skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've discovered that "shameless people are shameless" is surprisingly common. I stumbled across a site for a new JS book one day, and it looked exactly like the personal site of one of our frontend developers. I asked him if he started selling his site as a template, and he goes pale. About 15 minutes later we found where someone had lifted all the assets off his site, replaced his name and photo, and put it up for sale on ThemeForest. Didn't even remove all the comments he left in the code. Dude was making about $2k a month with it. He ended up having to send him a cease and desist, and the guy only gave him about $3k as a settlement.
Blogs belonging to software tend to be very valuable. People will share insights or tips long after the blog post has been written, often extending the shelf life of the code or software.
I've had largely the same experiences. Recently I decided to challenge myself to instead keep it simple, rather than treat the whole thing as a "learn some new thing along the way" type exercise. The end result is I actually have a blog I'm actually writing on that is absurdly easy to maintain, rather than the usual (for me anyway!) 75 percent complete side project in some new technology I'll never get around to finishing.

Simple VPS, webserver, letsencrypt, static site generator, cloud flare for CDN duties and a little CSS. All I do now is write a new article in Markdown every now and then, then run a simple shell script to regenerate the site and rsync the newly minted static pages to the server.

Personal sites or new blogs are all too often victims of premature optimisation - your amazing google PageSpeed score is nice, but who cares if no one is reading.
No, what is egotistical is believing your individual choices don't affect others and believing that the consequences your actions are not externalized by society.

I'm not even pro criminalization, but, c'mon man.
When I was moved cross-country for my job, the tech guy gave me some nice noise cancelling head phones. I was moved from quiet remote work to an office filled with 50-100 people all in the same room, so it took some adjustment. Especially when you get people who feel the need that a conversation needs to be had right by your desk.. and somehow its an important conversation that you don't really care to hear about?

I need my music to focus and write code, but what bothers me is when the supervisor will start talking to me and I don't hear a word he says.

I've gone all day without headphones... no one said a word to me. Minute I put them on? Someone has something to say in the office. For the most part, however, they are always on and I'm always listening to music... classic rock or indie or techno usually.
I floated a similar idea (dubbed quickgig) and quickly realized it isn't very feasible for the vast majority of work that could be characterized as on-demand. better to break it down into specialities first and foremost.
That just tests the ability to stick to consensus - what happens when you get the equivalent of "does the Sun orbit the Earth" in a society before Copernicus and Galileo? You also move away entirely from the original point of the questions - someone with scientific knowledge doesn't necessarily know anything about society and politics. They're separate worlds.
On authors favorite words: "The words must be used in half an author’s books, at least once per hundred thousand words; they can’t be proper nouns... Isaac Asimov prefers 'terminus,'"

"terminus" is the proper name of a location in Asimov's Foundation series. Did Ben Blatt's analysis fail to account for common words used as proper nouns, or does Asimov use terminus outside the Foundation series?
Companies are generally hierarchical systems. By developing the solution on your own initiative, you bypassed that. You should never expect a good reaction from a social system when you break its rules, even if for its own benefit.
It can also be absolutely trivial and soul sucking in that you have to do lots of maintenance when all you want to do is share ideas.
Appreciate the detailed write-up.
I don't hate them for trying either but it doesn't work and it's not really how conversations work best online.

If the purpose is meaningful responses then a much better strategy is to write meaningful essays which means don't write them for the audience write them for yourself.

My personal experience is that you will get lots of meaningful responses if you write about things you care about and therefore don't care about the length.
If he thinks Hyperloop is viable he should build it with his own money. One of the reasons private businesses apply for public subsides is that they know they would never succeed without them. It's just easier to take risks with someone else's money :)
> 1. One assumes that os.Chdir is used down the road. If it failed unchecked it will probably cause a panic later on when it is assumed it succeeded.

You could make the same argument about any errors being ignored. The fact is that syntax/semantics that allows any errors to be silently swallowed is suboptimal.

> 2. Apart from the few functions that are only called for side effects, the others must return something. Thus ignoring errors is an explicit action.

Ignoring errors is not always an explicit action, as you pointed out yourself. In Java, however, it is always an explicit action.

Java is simply more robust at making sure errors are handled than Go is.
Ignoring the ethics: what reason would you have to answer truthfully? Someone could easily circulate the "correct" responses, and then you pass the barrier with basically no difference. What are you going to do, eliminate voting anonymity and chase people up afterwards to see if they can actually answer the way they said they did?
> So the people who invented the Internet and most of modern technology are called "digital immigrants"?

Consider if a community designed a new language. By definition, no one in the community would be a native speaker. Couples start having children and teaching the children that language. Those children will be the first native speakers. The best of the non-natives would still have more technical knowledge of how the language works than the average native speaker. That's the situation that we're looking at here.
BuzzFeed-er here, in the NY office, where Tasty is produced:
The leftovers from every shoot are eaten by employees, and they go fast.
I use Hugo with Digital Ocean and GitHub. Simple nodejs express script is running via PM2 and is listening for GitHub messages and serving as a webhook. Whenever I push to the site repo on GitHub, the webhook fires, which fires the build script, which does a git pull and executes the hugo command to rebuild the site.

It's a delightful experience.
i did some google search for

"gatsby themes"
"gatsby disqus"

almost nothing useful turns out.. any ideas?
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Scala – Learning by Understanding Functional Programming Terminology Part 2
Self control is an amazing skill mate.
I thank you for bringing this up and the chance to read about this issue elsewhere, but no it isn't a problem. We have 2000km long gas pipelines. They dont worry about it (on the surface where temperatures actually change). Serpentines work... there are so many solutions that one could be accidentally introduced. I think we're discussing a bikeshed.
You can use HTTPS to secure many things, not only login details. Not least of all, the privacy of your users/readers.

There's also integrity of your site, and many more future proof reasons. These days, there's no reason _not_ to use HTTPS, really.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/encr...
The economic argument was this; we won't get off IC engines because it wasn't viable (for car companies). They have a stranglehold on regulators and lawmakers in almost every country. Their sunk costs and supply chain and derivatives are all set up to continue with petroleum (whom the producers are in similar situations, therefore in agreement with this arrangement). Do you not remember what happened with Tesla and the car-dealerships?

The economic argument was: we're staying with IC, electric cars "aren't viable." Which means the entire global economy (yuge scale) is dependent on the IC / Petrol cartel, everyone with any amount of money is happy with the arrangment. If you want to go up against us, with no sponsorship from a big money distributor (they like petrol) then good luck!
Glossing through save the cat- it doesn't seem like a restrictive guide, but rather a set of reasonable narrative components, like stating the theme and having a narrative catalyst. Frankly this seems fine, if not beneficial. I would be more concerned about the formulas that drive your average Michael Bay quality film or second-by-second construction of trailers.
Ask HN: Can Americans Contribute to Iranian-Controlled FLOSS?
I'm an American living in the USA. I've been approached by an Iranian entrepreneur who wants help on an open source project.

Hypothetically, for IANAL purposes... what factors, if any, might an American citizen in the USA need to consider before knowingly & willingly committing to a FLOSS Git repo controlled by an Iranian in Iran?

I'd seek formal legal advice before taking any real action.
You would think that this would be true, but I humbly suggest to you that it's not.

A lot of people seem to like the idea of making/having money much more than actually doing it. A lot of very good and relatively easy money making ideas require boring/unsexy work, a small amount of sales behavior, or both. This is an unusually high threshold for most people to cross.

I see a lot of smart people who think that people are just going to drop sexy problems in their lap along with a pile of money to solve those problems. I humbly suggest that this is a relatively rare occurrence.

Anyway, any answer to OPs question is probably going to be some form of unsexy work and light sales. There are a lot of opportunities that meet this description.
Have you spent any time in Mexico? Not say Cancun but actual real Mexico?

Time is a HUGE cultural difference. The article is spot on. Being 2 hours late to a party is normal.
Because handling payments for outside of the US has all sorts of legal and logistical obstacles.
You're rubric for that which is good needs to be expanded beyond just "more money for businesses".
They used to be hosted at cloudflare.

So, you could put "104.23.131.83 btc-e.com" in your /etc/hosts file and try it. I did that, but cloudflare times out.
As someone else in this thread noticed: so far all Musk did was incremental improvements to existing technologies (electric cars, autopilot, space rockets). He has no track of record of actually creating a new technology.
are there any significant benefits over matplotlib?
Next in line : voting at elections.

My dream of having people answer 5 simple questions to be allowed to get a voting card would come true.

Example of questions: name three neighbour countries, who is the current president, is France in Europe or Asia, what was the last world war,...

I understand that this will unfairly remove people who are illiterate, or had a difficult childhood, or are simply dumb but they are expected to make a choice which will impact the whole country. If they do not know anything about this country and the world it is in then sorry, they are not in a poisition to choose.
I know what you mean, my family calls me a city slicker and that's how they intend it as well.

I hope ...
Not sure but probably. Trees only seemed to be around houses. This was our place. https://goo.gl/maps/gN9UVEgNV652
What Time Should You Post to Reddit?
A good point.

On the other hand, NASA did make a man-rated reusable spacecraft, back in the '70s, while dealing with a huge pile of political horseshit. (This is sort of a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers moment.)
I'm no Google fan, but blaming them because someone stole their property and threw it in a river is insane.
Did not know that this is possible. Thanks a lot! Probably there are similar import options on Linkedin et al.
Are you aware of how much money is dumped into maintaining roads? Erosion.
more page impressions = more ads
It is the policy of San Francisco to annoy and harass car owners into switching to bicycling and public transit. Why would the city undermine its own policy goals by going after people who help deter driving and car ownership? It would make more sense to pay the people who smash car windows than it would to lock them up.
It's not that simple though. Ahorita can also be a polite never. In English, you would almost never use "soon" for a polite never. You would say something more like "I will think about that", or "Maybe", or "we will see..". Soon would be a promise to do it at some point in the near future.
I don't know the details, but it's the exhaust gases from the rocket spreading (in near-vacuum they can spread many kilometers) and being lit up by sunlight. There was a similar plume over San Fransisco from a Trident missile test a while ago: https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/12/9720728/san-francisco-mi...

I'm guessing the bulb-shape from the first stage is because the gasses spread further at higher altitude.
Maybe I'm pointing the obvious, but the reason that the idiot in charge in NK want nuclear weapons is in order to avoid the fate of the idiot that was in charge in Iraq.

Probably that war was like an epiphany for the people in charge in NK. And maybe Iran think something in the same lines.

So, maybe he is wrong, or, maybe, that it's the only way that the US will suffer his regime.
One thing that's so confounding about this is that so many hierarchical organizations (companies, non-profits, universities, etc) encourage "initiative", but then when you take that initiative, you may/often catch shit for it, even if you're doing the right thing from an objective point of view. Of course, there are complex politics at play and the reaction you get depends on largely on "who you know" and if you effectively kiss ass.
If you start typing `html` trying to get to `html_entity_encode` you'll notice a dropdown which will show you the right method to use. Unless you use notepad.exe or something.

https://i.imgur.com/YYXkkNS.png
Yes absolutely. Especially when it is aimed at elites.
I think its doing a very good service if it can convince more people to cook on their own, and it does that by showing that cooking can be done without spending an entire day in the endeavor. Once you get a foot in the door... once people start cooking and realizing just how easy it is to whip up something really nice, hopefully they will do more of it.

Personally, as someone who cooks regularly, I use Tasty recipes more of a guide than something to follow through to a T. e.g. they had a recipe for BBQ ribs in oven, and it suggests coating the ribs with BBQ sauce at the end, which is absolutely unnecessary. The fat and spices actually give it a pretty great flavor... no need for the sugar laden sauce!
Unfortunately, in the US, there's a pretty ugly historical precedent for this practice, and it doesn't leave much faith in people's ability to actually write the questions fairly.
NYT and Nature News.
Build a keyboard that puts Ctrl and Alt under your thumbs, or have one built for you.
I have regretted my choice of licences, so now I only go copyleft. That has allowed me to monetize some small libraries with a pretty specific use case. Some companies wont use code they haven't got an invoice for.
This is completely true, in my experience.

If you want some fun, track down somebody working at the NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center and ask them about the Office of Education software. (Me, I know nothing, through an exercise of good luck and skill. "No hablo ingles. Tengo hambre. Mucho muerte. <feigns death>")
For anyone wondering about the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scient...
Could someone tell me how these tunnels will be cooled and vented?

Sure, put a car on an electric sled. But the people want A/C (or heat), and lights, the wheels provide friction. If the car was running beforehand then the engine block is cooling off. Even if it's an electric car, the brakes, tires, and skin will be hot, dumping heat into the well-insulated tunnel.

This is a well-known problem in London, where decades of heat have built up in the Underground. Putting new cooling in is expensive, because they require expensive surface access.

If the goal is to have multiple layers of tunnels under a city, then how are they all cooled? How much surface access does each one need?

The same question applies to a hyperloop tunnel.

There must also be vents, for people to breath of course, and also for smoke and evacuation management in case of fire. How many are needed?
Show HN: BandcampFS – a hacky way to store your files on Bandcamp
The model I have seems to work. I don't have any pressure to change anything.
I think outside of formal settings and in everyday life, it is common courtesy to give credit to people if you use their work or reference their ideas.
I didn't know about XML being dropped...interesting
IANAL but you may want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...

and AFAIK the 6502 and 8051 have been around for long enough that any patents they may have had are already expired; the last time I looked up this info, the 486 subset was already patent-free, and the Pentium patents were soon to expire.
Totally agree about the fresh veggies. And yeah, won't take on the risk of discussing food stuff with an Italian ;)
Except for the difficulty of managing and keeping up to date with TLS (I'd have to upgrade my RPi's OS for example, to do it well), and the fact that it actually reduces performance for small simple sites with local readership, even with HTTP/2 for example.

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html

Edit: I note that I got downvoted, though no reply with reasons. I accept that it is currently widespread dogma/fashion that everything should be HTTPS, and there are some good reasons for it, but as someone that has worked in what might be called 'real' security in on-line finance for example, I fear that HTTPS-everywhere is as much security theatre or cargo cult as taking your belt off at the airport scanners...
Ask HN: Tool to summarise forks of a repo
Hi! Is there a tool to make sense of all the forks / most active forks from a github repo?

I'm playing with React, and I bump into all sorts of tiny repos that solve one problem (one-off components, scss stuff, icons, tiny npm modules etc)

These repos are not maintained all that well, which usually means at least a few people made forks with improvements, but didn't have the time/interest to PR back.

I would love a tool to see the most prominent forks with a summary of the most important changes. It won't be 100% automatic, but it can maybe check PRs, releases, do a README diff, or if all else fails, commit messages.

The goal is to help decide if a fork is worth taking over the main repo, and maybe in the long run, help people PR stuff back to master.
Thanks. We recently moved away from a donation model, and we now seek sponsorships and subscribers: https://caddyserver.com/pricing

Donations never did cover more than a few meals per month. That was nice, but sponsorships and the Engineering Package allow me (and my business partner) to dedicate more time on development and invest back into the community for the project's growth. Still not at the break-even point yet, but I'm hoping that won't take too long...
"...since it would likely be composed of majority NATO or Indian troops..."

Well NATO troops are not gonna happen right... because the EU is doing its own thing with China.

So we're really only talking US troops, Russian troops or, in your view, Indian troops.

But in the Chinese view, Indian troops and Russian troops are the same thing. Because India and Russia are strong military partners, and have been for a long, long time. So when you consider that the Chinese are close to being surrounded by Russia, I'm pretty sure Indian troops won't happen. (Russian troops are obviously to the north, and the Russians are the chief allies of most of the nations to the West. Including India. So Indian or Russian troops in NK would seal up the Eastern border. This is also a reason that the US would never want large masses of Indian or Russian troops in NK. It essentially gives Russia enormous influence over China, because Russia would surround them militarily. For US policy makers, the idea is for the US to surround China, the worst possible outcome would be for Russia to surround China.)

For all these reasons, and more that I haven't mentioned, both China and the US would be vehemently opposed to any outcome that increased Russia's influence. You characterize such an outcome as "likely", but I'd characterize it as "extremely unlikely".
I made a static blog generator based on github (https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog) I thought people will like it, It seems I wasted about 1month making that in my free time. I even wrote a funny blogpost about it in a blog generated by that generator ( https://geekodour.github.io/posts/dont-waste-your-time-makin... )
Android app with big userbase and huge potential but stalling revenue due to lack of development: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.tomtasche.r...
Looking for patterns in storytelling is a popular thing to do, see for example "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Campbell (1949) or "The Uses of Enchantment" by Bettelheim (1976).
One feature of classical mechanics is that the world must abide by it. With transportation, the vehicle must start and stop at a speed of zero. The energy required to accelerate the vehicle to its top speed and then decelerate it to back to zero increases quadratically as the top speed increases.

Another feature of classical mechanics is, of course, that Aristotelian concept of kenophobia, or horror vacui, or resintenza del vacuo, or natura abhorret vaccum, or nature abhors a vacuum. Of course we now know we can produce vacuums these days... but it's not easy to make one. The largest is in Sandusky, OH, and it's 122 feet high and 100 feet wide. It takes 8-12 hours to achieve vacuum conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Power_Facility
From a yogi to business tycoon
"Patent pending" isn't something that should be on a freelancer job board. The idea of patenting anything about this is approximately as rediculous as Amazon patenting one click checkout. Cool otherwise.
"It is important information since it not only avoids the extremely remote possibility that an aircraft may be hit by part of a vehicle used in a launch test"

Did I miss something on mobile? Is this sentence just left incomplete? Did anyone else find this confusing?
In my experience it's completely par for the course in science journalism. At least his contrary quote was included!

Assuming that he actually said that quote or something similar to it. It's really hard for me to trust quotations in articles after what I've seen.