skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in my opinion one of the most important and relevant to current events Chomsky excerpts that I've ever seen:

Noam Chomsky - Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy

https://youtu.be/uh8PpYRD5to?t=152

(Starts at 2:35, "and then a third thing happened..."; personally, I would suggest ignoring the various TV clips spliced in as that to me seems like the projections of the politics of the editor of the video and not necessarily the specific idea Chomsky himself intends to convey.)

To me this illustrates how those who actually "control" things in the US and the world have split those who should be allies into two camps. The perfect weapon in this strategy is the "proper" and well-intended anti-racist propaganda Westerners have been subject to for decades - combined with the dulling of the average Western mind to the point many are near incapable of critical thinking, the result is that perfectly common sense public discussions on incredibly important matters such as international trade and immigration can largely be stopped in their tracks by cries of "racism!"...and even better, the ones who are being most harmed, the younger generations of the (former) middle class, are the very ones who are stopping the dialogue that affects their future!

Human nature is really amazing if you step back and observe it critically.
Such a negative, do-nothing article. "taking every billionaire’s quirky visions at face value". Elon Musk is a bit different than every billionaire. Re-usable orbital class boosters and the Model S is what gives Elon the street cred others don't have. "so-called Boring Company" WTF? The New Yorker was always a purveyor of a certain type of elitism, but since the Trump election they have really upped the intensity. Not sure if I'll renew my subscription I've had for decades when it expires.
Hi I work for BuzzFeed engineering, but this is just me talking, not my company. The guy that started Tasty uses an empirical technique he devised in-house to come up with recipes people love. Wish I could say more than that. But I believe the "recipe space" he explores can come up with recipes that can at times look like previously published recipes. There are only so many combinations of ingredients that will click with the human palate. I guarantee you he's not directly ripping anyone off.
"...given how their leniency has allowed NK to develop ICBMs..."

The issue is that North Korea's atomic and missile programs were helped along by Russia. That's where the technical assistance all came from, at least initially. So China, and even the US for that matter, really had no way of stopping that. The Russian involvement is a fact that is generally glossed over by policy makers because there is little you can do to stop Russia.

What's surprising about the Trump belief that China could have stopped Russia, is what it says about Trump's foreign policy acumen. It betrays either Trump's lack of knowledge about the history of the North Korean program, or his naiveté with respect to the extent of China's power.
I get the sense that Laravel will come out with an async option next year based on small clues I've been seeing. It will probably end up in 5.6.

I been porting over a game from node/express to phpsocket.io. I'm finding the async server more stable.

https://github.com/walkor/phpsocket.io
I wouldn't be surprised if watching these gifs somehow makes you even less likely to cook at home. Similar to the effect of salad being on the menu making it less likely that you'll make healthy choices.
High sugar diets linked to heightened depression risk in men
Cauliflower has basically no nutritional value anyway. Minimal vitamins and minerals, no digestible carbs or protein or fat.
Very much agreed, lots of FUD for a technology that's only now being prototyped. Would the author rather technologists not get excited by interesting possible solutions to long-standing problems?
This is largely a fallacy in the understanding of economics. Profitable, at least shouldn't, mean profitable to the government but to the shareholders of the government, its citizens. Costly government projects on large-scale speculative technology detracts from budgets of other presently needed services. There is not one existing branch of government that can't definitively improve its services to the benefit of its citizens and therefore the entire system.
Only after the kids hit a certain age.
Dunno if it's still offered anymore, but Navicat Premium Essentials was a decent value - you buy a small base and add the features you want on top with IAP's. I didn't care for any of the diagramming / data modeling stuff so I just bought the base plus a couple add-ons.

Of course, I just use DataGrip now, but if you want Navicat see if Premium Essentials is still around as it may work for you.
"services to the citizens" that no one wishes, no one would pay for if had a chance (considering the actual prices), but still somehow paid by the citizens.
I don't know about others, but I put a lot of salt, butter, animal fats and MSG in the food I cook. I don't think any of these ingredients are unhealthy (other than sugar, which I don't use).
I agree completely. People need to be able to come together, with disagreeing being the starting point, and not attack each other's groups and views. That would allow for necessary communication to come to agreement, or at least civilly agree to disagree on that topic. Then the door is at least still open to discuss other topics.
Monero the crypto currency does this. I've seen them fund every thing from Ph.D. Research and paper writing, to application development and bug fixing. It seems to work well for those who really believe in and use a project. I'm surprised more people don't try this model. Release the core code and let users vote and fund which bugs to fix and which features to add. I find it an interesting and refreshing change from the free for all of whiny depressing masses who demand all sorts of crazy, hard work from OS developers without paying dime one for it. Maybe it will be the model of the future, who knows!
Agreed. A mod should retitle this submission.
Opened or found a bug on the IntelliJ YouTrack?
One feature of the transport market (from a mile high view) is that demand is almost infinite.

If you can get 40kms in 45 minutes, then you can live within 40 miles of work and commute in that time. If you could go 400kms, then that becomes your commuting radius. We've seen people spread this way as earlier mechanized transport was invented. IE, average commute times didn't go down because of faster transport, distance traveled (KMs consumed) went up. Total commuting time can even increase as transport gets faster/cheaper.

If I could get to hong kong in 15 minutes, I might go there this afternoon for some dumplings.

That creates some strangeness in transport. You can't really solve transport the way people want, which is to make getting where they're going better/faster. If you could get there faster, more people would be going there (congestion) or maybe you would be living farther away.

This definitely doesn't mean it's not worth innovating, just that predicting how this will play out can be unintuitive.
I think it's an interesting topic, more people should want to learn about life in other circumstances, so I'm not sure why you were downvoted.

Maybe just because no one has come by with an answer.

Not that it's what you're looking for, but this reminds me of Kacey Musgraves, who has some anti-country songs about the pain and false promises of small town life in a changing America. Merry Go Round and Blowin Smoke especially.

There's some social psychology research on "sense of place" that covers how drawn people are to staying in the place where they grew up, which makes it hard for some to leave. The Rum Diary (the novel, can't vouch for the film) is kind of a meditation on this too, though about Puerto Rico instead of the rural midwest.
An interesting type of logic is DEC DTL "flip chip" technology, use in the original PDP-8. It uses all PNP bipolar transistors.

It's always interesting how they make flip-flops. In this case, the slave side is the typical latch made out of cross-connected inverters. The master side uses a diode-capacitor-diode gate. A capacitor follows the input signal. A pulse on the clock line transfers the charge to the slave latch.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/handbooks/Digital...
There's an email + password login right below the Facebook login.

But yes, a demo seems like a good idea, if it is not too hard.
And yet it doesn't make sense.
History through a cat's eyes
Excel is programming. Congratulations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
American culture is influenced by Mexican culture, though (even if we Americans don't seem to want to admit it), so it's not surprising that Americans also have ambiguous notions of time.

Meanwhile, I'd wager that other cultures (perhaps from Europe or Asia) tend toward being more literal about how they indicate time. This article would therefore be useful to them.
Now you're talking about an argument from efficacy, not liberty. My point is that the argument from liberty isn't going to get a good hearing when drug addiction is such a major societal problem. No one cares about your right to get high when drugs are destroying people's lives and entire communities. Drug policy will be judged mostly on its efficacy in preventing and ending addiction and wanton self-destruction.
Sure, but that is not relevant to the point of all the flavouring being of the cheap, unhealthy variety, is it?

Unless you mean that in a "it's worse than that" way
Setting aside our debate about if free speech is an absolute, cross-cultural moral right or more of a trade-off with other values up to each culture to decide...

Apple itself is a long way from being the free speech crusader you are hoping for; in fact, they are clearly quite pro-censorship: just look at the App store. It's ridiculously censored! The refusals to approve the drone strike app Metadata+ and the Twitter-alternatie Gab strike me as particularly egregious. See also the section "1.1 Objectionable Content" of the app store review guidelines -- it's like stepping back in time to the worst caricature of 1950s America prudery and censorship.
Nice to see someone trying to make organizational knowledge more accessible. From the short video it is hard to gauge how well this tool would work over time as more and more threads piled up.

As far as I can tell this still suffers from one of the major problems of email and group chats, which is that people can be left out of threads or message conversations they should be included in. It also gives people a rich palette of tools for playing office politics.

And on top of that it adds at least two more tasks to the workflow, 1) creating topics, and 2) grouping topics into larger categories. But maybe these pay dividends.

The inclusion issue seems really important. If Joe never knows about a thread where he could make a great contribution, and the members of that thread never know that Joe could make a great contribution, then Joe's contribution never happens. Or from another angle, if Joe doesn't know what he doesn't know (and therefore doesn't know to ask for it) then his being left out of a crucial thread can lead him to act on faulty information, reducing his effectiveness.

Of course these are just problems of life and business, not just problems of this particular tool. But it would be nice to hear what their solution would look like, since they are claiming to be such an improvement.
Just symmetrically distributed, doesn't have to be Gaussian. I will crawl back into my hole of pedantry now.
Hack something up that solves your problem?
I lost faith in the average tech writer's ability to not trigger Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect a long time ago. Thanks for saving me the time. Nothing more annoying than reading a journalist with a soap box and more time for word count than correctness.
kill yourself, you people are cancer.
Pretty regular reader from Serious Eats here. Kenji (the guy who is the culinary director), puts tons of scientific rigor into all of his recipes. What sets Serious Eats aparts from everyone else is they like to answer the 'why' of food. For example here is a super detailed story:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-h...
lolbuzzfeed. trash for idiots.
>You could have made the same arguments about smartphones 10 years ago

That true, but the lesson from that is that no criticism of speculative sci-fi projects is allowed anymore or what?

Besides, smartphones didn't come from nothing. Prototypes and similar things had been around since the 90s. And they are arguably a much easier problem than infrastructure.
What is wrong wth people?
The job of a being a good conservative is to push back on every progressive idea.
But again he or she above you doesn't really want to enforce that. Enforcement of the GPL is a big problem. Who has the time and energy and money to sit around looking for violators? And then if you do find them you have to lawyer up and that costs a lot of money. You dont have any time or money to write code. The reality is you either accept people are going to use the code you OS and just let that code go (BSDL) or you keep it closed source. I like the idea I just posted above of a model of releasing the core code but letting actual users vote for and fund what bugs and new features get added to the free core code.
See also: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html
What I'm saying is that China's priority is the prospect of a large mass of US, (or Russian), troops on its southern border.

Sure, refugees might be a problem...

but I don't believe you'd be able to find a single government on this planet that would not categorize the presence of large formations of enemy troops, artillery and armor to be a higher priority problem. Especially if those enemy formations are on its border.

So China is worried FAR more about Russian or American troops on its border, than they are about refugees. And those concerns are just military sense.
Parsing NES ROM Headers with Nom
Economically viable doesn't necessarily imply profit. It just means that the benefits of the project (including stuff like making people happy) are at least reasonably comparable to the costs.

I would suggest that for many countries, even 1:1 is a poor standard, simply because there are many ways to spend that are obviously better than that.
Docsbox – Self-hosted document converting service with HTTP API
Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work
You guys should follow this issue: https://github.com/docker-library/ghost/issues/65

Looks like the Ghost team is welling to share an official Ghost Docker image after all :)
Despite the down votes, yes Geoff would be correct. We (meaning us the masses) don't live in a world of any of those things yet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=visual6502.org

This has to be some kind of record for re-submissions.
How about this for inspiring? https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific...

Bandcamp, with its "Courier New" interface, has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in value to its users and artists. And it's still growing.

That's cute that soundcloud made a bunch of blog posts about their super elite containerized microserviced architecture. How's their business doing? Who's making money on there besides industry plants?
"Musk’s visions are valuable because they show that even people far outside the field of urban planning can be frustrated with the world others have built for us. They, too, should have a say."

That is a good point. Taking Musk and the HyperLoop seriously is a mistake---unless something has changed that hasn't percolate down to me, it has major problems and probably wouldn't solve the problem it purports to solve in the same way the Concord never revolutionized air travel---but it is a valid criticism of the state of things.

On the other hand, if you take it seriously, it distracts attention from actual solutions.
I agree with what you are saying, particularly about 1) Evan Brown making his own case weak, and 2) not signing such contracts where it is bad for your business. The articles were valuable - thanks!

This is different, though, from the case where you are employed as a secretary for a bodyguard company and then work as a musician outside of your regular employment, isn't it?

I mean, suppose Adele was the secretary and then started her musical career during that time. Would the bodyguard company be entitled to royalties from her catalog? I don't think so, and I don't think this case says they would either.
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> I guarantee you he's not directly ripping anyone off.

You can understand why people might be less inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, given that in the past Buzzfeed has extensively plagiarized:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/editors-note-an-apology-to...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/buzzfee...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-vi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stopera
Maybe to have the UI less cluttered. Just assuming here.
Good news! It will be supported in Alpine Docker base image. See for yourself -> https://github.com/acburdine/ghost-1/blob/09ff7191fd56d53bab...
They'll give them an advance as bait for an exploitative and crappy contract which may well be run in a dishonest way.

Given that most sales are downloads or streams now, the only thing big labels can bring to the table is a nuclear level of publicity. And by definition, that's going to be reserved for a tiny handful of multimillion-selling household names.

Today's smaller bands and artists - which will be the majority - get no particular benefit from signing to a big label.

They may get some smaller benefits from signing to a smaller niche label, but they certainly won't get a big pile of cash from that.

The situation is similar to book publishing, where a tiny handful of massively popular signed authors get most of the publicity and the cash, but there's a solid underclass of midlist writers who do better with self-publishing, because they earn more from direct sales and - ironically - have a more secure career too.

There was a massive opportunity for SoundCloud to become Amazon/Kindle for Musicians.

MySpace had that space for a while but lost it. BandCamp is close, but doesn't quite make it because the default artist pages suck, and it sees itself as a store, not so much as a marketing and PR outlet that also happens to sell downloads and physical media.

SoundCloud could have won that space, but apparently SoundCloud's management never understood that there's more money in hosting associated services - web pages, mailshots, blogs, and so on - than there is in providing hosting for audio files.

In fact YouTube seems to be quietly taking over for basic track hosting, with the added benefit of video. There's no reaction feature on the tracks, but I'm not convinced that was ever an essential USP on SoundCloud.

But I still think someone else with VC backing could win this space and clean up.
Scam's and fraud on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms
I had tried to support some few projects on Kickstarter in the last couple of years. It seems the success rate is extremely low on these crowd funding platforms. I supported around 5 projects on Kickstarter and in that one was successful for what I supported though even that scammed a bunch of other supporters on some accessory enhancement. Another project I supported, somehow finally got delivered after more than a year and a half though quite substandard in all respects. Another project I supported initially, and on the last day I revoked my support and boy was I right, that project never delivered anything and never even bothered to properly communicate to those supporters when they went down. Another project was cancelled by the project creator but at-least they refunded the money paid for the campaign. Later I found out, they had raised venture capital funds in millions of dollars and that lead to at-least these people refunding my and other supporters money back and cancelling the project. Then comes the project named Cmoar. It was a VR headset which was campaigned couple of years back and they raised around $120K. They were aggressive initially about the delivery dates and things started to push back and back and after almost a year and a half they told, that they were trying to get some more funds through venture capital to complete the project and after 6 odd months, claimed that they did not have any money left to continue the project and cancelled the project. Multiple supporters contacted Kickstarter, and Kickstarter's response was, once the money is handed over to a project creator, they don't have any control or responsibility and its the sole responsibility and integrity of the project creator to pursue and complete the project. Yes, we know that some projects do get to a point where you cannot deliver. But, with my experience on Kickstarter, you can see, that out of 5 projects, only one got to a point reasonable to deliver something to the backers. With Cmoar, they basically used the crowd funded money, around 100K which they finally received after kickstarter and other fees and they don't have any liability to deliver anything for that 100K which is unacceptable in any case. For a common person to get a 100K loan from a bank or something, its extraordinarily complex and tough to get one, let alone without any collateral for sure. Kickstarter like platforms don't have any control or responsibility of huge funds which gets handed over, through them and Kickstarter like platforms walk happily away with their share of a campaign and leave the backers at the mercy of the project creators integrity. Just based on integrity alone, how many banks will loan you $1 let alone $100K. This is a riduculous way of investing money and I would like to know, if there is someone who knows how we can make Kickstarter like platforms liable to handling huge chunks of money and not take any responsibility of that money handled properly?
The BBC like to describe older people as "digital immigrants" to contrast with "digital natives" but seem to not quite comprehend that the "digital immigrants" actually built all this stuff whereas "natives" merely use it.
What We Can Learn from Japanese Management (1971)
This is incredible work. Predicting, sharing, asynchronous compilation, and reverse-engineering the pipeline are all very creative solutions to a really difficult problem. As I understand, deep learning basically runs graphics cards backwards to generate text from images.

How can we apply these excellent algorithms to machine learning?
If a lot of process is applied to verify the robustness of the code, then to me the overall development process is not a sausage factory.
Ask HN: What documentary should I make? (2018: 1 year and good budget)
Hi!

In 2018 I am going to take a year off to film a documentary.
I have some ideas, but I want to choose the most interesting topic I can. I am specially considering topics that would otherwise not be given a similar coverage.

I'm aiming at a 3 level structure:

1. a 20 min video for youtube, which expands into

2. a 2 hour film, which expands into

3. and a (eventual) longer online series with more details.

Location is not an issue.
I have a good budget for traveling, etc, plus a small crew with technical equipment.

Looking forward to hear from this interesting community!

What's the most pressing issue you think someone should tackle in depth?

Thanks!
They know how to get attention on the internet, what their peers are interested in and how to get as many likes as possible

That's a great skill to have, you know, now that you can buy groceries and pay rent in likes and retweets.