skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if Republicans lead by Trump passed some plan where carbon was taxed, and some of the money was used to offset the increased fuel cost for the poor/middle classes, whereas rich folks were thrown a bone with tax cuts, that would be phenomenal. I would be very, very happy with that decision, enough so to feel happy with the Trump administration in spite of everything else.

Chance of this happening, IMO: 0%

As I said in another comment a long time ago and thus sparking an argument with a conservative commentator: this has become a political issue where the majority of people do not understand it. Laypersons are arguing with scientists. There is a tribal sense of which side is correct that is totally unrelated to the facts, and until that is pierced it doesn't matter how urgent the warnings or how win-win the proposals. In the mainstream conservative view, this is firmly in the realm of hysterical, liberal bullshit and does not merit further negotiation. I mean, people actually argue that "the climate is always changing" as though that in any way counters what scientists are saying - fucking asinine.

It breaks my heart that we're going to play chicken with the habitability of our planet just as I'm preparing to bring children into the world.
I don't really see why that's any funnier than any of the myriad of things we do here in our own countries that aren't practiced elsewhere.
> Both of these require active threats.

Close... they require the person standing-ground to perceive a threat. The laws do vary state-by-state, but they tend to be universally broad.

"For example, Michigan's stand-your-ground law, MCL 780.972, provides that "[a]n individual who has not or is not engaged in the commission of a crime at the time he or she uses deadly force may use deadly force against another individual anywhere he or she has the legal right to be with no duty to retreat if ... [t]he individual honestly and reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent" the imminent death, great bodily harm, or sexual assault of himself or another individual."

* Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia || https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law

According to this, if I thought someone was a habitual sex offender, I think I'd be within my right to sniper him from a mile off... so... clearly that's a stretch... but it has been stretched pretty thin before.

* Joe Horn and Five Years with the Texas Castle Doctrine - The Texas Observer || https://www.texasobserver.org/joe-horn-and-castle-doctrine-s...

> It’s not that he wanted to shoot the intruders next door, he said, “but if I go out there to see what the hell’s going on, what choice am I going to have?” The dispatcher told him again to wait for the police, not to go outside with his shotgun, that nobody needed to die for stealing.

> Horn was unconvinced. “The laws have been changed…since September the first, and I have a right to protect myself,” Horn said. “I ain’t gonna let them get away with this shit. I’m sorry, this ain’t right, buddy … They got a bag of loot … Here it goes buddy, you hear the shotgun clicking and I’m going.”

> “Move, you’re dead,” he told the men, then he fired three times, killing both men, and returned to the phone in his house.

> “I had no choice, they came in the front yard with me, man, I had no choice,” he told the dispatcher. Police arrived seconds later. Horn wasn’t arrested, nor was he indicted by a grand jury that later considered the case.
Except the problem clearly didn't resolve itself last time, resulting in people dying, resulting in fire safety regulations.
According to IDC, iOS devices sell more than the whole Windows market (all brands).

PC sales were 60 million, taking Apple's share of 4.2 million, it's 56 million, give or take.

Last year, Apple in this period sold 51 million iPhones, 10 million iPads. And it was a "bad" year.

You might say "but I need my desktop, my IDE, my Photoshop, my etc."

Yeah, but you are one programmer or photographer or video editor, most people don't create anything, or just do some very light editing (like removing skin imperfections from photos), and thus, a media consumption device is most right.

We are in the Post-PC world, live with it.
Now do ffmpeg! (Seriously I would pay for autocomplete ffmpeg cmd line options)
> What was the point of publishing this information in such a non-functional format?

You make it sound like this is a big publication I worked weeks on. :) It's not. It's a toy project I wrote Saturday.

As far as "publishing" goes: I sent a tweet about it in the hopes someone might find it interesting. And now it's trending on Hacker News! Woohoo! ^_^

The link is just a deep link into my SVN repo, directly to the README file.
I know HN frowns on 'me to' posts, but I'll take the hit for this one - this is an excellent book, and I recommend it, too.
And somehow, none of them are connected (not even Facebook and Messenger), so you have four different story apps from the one company.
Yes, because it's the exterior that counts?
It was introduced as floor division:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/

And is currently documented as such:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html#numbers

https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-floor-division

https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html#operator.flo...
That link is a perfect example of how subjective all of this stuff is. I don't have any issues reading that page, though I understand how you might!

Here's a blog post I've always found interesting about Markdown, from Joe Armstrong: http://joearms.github.io/2016/03/21/Why-Markdown-Sucks.html

Plain text documents don't solve the problem he's talking about, but they at least mitigate it somewhat -- WYSIWYG is preferable to a changing pseudo-standard mangling an author's intent, in my opinion.
Consider that they're openly bragging about something that a) anyone would obviously flag as suspicious (e.g., not particularly impressive to catch) and b) wasn't even a real threat (so wasted multiple hours of hundreds of people at a large cost).

What really would have been impressive and worth bragging about would be a quick determination that the device was harmless and letting the flight continue uninterrupted.
Don't leave out the communistic-socialistic-opensource portion of the group, which has an awkward dependent relationship with the capitalistic group
In any case, I think XXX should be dropped in favor of prefixes with some semantic meaning.

I use XXX when there's no obvious tag. Some things require attention or consideration at some indeterminate point in the future, but aren't bugs or hacks, and might not necessarily even need to be changed. They're just... a big fat question mark that you or somebody else might want to circle back around to.

Every programmer knows that naming things can be a tremendous tarpit. The only thing more tedious than choosing the best name for something is choosing a subtly misleading name which subsequently leads you or someone else on a wild good chase or possibly to fixing things (and accidentally breaking things) that never really needed to be fixed as long as the situation didn't change.

XXX is just the right convention precisely because it's so nebulous. NOTE doesn't work because something marked XXX isn't just locally descriptive, it's also a global marker that deserves to standout. WARNING doesn't work because that signals danger and hints that you may have done something suspect. But XXX doesn't necessarily mean code is suspect, it can be that it _might_ be suspect or that it _might_ be unnecessarily complex. ATTN is maybe the closest fit, but 1) isn't sufficiently loud and 2) lost out to XXX anyhow as a convention.

IME XXX is usually either 1) something that deserves reconsideration, and here's why ..., or 2) I'm too busy writing correct code to worry about the best description here, but here's a marker and possibly a sketch of a description for your future benefit.

Other than NOTE, I use XXX far more often than BUG or TODO. Committing a BUG comment is, I think, just poor discipline. If you know there's a bug, fix it or disable it.[1] I rarely use TODO inside code, but rather usually only in header files. That is, I use TODO to mark planned extension points. Inside implementation code I personally find TODO to be not much better than BUG, though reasonable people can certainly disagree on that point.

[1] I understand that sometimes neither fixing nor disabling is a realistic short-term option, especially in the corporate world. That doesn't make it any more excusable, though, especially if its your bug. And if you can actually get the BUG comment committed upstream one must wonder exactly how difficult it would have been to get an actual fix or mitigation upstream.
What about turning the image into a sound, then compressing it with MP3, then turning it back to an image again?
Hey Andrew, how long did it take for you to build the MVP? Are you working on Canny full-time?
I agree that the calendar shouldn't make questionable assumptions. However, Scott's complaint is that he often forgets to set the timezone, resulting in significant harm. I think that it's a fair complaint--after all, the entire point of a calendar is to reduce your mental burden. Perhaps the best solution is to make the calendar explicitly prompt for the timezone if there is any ambiguity.
Absolutely. That's why it's a different hypothetical situation, as I said.
Compound interest? What? Most of his money would be tax advantaged.
Maybe what you wrote makes accidental sense.
Let's call it the District 1 Party.
The future of telecommuting
> Legislation to disable adblocking could be reinforced already be implemented into the next generation of Intel/AMD chips so you bet this could be enforceable.

But this would be limited to chips to be sold in the US, so US sales would take a hit and import of chips from foreign market would get a boost. Ultimately the chip manufacturers would have to swallow the extra cost of adding this to chips towards the US market while facing a drop in sales in the same market. This situation would prevent the move from actually happening in the first place.
True. In truth, there's probably more than one faction.
Google says rogue vendor violated guidelines
I use it as a bookmark. It's a lot easier to type than FIXME or HACK. Like when I have to jump to the top to copy paste a block of code; type 'XXX' at current spot, jump elsewhere and do whatever, then Ctrl-S and 'XXX'.

I'm sure someone will point out that there are proper bookmarking commands in their favorite environment but I like not having to remember those, and this works in pretty much any editor/IDE.
SSRIs: Much more than you wanted to know - 2014
expand please or let me know what language!
github pages. redirect your domain name. easy.
Even if they do tolerate it, the biggest impediment to adoption of bikes in the US, is its vast suburbia. This itself makes it so unbearable. Cycling just isn't fun when you're not able to see other cyclists, humans, stores and actually socialize with your society.
Nice! Would be great if you can do a similar session but involving the remote teams - maybe outside of Standford class.
to java applets??

I don't quite get the joke...
It does seem rather a shabby article. Out of all the ways we can imagine exercising, they compare 3 very mild approaches (plus not exercising) and someone proclaims one of them "the best"!?

If you want to find an "optimal" exercise, you'll need to specify a function you're trying to minimize. Might be time to run a marathon, or time to swim a mile in the ocean, or some blend of performance/hours_invested.

Of course, some people do this, e.g., folks trying to win Boston, etc. And even here, where the goal is clear cut, the absolute best approach is not at all obvious.
You said, "One of the Number 1 complaints of people who pay for Economy Plus is that airlines sometimes let regular people sit there." "Let", as in permitted. I was asking, what's the beef with this? Nothing to do with people taking seats without permission.
Big difference between Amazon and Uber: Amazon didn't rely on subprime loans
It is perfectly real and also a joke. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
> We only got Intel 64 bit CPUs once AMD got them first and people starting to buy them.

Intel came first with Itanium (June 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Itanium&oldid=775...), which clearly is a 64 bit CPU.
The first x86-64 CPU by AMD got released in April 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X86-64&oldid=7754...) and Intel's first x86-64 CPU came out June 2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X86-64&oldid=7754...).
I took a year "off".

Worked on some side projects, saw different places.

Picked up light weight contract work (think... like 15 hours/month of website/app maintenance for $1500/month)
They're not in New York state - your car must pass an annual safety inspection. IIRC when I lived in Ohio they had a similar inspection regime.
if you want to outsource, WordPress is the best choice. Make sure you use different domains for WordPress and your app. Sucuri (recently bought) provided a good managed WAF & security monitor for WordPress.
Overcoming the Goldilocks Complex
EndFirst takes on Microsoft and Google with new cloud service
Hitler's frustration with Using Docker for everything
Read about Palladium and Trusted computing, basically every CPU from intel and AMD have had this or a similar feature for several years. I'm not sure about ARM.
>"If that were how things worked, we'd never use any new technology"

Nice try. That's a straw man. This isn't new technology. Its simply replicating existing functionality.

>"Obviously it is easier to pay a one-time up-front cost than to slog away inefficiently forever"

Whats the average typo 1 character as in most of the demos for "Fuck"? So I can either type 2 carets and 4 letters for a total of 6 characters or I can type the 4 characters in the word "fuck", how is the former inefficient? Wow, what a slog. I can't imagine what I will do with all the time I will have left over after installing this"
California’s wildflower bloom can be seen on satellite imagery
> Laura had been interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on more than forty occasions when traveling internationally. Sometimes they temporarily confiscated her notebooks. Once, they took away her computer. […] As always, following her lawyer’s instructions, she took notes. This time, a federal agent declared that her pen was a potential weapon and threatened to handcuff her.

Freedom.
What segment of the telephony market are you targeting? Are you going after a smaller number of large companies, or as many small deals as you can get?

Basically, how important is human involvement in your sales process?

If it's really important, focusing on your website at all is probably a waste of your time. Just choose whatever involves the least amount of work (probably SquareSpace or Launchrock) and crank something out quick.

Revisit it later when the website is actually interfering with your sales.
Think outside the box. Current chips have gates on a dozen metal layers measuring ~1µm, but you could scale to 10,000 layers at ~1mm. Sure there are many unsolved challenge to build 10,000 layers, but there is still PLENTY of space for Moore's law to continue in this 3rd dimension...
Didn't this appear on Hacker News years ago? I have been using it since and absolutely love it!
Arbitrarily seize the domain name.
I had missed that facebook owned instagram.
Neural Storyteller
I spent a year traveling from September 2013 to September 2014. It was the best year of my life. The trip itself was fun, but more importantly I gave myself permission to simply sit, think, and have idle time. Traveling gives you a sense of perspective you can't get from sitting at home.

If you are a decent software engineer I wouldn't worry about employment. Mid way through my year of travel I received a job offer, and negotiated that my start date would not be for another six months.

Also, this does not have to be an all or nothing decision. Why not sublease your place for two to three months, spend that time traveling, and then re evaluate at that point?
Why do we even need political parties anymore? I understand that it was harder to transfer information back in the day, and so politicians aligning with parties made things easier. Now that we have the internet and media, all parties seem to do is serve as a marketing brand that politicians can hide behind.

Without parties, each candidate would have to run on their own views, rather than defaulting to whichever side they want to win over. Trump might be the biggest example, a liberal elite from NYC who ran as a Republican because he saw a weakness in the candidate pool there, and knew he could hide behind that R to gather votes. It's just lazy and serves as more of a tool to manipulate the populace than it does to inform.
I'm actually quite surprised to not see something like "Professional Stories" at LinkedIn. Basically stories but sharing your professional accomplishments or something.

I hope to continue to not see these on LinkedIn. The site is bad enough already.
So, first off, the article's headline and subheadline/abstract blurb talk refer to a party. What the article actually proposes is not a political party but a per-state nonpartisan group that approves/disapproves of politicians based on how their policies effect urban areas.

Second off, the author presumes that local politics are nonpartisan because the stakes are higher at local levels than at state and federal levels. I think the actual reason is that running a campaign at the state or federal level needs a lot more funding. The support of a political party's machine is necessary in order reach all voters and convince enough of them to vote for you.

Third, the author proposes to start at the state and local levels. The 50 most populous cities in the US are located in only 29 states (plus DC). A lot of states don't have cities.

I would characterize the following states as not having any cities to speak of based on the size and density of their largest towns: Alaska, Arkansas, Alabama, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. That's 17 out of 50; over 1 in 3 states.
Any relation to Mark Zuckerberg?
DMCA outside the US is the story of polite anakata and retractable batons.
I left FB to start a company about 2 years ago. We pivoted that company into Canny a few months ago. Launched it ~5 weeks ago.
I wish I had some brilliant non-WP insight to share with you but once you deal with WordPress' security issues (not minor but conquerable), its ubiquity and flexibility make it a great solution for most smaller-scale (content-wise) projects -- the fact that you can turn to anyone from the local college kid to a major agency and hand them your site and they're going to be able to execute, or you can take it back and do it yourself at a moment's notice, it's just hard to beat that.
Snapchat is for people who are able to figure out its god-awful UX. And most of them are too young to have their own money. So it is either implausible or downright ironic.
It's unclear to me that all the variables have been accounted for in a way that justifies the conclusion that younger workers handle high context switching better than older workers. It's entirely possible that younger workers are simply unaware that frequent context switching is very inefficient so they simply uncomplainingly though inefficiently plod forward in such situations. Sure, that makes for less immediate negative feedback to their immediate managers, but it also makes for less long-term value for the company. As a middle-aged employee, I am at least somewhat more aware of the situations in which I am highly productive and the situations in which I am less productive. When the latter types of situations are more prevalent without good reason, I raise those as problems to my manager since he or his managers should be aware of them. In my experience, my managers have appreciated my proactive feedback rather than my silently plodding through inefficient cycles of work. Perhaps there are situations where the latter is preferable, but I have not encountered them.
And as they were impractical apple removed them from itunes in 2009.
If you want something light weight and "run and done" then check out GitBucket [0]. You only need the JVM & git installed. When you run the program it sets everything up. Very easy, clean interface, and simple to back up (I just snapshot the entier folder).

[0] - https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket
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Gunman's video prompts Facebook rethink
I would argue the notion of "free software" is largely irrelevant and actually contributes nothing to actual freedom.

What really does contribute to user's freedom is the ability to take their data out of a program (whether local to their machine or hosted on the cloud) and import it to another program. AKA open data formats and protocols with no vendor lock in.

Do you require your furniture to be released along with its "source code" so you can fix it yourself? It's simply enough that you can throw it away and replace it with something else.

On the other hand, if the chair was glued to the house (or worse, made as a part of the wall) then that would reduce your freedom. Simply not knowing how the chair was made is normal and does not take anything away from you.
That's true -- but the top is a harder place to stay at than you think. China, the West, and the Middle East all have variations of "from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations"; most fortunes don't last past the grandchildren of the people who earned them -- and this was even true under feudalism, where new titles had to be continually granted, and the fourth generation after the man who was first granted arms was hardly ever armigerous, if it existed at all.

The few who make it past the third generation, generally continue on indefinitely (the Roosevelts, who bought a 40-acre farm on Manhattan Island in the 1600s and still own it today, should come to mind; likewise the Rothschilds and Rockefellers in more recent times); but getting over that three-generation hurdle is a formidable task.
Glad you mentioned spending house payment.

Another way to do this is to buy the house first, and rent it out while you are away on travels.
> I feel like the document could have benefited a great deal from some simple font color styling.

Why is that up to the document and not the user agent? The user agent can be configured so that all documents like nice and uniform.
How accurately does anyone know the global distribution of income?
Can confirm hitting the endpoint with curl works. Thanks for the account! :) Going to go poke around.
Exit letter by 25 year EPA staffer
I can take or leave the gimmicks, but Apple's progress with ARM processor design has been stunning, year after year. For the past few cycles, their phone CPU has comparable performance to a good laptop from about 3 years prior.
Wait, you want all that... but claim to prefer AirBnB over hotels?
Fewer, but I'm not sure what the real number would be. If you're a conservative in an urban core you probably wouldn't bother voting. There could be a lot that would vote third party.
For Apple I think you are referring to quarterly sells
I think their anger is very justified. And honestly they aren't missing out on much by boycotting Snapchat. There are lots of other ways to send nudes now.
It can't help with autocomplete, but I guses it would be easy to create a rule for fixing incorrect ffmpeg calls.

Create an issue about that in https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/issues
3 Years on Google App Engine
Pink Trombone: Speech Synthesis Simulation in JavaScript
HN should convert the homepage to a transcompiled Java Applet for the next April Fools.
That conference seems to be pretty interesting according to the schedule, but it starts in three days, there's no time to make the proper arrangements.