skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great list. People interested should also check out Barnacl.es which is a low-noise site with lots of this kind of stuff:

http://barnacl.es

Also, before a developer considers doing a startup, they might want to read Clifford Oravec's write-up on how hard it will be constantly fighting uncertainty and indifference. If you want a challenge, it's one of the best ones to tackle, though. You might even get rich doing it. Might. ;)

https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/expect-everything-to-be-u...

Edit to add: Love his choice of opening picture to convey the feeling, too.
Show HN: A CreateJS simulator of “bacteria” using genetic algorithms
People complain about Apple, but they are the single company left from those days, where each manufacturer controlled the whole stack.

Had IBM done that, we would be in a similar position regarding PCs.

On the other hand, maybe thanks to that single event, Atari ST or Amiga variants would still exist.

However, the industry seems to be turning back to those days.

Even FOSS won't help here, because each OEM just packages their own OS and SDK flavour and locks down the hardware.
It unfortunately fails my go-to test for these calculators:

≫ 7.8L/100km -> miles/gallon
7.8 L / 100 km -> mi / gal
Conversion error:
Cannot convert unit L/km (base units: m²)
to unit mi/gal (base units: m⁻²)
Seems to be happening with Lidar right now. Granted, a much narrower space.
Mine is from close enough that people recognize it, but far enough that the only people from there that would ever contact me are family members, and of course I already have their numbers programmed in. It is very convenient!
Nice. This is a lot like (in looks and some functionality) the macOs app, 'Numi' (which I love) : https://numi.io/
A description of what is going on can be found here:

https://github.com/ferrolho/createjs-bacteria-sim/blob/gh-pa...
Cyber attack on UK parliament
Too bad it doesn't support complex numbers
No. "Static typing" means that the runtime type is known at compile time, and it was known: it was presented as being either a valid object or nil. The behavior was consistent with the two possibilities that were "promised" by the compiler.

When your program overrides with "!", you are disabling the language's protections. You really can't blame the type system for failing to complain about something that you told it not to check!
I don't like to get political on HN, so if this appear so, I apologise.

The problem, I think, is that people don't want to pay, but people want to spend. We want low taxes but high quality public services. We want low taxes but we want high quality social housing.

While the books of a country must be immensely complex, it can be distilled to a very simple money in, money out equation, and when a country is running at a higher money out than money in, you're getting into debt. Cutting this means cutting state funded things, from services to buildings, etc.

It's not right to use dangerous materials, but if we have less money to spend, or if we prioritise things wrongly, things like this will happen.
A given mass of cold air can move more heat than the same amount of warm air.
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Women who don't say "no" for the first time are widely considered low-moral, not to mention that the first approach may be unexpected for her, so timeout is needed. And men who can truly see whether she's really uncomfortable or just playing well-known game can be counted on fingers. It seems that this rule, as you state it, leaves no legal room for regular, not very confident or skilled people to "interact".
Although SOM was much more advanced than COM, it had even support for metaclasses.

IBM also tried their luck to have a Smalltalk like IDE for C++, but it was too heavy for the typical hardware configurations on those days.

It was the fourth version of Visual Age for C++ OS/2.
It's more like building 12 startup MVPs, to test the market, in 12 months
Whoever crafted this entry for Wikipedia did a nice job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
AKA How to keep suburbanites out of downtown completely, lose massive amounts of business, and become a slum.
A cursory google search did not reveal any USB-C to FireWire adapters; there are Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapters (Thunderbolt 3 is basically USB-C version of Thunderbolt 2 which is Mini DisplayPort) and there are Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire adapters, so that combo may work
I was sure the machine I was testing this on had IPv6. I was wrong. Ooopsie. How can I downvote myself?
More here https://twitter.com/NCA_UK/status/878637980101087232
Wow, I had forgotten about that. I never understood what the cause of this issue was either, but it sure took up a lot of my time.
On the contrary, OP is saying that Apple made the decision to bump the license fee up to a dollar, very quickly saw that it was too high and lowered it to 25 cents, but it didn't matter. That one simple failed decision that Apple quickly reversed still ended up killing FireWire.
I think that for the most part, people aren't talking about when the phone literally says "unknown number", but when they've received a call from a number similar to their own that they don't recognize.
Human ethics transcend nature, where might makes right. Ethics is meaningless if it is "just how it is."

That's not to say that nature and natures way can't inform ethics, or to commit to any particular ethical outlook.
Yes. The underlying unit-conversion library is called https://github.com/sharkdp/purescript-quantities
It does not have a (nice) JavaScript API, so far, as it is written in PureScript - like Insect.
That was a terrible time in history - lots of Perl web apps built using MySQL or mSQL, both of which lacked transactions, right at a time when e-commerce was taking off.

Although Oracle, Sybase, SQL server and friends all transactions at that time, somehow the the mindset was that it was a complicated enterprise marketing gimmick, MySQL/mSQL are faster and simpler, and we can work around it in the client side. Seems like not much has changed.
Invest in the EU, US startup scene is loaded with pump and dump scams and you will have a hard time filtering if you're not on the ground. In fact Hampton Creek has been an all around scam, with Target removing their products as of today.
Interestingly enough, Elon Musk did set a goal of reusing a booster within 24 hours of landing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/84759420821933670...
Countries can run deficits. Countries can inflate away their debts. Countries can stimulate the economy to make it grow quickly enough to outpace the growth of debt.

I'd love someone who really believes in the theories behind austerity politics to explain to me how the postwar boom ever happened -- not just in the USA, but all across the Western world and the Asian Tigers.
Hi, thank you very much for the feedback. Actually, autocompletion should work already?
Fun fact: Converting to a unit is exactly the same as dividing by it (temperatures are the exception), so this works too:

≫ sqrt(mu0/eps0) / ohm
sqrt(mu0 / eps0) / Ω
= 376.73

Also seems like the constants (!) got changed a bit since you executed this
Why Did a U.S. Destroyer Fail to Dodge a Cargo Ship?
It really is a shame that FireWire didn't work out. Aside from the far better transfer speeds, when used for external storage FireWire has always been more solid. USB storage has a nasty habit of periodically flickering out for a split second and has generally been more flaky, something that's actually gotten worse with USB 3 — if you haven't run into this set of issues yourself, do a quick Google and you'll find mountains of posts from people having major issues with USB 3 where 2 works great.

Naturally this extra speed and solidness made for a better experience when booting from external media. One my favorite features of my 4th gen 20GB iPod was the ability to keep an OS X partition on it that I could boot from via FireWire. It worked great — well enough to get work done with, even on low power machines like 400Mhz G3 iMacs — and it saved me several times.

Also, I always loved that little click when plugging in FW400 connectors (can't remember if 800 had this feature). That little bit of tactile confirmation that you've plugged your device in properly is something I wish USB had.
I don't understand how that would fix proof of work. The whole point is that the voting power is proportional to how much computational power you are willing to burn away, in order to protect against Sybil attacks.
Ask HN: Is EMBA from MIT/Wharton or MBA from UCLA Worth It?
I am almost 32 and have a decade of experience in tech under my belt. However, I feel that I am stuck and unless I earn eMBA or MBA,it's hard to get into executive management.

I earn at least 150k from my job but that's like everyone these days are making if you are in Seattle/SF/NYC/valley.

Doing an eMBA from MIT is 20 month long. This also means that I have put in all of my savings I accumulated for buying home and may be take on additional loan. My organization does not give a penny for employees.

I am wondering if anyone has done it here and was it worth it 2/5 years down the line.
Wait, regulators are at fault?

No. Whosoever built the firetrap and chose this cladding is primarily at fault.

The regulators are secondarily at fault, for allowing it.

Arconic is also secondarily at fault, for selling a cladding material that they are required in several nations to warn against using on tall buildings, but did not warn against in the UK.

Leading with "it's all the fault of those laws that allowed us to do it" is asinine.
Yes, that was a typo. I meant the 29K
The AIM-9X uses IR signature and it was trained to ignore US type flares which have a very consistent burn between different batches. Soviet era decoy flares are very irregular and for some reason the missile IR targetting prefers some of the Soviet flares to the Su-22 engine.
If the best example you can come up with is someone who literally got a blowjob from a hotel maid in his room just before leaving the country, which blowjob was only the latest instance of various supershady sexual activities/overtures involving subordinates and colleagues, then your position must be a very weak one indeed.
Could it be related to this story in The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/russian_hackers_tra...

Would be interested in any more details
The problem I see with this is:

If a business wants to damage their competitor, they can just start making robocalls on their behalf.

I like your idea and would like it to happen for pretty much all advertising, but it seems like it can be easily abused.
Shameless plug for my http://dedo.io/, which is similar to this this, but with less features, more money-oriented and support for any custom units, e.g. if bag_weight = 12 kg / bag, then 10 bags * bag_weight is 120kg
Also really it should be less about sanitising, more about escaping. If possible, the input should be stored essentially as-is.
Beekeepers Sweeten Solar Sites with the 'Tesla of Honey'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394

It looks like it was about the same time
Thank you for the feedback!

> Is there any way I can save a list of variables to file and then reload hem?

Not yet, no - thank you for the suggestion. The command-line version can read from a file, though (https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/40)
I'm not opposed to limiting car space in favor of people space, but I also see EVs as a solution if the problem is emissions. No need to ban all cars, just gas-powered ones.
Media Can Be Used as a Teaching Material in Blended Learning Environment
Numi looks nice! I like the syntax

I use the similar Soulver on my Mac and iOS devices.
In the age of ride sharing, there is no need for people to park a car downtown. It is a waste when compared with the cost per square foot resting such a huge hunk of steel on the side of the street.
>Can you point me to any other company which has landed a rocket after putting a payload in orbit? Because if they aren't deploying payloads, they aren't competing with SpaceX.

Alright then. It might be true no one else had done this. but take a look at this, which might explain why no one else is doing it..

[1] https://www.quora.com/Havent-other-space-companies-thought-o...
Use the bus? Subway?

Cities have enough people - we don't need suburbanites clogging up our streets with ugly cars.
At Peak Production, CA Pays AZ to Take Their Renewable Electricity
Thank you! I was hoping someone is posting this
The love/hate thing might have been related to the eventual fire sale pricing.

Towards the end, you could pick them up for $200, which was unheard of for that class of PC. Easy to see why that would draw an adoring audience while frustrating TI.
> The law should be handling sexual harassment.

I think people on both sides of this issue would love it if the law showed itself capable of handling sexual harassment cases. Unfortunately we have way too much evidence that that just isn't the case. The obvious example that comes to mind is Brock Turner getting three months, and that's in the best case where someone is actually convicted. Far too often it never gets to that point, not because the harassment/assault didn't occur, but because the legal system is so utterly shit at handling it. The 'outragism' that so many people decry only exists in the first place because every system that is supposed to prevent or punish these acts has failed so completely.
2**100+1-2**100

Equals 0?
Since insect.sh is on the front page right now, let's try it:

0.5 x 29 tons x (50 mph)^2 to kWh

0.5 × 29 ton × (50 mi/

h)^2 -> kW·h

= 2.01233 kW·h

So a Victoria line train at top speed has 2 kWh of kinetic energy.
They both benefitted from piggybacking on the success of the Z80 and CP/M
Exactly what is happening in my town currently. All serious business migrated to megacenters at the outskirts because city parking is expensive and scarce.
New Wrinkles in the Search for “Planet X”
So only people who live downtown can go downtown unless they want to spend an hour in public transportation. Go it.

This is a terrible idea.

I live 40 minutes outside of Boston but sometimes I have meetings in downtown Boston. If I'm on time I'll park at the T (subway) station and take the T the rest of the way in but if I'm running late I'll usually drive directly in and park downtown. Sure it costs $20 for a couple hours but it is worth it when you are in a time crunch.

Making public transit the only way to get downtown is essentially saying you don't want people doing business in your downtown. Since taking public transit turns my 40 minute drive into two hours (each way).

Edit: of course I can park and take a taxi or Uber just like I can park and take the T but that adds a lot of time (and cost) to my trip. And that money is money I might spend at business downtown if I didn't just blow it on a taxi.
I don't understand this concept of banning cars, especially by removing parking spaces from cities under the pretext of a reduced environmental footprint. Norway is on the forefront of the EV revolution, so they can go "green" by just banning gasoline cars.

There seems to be a second movement hidden behind the climate debate and it's keen on removing private transport altogether (except bicycles, for now), apparently driven by people with a particular urban hipster lifestyle. This is a massive reduction of comfort, a burden for families with small children and people with disabilities, as well as businesses and logistics.
My attitude as well. If someone wanted to get in touch with me for something important, I imagine they would leave a voicemail or text or email me.

In my iPhone I have "do not disturb" setup and it only allows people in my address book through.
Just reading this on my phone, I have yet to try it. Anyone out there with experience, how does it compare to Paw for OS X? I moved from Postman and cURL to Paw because of the ability to take response fields as inputs to other requests mostly, but I've found it to be very pleasing to work with.
This is the correct answer! Tied to the spot price of power in London, it could be very inexpensive if run only at night (as well as using power delivered back into the grid by trains using regenerative instead of friction braking).
Many NYC subway tunnels are not 'tubes' and are shallow enough to have surface access. So part of the answer is probably that the NYC subway is a more open system.
Some people claim their ethics transcend nature, which is an entirely different. Nobody can explain why their version of the good is right with reference to objective criteria, thereby allowing everyone to come to the same conclusion. Ethics, when not studied from an anthropological perspective, is just religion.

Here in reality, you might not feel that might makes right, and I may or may not agree with you, but that's moot when some other ethical outlook out-competes yours via violence, oppression, demographics, or social trends and a thousand years from now someone is reading about your ethical system and laughing at its quaintness, or perhaps shivering a bit with horror.

Personally, I regard 'universal humanitarianism' as something of a suicide pact.
If the index (presumably the Nikkei, similar to the S&P 500) drops 3% in a single day, the stock exchange will stop all trading for a period of time.

This gives people the chance to cool off and not sell blindly in a panic, hopefully returning behavior to normal.

It also gives people the chance to intercept automated systems (stop-loss orders, things like that) if it's clear that e.g. it's a "flash crash" and not a more legitimate (for lack of a better term) drop.

It's a circuit breaker in the same way that a regular one works: It stops all activity (all trading) in order to protect the system (the economy) in the event that too much current is flowing through (too many sell orders, or too much volatility in the market).
I'm a huge electronic music fan (and of much less commercial stuff than my example) so it's not a slight on it at all. The problem isn't the style of music. The problem is that DJ's play recorded music and all recorded music (regardless of genre) is heavily compressed so has much less dynamic range. A live band will be much less compressed so there will be much greater and more frequent variety in volume. If a metal band were to get up and play their CD instead of playing live the same issue would occur.
If I am from out of town, I'm not learning your mass transit system just to meet a friend for lunch. Path of least resistance. It's not worth the effort when I can instead ask them to meet me somewhere with parking.
Well, you are going to have a bit of trouble with the USA since the postwar budget and taxes corresponds to the start of the boom. President Truman wanted to keep the taxes and budget but the House wouldn't. 1946-48 were pretty interesting years in the US economy. You can also look at the difference between the US government response to 1920 crash and the 1929 crashes.
The problem is the high long term (dozens of generations) cost of favoring short term and small area beneficial strategies for a long period of time (millennia).

The problem is kind of like the species level of version of the tragedy of the commons. These different tribes/breeds/races all preferring the short term preference of saving their territory/mate/child/self versus saving the lives (and infinite potential) of their stranger neighbors.

The evolution of life shows us the grand benefit of higher and higher levels of organization. Scaling rules. It forces the previously multi-use smaller pieces to over specialize, but the gain are unimaginable as the voyager space probe is to a amoeba.
The tragedy exposes some interesting data:

Fire deaths per thousand are lower in the UK compared to the US due to fire regulation --which are a result of lessons learned from The Great Fire, on the other hand the materials they used on that building (as well as some other UK blds) are banned in most advanced economies. Additionally, the manufacturer states the cladding should not be used on anything higher than a ladder engine can reach.
So while the material is a poor choice in any regard, the builder was egregious in utilizing it on a structure where ladder engines could not reach the highest floors.
NYT: A Cyberattack ‘the World Isn’t Ready For’
Yeah, I've got it bad. 25 years of techno/D&B with 1MW (really) sound systems in enclosed spaces. Ear protection sometimes. Ruptured an eardrum once. I was surprised to read about some of the really negative reactions to it. Mostly, it's like white noise to me and I'm able to ignore it, but whenever it's bothering me, I think back to some of the good times I had getting it :)
In all honesty, there are probably both zero days for both BSDs (the software was written by humans after all) and great reasons to prefer them that don't involve this argument. I'd finger the "security ethos" of OpenBSD in particular.
Thank you very much for the feedback!

This is on purpose (see operator precedence rules: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect#reference). Implicit multiplication (without an explicit multiplication operator) has a higher precedence than division in order for something like this to work:

tan(15cm/3m)

= tan(15cm/(3m))

On the other hand, explicit multiplication has a lower precedence than division, so you would have to write "1/12*c". I agree that it can be confusing at times (that's why there is a pretty printer), but I don't want the language/parser to be whitespace-aware.
I would be interested in seeing some empirical numbers on this. I live in NYC and have driven a Zipcar here a handful of times for errands. The experience is . . . not great.

This has made me wonder: who are these people in cars? And parked up and down the street? What are their reasons for using the mode of transport they do? I ponder this regularly. Sometimes I have the most irrational urge to go around and knock on people's windows to ask. I never do, of course.

I know for most things I do, the car would be the worst possible way to accomplish them. Walking or subway are better, and biking is best. But maybe for others the story is different. There are some obvious good reasons: tradespeople, delivery trucks, taxis and ride-sharing services. But who are the rest?

That said, I don't think you can really expect people to buy this claim without providing evidence.
My guess is that this works well if you have a workable public transit system (and since 61% of Oslo's carbon is apparently from public transit, they probably do).

When places like the SF Bay Area do stuff like this, it ends up being warped into NIMBYism where there is no meaningful investment in public transit or affordable downtown housing to counteract the reduction in car volume. It just increases discrepancies in housing costs, and increases the already punishing commute times of the middle class.

I guess eliminating parking would solve the "six figure salary and a trailer by the river" problem we're starting to have where young engineers just buy a motorhome and live out of that.
For those who aren't familiar with scratch, you can shift click on the green flag to make it run faster, and see the source here:https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/164407978/#editor.
Commodore/Amiga/Atari couldn't capture a big enough market.

Apple (Mac) was never open enough.

None of the UNIX companies would have ever made anything cheap enough to hit the mass-market until after Windows 95 came out.

Without Microsoft we could have ended up with some weird IBM world running OS/2. They might have even switched to Motorola eventually.

But Microsoft and Compaq made things open and cheap enough to get us to where we are today.
I'm not going to rideshare 15 miles into downtown on any sort of regular basis. I took a Lyft home from downtown last night after drinking and it cost me $40
> No need to ban all cars, just gas-powered ones.

Seconded. Especially since while riding a bicycle, people likely emit more CO₂ than an electric car. ;-)