skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat agree with that, but the big problem I see is credit and politics.

Guido didn't develop Python alone -- there are a huge number of equally talented and hard-working Python contributors. How do you determine what to pay each one of them?

You could give the money to Guido to redistribute, but now you have a huge political problem on your hands, and the possibility of slowing down the project through hurt feelings and the like.

There's really no good solution that I see. That's not to say that we can't improve on the status quo, though. Patreon seems like a good step, though I haven't used it.

It's kind of a hole in capitalism, but I guess human nature has evolved to fill that hole. Some people are just motivated to do huge amounts of quality work, for the greater good, regardless of compensation.

I suppose the idea is that by paying people, we could encourage more work that benefits society. But to play devil's advocate, maybe it would have the opposite effect? Those people aren't motivated by money. Maybe paying them would bias the work they produce... they would come up with stuff that seems more "saleable/donateable" NOW rather than being creative about the things we need 10 years from now.
To everybody posting about not working on a side project because of children, I would ask you to reconsider that if you're truly passionate about something and want to develop it. I've been working on a side project for a few years now. I also have kids and spend a lot of time with them. I've discovered that it's actually very beneficial to spend an extended time working on a project, and by extended time, I don't mean hours every day. I mean stretching the project out over years. For one thing, it gives you the freedom to reconsider solutions and approaches. Work is usually focused on delivering as quickly as possible. It's very refreshing to have the time to consider a problem thoroughly and let it play in your subconscious freely. Also, your kids need time to themselves too so there's no need to feel guilty. But to answer the question, I spend probably 0-15 hours per week, usually working at night after the kids have gone to bed.
Really?

I went to an interview 3 years ago. The only 'evidence' I have is the UI looks vaguely similar, and my questions about their security posture were met with non-committal answers.

If you knew about the industry, they could have rebranded somebody elses software, bought a previous version, lots of things.

Why would I hold myself to something that may be libelous, without the evidence the OP has?
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Anyone else reminded of Fucked Company? The website or the book :-)
Is it possible for you to throw up the contents of ApiService in a gist somewhere?
The title here on HN misses a really important word: "Project"

The title at the Intercept is:
"NYU ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED MILITARY CODE-BREAKING COMPUTER PROJECT TO ENTIRE INTERNET" (their caps)

The computer itself wasn't connected to the Internet, a backup drive was.

edit: title was updated
I work in a big retail company here in Brazil.

If you enter most of our stores with a phone in your pocket, you're being tracked. They track where you went, in front of what shelves you stopped and for how long, if you went to the cashiers of just left...

And if we track people here in the third world, you can be sure you are being much more tracked in first world stores.
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That's true but it shows that the current industry already is driving down costs to rock bottom and is a bad target for the Silicon Valley style disruption, especially when existing players will just copy whatever you do
Over 50 Google Play Apps Found Serving Adware, Warn Security Researchers
I think this is reasonable in some contexts but it depends. Often the configuration is done by a different person or in a different context than the development. The configure-er may or may not be a programmer and the deployment environment may or may not have xyz programming language available, etc.

The JSON superset aspect nicely supports spitting out JSON from a script when people want to do it that way.

HOCON is nice when for example you just want to sub in a couple of env variables or avoid a little cut-and-paste.
When you're making controversial decisions, it tends to help to be right.

But Canonical (and every other distro) are in a somewhat difficult position. UI isn't just an incredible hard problem. There's also a dearth of talent because the relevant people aren't a natural part of the OSS community.

And, most importantly, UI suffers tremendously from the bazaar-model of development. It needs someone with near-dictatorial powers, and excellent taste, who can control the complete user experience from init to shutdown.
QBserve is a great Mac app for time tracking and logging.
Thank you.

Knowing like most industries, the layers of ODMs and OEMs etc, it's hard to pin down who exactly is responsible for a security cockup. And, funnily enough, having an interview there I wasn't inclined to do a recce on their infrastructure. Also, not having a device, I didn't have endpoints or traffic to test.
This was my impression of the headline as well. The biggest issues had nothing to do with technology, but rather with people. I guess it's not as surprising/newsworthy to say "Airlines are letting their employees mistakes negatively impact their customers". And they seem to have made the conscious choice not to mention accessibility or PWD in the headline, perhaps because they figured the article would get fewer clicks from people who aren't interested in accessibility.

I wonder if websites have considered the impact that clickbait headlines have on people with disabilities. For example, someone who navigates a page with a chin mouse controller, or who has fine motor difficulties due to palsy, is probably even more frustrated by misleading headlines than people who can quickly open and close tabs. Not that this headline is strictly clickbait (certainly not the worst kind), but just a related thought.
So what you're saying is that you are an inconsiderate asshole.
"However little television you watch, watch less."

-David McCullough

Unless it's the HBO miniseries "John Adams", based on his book!
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One thing that can ease the pain of death is by probably discussing the benefits of it.

I wish people could sell their organs after their death. Putting grandkids through college or paying for the mortgage etc. could make it easier for people to talk about death.
> But you're seemingly only using that to suggest that there will be one impact (towards more flexibility / change). You're ignoring the other side of the sword: what if more experience only deepens our beliefs because of our hardwired cognitive biases? E.g. if its difficult to overcome 20 years of racist enculturation, then what about 200?

Ohhh that's a very good point. I hadn't considered that.
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My working model is that the President is there to be America's punching bag. Lots of Americans have things wrong with their life or feel they aren't getting their due; rather than fix this (which is hard, and often requires leaps of faith & commitment where you can't be sure of the outcome), they look for someone to blame. Who better to blame than the guy who is nominally in charge of it all?

The actual "government", in the sense of who determines how life actually goes on in America, is distributed across a web of key employees in major corporations and governments of all levels. These are not necessarily the CEO (who is often the shareholder's & employee's punching bag); rather, it's the anonymous guy who has been there his whole life, has a huge network of connections within the company, has developed a large degree of expertise in the business, and holds the trust of both the nominal decision-makers and the line-workers who do the work.

Witness how we've had 18 government shutdowns since 1976 [1], and life generally goes on during them. (Interestingly, most of them were during the Carter/Reagan years, lest people think government has gotten more dysfunctional recently.) Also observe how the President usually gets blamed or credited for the condition of the economy, which he really has very little control over. People want a figurehead that they can point fingers at; it's usually not the guy who actually holds the reins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown_in_the_Uni...
Does it really predict 'weather' to move forward or not?

I think you mean 'whether'.
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Broken Tulips: ‘That Last Gasp of Beauty Before Death’
With some small research, it looks like there is some bits and pieces around;

https://github.com/chendo/sense-api.cr
https://www.chameth.com/2016/04/10/sense-api/
"Exactly the same" only if you ignore everything about them that isn't consumer facing. Telcos are high-profit margin regional monopolies, whereas airlines operate at the margins and are fiercely competitive. Perhaps the only thing that can be said about them being similar is that they are high barrier-to-entry industries.
That's not a life hack thats deliberately lying to someone whose job requires them to accommodate you to sometimes great degrees. Like not serving peanuts to those around you.
Trumponomics: What it is and why it is dangerous
"tell them you have a peanut allergy and need extra time to wipe the seat"
Another often overlooked travel tip is that you can park in handicap spaces to save walking 10 extra feet.
there's also a little blurb at https://github.com/typesafehub/config#rationale-for-supporte...
I replaced programming with woodworking. I find it a lot more enjoyable after 8 hours of building software and 1 - 2 hours of administrative work to transition to building "hardware". My side projects are all furniture my wife or other family members ask for.
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The Intercept uses uppercase for all titles. This isn't emphasis, it's style. No need to carry that forward here.
So where are the documents? Not much of a story without them....
Automation and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity
Your #2 is illustrated well by the thoughts of Robert Pirsig (Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), and our need to switch to a knowledge-based mindset instead of a grade-based mindset.

This post explains it well: https://mic.com/articles/74727/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle...
Windows 10's new Timeline feature lets you resume apps on other devices
The future is beginning to look a lot like the worst parts of Ghost in the Shell, Minority Report and Brave New World combined.

But I would love to come back to this post in 2050 and be proven completely wrong!
https://books.zoho.com is international and has been wonderful for my project billing. I've been using it for ~2 years as a freelancer and have no complaints. I don't have any business or accounting education and I credit the design of the UI with helping me learn basic accounting principles.
Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More
Came here to post that link. RadioLab also did a good episode on the difference between what doctors vs regular people say they want in terms of end of life care: http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/
That was a Marketplace story[1] that the NYT ran. Marketplace updated their story in 2016 to point to the same study[2] this NYT article points to. The study says doctors do die differently than the average American, but not when you account for education and income.

[1]: https://www.marketplace.org/2013/11/19/health-care/new-math-...

[2]: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2482317
60 SaaS Directories and How to Get Listed There [with Infographics]
It's almost always just a geocoding/data format issue. It's machine readable but you can get quirks when an address is something like "1 1/2 Hacker Street" - is that "1.5 Hacker Street", "Unit 1 1/2 Hacker Street", "1 Hacker Street, Unit 1 of 2" etc. It might not be a problem if you are dealing with a small discrete area but when you are trying to merge multiple areas it can be a challenge.

Then you have situations where a street name is the same as the region/state (is the source data just missing attributes?), confusion about the direction prefix/suffix (1 W Hacker Street, 1 Hacker Street W - can vary within the same city on the same street), poorly named streets like "1 W Hacker Street East or "1 Hacker Street East W", or street name types that are not commonly used (1 Hacker Launch Pad etc).

It's even more fun when you start talking about countries that either use older addressing formats (I've seen addresses in Ireland that are just like (Old Blue Cottage, Some Town) or are not in english.

There are many more situations, these are just what immediately come to mind.
Not only that, it'll instantly mark you as a huge potential liability. It's like asking your future employer 'how solid are the whistleblower policies?'
I have a bunch of side projects. I spend about 5-10 hours per week on them, but usually just one project at a time. For example, one week I might spend 5 hours working on a Hamilton costume. The next week I might spend 8 hours working on my MUD, and the following week a few hours on my arcade cabinet.

None of my projects are really monetizable...
seems similar in goals to HCL https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl
but harder to write.
It took me a long time to realize that letting a hobby project last years is not a bad thing. I've even gone on spurts where I will put it down for several months and pick it back up later. Good code documentation and external documentation is a must.
Potentially a great idea. I have wanted to see data on the reasons startups failed.

One of the problems with this sort of thing is that it is not clear what the category of the failure should be. In a sense, the vast majority of failures is: no sales.

But is this because of "product-market fit" (they just didn't want it), or "customer acquisition costs" (couldn't get the word out), or "lack of runway" (can't get the word out fast enough).

That's why you almost need some hybrid of story telling and data so you can compare what Balaji Srinivasan calls "the idea maze."

I wish I could compare the series of decisions in some manner, and not just read it as a story.
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Most CDNs strip Accept-Encoding headers
>Still no cure for awful tearing every time I scroll in FireFox :-/

What GPU are you using? There are various ways to fix this, depending on GPU/driver. I'd suggest looking in the Arch Wiki, even if you are using Ubuntu.
No, not quite — their interconnects are very impressive. It's true that they don't make CPUs anymore, but that stopped making sense a long time ago. If you want to be a supercomputer company these days the value is in the interconnect and software.
Why not get a degree in computer science or software engineering if you plan on spending a couple of years full-time learning? Projects often include implementing an OS and a compiler.
A quick try show me that it's very very slow... Like 1s for a very simple query on a quite small database.
I tried from a scaleway server (in France).
What's wrong with art?

Absolutely nothing. It's great. The problem is that far too many McDojos are offering exercise while claiming to teach deadly fighting techniques. The problem is not the art, it's the delusion.
This is interesting, but I still find HJSON a better "JSON for humans format". HOCON seems to mix in things that better belong in the consumer, not the objection notation format.
Such abuse is why genuine, life-threatening allergies get trivialized in the public mind.
It's helped me a lot. I'm much more consistently doing self-care habits i've struggled all my life to do. Of course, I still struggle sometimes to do it, but trending wise i'm much better off than i've ever managed.

Thanks for pointing out the display issue, I'll push up a fix!
Richard Branson once suggested that "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."
>Putting grandkids through college or paying for the mortgage etc. could make it easier for people to talk about death.

It will also make it easy for rich leeches to force poor people into "voluntary" deaths, to improve the fortune of their remaining family members.
I think you are correct that most (Americans at least) don't know any cultural differences between Chinese cities unless they have a personal tie to knowing them, such as business or relationships.

And yet I was still taken aback when you described how little you know about California. I had assumed being on a site like ycombinator, which is arguably the most famous startup incubator, based in sillicon valley, the most famous startup hub, that you would know many globally dominant companies (uber, google, apple, facebook, netflix, twitter, intel, adobe, etc, etc) are headquartered/founded there, not just a few sorta successful IT companies.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Not this. x1.

Now if this were true, you would read these programs as you would literature. But you don't. Instead, you only use these programs as you would a tool and then complain when they don't do what you want them to do fast enough or reliably enough.

In literature, you have expectations but not certainty about the ending. Only with a bad tool do you expect anything but certainty about the ending. Indeed the hallmark of a good program is that you don't have to read it to know how it ends.

Another anti-parallel is that literature (literate programming) admires originality whereas good engineering admires plagiarism.
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Also see:

> Atreyu - The Crimson
How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small
Let me rephrase it in less condescending terms (or, more accurately, /different/ condescending terms):

Apple users want to get shit done, instead of compiling custom kernels to fix font rendering issues when using Wifi while headphones are plugged in.

"Pro user" means, for Apple, s/o using a computer to create something. It is not someone who's a professional at using computers, i. e. constantly optimising their 20+ USB gadgets and swapping hardware components.
I agree with your sentiment that people should talk about benefits to dying. But your comment really says a lot about where the United States is at as a society. Selling organs to put grandkids through college. Wow.
That's why I said your definition is flawed.

The point is to get work done, not do it all in a single window. you talked about "capability" as if because someone uses an external debugger you can't debug effectively or very well when using something like vim.

It's a flawed definition of effective.

When you use something like vim, the entire ecosystem is your IDE.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Please stop making this a Trump issue. It has nothing to do with him. As I stated, the threat from terrorism is so tiny as to be not worth mentioning under our current security status. The order itself is ridiculous beyond belief. You can still have phones, tablets or any number of other electronic devices than run on lithium ion batteries made into explosives. You wouldn't need much blast force in a confined space like an airplane cabin since the explosive pressure increases because of reflection. Simple solution to this ban, carry on two iPads.

The main point is I'm more worried dying on my daily walk around the block than this "threat" as the TSA has never stopped a would-be terrorist from boarding a plane.
Often times i don't give a damn about the content it sponsors. I'd much rather be able to do my business without being assaulted by ads, which often have little to do with reality, and often act as an alienating and dehumanizing force. It's very difficult to see the good.

I would rather have no content than ad-supported content. of course, nobody will ever offer that! You can't sell ads if people can opt out, and too many big players think they're the only way.

Thank gas station should have charged more or folded than sell you shit you don't want, won't want, and will never spend money on.
Many people comment here without reading the article, based solely on the title, so discussing the fact that it's inaccurate seems to be pretty pertinent.

> The Intercept uses uppercase for all titles. This isn't emphasis, it's style. No need to carry that forward here.

I didn't say it should be. I was explaining why the text I had posted was in all caps.
Great to hear. Looks great, I'm interested.
Demonstration of quantum advantage in machine learning
Seconded. It took me two years to build my current side project, and that's ok. I am no longer 20, I don't have to rush to do everything in an instant.

I also noticed that because of the slower pace I often avoid solving problems that can be bypassed altogether. When working at a frantic pace I'd often notice that I solved a problem that didn't really need solving.
This is happening to me at the moment, currently upcycling an old timber door into a bench

I find woodworking a lot more satisfying than coding. You can point to something solid and say, "I made that", and your family don't have to be technophiles to enjoy and appreciate it
Thanks, the last Canonical revenue figures I could find were the 2013 ones.
Uber hit by legal setback in Europe
Google Fiber is relatively small. Google itself was not a bad company when it was small ("don't be evil" and all that).
Appalled by the Illegal Trade in Elephant Ivory, a Biologist Makes His Own
You are correct. They never fixed issues #2, #3, and #6 (as stated under "Vendor response".) Any half decent resolver properly randomizes both ports and txid not using the predictable libc random(), but nginx developers have staunchly refused to do so...
Eagle eyed readers and veteran HN'ers will note that "Tara Ploughman" is an anagram for "Not Paul Graham."
Cool looking server rack doors.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a designer at IBM Raleigh. He showed me models of some of the server rack designs that he worked on at IBM for their super computers (I think it was Blue Gene). He said they had a bunch of CIOs that were upset after having spent ungodly sums of money on a fancy new IBM supercomputer and seeing it look just like all the other miscellaneous racks of servers in their datacenter when they went on a tour. So to appease these CIOs, they created all kinds of designs on the rack doors that looked like DNA sequences on the server doors so that you could 'tell' this cluster was doing gene sequencing just by looking at it and the CIO could proudly show off his new toy.
the cellphone comes into the country through the airport, but the information on the cellphone has no such physical barriers.