skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page appears to have about 70 characters on a line:

>>> len("which is nothing more than a simple login page (seems to be for Google")
70

This is within the generally accepted guidelines for line length:

https://www.google.com/#q=characters+per+line

The bigger issue is, I think, font size. I could imagine that on certain displays this font might look rather small.
$200,000 crowdsourcing competition for HTML5 developers
Ha! Why in the world did I type that? A good car to see the progression of weight is a that hasn't changed market segment like a Porsche 911. Car&Driver did this up through 2011:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/porsche-911-generations-the-leg...
It is not. Users subscribe and they receive a mail informing them that the Scan will be launched shortly. Once the scan is over the user receive the scan report on his mailbox.
This is the service we provide...
Back in the day Usenet was regulated by people complaining to admins or upstream admins. Students would get tempbans for being trolls, people's bosses could be involved. The web of trust between admins who just wanted to keep it all running meant that they policed their users a bit. And it was a lot more civil until we hit Endless September and AOL.

I'm not sure I think this idea of the BBC's is a bad idea.
I wanted to implement this as one of the first things while doing an online portfolio thing for art students. This and mailing lists. Sadly the company didn't make it that far.
1/3 of avoidable deaths is not insubstantial - and traffic accidents aren't the only harm done by autos.

Add in an estimated 53,000 deaths in the US due to transportation emissions.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231013...

Potentially millions killed by auto emissions worldwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/dec/17/pollutio...

The leading cause of death in the US for people under the age of 25.

This isn't even considering the massive amounts of secondary pollution via production and maintenance of vehicles, the enormous land use and sprawl costs (financially and environmentally), harm done via driving induced stress and sedentary lifestyles.

Cars may be getting safer on those who can afford to be on the inside, but for everyone else outside they're a nightmare. Our climate, resource and many of our social problems are not going away as long as we center society around the car.
is it just me or is the conversion really fast? no lag. what's the backend?
Just wanted to add that bitL vision is the actual truth even if the cynical aspect has been singled out.
What bitL describes is the single most important factor in career advancement for a lot of software companies I've seen.
Yes, sorry about that, that is the corresponding talk to the slides. Thanks for pointing that out.
Take care of your health. Sitting long hours damages your spine. I learned this too late.
I think that exists! It's called a vulnerability scanner. Maybe they could be smarter.
Besides it being a great and no-BS talk which I very much recommend, I think the title is a bit misleading.

The talk does a good job explaining how to identify PMF (i.e. how to tell fake PMF apart from real PMF), but unfortunately doesn't do much explaining on how to find it.
I assure you this is a real launch... This is indeed a one page website, but the service we provide requires only that for the moment.
Once the user subscribe, he will start receiving the scan reports on his mail box...
ADHD sucks. I have it, too, and I somewhat solved this problem by moving into R&D, where they pay you for ideas directly. But these fields are rare (quant finance is one of them).
`val` is never an appropriate name for a variable because it tells you nothing at all about what the variable contains.
Can we get a shift + Enter to submit the main chat text field?
(1) The FCC exists (almost?) solely to regulate private and not public entities.

(2) There's no evidence that local municipalities running infrastructure and allowing telecoms to compete on services instead will reduce competition. It will likely increase it by lowering barrier to entry, as you can see all over Europe. Can you cite evidence of municipalities refusing to allow fiber installs? I did a lot of research and found nothing. I've only found the inverse, private companies lobbying to prevent municipalities from running fiber. [1]

(3) This kind of regulation is exactly the purview of the FCC. That's why they have a Title I and Title II. They already impose this exact kind of regulation on landline phone companies.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/02/03...
Oh but they can.

If you start a company with two other founders and agree to a 1/3 split each, or 33,000 shares. After a month you get bored and decide to let them make it a success, quit the company and tell them to wire you your third when they finally succeed.

In that case they can issue 1 million new shares immediately to themselves, and with very little tax consequence. It's a one month old startup, worth close to nothing so they can make them options costing a few pennies a share to make it fair and legal with no tax consequences .

In the case where you leave with a sale or investment pending, it gets much trickier. The shares have to be priced at fair value. If the company is about to sell shares at $15 per share, new options for the remaining founders can likely to be priced somewhere around $1-$5 per share since they will be common shares, not preferred shares like the ones being sold. They can be fairly valued much cheaper because won't have the special rights of preferred shares, and should be less liquid.
Women are doing pretty amazing at biology these days!
> my 2001 ford ranger 4x4: ~25mpg

The 2001 Ranger 4x4 got 17 city / 22 highway mpg, and that was only for the manual transmission
How will you scale (if intended)?

Why I ask: Wondering if bots or customer support staff can really support this use case.
Besides temporal tables, I want temporal materialized views. I needed such a thing so much so that I implemented such a thing in PlPgSQL: https://github.com/twosigma/postgresql-contrib/blob/master/p...

This lets me materialize a view and then inspect deltas between refreshes, with history, and even update the materialized view from triggers and have those changes recorded in a history table automatically.
I have a deep affinity for chess for economic reasons.

In 2002 when I went to prison in Florida for 22 months, playing chess for $1/game was my "hustle", and it allowed me to eat really well at a panhandle camp that was well known for its terrible chow.

Also, a rather odd but very beneficial side effect of my play came into focus...my chess ability seemed to convey a certain status to me by old timers on the yard, and assigned to me a certain "respect" level that basically kept me rather safe during my entire stay.

I'll admit...I wasn't always totally virtuous while hustling. I often lost to players in the beginning as to set the hook for future games and profitability.

The most interesting part is that, in reality, I kinda suck at chess in the real world by my own demanding standards.
I found a bug in wickr where I can re-read "deleted" messages.
I submitted it, answered their teams questions about reproducing it.
A couple of weeks later, they said they can't fix it and didn't pay me :(

I got all my wickr contacts to switch to signal, which is much less buggy...
I was a staff scientists at a national lab (titled "Computer Scientist", but at the time, I was a biologist that used computers). We had plenty of people in LS (there are several divisions dedicated to biology). It grew a ton over the past few decades (true for all the labs). There is a modest difference in pay between a Staff Scientist in the Life Sciences Division and a Computer Scientist (doing life sciences) in the Computational division, but that's mainly explained by the fact that we had to compete with Silicon Valley to hire. Also, both CS and life sciences aren't hard funded like physics is (at least at LBL, dunno about others).

I suppose what I'm saying supports you, in that I had to specifically be titled CS to get the higher salary. I would agree that in general, life sciences wages are depressed, but then, there are far more people in life sciences than CS, but much more demand for CS, and CS people bring in more dollars/hour (in terms of company revenue in the case of a biotech vs. a SV computer company). You can't fix that without making structural changes.
Could a union be run as a direct democracy? Instead of a strike fund just verified segregated savings?

There are much better tools for group discussion and voting.

I feel like most employees would benefit from some form of collective bargaining as most employers present boiler plate agreements where your only choice are yes or no.

Edit: on second thought you'd probably get a lot of protectionist, xenophobic policies. Bye bye h1b, hello arbitrary certification requirements. The incentives of those in the union are for anticompetitive policies. I'm not sure how this can be avoided.
Money and talent certainly help, but the grad student/postdoc model also locks people into a certain kind of project where most of the work is done by 1-3 people over 1-3 years, with some extra bits done here and there by collaborators. This gets you a lot of underpowered experiments, bad analysis code, and tons of reduplicated effort as people scramble to finish up, publish, and move on.
Postgresql has compression by default on, for all large text and other large fields that get great benefit of compression. From documentation -" The technique is affectionately known as TOAST (or "the best thing since sliced bread"). "-
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/storage-toast.htm...
I think you might misunderstand the statistic. He's saying one out of every 70 deaths. If there were only 70 deaths a year, one would be from a car accident. Far more would be from
suicide, cancer, and heart disease.
No, you see - in the United States it is assumed that any towing or work activities must be done with a truck.

I am not exaggerating at all when I tell you that the minimum acceptable size for this truck is larger than most freight/delivery trucks in European cities.

Here is a completely normal, totally average truck that millions of people in the US use as a daily driver and have on-hand because they occasionally buy some boards at the hardware store:

http://blog.sfgate.com/topdown/files/2015/09/the-14-most-aff...
Does anyone know the official docker image for Kotlin or are we too early for that?
It's not a fugue-within-a-fugue texture. But it is a fugal exposition within a larger fugal exposition, both in terms of harmony and phrasing. That's important because it is the larger exposition which sets the pacing for the following sections of that opening movement.

It's also important from the standpoint of musical drama. Imagine someone tells you a story and gives you the essential setting in the first 17 seconds. Then over the next 10 seconds they begin to describe what sounds like the story's rising drama. Now you have an expectation for the form of this short story, and you start to listen more intently.

However, they then begin laying out another, closely related setting followed by its own little internal conflict. Finally this leads to a description of a setting that sounds like an intensified and more detailed version of the original setting. Only then do they finish the actual exposition of their story and move into the rising action.

At some point in all of that you're going to get the sense that this is a much more involved story than you had initially anticipated. You're also going to anticipate that the rising action itself is going to last a lot longer than 17 seconds.

That's a fitting dramatic arc for introducing the listener to the subject matter of St. Matthew Passion.

Also, to better answer the question about listening vs. analyzing notes: I just sang the opening melodies to myself to get the durations for the analogy above. I originally got the idea about the exposition-of-expositions walking somewhere and being struck by the relative brevity of the fugue subject compared to the gravity of that movement. (As well as the fact that the entire inner exposition reappears twice later in the piece, which AFAICT never happens in any of the other music Bach's wrote.)

There is of course a long-standing debate over music for the ears vs. music for the eyes. But I don't think this falls into that at all-- everything I'm describing can be heard and weighed with a musician's ear in the same way an experienced coder can make an assessment that some code "smells", etc.
Could someone kindly explain the thought process behind the downvotes, or why I actually am not correct? I thought I made a fair point and did it in a way that is illustrative of my thinking. Could someone respond with a critique of my analysis, if it is not accurate? Thank you. I'm certainly often wrong.
If there's an affordable, reliable car that performs well that's better than what Honda and Toyota have to offer, I'll sure as hell buy it. I don't care if its a Chevy
The sooner you accept and acknowledge that you can't find an entire project's code in your head, the sooner you can start incorporating that awareness into the design decisions that you make.
Try to look at it from a user's perspective: no information about product or provider, just a few words and a card payment form. Have you, or would you, ever provide your card details in such circumstances?
There is always a big political fight in my city when new apartments are proposed. These apartments would be immensely profitable for the developer, but impose externalities on the city and it's residents. Should we have to accept more congestion and traffic jams in a city that has little, when there is thousands of acres of open land that can be built on less than 10 miles away?
This looks very useful. But it's not clear to me what a "topic" is. Is it a single question from beginning to end? If it dragged on could it become a new topic? More clarity with this would be great!
Out of curiosity, did you find that the draw of chess changed at all after you left your program?
Is that related to the cool "hash compression" technology I hear about? Apparently it can compress an arbitrarily large file into just a few bytes, amazing!
Wal-Mart sales get boost from online growth, customer visits
This is (probably) the link: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d...
Ah yes, that little loophole.
Hah, so will you tell us the company? Sounds like some of us should be applying there... (though it did seem to make you not want to stay and be a developer there?)
Not toys, think more along the lines of art dolls. They aren't for kids, they cost anywhere from $$$ to $$$$ a piece.
From the guidelines:

"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs"

The only way to try out your service is to hand over card details.
You do the development on your computer, then deploy it to Azure. See this example:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/get-started/as...

The CPU minutes/day come from serving your site's HTTP requests and the like.
Thanks for the feedback!

There's actually currently an AB test where we remove topics. It seems that most people are confused by this, and it created a strange flow in the conversations.

A topic is basically an entire chat engagement, end-to-end, with a specific purpose.

As I said though, we're looking to gain data right now to possibly remove them. Appreciate the thoughts!
I'd draw a distinction between matrilineality and matriarchy, I think.
The most important (to me) thing about logical replication is that with it I can have additional schema elements in replicas. This is important for some use cases where one uses another group's DB and needs to add schema elements that the other DB's admins do not want to host (e.g., because they might think them risky) or where you don't want to have to be constrained by the other DB's maintenance schedules (e.g., for updating your schema elements).
Fascinating - why does a strongly worded letter from a 2% shareholder prompt layoffs and major changes within hours? Like if the board believes they are doing OK, or that perhaps it will take a longer time for their current plan to payoff and reflect in revenues, can they not communicate that and continue? 2% isn't enough to force any decision.
Move shift to spacebar (use spacebar for spaces also) and you're all set!
I also provide private career advisory/coaching and resume services to many in the tech sector, and I'm a mod on a Reddit sub that answers compsci career questions (r/cscareerquestions), so this caught my eye.

The biggest question I generally have with services like this is "who is providing the advice?". We have an issue in our Reddit sub, where there is little transparency (obviously due to anonymous accounts) as to whether your career advice is coming from someone with twenty years of industry experience or an intern. I think the source of the info is relevant, as the recipient may want to weigh the advice based on the source's experience.

It appears Boost is using some AI that might automate some of the response, which will hopefully provide some good answers and perhaps have a few kinks with advice that doesn't quite apply.

As a bit of advice for the founder (saw you commenting here), perhaps a bit of info on the source of the advice would be useful to users.

Best of luck with the service, and feel free to reach out.
When did "spend" become a noun?
You type "->" faster and easier then "to"?
Hey there! We're looking to scale this in a similar way as Facebook M -- where our coaches on staff have control over specific bots with specific purposes, and can leverage an entire world of data/knowledge to quickly craft personalized responses.

At $59/month, unit economics should work as we develop better tech. But for now we're certainly prioritizing quality over speed. :)
Shift+Enter is usually reserved to make a new line, wherease command or ctrl+enter is used to submit.

Does that work for you?
I understand your concern. And clearly we should have communicated better, but having the link flagged while it is on the HN homepage for our launch seems a little bit excessive.
microservices.

most of our microservices are backed by relational database and writing RESTful Apis for all our consumers with different data requirements is a lot of work. GraphQL requires some extra effort initially but you don't need to keep going after every few weeks because some consumer need something different now.
The e28 M5 is more comparable to a 1 series now.

The e28 has a shorter wheelbase than the 1 series sedan (but is longer overall due to its stylish 80's big overhangs...) It is also narrower than the 1 series.
Wanna make more money? -- Drastically lower the cost, or even have a freemium model maybe the 1 post per month plan. Then have solutions for FIXING the vulnerabilities--esp for low-tech users like Wordpress users who don't know how to fix things themselves. -- Also having plugins for wordpress, etc... that scans from inside out could help as well.
>Cities build their own fiber infrastructure

Republicans support government intervention at both the federal and state level to disallow cities from doing this.
> It is very, very rare to meet Europeans who drive across multiple countries for leisure.

I don't have statistical data, but I have that experience. I have never heard of anyone doing that in Europe. Long car travels are avoided as much as possible. I heard of a guy that did a really long trip by car because was relocating and didn't want - or was too expensive - to move his dogs in any other way. He was not happy about it. I always see going by car as painful, while using trains is a good experience (https://visitsweden.com/getting-around-sweden-train/) and by plane is just fast.

But when people wants to visit the USA, to travel long distances by car looks like something you want to do. I know Europeans that have done that, in the USA.

So maybe it is not just a matter of taste, but it is geography or you just want to do what you see in the movies.
No one else seems to realize that.
Having worked on a large bounty program myself, and having at least one thing blow up because I dropped the ball on a response, I'll just say that the front-end aspect of it can be extremely chaotic. This guy seems like he's pretty polite and patient, which you generally try to reward with a rapid response and high touch, but sometimes you can get overwhelmed with a burst of reports, distracted by problematic reporters and bogged down by working the bug through the pipeline.

There are systems and processes to help with all of this of course, but at the end of the day it's still a pretty tricky job to get perfect all the time.
You could try to get into the French system. They have more staff positions (permanent contract based) but of course at a lower salary.
Good catch! Also studied Google's 404 pages. Seems like they have unified all but a few of them. One of them I found was vulnerable to old utf-7 injection (specified customizable page title before character encoding) and another was vulnerable to XSS. Got a bounty for the XSS one, the utf-7 one targeted too old browsers, out of scope for the program (I do wonder how many IE6 users Google sees).
Hey Fecak! Fantastic -- and important -- question.

We have trained career coaches on staff, an advisory board for coaching, and an extensive network of experts who are within reach.

Through all of this, each conversation acts as a knowledge base that we can pre-fill. We brought in tens of industry experts across product management, design, software engineering, marketing, and more to give crash courses, which were then put into the database as well.

We're still refining our coaching process, as what works for one individual doesn't always work for another.

I'd be interested in chatting in more detail. Can you reach out? :) -> zach@getboost.io
Well this is a paid service... This is not a sign up page onlt.
If we follow your logic any service that require card details can't be submitted to HN.
> They're providing you something for free, which costs them money to provide...

At Google's scale, unless you mine bitcoins and actually use CPU/GPU time, the money Google actually spends on your tiny $300 free trial is maybe worth a dollar or two (and if they run free trials on machines that are paid off in terms of taxes, the only "expenses" are a tiny tiny sliver of maintenance - at Google scale network connectivity is basically free).

Cloud providers, especially for 24/7 running services, are a total rip-off even compared to managed servers, and deploying your own bare metal will blow any cloud calculation away when you're getting serious (> 200GB RAM, 50+ cores). The real strength of cloud is when you need extremely high computing power for very short time (e.g. heavy software builds, occasional transcoding, ML training).
I remember when one of Craig Venter's startups offered me little more than post-doc money. When I turned them down, most of the people I interviewed with emailed me privately to ask for a referral to my new employer.
Hypnosis for Weight Loss
Yes, per OESD, Sweden pays less per capita for healthcare than the U.S. with a longer lifespan.
Begging your pardon, but net neutrality isn't and has never been about traffic discrimination by type. That kind of traffic shaping is not only acceptable, it's desirable. Services with real-time requirements (VOIP, streaming, etc) can and should have priority over non-real-time services. I'm sick of people polluting the net neutrality debate with this misunderstanding and discussion on a site as knowledgeable as HN should be better. Net neutrality only covers discrimination based on source/destination and we need to push back against upset torrenters muddying the waters.
You might be able to put "symbolics" keys on your keyboard: https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/round-6-the-cappening-t15... Don't make the mistake I did and focus too hard on the tool and not enough on the work :)