skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These new engine technologies are really cool if you enjoy driving performance cars, and it's amazing how it's possible to comply with EPA requirements while delivering so much power, but all these systems add a lot of complexity.

Direct fuel injection, turbos and fancy transmissions are the min technologies which make these powerful efficient cars possible, but they're all impossibly complex to service!

DFI leads to carbon fouling of intake valves, because port fuel injection "washed" fuel over the valves, cleaning them and burning up residue. Turbos are high RPM, high heat parts which have nowhere near the longevity of a modern engine, and there are lots of cars with 8 and 10 speed automatic transmissions to get every last bit of efficiency out of the engine.

All these expensive technologies make for less reliable cars that need more maintenances, and cars are much younger when scrapped because they're simply not economical to fix. Your local transmission shop won't rebuild a 10-speed auto, they'll buy a remanufactured one from a specialist, which costs many thousands.

It's a bummer for a weekend mechanic like myself, that cars are becoming so impractical to run for a long time. I consider it wasteful to scrap a perfectly nice ten year old car because of a bad transmission or blown motor, but there are increasingly more of these.
Exercising your memory is good for more than just passwords, you know.
Better or shorter?

Must-solve, long shot things like GPS, Internet, Modern Weaponry require resolve behind it to make it happen.

I am sure those programs had hundreds offshoots trying things out to solve problem, to see if it works, within the umbrella of that major effort e.g. GPS.

ROI measured in terms of money results in drug companies chasing chronic pills than cures. That need not be the only measure.
>For price rises to be the case, the economy must be both at full capacity and full employment.

Who's using intuition now? Stagflation in the 70's is a pretty jarring counter-example.

We're living in an interesting economic time where Keynesian policies seem intuitively more effective than Austrian economics. Afterall, the Fed has been printing money like mad for the last 20 years, and there's no worrying inflation to be found.

But there's an argument to be made that prices should be much lower than they are - that the scale of automation and globalization that we've seen has put enormous downward pressure on prices, and the currency devaluing effects of Fed monetary policy have put upwards pressure on prices without resultant inflation.

So we can still afford a loaf of bread without having to push a wheelbarrow full of greenbacks up to the register, but the problem has manifested itself in different ways. Most obviously in the growing wealth gap, where those who are most capable of taking advantage of the Fed's cheap currency (the financial industry) have gotten all of the gains from automation and globalization, while the rest of us are stuck with a devalued currency.
How so? In Chef:

notifies :reload, "service[caddy]", :delayed
Uber Threatens to Fire Star Engineer in Legal Battle Over Driverless Cars
Fair enough, I thought it had something to do with the portable aspects of the generator in particular.

I am of the opinion that oil should really not be wasted for things that don’t require very high energy density, unlike transportation etc. But setting up a coal plant seems like a project of entirely different magnitude.
The fact that other people don't like what you have to say means that you have to reflect on what you're saying? Maybe, but that only applies if you're seeking for approval. Many people are not, they want to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas regardless of whether some people with more than 500 points click the little downward-pointing triangle. And I think that's a better way to comment, rather than self-censure based on what a certain group of people like or don't like.
Sadly, the SEC is fairly correct on this one. At least in terms of the history of finance.

If you let companies raise either a lot of total money or a lot of money from one person the incentives to make a company are less than simply get good at raising money and then skim as much as possible. Then run for the hills or repeat.
Screen sharing is an important feature, but is video conferencing really necessary or even something most people want? I WFH, and my team has bi-weekly meetings, but we don't do video conferencing. I quite prefer phone calls to video personally.
Have you ever founded a startup? Did you spend your time working on features users will pay for, or an awesome billing dashboard (assuming billing is not your core product of course?) If so, how successful were you?

It's about focus. Only so many hours in a day, so many dollars, so many developers. If AWS got a nicer billing daashboard but Lambda was delayed by 6 months, how would it have changed the place AWS has in the market?

Yes you could take this too far and never change a light bulb. But I would answer "I will be more productive if I have a nice light bulb, so it is worth the 5 minutes to change it"
> Furthermore, the admins apparently disabled downvoting of comments, and detached strongly anti-slavery subthreads.

I checked that thread, and the detached subthreads appear to be either tangential or uncivil. I see little evidence of the pro-slavery agenda you allude to.
I think any charity would benefit from software. You just need to contact them and ask what is taking up their time and try and simplify the process.

Educational tools are also good investments of time, IMO.
> by running Caddy instead, I have one less piece to monitor and worry about

No, with Caddy you have several vaguely related pieces glued together with superglue.

> The way Let's Encrypt works, it makes a lot of sense to have the functionality be part of the web server.

I think this thread is pretty much proof that that approach will bite you in the ass.
It's pretty standard to go to the police for questioning when they can't/won't come to you. In the US you can assert your 5th amendment rights not to answer questions, but as far as I know Assange hasn't said he won't answer questions.
Because I could not find instructions or a description on the landing page, I do not understand why I would use nsz.one...And I do not really understand what nsz.one is.

Unlike a developer of the project, for me the landing page is the only source of information about the project I have as a user.

Good luck.
Jeremy Corbyn is similarly close to power and supports violence, particularly in the name of left causes, far more than the Conservatives. Here's a few choice examples:

https://capx.co/there-is-no-moral-way-to-vote-labour-in-june...

Edit: hi Momentum! If any of these are incorrect you're welcome to reply.
I think, while it may not be out of the goodness of Zuckerberg's heart, it's the cost of keeping the Facebook monopoly. That, and the $19B they initially had to fork out.
"Interesting that he mentions Elon Musk when his companies are literally kept alive by billions in government subsidies and contracts."

Your point would be stronger without this falsehood. Both SpaceX and Tesla could do business without subsidies and government contracts. There were times during the worst parts of the Great Recession when this WAS true (and both businesses benefited from the technology and general environment enabled by government investment), but it's not "literally" true any longer that they're "kept alive" by government subsidies or contracts. Most of SpaceX's are non-US-govt satellites now, and SpaceX doesn't receive launch support subsidies like ULA. Tesla would still sell a lot of cars without the EV tax credit (which goes to the consumer, not Tesla, by the way... and is a bigger proportion of their competitors' car value than their own). Both companies would need to pull back growth without govt contracts and incentives, but to say they are today literally kept alive is blatantly false.

And your false claim undermines your central point, actually. If innovative corporations need government subsidies indefinitely to literally stay alive, then government-funded innovation isn't competitive and all government is doing is propping up industries instead of making R&D investments that pay off in long-term growth.
That's a bit of a strawman. Caddy is far more lightweight than apache and even nginx. It just happens to do something they don't do.
WhatsApp is E2E encrypted. So even FB cannot read the messages. The encryption technology is an open source peer reviewed Signal system. Seems privacy friendly to me.

Telegram has Russian roots and their encryption system is closed sourced.

Am I missing something?
Join the Progressive Coders Network: https://www.progcode.org

There are a ton of projects you can jump on aimed at helping to get progressives elected and enact progressive policies. For those not familiar with progressive politics (or at least not beyond Bernie or whatever), the basic idea is to make it easier for people to get involved with government. For example, making it easier to to figure out which elections you're eligible to participate in as a candidate and/or as a voter.
I can't help but think that a lot of this desire is driven by the existence of far-flung suburbs and painful commutes. I was planning to work from home today to receive a delivery that now seems to be delayed, so, since I live within walking distance to the office, I decided to come in anyway.

I guess if I lived an hour away I'd have preferred to stay home.
Love these. Even after reading over the JVM spec, these writeups still show how much I don't know.
Companies that waste too much go out of business and are replaced by organizations that are more efficient.

Governments that waste too much suck up ever more of your taxes or go bankrupt and cause misery for all.
I had a manager that asked me to put summaries at the top of my emails. It was super effective.

I also label sections as to who they target (ex, when something is a technical explanation that not everyone needs) and add footnotes (with raw data and the like) when it's appropriate.

I'm a serial long-emailer, but I've learned how to interact with normal society ;)
I've used UI Router extensively with Angular, I really like it.
https://archive.fo/GfdgF
Tox is worth a look for peer-to-peer, encryption and DHT too.
Ehh, maybe.

Then again the Great Retail Apocalypse of 2017 may lead to to think otherwise. US retail is massively overbuild, most of that because the companies are allowed to take on tens or hundreds of millions of debt. This debt acts as a buffer "It's only bad now, it will be better soon, we promise". By the time feedback signals give a clear message that the investment will never be repaid investors are overextended and losses occur.
Go has always felt more like "a language created by Google engineers" rather than "Google's language" which Dart seems to be.

Compare golang.org with dartlang.org: the former does not mention Google in the front page at all, where the latter does.
the prince tshirt in the first photo is best
We've had the same realization, so here's a shameless plug about how we are solving it. It will improve but it's already a big leap from what was previously available.

https://www.ciscospark.com/products/spark-board.html
Support the people already doing important work - get away from the egocentric "tech will save the world" attitude that is so endemic to our industry. Just get involved and see where you can help.
Being Tory though it's got to be profitable for private business too; just providing blocking that's useful isn't going to keep the shareholders happy.
Honestly if I'd make a language, I'd take most thing that make C and python popular, to make something as simple as possible, and as similar to C as possible. All I could wish for is C with native features of python (dict, list comprehensions, libs like sqlite and xml...)

What I think is the most important thing for a language is that it must be easy to learn and read for beginners. There is no need to have advanced features for advanced programmers. Those guys will use other languages and their specific tools to solve their advanced problems.

A language is something that is "talked" by many people, so the easier is it to learn, the more people will use it. It is all about a low barrier of entry.

Just stop focusing on particular features or what you like about that X or Y language. Just imagine CS students and beginners, and make a language that let them write code and do their assignments.
Hopefully Mycroft (or similar open-source alternatives) can provide the benefits without all the privacy / behavioral modification downsides. But I fear open source products like this will always languish behind commercial offerings. Makes me think that the democratization of AI is very important in this regard (you shouldn't have to sell your soul to get good speech recognition, etc).
I would also like to mention the Humanitarian Toolbox
www.htbox.org/

The goal is to help humanitarian organizations solve technology problems with open source solutions. This excellent group of people are developing solutions to common problems like logistical, and communication issues that help improve humanitarian aid.

You can see the source code on their github:
https://github.com/htbox/

If you are interested, you can hear more about it by listening to Richard Campbell on this podcast and many others like it: http://www.podcastchart.com/podcasts/herding-code/episodes/h...
Most apps are much more ops intensive per unit of compute than what you describe, which makes paying cloud compute costs to offload some large fraction of the ops workload to someone else more worthwhile than it seems to have been for your app.

And even in your case, I wonder if it would have gotten off the ground if you had to deal with infrastructure up front rather than as an efficiency move after the basic applocation was built, up, running, and stable: even if the cloud was mostly useful for ramping new systems up to the point where the system was basically stabilized and the infrastructure and ops needs were clear and could be assessed at leisure and efficiently provided with dedicated resources, that would still be a huge role.
I knew C++, and went straight to Kotlin when I started Android dev. Haven't felt like I'm missing much with Java. Kotlin is often similar with nicer syntax; it'll prepare you to read Java just fine, and if you need to write java later, there's time to learn, then.
Something I recently heard on a podcast:

Teach Python to girls in Zimbabwe: https://www.zimbopy.com/become-a-mentor
Panama Papers explained
CIA malware system Athena
One of my good friends was rear ended by someone on heroin this week. Cincinnati police didn't even bother stopping to do a police report. Less than 20 minutes later, he hit a parked car in St. Bernard and was arrested for DUI, Driving under suspension, and no insurance. The guy has a felony charge pending (and an arrest warrant out for him)...and CPD just drove off without even taking a second look.

I don't want to say that CPD has taken a blind eye to it, but, it seems that way.
I tend to agree with you, but somehow seeing someone else say what I feel made me realize that this is the wrong way to think about the issue. Individuals can do exactly what they can do, and it isn't nothing.
Oh yeah, the whole government smear campaign theory. That a state could only muster "might have had quasi-consensual sex and not worn a condom".

That was the best they could come up with in a setup?
> So from the conservative conferences I've attended, the general sentiment is that people DON'T want an authoritarian government watching them.

May, as Home Secretary, made the laws that give the UK government 72 hours (IIRC) to read your personal email and 3 months to see all the subject lines / senders / recipients.

To be clear: I'm not advocating voting for Corbyn by the above.
I think it depends on the country too. Take russia and all the opposition candidates that end up dead.
Like I said. Amazing.
Yeah, I hate how the unemployment number is always so lazily used by media outlets. In contrast the employment rate (60.2%) is currently lower than it was from 1986 until 2008.
A record 107M Americans have car loans
Assange allegations dropped
Uh, because we are all collectively being fleeced by a ruling class extracting obscene amounts of wealth from our work without doing anything useful themselves.

Never fool yourself into thinking you'll get anything back from these vampires.
I'd like to get involved in this kind of thing in Melbourne, Aus. I'm already a campaigner, but hadn't thought of contributing in a technological sense! I think I'll get in contact with the others I know and offer to help out!

Cheers for the insight!
Webpack's HMR (hot reloading) of JS does work with create-react-app, but only if you use an external state store (like Redux), see [1].

The 'React Hot Loader' [2] module, which maintains local React component state is not included yet.

[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues...

[2] https://github.com/gaearon/react-hot-loader
Ever tried to code a robust Android app in Scala? It's a nightmare. Kotlin you just plugin and you can convert your source files very easily. I would agree syntax is not that much different but the compatibility is.
When it comes to cryptography...

then - like in a lot of other fields - it depends on your threat model.

Point is:

If your life or anything valuable really depends on provably strong encryption: you probably shouldn't use Telegram.

My rule for WhatsApp (one of his recommendations) however is even simpler: I don't use it if I can avoid it.
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A friend posted screenshots from the movie Spotlight, before the credits the list of churches and it got deleted for hurting religious sentiments. He tried to fight it but didn't win. The caption was just "something needs to be done about this"
Not true. You can use concrete to hold back a vacuum and cheap materials like a thin polymer coating, too. Remember, Hyperloop does not require an ultra hard vacuum.
Curious about the implied link between social-ness and creativity.. care to expound? I can think of several individuals who are highly creative but who prefer being alone.
This. We have had a horrible track record with tech volunteers, in part because our mission is not tech-centric, so they don't get any glory. It doesn't mean there isn't anything for them to do - it's just that the story isn't about technology ... or them.

There is a mountain of boring, yet critically important work waiting for people to just roll up their sleeves and pitch in.
I don't want to work from home, thanks anyway. Except on bad weather days.

Then again, I'm at a senior principle engineer level, and need to have face time with my VPs and directors in addition to other devs. I don't believe it would be possible to work at the level I'm at remotely, nor to be promoted to such a level. And my commute isn't horrid at ~25min.
Few days back I start investigating Kafka for our project. I was under the impression that it was all Scala. But downloading, setting up, and reading document I realized that a large amount of Scala API is deprecated and replaced with newer Java equivalents.
This is what AngelList essentially does with their newly launched AngelFunds platform. You back an operator (typically other entrepreneurs) as basically an LP and they invest your money for you: https://angel.co/angel-funds

It's different from AngelList syndicates, which have been around for awhile: https://angel.co/syndicates

With syndicates, you get access to the deal flow of the person's syndicate you support, but you still have to decide to back each individual deal and for how much yourself. It still takes some work on your end.

In case anyone's wondering... the benefit of a syndicate as a startup is that it allows you combine smaller investors into one combined entity on your cap table. If you were to just take a lot of smaller checks, you might end up with dozens, if not hundreds of individuals you now have to do paperwork for, collect money from and thereafter manage on your cap table indefinitely. Syndicates make the process much faster and easier to manage.

We did a syndicate for my startup, Tettra: https://angel.co/tettra

Using a syndicate we were able to add ~10 smaller angels to our round that we probably wouldn't have otherwise brought in. The interesting thing now too is that probably about half of those people are some of our most helpful investors.
You can see a list of rations from around the world here
http://imgur.com/gallery/BvExp9V
http://imgur.com/gallery/USkcw
Although mentioned near the end of the article, the beginnings of food canning are fascinating (if you're into that sort of thing): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning#History_and_developm...
So you are running a two person company? I think some of the issues with remote work come when the company scales up to 10+ people. Coordinating among multiple people becomes more complicated. The skill level of individuals start to vary. Something that could have been hashed out in 5 minutes on a white board takes half an hour.
There are a few ways to make opioids less addicting. The most common strategy is to slow down absorption rate, which reduces the conditioning associated with drug-taking behavior. This can be done mechanically (sustained release pills or polymers) or chemically ("tie" the active molecule with a deactivating group which the body hydrolyses) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369702116...
why do the Assange stories disappear from YC? Anyone? they keep getting removed...
One simple thing is to volunteer your time to build websites for non-profits, which I've done.

If you have time, you can also build a useful side project.

For me -

Youtube and Reddit give a lot of weight to popular content. If you're trying to learn new ideas, videos with conspiracy theories, popular speakers, and things people already know dominate search results / subreddits.

My project (https://www.findlectures.com) recommends high quality content, but across as much topic variety as I can find (discourages ignoring speakers based on demographics or them not marketing their talks well).
No. They are designed to reflect the job market. People not actively seeking work don't affect the supply of workers. There are separate statistics about participation.
23andme is a private company
Yup. I'm still sad about that.
WhatsApp is owned by facebook, the telegram team is not very loyal to the government, Telegram can send huge files. Telegram has end2end encryption disabled by default and it does not work across multiple devices. (How is whatsapp here? does it even have a Desktop Client?)

Your points still stand true though.
I can't link directly to the talk (or i can't figure out how...), but I enjoyed a short talk about this topic at shmoocon this year. If you go to this page:

https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon2017#

Then go to video 20 (friday night firetalks) and skip forward to 1:31:55 theres a talk called "You can do the thing".

tl;dw - Theres a lot of help that can be done by finding local orgs that you agree with, and offering to modernize their websites, help manage IT, and so on.
You're not communicating if people reflexively downvote you.

I'm used to expressing unpopular sentiments in many circumstances, but at some point if you want to communicate rather than troll you need to try to at least adapt the style to the medium.

Case in point, calling The Guardian "socialist" here will offend both a lot of Guardian readers and a lot of socialists (many of whom read the Guardian, but still don't find it remotely socialist), and yet it serves no purpose in the comment. It ends up drawing attention away from the point he tried to make (poorly).
Kotlin and React both on the front page. Anyone can give some compelling reasons why old Android devs like me should try React Native?