skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To Make a Book, Walk on a Book
Why is software like this allowed to be closed?

We don't allow our plumbing, structure wiring, welding, or any other physical construction method to be closed away and hidden from view. Rather we demand these things be inspected, certified, documented and generally adhere to demonstrable codes and rules.

Keeping you source hidden is saying "I have something to hide". Why should someone have something to hide in Pacemaker software, software driving vehicles or safety system on nuclear power plants or anything else where life could be lost?
Woah, random! I loved that place. The Petoskey location closed but they're operating in Sault Ste. Marie [1].

[1] https://www.themoleholeonline.com/history/
The top 'arrow' looks like a sideways J, I assume it's an arrow based on context, but it's not that clear. Which is why it's nice to have a good tool for the job.

PS: If you actually do the same thing in paint they have a lot of useful shapes and you get a preview of how they look. Which is nice if you don't want the chicken scratch look.
TheRinger seems significantly more 'short form' than Grantland did

not sure what that says about the economics of long form sports journalism
24 and experienced a similar thing, but it wasn't a breakdown.
I smoke late night and sometimes get paranoid about my life falling apart because of my lack of responsibility, then the next day I'm focused with my shit together and improve my life a lot by becoming a more responsible person.
The SMBC comic mocks the people for not being self-aware enough to realize that they are causing their own problem by being apathetic.

> "I'm not good at this because I don't try, so I won't try"

> "Girls don't like me because I have bad hygiene, so why should I bother with hygiene?"

etc.

This would only apply to what I wrote if my code was disappearing because it's not formatted to pass a linter. You and I both know that this isn't the reason code gets deleted. It gets deleted because it gets refactored, or the feature/product it's implementing gets killed.

Furthermore, code quality is not the same thing as code style.
Also, sound can give early warning of an approaching train, or of an emergency vehicle nearby, or of a truck in reverse.
How can autocomplete work without looking at all the other code too?

Edit to add: oh, wait, I misunderstood. It grabs all the code on your computer? That's crazy. I just meant it's not totally unreasonable to grab the whole git repo you're working in, say.
Anything with James Mirtle involved is good sports journalism!
MS hasn't said they're going to remove it:

[“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1]

Its clearly not being actively developed, but there's no indication its going anywhere just yet.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...
If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might take a look at the work of Thomas Mayhew:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080923195808/http://etext.lib.v...

He catalogued the work done by the poor in the early 19th century extensively, and I do mean EXTENSIVELY. He gathered details not only of the types of 'gigs' being performed, but the specific costs and potential profits involved. He was actually trying to estimate how much these London hustles were contributing to the broader economy at the scale of hundreds of thousands of people.

It's a little dull, racist, and sexist, but the subject matter is fastidiously catalogued.

Some examples:

Of Oyster Selling In The Streets:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021129180421/http://etext.lib.v...

Of Roasted Chestnuts And Almonds:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021129184309/http://etext.lib.v...

Of The Cries, Rounds, And Days Of Costermongers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021129180440/http://etext.lib.v...

Of Coffee-Stall Keepers: (I learned about 'saloop' from this one)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021129180034/http://etext.lib.v...

And of course, Of Street Piemen:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030127022056/http://etext.lib.v...
Even to the detriment of themselves... see "Tragedy of the Commons"
>"I've been holding a handful of Ethereum since there was a decent dip in the price. I haven't spent much time on it and I have no good leads for program ideas yet, but if the code is buggy and I get hacked and lose my investment, that's fine. A smart contract is a project, and it could fail like any other.
Don't put your retirement savings in a smart contract right now unless you're OK with losing it all. Maybe in the future Ethereum will move beyond this phase, and maybe not. All the drama is ridiculous, everyone needs to chill out."

This is the exact spiel we're all sick of hearing.
The Moon's Interior Could Contain Lots of Water, Study Shows
Why hiring a CTO is tougher than you think
"Unix" isn't really a specific OS. So yeah, there's probably no spyware in it.
It's quite easy to do two mode of game with or without or without box at all, this powerup item are not well distributed and shall be removed. You need to be a kid to accept this none fair system, I just don't accept it anymore.
If Windows 10 is the "forever" version of Windows with continuous upgrades then they've got plenty of time!
"drastically raise taxes."

Sure, on paper it would drastically raise taxes, but the net effect would be nil. The average taxpayer would have taxes raised by $200 and receive a benefit of $200/month.

And the raise should be substantially less than $200 because you no longer have to pay for the old food assistance program, nor most of the bureaucracy for it.
I have replaced ESPN with podcasts, individual national writers, SB Nation, local beat writers, the teams and leagues themsevles, and official highlights from YouTube. All of this is really easy with RSS. I rarely go to ESPN anymore except for a couple of national NBA writers.
The justifications for this are so utterly marginal. I'm sure some could benefit but it's vanishingly few people who will.

A ring (as others suggest) gets you most of the benefits - and maybe rings have the downside of being forgotten, but I've left my work passcard a few times over the years and it's not the end of the world... Not so bad I'd prefer a minor surgical procedure!
And the supposed advantage of not getting it caught in things? I might change my mind when I personally know five people who've lost limbs, but right now I know zero people who lost limbs...
I've been a subscriber for about 2 months now and so far have been exceedingly happy with their level of coverage. Substantially better than what any of the other major sites are offering right now (especially as a hockey fan where coverage can be...lacking...at times).
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Create virtual cards that protect your money
If that upgrade was on offer, I'd consider it. Especially if it was a larger display.

Unfortunately, the only upgrades I've been offered are 2x 24" 1920x1200 -> 2x 24" 1920x1080.
I think I'm going to end up pasting this link in all discussions surrounding Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law

>When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not necessarily the intent of those who wrote the law. Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording.

This is a very ancient concept and like all ancient concepts it's bound to be rediscovered every other decade on average.

"The code is law" is a wet dream for a dystopic authoritarian state and I don't understand why anybody, much less actual coders, would think that's a good idea.

"Thank you for subscribing to our contract for your $2 weekly subscription. By the way through a clever loophole obfuscated in our code the amount actually doubles every week. Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Code is Law. Have a good day sir".

In the real world you have a safety net for these types of things, in many case you can break an abusive contract because society has created regulations that ban certain tactics. Ethereum has no such thing. A single mistake or intentional deception and like that, you've lost all your money. The code is law, nothing we can do sir. How is that a feature exactly?

Look at how dumb the average spam is, and yet there's no shortage of people falling for them. Yet it seems like the ethereum crowd genuinely believes that my mother is suddenly going to be able to proof Solidity scripts, something I wouldn't even trust myself to do with decades of programming experience behind me. I don't know if Ethereum is an economic bubble but it definitely is an intellectual one.
Do you believe that you have a moral right to force them to do anything?

Is there a moral imperative that they are morally required to secure their systems and that others should/could demand that they must do so? It definitely could be in certain cases (for example, a hospital storing confidential data of their customers), but in the usual situation where it's just their data and their money, isn't that their moral right to decide how high a fence (if any!) they want to build around their property?

Telling someone "hey, you forgot to lock your door" is a good thing, but ultimately IMHO it's their decision if they want to lock the door or accept those risks.
Worst of all, only 8 of the 3306 links use https. 11 years really is an eternity in internet years.
Netflix was the top grossing app in Q2, w mobile revenue up 233% since last year
> I think that many of the changes that Mozilla has made to Firefox that people in this thread are complaining about may not have directly driven away a large number of users, but, they indicate a serious problem with decision making within Mozilla.

Of course they have, I'm such an individual but I'm responsible for about one to two thousands installations of firefox over the last decade or so. Carefully replacing any sneaky install of bundled chrome each time I faced one, and so on.

It's been 2 or 3 years since I've gradually stopped doing this. I have no reason to keep helping a corp that keeps disappointing and not caring about users, selling an image through marketing (giving power and freedom to users) while doing the opposite in reality (removing power and freedom from users).
I've barely made any new firefox installation and stopped replacing sneaky chrome/IE unless expressly asked.

Just with one individual they've lost I'd say about a few hundreds users over 3 years. Although a few hundred users is not even a blip on their radar, I'm not alone in this situation and numbers quickly add up to a significant amount. Though maybe not significant enough for mozilla's devs to care.

The point is, a limited number of individual users played a role (possibly significant) in firefox success, the same people now play a role in its demise. It seems mozilla does not understand this fact despite building a large church of evangelist fanboys.
LANL Adds Capacity to Trinity Supercomputer for Stockpile Stewardship
Please do so. Logging in with username (which has to be different than email) is sooooo 10 years ago. I can't remember all the usernames on all the hundreds of pages I visit. But I know which email I used to create every one of them!
Why Yurts Are Going Out of Style in Mongolia
Engineering Code Scales Across 200,000 Cores on Cray Super
Gigabyte Announces Tiny PC More Powerful Than Raspberry Pi
Why is this downvoted? On my Windows 10, Win+Shift+S does nothing whatsoever, either. Updater says Windows is up-to-date, too.
Facebook didn't make the area expensive. No tech company did. Those local businesses, and the chains alike, have made it expensive. So much blame gets put on the tech companies, but the tech companies aren't raising the prices, they are just paying people better, and the local businesses abuse that to the fullest extent. There is no NEED to charge $6 for a gallon of milk, when milk from those same cows is sold for $2 50 miles away... thats not a SV valley tech company problem, its a SV valley retailer problem, and the blame needs to shift that way...

[edited because splellings]
Local newspapers and local talk radio still dominate local sports. Typically, the best-connected reporters are those for the local paper. Sports coverage is actually what drives me to subscribe to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Can we really trust the Gartner Magic Quadrant?
I remember when I first started using OSX (forgetting OS9 and prior for now) and being shocked that there is no built-in paint program. There still is not one. Paint works amazing well for very quick edits, which is all I really ever need to do.
My experience in Canada is that many Asian restaurants don't split, but everyone else does.
I don't know what a build manifest is but yeah, that sounds great. However, the test suite needs to support this. Plenty of times they do not.
In other words, mature. So let's mark it for removal.
> the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

I don't believe people (well, the people with the influence more accurately) care about this anymore, not with the promise of automation to replace that lost generation while lining their pockets with money.
J. Bradford DeLong had a piece on the potential for corporations to resemble command economies many years ago; it would be interesting to see a more recent perspective on the topic
http://web.archive.org/web/20090430185843/http://j-bradford-...
Wi-Fi could protect you from getting lost in virtual reality
Should minimum wage jobs pay well enough to raise a family in Palo Alto?
The problem is too many people with too much time on their hands. For the commercial teams, they're in-place and receiving a paycheck, so their managers want to make themselves and their teams look like they justify their salaries, so they come up with New!! stuff to do. For the FOSS people, it's partly the same: the Gnome3 devs are largely employed by Red Hat. For others serving in a volunteer, it's a lack of discipline and too much time on their hands which could be used for more productive stuff (like documentation, fixing bugs, etc.).
Danube Cloud: SmartOS-based cloud orchestration open source software version 2.6
> Ethereum reminds me of what happened to the web: the desire to add code.

Also known as Zawinski's law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
That still leaves corporate espionage, which (last I checked) is a very severe offense. If that "source code" contained significantly-sensitive data (like medical info or info about legal cases), then there's a giant can of worms right there (and each of those worms has a surname of "Felony").
For those who follow the targeted ketogenic diet it can be beneficial to ingest some sugar prior to a high intensity workout.
The only reason $75k/yr is considered low wage has to do with the housing prices in that area.

Everyone knows the solution to that problem is to increase the supply of housing, yet little is being done.

Maybe soon enough, $100k/yr will be the new $75k$. What then?
Why the Amish Are Building America’s RVs
What are you basing that on?
The data is the real rub. There's some open source code in the space and we'll see what else gets opened up over time. But AFAIK, no one is talking about making their data sets public (and, to the degree that data is coming from regular drivers, there would probably be privacy concerns with doing so). And, as you say, with NN techniques, a lot of actions aren't deterministic or understandable.
One of my favorite "open source architecture" essays is on Graphite:

http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html

It's part of the book, "Architecture of Open Source Applications", which has many such essays. This one is freely available -- and quite good.

Graphite is used for the business purpose of simple & fast real-time analytics for custom metrics inside an organization. It was built inside Orbitz and is now widely used at many startups, including my own.

Graphite is now a vibrant open source project with a community around it here:

https://graphiteapp.org/
> but yes, they should be able to solve that by vision alone.

Not really. A purely vision-based system probably needs to see this example in training labeled as "the back of a car" in order to differentiate it from reality.

A sensor-diverse system could detect the metal on the car and determine it is a car without ever having seen such an example during training.

And, this is just one edge case. The number of edge cases is infinite.

The point in the article is that a diverse sensor array is advantageous because it will cover more edge cases.

A purely vision based system will always have limitations compared to a system with more kinds of sensors.
Volvo's three-point seat belt and Jonas Salk's polio vaccine make good (although old) counter-examples.

I'd be interested to hear if there are more recent examples.
>any UI that requires clicking "start" to shutdown is in wastebin and rightfully so.

Citation needed. Windows 10 still requires this, they just don't label the button "start" any more (nor does any other UI I've seen in the last 10 years). Mechanically, it's basically the same.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/red-hat-ceo-8-figure-deals-in...
I don't see many Windows users hanging out in the CLI for extended periods of time, either. Even though OP wasn't serious about fedora nixing grep, surely you see the lack of equivalence in that argument.
Exactly, this game require no skill for winning, and player not balanced, with the blue shell it's even easier for none skilled, btw I always win, I don't care.
I think the issue is that the rate we pay people at has not grown much at all, but the cost of living has skyrocketed (Especially housing.) Also education requirements for specialized jobs have increased, and if you fail to use your degree after school then you are pretty much screwed from the accumulated debt.

My grandpa was a mailman his whole life, and supported a family of 5 on that income. He is pretty well off now. Today the average $15 an hour USPS carriers get paid will barely support one person in a small city.
Well, for anything serious, paint is not good enough. You can't rotate your arrows, for example.

If i need to do something well, then I use Paint.net (which is best parts of Paint and Photoshop combined in a free and super fast package).

If I need something quick, then I can use the snipping tool.

I literally have not turned on paint ever since I discovered windows snipping tool and paint.net (which is couple of years now).
> Veyron's could be as cheap as other high-end cars if mass produced.

Yeah, right. Lack of scale is definitely why the Veyron was so costly. It definitely isn't the difficult engineering with a W12 engine or the $75k tires to keep it from killing the passengers in the event of a flat.

Also, most people don't drive "high end cars". I hope self driving eventually isn't something restricted to the wealthy.

> The point of self driving is not really about replacing drivers but making overall transportation more efficient.

Long haul between cities is not where cars are inefficient. Cars are inefficient in traffic.

> it would be an order of magnitude cheaper to convert a car lane into a self driving lane than build an entire railway line

Not really. You're stealing lanes from cars that can't self drive or can't drive 200mph, so you're making everything worse for everyone else if you do this. You also need to build on ramps and off ramps everywhere because your 200mph lane cannot safely use the same exits as the 70mph lane next to you.

> self driving cars can still go on normal roads at lower speeds, so you solve the last mile problem

The last mile is the real problem, though. Traveling between cities rapidly is not a real problem except for shipping.
It could also get Kite sued.
This - the headline of the article is a bit click-bait-y, but you nail the crux of the issue.

When I worked there years back, I recall chatting with a few cafeteria workers and learning that they were paid more than the average contract worker; the issue isn't that they're being paid poorly, but rather that the Valley is _so expensive_ to live in.

It should be more of a commentary on the state of California and the cities north, and including, of San Jose, rather than the tech companies that populate the region.
Show HN: FareBot, read NFC public transit cards (Clipper/ORCA) on Android
Extra PSA: I deleted my files from that page a few months ago and they have now reappaeared. (See my other comment.)

I would recommend emailing them to delete your account and data, including backups and so on.
I really hate that smart comment. Two big differences are that with overpopulation on Mars, (1) we would be able to address it before it happened or while it was happening, on a time-scale of decades, and (2) even if there was a total disaster and Mars became permanently unlovable and a lot of people died, we'd still have Earth. Whereas (for those concerned about runaway AI) the time-scale could be minutes and the stakes are the end of known intelligent life in the universe.
… added a patch.
Those animated squiggly lines under the headlines are some of the most annoying things I've recently seen.
Excellent point and related to Nadia Eghbal's post on the lack of support for open source infrastructure being the internet's biggest blind spot. https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet...
A good bit. Payday loans aren't something anyone wants to do, ever. They are predatory, they know people only turn to them at the last resort (ie, cant feed your kids) so they can charge whatever they want.

The justice comes in the fact that they lose a shit ton of money, because of how sleazy they are, the important credit companies (Equifax, Transunion, etc) wont work with them, so if you don't pay them back, your only loss is not being able to get more payday loans... (there is a specific payday loan/pawn shop loan credit bureau).

So, dont give people shit if they have to take a payday loan, i've been there... i've had to, when i got laid off and went 2 months without income and borrowed from about every family member I could... i basically asked my prior manager to lie and say i still worked there so i could get a loan to feed my family. I'd never walk into one of those places if I werent in dire straits...
That's an entirely different scenario than we're discussing, right?
Perhaps but consider even in developing economies these kinds of jobs aren't the ones which allow you to raise a middle class family, never mind a doing so in a developed economy.
And no GPIO, so comparing it to a Pi isn't exactly relevant...
Dissecting the two malicious Ethereum messages that cost $30M (or almost $100M)
If programming were an engineering proffesion, each engineer would be responsible for ensuring that the code they worked on was ethical at the potential cost of their license. It isn't of course, but there is nothing unusual about demanding personal responsibility for social implications from individual employees like that.
Simmons has touched on that in the past. He talks a lot about some of what happened at Grantland, ESPN, and decisions he made re: The Ringer on the July 12, 2017 of the Bill Simmons Podcast titled, "Inside the Evolution of ESPN With Jim Miller and Bryan Curtis."

Here is the link to his podcast section on The Ringer: https://theringer.com/bill-simmons-podcast-d3868264a984
Shit is weak. Paint was the bomb.com.
Any idea who makes it? It's probably close in architecture to GPUs, the kind of thing Nvidia and AMD are positioned to capitalise on.