skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-topic rambling confounding art with the art industry. This is a website giving access to paintings.

Only insecure or needy craftsmen need the approval of some elite to feel like they're artists. Same with people seeing no value in art pieces and feeling rejected because some other people see value in them.
Why do you think data-handling is unrelated to the level of freedom in a country?

Please don't be so naive as to equate the UK and USA with Putin's Russia.
Not really $0.05 per month. There is a $10 flat charge on top for every pipeline you have.
Ronin is probably a good fit: "The application is a cross-over between Vim and Photoshop, where every change to the canvas is inputed as a command."

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/ronin
Yes, thanks to heroes like Ajit Pai and the hilariously double-speak inspired "Restoring Internet Freedom Act", we are continuing to lay the foundations for serious, widespread censorship.
Coolant on my Nissan Leaf is 75k miles. Reduction gear oil is just inspect; it's a single gear. Brake fluid is the normal 30k miles.
Isn't there a more scalable solution? I'm imagining reflective stripes at specifiv GPS positions, so satellites can
target them with lasers and measure the reflection. Too much refraction?
On a bail skipper "hiding" in plain sight in the middle of London? Absolutely. Why is how much money "they" spend even relevant? He skipped bail. He should be arrested and face the consequences just like anyone else in the same situation.
I think much of the original point still applies: Should I put mental resources into being perceived as 'not boring' or should I disregard all that and focus on doing what I do well? Maybe I catch a lucky break and somehow just have an interesting personality without having to do much, but then again, maybe not.

Recognition of one's work is a lot of the time a function of how 'not boring' you are, as well. Thus, if you do excellent work but don't advertise it, the next promotion will very likely not go to you.

This is, IMO, an inherent weakness in how humans perceive the world and I'm not looking for a fix, just a way to cope with it, since the injustice of it all sometimes really gets me down.
The coolant on a Bolt EV needs changing after 150k miles (http://imgur.com/7hF0Ijg). What gearbox?
Just spent an hour debugging why development scripts work but production doesn't.. Good reminder to configure some kind of notifications from AWS Lambda also when the execution times out, not just on errors.
Thanks for the links! Gunna have to check those out today. I've heard that many of the hot keys in VS are very similar to the ones used by JetBrains.
Driver education in the US is a joke and everyone treats driving as a right, not a privilege.

If we had far better education and mandatory retesting every 10 years accidents would drop significantly.
One method might be:

1. Implement a very simple version of the feature.

2. Show it to the users.

3. Ask for feedback.

Starting with plain text not JSON might be simpler. Plain text also might create more opportunity for discussion with users.

Good luck.
>Objections to work from home fall apart

Essays from workers like Jen McCown isn't going to work.

What works is to have massively successful businesses that beat the competition because their employees work remotely. Since no multi-billion dollar business has demonstrated that specific cause & effect, the idea doesn't gain traction.

Yes, businesses like Basecamp and Automattic have remote workers but I'm talking about significant business successes on the scale of Google/Apple/SpaceX/etc. If a remote workforce can demonstrate unequivocal superiority, there would be endless case studies about it in Harvard Business Review and every manager would be copying it like the Six Sigma craze a few decades ago.

What the WFH movement needs is evidence of massive business success instead of essays. So far, the real-world evidence just hasn't tipped the scales yet.
Will not happen until it doesn't have to compete with a free, paid-for-by-spying option. So only if a law's passed outlawing massive, intrusive data collection.
Ask HN: When is Bootstrap 4 going to ship?
Bootstrap 4 is forever in development. It still haven't came out of the alpha stage. Is there any deadline the community is executing towards.
If true, this is fine, as long as you are an engineer and talk only to other engineers. People from different backgrounds don't use email this way, though.
Most openflow controllers in their default setup are in reactive mode. The thesis of the paper is that the probability of an admin keeping the default setup is quite high (as it is for operating systems for example) and hence proposes a few techniques to reveal the controller. The logic is similar to that of nmap, no technique is individually sufficient, but combining all the techniques gives a good intuition about the controller
Thank you. I often find myself in subconscious denial ("oh, surely it's just a fluke and they'll get back on course soon") over news of the direction our British friends are headed, because of the self-affirming echo chamber net communities often form.

I've only ever sometimes heard (but fortunately tried to keep in mind) the fact that the reason for it is that it's not seen as dystopic by the British public, and that they're majority-for the changes being made. (Even though it makes perfect logical sense, the subconscious impulse of denial is still there without hearing "the other side".)

With that said I do hope your fellow citizens can be persuaded to see the value of the internet as an open platform. Censorship works in theory but I think what people want more is the ability for self-censorship; that and censorship of the whole are two radically different things.

If only adblock lists (content subscription in general) were a more common model. You could tell your neighbors they can just "not subscribe to those channels" without affecting others. Hmm
The use case I'm most excited about for Web Components are those producing reusable components (like YouTube embeds you describe). Building the same components for different frameworks no longer makes sense when you consider that you could publish a web component instead that would work out of the box with most modern frontend frameworks. I'm incredibly bullish on them now, and we're going to be turning Ionic components into WC's so we can work with all frameworks people want to use (because, there hasn't been one single framework that has "won" the frontend market)
"There is a story of mysql as a company who had an employee who was not reachable for a few months."

I couldn't find the story with some (brief) googling. What makes it different to "they didn't turn up the office for a few months"? Were they still getting work done?
I'd go with Java and the standard APIs at first. Kotlin looks very similar to Java just less verbose (I have not used it) and they say that you can mix it in with Java if you like.
This is nonsense. Body language, tone, empathy: all are crucial to successful communication between people, even engineers, even technical communications, believe it or not.
That's exactly why I liked Brave New World more: it's our own vices that do us in.
I'm not sure how long it's going to take for people to realise: the government is not your friend. They don't want to help you. They want to control you. You are their property. You are registered and you are farmed. Like animals.

Ask them nicely to stop, and they well smile back and reply 'think of the children'. Behind their dead eyes are the schemes used to enrich themselves at your expense. Rule after rule applied. Each more insidious than the last.

Welcome to dystopia. Enjoy your stay.
You're banning my account because I had the temerity to ask you to back up your claims, including the deletion of another poster's comment then falsely claiming he "lashed out" at someone in it.

Who you're trying to kid, other than yourself, by pretending otherwise is anyone's guess, but if I'd genuinely been badly violating the rules for quite a while, why was I only banned now, after posting something to you that you're unable to answer?

As for "repeatedly accusing others of being Nazis", now you're not even trying. That's simply a blatant lie that anyone reading this before you delete it can verify is false merely by checking my posts.

The only time I've even called someone a "Nazi sympathizer" is WRT an actual Nazi sympathizer, in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962943

As I say in that thread:

Just as Holocaust denial isn't *literally* saying the Holocaust
didn't happen, being a Nazi sympathizer is not about shouting
Sieg Heil, it's about picking away at small things here and
there. Minimizing or ignoring the crimes or victims of the Nazis
(which cyberferret did), emphasizing the offences of the Allies
(which cyberferret did), posting misinformation and/or lies
(which cyberferret did). All textbook far-right/neo-Nazi tactics.

cyberferret posted lies straight from the David Irving school of Nazi atrocity denial and was upvoted by the resident far-right crowd here at Hacker News, who, as all crybabies do when they lose the argument, also started flagging posts they don't like, to be rescued by the mods.

My correction of him - using facts taken from his own link that he hadn't even bothered to read - was downvoted, and I was attacked by the mods for calling him what he is, just as you're doing now, in line with the far-right bias of Hacker News.

Another example of that far-right bias - that I'm not the only person to have noticed or remarked upon - is mentioned in the same thread, where you or some other mod deleted an entirely civil undisputed historical fact:

"Maybe we should also remember that most of the people who signed this document owned slaves"

because it had so many upvotes it couldn't be buried in downvotes by far-right racists here.

This is the site you're running. Apparently you're not ashamed of it.

Thanks for reminding me.
> How have Swedish and UK citizens, [...] helped Snowden or Assange in any meaningful way in all these years?

Well, since I believe he's guilty of rape I have no interest in helping him.
Nothing against letsencrypt but dependencies on services to be online is fragile and will break. Their 90 day limit makes it worse. Saying its for security is like saying 1 or 3 year certs are somehow insecure which is not the case. It's one more headache for an admin to think about even if automated.

We really should reexamine the CA system. Self signed certs should have more value than they currently do, and identity can be verified by out of band methods. Surely it's worth exploring.

What we have now effectively disempowers individuals and centralizes essential services which cannot be good in the long run.
My current ISP (ask4) doesn't filter any of the sites that they're supposed to. I can't comment on the history collection, of course. This is not a recommendation of ask4 however - the connection is relatively unreliable and slow/oversubscribed.
Interestingly with censorship being such a sensitive topic in China, it's hard to find statistics on VPN usage rate. I will just say that I'm a Chinese citizen who visits China regularly every year. My impressions can't be too far off from the actual stats.
I wonder what's her stance towards the Great Firewall? This seems like the first few steps towards building something similar to it. It's quite scary to think that governments are slowly becoming more like China recently.
In making this argument to personal friends I have heard several times, "Well what about tow trucks? They have the right to enforce contracts on private property and they aren't officers of the law!?"

The answer is that there are existing federal statutes in place to allow this. They are controversial and often challenged. Tow truck drivers operate in a grey area of the law and are frequently found to be in violation of the law. I would hope that the BBC values their operating license more than my local tow company.
CA is a big market, so harder to write off; Rhode Island is easy to write off.

There are certainly differing opinions on what constitutes animal cruelty and is moral or immoral [e.g., killing and eating them]. So what is "right" is not so clear cut.
No, because Google dropped huge announcement that Kotlin will be first-class citizen on Andorid. And there were people who like Kotlin, but knew it will be hard to use it in real life. They are happy now and having a moment. With time this wave will decrease, and something other will come. That's normal.
Yup. The goal of TGF is suppression, not complete shutout. By most accounts it unfortunately does a really good job of that.
What are you talking about? Here's the official maintenance interval for the Bolt:

http://i.imgur.com/gU4FfdY.png

It calls for tire rotations every 7,500 miles - not a lot you can do about that, and I suspect tire wear will be worse in a torque-happy EV. Skipping them will only reduce your traction, which I suppose could damage you and your car. And of course you have "required services" like brake pads when those wear out and start to squeal; probably less common due to regenerative braking from the electric motor: Engine braking is a habit that takes work with an ICE, but it's the norm in an EV. And you might want to change the cabin air filter when it gets dusty - not that my vehicles haven't gone...a long time...without cabin air filter changes. Skipping them won't damage your car, just your nose. But fluid flushes? Hardly necessary.

Coolant only needs to be changed at 150,000 miles - hardly "regularly". Most ICE cars don't need changes at less than 100,000 mile intervals. In an EV like the Bolt, coolant deals with a lot less heat than an ICE and doesn't suffer microscopic contamination from hot exhaust gasses and oil.

And the Bolt doesn't have a transmission; it's direct drive. Gearboxes (I assume you mean manual transmissions?) typically take synthetic gear lube now with recommended intervals of 200,000 to 300,000 miles. Differentials use the same stuff. I did elect to change the differential fluid in my Jeep at 250,000 miles - but those diffs are taking a lot more abuse than a typical car.
I've always looked for companies that offer flexible working options. My employer has a default of being in-office but allows for flexible hours (like working 7 - 3, or splitting my day) and allows for occasional remote work. In return for this benefit I end up working more. Days I would have taken off for appointments, obligations, extremely bad weather, or mild illness I end up working remotely.

I also find that days when I work from home tend to be more productive - no pets and no family means I have no distractions at home, I can just sit and code all day.
I work at an organization with four geographic locations that also allows for 'telework' a certain number of days a week. It moved to this model a couple of years ago.

Even if you come to the office, your team may be on the other side of the country. The roles range from sysad to developer to research.

What I've noticed is that people figure it out. They create ways to communicate efficiently, they find the right tools to solve their workflow issues, and they ultimately are as productive as they'd be in the office cube farm together. Sometimes more so, since working at home gives you the ability to focus more in addition to the creature comforts that make your quality of work life that much better.

Anecdotal, perhaps, but relevant to the conversation.
how is that headline not slander, false advertising or sumsuch?
After years of planning, Amazon gets serious about delivering your medicine
I agree with you (esp. on YAML being a poor base for DSLs), but I've found that Chef has the best documentation out of all of these tools. I used to recommend Ansible as the CM tool of choice but lately I've been digging Chef. Installing agents isn't ideal, but managing control servers isn't a panacea either and Chef can run in solo mode just fine. Additionally, if you use Packer or Terraform/Cobbler/RackHD for managing buildouts, installing and staging Chef isn't that hard; it's actually quite trivial
Can we take into account some really big open source projects?
I don't like the "SJW" metaphor, but that said, there's really nothing to choose between those so described and their opposite numbers on the other side of the Assemblée Nationale. Different as the ends they profess to prefer may be, they eventually converge upon very similar means. Those of us with qualms about consequentialism find this unsettling.
Historically the Android platform provided only a very minimal C++ runtime support library, with no RTTI or C++ exceptions.
>>If you eliminated cars completely tens of thousands would likely still die in the US from transportation accidents. But now you've trapped people and forced them to live close to work, do less traveling, and live crappier lives.

>>Automobiles provide freedom to choose where you want to live and work. They are cleaner than ever and getting cleaner every year.

I think you're still ignoring the pollution deaths and massive negative external effects the automobile has on society, especically on those who can't participate in an auto-dominated society. The waste is colossal.

Automobiles provide freedom if you're luck enough to not be young, old, poor, disabled etc. Why do we want to design society around excluding huge groups from mobility, when bikes, effective public transit and walkability can open up our country to everyone?
Theresa May to create new internet that would be controlled by government
I think what the article is trying to say is that employers' arguments are more often bullshit than legitimate (and obviously, both sets of employers think their arguments are legitimate), so usually they should just give it a shot.
Text is the least efficient of all forms of commutations.

How long to write a long email? How long to speak to someone?
I don't follow your logic.

The vast majority of businesses aren't like Google or Facebook. The vast majority of the nation's GDP isn't created by companies like Google and Facebook. Hundreds of thousands of businesses are the size of Automattic, Basecamp, or smaller. Those businesses employ the the vast majority of workers. Therefore, Basecamp and Automattic are excellent role models.

Unequivocal success does not mean the same thing as Unicorn. A sustainable and profitable business of any size is an unequivocal success.
The only way this is even possible is if someone is willing to allow work from home while simultaniusly having a hugely successful business.

Usually when you're on your way to being successful, you hire MBAs to do your people management and those people are the ones suually vehemently opposed to remote work.

Chicken and Egg problem.
Thats right, forgot google io stuff is going on, makes sense. After a apple keynote we see ipad and swift flooding to the top.
I took Japanese in college, and the worst thing wasn't the writing system, vocabulary or grammar. They were hard mind you, but far from impossible, nothing flash cards couldn't fix.

What was (and is) very hard for me is how (in general) the bulk of Japanese communication happens in what is unsaid. Even trying to work through patio11's Stockfighter course, I found it very hard to 'read between the lines' in what he was saying to find out what I was supposed to do. I also have zero low-level programming experience, so that probably didn't help.

I hope Duolingo mentions this and has training for "what do they really mean", as trusting what they say at face value seems like a good way to cause an incident. This may also be useful in understanding American Southerners or cop dramas, where direct communication is strictly verboten.
> I personally like to have the option to work at home when necessary and i might get more stuff done at home i also might just not work.

I might just not work at the office either.
If you use one of the myriad of automated tools for using LE, you will get your cert renewed as early as 30 days before it expires. So right now the issue should only be with new domains getting certs.

If you renew LE certs manually, first what is wrong with you and don't you like yourself? Second, at that point it's no different than NameCheap going down and you getting your cert from 1and1 instead.
My sibling is correct, but also, there are grammar issues with doing it that way. They're not insurmountable, but much, much simpler with the let.
I don't disagree about CAs, but LE suggests to renew certs every 60 days. So unless this outage lasts a month or some acme tool is poorly made it shouldn't affect anything except new registrations.
Is it just me being in my dotage, or does anyone else feel that websites that override my "open in new tab" action to force their tab to the top of my view plus tout their app should be taken out behind the shed and shot?
Completely agree. Often times the emotion is even worse over email or IM - I've seen people (engineers) be a lot harsher and a lot less receptive to alternative ideas over a text medium than they ever would face-to-face.
> Meanwhile, in the US, tow balls are extremely uncommon, and I don't think I've ever seen small trailers for rent anywhere.

They may not be as common but are still common. Many people have hitches on their cars. You're correct that there aren't a lot of places that rent small trailers but you can rent trailers small enough to tow with a car for $20/day from Uhaul.
I just started trying to pick up Android development in the last few weeks. I'm comfortable with Java from college, but don't really keep up with it or the ecosystem. Should I consider Kotlin for learning the platform with, or are the docs and learning resources Google provides not up to speed yet?

Note: I'd eventually just use Kotlin anyways cause I don't care all that much for Java.
I really don't like where these manifesto pledges are going, and there isn't really much we can do at the moment to stop a Tory majority, going on the current polling numbers (yes, I know polls can be deceiving).

I think the only way we can combat this in people's minds is to come up with concrete examples of how it will adversely affect their privacy or daily Internet routines.
I believe that someone who eats chicken is less cruel than someone who enslaves and tortures an elephant for several decades.
Yes it is true but to be more productive we need to distill it down and filter out the unnecessary emotions .. we often find that people are more civil and get to the objective faster over chat and phone than when they meet on person.
Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
Directory Report is also faster than WinDirStat, and
It can create more reports
"average home internet connection" is varied factor. Were I live there's no problem with HD streaming, but working from home is still an exception not the rule.
They challenge the long-held idea that people on the internet are capable of dealing with things they don't like or the government wouldn't like them to see. They also remove the need for there to be a victim of a crime.

I see a lot of discourse on the internet in the same way it happens in a pub. There are very little boundaries to the beliefs someone admits to sharing, and presence of a regulator to check that nothing illegal is being discussed doesn't sit right.
Photographing a Formula 1 with 104-Year-Old Camera
I hate to say it, but the favorite tool of marketing types is still Excel or Google sheets. If your data is a good fit with CSV, customers will have an easy time consuming it.
Facebook Messenger upgrades encrypted chat feature
I think LE is a huge boon to the internet. But I would really love for someone like Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Microsoft to set up a separate provider that implements the same thing. Redundancy is super important here and clearly just one organization can't guarantee 100% uptime.
The only exception is OCSP data. If you're stapling, I think that lasts a week, but I'm not 100% sure.

Anyway, in either case, your site should absolutely be able to weather CA downtime like this.
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