skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An effective tool for most secure communication needs using any regular email-account as transport. Calling it a job is overdoing it, but it's the only thing I have patience for right now and it needs to be done. I have no idea if anyone out there even got it running yet, it's been very quiet so far; but that's ok, timing is everything and the universe moves in unpredictable ways. I'm already using it on a daily basis with friends and family, so at least that's one less itch.

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
I don't know much about this topic. Is what you're suggesting distinct from the approach they addressed in the "Sharing Shaders" section?

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/#sharing...
Once enough chinese companies rely on IP laws to protect their assets things will change. It's like how the U.S. book publishing industry played fast and loose with copyright as long as the books were british but pushed for stronger copyright once there were enough american authors.
Pokemon Go Fest’s blunders result in class-action lawsuit
Curious, do you know the EROI difference for fossil fuels? How much difference is there in the opportunity cost? All energy is subsidized. Solar actually doesn't qualify for the subsidies oil does, same for electric cars. That's why they have a separate subsidy. Unlike oil's 15% the subsidy declines to 10% for solar and the EV car subsidy vanishes. All the things you mention can be covered by that 5% difference. That's opportunity cost.
Referring to cauliflower as "healthy" is dubious. It's healthy in the same sense that cotton is.
For reference, that would take roughly 53 minutes to load on a 56kbps modem.
OTOH, it reduces the amount of such businesses, since each one now has to compete with many more for the same customer base. In the limit (cheap teleporters) this leads to what we have on the Internet - winner-takes-all global competition.
It is a video of a cartoon mouse named "Mickey" that only kids watch. It's not an academic article. No one cares, it isn't actionable.
Just curious - did you take any action against those who violated your license or did you just let them be?
> It definitely seems problematic to put your entire foundation of travel in the hands of government (...) They especially do not represent the concerns of all people. A car, on the other hand, is complete freedom.

Well, car needs roads and roads are public goods. And, of course, they need a lot of public funding, planning and maintenance. All with public money.

Governments pushed for cars as a mean of transportation because in the Keynesian era was good for the whole economy (car factories employed a lot of people), and nature was less of a concern. But pushing for cars was a deliberate public policy that involved a lot of public infrastructure, city planning, etc...

Driverless cars would need a lot of infrastructure as well, but I don't think they are a good investment for the whole economy like normal cars were in the '50s. With putting a lot of public money for infrastructure to help a few companies that do not employ so many people anymore?

The future is not for cars, IMHO. But who knows...
Oneauth: A simple single-signon server in Node.js and Postgres
It's not entirely out of the question.

Some of the other *ARPAs have "proposer days" where you can go and ask questions.
> what's the keyboard shortcut on a Mac to go to the beginning of your current line? Ah trick question, it's different for every god damned application!

It's Control-A in every app!
Where in manhattan? Travel from battery park to DC involves can take 50 minutes to get from the office to the platform at Penn station.

Now if hyperloop has stations at various NY locations (JFK, downtown, midtown, uptown) and a couple of Washington locations, that will save a fair amount of time.

I'll believe it when I see it, and when it can cope with 3000 people an hour in each direction
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The software team did an AMA on reddit a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_...

Basically it's C/C++ (as expected) for critical stuff, like the rocket or dragon, and C# for all enterprise systems. Plus an assorted set of other languages/technologies depending on team and project.
Looking at human history I do not this this is new.
I've always wanted to conduct an experiment where we put some higshcoolers who wanted to major in art history in isolation (except for sterilized food and some math textbooks slipped under the door) and had them reconstruct the periods and choose important artists from scratch.

How much of the canon would turn out the same?
You where to early, there is now.
I thought it was Control-A ?
Not a ton of interesting backstory but some. We moved up there in 96. My parents drove truck so where we lived did not really matter. My mom was from Arkansas and my dad had a lot of family in Colorado and wanted to be closer.

We moved up there sometime in September. We had just came from a month of 100+f days in Arkansas. When it hit freezing the first week up there my parents got a bit of a wake up call.

We lived there till 2000 when my mom got pregnant with my youngest brother and she had to go to lower altitudes because her body was creating too many red blood cells.

We paid $12k for ~40 acres and a mobile home. https://goo.gl/maps/gN9UVEgNV652 should show where we lived. If you follow the road back to where it meets T road that is where the closest you could place a mailbox.

Feel free to ask any more questions and I'll try to answer them.
Cherry picking commits and shell scripting in golang
Would their IP still work then?
"I think we'd better get downstairs before those kids get engrossed with those damned beasts again."

Just then they heard the children calling, "Daddy, Mommy, come quick -quick!"

They went downstairs in the air flue and ran down the hall. The children were nowhere in sight. "Wendy? Peter!"

They ran into the nursery. The veldtland was empty save for the lions waiting, looking at them. "Peter, Wendy?"

The door slammed.

- Ray Bradbury, The Veldt[0]

[0] http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm
Wasn't it? It was taken down by a lawsuit over my.mp3.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co....
I have regretted using the GPL, twice.

First time I made a project I wrote myself (a CP solver called Minion) GPL. I now know several companies had interest in it but we're afraid to put any GPL in their toolchain. I've never received useful external contributions, so I may as well have used BSD.

The second is a project I work on where GPL V2 was chosen. Now some committers have passed away so we are stuck on 2, so can't link with other, GPL v3-only code
PGAdmin 3 was simple and worked flawlessly. PGAdmin 4 is basically broken and unusable. I was forced to look for alternatives and ended up with PyCharm/Datagrip. It works great but is missing one key feature in that it can't list all the databases under a single server, something they are working to resolve.
Yep, I remember this. I used to use SoundCloud for everything. I built a following, a reputation, and then SoundCloud tried to commit suicide. They signed this stupid deal, they removed groups, and they tried to shove Soundcloud Go down everyone's throats. I think all 3 oysf those things are related, despite PR claiming (vaguely) otherwise.

I've been paying SoundCloud for years. They had a business model. I use(d) SoundCloud because everything on SoundCloud sounded different than everywhere else.

There is so much content on SoundCloud, and they've been doing their best to bury it under tracks that I can find on Spotify. Back in the good old days, when SoundCloud was small enough to have advanced search (because they were still using postgres on the back end), I remember searching for Balkan Swing Electro, and there was a ton of it. There is no way for me to discover new things like that any more because groups are gone, search sucks, tags aren't freeform, and SoundCloud wants to be Spotify. SoundCloud owned the long tail of music, you could find everything that didn't sound like Justin Bieber making a remix with Diplo and Wiz Khalifa, and very little that did. I'm eagerly awaiting the next company that wants to own the long tail of music.

My money is on Clyp right now.
You've ignored the body of my reply, you're being extremely parsimonious. Any money from taxes that does not benefit the general tax payer, is at the expense to the common tax payer (not to mention the neglect of the collection of payment for the externality costs for the privilege to common land).

You are now arguing that it doesn't matter where taxes are spent because it comes mostly from the rich. If that was the case, imagine if government only spent taxes on frivolous and unproven projects for private enterprise. It is doubtful that any government would continue to exist. It's a strange claim considering that the government continues to be over-budget year after year.
Concorde failed financially, partly due to USian "not invented here" policy, but mainly because not enough rich people were willing to pay for the speed.

However Ryanair was very successful by targettk f "poor" people
Ask HN: How do you do HR and application tracking?
Boostrapped startup here, I just moved our support to Zendesk and while that's streamlined our process a lot, I was wondering if I could do the same with our HR.

Then I found out there's a whole class of overpriced SaaS offerings out there for Application Tracking Systems.

Short of forwarding your `careers@domain.com` emails to a Trello board, how do you manage your HR?
"An empirical technique to come up with recipes people love" includes "picking the most popular recipes from other websites."
Answering Open Questions by Reading Wikipedia
Right, but that can't be done by fixed infrastructure like rails. What happens to area as radius goes up? What happens to population density and demand?
Denis Alex sub corl
Yeah, we older millenials are super salty about being labeled as such. But professional demographers and sociologists say you are a millenial (at least some of them, 1980 is borderline), so to the extent that these are defined groups that mean anything, you are one.

I suspect that not wanting to be labeled a millenial is one of the defining characteristics.
Try to look at it from a Chinese point of view, or try to imagine what the US reaction would be to a few squadrons of Chinese warships patrolling just outside the territorial line in the Mexican gulf on the pretense of protecting Cuba's maritime interests? and try and come up with a scenario where the US is as passive as the Chinese have been.

Then try and remember that the US Navy did spend about a century acting as corporate thugs for a bunch of mostly Japanese cartels doing the unequal treaty period until China re-emerged as a independent state under the communist in the 50ies followed by about 30years of the US pretending that the puppet regime in Taiwan was the rightful rulers of china and today backs the a Japanese government that don't feel japan have anything to be ashamed of in regard to their occupation of Chinese territory.

It's way to easy for someone with a basic western education using only mainstream western news sources to forget that the world looks quite a bit different to everybody else that the west behavior have historically never been consistent with anything the west considered to be core western values and that those behaviors havent been forgotten in the east.

Even more modern examples have demonstrated to the 3rd world that you cannot necessarily trust to US to implement a democratic system even if they gain 110% control over a region either due to incompetence or other motives. I.E. i doubt there is any genuine 3rd world pro-democracy movement that want the kind of help the West have provided in the middle east or Caucasus.

The North Korean conflict have to be seen in the light of the very genuine distrust the Chinese have for not just the US government but also Japan's claim that they actually represent anything related to western values. And you begin to understand why the Chinese cannot really tolerate a reunification under the current week and in the Chinese's government view non-independent South Korean government.
Although China's copyright law indeed protects people's work, open source software is still a gray area. As far as I know, there is no clear stipulation in China's law to judge whether software complies GPL or other licenses.
Could they use the "cut scenes" (?) to prime the shader cache(s)?

I mean those bits of animation between levels. I understood that many animations are scripted, vs movie recordings.

Apologies if I'm using the wrong words. I don't play many games.
Wouldn't this mean the guy with a condo block on his 200m^2 is being subsidized by the retiree with a single-family home on her 200m^2? More infrastructure, schools, wider streets needed for the condo.

Does Germany not fund its schools with property tax?
Yep, most farm land had rather large wind breaks because of various government programs to help deal with soil erosion. It was one of the things that struck me as a kid in North Dakota that you would see all these trees in a line or none at all.
I agree with the value of monitoring the CT's since it provides a lot of useful information, but since I do not use any FB account (needed for the link above), I prefer https://sslmate.com/ which will warn (email or api) you when new certificates (for "your" domain) have been logged to CT.
I don't use medium, but also don't need much flexibility. The content is my focus and priority.
#1 most of the time isn't true because public transportation is very poor in those areas.
The unstated premise in your argument is that a smart person would make a robot if they had the ability. But what if a person were so smart that they could foresee that making the robot would be detrimental in the long term?

And then you answer your own premise by pointing out the obvious reason it would be detrimental: kill-bots. We all know that is where it is headed. It is unchangeable human nature.
Read "Truth Machine" by Halperin. Might have broader than intended consequences.
And how does one even find out about such violations?
The age and the architecture of their backend have absolutely nothing to do with Soundclouds usability, which got worse and worse after every iteration, following the typical pattern.
Providing an email address is not part of my 'timeline problem' I am trying to solve. Not providing an email address (or Facebook login) is part of another problem that I have been trying to solve for years.

That's not to say that providing an email address or a Facebook login is always too high a price. But here there is no significant benefit to providing it and a reasonable probability of detriment based on my experience. Going further, there is no functional reason for requiring a login.
Because the login sits in front of all the value on my end and there's not really anything good that can come from providing that information, I am inclined to assign a higher probability to their being a bad outcome.

To be clear, I am writing all this in the context of providing "Show HN" feedback. The login seems like clicking a checkbox on the checklist of "startup best practices" sitting in Github repository. Collecting emails and Facebook logins is easier than listening to users. Emails and Facebook provide ways of telling rather than listening.
This is already very useful! Thanks!
Participation in society - you can starve on chances. You will not be dad of a family, if you play video games all day long. You will have constant stress, keeping from falling into the social abyss, so you starve on security. There is more to a existance then a filled belly.
High-speed trains are dispatched around one train per hour between major city pairs, with similar or higher frequency for local trains on the same line. Even if you ignore the low-speed alternatives, you'd have to dispatch pods in the region of one per minute to achieve the same passenger throughput.

Well, there's the real problem with Hyperloop. It's not really feasible to operate switches more frequently than 45-second headways, even on conventional rail. Modern approaches generally have a capacity of 30 trains per hour, which means the same approach can service a dozen different routes. In Hyperloop, you would have to build a different approach for each of those routes, which requires duplicating the most expensive part of the infrastructure.
Why brilliant young girls avoid science and technology careers
I don't see anything wrong with the terms. It's just like in the real world.
I can't speak for others, but one reason why I'd use something like Medium is precisely to ensure that I don't manage anything by myself except for the content production part.

I have a long list of attempts at setting up my own site, but because it's mine I wanted to get it just right. And so down the rabbit hole I go: making sure my server is super-secure (because it's important hey I'll learn in the process!), finally trying out Caddy, using Ghost (node.js), building my own static site generator using React for the backend, which of course means updating and perfecting my Ultimate Front-End Setup.

And once that's done, I want to do right by the design, and of course make sure my html/css/js is impeccable and that it all runs on every browser under the sun.

Of course I love doing this and I learn a lot from it, but if my goal is to write stuff and put it online, this approach never really works. I'm happy it doesn't, because it means I still love what I do more than writing about what I do, but it's one very legitimate reason to use something like Medium.
> That true, but the lesson from that is that no criticism of speculative sci-fi projects is allowed anymore or what?

No, but maybe the lesson is, people should chill a bit with criticism. It's easy to armchair-criticize anything, but the west has serious problems with infrastructure projects right now. Shooting down any attempt at doing something large-scale is counterproductive to the growth and survival of our society.
Actually, he meant a 75% chance of winning..

Given the chance of winning a round is p=0.5, the chance of losing is q = 1 - p = 0.5

If you've lost the first round, the odds of you twice in a row are q = 0.5^(2 rounds) = 0.25

Which means the odds of you winning are p = 1 - q = 1 - 0.25 = 0.75.
Dolphin always do great writeups and this is no different. Real nice!
A prediction of mine for the past year: in 2020 mass social media dies.

2016 was the first Internet election and showed the power of "fake news" (disinformation flooding) and data driven micro-targeting in an election. Trump won partly because he ran an Internet election while Clinton ran a TV era election. (Obama had a good net game too, but 2008 and 2012 were still dominated by old media.)

The Democrats will close this gap, as will a trillion varied think tanks and pressure groups not to mention a dozen foreign governments. Combine this with the advent of AI chat bots and you have a recipe for social media apocalypse.

My specific prediction is that in 2020 mass social media will be flooded and basically DOS'd to death by automated propaganda bots and algorithmically generated fake news. Sites like Reddit will be nothing but donkeybots arguing with elephantbots. Less than half of online news will be even remotely true, especially on social media. Most will be algorithmically targeted and written propaganda.

It will be like the advent of mechanized warfare in WWI, but with bullshit. Mechanized bullshit warfare. Feel free to visualize.

Social platforms will implement censorship and other measures to attempt to fight this DOS attack but these will ruin them for humans and drive people away.

Basically mass social will die the way Usenet died, but with AI and driven by big big money propaganda efforts.

Internet discussion will retreat to private enclaves. We may see a second BBS era.
I seriously doubt the claim that increasing funding for the US government would lead to making the US economy more competitive with China. Government spending on education has been increasing continually in the US with very little to show for it in the way of results http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...
Harvard Medical School grad to depart residency for astronaut training
Yes. Someone please build this. Message me if you need a designer.
The housing pressure from San Francisco looks like it currently extends at least as far as Gilroy to me (houses going for 1/2 million dollars).

That's without it being a viable commute to the peninsula.

http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekdaytimetable.html
How can you say that when we haven't done either?
Or the Baader-Meinhof effect
My usage stats on our internet would disagree. Of course I’ve visited the college on weekends and found folks parked in the parking lot using the school’s wifi. I figure it’s a public service.
First, make it fun. Teach through examples and explain stuff later. As interest grows, the desire to figure out the "why" also increases.

For most people, "fun" is building something you can play with. Web development falls nicely into this category - even now I'd still recommend learning Ruby and then Ruby on Rails for a first language/framework. Ruby is a beautiful language and RoR lets a beginner make working prototypes without overwhelming them.

Others might enjoy parsing large sets of data, making games, or other things. Figure out what they enjoy and the rest will follow.
JPL's status is unique. It is technically an FFRDC (federall-funded research and development center) whose money comes from NASA. It is considered a NASA center, but it is unique among NASA centers in that its employees are Caltech employees, not federal government employees. That's why I added the prominent disclaimer. Whether or not it's "really" NASA is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. But they are definitely not a private enterprise like Space-X.
It's sad that a process like this is still somehow manual. I can't imagine what technical debt they must have where they can't automate custom domains.
Boobies stuck forever on the Blockchain [a practical experiment]
While they certainly did use Mangos, it is worth pointing out for the less informed that they did a lot more than "a few bugfixes". If you compare the current Elysium core (taken from Nostalrius and opensourced) and the stock MaNGOS that existed at the time of Nostalrius launch there's absolutely no comparison- let alone if you compared 2005 MaNGOS as released by marenkay and what we have today after over 10 years of open source development from thousands of contributors.

All of that said, myself and millions of others who have enjoyed classic servers over the years have you to thank for laying the foundation,and I agree with the other (downvoted) poster who says it saddens him a bit to see you regret something which has brought so much happiness to the world. If you ignore the selfish server administrators and look at the comments from some of the better parts of the community you'll quickly see that you've helped a lot of people cope with various ills in their lives, and many people have outright told me that they felt classic servers had helped them stave off depression or even suicide.
Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
We seem to have a choice between that and S#1T Posting and Spamming. Now, I suppose Poe's law could limit some sarcasm, but I'm not sure that would be a real loss either.
A subsidy, a tax cut, and an MLP walk into a bar. Each pays $5 for a draft beer. Each saved $1. The only difference is when they receive that $1. The punchline is thinking they're different.