skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting theological implications for the 23rd Psalm in that. Perhaps that explains the obesity epidemic -- Jehovah is going to eat us!
I've read it probably about five times, over the years. I'm neither a mathematician nor a musician, so there are parts that I still don't fully get. But so it goes.

For the gist of it, I recommend I Am a Strange Loop.
A usable jet pack would be pretty cool. Or a flying car ala The Jetson's.
I think your own example contradicts the idea that the harder it is to dissolve a relationship the worse it is.

Adult relationships with parents and siblings can indeed be toxic.

However, you aren't actually forced to stick with them no matter what.

In fact, for the most part, it takes consistent effort to keep family in your life.

As a contrast it's much harder for most of the population to quit their job and stop associating with their boss and yet the employer-employee relationship is often a lot less toxic.
No, the specific tech was developed by specialists. Being a logistics and eCommerce company helped them avoid common mistakes in that area. Specifically, they kept it accessible and cheap with easier scaling. They also eliminated most of the capital investments most IT shops would rather not make. Similar to the backbone of a logistics or eCommerce company like all the warehouses and such.
Eh, you're probably right. Those spy satellites have a very elliptical orbit. Probably only a few seconds when they could be close.

It sounds cool, and I can think of a few ways that could work, and it would be super useful. So I'm sticking with my personal conspiracy theory. But yeah, it's a low likelihood of being true.
Or we could genetically modify the penguins to be heavy enough to set off the mines
Hackers Find Celebrities' Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains
I never got much into Ruby but everytime I played with it Sinatra is my absolute favorite gem. Although now that I do Python I use CherryPy a lot, which is somewhat similar (though others would pick Flask as a similar framework for Python) glad to see it's still around. Of course this was also the inspiration for NancyFX for .NET which is another one for C# that tries to be similar as well. I'll always enjoy Sinatra as one of the few Ruby projects I've ever played with.
I've been through a lesser version. Ended up negotiating a payment plan that got me 4.5k on 7k, which, as these things go, is a huge win. The people saying you're lucky to get 20c on the dollar are dead on.

1) Do not assume that 3.5M is spent. Start inquiring pointedly, then aggressively, about exactly what remains. The odds are good that they're putting they payment of other bills above yours. Your job is to convince them that shorting you is going to hurt them more than shorting hubspot et al.

2) Explore your legal options with an emphasis on publicity. That COO isn't trying very hard. Their tune might change when it's spelled out for them that their mishandling of this situation will come up in the first page of results when their next potential employer googles them.

3) Let them know you're about to wardial every investor in the state. This person wants to raise money? Then it would behoove this person to pay you before you call every shop in town and let them know what's going down. (In reality, the wardialing strategy will do nothing, it's the fear factor that matters here)

4) Do not agree to any delay that isn't contractually backed.
They need to pay you SOMETHING upfront, and if they want to talk about paying you later, that ink needs to be dry within 48 hours.

5) Call their landlord (after first warning them that you're about to call their landlord). Let them know that they're about to get run out on, and should start conversations now. (Again, it's not that the landlord is really going to act that fast, it's the gut wrenchingness of FEELING like your landlord is going to act that fast)

Basically, you're to treat this org as a hostile entity, and you are to make every waking moment for them as anxious as possible for as many people as possible. Call their spouse and let them know that the party's over. How much noise can you make, and how much pain can you convince them is headed their way?

If they owe you 25k, your job now is causing them 26+k of pain as acutely as possible. Go for the throat.

Remember, as long as the CEO hasn't sold their car and taken their kid out of private school, it's not that they "can't" pay you, it's that they "won't". There are always options.

And then, next time, for fucks sake, 50% upfront and a compounding non-payment clause. Can't buy food with good intentions.
That was my first thought too. There are "walls" like these all over New England.
I'd suggest talking to a recruiter there, they'll definitely know more than I do.
Still if you get knocked unconscious or even sleep who's to say if that's the current consciousness or a new copy.

One of Kurzweil's projects is he wants to resurrect his dad because he misses him. Making copies kind of makes more sense if they interact with others rather than a brain in a vat type scenario.
Show HN: Contextual – Personal task management based on GTD principle
Hello HN! I just released a beta for a personal task manager. Screenshot attached can be seen here https://twitter.com/philipyoungg/status/860445511769235459. Currently, it works fully online—but I plan to develop online sync capabilities & mobile app after I got feedbacks and nail basic features from early adopters. You can check it as an online web app on http://beta.getcontextual.com, or Twitter DM / email me on (hello@philipyoungg.com) for offline beta version. I used React/Redux/Ramda to develop this and wrap the desktop app on Electron :)
> People just need to get past the fact that a "cold-hearted," emotionless computer is in the judge's chair because that's EXACTLY what we want.

That is not what I want. You should not want that either. If our current laws were implemented strictly and impartially, without reference to mitigating circumstances, the results would often be unfair, unjust, and morally wrong.

An emotionless computer would not consider any mitigating or unusual circumstances unless it was programmed to do so in advance -- but not all of the the circumstances that might come up in court are going to be obvious to the programmers.

Even foreseeable mitigating circumstances would be very difficult to program correctly, e.g. the difference between valid self-defense and manslaughter depends heavily on the state of mind of the defendant. Good luck teaching a computer how to deal with such a problem in a fair and just way, unless you can manage to develop the first artificial general intelligence.
Mark Zuckerberg should try living in the real world
I'm only a few minutes in, but they lay out the basics of anthropogenic warming really, really well.
Barbara Liskov is one of the most influential computer scientists who even one a Turing award. So, I'd immediately think it was some historical or current work of Barbara Liskov if all I did was study CompSci. I'd already seen CLU as one of C++'s influences, though. The key contributions section should hint at its significance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)

Her Wikipedia page also has a nice summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
I'm only a few minutes in, but they really lay out the basics of anthropogenic warming really, really well.
Spacex, if you're into really hardcore CS jobs.
http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/207861
Looks like Honda is not that great either:

https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/2016_09_...
I've had a lot of fun messing with SiLabs EFM8 series chips recently. They've taken an 8051-compatible core and added a bunch of the peripherals you'd expect to find on a modern ARM SoC; SPI, I2C, USB, CAN, Watchdog, and the PWM/PCA module has a lot of interesting options for generating different waveforms.

SiLabs provide a free license for Keil 8051, which is based on an absurdly old DOS assembler called A51.EXE (The Mac/Linux version runs under Wine behind the scenes).

The SDCC toolchain supports 8051 fairly well, using code ported from the ASxxxxx project that dates back to the PDP-11 days!
http://shop-pdp.net/ashtml/asmlnk.htm

There was an attempt to add 8051 support to binutils and gdb in 2001, but the patches were never merged. If somebody's looking for a project to get their hands dirty... This would be a good one.
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-12/msg00489.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-12/msg00488.html

I really like the 8051 ISA, it's simple enough to wrap your head around and the modern variants are competitive on price and power efficiency with things like the PIC and AVR.

That said, with ARM Cortex-M0 chips costing only a few cents more and having active support in every toolchain, it's hard to argue for 8-bit solutions beyond nostalgia or sunk cost. Still, they're fun chips.
> To achieve what you're describing you should cap market capitalization.

That's not really it either. If you have a business which is generating high profits, it will have a high market cap. You can reduce it by transferring the corporation's liquid assets to shareholders, but if you've transferred the liquid assets and you're still above the limit, transferring non-liquid assets to shareholders is clearly the wrong direction.

What you really want is for separate businesses to be separate companies. Conglomerates are inefficient. Don't expand into new markets, just give the shareholders their money. The shareholders can invest it in the new markets if they want to.

The main impediment to this is the tax code, because if you give the shareholders the money it gets taxed -- twice -- but if you spend it internally or leave it inside the corporation in an offshore subsidiary, that doesn't happen.

Wikipedia gets to the same place via a different route. A non-profit doesn't have shareholders to pay dividends to, so instead of paying dividends being discouraged by the tax code, it just isn't possible, and you get the same results. The website generates more revenue than it actually needs to operate and the rest of the money has to go somewhere, so it goes somewhere inefficient as determined by internal politics.
The Bike Helmet Paradox
C is one of those things that hasn't meaningfully changed in decades now. So yes, technically it is a mainstream language without generics (and many other things) - but I don't think that's a viable role model. The only reason why C is what it is, is because of all the legacy code written in it.
Shield TV. Hands down the best steamer you can get. And on top of the streaming benefits, the game stream function is legitimately good. Input lag was not really noticable, even when playing something like rocket league. When I bought it, I went from three devices (Kodi box, Chromecast, Fire TV) to one.
It's inherent to most capitalist systems. Hence Laizze free doesn't work well.
They also get old and develop chronic medical conditions.

Some even become parents after having kids...
Reminiscence bump
My favorite read on pirates and historical events is probably the book about an actual pirate raid on Ireland in 1631 where most of the inhabitants of a coastal village were carried away to slavery by Barbary pirates.

[The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0862789559)

The book ends up giving the reader background on the Barbary pirates - a mix of Turks, Dutch, Algerian, and Moroccan pirates led by a Dutch convert to Islam (from Catholicism). It also attempts to tell the stories of as many of the slaves as possible using historical information from people known to suffered a similar fate.

It details some of the stories of Algiers and the Ottoman empire and how Europeans were enslaved by the Muslims who controlled the Mediterranean at the time and who targeted English shipping and later American shipping leading us to dispatch Marines to the shores of Tripoli.

In the end it describes the roundabout way that one of the pirates may have ended up on Manhattan and may be one of the founders of some of America's oldest monied families with descendents that may include people such as Kasey Kasem and Jon Voigt. Really a great story.

I'll have to check out some of these other books mentioned on this thread since history is one of my favorite subjects.
Opportunist in nature, Resource Control System in nurture.
I highly recommend Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.

And Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs :)
Ask HN: I need career advice to get out of tech
I need your advice on what to do. I've been working in high tech for way too long. I keep running into the same BS at different corporations about people currying favor for each other at higher levels and keeping others regressed at the "lower levels". I'd consider myself somewhere in the middle and am frankly tired of dealing with the disgusting politics of it all. I am tired of not contributing enough to society or using my skills for something better.

I have a lot of skills...without going into a Napoleon Dynamite quote or listing them all off, just assume that I can do almost anything in tech (architecture, marketing/branding, design, business, project leadership, team leadership, support, some dev, etc but not so much on finance, etc.). I have a lot of philanthropic experience using my skills to help people outside of tech. I'm persistent, intelligent, sociable and extremely hard-working.

I'm more interested in something where I can start my own business and invest time changing people's lives. I'd love to do anything where I can create a lasting legacy. It doesn't have to touch everyone, but the more the better.

Let's say I have minimum investment capital at under $10k but unlimited time, skills and connections to help me out. I'd like to be able to support a family and grow whatever I work on. Obviously because of the type of work that I want to do, I will be willing to accept a lower pay (at least initially) than typical tech.

What are some ideas that you can think of to work on? Anything is fine...I'd love for a brainstorming session or to hear if you or someone you know has had this mid-life crisis and how'd it turn out?
No-one is suggesting that they're idiots, though. The original argument is that Go designers are very conservative, and extremely averse to some language features that aren't even "new" anymore - not that they're unaware of those features or how they work.
It used to be a 5m HDMI cable from my workstation to my TV with super+p bound to output all to HDMI. Worked reasonably well but became cumbersome when I wanted to use my PC whilst playing media. Currently, I have a tiny Linux box running in my media unit with a Plex client and a Plex server running on my NAS to store everything. Everything is now controlled from a Bluetooth remote for the interface so it's generally pretty resilient. So far the only issue has been transcoding and playing back >1080p media, struggles a bit to keep up, but I suspect the atom in the NAS is as much to blame as the Linux box. Kodi/XBMC could work well in this case as a client as long as sharing was properly configured from Plex server.
Please married folk please tell me this ain't the case...

What, change?

Of course change happens.

I'm almost 40 and have been married for 13 years (and we've been together for almost 20).

In the last ten years I've learned to: ski, dive, rock climb, and backcountry hike. And while this stuff isn't my wife's thing, she's always supported me 100%.

So yes, change is inevitable.

How you change is up to you.
> But I don't like the rush to condemn the paper as "pseudo science" just because it has implications that the OP is uncomfortable with

It's Occam's Butter Knife.

> There are many behaviors we can predict about a person with a high degree of confidence just by looking at an image of him.

E.g., sexual orientation, as attested to by the research on "gaydar."
Disabled by default, but send a welcome email explaining to your users that they can enable this option to be alerted. For existing users, you can either send them an email or leave up a notification that they can close out, but read about those new changes. Depending on your app and if it is paid, you could also add in a text message feature, to be alerted.

Also give the option for a "per error" or "per error digest" and the digest will capture the last 10 errors and send them by email all at once. There could be some users who want to be alerted every time, but not giving them an option for anything else will make them not want to use it, so to at least be able to adjust the amount of emails is a far better option to get people actually using the feature.
Things to Use Instead of JWT
That kind of sounds like an ORM no?
The problem isn't that there isn't enough income to cover expenses.

The problem is that expenses have grown along with rapidly increasing income.

The two best explanations for this are:

a) Wikipedia has spent that money in ways that add commensurate value

b) Wikipedia is adding projects that sound reasonable, but don't add tons of value, in order to soak up the increased revenue (possibly unintentionally; intentions are irrelevant in bureaucracies).

It's not binary, of course. People who have a problem with that chart aren't saying Wikipedia has added NO value from the spend.

They're just noting that (b) is a very very common failure mode of large organizations that have easy access to money. In fact, I'd argue that it's common enough as the failure mode that the burden of proof should always be on the party who asserts that it's NOT happening, rather than the other way around.
Funding will not grow forever, neither would expense. There's no danger it would consume whole world's GDP and would require us to acquire an intergalactic loan from Arcturian Galactic Bank. https://www.xkcd.com/605/
The web makes it easier than ever before in human history to share your knowledge of a subject. Just make a web page and put anything on it that you want. Or contribute to any of the many online publications. It can even be a source of income. Why put up with the whims of some organization?
The host FS will only buffer compressed pages (so not double), but yeah.
Why You Shouldn't Take Your Hotel Soap
> You'd expect the same or lower satisfaction than women, but that's not borne out in the data.

Why would you expect that? Having options often decreases satisfaction.

If you have a good job that has a few frustrating downsides which situation would make you more satisfied?

A) You know all the alternative jobs are a lot worse. Better to try and improve the few frustrating bits.

B) You are constantly informed about other great job alternatives. And you know you get to keep a lot of the benefits of the first job if you do change.

Most often people in situation A will be more satisfied.
Looked good until I saw this "Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed."

How often is "needed"? That looks like a huge red flag.
Actually many argue that taxes were originally meant only for corporations and not personal income tax since personal income tax was not originally collected. The thought is the profit of those companies are being generated from the efforts of the citizens and corporations are not people. Instead of asking the people to pay more so the fat acts could keep more of the money the corps would fund the govt.
The article literally says, verbatim "...Date Your Digital Assistant." However, the only mention of a "boyfriend' is referring to Siri's deflection of such questions in a stereotypically Siri-esque manner. Even the current (now former) title, "Meet the $2,700 A.I. Girlfriend" suggests that A.I's are generally women.

- Cortana

- Alexa

- Siri

- Google Assistant

With the majority of the major players giving their intelligent assistants names that are most likely going to be associated with a woman, is it any surprise?

The real question is -- why are A.I. assistants conflated with women? I think you know the answer. In any case, this trend in "digital assistants" being named after women is no surprise, but disturbing nonetheless.
I agree. I'm sure it's much easier for Python 3 core language development to happen versus 2, but for a regular joe what carrots are there, or is it really all sticks?
Err, yours is an argument for men and women both having lower relationship satisfaction in marriage as compared to unmarried couples.

But you argument doesn't explain why married men and women have different levels, and definitely doesn't explain why men report higher levels than women.
Virtually every educated person in Europe speaks English.
> The issues with the Wikipedia editing UI are legion

Any existing UI can be analyzed to find a legion issues, no UI is ever perfect, especially over time and changing requirements. Wikipedia UI is certainly not perfect, and much work is to be done (and being done), but I would stop very far from calling the work that was already done "terrible".

> Clean house. Put the people who built Zotero in charge.

Err, I am having hard time making sense of this advice - why exactly people who built a reference management software must be running Wikimedia Foundation?
"Do you mean anything other than "stopped lending additional funds" here?"

That's the switch which they can use to turn everything off, but what is also prohibited is implementing policy to actually dig them out of this hole without needing additional lending assistance which you'd think the EU would be in favor of if being paid back were actually their goal.

>By whom? Where? When?

Pro-EU Greek judges, aided and abetted by opposition parties:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/27/greece-cris...

It's worth noting that not everybody in Greece is against Greece's harsh treatment - some are profiting from it, in fact.

Anyway, that was basically the only route out (issuance of a new parallel currency or tax anticipation notes) and it's telling that the ELA got switched off in the following few days and how furious many in the EU were that he actually had a plan to get out.

>As I said, Greece's treatment could have been a lot better, but this doesn't apply to the UK.

Greece's treatment is inhuman. The EU was directly responsible for triggering a humanitarian crisis not even to get their money back (that debt is clearly a lost cause since 2011), but simply to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

No, it doesn't apply to the UK. There are a lot of parallels though, mostly because the Tories and Labour's Blairites share a similar ideology to the ideologues at the ECB.

Greece's treatment demonstrates the depths the EU appears willing to sink to, however. Past behavior is indicative of future behavior.
When Ruby on Rails first hit the ground, I thought that I would try and learn it and get to grips with it. But even with 20+ years of programming background to my name at the time, I really couldn't feel comfortable using it, as much as I wanted to learn Ruby and a corresponding framework.

Then I tried playing with Sinatra, and completely fell in love with it. Made perfect sense to me, and seemed to fit my thinking and my concept of a web project a lot better. Now I exclusively build my web apps using it. Well, actually I use Pardrino [0], which is the framework built upon Sinatra. I wonder how soon they will have the Sinatra 2.0 core working with Padrino?!?

[1] - http://www.padrinorb.com
It's swings and roundabouts. Say I create an app or tool that happily resides in c:\proc\whatever then I turn my attention to creating a Linux version and specify /proc/whatever then ... boom? Sure, it's maybe a convoluted example, but for the creator of this "nul" package they got burned by something that's actually common knowledge in the MS world.

I think you need to be a wee bit pro-active and take a look at your potential deployment targets and try and guard against these types of naming issues. Unix and Linux aren't the only (one true) operating systems in the world.