classroom portion to a one-hour video.
Lack of internet seems like an overly pessimistic view. We have a connection with Mars already, streaming high quality media and other data back to us. Having actual people on Mars would only increase the demand for better internet connectivity and I see no reason why that connectivity won't be improved.

Sure the delay fluctuates between 5-25 minutes, so you won't be enjoying any realtime activities like voice calls or playing Quake. [1] Initially bandwidth will probably also be too low to casually download 4K cat videos. However there won't be any issue with setting up a local Mars community web proxy that downloads HN & friends in compressed batches. There are a lot of things to do on the internet where even a 25 minute delay is no biggie.

--

[1] Although it shouldn't take too long until there are enough local people on Mars for low latency activities among themselves.
Poll: How many of you prefer a fully-remote job vs. being in the office?
I work in a remote job where I never have to go in to the office. I have done it for 3 years and I love it, and wouldn't have it any other way. Love the flexibility too much. However, I am curious what the hacker news audience thinks about working remote, so I created a poll. Hope I have covered all the possible choices.

Maybe this will also make companies take notice if they see that a large part of the audience prefers being remote, or otherwise.

EDIT/UPDATE: Just so that we are clear, the poll is for a preference, not what you are actually doing!
Fully remote (maybe with occasional meets once or twice a year)
Remote greater than or equal to 3 days a week
Remote less than 3 days a week
So finally I can get a 1080ti now.
We Analyzed Every Meme on the Internet
That's never worked for me. I just get more esoteric promoted tweets, and just as frequently.
Aren't environment specific builds generally discouraged? I'd rather have the same binary through each layer. Control behavior via environment variables or prop files
If that sounds bad, then wait 'til you hear about Apple's situation - they don't support custom hardware, at all. Not only does sound not work, nothing works. Linux is a step above macOS in that it not only does it work very well when it ships with a computer, it also still works ok when you load it on any other computer. And yet, macOS has more users than linux does... Perhaps support on random computers is a bad metric for the readiness of an OS?
Awesome, thank you my friend! The advice about absorption and spending specific time on each sprint is great, I'm considering it carefully.
I would imagine stuff like sarcasm is still out of reach though. It seems hard for humans to understand it in text based communication. Also using anything out of the standard sentimental model might throw it off. "This product is as good as <product x> (where product x has been known to perform bad." I am just trying to think of scenarios where a sentimental model would fail.

Sentimental neuron sounds fascinating too. I didn't realize individual neurons could be talked about or understood outside of the concept of the NN. I am thinking in terms of "black box" its often referenced to in some articles.

Since one of the research goal for openai is to train language model on jokes[0], I wonder how this neuron would perform with a joke corpus.

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[0] https://openai.com/requests-for-research/#funnybot
I'd say run it through a proxy and just check. I seriously doubt it, though.
Their mars mission was amazing, not only was it cheap but they did it in a super short timeline and still managed it with such great attention to detail that it succeeded, and lot of martian missions fail.

One of the ways they made it for only $75M was the spacecraft was only 3,000 lbs, so they could use a relatively small rocket to launch with. But the Falcon 9 can put 8,000 lbs in martian orbit for only $65M. That doesn't include the spacecraft, so more expensive obviously, but not much.

India's space program is amazingly economical when compared to NASA. But they aren't as cheap per kg or as capable as SpaceX. They are "cheaper" in that they are launching much smaller rockets than SpaceX.

The GSLV can put 5,000 kg in LEO for around $36M.
The PSLV puts 3,800 kg in LEO for around $15M.
The Falcon 9 puts 22,000 kg in LEO for around $65M, re-usable is estimated around $45M for probably 15,000ish kg.
America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these ‘isms' wouldn't to-day be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives.

-Winston Churchill
No. Should America Have Entered World War II? Also no.
Arcolor – search engine for buildings and their colors
oh? how?
How to Understand the Resurgence of Eugenics
It's really hard to imagine that someone could commit such outright blatant theft and get away without so much as a hit on Google.

The events happened in the early 1990's, just prior to the advent of the internet. The false resume and the firing are the parts of the story that I have personal knowledge of. The financial allegations are third hand, but I believe them to be true. It's possible that recent events have better coverage, but I'd guess that even now there is a lot of crime and fraud that is never reported.

Was the con artist ever tracked down?

Not to my knowledge, although I'm no longer close to the community. I've occasionally wondered whether this might be because someone took matters into their own hands, and he's dead and buried in the woods somewhere. Googling now, I was surprised to learn that a janitor at the college was recently convicted of a 30-year-old murder of the mother of one of my classmates: http://chippewa.com/news/guilty-verdict-in-old-ladysmith-kil.... But I suspect that instead he's likely on to a new scheme somewhere else.
Link to the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
"Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"
Always like being in the office when working
The BBC produced an hour long documentary about the perils of Victorian domestic life a year or so back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03l7nl8
"like on Usenet" is definitely a comparison.

If you don't see an error in your premise being pointed out, then you need to put your "posts expire and get deleted, like on Usenet" right up against "people were not expiring non-binaries posts on Usenet" until the penny drops.

Then you need to notice the point, already made by others as well, that the premise of ISL's question is erroneous, too. The storage requirements are not necessarily "tremendous", if one actually learns from the past. Again, your comparison to Usenet needs to involve considering how Usenet treated binaries and non-binaries very differently. (One can look to experience of the WWW for this, too, and consider the relative weights in HTTP traffic of the "images" that ISL talks about and the non-binary contents of the WWW. But your comparison to Usenet does teach the same thing.)

Your and ISL's whole notion, that everything is going to get tremendously big and so everything will need to be expired, rather flies in the face of what we can see from history actually happened in systems like this, such as the one that you made your comparison to. Usenet did not expire and delete non-binaries posts.

By making this comparison and then trying to pretend that it's someone else's non-sequitur you are closing your eyes to the useful lessons to actually learn from your comparison. Usenet, and the Wayback Machine, and the early WWW spiders, and Stack Exchange, and Wikipedia with all of its talk pages, and Fidonet in its later years (when hard disc sizes became large enough), all teach that in fact one can get away with keeping all of the "non-binary" stuff indefinitely, or at least for time scales on the order of decades, because that is not where the majority of the storage and transmission costs is.

People have already danced this dance, several times, and making a distinction between the binary and the non-binary stuff and not fretting overmuch about the latter when one looks at the figures is generally where it ends up.
Assembly isn't concise, though it is precise. An expression (program) to do anything substantial is actually pretty verbose in assembly, it's the programming equivalent of "show your work" in algebra class.

Especially the way modifiers are used, this reminds me more of the APL/J family of languages. Start off with words (verbs and such in those languages) and allow for modifiers (adverbs) that alter their behavior and meaning (sometimes significantly, while still retaining the core concept of the root verb).