skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you really love self-hosted, SugarCRM is the main open source CRM out there.

Sugar has its own problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181662
I mean, you could add some indirection & some sort of directory data, if desired to allow hard links & get directory listing perf reasonable.

This was mainly an example to show that "paths" in some sense are (or could be) handled by file systems, not an actual design I'd aspire to :)
China does not want the US building military bases a few miles south of their border. Additionally, in the event of a conflict with the US directly, the DPRK will almost certainly seize the opportunity to cause havoc on the peninsula and therefore divert US/NATO resources away from a Chinese/US conflict.

One could argue that the US wouldn't need to maintain bases on the peninsula after the fall of the DPRK, but with the situation in the South China Sea, we'd be stupid not to and even if we agreed with China that we wouldn't, they don't have a lot of reason to trust we'd hold up our end of the bargain given our history.
"why not just look at the rendering in a web browser"

This is a good question — I’m a technical-leaning designer so I’m partial to just using browser-based tools. I think things like Deco and Expo Snack are wonderful.

That said, I’m specifically looking at improving the efficiency of designers’ workflows without changing them. My team is part of DesignOps at Airbnb, maybe useful to consider it analogously to DevOps. ~= “We’re changing the servers that our applications are deployed on without forcing our engineers to learn a new language”.

Anyway, 1) having Sketch templates always-in-sync with real components is huge, 2) we’re building custom UIs on top of Sketch to use those components (which we may open source eventually), 3) this is a baby step to get us to the point where component-centric tools like Deco and Subform are good enough to realistically switch our design team to.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3030558/application-virtual...

https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/linux-post...
Lib.ru – Russian online library est. 1994. Immortal web design
DPRK is a buffer state for China.

The United States lost its mind when communism established a foothold in Cuba. Russia did likewise when Ukraine began aligning towards NATO.

China would prefer to have a stable regime in DPRK - but it would also prefer to not have US military bases on the other side of the Yalu river. The last time that happened, the two countries went to war.

Also, arguably, the DPRK regime is extremely 'stable'. The same royal family has ruled it for what, seven decades, now?
> Even this is not sufficient -- the fact is that this is a methodological statistical error, not a mathematical statistical error.

That said, Wansink's papers had plenty of mathematical statistical errors that were evident without access to the original data, as documented in the mentioned "Statistical Heartburn" preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/2748.pdf
Surely your employer would state or demonstrate their cars as being capable of a long-distance trip if they were technically capable of doing so.

Bear in mind, with this announcement, they aren't even committing to "it works in the Phoenix metro area". There's that "parts of" statement, that indicates that only parts of the area is mapped and hence the cars are only capable of operating in parts of the Phoenix metro area.

If you have evidence to the contrary, please, by all means, feel free to share.
#Linux #Shishiga #malware, a threat in dangerous evolution
> if you take out alcohol and cell phones, you've reduced 70-80% of driving related fatalities with those two alone

I don't believe that's supported by data. A quick search finds alcohol involved in ~30% of all fatal crashes and cell phones involved in ~20% of all crashes (though probably significantly underreported). Even boosting the cell phone rate by quite a bit, there will still be considerable overlap between the two groups, so likely nowhere near 70% in total.

The root cause is that we're letting a bunch of primates steer fast moving, heavy metal objects around a highway (and really the fact that we easily distract ourselves and make bad decisions about drinking and driving is a great example of why the whole thing is generally a bad idea).
Yes, it's pretty dishonest. The only serious modern game in the mix appears to be Bioshock, and it seems that the author didn't quite understand what Levine & Co were trying to convey about autonomy and agency with that work.
Rent always roughly costs as much as median person has left after feeding himself.
That's not accounting for inflation - $5000 then was more like $10000 now. And a bare-bones minimum machine for running business software (i.e. no color graphics or floating point hardware) was still close to $2000 (more like $4000 in today's dollars). So, roughly speaking a maxed-out gaming rig today is about as affordable as a bare-minimum box in 1990, without even accounting for the massive difference in absolute power.
Sure but your grandmother is Meg Whitman..
She was employee #20 at Google - I'd think if she stayed at Google working as an engineer, her stock from that would be worth more than the ~$200M she earned at Yahoo.
That's true, my comment was probably short-sighted. I received federal loans, so my name is in that database. Like you said, crazier things have happened.
I question the value of the tags where they state the obvious. Does this

{"foo:O":{}}

really tell you more than

{"foo":{}}

?

The ability to encode sets, integers, binary data and time stamps is useful. But why tag things which are what they look like? It's a waste of space.
Will US withdraw troops from a unified Korea or will troops be stationed on the Chinese border?
That's why I chose not to attend a religious university (run by the most profitable religion cartel in the USA) in order to obtain a scientific education.
Continuous testing in a fast-paced agile and DevOps world – SD Times
Marissa Mayer to leave Yahoo with a $186M payout
How was React Sketch.app influenced by your blog post from June 2016: Declarative Design Tools (http://www.jon.gold/2016/06/declarative-design-tools/)?
I'm still not sure these Asian students make "better" engineers and such. They end up in more prestigious positions due to hiring practices that make it so. But then we see things like the critique of the Toyota software in the sudden acceleration investigation... While over in America with it's "inferior" education system we dominate tech. We want to be more like them, while they want to be more like us.
The best way to make an impression on someone is to ask questions about them until you find some

Yes, but you have to be careful or you can make the person feel like they are being interrogated. Maybe not quite to the level of shining a bright light in their face and asking "where were you at 8:00pm on the night of January 23rd", but still, an endless stream of questions - done poorly - can make people feel uncomfortable even if it is true that "people love talking about themselves".

You may laugh at this, but some of the best advice I've heard on this subject came from Kezia Noble, a lady who teaches "pickup artist" material. Except... she bills herself as part of that world, but in reality her material is just general conversation skills which can be applied in pretty much any context.

I don't feel like trying to type up a complete rehash / summary of her technique here, but a big part of it involves distinguishing between "high value" answers to questions, and "low value" answers, and figuring out how to branch off from the high value answers in a way that keeps the other person engaged. There's also an element about making statements instead of just asking questions, etc.

Just to illustrate, here's a really made up example of how this might go:

You: "So, where did you go to school?"

Them: "Berkeley" (reasonably high value answer, but what to do with it??)

You: "Oh. So... what did you major in?"

Them: "Economics." (again, good answer, but can you do something with it?)

You: "Oh. Ah. Cool. So you must like math, huh?"

Them: "no". ("yes", "no", etc. are usually low value answers that don't lead naturally to anything else)

You: "Oh. Right. SO, um... do you like fishing?"

Them: "What? No. What is this, an interview?"

---------

On the other hand, here's how it could go:

You: "So, where did you go to school?"

Them: "Berkeley"

You: "Nice. Why did you pick Berkeley?"

Them: "Well, it has a reputation for great academics and a tradition of activism."

You: "Oh, yeah. My school ($WHATEVER) had a great academics as well, but not much activism." (statement instead of a question)

Them: "Activism is really important to me, especially around climate change. I wouldn't have gone to a school that didn't have that aspect."

You: "Cool. So what did you major in?"

Them: "Economics."

You: "Ah... so what's the connection between economics and climate change?"

--------

Anyway, you can kind of see the pattern. Elicit more complex responses, make statements, lead off of their complex answers, don't just suddenly branch off to something unrelated, etc.
With all that money, I'd never have a job again.
Just got our first glimpse of Uber's vision for flying taxis
How do you solve the issue of extreme demand M-F at 8am and 5pm and low demand any other time?
I highly doubt requiring mobile numbers was the flaw here.
A Look at the Ugly Side of Getting Rich
We have just recently started using React for new products that our team develops, doing the design in Sketch. This was already a huge improvement in efficiency compared to doing design in Photoshop and building products with Angular. I'm super excited to try this library on our next project and see how it can streamline the design and development cycle.
The "make sure people hear about it" part is non-trivial, and assumes that you already have a minimal audience that cares about your work.

In other words, you're already networking when you're trying to get people to pay attention to you. The article provides a set of practical lessons intended to help you with that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194361
If you rent out a building on airbnb and it's used in a scam by a renter that covers all her tracks and successfully evades the police, are you responsible ?

Would uber be if one of it's self driving cars is used in a crime and they cant provide the real identity of the user ?

If anything, he's a victim. Someone used a public service he offers in a way contrary to its (implied) TOS.
IIRC, 30-40k people die every year in car crashes in the US. Based on the real-world testing Waymo has done over the last few years (where they tested the cars, but had a (not-driving) driver in the driver's seat at all times and weren't doing any commercial service), that figure would drop to essentially zero.
Money is useful, but it's not a slam-dunk like people make it out to be. Look at Jeb Bush: that guy will never be anything except the butt of a political joke, and he spent at least $150 million.

It's not $1 billion, but are you going to tell me that giving Jeb 6x more money would've made him competitive?
That, and also probably because otherwise CEOs would take ZERO risks. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
> If the alcohol ban had arisen organically - namely, as a genuine result of democratic support, the prohibition wouldn't have been such a spectacular failure.

isn't that begging the question? If everyone had supported it then everyone would have supported it? If you want to ban alcohol to save lives, what needs to be done is still the same...getting everyone to support it.

And we still have trouble with people using drugs today with popularly supported bans. War on Drugs, etc.
My point was that paths are part of Linux VFS, and that lookup is already done and invisible when the calls reach the FS driver. So there's no point in implementing an FS driver in terms of paths. It's redundant working-backward from something that was already done for you.
China certainly doesn't want a unified Korea, for economic and military reasons.
The article surprisingly leaves out Russia altogether. In essence, Russia is the "father" of DPRK and its hard to think that it would sit around quite when DPRK is losing.

Another big factor is that DPRK would have no qualms in attacking civilian population in Seoul using missiles and artillery and in fact that's what they would focus on in order to terrorize and put RPK+US on defensive. A single bomb can do much more damage in Seoul then in Pyongyang. Air supremacy is irrelevant more or less as the distances are small and war on ground would be much more deciding factor. They can probably use chemical weapon warheads as well. All these things RPK+US won't be at liberty to do to DPRK but even if they could the DPRK would care less about its civilian population perishing en-mass.

Finally, atomic threat is very real one for RPK. If everything is going in the ditch, they can try to transport one single warhead in to a city using even ground vehicles (if missiles aren't working yet). On the other hand, using nukes on DPRK by US would have almost no impact on its leaders mindset.
I would say that it depends on your project. I recently launched my personal side project (https://outsideways.com/) and it took me about 9 months to get my first 100 (soft launch with little marketing, I was busy working on features), and my next 30 in the 10th month. Now I am getting 2 - 3 sign-ups a day (In my case, there will be a seasonal aspect to new sign-ups). I am doing a number of things to promote it:

- Released a multi-week YouTube video series on a related topic of interest, with a plug for my site at the beginning of each video.

- I regularly participate in Facebook groups related to the niche and occasionally plug it there.

- I am babysitting my most active users so that their experience is really good, learning their pain points, and responding quickly to their needs. They are in turn starting to spread the word on their own.

- Talking to friends and family who I think might be interested.

- Personally welcoming everyone who joins to try to make the experience a little more personal.

- Being active in social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook), posting interesting and relevant content that would attract the kind of users I am looking for. Following users who I think might be interested. Participating in their content too (i.e. likes, comments, etc.)
ASK HN: Testscenar.io – Make test scenarios, plans and reports
Hello,
I'm founder of https://testscenar.io. This is my first real startup. I am single founder (I'm looking for co-founder so please feel free to contact me ;)) of this and I'm trying to get a good feedback. I think, that the best place for constructive feedback is here at hackernews. I'll try to respond all feedback because it really matters for me.
So what about is this startup and what problem it solves? It solves a problem of dozens spreadsheets in QA work. It organizes test cases, test plans, and you can generate report.

That's all.
Thanks in advance,
Adam
It was called Chesscademy and we were raising $750k.

We were tackling the adaptive learning problem by creating tailored curricula. The plan was to move outside of chess to other subjects as we grew, but we found monetization to be very difficult.
China-DPRK relations have only begun chilling over the last decade. China still has a lot of vested interest, both financial and political, in North Korea.
Wikipedia’s Founder Wants to Fix Fake News
My understanding is that China has a very different relationship with North Korea and a very different perspective on foriegn policy. China tends to emphasize North Korea's stance as a reaction to US/South Korean provocations. China also has a significant population of Koreans and significant trade with North Korea, and fears the destabilizing effects of North Korean collapse more than the destabilizing effects of North Korean actions. Finally, China's policy is that countries should not peer to closely into the domestic affairs of foreign countries.

North Korea's strategy is to deter foreign aggression against itself. As this article reveals, it has been an effective strategy, because the costs of war on the Korean peninsula are so huge despite the North's technological deficit.
Anyone here interested in Haskell lessons?
Some time ago I started teaching my father Haskell an it was surprisingly fun.
I mean, usually I would work on some hard problems and feel inadequate
especially when comparing my own abilities against the cumulative knowledge of
all the people on the internet - where on the other hand whilst teaching
I suddenly realized that I know quite a bit and it was really gratifying.

I have also noticed that there are quite a few people interested in learning,
however they are unable to overcome initial strangeness of the language. Which
is not unreasonable since there are many completely new concepts for some
people: like if you only ever used imperative languages, functional programming
feels weird and unnatural. Types may feel like such a bother when you don't yet
have an intuition how they can indeed guide you instead. The non-strict
semantics mean that you have to completely change how you approach solving
certain problems optimally. All of that combined with a syntax that is
completely different from most of other mainstream languages can often be a bit
much. I myself had two failed approaches before I was hooked. Some people
however my give up to soon, which I think is a shame since even if you won't end
up ultimately using Haskell in your day to day programming, these ideas are
worth internalizing for their own sake; to give you a different perspective and
make you a better programmer.

So yeah, all of that gave me an idea, why not start giving lessons? I may get to
talk with some interesting folks from different backgrounds, and earn a bit of
coin on the side whilst doing something fun and gratifying.

I'm not yet sure about the rate, I'm thinking $50/h maybe? It feels like a fair
amount that will filter people that are truly interested without being
prohibitive. Also if you want to try out, something like a $10 for the first
half an hour?

If you are interested, drop me a msg at:
Knight.of.the.Lambda.Order@gmail.com

Thanks,
Max.
You're right, I was unclear. $50k is our after-tax spending (including housing, which we're renting at market rate). For a couple making $130k like you mentioned above, with the worst-case scenario of 0 deductions or tax credits, total state+federal income tax should come to about $40k, leaving ~$90k after-tax to play with.
I wish this was researched more. The same group of interconnected people serve on board or C-levels of companies. They happily give raises and generous offers to others, because they know that when their turn comes, the others will do the same to them. Meanwhile, small-time shareholders are powerless, because a large chunk of the shares are held by institutions who don't want to rock the boat, and are just happy that things are fine the way they are.
So what do they poop it out as? Something less pollutant than plastic?
I think all of the nano stuff will be in this bubble. Just thinking about disposing of stuff that has graphene and carbon nano tubes in it. There's no regulation at the current time, and this is definitely something that we can ingest, how will our body(or any animal body) deal with it? Could be fine, but do we really know?
Would you both please not post like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die
>"It unarguably leads investigators to your person".

That's a very debatable claim, from both a legal and technical viewpoint
The problem is, if you topple the Kim regime, a unification with South Korea is imminent and bringing North Korea up to the development level of South Korea is would cost trillions of dollars. It might even trigger a worldwide economic recession as the capital markets completely dry up as all investment floods to Korea.
The main argument made by this article appears to be following:

* Japanese students students score higher because of the high-stakes college entrance exam system. However, this creates more stress. Japanese students are able to deal with this stress because of closeness with their mothers.

The article mentions studies on young children, but this does not seem particularly relevant because children would not yet be experiencing the stress created by the entrance exam system at this point, unless the argument is that the way children are raised in early childhood leaves them better able to deal with stress for the rest of their life, but I'm not sure there is evidence that Japanese people are better able to deal with stress than Americans in general.

Even if we assume that there is a difference parental involvement that makes them better able to handle stress than children in the US, it seems like a surprising leap to attribute this to this notional Japanese principle of "amae" without even mentioning the fact that the percentage of working mothers in the US is almost double what it is in Japan.
> don't respond to features in Google Photos

By the time GPhotos launched, was there anybody still invested in the rotting carcass of Flickr? I bought Flickr Pro almost 10 years ago and immediately regretted my decision when they broke some blog-integration thing I relied on.
Was not my intent to make you feel infuriated. I do feel you may be reading a bit more into my post. I agree with your thoughts on the art world. I also notice you say you quit the art world not making art.I think that is very different than what author did.
A bit OT: does anyone have recommendations for textbooks or other resources that teach basic military strategy and tactics? Whenever any military discussion comes up that even touches technical aspects, I feel pretty lost. Similar to how with certain sports, I just can't see the movement patterns or how the plays develop.
This will come really handy, thank you. I'm trying to build a better infrastructure at work; do you have anything written up about how you work at Airbnb? Your "bring design & engineering closer together" mission sounds like what I'm trying to accomplish, would like to read/chat more about it.
"Will car ownership be killed with self-driving cars?"

Presumably. It's pooling for cost-saving reasons, much like cloud computing. If people want to be frugal, they won't buy a car.
I am not in compliance, but absence of evidence doesn't imply evidence of absence.

Google Cloud has probably industry's highest security standards in place [0] . Getting governing bodies to sign off on their accreditations is a very separate issue.

(work on Google Cloud)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/security/whitepaper
The assessment predicts: "Tens or hundreds of thousands could become casualties" ... in the event of an all-out DRPK/(US+ROK) conflict.

One factor to consider here is what happens if no conflict occurs? In that case, there are ... still likely tens of thousands of civilian deaths happening as the status quo in North Korean labor camps[1]. Allowing the regime to continue to exist also has a major cost in human lives. I'm not saying war is clearly a superior option - I'm saying this whole situation is mostly losses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_North_Korea
I've been meaning to buy one of these books for a while now, are they a pretty good source?
Debian is shutting down its public FTP services
There's a flip side to that though. You may have a systematic vulnerability or bug that puts thousands of vehicles at risk. Bruce Schneier has spoken about this issue. An expert lockpick can still only pick one lock at a time. A super-skilled hacker or team can penetrate many devices in one shot.
Ask HN: How do I learn to write good software specifications?
I want to be able to hire freelancers and to give them documents that make our communication effortless and clear. Make them jobs as developers easier, any advice or good resource to suggest?