skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is bullshit even at current costs, $800bn is no where close to accurate, 14 trilion is by several factors a much closer number, considering most of the budget has been appropriated off budget as another person said. But if you read my comment, you'll see I have more accurate numbers.

Additionally, to ignore future costs is absolutely how we end up spending incredible amounts war mongering and passing the deficit to future administrations and people. If we correctly calculated the costs it would've been seen as outrageous. What you're saying is analogous to buying a car but not factoring in the cost of interest, when that interest payment is 25%, and the cost of maintenance and repair.

You provide zero proof to backup your claim as well. Show me something to change my mind, or read the linked book and educate yourself. Spouting lies does nothing valuable for society or yourself. Let it be known my degree is in economics, I'm not spouting off some list of bullshit facts from a "documentary" video on Youtube.
Interesing article, I hadn't spent the time to follow the drama of these frameworks as we are still using AngularJS 1.X at work. I enjoy working with AngularJS and would be satisfied to build future projects with it.

Will I be missing out if I choose to stick with an end-of-life framework that does everything I need or is it worth while to make the jump and invest the time to relearn something that I have already solved? Truly confused here.
I see grsecurity in the web hosting industry a lot. Tons of people have bought their snake oil (and major players in the shared hosting and multi-tenant hosting space are proponents of grsec).

I've always been uncomfortable with it, even though there are a handful of good ideas in there. Why would I trust something that isn't allowed to go through the normal quality vetting process as the rest of the kernel?
Google Home called 911 and the operator heard a confrontation in the background

I wasn't aware that it was legal for any unattended device to directly call 911 by itself in any USA jurisdiction. That's why alarm companies have human operators that discern whether local 911 is to be called.
newsmap.jp is a great tool. Wish it was opensource, or was for profit so I could pay for it.
Very generally speaking, no matter how I slice it, at best military defends against military. I know you can't just dismantle unilaterally overnight, but the question whether it fulfills a useful function in the big scheme of things, much less one that would excuse the atrocities, is an open one to me, to say the least. I tend to think "no".

Though it's absolutely not on to just blame the military for the military, civilian society elects the politicians that send soldiers into wars, civilian society ignores issues like this and elects the politicians that allow them to fester.

If this actual person didn't do their job because they considered it immoral, everything else being the same, someone else would be found for the job. If "everything else" changed, and the person would be the same (assuming for the thought experiment he's a horrible monster), they would still not get to do the job of lord space death or whatever.

So indeed the finger pointing at soldiers or generals is way too easy, and not productive. As skeptical and critical I may be of them, it's between themselves and their friends if they meet their responsibilities as human beings, just like it's for all of us. That person is much less interesting than the wider questions, and it's positively diabolical to spend more energy on demonizing people working within our (incentive) structures, than examining our potential propping up of those structures. Not that anyone is doing that, just generally speaking.

All that said, bleh to the militarization of space, there is no excuse for allowing it. Occupy Cape Canaveral!
That situation with library ebooks is widespread and is a prime example of imposed artificial scarcity. It seems silly to force tech that effectively provides unlimited supply to conform to the traditional library model of lending.

I much prefer a donations based model where anyone can read whatever they like, and then donate to the author if they feel inclined.
Not at all. I'd love to have any of that kit, it's aces.
Guess they need a customer for the SLS (Senate Launch System).
https://statesreport.com is a project I wrote as an alternative.
How legislators are enabling California’s housing crisis
Wow, the marginal cost of that 11th user is ridiculous ($67/mo).
That reads like the instructions on pick-up artist forums.
Good one. Not many people are going to get this joke, Key and Peele fan. :)
This is like Urban Dictionary meets Google Maps.

The results are both hilarious and practical. Great work here!
> But if other forms are cheaper, what does IPFS bring to the table such that someone would pay for your pinning service if its not cheaper or anonymous?

It's much harder to censor, more permanent (content doesn't go away if your server goes down), etc.

> And why wouldn't someone just use AWS and run their own node to pin it?

Because it's more expensive and more hassle than just using a third party service, of course.
Absolutely a factor. Fuel efficiency gains gets wasted on a lot of car models as they got larger and heavier. And it's larger and heavier cars that are the top sellers now (not just US, even in Europe cars are more bloated on the whole than 20 years ago).

Government should tax cars by weight. The heavier a car is, all other things being equal, the greater it's negative externalities. Heavy vehicles cause more road wear&tear, take up more street parking space, are more dangerous to other road users if an accident occurs, reduce visibility more greatly for other road users, worse for the environment.

In the large car arms race, everybody is a loser. Plus, smaller cars are just more fun to own and drive, heh!
It can be ported to py3 with no difficult though it is meant to be used as a tool to construct regex, it shouldnt be put in your programs for a matter of performance at all(mainly those that are critical). About some examples being long, i believe verbosity pays off in understanding complex systems, so yea, in some situations it wouldnt benefit using crocs unless you dont know regex and you dont want to spend some hours to get proficient in it.
Second this, in that I mostly don't want to maintain a current and relevant RSS list of a size that I would want to have. RSS is also a firehose which can be just as bad as a small list of sources.
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I'd agree that it frequently can be. It's not always luck however.

There's another component to it. Actually spotting that the time has arrived for a thing, that a confluence of technologies is ready to make something new possible at a formerly impossible scale (or possible period). That doesn't have to be luck. Paul Allen watched like a hawk what was going on in the very early personal computing market, he was aggressive and relentless in doing so, as well as about prodding Gates about starting a business around it (Gates then played brake to Allen being frequently early with an idea). That Microsoft was one of the first software companies, wasn't luck, they saw the opportunity after watching it for years and then acted. It took a lot of intentional time and effort application for Allen to accumulate the knowledge and skill necessary to see that opportunity coming.

That's the case with Tesla. The iPhone. And so on.

Jobs didn't like the Newton because he believed it was a crap user experience. He was right, the time was wrong for the technology. He did the iPhone because he believed the time was right, that several technologies were ready to come together in a small form factor that could produce a high quality experience. That wasn't luck, it was decades of evolved knowledge and skill looking at a problem / opportunity.
I'm not running a nonprofit, but I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (along with a few research / technical businesses) and contribute to a blog about grant writing: http://www.seliger.com/blog

Most nonprofits are actually struggling with the same thing businesses are: How do they use resources effectively? How can they take in more cash than they spend? How can they decide what services to offer? Nonprofits are more like businesses than most people think: http://seliger.com/2012/09/02/why-nonprofits-are-more-like-b...

One key difference in many respects is that businesses have customers or clients while nonprofits' principle customers or clients are actually funders, rather than service recipients, and that can create some odd incentives and behavior.
I grew up knowing myself to be a 'Manc' before I found out it was short for 'Mancunian'. When I eventually left Manchester and moved to London I was just known as a 'Northern Monkey' to the locals. Now I live in New Zealand I'm just a 'POHM'.
I'll be a Red Manc till the day I die.
Wow so many errors. I'm guessing this is still early in it's development?
GoCardless (YC S11) Is Hiring Software Engineers/SREs/Data Scientists/PMs(London)
No. Regressive means it reduces as the quantity increases. Regressive pricing is a good thing for products. Progressive pricing like progressive taxation would suck!
Just the other week I stumbled on the CDPH's excellent data site when trying to find the old page they had for immunization data. Besides making a data portal where datasets are easier to find, I feel it's important to give the CDPH a shout-out for good-practices when it comes to overhauling their websites.

So this was a file I was trying to access which worked on the CDPH's old site:

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/2016-17_C...

If you visit that site, you get this excellent 404 page, screenshotted below: http://imgur.com/a/7z7xJ

Maybe I've run into too many poorly-maintained government (and non-gov) websites, but here's why the 404-page impressed me.

1. Written for laypersons ("May we assist you in locating information during our transition?")

2. Contains contextual information about why the 404 happened ("Our most popular content is moving from our former site which was renamed to https://archive.cdph.ca.gov on May 1, 2017.")

3. Contains bullet point tips on how to find that old URL ("Try replacing the 'cdph.ca.gov' or 'www.cdph.ca.gov' portion of the URL with 'archive.cdph.ca.gov' in your web browsers address bar." and "Please use our search on https://cdph.ca.gov using the topic of interest.")

In other words, the old file I was trying to find can be found in the archive domain:

http://archive.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/2016-...

Just the fact that they archived their old site so that the near-decade of URLs accumulated are exactly mirrored onto a subdomain is an impressive amount of planning and courtesy in itself. But to have a 404 page at all, nevermind a helpful one, is a pleasant surprise when it seems the status quo is to do an auto-redirect that confuses the hell out of laypersons and technical-skilled folks alike.

FWIW, the immunization data used to be provided in a set of Excel spreadsheets, one URL for each year. It was a fun web-scraping/collating exercise, but now the data portal has it in convenient, tidy (as in, "tidy data") CSV:

https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/school-immunizations-in-kin...
Upvoting so someone at Google can look at this.

I won't use a Google product if I can avoid it because their support is terrible and automated. At their scale I imagine any customer slight can be rounded off because of the sheer number of customers they have.
Could be. I'm just a software engineer with a high pain tolerance and a lot of tenacity who is trying to make conclusions from lots of error-ridden data. It seems difficult to find experts in this space. I've interviewed several statistics Ph.d. from reliable schools, but no luck yet. By the way, sampling doesn't seem to help because all of the data is relational. Or, maybe I don't know how to sample it effectively.

Anyway, in my case, I have data feeds, but none of them are 100% reliable. There is error, and I can guess the error. I want to infer things from the data, but I know that the conclusions are unreliable. So, I want to know how unreliable my conclusions are, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I'm an amateur here. But, My independent research led me to things like MCMC and probabilistic programming which allows me to model things better.
New Zealand is another interesting one. Our demonym is "Kiwi" from the bird. I guess technically it's "New Zealander", but I don't think I've ever heard someone use that.
Trello said they're staying free forever.
Gender Discrimination in Tech? Why Are We Surprised?
To belabor the point, it is my understanding that CentOS is literally identical to RHEL minus a couple identifiers (/etc/issue and the like) and a license with a support contract. You can even convert it into RHEL by buying a license and installing a couple packages.
I have a feeling the AirBnB story runs afoul of anti-spam laws. Perhaps even some sort of fraud, as they used an array of fake names with the intent to deceive as to the source of the emails.
That's a pattern many dating sites used to do. They crawled competitors' sites and uploaded pics taken from profiles, preferably of good looking women. It's downhill from there.
As compared to "introvert"?
Google Home alerts New Mexico sheriffs to alleged assault
> Sure one learns details, but all the evidence points to there being no game-changing secrets that the hoi polloi are not privy to.

All of what evidence?

And, for that matter, what "hoi polloi?" Surely you're not implying that every wealthy person in the US is fully aware of every US government secret and classified operation.
I need an accurate way to count words on a variety of documents, with and without renderable text. Could be an image, pdf, docx, etc. The renderable text isn't an issue, but the non has been for me. I've tried several OCR products and none have worked well as we often have something like an image of a hand written document or a low quality scan of an old document. Maybe something with computer vision instead of OCR is the right solution though as I don't need to know what the text says, I just need a count of the words or characters for languages that use symbols.
Or, you believe in your product enough to keep pushing forward, while also building out your company to survive the rough times until that happens. That means not blowing through VC money on frivolities, expecting a worst case scenario of struggling for years and years before the world catches on, building tech that can be reused intelligently and hiring people who understand that this is a crawl despite calling your development cycle a sprint.
Stripe in Hong Kong and Alipay and WeChat Pay Globally
Having used both react and Angular... Angular is a massively over-engineered mess. It abstracts away so much of web app development that anything built using it will be obsolete the moment Google stops supporting it.

It abstracts away error handling, the http client(????), compilation, uses (still) non standard decorators to function. I would be fine with this if those were broken parts of JavaScript, but those are some of the few things that work fine.

Instead of paving over the bad parts of JS they built a platform within a platform. Not to mention the learning curve is insane because of this. Might as well throw your knowledge of JS and browsers API's out the window because you won't be using any of those in Angular4.

It's the new webforms
Im looking for a curated major news service i.e. stories curated from various major newspapers.
Seems like the root cause here is the drive sync app is 32 bit and thus running into the 2GB memory limit. I wonder if it's built with LARGEADDRESSAWARE? Otherwise you could hex edit that into the PE header and get double the usable address space as a possible workaround.
The fact they haven't refunded him yet is quite disturbing
This doubles as a nice advertisement for dynalist. It looks like Workflowy but more functional.
NuChwezi SocialTech Labs, introduce tech meant to disrupt African marriage
What are the odds this suddenly actually gets attention when it hits the front page?

Do you really have to publicly shame a company into action?
Yeah some of my best friends are the ones who I've focred to go with me to an airport for 2 days. Not sure if they can say the same though
This is why Dropbox has value. It works, its reliable, and if you're a paying customer you can get support.

Spend the $10/month. Don't go on for more than half a year with your storage being broken.

Disclaimer: no affiliation except a satisfied pro account user

EDIT: Edge cases notwithstanding.
That's super interesting about demographics with a long history of agriculture. Do you have any links for further reading on that?
yes, and I suppose it should be mentioned I have no relation to the author. Thanks weeantsy!
They have gone one step further, and explicitly ignored the request.
muscles DO get bigger when you consume more calories then what your body requires for "maintenance". except of course unless your testosterone levels are exceptionally high most of those calories would go into fat storage.

you might know that this calorie surplus will last "forever" but your body doesn't so to speak so it's choosing a safe bet survival strategy-wise.
Evolution does build machines. It is a master of nanotechnology.
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too expensive at any price.
The redesign isnt an issue...works well enough on desktop. I just refuse to use a news service where 50% or more of the health stories are viagra spam. Completely unacceptable. Especially since people have been reporting it to google for the past month. It makes me wonder about the quality of their curation.
Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay about how at Viaweb, they sometimes used to fix bugs (in the Lisp code) while the customers who reported them were still on the phone, and then the support staff would tell them to check whether they were sure it was a bug, by trying again - and since the bug was now fixed in the server, when they did that operation again, it would work.

I think it was in his Beating the Averages essay - the one in which he talks a lot about the advantages Lisp gave them at Viaweb, over the competition.
It also looks weird when I see that the article lives on the vendor's own web site. There's no way Atlassian would title it like that.
Im looking mostly for a news curation service.
No, 'intravert' is not correct AFAIK
Personal advice: Spend one time 30$ on insync https://www.insynchq.com/ The Google Drive Sync application (which is internally python on Mac and Windows I heard) is horrible and a memory and cpu hog. Insync solved all my problems and with that software I could replace Dropbox.

BTW: Filipino guys engineered that. I'm proud that I have one piece of Filipino software running here :D
I've wondered for a while why so many restaurants on Seamless etc. have physical locations (or rather, why there are so few that don't).

Surely it would be a no-brainer to do delivery only, and optimize for that. Select a few cuisines, get great chefs to develop recipes that anyone can be trained to execute flawlessly, set up locations strategically situated to minimize delivery time/distance. It might not end up being Michelin-star-quality food, but then none of the places I order deliver from are, either.

As a consumer, my biggest problems with delivery are speed and quality. Places I order from routinely take 60+ minutes to deliver, even if they're close by. Quality is the bigger problem, and I suspect a lot of people feel the same.
https://pEp.foundation Supporting Freedom of Speech, Privacy, Freedom of Information.

Tough fight. Politically complex.
I'm surprised nobody has cloned it, treemaps aren't exactly obscure and they're criminally underused. Thanks for reminding me about this, I'd forgotten about it and it's just what I needed to unpin the now-ruined Google News.

People put a lot of the blame on FB, but I think Google is as much to blame for the epidemic of fake/crap news as anyone. I have been appalled at the shitty quality of stuff showing up in my google news feed and treated as being on a par with other sources over the last year or two. It's obvious taht google only cares about this as a market rather than anyone there being invested in News as an end in itself.
Yea, If you look at the Supports responses they don't even mention anything about a refund, but just tell him to cancel his subscription
why exactly ? just watched a bit of this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb505KRHEI and i did not get the feeling that he does not know what he is doing
Commentary on this from earlier in the week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14728094
It is really interesting how similar the Russian space shuttle is in design to the American space shuttle. Kinda like how all of China's latest generation fighter jets look suspiciously similar to their American counterparts... https://www.defensetech.org/2015/09/29/lawmaker-chinese-j-31...
The Strange Way That the Virus CMV Hijacks Cells
For anyone else who didn't manage to skim the right parts of that massive communication log, here is a link to the bug in question.

https://support.google.com/drive/forum/AAAAOxCWsTomo298Ko1vU...

> Google Drive Error D41D "Unspecified Error" when trying to upload/sync large amount of files (700GB/1.2 Million files)
Support for G-suite had been great in my experience, but you're paying for it (unless you're a school/University)
edit: disregard.
Wow, that's enraging and really bad, even for a company as... unique in its approach to customer support as Google.

I really hope someone on Drive is reading this and can escalate, but it's really bad that it takes a highly voted post on Hacker News to get some kind of resolution. Even "it's too expensive to fix this, here are your files and a refund from when it started breaking" would be infinitely better than this.
> Currently, Grsecurity is a commercial product and is distributed only to paying customers. My understanding from several reliable sources is that customers are verbally or otherwise warned that if they redistribute the Grsecurity patch, as would be their right under the GPL, that they will be assessed a penalty: they will no longer be allowed to be customers, and will not be granted access to any further versions of Grsecurity. GPL version 2 section 6 explicitly prohibits the addition of terms such as this redistribution prohibition.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the GPL. The GPL merely requires corresponding source to be made available alongside binaries, so if you get a binary from someone you have a right to the corresponding source from that person. It does not require anyone to offer you a binary; it merely says if they did, you can get the corresponding source.

GRSecurity has no obligation to provide you a binary, they can decline to offer you one because you have a silly walk or a 13-character username or you exercised your rights under the GPL. The GPL does not entitle you to product updates or to continue to be a customer of someone who doesn't want you as a customer, it merely entitles you to corresponding source for binaries.

Some would say GRSecurity's practice violates the spirit of the GPL, but the GPL is not a spiritual entity, it's a legal document, and if you want a legal document that produces a different outcome you can write one up.

Also, you should read the fine print from any other Linux vendor – RHEL, Oracle, etc. You don't have to go on "my understanding from several reliable sources", the documents actually state they'll terminate you as a customer if you redistribute their stuff.
Throw-away for various reasons, and probably not a non-profit in the traditional sense, but the nonprofit I run is a medical marijuana shop.

Struggling with the most is the industry in general. From banking, to landlords, to police, vendors, paying employees, and everything in between. It's a really interesting business full of awesome problems to tackle and there's never a dull moment, but it's definitely a challenge.