skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, we're probably doing it wrong. The Internet allows you to obtain many, many of the day-to-day answers in the blink of an eye. One would think that this is great, because theoretically, by virtue of such a shorter question-answer loop, you are freeing up more time to interact with your fellow human beings, have meaningful conversations with them, learn from them.

What I think happens is this: most people simply don't care that much about making contact. Not so much because everything can be found on the Internet, but rather because they are turning into less of a social animal than, maybe, we as a species used to be in the past.

In a way, I would argue that the fact that we can be more independent because BosnianBill on YouTube teaches you how to pick locks without you needing to ever leave the house, means that you feel like you don't need other people to be around in order to get answers or learn some cool skill.

To be completely honest, while I don't have any experience of living in any city that can be considered even remotely big, I have a hunch that, ironically enough, living in a huge city such as NYC is a bit alienating. I said "ironically" because I would guess there are more social happenings than you could partake in even if you could do it as a full-time job.

Ultimately, I think it boils down to trying not to forget that the Internet is valuable, but a good number of people are more valuable. Be it for their knowledge, for their humor or just their kindness. As with everything else, I believe one should find some sort of equilibrium between online resources and human interaction.

Easier said than done, though. The big likes are instant gratification, while maintaining a good friendship is a lot of hard, long term work. And today "long term" is a word we tend to dislike when it comes to getting gratification.

I don't know if any of this makes any sense, as I basically just jotted down my thoughts as I went.
Nanomaterial charges everyday batteries in seconds
Holy shit that 'apology' is a steaming pile of crap. This guy is actively subverting not one but multiple open-source projects and he responds with some pathetic crisis-management sob story and an 'oops, sorry'?
Guess soon we'll have a new release of the Haskell Platform...
You don't erase just your debt, you open up Tor browser and drop the entire database. That'll teach them for next time.
Something I've been looking for is a web service and android app that I can self-host that will allow me to read and send SMSs from my desktop. The important thing here is self hosted.

I think something like this would be really useful. I've seen services that provide this via a 3rd party hosted service but I don't trust someone at some random company not to read my messages.
The major thing about beds on planes is international safety regulations. Two that I can remember when working for an airline which were introducing beds:

1) The aisle has to be a set width, so you cant stack cabins across the plane.

2) Passengers need to seated and have a seat belt on upon take off and landing.

I think theres another about being able to be belted in if turbulence happens, and be inspectable by attendants. In short, its not as easy as one may think, and its these regulations which complicate things.
Show HN: Qake WebGL Voxel Engine released open source
Ask HN: Is it too late to get into (invest in) Bitcoins?
I kind of get the concept behind bitcoins and I know it's been around for a long time. Is it too late to get into it as an investment?
By business app, I'm interpreting as something that might be a a basis for writing an enterprise application or an application that might be used by enterprise and not the infrastructure-type of stuff I see posted below like NGINX, Git, etc...

Something that's expandable by multiple departments, expandable business-specific logic, modular, plug-in infrastructure, the ability to work with multiple authentication schemes, etc....

Take a look at Liferay Portal: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/

Edit: fixed all my typos.
KKR to buy WebMD in $2.8B deal
Then use a different `diff` app, such as the wonderful graphical kdiff if you're on KDE. You can find the differ that you like and then set `git` use it as a default.
Give them time to find new "opportunities" to monetize...

https://news.microsoft.com/2017/07/19/dun-bradstreet-teams-u...
Each client uses a different session encryption key but that is negotiated using the shared PSK.
I am having this exact issue.

- Firefox 54.0.1 (64-bit)

- Arch Linux 4.11.5-1-ARCH
Do they really have shops in them or are they accessible through a building that has shops?
How is an error differentiated from a panic? Can a panic as is caused by the OOB situation I described be recovered from, or is it necessarily fatal?
yeah, it's completely broken. which normally you would fix, but oh look too late!
Yeah sure, check this version of the lottery https://github.com/renasboy/ETHLottery
Leveraging Amazon Spark to improve business
> Nothing but fawning adoration from programmers.

That is a narrow way to look at things and is not the full picture. Plenty of people protested and still protest Google's unethical business practices.
A French company has been doing solar panel printing for while now. What's so new with this one ?
I've got that now but that worries me even further. I don't trust myself to create bug-free programs and are in the belief that it's impossible.

The issue with the system is that you can't update the contract, which means it has to be perfect when it is distributed on the blockchain. 1 bad mistake away from loosing maybe the entire wallet and it seems to already have happened several times.

The main issue that it is a big incentive to find bugs since you can make a lot of money from it and the contracts are vulnerable since they can't be updated.

But people in favor of this system, Ethereum, seems to just wave shit like that off with fancy words. If some system handles my money, it better be damn secure and the only way to be secure IMO is constantly updating it.
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What's with this exaggerated blog post?

1. It was announced in the open in June 2016 that .NET Core includes telemetry: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/06/27/announcin...
2. If you use something you could at least follow changes between major releases, no?

When did engineer stop being responsible people and read before using things? :-O
One of the owners was hired by Kite half a year ago.
try this lottery code instead https://github.com/renasboy/ETHLottery
Mozilla asks you, whether you want to send the telemetry.

If you say no, it won't send anything.

No, the settings do not mysteriously reset themselves.
Sogo: zero maintenance. No problem upgrades.

It's really, really, nice.
Why would we consider google a monopoly before cell-providers, ISPs, major credit card companies, or auto companies? [All of whom actively have stifled competition in unfair ways]
This is evil. We need a way to deter activities like this. The public shaming on HN is a good first step but this would be forgotten too quickly. Any ideas?
And how much is it helped by the internet and open access. The maker movement is a testament to that.
There is no big book in the sky that says how much a job has to be paid.

It is simply supply and demand. If the populace needs police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors, transit operators, cooks, cleaners, waiters, and teachers, there is no reason those jobs cannot also pay $200k per year – if that is what it takes to keep people in the region doing those jobs.

Nobody thinks there is special value in that node.js job. It is simply that $200k is what it takes to incentivize someone to both live in the Bay Area and work on that node.js project. If the VCs could find people matching that criteria to do the job for less, they would be jumping all over those people. Why do you think SV's largest tech companies have been pushing the government so hard to ensure that everyone learn how to code in school? But, for now at least, they don't exist.

And when the people for the other aforementioned jobs don't exist at a lower price, pay has no choice to go up for the jobs as well. Unless the local population decide those jobs aren't as necessary as you claim they are and choose to forego them entirely. Which is always an option too.
What do you need empty files for?
it can't be explained to you
I would have Googled before making the strong claim that someone is making stuff up. "<:" is widely used notation for "is a subtype of". I'm familiar with its usage in Julia.
They talk about storing money in the contract.

Does this mean I will be "charged" right in the moment I "store" money in the contract?

Or does it mean I'll be charged when the contract gets "destroyed" and the money "in the contract" is sent to some address?

I'm asking because both sides have problems.

If I don't get charged when storing money in the cotract, I could spend it elsewhere until the contract resolves.

If I get charged when storing money, someone could write contracts that never resolve to purge money.
this is a fairly interesting question for you to ask.

i put it to you to think about how you can write a scrabble solver, if you're given the official word list. I don't think it's that much of a step up from a sudoku solver!
The Medical Profession's Digital Revolution Is Here
You are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.
Well, look at Goethe's color "theory" or Newton's dabbling into alchemy.
You could also just use the bridge itself. My country has a copy of the Golden Gate (built by the same company) and we've retrofitted it to run trains underneath the deck: https://www.google.com/search?q=ponte+25+de+abril+comboio&tb...
At the very least they could add support for Unix line breaks...
No im just arguing that EHRs shouldn't import fitness tracker data. There's literally no evidence that it's medically useful. Every doctor and researcher I've ever talked to thinks it's a pointless distraction.
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ONC Patient Matching Challenge Approach Writeup
Ethereum reminds me of what happened to the web: the desire to add code. The blockchain by itself wasn't good enough so Ethereum added code to it, just like HTML wasn't good enough so people added applets, Flash, and JavaScript.

I understand why they would want to do this but I think it gets the priorities wrong. It prioritizes features and functionality over security and reliability. Given how hostile the Internet has become I think this is a mistake.

My guess is that Ethereum is only a couple of scandals away from being perceived as a fundamentally insecure platform. Bitcoin has its own problems and it may not survive either. Perhaps another cryoto currency can learn from the mistakes of both and deliver something better?
Then we're back to using a GUI, which is what I was arguing for in the first place lol
I don't share the same sentiment. I routinely see active code being supported that 10 to 20 years old. Granted, it's no joy to work on, but it does get maintained.

I'm curious what kind of environment you work in where where most stuff stops being used after 18 months...
Travel transfer app Talixo secures high 7-digit investment from Deutsche Bahn
I can't imagine he would sabotage his own project for no reason, so most likely he got the job or some compensation in exchange for his cooperation and access to his repository, probably how they got python-autocomplete too.

Otherwise, if they offered the job with no conditions attached he'd be under no obligation to change his own personal projects for them.
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fields like Nursing are excluded from STEM

Health care is a very respectable field in and of itself

If you think it matters if nursing is 'part of STEM' you're falling for journo/blogger memes.
> you open up Tor browser and drop the entire database

Apart from being a federal crime (CFAA), it would be rather obvious by the logs that a user was testing SQL injection on the demo system minutes before the production system was vandalised.

A better option would be to pay the debt, and then let them know you found a potential issue on their demo system. Let them connect the dots between demo system and production system. If they can't make the logical leap, then they deserve whatever someone else does.
How do you manage customer feedback?
The gig economy gets a lot of hate, but it is successful because it is better than the alternative for both sides.

Uber competes with McDonald's for workers, but no one really thinks about whether workers are better off than at McDonald's.

With the fight for 15 and other minimum wage increases, many people argue that increasing wages will not substantially effect demand for labor, but it's sort of hard to make the case in the taxi space since reduced price has clearly led to an explosion of demand.
Let's not make this a witch hunt. Yes, the company should be ostracised, but don't ask for every little person remotely involved with them to pay the price of a stupid lead decision.
Kaggle&ML tips&tricks – part I – Python parallelism
We jest, but bullshit like that is entirely possible.

Windows is a product in decline in many ways, and a public company still needs to grow revenue. Users can (and are) migrating to modern platforms, but many of the organizations using it are doing so because they have to, will continue to have that need for a decade or more.

My colleagues at work who run apps on the IBM Mainframe and POWER server platforms plan their operational cadences around peak periods where they lease access to CPU cores and memory on their servers. They only get to access about 25% of the hardware without a meter running. Microsoft can and probably will do the same conceptual thing to extract more dollars.
Nextcloud (and therefore probably Owncloud) has a 3rd party app, though only for reading at the moment.
D&B is one of those companies that I wonder: Why are they still around? There should be a better way. They feel extremely
legacy. Interfacing with their software and customer service infrastructure is always a painful experience for me.
Total biased takeaway [Please read all the github complete thread.]:

@jlozano:

> Hi, folks -- Juan from Kite here, thank you for the feedback, we appreciate it.

[...]

> We have decided to leave the feature as opt-out since many users have found it useful. [...]

@abe33

> [...] I've been an employee at Kite for over half a year now and this plugin is now officially maintained by Kite. [...]

I think that the BDFL system work in open source because it's too easy to fork the project. The old BDFL just transferred the power to a new BDFL, but it was not so clear for the community. There is a fork now, so if the situation doesn't improve and the users are unhappy, the Kite team will be the BDFL of an empty project without users.
I really can't see how this is unethical or immoral in any way.
Well obviously if you do that you wouldn't be testing the SQL injection for your main connection to begin with.

I'm not arguing against paying the debt - I would pay it in either case. However leaving such a vulnerability exposed is so bad they deserve to get their entire database dropped (and in this case I hope they don't have backups).
"Your phone - primarily open source"

Is the iPhone actually primarily open source? There's certainly parts of iOS that are but I had no idea it was the majority of it.
I like the blue shell.

You have (as of Mario Kart 8) three different ways to nullify an incoming blue shell, the easiest being to get hold of a mushroom.

If you can't get a mushroom because you're hanging a green shell or a banana out the back of your kart, you kind of have it coming, too. You know what you did wasn't big or clever, don't cry about it now.
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> do you /trust/ MS ?

Why do you have to trust MS? You can read the source code to check for yourself whether sensitive information is sent. You don't have to take Microsoft's word for it.
if you are already using a GUI for your IDE, is it really faster typing on the command line than right clicking on your git root folder in explorer -- that in my case is usually on a different monitor -- and clicking on git commit where you can see all of your changes, and then double clicking on a file to bring up your diffs?

Don't get me wrong, knowing the command line is invaluable when it comes to corner cases that just don't work well in a GUI and automating tasks.
3 Benefits of using a chatbot for your business and brand
Yeah, right, because in countries with high corruption level elections are always work as they supposed to.
WebMD Agrees to Sell Itself to a Private-Equity Firm for $2.8B
Unless the attacker is careless enough to reveal his identity, or puts his ill-gotten gains at risk of being hacked back, or the victims are Ethereum foundation members, your chances of restoration are slim to none.
USDJPY: Bearish, Retains Its Downside Pressure
I don't entirely understand why with this image though.

While just a camera, looking just at the picture of the cyclist experience some perception issues due to skewing, the camera still sees the distance between the front bumper and the bicycle, but also sees the breadth of the car.

If, in this image, we see 3 bicyclists and a car in front of us, what's the worst decision we can make? To only pass the bicyclists at that car's width? To wait until we can safely pass? To treat it like a bicycle race with a support vehicle and wait to pass until we can pass the entire group?
To sandbox them from network and or disk access.
They are in the same building. Generally it's a single dunkin donuts or something similar. The building is generally owned by the CTA however.

I'm from Chicago, and I was a bit surprised when I went to NYC for the first time and saw stores on the opposite side of the turnstile. I know this is quite common throughout the world, but it is relatively uncommon in the United States.

As far as I know there are not any stores in Chicago that can only be accessed by paying a fare.
I think it's noteworthy that they even include command line arguments that are mistyped, for example "bulid".

What happens if you accidentally paste an AWS secret key or similar in the middle of a command line argument? Will that too appear in public csv files a year later?
I would suggest you read the white paper (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper)

The short answer is contracts are accounts. Just like your normal ethereum accounts. When you invoke a method marked as payment, you are essentially transferring some ether from your account to the contract. If someone wrote contract from which you can't withdraw and you send ether to it, thats stupidity - even fiat can be destroyed by stupidity.
Future of Workforce with Blockchain
You can't draw circles and arrows, etc in that tool though. I need to point out the obvious sometimes. Well, actually most times.
How are users choosing their passwords on the internet?
Work is work . . . it's a means to provide for you (and your family/future family).

Life is about things outside of work, people, loved ones, pets, plants, hobbies.

Set some goals to connect with friends and family. Get a pet, do gardening, volunteer, read. Go hiking, go biking. Play a team sport.

Most people dread going to work, that's why they call it work, btw. Although it is nice if you can enjoy work, short commute, great pay and interesting projects can help with that.

Build other things in your life where you look forward to going to work, but you really look forward to getting off work to pursue the people/hobbies you really care about.

Exercise can help too but sounds like you have that covered. Try something new though. Hiking, Biking, Rock Gym/Climbing. Team sports.

Good luck finding the illusive 'happiness', sounds like you're on the right track.
Well, is one of many reasons why. I assume there are lots of edge cases. Floating plastic bags, for example.
It's against the guidelines. They are very explicit about such things:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not called "left-coast/euro sensitive", it's called manners.
We're in the same boat as you and our SAAS model involve custom deployment versions for each client. We're looking at trying to keep the databases unique per client, but handling the core requests in a multi-tenant environment, but it's difficult to plan ahead for all the different asks our customers need.

I often wish I worked at one of the SaaS product companies that target small-business.
> Each and every employee law that we enjoy now came as a direct response to some of the abuse that happened in the past.

This is an incredibly strong statement. Back it up please.

Law making is anything but an efficient and optimal, noiseless process. There is quite a lot of legislation constructed simply because of the government responding to pressure groups (worker unions, crony businessmen.....) and legislating their narrow interests for everyone.
What about X forwarding?
Can't we have laws against software that combines ads with spyware (or user tracking for that matter)?
Uber in the Crosshairs as SoftBank Helps Rivals Raise $9B
Ask HN: Why is react js adopted so well in such a short span?
What about 2013 Rust do you miss, based on this video?
I see, thank you :)

Stupidity? Doesn't Ethereum want to prevent all money getting locked up somewhere?
Here is a cool application - https://predictiontoken.github.io/#TRMP. It lets people bet on outcomes and bets be settled in a decentralized manner. There is a video in the link if you want to understand how it is accomplished.
UK Unemployment is so low it's in danger of exposing how badly it's calculated
WooCommerce?
Ear plugs?
All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you need to do in a hurry, you need a quick paint program. It's like removing Notepad: we all know hundreds of editors we would replace it with, from Notepad++ to vim/emacs... but isn't nice that when you aren't on your box, you know the core set of tools that are always there? (In other news, Fedora announces dropping grep, lc, and ls from the distro, in favor of python: "most users are devs, let them write their own tools" they stated in a press release).

Paint3D takes longer to load, and has made the simple... much less simple. While we can all say "Yes, that's the way of tech", it's just not necessary.

And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. And stay off my lawn, you whippersnappers.
I have a friend who runs a lifestyle business of:

1) One-off mechatronics projects: museum exhibits, cable-cams for filming companies, puzzles for escape-rooms etc.

2) Regional distribution and support for a particular brand of lasercutters.

From what I see, he spends most of the time on first category but most of the revenue comes from the second.
I played way to much Kart on wii. When you're trying to beat your best time the blue shell is really annoying.

At least now in Kart 8 you can avoid it with skill so that's something.
No images for me :/
Perceiving other people's preferences as killing the fun kills the fun.
That decal is a bad idea, regardless of whether the driver is an AI or a human.

Apparently painting vehicles grey can cause people not to see them as well. Having photo realistic images of road scenes seems much worse.

Have they never watched roadrunner cartoons?
Bellboy cheap wireless earphones, are they good?
Elon Musk buys back X.com from PayPal