skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the problem with confirming the leanings of the organization just before you are going to comment about completely disagreeing with the article's characterization?

If the article mentions that "Senator X of the pro-life camp said ..." you answer the quiz question with "X" (because it's an indisputable fact that the article calls X pro-life) and then you are free to comment how "pro-life" is a biased term, or that X is a shill for Y who supported murdering babies in the past, or whatever.

You don't have to agree with the article's stance to know how to answer the questions, you just have to know what the article's stance is.
That page has a bad case of terrible website design. When I scroll down, I expect bits of image not to zoom in from the left. I nearly closed the page before even getting to the headline. They've also somehow made space bar not scroll as far as it does on other websites (in Safari), so every time I scroll down I spend a second searching for where I ended up.

At least there's only two locations of awful design during the adventure that is scrolling. Once you reach the headline, there's only one really unintuitive bit further down the page (a map of the USA), and that bit is short.
Linux-insides: Limits on resources in Linux
> Also, way to go Jon Ronson for getting to the bottom of the nun story. Talk about going above and beyond the call of duty.

He even confirmed with the Italian newspaper after speaking with a primary source. That’s what makes this type of personal journalism become great writing in the right hands, and why it’s so fun to read: the narrative recounts a rigorous investigatory followup to us as if Ronson were merely chasing a Sunday curiosity, but also illustrates excellent journalistic method and restraint as a subtext.

Too bad he solved the stamp man coincidence, though, despite it being interesting. That remaining unsolved would have confused the hell out of those producers for the rest of their lives.
Are Underpowered Studies Ever Justified?
One of my A.I. related fears is that creating consciousness is really easy to do by accident (like Turing Completeness) and really easy for humans to fail recognise when it's in an easily-Othered body (far too many examples, sadly), and that as a result we won't find out until after billions of conscience A.I.s have been unintentionally mistreated.
"In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Consumers."
> Is it just me or does this seem to be a scam?

My thoughts exactly. It's such a long video but it essentially consists of a series of crude animations peppered with very short and unsubstantial footage of what appears to be an implementation shown afar doing practically nothing, and even so while displaying a warning message as it's just a prototype.

This does look like a half-baked scam.
Smoking is seen as a lower-class thing to do.
> "Everything there is factually true. But I hate the idea that we aren't allowed to do anything to improve quality of life of the non-homeless before homelessness as an issue is solved."

There are plenty of quality of life government programs for the non-homeless, and ignoring the issues of the homeless ('out of sight, out of mind') is not going to solve the problems, it's only going to make things worse. I'm sorry that the situation had to get as bad as it has for people to take notice, but now that recognition that something has to be done is there, I'd ask you to be pragmatic, look beyond the current issues and think of the practical steps necessary to stop the growth of the homeless.

> "Should I just accept that I should just literally die in a fire, for the sake of a homeless person having a place to sleep?"

No, you shouldn't accept that, you should take action to ensure it doesn't continue to be a problem. However, whatever action you choose to take, choose wisely. Is a person who can't even get a good night's sleep likely to be even more of a pain in the ass? I'd suggest you already know the answer.

> "anytime anyone complains about quality of life issues, "homeless advocates" will demand that you solve a century old national problem before granting you have even the slightest right to complain."

I'm not suggesting you have to solve 'a century old national problem' on your own. The reason I feel happy to recommend a push for single payer is that there's already growing momentum for single payer. Plus, it won't just help the homeless, it'll help everybody. There's really no reason not to join in the push for single payer (other than apathy, which clearly you don't have).
The xkcd-radiation image is an example of a GOOD design. Read the text.
Show HN: Get into physical computing with Docker and Raspberry Pi (workshop)
Thanks for Arq, it's a fantastic product. Any chance of an option to migrate from one source to another?

In the process of moving from one provider to another and it's pretty tedious getting it all in sync while I manually move from one to the other while still backing up to the previous provider until the move is complete.

It's going to be a bit of a process over the next few weeks :(
#DEFCON25 – BBC Micro:bit could be used to hijack a drone
> No, it's a response to the overwhelming evidence we have that smoking tobacco is massively harmful.

Pardon me while I guffaw incessantly. That might be the excuse given, but people really just don't want to smell it all the time.
If the article uses "pro-life" in the text, then the question asking you to confirm that you read that part doesn't add any new bias.

If you didn't read the part but skimmed over it, you might be motivated to leave a comment to mention the AP stylebook's recommendation, to the benefit of other commenters.
That page shows the worst use of the internet in the world. 15.88 MB in size according to Firefox. And unintuitive gimmick navigation to boot. How does doing something like that help convey the message?
The problem with that argument is that newspapers basically aren't profitable anymore, so we have to choose between "news" outlets that skimp on all journalism costs and simply parrot stories from other sources, real news outlets owned by those captains of industry who are willing to run them at a loss for what amounts to vanity purposes, and bankrupt/soon-to-be-bankrupt new outlets with little-to-no future.

When someone comes up with a profitable model that can support real, independent journalism, perhaps we can start making that argument. Personally, if I compare quality journalism with a blind spot for Bezos, neo-nazi/alt-right crackpot "news" sites and small-town Romanians making up fake news to go viral on Facebook, I'm inclined to think that what little bias WaPo has isn't really that big of a problem.
I read this article few hours earlier when crawling through the new section. It's a surprisingly interesting piece from Buzzfeed but there's a lot of bashing of the CEO, the CTO and one recently hired senior for label relations (who seem to be really odd).

This is typical: SoundCloud was an iconic company, its founders worshiped and idealized. Once money runs out, people but especially former employees start to backstab, blaspheme and blame loud and clearly. Why not before? Now when everybody is hitting SoundCloud it's easy and risk-free to join the hate. All the NDAs they once signed seem to be gone? To be fired also means fire and forget for them.

I never believed in SoundCloud. The founders did a great job building a huge brand and DNA out of nothing but the business model is by design broken or to put it simply, you just can't do business with music labels.

Btw, where is Fred Wilson? The biggest proponent and investor of SoundCloud who didn't miss an opportunity to tell us that sound is the future stays silent and hasn't commented this tragedy once. A VC just for good times?

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Mind to share your view?
I'm sorry if my response in January came across as harsh. I really do welcome competition in the PostgreSQL client space -- that's why we have the web page with all the Mac PostgreSQL clients [1] in the first place.

I didn't want to add Postage to that list because it didn't work with Postgres.app when I tried it [2]. If Postage now works properly with Postgres.app, feel free to open a new issue and I'll try it again.

[1]: https://postgresapp.com/documentation/gui-tools.html

[2]: https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/365
On a related note, a former co-worker built a similar tool. It's been helpful for me!

https://sosedoff.github.io/pgweb/
(Disclosure: I'm the author of rjsx-mode)

The best setup I've found is to use js2-mode for .js and rjsx-mode for .jsx, which parse the buffer for syntax highlighting, local refactoring (with js2r) and basic linting. For typescript, use typescript-mode. Flow support is quite bad ATM

nvm.el replaces the shell scripts from nvm.

Add a jsconfig.json to your project root and enable tide-mode for completion. This has worked far better than tern-mode, which some people recommend.

For fuller linting than what js2/rjsx offer, use flycheck. Eslint support is built-in, so it should just work, I think.

Finally, for build management, I use prodigy to run webpack, babel, ts, etc. Feel free to ping me if you need more help
Wow, I am sorry but this is the perfect example of discursive pre-modern era way of analysing nature. Frankly the only excuse is if you're a time traveller just landed from the 1780's.
Nowadays we do computer models, is yours on github?
I will reuse your post it's just perfect.
If you want to learn: https://youtu.be/7IbyiOoVgnQ
>I have nine children, homeschool them and they start programming around twelve depending on interest.

That is awesome!

Have you written more about your experience somewhere online? I would love to strive for something similar when my kids are a little older (my oldest is currently 7) and I personally know several others who have similar hopes. Just seeing a real implementation of this oft-discussed prospect is very exciting! It's difficult to express the admiration I have for this.

Raising a large family is no small undertaking, to say nothing of mentoring a guild of devs. Major heartfelt congratulations to you, your wife, and your family of code wizards.
In Hindi too, the word for yesterday and tomorrow is the same. Usually we can understand which from the context. But many times a clarification is needed like prefixing "in the future" or "in the past" to the word in question.
That's the second time this week I see Buzzfeed coming out with something that resembles decent journalism. Coincidence, or have they turned their ship around?
What was your path to IT and programming? Formal higher education and on-the-job learning?
It's not. It's paying tax on $590.
It might be possible to adapt the layout based on utilization. Fold the first rows and move every rows forward a bit. Doing this while minimizing the weight and complying with regulations is seems challenging though.
Not always. I've to use "aane wala" and "bita hua" quite often.
5 reasons to host your 360° panoramas on iStaging
Addiction is a public health, not criminal justice, problem. Many of the problems of drugs - acquisitive crime, sex work, blood borne disease transmission - are made far worse by the illegality.

People wanting to legalise drugs are not saying "it's fine to sell heroin to 8 year olds".

Legalisation of drugs would make it easier to control sales to children.
Not sure why you think C4 comes with the HUD, but rest assured the 1999 Xsara Picasso didn't. I drove it for many years and it was fine. Glancing down at the behind-wheel display is equidistant to glancing right to Model 3's (which has the important bits in the same position, perhaps even closer to the driver, then Picasso did).

It'll be fine. Don't judge it before actually trying it for yourself.
Well not signal slow maybe, but we have MANY more signal pathways and more storage than any computer to date.
Works ok for me but I have NoScript, uBlock, and Privacy Badger ckleaning out the crap for me.
Jeez, two comments on the story, both of them talking about the page's design (which is honestly fine).

Here's a text-only version: https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%253A//fiv...

We moving on now?
> Do you worry that your web browser might not want to display web pages and follow the links you click?

I don't worry about it but it frequently behaves that way.
One might say the same for elections every 4 years.
Of course, but think Coca Cola, BMW or something large. Often there is no phone number. They are just showing they arr still around
Hello, thank you for this app it is really great. I am not sure if it is really faster than anything else however it definitely feels faster than any other postgresql client I've tried (ok, except HeidiSQL but HeidiSQL has various problems with Postgresql).

Great work!

P.S One feature I'm missing is to extract the selected data (in the Edit Data view of a table) to a CSV or to the clipboard - is it possible? I wasn't able to find out how to do it :/
Proof that Facebook dark Ads can swing the election
I agree, it's better to risk doubting the truth than to risk believing lies.

Once you believe something, it's harder to go back because you start stacking stuff on top.
The version of non-interactive Schnorr presented here is called "weak Fiat-Shamir" and it has led to things getting broken. While there are edge cases when it's ok to use, I would strongly discourage it.

In step 2, e = H(Q || M) should be e = H(Q || M || P). That binds the signature to the public key, if you don't have that then the scheme is not sound in the usual models (UF-CMA +ROM etc.).

EDIT: see "How not to prove yourself", Asiacrypt 2012, eprint 2016/771.
From experience: when tired, glancing down while driving is hard, while glancing sideways (at nav) is fine.
This is BuzzFeed News, which is run semi-independently from BuzzFeed itself and has actually had some decent quality journalism from the start.

Apparently this happened in 2016: http://www.poynter.org/2016/buzzfeed-undergoes-company-wide-...

Their investigations team is especially interesting: https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investiga...
Said point in future was explicitly spelled out: fall 2017.
I think it's more that they have a few good contributors in with the nonsense. For example, their Australian political coverage has consistently been surprisingly good.
I recognized quite a few poems...there are a lot of US based authors, but looking back 100 years I guess you would have: UK, Australia, USA, parts of Canada. Both the US & UK are well represented, and population wise I don't know how much poetry the other ones crank out. I recognized a lot of poems from the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
This looks like a brilliant tool! It's always annoyed me how slow copying stuff over the network using a GUI is -- especially folders with many files.

For example copying a 300MB folder from one Mac to another over Wifi took 10 minutes (using the Finder). Then I tried using rsync from the command line, and it took just 15 seconds.

I don't often use rsync, so I always have to look up the required flags every time I use it. A friendly GUI is greatly appreciated!
I use Linux as my desktop and the rising popularity of electron means that most "cross platform desktop app" links which used to mean "we do windows AND mac!" are actually cross-platform, are usable on Linux and are feature-complete and behave the same as on other platforms.

Electron has been a godsend to Linux users and it can definitely be highly performant. I've even switched from vim to vscode because the latter is actually the slickest IDE I've ever used.

You're yet to see a single necessary electron port? Well, I use 4 all the time, probably none of which would even be Linux-compatible were it not for electron. YMMV.
Without reading a word of it, I imagine where it leans.
In my experience, it's likely that the founders' problematic behavior has existed from the beginning, but employees feared retaliation and thus didn't speak up until now, when they are safe from being fired.
I don't think the cost savings angle gets mentioned enough.

If you put people in jail for using drugs, everyone else is paying for that through taxation.

If they are working, then they are paying taxes. Even in areas with chronic unemployment (and we need to have a while 'nother conversation about economic inequality), a good percentage might still be working if not in jail.

So that is a double whammy to the tax payers who are paying for the War on Drugs.
This looks very interesting. Personally I do not trust my filesystem (HFS+) and for my family pictures, I create a PAR2 archive. It's a bit of a hassle to check these, with handwritten scripts and stuff. I'd love something more automated.
> According to one former SoundCloud Berlin employee, a lack of direction from Wahlforss, who served as chief technology officer, made things worse, with some engineers going rogue and rebuilding their colleagues’ work in their preferred programming language.

Does this happen at other startups?
See also his venn diagram poem: https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/624222674559082496
Short of buttons and other crap yes. I LOVE that about my S.
someone will quickly sneak in stuff like "is global warming real?" in the questions.
Looking at the photos, I'm surprised there's Internet connectivity at all in those places, other than 3G or maybe WiMAX.

I think it's not realistic to complain about this. The costs of bringing infrastructure to a place like this are simply too high.
Gorilla Arms will make you stop using the iPad Pro – Inside Innovation
Lists – a gallery of real content
I cannot follow you. By no means you can openly criticize the managers of your own company. Even nowadays this could be handled as mutiny. On top of that, management is usually only half transparent at best. Causing doubt if the decisions are just bad or nobody got the whole picture.
Social media and Charlie Gard: populism versus public services?
If anybody else is also put off by the writing style: There is some actual content there. One just needs to get through the first third which basically just repeats the headline.

TL;DR (without my opinion added): Top Management started too late to think about making actual money. They also hired an asshole for their US offices. When they got an opportunity to be bought by Twitter they asked for way too much money. And the CEO is bascially on a constant holidays trip since 2014, while not failing to rub it in everybody's face via Instagram photos.

Personal opinion: I don't understand these CEOs who start cashing out before either selling their business or making it a viable paid service, while being so close to a lifetime solution to the problem of money. I mean he already went 80% of the way, much further than most.
Then that article is wrong, because "ahorita" in Spanish is just the diminutive form of "ahora" which means "now". "Ahora" is an adverb and therefore has no imperative form, unlike verbs.

You'd never hear "ahorita" in Spain, unless someone is trying to mock Mexicans.
They have been doing this the last few years.
In this age of containers you can still do some pretty impressive things with PXE. That doesn't make it a good standard.

I first saw this trick using iPXE from boot.rackspace.com.

iPXE is also an amazing thing in itself. I would pay for a detailed writeup of the CDROM emulator that does HTTP-range requests when the "device" is accessed.
"Work is what you do with your day that you find enjoyable and that others consider useful. "

"Work is leisure you get paid to do."

Source ? This is really the first time I have heard the definition of "work" where enjoyment or leisure are factors; it's not a coincidence that it is often used as an opposite of "play".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/work
Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
Wait, fine? It's catastrophically unusable in landscape on iPad without Reader View. The limited-to-landscape side scrolling gimmick covers pretty much the entire top of the article, which flickers in and out at display refresh rate if I scroll back and forth to try to read the content underneath. I can't read anything until the graf that starts with "FiveThirtyEight analyzed" on the latest iOS.

https://i.imgur.com/e0XeLw5.png

I'd say the commentary is fair, since it's a good explainer for how one can harm UX very quickly when changing the semantics of scrolling and a reminder of the importance of testing across all platforms and orientations. Yes, this happens a lot on HN. Often, a discussion about how to fix it comes about, and we all learn something. I would guess you know that, though.
HTA?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
We've been killing animals since the very first day of our existence as a species.
Not the OP, but I would suspect that the problem is displaying JSONB as if it were plain text json without having to deal with manually converting it or relying on DB operations.
This shows us, that company valuations are ridiculous and actually mean nothing.

Is SoundCloud worth a billion dollars? Well, it might be on paper or in the imaginations of the founders, but what does it really mean? To me, it's worth nothing.

The real problem is: these companies start to operate from the perspective of "having" those millions of dollars. This is why they hire too many people for too much money. They spent hundreds of thousands on marketing.

But in the end, you know what? They need to beg for money to pay their debts. They need to lay off dozens of employees because they don't have the money to pay them.

What if SoundCloud would have kept a small, yet highly skilled engineering team of maybe ~20 people, some marketing and sales, and try to not outgrow themselves? Probably they'd be having a huge surplus each year because their costs would be small and sustained.

When I read stories like these, I actually feel good about my bootstrapped, down-to-earth startup. We don't make millions, we don't "disrupt" the industry, yet we solve our customers' problems and delight them. We won't ever run out of money, as we carefully check each and every expenditure, and have growing savings in the bank.
> means that most "cross platform desktop app" links which used to mean "we do windows AND mac!" are actually cross-platform

The "cross platform desktop apps" I'm objecting to are really just webapps that could run just as well in a browser without the wrapper. If they weren't released in a wrapper at all, they'd still be cross platform.

> I've even switched from vim to vscode because the latter is actually the slickest IDE I've ever used.

VSCode and Atom make a little more sense in Electron because they actually have requirements that can't be met when run purely in a browser (like running a build system). I still prefer a native IDE like Sublime Text but I can see also see the benefit of using Electron here. The apps I have problems with are the webapp ports like Slack, Discord and Spotify.

> You're yet to see a single necessary electron port? Well, I use 4 all the time

What are they? What makes them necessary (other than VSCode, which I understand as explained above)?
I don't know how it works in the US but in the German retail banking market there is only one clearly superior pathway to compete and this is through abolishing the banks local presence all together.

Our credit unions are not competitive and will have to merge away into a direct bank at some point. They currently survive on path dependencies.

Germany is a cash heavy market & free universal ATMs are omnipresent. Ironically mostly through credit unions.