skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined the fidget spinner[0] craze about a month ago. Since then, they have been my constant companion at work. For those who don't know, a fidget spinner
is a stress relieving toy that has become popular recently.
I have a couple of spinners already and getting more every month.

I spend a lot of time researching spinners before buying a new one. Spin time is the most important thing, since it feels great if the spinner keeps going forever after a hard flick. But I also look for specific colors, body materials and how much noise the spinner makes. Amazon doesn't make research easy, since the information is all over the place and typically hard to find.

So I decided to make this process easier. Me and my
friend Martin went through the top 100 spinners on Amazon and put the information about color, shape, lights, spin time, noise, price and body material in a postgres database.
I built a Django website on top of the database where you can filter the top spinners on Amazon using your preferred criteria.

I find it extremely useful to be able to filter based on my preferences and quickly see the top matching spinners. I hope some others might benefit from it too.

The website is at the moment a work in progress. So any constructive feedback is most welcome. I will also try my best to respond to any questions, if you have
any.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidget_spinner
In many cases you wouldn't bother with the overhead, you're right. I imagine there will be situations where having some elements of the business on the blockchain, and having some off-chain and centralized would be optimal.

Regarding Venezuela, there may be situations where the government is willing to shut down your bank account or prohibit meatspace financial institutions from letting you as the client use other currencies, but isn't willing to go as far as shutting down the internet. So in that scenario, an immutable ledger would have value.

Also while the Venezuelan government may be able to prevent you from accessing the rest of the global internet, it can't shut the global internet down. So as soon as you leave Venezuela, you can regain access to your savings.
Conferences prevent paradigm inbreeding and developers stuck in companys frame-work mikrobubbles.
Thats how we always did it!
->Employee
Thats how everyone else did it, and what worked and what not!
->Conference
These people want you to know climate change isn’t just for liberals
Time for you to read "Dragon's Egg", a hard sci-fi book about a civilization that evolves on a time scale far shorter than humans ultimately leading up to interaction with humans and this civilization. Awesome book which explores different time scales.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
Show HN: Modern, simpler Mocha clone, no globals, lint friendly – kocha
Industrial-Robot Firm Kuka Looks to Automate the Home – MIT Technology Review
> This is in spite of having six years of college and enough mojo to garner more than 19k karma on HN in spite of my gender. As far as I know, no other woman has karma in the 5 figures. They are all below 10k.

Having a high score on an Internet forum has zero value for someone who wants to purchase a service from you, I don't see how this is relevant.
Lot of things money related.

Yes having a confortable life is a nice goal and achievement. But there are many others things I would do in parallel otherwise you'll get unhappy and stuck in your mindset.
Why wouldn't it apply to private entities ?
Treaties are worthless pieces of paper unless their signatories are willing and able to confront violations with military force. Britain is not, and China knows it; hence the unopposed erosion of Hong Kong's automomy
The Unaffordable Urban Paradise – MIT Technology Review
I don't disagree. But... the average American owes over 30,000 in car debt. Just be smart.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/us-borrowers-are-paying-more-...

I favor buying used cars under 3 years old that still have like 75K or more of manufacturer warranty in place.
It's a typical financial independence "rule"

Once you've accumulated enough cash, if you begin to withdraw around 4% per year and invest the rest, it is unlikely you will run out of money.

The 25x rule relatively decent estimation.
Am I the only one to see lists and map/reduce here ?
"Facebook announced it would allow publishers to put more ads in Instant Articles"

Yeah, that should make it more popular.
It's interesting that cat breeding happened among colonies of wild or feral cats, and it wasn't until the Middle Ages that cat fancy began developing breeds.

There are large colonies of self-sustaining feral cat populations in nearly every city—at least in the U.S. and surely outside it as well. Certainly cat breeders supply a number of pets, but these feral cat populations are a major source of house cats. Certainly all our pets are rescues or were originally born outside.
It's very nice to grab 2nd hand books for cheap. Saved me in linear algebra 2 years ago.
You are correct, and the current (mostly non-)responses from the British government are embarrassing.

However this remains a public treaty, and if China does not respect it, it will erode their standing on other matters (e.g. why would Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines sign any treaty regarding the China sea dispute, if Beijing ignored the one on HK?). So yes, HK is in a bad situation, but not all is lost yet.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
Seems like a sizzle article with no steak. Some anonymous quotes, no real evidence presented.
Reinvesting income doesn't give you negative income. Having the highest marketshare doesn't mean they make money from it. Bezo is considered the worlds worst boss and there have been many articles about its corporate culture... that will catch up to Amazon.
That thread is about four years old. Stripe got big very quickly and definitely had some growing pains for a while. Their customer support really was that bad/non-existent for a while. It was a lot of hassle to sort things out when we had a dubious chargeback too.

To give credit where it's due, they have improved since. Gone are the days when they were the small developer's payment service and you could expect to reach technical people straight away via their contact addresses, but they do at least seem to reply to messages eventually now.

IMHO they still have room for improvement. In particular, 24-48 hours for a first substantial response doesn't seem unusual, and that's far too long for a merchant who might have one of their own customers in limbo or some sort of ongoing dispute or fraud that they need to deal with quickly.

But at least Stripe seem to be moving in the right direction and genuinely trying to do better. Our experience of their support is still much better than you'll get from a lot of other payment services if you're only a small merchant.
He is not wrong. Most EU institutions represent the member states rather than the European people directly. The Europarliament is the one exception, the only institution directly elected by the European people. Still limited by national borders, though; each country gets a number of seats according to their population (rather than the number of votes), and you can only vote for parties from your own country.

Still, it's easily the most democratic part of the EU government, and should definitely have more power.
Obligatory link to a "kill sticky headers" bookmarklet: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

This has saved me a great deal of annoyance, especially on my smaller-screened mobile phone.
I would be interested in reading any advice for developers/engineers on how to "handle" management. Based on some limited reading I've done, the goals of management and what engineers intuitively think management wants are often very different. Basically, what behaviors do I need to adopt to make my relationship with technical or non-technical managers as mutually beneficial as possible?
It's not me saying it. The Pentagon itself made such claims even before 9/11.

https://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/do...

Do you really think an entire population will just accept a foreign nation obliterating their lives completely, without at least a small amount of revolt groups wanting revenge? Now that would be naïve.
Good call - I just always remember looking at red hat stock in the gutter and thinking I should buy this... so naturally that is what I'd tell myself to do
Be strict in what you produce and liberal in what you accept.

Strictness works well when you have a small number of active producers and consistent, constantly renewed content.

The web is the opposite - a huge number of producers and widely varying content, some of which is 1-2 decades old and will never be updated.

You can design and build a great, strict HTML parser - it just won't work well for a significant portion of the www.

And if you make one that is popular enough, you can change the direction of evolution of the web! (See mobile safari and flash)
Star Trek: Discovery announces its official premiere date
TLDR; Guy didn't take the gig because flying in a plane makes a lot of pollution.

So why not just buy a carbon offset, take the flight, and make $10k?
So the food is trash, and yet you continue to order? Life is too short to eat garbage food. Especially for premium prices.
I bave a hard time squaring that statement with the absolute mayhem being caused to the European public via the immigration policies.
> I find it really disappointing that Labour has decided to take the turns it has with regard to protecting civil liberties. This is just about my only qualm with the leftist parties in the UK; they have little or no emphasis on protecting the right to privacy, freedom of expression etc.

The issue here is that Labour governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were decidedly NOT leftist. They were very much a Tory-lite neoliberal party. Remnants of those priests of a dying religion still plague the PLP today and spent the better part of Corbyn's leadership attempting to undermine him.

My MP is Angela Eagle. A self-described socially progressive lesbian that you would imagine would be on the side of civil liberties and democracy, yet her record speaks for itself;

- Refused to vote against Tory welfare cuts

- Voted in favour of the war in Iraq

- Voted in favour of the bombing of Libya

- Voted three times to block investigations into the decision to go war in Iraq

- Voted in favour of national identity cards

- Voted in favour of Theresa May's Investigatory Powers Bill (legalised mass surveillance of Britain)

She is the kind of 'leftist' that made the Labour party utterly right-wing.
Kotlin tutorials
Hosting company hit by ransomware, pays $1.01M
And here's an entertaining video on Shia Labeouf's antics that's probably a decent introduction to the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dsECbVahBw

@SuperPaintMan - Thanks for sharing the metamodernist blackbox - it made me smile.
It makes complete sense (I mean from their point of view kind of sense, not the system is logical and the compensations are well structured kind of sense) but I would not have thought of the bosses point of view unless it was spelled out for me like in the OP.

In the author's case the mismatch in understanding worked out for them. I wonder how many times it works out quite badly for one party or even both. Even between two sympathetic people where both desire to understand the other, sometimes you just don't.
The UK will never approve that, so that's at least 2 years before it can even pass let alone be implemented.
make a spreadsheet comparing your earnings to your debts and billables, record ALL of your debts and STICK TO THE FUCKING SHEET
How an entire nation became Russia's test lab for cyberwar
Or cynically these, or similar, things were already tabled and the UK elite felt that would give the demos too much power/freedom and so decided to nip it in the bud, retaining a greater share of the local (to the UK) power structure. It must be much easier for the plutocrats to procur the political positions they want in the UK when [liberal] European politicians can't intefere.
Perhaps a better comparisson is this:
https://github.com/servo/html5ever/blob/master/html5ever/src...

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#data-sta...

Where spec:

U+0000 NULL ->
This is an unexpected-null-character parse error. Emit the current input character as a character token.

translates into:

FromSet('\0') => go!(self: error; emit '\0'),

If you ignore the FromSet which is used for small set of characters, and `go!` which is a macro, you get something akin to:

'\0' => emit_error; emit '\0'
Westworld season 2 premiere title revealed by Jonathan Nolan – The Independent
Infographic: The Most Common SEO Errors
just be glad you've never been in that situation
in LinkedIn's case it's Microsoft...
For me this was last year, so just this: Convert all Bitcoin to Ether and then buy more Ether with USD.
>Either way, since utility is unique up to scalling (e.g. Johnny could get as many times of it from a sandwich as Paul does from a near-identical sandwich), at least in choice theory "worth" is closer to having an "inherent" character than otherwise. Though this is somewhat of a stretch because these kind of comparisons are invalid.

Johnny, who is dying of thirst in the middle of the Sahara desert, would get much more utility from a bottle of water than Paul, who is sitting in a bathtub in his apartment in NY. So what's the worth of the bottle of water?
Have fun! Often doing things that are actually fun are the cheapest - like buying an old wind-up record player and some 78s from the Salvation Army and having a picnic with your friends (or a date!)
TL;DR It is a case of organizational incentives being poorly aligned with individual incentives.
Would you mind sharing that? That would be super useful to me as well.
HR startup ropes in 40 enterprise clients within a year. Founder explains how
I'm quite doubtful that obsessing over a device in my pocket will calm me. I don't even carry change any more; I found myself fingering it in my pockets. Instead I try to calm my self, reduce fidgety behavior and stay in the moment.

Not one of the converts.
It's really hard to read your article when your text is justified rather than left aligned. I immediately gave up.
There is supporting evidence for your intuition. See for example:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213...
Yes, although people starting in a tech job in a reasonable housing market these days should have no problem maxing both.
Do not buy a house.
because sometimes you do whatever you can to get out of a bad situation, even if it means taking on student loan debt

but clearly you've never had to deal with that; be fortunate for that
Seems the AIs have taken personality of the developer and also their liking to create new language and frameworks.
>What's special about the offering from GlobalFoundries vs TSMC vs whoever ?

Price

TSMC is selling its capacity at a noticeable premium as the whole "contract fab" business has been evolving around TSMC for a very long time.

All other contract fabs used to offer service with few generations older equipment up until the "nanometre race" began to slow down.

As TSMC can't pull out a new process, they have to find out something new to retain clients. This is why they race to offer all juicy freebies like advanced packaging and so on.

There is not much complicated things here to explain
If this interests you, there's also Sagetex [0]. Sagemath is a fully fledged computer algebra system based on Python; Sagetex is a Latex package that allows you to perform Sagemath computations and auto-generate Latex code while compiling the Latex document.

0. http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/sagetex.html
Carbon offsets don't take CO2 out of the atmosphere, as far as I've found. Some may result in some trees being planted, but they mostly replace trees that were cut down. They don't undo fossil fuels removed from underground.

The carbon capture I'm aware of only stores it for a while, usually to reuse in a way that puts more CO2 in the atmosphere, like pumping new oil out of the ground, plus the capture process uses energy. If that energy comes from fossil fuels, it doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

As best I can tell, offsets don't lower CO2 levels. On the contrary, I think psychologically, they motivate people to contribute more greenhouse gases than they would have otherwise.

I'd love to find out I was wrong, but I'm not aware of any existing process that net significantly removes CO2 from the atmosphere for the long term. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. I'd love to find out I was wrong.

Also, jet fuel emits more than CO2. Pollution is a separate issue from global warming.

> So why not just buy a carbon offset, take the flight, and make $10k?

That's what the post answers -- how learning one's values experientially and living them created a better life.
Neelie Kroes is not a member of the EU parliament. She used to be a member of the European Commission. The executive branch, basically. And she was excellent at it. She's easily my favourite EU commissioner as well as my favourite VVDer (Dutch right-wing liberal party that I strongly oppose for their destructive economic policy and their occasional flirtation with extreme right).
Only clueless people believe in secure multiuser Linux. It's not about the binaries on the box, it's because the kernel is made out of swiss cheese.
Personally, but it can be because I was very lucky - treat them as fellow humans, help them where possible. If they don't respond the same way (and try to take advantage of you), look for another job.
Hidden trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina
1. So is Facebook and the credit rating agencies in the US

2. No it's not, it was unsuccessfully tested in a single county

3. So do the judgments of employers on whether or not to hire or fire someone based on publicly expressed political ideology

It may make us feel better to point the finger over there to distract from the parallels of what is going on locally but doing so is hardly practical.
Debian 9 is here
>> we would be pretty much back to where we were a couple of decades ago. I suppose the government would need to employee more real people to monitor other real people.

My view is - why is that a bad thing? We didn't live in some crazy unsafe time then and I don't think it'll be any different now.

However what if I was wrong and the world did become less safe? We need to start looking at 'safety' thorough the bigger picture. If this regulation really did make it harder to catch e.g. terrorists and there were 1-3 more attacks a year with 50 deaths total should we give up our privacy to prevent that given the consequences of giving up privacy to save those 50 lives? That loss of life would obviously be tragic but in the grand scheme of things it's a tiny number. I've seen governments take away people's freedoms to stop violence and keep people safe. It generally doesn't make much difference. And if we let the government take away this freedom how long until they take away another? How long until we start letting them take away freedoms that only serve to frustrate the bad guys and fuel further violence (again this has happened in the past).
Ask HN: What happens to blockchain transactions in case of network partition?
I am keen on knowing the answer to this intriguing question.The closest thing i came across is this. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12207/countrywide-internet-isolation-inevitable-fork.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12207/countrywide-internet-isolation-inevitable-fork
Good to know that the future holds mostly parasitic nanobots.
Except not:

x match {
case _: List[Int] => 1
case _: List[Char] => 2
case _: String => 3
}

This used java's semi-erased class tags and doesn't report a TypeTag constraint in its type. It will also return 1 when x is of type List[Char] since partial erasure means that the first two patterns end up being identical. The compiler will warn you about this situation, but generally it shows up all the time for various reasons. Super bad news.

That all said, the TypeTag system could be very nice someday. Especially if asInstanceOf were dropped eventually or, better, relied upon TypeTag.
> I would rate Chinese people the most independent-minded group of citizens in the world. Chinese people are incredible at recognizing propaganda and superficial arguments that bear limited practicality.

That's a very weird statement to make.
I agree with the sentiment, but Gruber can't seem to write a simple article without name checking multiple Apple products and services. They're completely irrelevant here but he still manages to mention his iPad pro review unit and how great safari is.
And managers not understanding what their employees were doing. In this case, they understood the technical side, but were not paying attention to the financial side.
Supreme Court Rejects Expansion of Government-Speech Doctrine in Tam Case
I've heard cars sold by rental car companies are like new, but cost about half as much.
Ten-year-old Texas schoolboy invents device to stop babies dying in hot cars
MPs in national parliaments aren't all that great either. And some MEPs are really good. Just not the backbenchers.

But the Europarliament does seem to get used as a training ground for national MPs.
I could have spent a lot less (but still a stupid amount) had I bought an older car to play with
Steps to Software Setup of Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener
>Kale jokes

Enjoy it while it lasts, Whole Foods is headed down-market to compete with Walmart.
Your job is to make your boss and team look good. And by look good I mean be reliable, dependable, do good work etc...
FYI - I didn't come up with the names, they are what the breeder, a lady, thought was appropriate!
The leadership team at Stripe seem to have a refreshingly simple and holistic view about how they run their business: they see that growing e-commerce as a whole is good for them, because it makes the pie bigger and they're getting a slice of it.

Much of what they do supports that overall strategy, from making attractive things for developers to some of the high-profile hires and acquisitions they've been making recently. Apparently the strategy is a good one, because here we all are talking about them on a site full of entrepreneurial types, and today it's not because of the service they provide but just because of their landing pages. :-)
Save for 6 months and buy that $2799 PowerBook with cash instead of paying the minimum payment on that 22% MacMall card for the next 5 years.
On your second point, I'm assuming those savings should be invested, correct? Enough to earn at minimum a 4% ROI?