skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned this the hard way when google authenticator failed to restore my keys after a phone upgrade. Now I make sure I copy the data from those QR codes and store them in a GPG encrypted file (I store the data and the QR code itself as utf-8 art in the file).
Nice article. I used the "$9,999 on where to put it" for years; didn't know it was Steinmetz. After reading biographies on Tesla and Heaviside, I suppose Steinmetz is next on my list.
This link is quickly buried by HN's algorithm, but it is really interesting, more so is a link to the new startup of Mary Lou Jepsen: https://www.opnwatr.io/
While I agree that the state of the Foundation frameworks should be better, I would not go as far as saying Apple is disinterested. Just lower priority. Also, seeing how Swift has evolved, the community has a very large impact on the direct Swift is taking.
Zoho is pretty much free for personal uses. They charge per user per month, but under 25 users is free, and if you're not a business you don't have that many users.

I have numerous personal projects that are web sites/web apps and I use Zoho to get emails at all those domains.

I don't know if this is frowned upon by Zoho, but if you don't want to use their UI, you can set up your regular personal Gmail account to act as a POP3 client and just retrieves emails from Zoho that way. (now that I wrote it out, it makes me think it can't be frowned upon, simply because POP3 is even offered as a feature there)
Since when is a CEO of a coal company an authority on environmental impact? I suppose it's whatever fits someone's agenda. Reminds me of that video of the 'Weather Channel CEO admitting climate change is not real'. I don't see how this claim is any different. Let science answer the questions, not CEOs.
Making the most of an SRE service takeover – CRE life lessons
Working on a dream (job)
You right about that, you ask a difficult question that a even human could not answer correctly as it isn't precise enough.

All I actually do know from that question is that it is related to insurance cover abroad. But do you mean car insurance? Travel insurance? Health insurance? As we do not have an intent for "unknown insurance cover abroad" yet, we fail to help you further. This happen sometimes for many contexts, but we work hard to improve this. We do cover this kind of questions very well when people have login issues, as this is the most common inquiry we have in production. It can be a range of problems from token issues, cell phone issues, technical issues on the website or that the account is simply blocked. But we often manage to help people find the final solution without involving a human.

My point is, we can solve this today, we just need more training data. Chatbots are not perfect, but with more training data they will become better, and be a highly praised service. Finding information using natural language is the future. I'm confident that we will solve most of the edge case inquires soon.
One of the things that gives us (Matrix) enormous hope for the future is the shift we've seen in the Decentralised Web community over the last few years, where projects who in the past might have competed now support each other.

In the end, there is an incredibly small handful of developers working on decentralised infrastructure, who generally share very similar ideology and goals, pitted against an entire industry which defaults to holding users hostage in silos. We gotta stick together to prevail :)

So, Urbit: huge thanks for the support - we really appreciate it. And good luck on your side too!
I'm sorry but I call bullsh*t on a lot of aspects on this story. I think this may have been true 5-10 years ago, but not now, not the way the Web works now. Everyone ignores those cross-link e-mails. Getting the amount of articles he says is NOT enough; you need more. You just don't get high-quality content for .05 cents a word. And that's just for starters. I know, why would this person lie? But really, for those of us who do the Web day in, day out, there's a lot that just does not ring true in this post.
great sales leads for recruitment agencies as well LOL!
Having worked in the real estate industry for a time, it's ripe for disruption. Redfin is going to have a problem when it paves the way for a flat rate competitor, but right now it's doing a massive service to buyers and sellers.
The quote's first appearance is in E&E News [1]:

[Robert] Murray yesterday commended President Trump's announcement that he would try to boost some coal exports, but he said that ultimately what the sector needs is for EPA to nix the endangerment finding.

[Energy Secretary Rick Perry] also has touted carbon capture and sequestration technologies for coal plants, even as he questions whether climate science is settled.

Murray said carbon capture won't help, either.

"Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It's a pseudonym for 'no coal,'" Murray said while waiting for a ride outside DOE headquarters. "It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration. It is just cover for the politicians, both Republicans and Democrats that say, 'Look what I did for coal,' knowing all the time that it doesn't help coal at all."

Murray acknowledged that the legal fight over the endangerment finding would be "tough." He thinks that's because climate activists and renewable power producers want to keep making money off climate change.

"All these people will be jumping on this on the other side because it's all about money, but it is not about America. America needs reliable, low-cost electricity, and that is a mix of different fuels," he said.

Murray's stance refers to the 'endangerment finding', which holds that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act -- a 2009 finding by the EPA after the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA. He disagrees with this interpretation -- particularly about carbon dioxide being classed a pollutant -- and is arguing that the decision should be reversed under the Trump administration, while pointing out that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is largely a phrase that has been hijacked by politicians to tout too-good-to-be-true solutions.

[1] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858
It's McMansion... it's faux British, not faux Scottish. (Yeesh!)
It depends - but once that happens he is likely in the clear. The FCRA(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act) states that once a debt is acquired by a new party, you(the debtor) can demand a proof of debt. If you don't get it in 30 days after the demand, the debt is null and void. If you do get it - proceed directly to small claims court and dispute it with all your documentation, and ask for an immediate bench ruling. There are precedents for this type of thing, and they are on the poster's side.

IANAL
If you are looking for an alternative I've been using KSoftware for years, they are cheap and good.
Oh, yeah I agree! I didn't mean to sound like I was knocking it. Good journalists know they need an enticing title
Well, I added up the cost of the components alone and it's $4776.53 before taxes and shipping. If you make $597.83 net per month, that will come out to $7173.96 per year. But $597.83 / month is not the net gain, it's the gross gain. You need to subtract the cost of the utilities used to run your machine, and you need to subtract income tax, assuming you are following the law.

I have no idea how often the individual components break down, but you'd have to take that cost into account as well. You'll probably want to upgrade components as they become obsolete. Then there's the thing about there being no guarantee that cryptocurrencies will continue to be worth something at all (market/concentration risk). If your rig doesn't make as much money as you were expecting and you need to sell the whole rig for parts, how much will you actually be able to get back? (liquidity/horizon risk)

The point is, this comes out to a lot of work for only ~$2000 for your first year, and it's not guaranteed that the subsequent years of running the rig will be without their own costs. At first sight, a 33.5% return on investment looks great, but you need to consider the risks before jumping in.
Yes, both stages are still present in that approach, and that is a good thing, because clearly it is useful to separate lexing and parsing. It's just that the two stages are intertwined and thus lexing can be dependent on the parsing context. So it is not really going from "raw text to parsing".
Don't forget Turkey&co is buying oil from daesh.
This is all about timing. Murray want to do cheap coal plants to be as profitable as possible. Trump is the guy that can allow him to.
Sorry, I meant hosting. In hindsight, the domain was actually my best asset (it’s a PR 4 domain), so I should’ve kept that :( )
I agree. Isolate your shit. I know it's more work, but still do it.
But is investing in stocks something you would want high school graduates to pick up?

I always thought of stock-picking as something that the average Joe should be careful with. Trading on less information than insiders and slowly being eaten by fees and taxes. It's an under EV game.

Besides that there's the wisdom of crowds that will eventually follow the trends and invest irrationally (pump and dump). That's how bubbles are created.
Well, she certainly proved that there's at least one problem whose solution she can sometimes produce faster unaided than at least one high school student with a calculator.
Doesn't solve the Windows scary warnings issue.
I built itrackmine.com (http://mashable.com/2008/12/26/itrackmine/). And its killer recommendation engine (books, movies, and music) -- we knew what you owned from all stores, not just what you //bought// at Amazon (or single store) so ours were extremely accurate. Along with a "user A is this similar to user B" system...and the whole tracking, sharing, mobile app, barcode-scan, manage-your-stuff-package.

Made $10 over the ~8 years it was up...from one donation. Yey.
On the contrary, he seems to the the kind of person that knows about the bureaucratic nature of NHTSA and cut his losses.
As someone who was using the Amazon Affiliate program, probably because it can go from $8-9k to zilch in a day. I wasn't making near that much, but our state was pulled from the program after a sales tax law.
I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl.

There must be a pithy term in German for what I'm trying to point at.
I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the realtor and charge a reasonable flat fee ($1000?) to buy/sell a house and handle all the related details.

Why do we need realtors at this point? Everyone finds houses themselves online nowadays. Why does anyone need to pay a whopper commission to some middle-man?
Would they? Those drop out often enough already, without being subject to the vagaries of the local microwave environment in order to power themselves at all.

Don't get me wrong - I love my Rowkin Mini, and a self-charging Bluetooth earbud would be an awesome thing to have! I'm just not sure how realistic a prospect that really is.
Do you have anything written about the components & configuration, by any chance?
Still a hassle you shouldn't have to go through.
There are a lot of scammers out there around this area. Unfortunately this is not an area that is easy to outsource. If you try, you usually end up paying somebody £5k, of which they pocket £1k for non productive ads. But fortunately it is learn-able with the old college try.

I run a very successful agency. I don't do consulting, but if you put your email address in your profile I'll give you a 5 minute assessment.

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What scope are you looking at? UK only, or other geo's too?

What scale is meaningful for you? £1m rev? £10m rev? £100m rev?

What are your #1 or top sku's in terms of popularity / profitablity ?

Who are your closest comparable companies? we have "Boll and Branch" here in the US. are there others that have brand awareness in UK?
Write to Fred Wilson fred@usv.com (investor in coinbase)

Guaranteed that you will see the escalation that you need. You may want to provide links to others complaints about the same that you can find but make it short and simple.
Yes, this is the reason I know that the + character is %2b in a url. I've had to manually type it on so many crappy unsubscribe links (they don't realize + needs to be escaped because the web server they are using is doing the old-school + => space translation).

The nice thing about running my own email server is I configured it to use . and _ as well as +. me.xxxx@example.com and me_xxxx@example.com are pretty much guaranteed to work, and it ends up exactly the same as the +.
Does that provide the same integration into Windows that Authenticode does? Plus timestamp, dualsign, and cross-sign?
Well, debian is a volunteer effort, it's hard to force stuff on people that will just stop contributing if it doesn't feel fun enough.
So you are saying that one needs to pick a mildly occupied niche in a relatively high demand for the organic approach to work.

I understand the possibility, but this will not work that well:

– for any market where you have competitors with decent content on the first page already

– in future because the number of niches in this state decreases each day

A company who wants to compete in more or less established market will have no choice but work on link building.
"The difference is shippability"
If you aren't paying your bills, then you shouldn't be surprised that it gets shut down.
A little trivia for those of you who give your zip code to retailers as "12345"--- this zip code is used for Schenectady, New York.
Not all CEOs are empty suits. Some have to know a shit ton about their subject matter in order to make good decisions.

The remarkable thing about a coal CEO saying clean coal is bullshit is that it is seemingly against his own interest. CEOs rarely speak out publicly against their company's own product. It's the equivalent of Philip Morris eventually coming out and admitting that smoking causes cancer.
I'd be worried about them sending your account to collections -- would be annoying to take a credit hit over this ... insane as it is that you have no ability to resolve this situation now without hardship, you also won't have hardship free resolution path after it goes to collections ...

I guess if it goes to collections you'll at least then be able to pay the debt collector -- but you'll still take a credit hit ...
Sure but then you are giving an advantage to the more visual people no? Can't I just flip your argument?

Sure, you can flip the argument. You'll be wrong, but you just did it.

People naturally lean towards understanding using different methods. Each mode of thinking has strengths and weaknesses, and so do people. Some things are better understood visually. Other things not. Some things have the best way of understanding varying by person.

So yes, on some things you'll have an advantage over me because you're visual. On some things I'll have an advantage over you because I probably understand complex abstract relations more naturally than you do. And your insistence that everyone is best off trying to think like you do is completely misguided.

Anyways I've explained my position enough. If you don't wish to get it, you won't. I'll let other people take over the task.
Random people will make different choices because it's real money, for one.
With California housing prices surging, developers can’t build enough homes
I kind of see chargeback as a potential resolution for this. If you lost access to your account and can't shut down billing via the normal route, you could still stop payments from your bank or credit card. That is the ultimate source of truth anyway, in regards to payments, so you could "prove" who you are by stopping all continuing payments to the service.
Curious how you guys use contexts?
Strategy #4: Create Beauty, Don’t Avoid Ugliness. Weak pianists make music a reactive task, not a creative task. They start, and react to their performance, fixing problems as they go along. Strong pianists, on the other hand, have an image of what a perfect performance should be like that includes all of the relevant senses. Before we sit down, we know what the piece needs to feel, sound, and even look like in excruciating detail. In performance, weak pianists try to reactively move away from mistakes, while strong pianists move towards a perfect mental image.

of all of the comments this one seems most relevant to development. instead of comparing a thing to its ideal, weak shops are just generally afraid of change because they dont really know whats going on. if you know exactly what you want to build, and something doesn't sit right, then fix it. leaving it alone out of fear just allows your project to continue to evolve into a shapeless unmanagable mass.
Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber
It's not exactly thriving.
I take it you haven't actually tried disputing debt. It's not a simple process, and can wreak havoc on your credit even if you are clearly not at fault.
I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process.

All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
Wouldn't the consequence be that a fraudster gets complete access to the account and starts doing nefarious stuff?
I bet it's a combination of things. West coast cities are more desirable for younger people, there's better weather, a more socially liberal climate, more employers and other young people to interact with, and the networking opportunities. Plus overseas investors looking to put their cash in safe haven, but I would ascribe most of it to it just being a more desirable place to live.
If he knew about it then why would he have even started the project? It's obvious that regulators would be involved in a project like this. I don't see how he didn't anticipate this from the start.
Fileloupe for Mac (https://www.fileloupe.com)

Videoloupe for Mac (https://www.videoloupe.com)

These are both macOS applications that have yet to reach enough in sales to be sustainable. However, I work on them full-time in hopes of reaching sustainability in the near future.

"Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be..."

Exposure and importance. Getting exposure for a macOS application (or any application for that matter) is tough. The lion's share of excitement these days is around mobile applications and web services. Trying to get publishers excited enough to write about a desktop application is challenging...

Importance is something that's taken me a little bit to understand. There might be some "utility" or "nice to have" applications for macOS that make a decent living, but I think if you really want to turn an application into something that has long-term sustainability, then you need to find a way for your application to become essential to a user's workflow. Excel, Lightroom and Final Cut Pro are all essential applications to their respective user's. Fileloupe and Videoloupe are "nice to have" apps in their current versions. People enjoy them, but they aren't essential.

With the exception of maybe a few outliers, I'm not convinced that you can make a living selling macOS apps for $10 and hope to make up revenue on volume. I think you need to get into a higher price range and if you want to sell a more expensive product to someone, then it has to fall under the "essential" category and not the "nice to have". That's my goal with Fileloupe 2.0 and Videoloupe 2.0, but there's a ton of development to do.

(Oh, and I'd forgot how much more work went into making a macOS application versus an iOS application. To say that my original time estimates were off is a laughable under-statement.)

"How much time/money did you spend building it..."

Development on Fileloupe started in the spring of 2014 and version 1.0 shipped in the summer of 2015. Development on Videoloupe started in the summer of 2016 and 1.0 shipped in the spring of 2017. Living expenses have been cut drastically over the years so that I can continue to do this full time. (Hint: Living in Thailand is a lot cheaper than living in San Francisco or Vancouver...) Sadly, I don't belong to any special "comma club" so there's an end-date to this dream if profitability cannot be reached.

"What kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it"

I learned a ton building version 1.0 of each product. Arguably, I learned more than I should of and likely would have been better off starting with a bit more of a plan and clearer vision for each app. Regardless, I now have a much better idea of what each app should be and I'm hard at working on version 2.0 for each.
Exercise is good for nearly everything. We evolved to be active, not to be sedentary. The more you can move, the better.
You should read TFA:

""Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It's a pseudonym for 'no coal,'" Murray said while waiting for a ride outside DOE headquarters. "It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration. It is just cover for the politicians, both Republicans and Democrats that say, 'Look what I did for coal,' knowing all the time that it doesn't help coal at all."
just learned about the gossip support, pretty interested in it too.
Nope, sorry. You might be interested in Mike's solo album -- https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fellow-prisoners/id5013550
Most cities charge <$50 for small claims court hearings too.
Symptoms >> Doctor appointment

Doctor >> Diagnosis

Diagnosis >> Treatment

Treatment >> Positive results (if negative, Doctor will explore a different solution)
In the former case, the inflation was due to sketchy MBS's. In the latter case, price inflation in major city center's suburbs are causing the cost of building materials to go sky (lumber I believe is up 16% in the past 6 months), thus making a house that was once 100$ a square foot to build now 135$ a square foot.
Do you think Disney creates characters to help with toy sales?
I know that was a thing in the days of GI Joe.
My first attempt was a music site called "Rhythmscore" (no longer own the domain) written mostly in bad PHP. It was awesome, 100% ad-supported, and it was obviously going to make me filthy rich. Small, indy artists would upload their music, and visitors to the site would listen to songs (in random shuffle-order) and give them a numerical rating. The songs with the highest "Rhythmscore" would be displayed on a leaderboard, etc.

One thing I discovered, which surprised me, was that it was very easy to convince artists to get involved and upload their stuff (free exposure I guess). Getting regular users/music fans to care was not. I think I made a grand total of ~$40 in ad-revenue over about a year before I shut it down. Lesson: Ad-revenue doesn't work unless you're getting truly massive amounts of traffic.

Next attempt was a homeschool tracker-type application written in Ruby-on-Rails. The thing shuffled along, zombie-style, for 2 years with about a dozen paid subscribers before I conceded that it wasn't going to be successful and shut it down. Lesson: Stay away from the homeschool market. Egads, those folks are cheap (I should have known: we homeschool our son, and I'm cheap).

I'm currently preparing to launch my latest attempt, a productivity (intended to be a B2B SaaS, though could be useful for personal productivity as well) application written mostly in Clojure on the backend and ES6/mithril on the frontend. It's certainly my best work (from a technical standpoint) so far. I wrote it to use myself for a few things... We'll see if anyone else finds it useful. I certainly learned a ton building it.