skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify -- although I was hoping it would be conveyed by the tone and the flavour of my original post -- I don't have life problems. I also don't have a struggle to fulfill ambition: I passed the goal I set for myself at fifteen as a highschool dropout, and I did so with flying colours.

I love my life. I don't know, really, what would improve it a whole lot. Perhaps winning the lottery would help, although I wouldn't bet on it -- I have a lovely partner, a comfortable home, enough money to spend on hobbies and travel and, yes, drinking -- I make art and I make infrastructure, and everything is great.

But I still drink.
Become free? Netscape wasn't free. It didn't even try to be free before the Mozilla project really. In fact I remember switching to Opera before IE because Netscape was shitty.
>* Microsoft (parts of Visual Studio use it)

you mean vs code, which is a separate product from "visual studio"
Thank you for listening, and for thinking. No more, no less.
The ringback tones were immensely popular in China. Nowadays it has faded in popularity.
From what I understand F# is a pretty close version of Ocaml, but has the benefit of all the libraries of the full .net ecosystem.
I could accomplish anything. Except, maybe, being an astronaut: I've aged myself out of that one.

But who cares? You might, but I don't. What I have accomplished and what I continue to accomplish and what I care about accomplishing is providing for my partner and for my life and for my hobbies and for the happiness of those I love.

I'm doing just fine in that department.
VS and EdgeDevTools use InfernoJS I believe. Another VDOM implementation.
Both coincided with with revolutions in free thinking and civil liberties (first the enlightenment of the 17th century then the anti-monarchy reforms of the 19th century), and massive growths in prosperity. Coincidence? Maybe. 2 data points is not a lot to go on.
Ask HN: How to get a consumer social app off the ground?
Let's say I was building a something like snapchat, how do I start getting users for the app? This is a classic chicken and egg problem, so I would love to see some actionable advice on how to get users. Considering the target demographic is 13 to 25 year olds, how do I reach them?

Some points :

- I have no social media following

- No budget for ads

Keeping these constraints in mind, give me actionable advice on how to get my Snapchat like app off the ground.
Ask HN: How to get a consumer social app off the ground?
Let's say I was building a something like snapchat, how do I start getting users for the app? This is a classic chicken and egg problem, so I would love to see some actionable advice on how to get users. Considering the target demographic is 13 to 25 year olds, how do I reach them?
Some points :

- I have no social media following

- No budget for ads

Keeping these constraints in mind, give me actionable advice on how to get my Snapchat like app off the ground.

Some ideas :

- Reach out to individual users on social media

- Spam the comments sections on youtube
Huh, I thought that orbit details of all satellites was tracked. If not, collisions probably become much more of an issue.
It would be awesome if you can make a video /course on a topic you think everyone should know. I would be happy to pay for it to learn more about taxes.
Entity relationship diagramming is such an incredibly simple at powerful tool - it's criminal it's not mandatory for a degree.

Doing modeling without it is like analysing logic with without boolean algebra or 1st order logic.

And thete is nothing to it - it just focuses your thinking and communication.
I read the entire book and was disappointed as well. Little content (even taking into account the low number of pages), and very non-profound. I'm amazed at its success as well.
Fukushima’s tritiated water to be dumped into sea, Tepco chief says
They didn't because most of the UK public supports UK being a monarchy so if anyone made such a proposition it would probably be highly unpopular. But they did vote to leave the EU for not having it their way. This decision has always been more popular, since about 60% of the UK public voted to join the EC, not the EU.
Wow. Straw man galore.

Edit: feel like I should expand one this.

None of the opinions you mentioned are consistent across HN, nor are they supported by all of the same people. Not even a majority of HNers support most of those opinions. In fact, I think the only one of those that HNers do tend to support in majority is "But enforcing patent rights - that's bad."
For OpenWRT - at the moment the current code is at the fork called LEDE - here is a ToH: https://lede-project.org/toh/start - both projects want to reunite but it seems progress is slow - use the 17.01.2 release for LEDE at the moment - it's the most stable current version.

As for the hardware - If you want to use OpenWRT/LEDE you have to be selective about supported WiFi chips. ath9k is battle tested but no ac wifi. ath10k should work reasonable well if you only want to have an access point. Broadcom / Mediatek and others can have issues - stability or signal strength depending on the driver.

Check out kmod-sched-cake and sqm-scripts for the latest in research regarding bufferbloat - https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake/ together with airtime fairness - https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2016/ocw/system/presentations/... you can archive some crazy results in good wifi (only on ath9k / mt76 partly on ath10k).

If you want something off the shelf - Mikrotik and Ubiquity and to a degree TP-Link and Asus models get good reviews. In terms of hardware and antennas Mikrotik and Ubiquity are usally better.

You probably want 802.11ac and 5GHz - at the moment 802.11ac Wave2 is probably not worth the money because you need support on the client side and that is rare.

TP-Link Archer C50 would be my budget pick (30€) and runs LEDE - no Gigabit through. Archer C7 for Gigabit.

If you don't mind soldering a serial console and flashing LEDE using the bootloader get a used Cisco Meraki MR18 / MR24 without licence and wall mount kit for a few $ from ebay - top notch hardware and antennas (but ath9k not ath10k) and lot's of CPU / memory.
> Snapchat better have been worth it, as I can assure you that crushing Netscape wasn't worth what it cost Microsoft.

What exactly did it cost them?

Microsoft became irrelevant when the web took off, and the web took off partly because Microsoft made it free to crush Netscape. They dropped the price of browsers to zero.
Last year I worked at an electronic publishing firm which had wasted $3 million and 5 years on a Ruby On Rails application which was universally hated by the staff, and which we replaced with 6 clean, separate services. The problem with the Ruby On Rails app is that it was trying to be everything to everyone, which is a common problem for monoliths in corporate environments. But the needs of the marketing department were very different from the needs of the publishing department. A request for a new feature would come in from the blogging/content division which would be added to the Ruby On Rails app, even though it slowed the app down for everyone else.

Six separate services allowed multiple benefits:

1.) each service was smaller and faster

2.) each service was focused on the real needs of its users

3.) each service was free to evolve without harming the people who did not use the service

There was some duplication of code, which suggests a process that is the exact opposite of "Monolith First":

Start with separate services for each group of users, then later look to combine redundant code into some shared libraries.
> I just don't see how this argument makes sense.

Perhaps in that the alternative is even worse, but then that's not a great argument either, in part because even if people are paying attention, I don't think most people have the intelligence to understand the complexity of the world, especially when the government is lying to them.
React also on Monday. https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10191
If Facebook can has patents that cover Preact, they likely cover parts of every JavaScript framework out there.

React is a functional component library that uses the virtual DOM. It's well executed, but it's a simple concept.
True, that is how it got to the front page. But the guidelines aren't read by everyone and, even if they were, no one is perfect and even the most abiding of HN users will forget the ideals occasionally, especially when drinking alcoholic beverages. If this forum doesn't have constraints, what's the point?
PR submitted.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10194
i'm not a personal finance guy, although i did take that one class on private wealth in b-school.

I'll give you a quick one: mortgage interest deductibility makes basically all rent vs buy decisions a no brainer if you are any sort of normal net worth.
There's eBay to sell their shit.

There was a shortage of everything when I was a kid (not in US), so having everything in abundance is a huge plus for me.
Ask HN: Recommended OS for a college kid learning to program: Win or Linux?
Context: I am mentoring a college kid to learn to program using Python and the bit sized steps have yielded positive results so far.

Currently, he uses a NUC loaded with Win? Is it better he start to learn on Linux instead or is it just my bias (a mac/linux user)? As it is early days, the switch won't be expensive either.

What would you suggest and why? Thanks!
As far as I understood It is not compatible with other licenses, that is why the apache foundation doesn't allow it.

(But don't ask me which licenses, I have no idea)
A company the size of Facebook can't really get away with that scheme even if it were intentional. For one thing, I can sell the patent to a troll and let them do my dirty work. Or a company could buy you solely to get fuel to sue Facebook over.

If Zuckerberg signs a paper with the wrong title, there's a troll lawsuit the next day. So if you make a habit of "in practice" strongarming people, you can easily slip up and have a huge headache on your hands.
Why is having a monarchy that nobody voted to get rid of more democratic than having a president people voted for?

Why is your elected president hijacking the telephone network worse than your unelected queen hijacking your tv network?
But Google/Facebook/whatever can trivially link all of your accounts through the SSO (and when you access your accounts). Of course, Google can get some of that information from GMail and both can get it from tracking (and GP was talking about the other way around), but it is something to consider.
Common Probability Distributions
A Tesla Coil Gun That Produces Foot-Long Sparks (2012)
I think his point was that it's possible to get into those schools without a related degree.
Unless you want to IPO and get huge market share. Niches are fine but when you raise major VC and go public, generally speaking they are not.
Telegram app “full of terrorist propaganda” blocked
Among what crowd though? I bet that's true for a random sample of the street, but I doubt it is for SF engineers, for example.
Amusingly, the commit removes the LICENSE file which had the original LevelDb (from Google) copyright and LICENSE notice:

https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/3c327ac2d0fd50bbd...

Did RocksDB finally remove every last piece of code from LevelDB?

Disclosure: I work at Google, but IANAL.
Jerry (YC S17) is looking for full stack engineers
Rózsa Péter: Founder of Recursive Function Theory (1951)
Does the concept have to change, or the democracy? From where I sit, no one's party or idea does matter, it is all theater.

> We are dangerously close a critical mass of people deciding that "The Hamptons are not a defensible position.

I think this may be right, but the question is, will the US military shoot its own citizens? If a few things go the wrong way in the next decade or two, I think we're going to find out. Rather than stocking up on more guns and ammo, I think enthusiasts should make sure they have helmets, body armor, and some sort of a means of communication.
If Facebook has patents that cover React functionality. They almost certainly cover parts of other JavaScript frameworks. React is well executed, but it's conceptually simple.

I don't think avoiding React makes you any safer. You don't know how broadly Facebook or the courts will interpret their patents.
Namespaces are free. Public repos are free for unlimited data. Should we run a charity and also make private date free? :)

We understand that cleaning/filtering/preparation are key to the analysis, and we plan to support those operations as part of package construction. The question is whether or not that work should be done repeatedly, or once for the benefit of your collaborators.

You can store any kind of data in Quilt. Not just data frames. What's on Quilt today is just the beginning of what is possible.

Do you also dislike GitHub? We've opened up the client source and the community for as much free data as people can publish. It seems naive to expect that we wouldn't charge for anything ever. The users always and forever control their own data, by the way.
There was a black friday deal for the following router:

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10864

Which was easy to upgrade the firmware and then override so I could install Tomato.
"Exponential population growth in a resource-constrained system" is how biological systems have behaved for billions of years. It may not be pretty but very natural.
This argument never really made sense to me. Sure Europe/USA did tremendous environmental damage to get where we are, but better alternatives were invented in the process. That knowledge is available to developing nations. They don't need to repeat the same mistakes as others.
Where is it not mandatory for a CS degree?
Did anyone notice this submission is from a blog with exactly one article? No author, no additional info on the page.

Hosted on bluehost, amazon affiliate id wilha-20... great that this bubbles up.

Apart from that: I read the book earlier this year and had some good laughs. Nothing new, but really well written. I think this is what people need these days. Better this than have them watch/read another "The Secret".
This article sounds a lot like a big argument for Domain Driven Design without naming it.
Finance as a profession has not really embraced remote work (yet?), so I'm not sure why you think the fact that parts of the system are electronic matters. The workers are still collocated in big financial cities, which used to be London, but seems like it'll be Frankfurt now. As for why it's a banking city, well, it just feels like it. There's big buildings associated with banks everywhere, and it has that new building/office park financial sector feel. Plus there's literally a huge monument to the Euro.

I work in software like most of us, software being absolutely electronic, but my company hasn't really embraced remote work either, so hence I'm in NYC.
I always wondered, how do they count so many mosquitos? Is there a technique to determine that it's 20M?
The LevelDB copyright notice is still in place, so presumably no.
Not OP but I use IRC daily in channels like #nodejs and #elixir to get help and help others.
Does anyone know who is listening to YOU when that ring tone comes?
They were pushed heavily by operators in (parts of?) Europe in the mid 2000's, back when every other TV ad was for Jamba ringtones. I was on the operator "Three" and they let you set your ringback tone to "3 Is A Magic Number" for free much to the chagrin of absolutely everyone who called me.
SMEs will succeed through simple, clear and consistent rules
Re Google: You are mistaken. A big open source project by Google, gRPC, recently switched from BSD+Patents to Apache 2.0.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/11432
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/3047
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/1290
Reminds me of George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPy5Ikn7dw
I'd like to chat more about this. Quilt uses S3 and I think we could make the process of getting data into Databricks much simpler. Drop me a line if you'd like to discuss aneesh at quiltdata dot io.
You're equating HN and Silicon Valley there, and I'm not sure that's right. I also don't think the "Silicon Valley attitude" is the opinion of every person who lives in the area, just those who run it.

For all the complaints we see on HN about, say, Uber, it's still very much on top in SV and held up as a huge success story and model for other companies.

For the record, I think the OP was being hyperbolic. But there is an element of truth: Silicon Valley (rightly) criticises the things that hold it back, but is largely quite happy to stay silent about things it takes advantage of.
Unifi ER-X-SFP from Ubiquiti Networks.
PfSense on passively cooled j1200 celeron [1] running to a netgear PoE switch hooked to 3 ubiquiti unifi pro ac.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AJEJG1A/
New deep learning algorithm to diagnose arrhythmias better than cardiologists
The funding to fight against patent trolls isn't based on morality, it's based on profitability.

It happens to be the case that patent trolls are also immoral, but don't let that confuse you.
> The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate
directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent
Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or
in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of
its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating
to the Software. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its
subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent
infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a
patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is
unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate
under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS

The actual license text is what matters, not what some intern wrote on a page.
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The logic is inescapable.
Couple questions:

1) How do you steer an FEL?

2) These seem like they'd be pretty good for destroying hardware (drones, cell phones). Is that true?
+1 For LEDE/OpenWRT, I'm running 17.01.02 (uname -a=Linux LEDE 4.4.71 #0) I am using a TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1 and am very happy with it so far.

I would probably be more happy with ubiquiti unifi
I got 14/15 in the language quiz and after completing the full programming test, I was told I did exceptionally well (though I suspect that's what they say to all the boys) and was invited to schedule a Google Hangouts technical interview.

However, at some point along the way, I was automatically logged-in as "John Baker", a (presumably fictional) US citizen with a throwaway email address looking for work in San Francisco.

When I tried to edit the profile, I was told that they only work with companies hiring in SF and NY.

Thanks for wasting my time, Triplebyte.
You might want to check out https://reasonml.github.io/. It's a new syntax and set of tools for OCaml that are better in many ways but compatible with the existing ecosystem and tools.
Apologies for the dumb question, but what rights do you lose if the patent license is terminated?

I mean, if you can use the software without the patent license, what is the patent license giving you?
Didn't have the patience to sort through who knows how many options, so I just read The Wirecutter's comparison [1] and bought the one they recommended: TP-Link Archer C7 (v2).

[1] http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/
Anyone making decent money from a UWP app (not Windows phone) in windows store?
Anyone making decent money after developing a UWP app from the desktop side (not Windows Phone) in Windows store?
Any success stories?
Here is why: Half of the population wants to be part of the Western world. They believe in secularity and many other Western ideals. That's how Turkey became a close ally to US, part of NATO and almost became part of EU. Because this half had the control and the other half previously mostly lived in villages and wasn't interested in power. Then, as they moved to cities and as they became influential, the other half of the population took over the country and started applying middle eastern and Islamic ideals instead. And, they have so much ambition and hatred in them. They are ready to replace the democratic republic with a new Ottoman Empire that will probably be similar to Iran.

Expect West to kick out Turkey from NATO or Turkey to leave NATO soon since the islamists see west as evil.
There are large old growth forests in the Canadian boreal regions that are currently being destroyed by logging companies like Resolute. Since Canada has a strong government, Resolute can do things like file malicious lawsuits against non-profit organizations that are exposing this destruction:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-...

Brazil, in contrast, has a very libertarian government, so companies simply hire private hitmen to assassinate non-profit environmental group activists:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/13/environm...

Almost all of the old growth forest in the United States was destroyed by capitalism prior to World War I. For an extremely depressing photographic account I recommend the book Kinsey, Photographer: A Half Century of Negatives by Darius and Tabitha May Kinsey. It is a photo book of hundreds of photographs of the Pacific Northwest's giant tree forests being destroyed. The scale of these trees is almost impossible to comprehend today (only a few scattered patches of Giant Sequoias remain in California), and most of them were cut down to be made into small siding and roof shingles.

There are a handful of old forest groves left on private lands, and there are a few land trust organizations trying to save them. For example, I donate to the Save the Redwoods League, and their big project now is acquiring Mailliard Ranch.
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Just wanted to point out that I was swyping, lol.
They are. Not everything is published. In US tracking is done by military, not NASA.
How did Facebook was able to change the license of RocksDB so easily? The CLA is not a copyright assignment and therefore all contributors have to agree for the change. Did they contact anyone who has signed up the CLA?
1Password 6 for Windows is subscription only. You’d need 1Password 4 to work with local/Dropbox vaults.

Funny enough, 1P6 worked fine with my local/Dropbox vault during beta, then the app stopped letting me update my vault when it left beta. :\
Nice try NSA!

Omnia Turris, open hardware, OWRT by default, top tier hardware, HAC encryption, 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. The problem is that a lot of people think like that, so they don't do anything. It's sort of self-fulfilling.

It's like people who say that their individual choices won't help fight climate change, so they won't change their habits. A lot of people do that, then nothing happens and the problem just gets worse.