skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that a bad thing? Why would you not want to increase profit?
The LA public library system is great. Has saved me a lot of money on books over the years plus the have video streaming platforms as well as let you access (for free) places like Lynda.com. I've been going to the library since I was a kid (34 now) and used to hide out in the stacks at college. It feels like a comforting place to me.
Also literally the first thing that happened once I opened it: http://i.imgur.com/v3xH9ye.png

Not the greatest first impression to be honest. Browsing through the app itself though does seem to be about feature complete with pgAdmin, however I don't really see it noticeably faster, at least for the things I mess with on a regular basis, so I guess I'll just have to take your word for it.

In any case, it seems like a decent alternative to pgAdmin.
There's a trade off you have to make where you can choose either absolute privacy and computational inflation guarantees, or vice versa. Strangely confidential transactions chooses strong privacy over inflation guarantees.
You're raising some of the best arguments I think I've read for drug regulation, to be honest.

However, for me in the end I think it comes down to this: there's lots of horrible things people can do to each other, and we generally respond to that by punishing the offense.

So, although I'd like to see drugs legalized, I could also see huge taxes on certain types of drugs, at least in certain settings, or punishments for irresponsible advertising, etc.

Fentanyl to me is an interesting example, because to me it illustrates problems with drug regulation: it puts control over decision-making authority into a small group who are given unquestioned deference about those decisions. If anyone could get fentanyl, I think there would be an expectation that everyone evaluate it potentially, and that the consumer learn more about it, or get second opinions from other experts (psychologists, pharmacists, neuroscientists, biochemists). As it is, we sort of say "ok, whatever you say doc" and then ... well... we saw how that went.

Someone expressed surprise at how little the cognitive liberty argument gets raised in all of this, which I agree with 100%, but I'd take that further. What I'd argue is that I'm surprised that physical autonomy, as a health issue, isn't raised more.

To me, drug regulation and medical regulation are two sides of the same coin. The same laws that criminalize ecstasy are the same laws that prevent an experienced, knowledgable consumer from purchasing an antidepressant without a prescription.

People act like if you could get meds from whomever, or on your own, that all hell would break loose, but there are intrinsic consequences to acting heedlessly. People would figure it out fast. And to the extent they didn't, we're better off addressing it as a public health problem than a crime problem.
further in she cites Aristotle potential vs. actual which I guess is more philosophy than math but it covers the point you're making now.
Growing up in East Africa, this reminds me a lot of our attitude towards time.

In addition, in Swahili time is relative to sunrise which further complicates things:
https://youtu.be/L2mekalOTas?t=1m25s
the website and even the domain name are suspect.
As the world goes more towards digital content, the more robots/AI/software will do the marketing. The growth of Facebook revenues is a clear indication that software is better at marketing than humans. They know which buttons to push and when to get the right response. They know you better than the marketing manager at company xyz.

Marketing automation is already here and its only going to get bigger and better. The sales and marketing teams will shrink to 1-2 persons even for large corporations. They will make us more efficient.
Linkin Park: Analyzing the causes of death of Rock band members
Very good idea, i will try it, it look hard to use.
You would need a method detect them. The question is how to detect them.

One possible solution is to define all valid data by rules. That might be a laborious work. In this case a Fuzzer could check the returned error for valid or invalid input data.
Is Computer Hacking a Crime? (1990)
It has an upside though. If all apps share a runtime they're tiny in size. Every electron app installs its own version of chromium
As a general rule of thumb I discount all editorials that start with an unverifiable personal anecdote. They are just too easy to fake and having worked in journalism I can see right through it. Have a piece on illegal immigration? Sure, why not open with the conversation you had with you illegal garder. Legislation on new driving laws, why not harken back to a conveniently apropos story about the nun that honked at you while sitting at a stop light two years ago. These things became the laughing stock of our newsroom. We even had a name for them, "sure it dids".
I have nine children, homeschool them and they start programming around twelve depending on interest.

I got fired because a new president wanted to hire his old it guy so my wife started a company. That was ten years ago.

Lunch and dinner involve a lot of shop talk because when people get stuck it helps to discuss. We all have different strengths so we get requests for a 'consult' when we take a break too.

We work in the livving room so phone calls can sometimes be funny. Kids being kids and getting shushed.

We have all local clients at the moment and we find visiting them helps to stir up work so we get out a bit.
Dr Dominic Pimenta on Twitter: Facts about the Charlie Gard Case
If you don't do very much stuff, then sure. But most people end up coding long enough that learning new things is well worth the time. It's not like it takes more than a few months to learn a new framework or language, and you get benefits beyond just the new tools.

Visual Basic is still a language that many people know better than other languages, but I'd not advise those people to stay on VB just because they know VB. And PHP is getting a fresh coat of paint but that doesn't mean it isn't antiquated - what other web based programming environments provide a CGI model where scripts are in the public directory? How many of them are HTML with directions for the actual programming language?

If PHP is intended to stand on its own as a web development language, they've missed a few bits of low hanging fruit already. Like, take HTML out of the language. Package PHP with Composer. Allow for a new app base model where apps have their own FCGI servers and routing is done in PHP. I mean why not? These are things that modern users of PHP already try to accomplish, sometimes with [ugly hacks that are prone to security issues](https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/nginx-php-code-...).

I don't care if people think I'm just being a hater for the sake of it. I really think PHP is a dead end, and I think that because it seems the focus for PHP development has been toward making older software like MediaWiki run better rather than make PHP a better platform overall. As far as scripting languages go, it has a history of confusing, non orthogonal behaviors, legacy cruft, bad documentation, and designs that promote or directly cause security problems. And it has such a problem with memory management that the gold standard is to simply kill the PHP instance every N requests.
Isn't there a catch, at least in the US, that companies don't want to invest in training/mentoring because they believe once they reach a certain level the people will just leave and employees that don't feel like they're being trained/growing in their role will also start to look to new pastures, esp. if pay is keeping up with their skills?

I was recently laid off from my job. I was #2 in a two-person IT team (#1 had been there for 20 years). I came wanting to be mentored and to learn but the string of broken promises and lack of any sort concrete plans left me adrift so I continued to self-train. After expressing this sentiment to the boss, thinking an open and honest dialogue about where I hoped to be and that I felt neglected in terms of the company investing in me (whereas the other users received an educational stipend, paid for professional study and exams, etc.), I was told we'd come back to it after our office move earlier this month. Well, we did, and I was let go.
>Understanding this word takes not a fluency in the language but rather a fluency in Mexican culture.

Wrong. I am native in spanish, not even near to "fluent" in "Mexican culture" and I can understand it. I think any Spanish speaker older than 5 can understand it.

Latin America has a myriad of different accents and dialects, far more than in the United States (think more of a UK kind of thing). Some say "ahorita", some don't; but everyone can understand it.

All in all, the article is pretty inaccurate.
I think it means rsync must be installed. It probably starts rsync as you say.
I remember an early Linux from around 1999, had to dig around xfconfig as well. The book I used as guide had scary all uppercase letters mentioning be extra careful.

And getting sound and modem working took me several days. Especially the WinModem caused troubles, as basically major parts of the modem functionality sat in the Windows modem driver, so getting it to work on Linux was not funny - but I got it working.
tax advisors. marketing can be automated
Actually I tested both with a hello world app just this week and nw.js used more RAM than electron
You can get it to work with a $5 a month VPS. The issue is more that a VPS requires constant maintenance.

Let's say my friend runs a store. He needs a website. I can:

1. Find a $5 a month shared hiding plan. As it's Shared, they don't let you start servers, so go (as well as python) is out of the picture (unless you run it as a CGI - yuck). You develops the site, sell it to him, and fix on contract. You never have to do another thing for him.

2. Get a $5 a month VPS, spend another $1 a month (or more) on an S3 backup. Ensure said backup works (try it out once in a while). Keep OS up to date.

Which is easier? Which is more maintainable?

Does anyone think that if WordPress was written in Python it would get nearly as much traction?

That's why PHP won the internet (and that VPSs were extremely expensive until a about a decade ago) - servlets where around for a long time but you couldn't run it on a shared server - made it dead on arrival.
Faurisson was sentenced to jail for "denying the Holocaust" as you put it. Chomsky believed Faurisson had the right of free speech "even if Faurisson were to be a rabid anti-Semite and fanatic pro-Nazi" as Chomsky's statement said. Chomsky said to use his statement as wished, and it was put as the preface of a Faurisson book.

When people ask him about this Chomsky says he has signed hundreds of free speech petitions and free speech should not be removed just because he disagrees with the person, citing Thomas Jefferson. Some people believe in free speech, some think people with certain critical views of Nazi era nationality policy towards Jews should be jailed. In the USA, the free speech view tends to win, and this is where Chomsky is from.

Hezbollah has 12 MPs in the Lebanese parliament. It represents the interests of a section of Shia in Lebanon, many of whom were driven from their homes in Palestine in 1948 by Jewish settlers, and are now barred from returning home (whereas a Jew from anywhere in the world is allowed to settle in the West Bank).

The PFLP is "terrorist", Hamas is "terrorist", Hezbollah is "terrorist", the PLO is "terrorist", the DFLP is "terrorist" - anyone who fights back against Zionist (or sometimes American) aggression is labeled a "terrorist".

Hezbollah was formed because Israel invaded Lebanon and began killing Shia there (or letting their helpers do so in Sabra and Shatila). Hezbollah arose to defend the Shia from this foreign invasion.
H. L. Mencken identified in Americans “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

A better, more succinct description of the American attitude that created and still fuels the drug war (amongst other disgusting things) simply does not exist. You can write a million pages and not get as much clarity as Mencken does in this one phrase.
Now that is a blast from the past :)
Yes, kudos to Jon Ronson for correcting the record and bringing some comfort. It is also an important object lesson that what one person thinks is an unimportant detail (just a picture garnish on a story) can traumatize someone else. Words and images matter.
Well... what if the form of reproduction is a lot more subtle than you would recognize? Meat people producing baby meat people is an outcome of evolution, but robots building more physical robots is the wrong way to think about it. Potentially, its more like github: the designs go out into the world and experience iterative improvement to the software. Sometimes, it forks. Sometimes, it rewrites because it has hit local maxima (aka legacy).
Show HN: Ruby Firebase ID Token Verifier
Kids..
The jump from Java to Kotlin is a lot less than the jump from C to C++. 75% of Kotlin is just syntactic sugar for things you are already familiar with in Java (things like defaulting to public access), so those are really easy to wrap your head around, and the remaining stuff isn't that far removed from what you're used to. Going from C to C++ on the other hand is introducing OO concepts, and then there's the STL which is basically an entire second functional language on top of C++.
I think the very fact that Bezos owns the Post means that any article published about Amazon (positive or negative) deserves an extra dose of scrutiny/skepticism. The bottom line is that there's a conflict of interest there, and none of us knows Bezos well enough to know if he's above this sort of pressure or not. It's highly unlikely that we'd ever find evidence of any wrongdoing, or evidence of lack of wrongdoing, no matter what -- if anything -- is going on.

I don't think we should assume the worst and discount anything WaPo says (or doesn't say) about Amazon, but I think it's important to keep in mind that Bezos owns the paper, and just continue to think critically about things.
Wow, how did you get that to happen? Could i get you to give us OS version?
Ask HN: Making money from a JavaScript library?
Is it possible to make money by making a quality JS library and monetizing it either through direct sales (preferably) or some other way?

Are the IP risks too big or can they be mitigated by using obfuscation?
The bit everybody misses is that people still need something to do with their day.

The problem is the wrong conception of what work actually is. Work is what you do with your day that you find enjoyable and that others consider useful. When that gets paid we call it a job.

And that's it.

Work is leisure you get paid to do. It's a social activity that furthers the cause of the group of humans engaged in it.

If it isn't, then perhaps the system we've chosen to allocate work is broken rather than the concept of work.

Perhaps we need a system that ensures there are always more jobs than people that want them, and that creates work and jobs based upon agreed social value. Which then forces the market sector to compete, which in turn forces market value to align properly with the social value we're after.
No, I'm comparing the torture of a few creatures to the torture and deaths of millions. I'm not drawing a connection between genocide and eating pork. I'm saying genocide is a lot worse than torturing a few creatures. You completely misunderstood.
I was using them as examples of two groups that would write totally different questions both with a prejudice towards a particular worldview.
Figuring out whether or not Bezos is doing behind-the-scenes censorship of his own media outlet ultimately depends on the internal organizational structure of WaPo and Amazon.

If the most senior leader of WaPo - the person in charge of greenlighting or pulling articles that get published - may be fired/terminated/reassigned by Bezos, or someone who Bezos oversees, then there is a conflict of interest that can't be ignored, and will always be inherent within the organizations until this is remedied.

Now, just because there's a conflict of interest does not mean that shady reporting is occurring. But, we cannot definitively say that WaPo is unbiased towards Amazon, unless there is something about the internal controls that would separate Bezos from the ultimate decision-making.
One clear-cut example of an "unnatural monopoly" would be the state outlawing all but one company in an industry.

A natural monopoly in an area arises from the dynamics of the business itself, other monopolies require external forces to prop them up.
>Not only money, but ownership needs to be redistributed. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a solution for this old problem either.

Ever heard of public companies and the stock market?
>electron

Not a big fan of it so I think I'll continue using PSequel and pgAdmin3.

With Slack already running, I can't have another battery hog running simultaneously.
The war on drugs policy is a disaster.

As someone who enjoys doing drugs I have put though into the stigmatization legality and health effects of drugs.

Much like healthcare this is an extremely complex subject.

Decriminalization:

Pros: helps treat addiction as a public health issue. Keeps people out of the prison industrial complex. Takes the taboo elements out of it for the youth.

Cons: supports the drug trafficking systems that kill people. Strips tax revenue from governments and money from 9companies who can help treat addiction. No quality control of drugs - look at tweekers and junkies who can't afford quality gear. Spread of infectious diseases.

Legalization:
Pros: substances can be produced by companies who can compete to make good quality drugs. Generates tax revenue and stimulates the economy.
Puts a wrench in the cog of the drug trafficking systems - less babies filled with dope and dead drug mules.

Cons: companies exploit addicts. Drugs get marketed to the wrong people. Drug revenues go to support more corrupt politicians. Drug addiction becomes normalized.

It also raises other questions such as what are the goals of our greater society? Living in a rigid corporate, industrialized society leaves little time for many people to have recreation time. Being strung out or twisted on meth can make it hard to keep up with the rigors of life.

I also don't want the construction crew down the street drunk or high on heroin working the tower crane... downers impare your motor skills. Stimulants go after your cognitive and social abilities.

Tough topic.
Well ... what is the best thing we can do with mentally unstable people who are unable to hold a job?

I want to know what 'best' actually looks like. I know 'best' is not a bunch of talk so that we can feel better ourselves (but not actually do anything.) Time to start passing some laws!

We have people who are damaged and hurting and down with no way out. They are not able to care for themselves and they are not going to advocate for or better themselves. There's nothing noble there, only sadness!

I snicker at the single payer agenda... Hey, you all know darn well the homeless are going to be LAST in line to get their health care rations after California drives over the single payer cliff.

There's only one thing that even approaches 'best'. Take away the homeless' freedom by making homelessness illegal. Work camps for the healthy and mental hospitals for the sick. And before anyone complains about the cost of such a suggestion, please scroll up and see "single payer" was previously recommended. My idea will be cheap by comparison.

In fact, the taxpayer should pony up and gladly this time, if purely from a public health standpoint. The homelessness problem is absolutely shameful, inhumane, and abhorrent. That doesn't mean compassion is the answer because feelings allowed us to get so far into this mess.

Not fair, not just? Who said life was fair? Where is there any justice? Clearly the homeless are getting a raw deal already.

We have to get aggressive and be cold-hearted. Lock them up on a farm, get them clean, force them to work, and then integrate them back into society or the military whenever possible. If people go right back onto the streets after release, they land right back into the camps.
While I dont disagree, I put it to you that 'clickbait' techniques are easily arrived at by iterative testing; but are poor outcomes for the long term.
IE: I don't see an AI negotiating a multi year memorandum of understanding between companies based on "X did Y and you wont believe what happens next!"

Those will make money; but will they just cause stagnation/niche specialized behaviours that have less benefit to society as a whole?
They claim to sell to married people who think the other spouse is cheating on them, or to business owners who think an employee is leaking stuff to the competition.

They also sell to paranoid people, and sometimes who have some contact with child protective social services.

EG, this guy records all meetings using glasses with a hidden camera.
Have you submitted a bug report or looked for an existing one?
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Li...?
Never heard of this. I wonder why it's not more popular?
There's plenty of armies that recruit young children around 8, 9 years old as they have been for thousands of years. You don't need nuclear bombs to commit genocide or kill whole populations. Blades and spears will do just fine. So, yeah, I do think this is the natural state of humanity. Even a little kid who is not even an adult human is easily coaxed into a monster and has been so for thousands of years.
The only confusing thing here is how this got to become an article. There is no magical or complex thing about "Ahorita". In the states some people may tell you "Give me a sec" and have you wait for a couple of minutes. Yet I don't see an article saying "The confusing way Americans tell the time".

Unlike the author I know what I am talking about because I am an actuall Mexican.
You could say the same of English.

- "Maybe later" -> no / never

- "Let me think about it" -> no

- "You should receive an e-mail couple of days" - we would like you to leave now. you will receive an email from donotreply@company.com

Very implicit, indirect and uncommitted.
Understood.

If you're open minded, you may want to read this: https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage/blob/master/Fact...

Also, postage has a webserver mode that is simple to install (configure-make-install) and it does not use Electron. You just use a browser window.
Ask HN: What'd you do with an extremely short domain-name?
i got my hands on an extremely short domain name, like t.co, j.mp etc. A quick solution is to deploy a URL shortening service or resell it for a much higher price.
What else would you do with it? Commercial or otherwise.
The problem is if you disagree you get another confirmation of the leanings of the organization. I agree with everdev, you really need to stick with indisputable facts. Your first question is problematic because you might dispute the characterization regardless of what the article says.
If you want more detail on my position, I wrote more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14884665
> custom-made pornograhy is exploding

Where?
I use the freeware app PSequel. It's so great!
This is very interesting! cool data viz and analysis.. I always thought suicide is the main cause of death for rock stars.
I'm also a native Spanish speaker (not Mexican, older than 5) and, while I would imagine "ahorita" is a relaxed, and hence imprecise, version of "ahora" ("now"), I didn't know, as the article states, it could mean within five years or never. That is certainly a cultural norm and not something you can figure out.