skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horses running in a city do sound like that. And old movies were not that long after cars took over the scene (most urban people would see horses around, even if only rarely). The sound of horses running over dirty would probably be unnatural... Although the lower frequency parts would sound just great in a movie.

Also, nature is loud if you don't disturb if.
America’s Fast-Casual Dining Boom Is Over
Pollen AM (http://www.pollen.am) | Embedded Software Engineer | Paris, France, Full-time, Onsite

Pollen AM is a 4 year old French startup that developed the first new technology in the additive manifacturing industry for many years. Instead of using filament, powder or resin, our 3D printer uses industrial injection grade pellets, allowing all materials to be processed. And can use up to 4 different on a single piece. This allows our clients to use 3D printing to manufacture actual goods using real materials at a competitive price.

We are a team of 11 engineers, doctors and designers each with a specific skillset in materials, physics, mechanics, electronics and of course, software. We design every part of the printer internally, providing always more challenging projects to our team.

We are looking for an embedded software engineer with capabilities in electronics. Such a maker would take responsibility of everything close to the hardware here at Pollen. He would work with our software team of 2 and design, code, sold and solder on Pam, our 3D printer.

Send me an email if you're interested: pd@pollen.am.
I think that if the tradeoff were privacy vs automatic indexing, I'd be on the fence. And scalable doesn't require them to read our email; storage is nearly free. And the AI assistance features could run on a machine I own, without El Goog needing to be able to read my email.

However, I really appreciate Google's ability to block spam, and I don't know of any way to make that work (at this level of quality) without a centralized service sharing spam-flagging between millions of users.
I hear this a lot from people. When I go grocery shopping I have bags and boxes for nearly everything I purchase. When I order items on Amazon I get boxes and tons of packing materials. What is a better alternative that does not generate tons of trash?

Blue Apron also does a good job at allowing you to send back the materials so they can recycle them. I just point this out as I think they get a lot of criticism for a company that I don't think generates more trash than a lot of alternatives and they give an option to recycle.
I'm not sure I'd blame Facebook's problems on it's users. You can always unfriend someone. No, it's Facebook itself that has changed for the worse (by far).
"climate change is in comparison a moon shot"

This couldn't be more apt. It took a nation-state level of engineering to make it work, but the science (broadly speaking) was pretty well known. I believe that a similar nation-state scale funded engineering project to address climate change.

Unfortunately - to torture the analogy even further, we don't currently have a moon base and we've not sent a human outside of LEO since then. Maybe a grand nation-state effort is doomed to fail? I hope not.
Good luck in buying the Tesla with all the profits, certainly put me off investing (and my dream of buying my Tesla by Christmas with the profits from my $1 investment)
I tried deleting Facebook once, but I've got family there and ... the big problem is that I haven't gotten my time spent online back.

I'm on Twitter, I'm on Hacker News, I'm on Reddit, I'm on Gitter, I send/receive dirty jokes on WhatsApp, etc. Plenty of opportunity to waste time, no need for FB to be in the picture at all. I've been composing this stupid message for the past 5 minutes.

But I'm using Facebook less and less. For me the "open web" is a necessity, not a moral high ground or anything like that. I don't like opening Facebook blog posts because Facebook sucks for blog posts. TFA mentions the Internet Archive or Google not indexing articles. Hell yeah, those are really good concerns.

Also, forget the open web ... how about the fact that if you give them permissions to access your photos, on iOS at least, they are uploading your photos to their services for making photo collages, without you explicitly allowing this.

I know this because I opened the app a week ago and I was proposed a collage with animated transitions and music in the background, titled "Your Sunday evening in Bucharest", that couldn't have been processed on my phone - especially since iOS restricts background activity, plus it would be pretty bad for battery life.

And I freaked out, so now Facebook is gone from my phone. Article mentions an all out assault on the open web. Sure, but it's also an all out assault on people's privacy.

I was 7 when Ceaușescu was shot and communism fell in 1989 and before that paranoia was at an all times high. People were afraid for example that their phones were tapped and that their neighbours were listening. Which was in fact true, but oh boy, that's nothing compared with what happens today.
Antarctic ice crack takes major turn
The people who make informed decisions need to be informed. While unelected scientists are not in a position of dictating policy, reason dictates policy should conform to scientific knowledge.
I don't see how it doesn't? This was a discussion about a company shutting down, and this particular sub-thread was regarding speculation that the shutdown was the result of Apple 'coming after them' for their 30%... Your comment that it was only for digital goods, while true, required further elaboration that even that can be hard on a business. This comment is directly related to the sub-thread's speculation on why Threadless shut down.
Pukka was one of the first apps I bought on the mac. Thank you.
Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Its Addiction to Social Security Numbers
I think going into a dirty sewer is uncomfortable, but there are sewer inspectors, and paving a hot road in the summer is uncomfortable, but there are road pavers.
The capital gains tax rate is neither a loop hole nor progressive.
Could be manual or because it contains shitpost-attracting keywords, it's a Trump post after all.

(Not implying Trump or his followers are shit, just that partisan issues attract shitposts and unfruitful emotional discussions.)
I think even Trump doesn't understand, how big a deal being the global leader is. With power comes the responsibility, however, the opposite is true also. U.S. is steady on the track to lose its influence. It will be interesting, how much other nations/entities could stand up and fill the void. It is however a lesson to all, that it is dangerous to believe and hand over too much power to one single nation, only on basis that of shared values.

Anyhow, the rest of world needs to prepare itself with an uncooperative/isolationist US. I think U.S. is not necessarily a bad leader, but it is a clear fact that it doesn't have the willingness and ability to lead anymore, and the world has to move on.
I'd love to see a proper study as well. Every argument I've ever seen against these meals in a box services regarding trash, including the ones I've read in this thread, are entirely based on individual personal anecdotes.

Superficially I can see the appeal of arguing based on the packaging you receive, but this fails to account for recycling options, and ignores aspects like the avoidance of food wastage given the precisely measured amounts. There's clearly more to this problem than 'wow that's more cardboard and plastic than I expected'.
Finding the open web hostile is a sign of a dangerously sheltered mind. The last thing such a person needs is to be restricted to a relatively sanitized space like Facebook. Far healthier in the long term to engage with ideas that aren't tightly curated and learn to filter out trolls.
From the article:

> While blocking pesky ads is appealing to consumers,
> it also threatens a vital source of revenue for publishers

Are "pesky ads" really "a vital source of revenue"? Is there any data? Everyone I know hates them, especially the autoplaying videos, animations, and pop-ups (the "pesky" ones). Are you saying that there are people who see these things and say, "Oh, that's interesting," and clicks the ad? Furthermore are you saying that there is a "vital" number of these people in the world?

I believe that if anything, depeskifying ads will bring advertisers more success. I have always believed that intrusive ads were a lose-lose proposition. Not only do readers lose by being bothered, but advertisers lose because such ads make people just look away. Furthermore it makes people hate your website, tarnishing the brand. I, for one, am starting to remember at least some websites that are especially rude with ads, and I won't click the link if there is a choice (like on Google News).

I remember many years ago when Google first insisted on text-only ads, relegated to the right side of the page so they were clearly advertising. Everyone thought Google was crazy. Billions of dollars later, people think Google is on to something. It was the most tempted I've ever been to click an ad (I still don't think I did, though). Because they weren't flashing, I didn't immediately ignore that whole area, an automatic response that most of us have developed. And so some of them I actually read. And because they were narrowly targeted ads, based on the words in my search, they were more interesting.

In other words, if publishers switched to text-only ads, I bet their click-rate would go up. Maybe a tasteful still picture would be okay. I'm thinking of what is in newspapers and magazines. I actually used to look at some of their ads (back in the ol' paper days). I even enjoyed some of the more artistic or clever ones. The only times they annoyed me is if there were too many of them or it was those loose-leaf subscriptions cards in the middle of a magazine (pre-internet pesky ads).
"Most of all, people want food, shelter, and security"

No personal freedoms at all? You know, you've just described a simple prison.
It still does mean that she had to pay more than she earned (and so did I, one year — long story). If you call someone part of the payment "tax", and some other "social security payments" or "healthcare pool contributions", it still doesn't change the equation. The difference is purely syntactic.
Angels are often as not more headaches than their money is worth. You get almost all of the downsides of having investors and none of the upsides.

Angel investments can make sense but usually only if you know you will be going for a larger round later.
Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin (2016)
The US can't go to extinction alone and I'm unwilling to follow.
I speculate that Exxon Mobile's executive team is in support of it for selfish reasons. I'm not authority, but I bet it's easier for them to operate in foreign countries when the corporation's country of origin is involved in an international treaty because they can more easily claim to be in compliance of the law.
Square, Inc. | Software Engineer | Payments | Atlanta | Onsite | https://squareup.com/careers/jobs

Square's Atlanta office is hiring for multiple positions. We have several full-stack engineering teams in the office building features for our Point of Sale system as well as backend services that power our payments platform. I am the hiring manager for our payments infrastructure team where we are building a next generation payments platform.
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What we do:
Develop and support routing and gateway support between Square’s products and payment processors in the US and abroad.
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Why it's cool:
Our system is critical: without it, some Square products couldn't exist.
Our Atlanta office has a history of working on mission critical projects. Infrastructure used throughout Square was designed and developed here. We’re continuing to increase our footprint here.
Our work environment includes lots of Silicon Valley style perks, plus all the advantages of working in a smaller office where everyone knows each other.
Square products are widely used by the general public, so you constantly run into people who use our products.
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Who we're looking for:

Engineers familiar with Java, Go, or Ruby or another high level OO language.
We are looking for candidates with industry experience. Experience with Card Payments is a plus.
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Tech we use: Java, Go, Ruby, Objective-C.
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If this matches your background and interests, we'd love to talk to you -- email zundel@squareup.com.
I generally don't respond to low-road conduct like this on HN. But the arrant balderdash needs to stop.
Please stop calling Brendan Eich "homophobic" just because he donated money to the cause he believes in.

Nobody calls Paul Graham names just because he was in support of the end of death penalty in California[1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/prop62.html
Considering it was sold for $35k the value is not high in monetary terms, but there are other kinds of value.
I'm shocked to see an IPO for one of these delivery companies. Not because there doesn't seem to be a value proposition, but because I don't understand what sets them apart from the competition. They seem to be in a flooded market: Plated, HelloFresh, I think I've seen commercials for a few more, and they seem to barely add value on top of another flooded market, grocery delivery: instacart, uber has a service like this, probably Lyft does, and most grocers are getting in on it, too. HEB, Walmart, et al. And HEB isn't even a nationwide company. Why would the public invest in this company compared to others? Is it a strategy to put fear in the biggest competitors' minds as a setup for an acquisition?
I think there are still limitations around threading, but basically that's the goal. I think of it as the promise of Java (write once, run anywhere) re-implemented with buy-in from all the major vendors. (So no MS/IBM/Sun fragmentation).
In the rural area that I live in, the local/regional companies provide awful service at an average price. The national company I subscribe to offers excellent internet / good cable / great, friendly, & knowledgeable technicians at a relatively high price.

While I would love to be able to order channels a la carte and get the best internet available, I don't have good options for switching -- the other internet providers suffer from typical rural ISP issues.

From personal experience with the same company in a major US city, the rural service ranks among the best ISPs I've ever used whereas in the big city it was the absolute worst. There are actually options where I live, but there's only one good choice -- the newcomer national behemoth.

I think in general telecom competition should be allowed to happen more often, but in this particular case I'm not sure it's a competition issue. I would have to investigate more about the local/regional/state situation to really decide.
Wow.. The biggest game of JENGA in history!
Right - but I don't have daily trash for spices. Or for eggs. It's not the fact that they generate trash. It's the frequency and quantity.
Thank you for that bit of info. I would say that is quite unethical and worthy of a fine. I wonder why the developer gets it worse than the PMs though given how pressure tends to land on developers rather than the other way around.
He got run out of Mozilla for making a donation to a group that supported Prop 8 in California, banning same-sex marriage, which passed in a referendum in 2008.
SKILL is such a weird language. It tries to be both a C and a Scheme, and ends up at a surprisingly ok compromise. I quite enjoyed working with it, which was beneficial since most of my colleagues did not...
Every mobile operator puts devices behind nat. There aren't enough IP addresses to go around otherwise.
To the compiler, too.

if it's just &, the compiler knows the pointee is just how it left it[1], and it can optimize on this assumption. For example, if it had the contents in a register before the call, it knows they're still valid after the call. This is the same sort of thing "restrict" gives you in C, but unlike "restrict", using & is idiomatic and the compiler will spot mistakes.

If it's &mut, those assumptions aren't valid.

[1] except, iiuc, the contents of UnsafeCells (and things built on top of them, such as RefCell).
Huh? The trash is a lot more than grocery shopping, because everything (except certain produce items) is still packages individually, and in much smaller containers for "pantry basics" that are used in small amounts in each recipe (vinegars, etc.), Plus there's the insulation and cold packs.

> And I'm sure the shipping is less polluting than having all the customers drive around too.

Grocery delivery is a thing, though.
> When I go grocery shopping I have bags and boxes for nearly everything I purchase.

You don't get enough cold packs and insulation for it to stay cold for a couple of days in a hot shipping distribution center / truck, though.
Ask HN: Organizing six developers across several applications
I am on a team of six developers in a large, non technical, organization. We have a handful of mostly CRUD internal applications we support. Typically the way projects work is a senior developer is lead and one or two others are assigned to help them. The small team takes six months to two years to develop the application and the lead maintains it after that and they own the project.

I would like to move more toward having the whole team work on a project for a few months and have the team have ownership.

What are the pluses and minuses for the two approaches?

We use .NET MVC with our biggest app using Ember.js.
That's going to be a fun tidbit when they ever have an E. coli outbreak.
FTFY
What are you talking about?

Lead is bad for your health.

CFCs are bad for Ozone.

CO2 is bad for global warming.

All pretty much universally accepted.

European cars, with cheating and all, are miles ahead of US cars. And they have been heavily fined for cheating, as they should.

And China has not yet contributed a meager percent of the cumulated US CO2. Not to talk per capita.

The planet is not yours.
Robocop: The Librarian
Liquidity by itself has an objective and quantifiable value. Bitcoin, and possibly a few other cryptocurrencies, have some unique properties that have intrinsic value, like algorithmic fairness, low transaction costs, logistical simplicity, and lack of centralized control over money supply. BTC has a distinct possibility of becoming the future default Exchange Currency in international currency markets, which basically means that the transaction costs of trading A -> BTC -> B are cheaper than trading A -> B directly.

I'd argue that if it were possible to isolate effects from hoarding and speculation, that the spot price would represent the intrinsic value of its liquidity and other intrinsic benefits. And thus, to the degree that prices are not influenced by speculation, the price reflects performance.

But since we know that prices are heavily influenced by speculation, I'd argue that the better metric for performance should be daily trading volume. Because that is a more direct measure of liquidity. It might be meaningless by itself (the trading volume doesn't "represent" anything more than the total value that exchanges hands everyday), but contextually it is important. The 24 hour bitcoin trading volume is currently $1.6B. The currency trading volume across all worldwide currencies is $5T [1]. So BTC can roughly be considered to have 3-ish orders of magnitude of difference in liquidity over the worldwide currency market. As someone who has no involvement in BTC whatsoever, I find that pretty impressive.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/global-markets-currency-volum...
Fwiw, I've been to the US on business trips a few times and about 5 years ago, I decided to not consider US as a long term possibility. I have since then spent 2.5 years in Singapore[1], 1.5 in Germany and now will be moving to Ireland (hopefully for a longer term). Even though I know deep down somewhere that I'm sacrificing the potential of advancing financially and careerwise, I still don't feel I'm actually welcomed in the US, like I felt in all these other countries.

[1] yes, I know about the rep it has but unless you have lived and experienced it, you would never realise that there really isn't a "one true way" of democracy and everything is a trade-off. That's all I'm saying about that.
Speed Limits for Financial Markets? Not So Fast – IMF Blog
The Republican party seems split between the freedom caucus (less government) and the establishment (not sure what they stand for ... Maybe corporate and military interests?). The Democrats are more-or-less unified around the principle of increasing the size and scope of government, particularly at the federal level.
> That doesn't sound like it has a whole lot to do with climate change. It could potentially be used to force the United States to accept migrants, which Trump has opposed.

I don't think so. That passage is just acknowledging that countries may have obligations under other agreements, and that these should be respected, promoted, and considered when those countries are trying to address climate change.

I think what they are getting at is that a country should not use climate change and the Paris agreement as a justification for shirking their responsibilities under other agreements.

Consider Saudi Arabia, which is noted for giving women less freedom than men. Saudi Arabia is a party to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). They are a party to Paris, too. It is not hard to imagine a scenario where increasing the freedom of women in Saudi Arabia in some particular area might in theory raise their carbon footprint.

I think what that passage is getting at is that they should not say, "Hey, we have to meet the Paris goals, so too bad, women! We've got to drop CEDAW to save the planet!". They are supposed to figure out a way to meet Paris goals and meet their CEDAW obligations.

Or to use your example of migrants, what it means to the US is that if we are obligated to accept migrants under some existing agreement, we should not try to say that the migrants have a high carbon footprint and reject them. We should try to meet both obligations.
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No its when the decline of the UK as an imperial power became obvious not some rounders player and the least musical beetle.
That's a little disingenuous, they have a minimum order size, and consolidate delivery dates in an area to maximize route efficiency.

A fully packed delivery truck in a densely subscribed area would be more efficient in terms of fuel than all of those individuals driving to the store. But yes, minimal customers, in a big area, buying few meals consecutively would be worse.
The ironic thing is that a big part of what Made America Great in the first place was military protection of trading partners. Withdraw that protection and the trading partners now have less reason to give sweetheart trade deals.
What are you saying, that the Democrats celebrated the move?

Are you disputing that the email story made it to the front page of the NYT?
The effects are subtle and long term. The destruction happened already.

The US has made it very clear that its populace is willing to elect an uneducated populist buffoon, who is happy to break any and all international commitments if it appeals to his base.

Any politician outside the US, from this point onwards, will assume that the US is not a country that can be trusted with any long term plans. (Or, as far as our allies are concerned, with intelligence materials either). It will likely take decades to repair that reputation hit, if it isn't irreparable.

We're not feeling the consequences of it yet, but we will. That's inevitable. You don't suddenly walk into a ballroom, shit on a table, and hope everybody forgets it next week.
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Can we go deeper?