skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remix OS seemed like a nice concept, but it had both hardware and EULA issues[1] that made it impossible for me to use.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10888760
Maybe the problem is that employers try to hire the young workers at a cheap rate instead of actually giving them a decent wage. Perhaps the problem is that we expect folks to sacrifice so much for a job when we should be able to provide a place that gives balance, including time off work and reasonable hours, instead of abusing the young workers. Perhaps this is a problem with skewed perspective.
I saw this deck mid-2014, and it single-handedly made me want to learn Erlang. I felt that any system that can handle COD's load is, at the very least, worth checking out.

About a year later, I got a job doing Erlang full-time, and OTP is about as good as that slideshow indicated...So, if anyone at Demonware is reading this...Thank you! You introduced me to my second great love (after my wife)!
Surprised this reply is this far down here.

The correct answer is that if you have the FB app installed, it tracks your location. If you are in any place with another person with the FB app also installed multiple times, it assumes you two know each other.

It is why therapists and other medical professionals should not have FB (or any social network app, for that matter) installed on their phone (or, alternatively, on while in the work place).
Like height the link is probably though health and generally freedom from birth defects. It's not a 1:1 correlation, but it is a positive one.

Consistent with such views, meta-analyses
(Jackson, Hunter & Hodge, 1995; Langlois et al., 2000) show that
there is a small but significantly positive correlation between
intelligence and physical attractiveness https://personal.lse.ac.uk/kanazawa/pdfs/I2011.pdf

That said, selected populations may show a negative correlation such as when more attractive people are more easily given a job etc.
No, he wasn't real.
I see that most of the work you did on PCE.js is 3-4 years old at this point.

What happened in the meantime?

Why did you choose PCE over (e.g.) Basilisk II?

How do you provide the Macintosh ROM?
Wasn't it always possible with friending and https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/?

If you're in on the trial, can you share a screenshot?
GP is likely referring to the startup lottery. Why did amazon win and pets.com fail? Why Facebook and not Myspace or orkut? Right place, right time + skill to make it + lucky = lottery.
CML/MLton or Manticore will deal with most of those issues.
>> It's too hard to get placed in anything significantly above your grade level, especially if your brilliance is restricted to a single subject

This. Once past maybe grade 2-3, classes should be per-subject with mixed ages. Throw the 7 year olds together with the 12 year olds who are on the same level for any given subject. At some point, we need to find a way to tailor education to each individual student. Lumping kids together based solely on their age is ridiculous. Letting only very few children skip entire grades across all subjects rather than by level per subject is not the right solution.

I would have given anything to have been 3-5 years ahead in math while at school. I dropped out in grade 11 because the subjects I cared about were so mind-numbingly unchallenging that I lost all interest in what education had to offer me. I make as much today as a software developer as I would with a degree at most companies, so any incentive to go for a Bachelor's or Master's would be for purely personal growth. Of course my high school transcripts are incomplete, so I couldn't even register for university without going back and doing the prerequisite high school equivalency classes.
There are some tilt-shift lenses out there for APS and FF SLRs. I think Lensbaby makes A few.
GPUs are capable of highly-realistic rendering now, so this is finally a viable proposition. And the VR hype will definitely go a long way to making this a reality.
Facebook is the packaged shallow tabloid version of the web, I've always felt it would be hard to make the leap to anything deeper.
Is this more to your liking then:

Japan is peculiarly vulnerable to potato shortages because it restricts imports, even when its own potato crop fails.
>"The countries you name lack any real connection to the US beyond the realpolitik at the end of the day."

You might want to look up Occidental Petroleum of Houston, Texas:

"Occidental's oil and gas operations in the Middle East are in Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The region produced 294 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (1,800,000 GJ) per day, representing approximately 46% of 2016 total worldwide production.The region also held 28% of the company's proved reserves in 2016.

Occidental is the largest independent oil producer in Oman. In Qatar, Occidental is the second-largest oil producer offshore and is a partial owner in the Dolphin natural gas project, which delivers gas to Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

In early 2011, Occidental partnered with Abu Dhabi's state oil company in developing the Shah Field, one of the largest natural gas fields in the Middle East, through a joint venture known as Al Hosn Gas. Al Hosn Gas became operational in 2015."[1]

You might want to also read up on the Dolphin gas pipeline in the UAE as well:

"Occidental Petroleum of the US and Total of France each have a 24.5 percent equity stake in the Dolphin gas pipeline project."[2]

Then there's the old U.S stalwarts:
Chevron Over-seas Petroleum (Qatar), Pennzoil Qatar Oil Co, Mobil Oil Qatar. And Penzoil, Caltex and Shell are all in U.A.E as well.

I would say military bases, arms sales, joint infrastructure projects and U.S business interests all qualify as pretty substantial connections to the U.S.

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Petroleum

[2] http://www.uae-embassy.org/about-uae/energy/uae-and-global-o...
That sucks - it also happens to be the protected amount that the EU guarantees and is committed to reimburse the account holders with when a bank fails and go bankrupt.

So in one way the customers outcome did not really change from a real bankruptcy, while reducing the risk of crashing the entire bank system in Cyprus, possibly EU and in that case the world.

The sum is not extraordinarily high though so I suspect that quite a few rather ordinary people saw their retirement savings evaporate.

I also suspect that the bank have been paying dividends to it's shareholders for many years, so it would have been nice to let them bail the bank in one way or another instead of ordinary people - but I doubt that it's possible to do that legally after the fact. The best you can do is to step in and buy the bank for nothing - but that won't remove the debts.

I suppose that it would be possible to write laws that make the banks shareholders be responsible for any debts somehow, just like some other types of incorporations - and why not? Owning a bank seems to be pretty risk-free if you can just use your customers money to bail yourself out...
Ridiculed Discoverers, Vindicated Mavericks
Likely it's just something similar to the argument that Japanese snow is unique so they don't need French skis[1, 2] when they attempted to frustrate the importation of Rossignol skis into Japan. Or they could not digest beef in the same quantities as other peoples when they wanted to thwart importation of US beef into Japan.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/weekinreview/the-world-jap...

[2]https://books.google.com/books?id=lfAu0Tl0018C&pg=PA105&lpg=...
Surely there is a middle ground between "stupid chip shortage" and "loss of local agriculture" though. Japan can grow potatoes and trade them too.

Like I said, everyone does this to some extent. But Japan is among the worst
It seems like you're letting facts get in the way of a perfectly good chance to be outraged over completely sensationalized hand wringing.
Ooh, this looks very promising. Nice work.

I'm using draft.js in production (at http://www.guilded.gg). I just started looking for a replacement for a few reasons:

1. Draft is pretty broken on Android, despite being marketed as a cross-platform project. The team says that they're not working on fixing it, and it's not trivial to fix. This is a dealbreaker on its own.

2. I've had users encounter bugs where the Draft editor will serialize state that it can't read - so you can save something, and then cannot reload it. It appears to happen when doing some weird combination of adding and deleting block elements. This is a dangerous and frustrating bug.

3. In my opinion, the DraftJS API is difficult to use and extend.

Do you (@author) plan to support Android and iOS? If so, I'll definitely give this a shot.
The irreplaceability of the ice cores is why in my opinion, an independent backup refrigeration system (without common points of failure) is a necessity, along with an independent system that can isolate the primary chillers and activate the backup system should the primary chillers misbehave.

An emergency refrigeration system that works with consumable cryogenic material (say, dry ice or liquid nitrogen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14127835) would be totally feasible and utterly inexpensive compared to the tragic costs of these cores melting.

I don't know the state of readiness of phase-change materials with appropriate transition temperatures (would need to be lower than -40 C) but if such a material exists, it'd work as well.
I'm confused—what, precisely, is the "Electron authoring experience", when used in this sense? If you program an Electron app using HTML5, then isn't anything that outputs HTML5 part of the "Electron authoring experience"?
>What is your company?

I'd prefer not to say.

>What does it do?

Put vaguely, delivers on the promise of future UI (think Iron Man), but does so solving some hard real-world problems in the process.

>Have you considered remote workers ...

Absolutely. While most already live in the Bay Area, there are several people from other countries. I'd have no problem with remote workers. There's definitely additional challenges involved, but nothing that can't be solved, especially with a mature team.
There's no reason to dismiss the design question
Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp1rHka_BkA
I would assume maintaining healthy trade relationships is important for food shortages like these, as well.
Magic Lantern
Isn't that business as usual ? microsoft, google, etc. have been doing this for decades. Either they buy before it gets popular and they kill it or they buy it once popular and they exploit it. Some of those are even made for the sole purpose of being bought by a big player with lots of money, youtube comes to mind.

But not everybody is a sellout and when snapchat refused to be bought, facebook tried to pull a google and release a similar service/software to compete and starve the insolent, but they failed hard and nobody knows what facebook poke is.
Though facebook still has its monopoly and snapchat is not really threatening that.

But table turns, and they turn fast. For facebook who has no inherent value other that a lot of registered useds locked in, if those people started migrating to the new thing in town, facebook could be the new myspace in no time. This could not happen to apple or amazon who have inherent value, to google who sells ads outside its own websites, and microsoft well I don't understand how they made it so far, probably because they could bleed money by millions for years without even noticing it.
Four-course sounds grandiose but it's nothing more than a little carrot salad, a meal, a little piece of cheese and a yogurt (and some bread), that you get on your meal tray. No kid spend 90 minutes eating that; they rather spend their time playing during the time of lunch break. So it's top 20 minutes swallowing everything (or half of it actually) as fast of possible.
What's wrong with paper? I like scribbling notes and it's a lot harder with digital forms
We already have plenty of alternatives, what we need is all those to be interoperable between them.
I'm inclined to agree. I struck up a conversation with a epidemiologist at a party once. He worked for GE designing water filters. I commented on how I just had to find a backpacking filter that could eliminate Viruses .018 micron + in size. Most wilderness medicine professionals now recommend treating water for viruses as well as bacteria and protozoa. Viruses must be eliminated through a purification system or boiling because they are small enough to pass through a filter.
He was clueless and had nothing meaningful to add to the conversation and actually told me "that was new info to him."
Question for those of you who are game programmers. Is the message passing of erlang slower than shared memory threads in c++?
And we prosecute those banks. But our courts do not have jurisdiction in Qatar.
Woman Receives NCAA Football Scholarship, a First
AnyMP4+Video+Converter+Ultimate+7.2.12+++Serial+key+is+Here+[Latest]
Would it be possible to do live collaborative editing with a pure html-as-data model? One nice thing about Slate.js is that it leaves the door open to high-quality collaborative editing in React.
It won't matter. You need the bachelor's degree in your field to get a work visa, but it need not be from Europe.
Variety and choice we already have and it is useless unless each component of this variety can communicate with the others.

A multitude of walled gardens is no solution, it's just spreading the problem on a larger surface. What we need is to tear down the walls and build bridges instead.
I don't think reasonable developers use C++ or Go for any of those things. You might use a backup utility written in C++ or Go; but you don't write your own if you can help it, and you drive it with a scripting language like Python or Ruby or even bash.

No knock for learning. But if you want to get maximum bang for your learning buck, focus on higher level stuff with lots of third-party libraries that integrate with the things you want to automate, ideally with a interpreter REPL for exploratory coding.
"Due to exceptionally high traffic, registrations on this instance are closed until quality of service can be assured for existing users." Maybe try again later?
Ask HN: Hacker News Census
Has there ever been one?

Would HN consider setting one up and encouraging participation? Country location, age-range, industry/sub-industry. Obviously lots would understandably not participate due to privacy concerns, but I reckon enough users would contribute leading to some interesting information.
So it's okay as long as NSA is spying on citizens of other countries, but you're up in arms if they spy on US citizens?
I ran into Jonathan Gay at CGDC, and upon realizing who he was, I squatted down, raised up my arms up above my head, flapped my hands, and chanted "Nya nya nya nya nya!"

Dark Castle was so cool, I totally forgave him for writing Flash.
Can't edit so I'd also like to add : Germany has a freelancer visa. If you can prove you have clients, contracts in the pipeline, and some savings, it's a matter of bringing some documents and filling out a form at the Ausländerbehörde.
This is a little off topic but, I'm curious, does Mastodon have policies regarding what sorts of photos can be shared on their site? If so, do they have admins that review reported photos to make sure they should be removed? I'm a little confused about how this decentralized thing works.

A problem I have with Facebook and other social media sites is that they define topless photos of women to be lewd and therefore not allowed, but allow topless photos of men. If Mastodon explicitly allows their users to post those sorts of photos without censorship, them I will definitely be signing up.

> Mastodon [...] is mostly a take on twitter

Oddly enough, twitter is just about the only social media site that does not remove topless photos of women. So, if it is essentially just a twitter clone, I am slightly less interested.
Weather West (weatherwest.com) does a great job with this. The posts are information dense, topical, and timely. And, best of all, not overly frequent unless weather events warrant it. I wish more blogs operated this way.
True, good point. But that seems more like basic incompetence or cockiness rather than awareness that 9/11 was about to happen.
Shufflepuck! I'm so excited to play that again.

Please can we get a copy of LogoWriter on one of those? That was how I first learned to program, on a Mac Plus when I was about 7 or 8 years old.
Tilt-shift lenses are nowhere near as flexible in terms of movements as a proper monorail view camera. Still, few people routinely need that extra flexibility.
It's all about depth of field. With a given focal length, a smaller sensor/film camera forces you to stand further away from your subject than a larger one. The further you stand from your subject, the closer you get to focusing at infinity. When you focus at infinity, your depth of field comprises a huge range!

Large format cameras allow you to get closer to your subject (while achieving the same framing) and obtain an extremely shallow depth of field. Here's an example taken with a 4x5 camera [0]. Notice how her eyes are in perfect focus but the rest of the scene melts away into softness. A phone camera would put almost everything in this scene into sharp focus, making the foreground and background elements a lot more distracting.

Combine that with camera movements [1] and you can achieve many effects that are simply impossible with an SLR, let alone a P&S or phone camera.

[0] http://www.kendallpavanphotography.com/archives/6890

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JU-eHpk97Y
Overhauling exsiting regulation that promotes small scale family farming to one that promotes larger scale, modernized farming methods with improved outputs would strengthen and bolster the domestic ag economy vs its international counterparts, not weaken them.

The current handout to family farmers (many of whom produce paltry crops and own tiny parcels) and their collective lobbying efforts to continue the country's protectionist farming policies is a handout to these rent seekers and stifles the actual long term agricultural output of the country.
No, the primary cause of the shortage is that 70+% of the potato supply comes from one specific region of Japan, and that that region has had a very bad Typhoon which caused bad crops. IOW, the primary cause of the shortage was a (almost) SPOF in the supply chain.
>I strongly disagree with much of that. Hacking capability is not nearly as specialized as nuclear or ICBM technology

No, but doing anything with the data, and being able to get away with doing it, is.
Is the claim here that Japan is not able to trade as often as it would like? That seems to be obviously wrong.
What's ECMO?
Sounds like somebody's a little jealous..
I grew up in Winnipeg. :-) Weeding and the like is considerably less "back breaking" than most of the manual labour we have now (like house painting, window washing, road construction, etc). I've harvested rice by hand (cutting with a hand sickle). It's fun.

In North America, we build these huge farms because it's the only way to eke out a profit. You need serious capital to get started and you have a single person looking after land from one horizon to the other. This happens because the price of wheat is $4 and change a bushel.

And although milk production is often below cost, because of regulatory pressures distribution costs are kept low. Compared to wheat, milk is dramatically more difficult to process and distribute, and yet the markup is many times less. If you look at the difference, you can see where all the money is going.

I suggest that you can increase the cost of production of wheat 8-10 times without significantly affecting the final price. This would allow you to have 5 times as many farmers. It would allow them to use smaller, less expensive equipment. It would allow them to reduce their reliance on loans and insurance, further reducing their costs.

And, yes, we have more than enough labour as long as we pay people a reasonable wage. In my father's generation, university students all used to work on the farms for their summer jobs. Now? Pizza Pizza. The whole reason we have "summer vacation" is so that students could work on the farms.

I live in rural Japan now. I literally live smack dab in the middle of rice fields. Because of the protectionist policies for the last 60 years (installed by the Americans, BTW), farming here is dramatically different. A farm here can be about the size of a residential lot in North America. And... guess what? None of my neighbours use herbicide on their fields. 2 applications of pesticide a year (once in the spring for slugs/snails, once a few weeks before harvesting for grasshoppers -- some of the farmers have been growing an early variety lately and so are able to get the rice off the field before the grasshoppers emerge, so they skip the second application. Some skip the first application by over-planting and then thinning -- by hand!).

And for those interested, they do have amazing planters and harvesters. A couple of guys use traditional tractors, but they make an absolute mess of the fields. Most people use these tiny go-cart like devices. You can plant a field in less than an hour and it barely disturbs the soil at all. It's amazing. They have another device that cuts and bundles the rice stalks, but everybody hangs and dries their rice by hand. Then they load it up into pickup trucks and thresh it at a central location.

Is my hope that we can fix the distribution system, inject cash back into farms, reduce farm size and increase the number of people working on farms realistic? I seriously doubt it. But I still think that it's important to understand that this is a problem of our own making. This is about money, not about science.
If I need to annotate a recipe, a post-it stuck to the page usually does the trick.
Oh please, there is no American police state.
I suppose that's why there are no more famines anymore.
Isn't this exactly what the case is with Apple products? They make adapters and software not compatible with anything else. People don't seem to care and just pay up and buy Macs even.. (all huge investments)
well I guess the UI is alright. But I wouldn't like to see the core rewritten in JS.
I don't work there, but my understanding is their supply chain automation/optimization uses Haskell.
Would qwerty become history sometime? I tried Dvorak several times, but it's not that easy as it sounds like.
All CSS and Images are inline - that reduces the number of requests which need
to be made to the server.

They are so small, web browsers spend longer connecting to the server than the
time taken to download them. So I placed them inline to the HTML - that saved
a heap of downloading and rendering time.

I'm curious how it would compare to an alternative solution that does not inline anything, but instead relies on HTTP/2 and/or HTTP/2 server push [1]. Go recently added support for the latter in Go 1.8 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2_Server_Push

[2] https://golang.org/doc/go1.8#h2push
FTFY:

my $comment_or_blank =~
/^ # beginning of line
\s+ # bugfix - any amount of whitespace
(\#|$) # comment char or blank line
/x; # x modifier allows commented regexen.
next if $comment_or_blank;
Well, there is also:

Rice --domesticated in China
Corn --Mexico
Wheat --Middle east

These are now pretty universal and are more important than either Tomatoes or Potatoes.
So basically you are saying that you want the European agencies to break into the US banking system and spy on every US financial transactions because of how the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan were funded ?

Or how the contra were funded, or any other of the many unacceptable thing the US did and/or funded.

Sorry but your position is only acceptable to you because you're not on the receiving end and living on the bully.

Rest assured that when law forbids them from spying on their own citizen they instantly find a loophole by asking and giving free way to a foreign agency to spy on US citizen for them in exchange for them spying on their citizens and swapping the collected data.