skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also don't panic about not getting to email fast enough. I used to be worried about a 12-hour lag until I asked the question (on Fog Creek's old Business of Software site) and was told that most people would love it if they only waited 12 hours for a response. Now I just check my email once or twice a day.

Some things B2B require actual phone calls. At my last job, I'd go out to my car in the parking lot to take/make calls.

Now that I'm at a different gig where I take the bus to work, it's more difficult to find a quiet spot to talk. Sometimes I find myself talking to prospective clients in the stairwell :-)

All in all, you'll find that most businesses are quite accommodating as long as they know you will respond. My mantra has become "when in doubt, Communicate."
I appreciate you summarising the article, thanks!

I really couldn't stand the writing style the author used — I understand peppering your writing with jokes, but there were far too many attempts at 'humour' for my taste.
Wat? I don't think any DS is claiming to be better than any programmer and statistician. I think the anecdote you refer to is, a DS is better at programming than a statistician and is better at statistics than a programmer. This viewpoint holds up in my experience.
This service is not Free. It's quite expensive in fact.
What do we get for the free service ? Advertisement for mattermark ?
I'd venture to guess it's more of a copyright and monetization problem than a UI problem.
> avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there.

"Attention is scarce. Information is not. Do the math." That being said, I've found valuable book recommendations here on HN and other select boards. I've found that switching from short-form reading, videos and podcasts to longer form reading not only leaves me feeling happier, but is also far superior for quality of information taken in.

TL;DR - stop wasting your time with "daily content discovery" and instead focus on gaining a deeper, richer understanding of the world through reading well written books.
Systemd port for OpenBSD
> I am starting to believe I might be better off doing something else.

If that would make your life better/happier -- it might be an area to seriously explore. What would 'something else' look like to you?

Relative to negotiating your split effectively -- Stuart Diamond offers brilliant advice > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtZ-vObJrk
App Store Optimization 101: Why Your Users Matters
Maximum discharge speed (which is one of the very few storage characteristics I can think of to be measured in GW) is pretty much irrelevant for storage systems. Add a few quick discharge capacitors that cost almost nothing and boom -- your max discharge speed shoots through the roof (but speed goes down for a very short time).

Maybe sustained charge speed is a (little bit) more meaningful thing you can express in GB.

I am with the parent -- this is either a typo or a journalist quoting something he knows nothing about (what's that "h" in GWh? Strange capitalization; probably a typo; let me strike that).
Which I think is really weird. I would pay $20/mo for unlimited data in my metropolitan area and be metered everywhere else.
> things are better than ever in thousands of years of Korean history.

This has to be the weakest and most ridiculous argument commonly used to justify the status quo. Are you implying that all of the suffering outlined in this article is necessary in order for citizens to not be starving and society to advance?

Same logic could be applied to 17th century conquistadors exterminating Native American populations and American plantation owners whipping their slaves. Sure there are some downsides like the whole human rights issue of genocide and slavery, but things are so much better now than they were hundreds of years ago!
Bt: Java BitTorrent library with DHT, magnet links, encryption and more
Complicated with NAT and IPv4/IPv6 mismatches.
That is not the cryptographic definition of a pepper.
Yeah, we poles are as obsessed with our prononciation as much as italians are obsessed with their food.

People form other countries just can't get it right :)
"What a century of observing the auto industry has taught us is that car buyers in huge percentages have fierce brand-loyalty and that anytime a new model is brought to market there's a huge uphill battle to create demand."

I think we could be at a point similar to laptop buyers in 2002/2003/2004.

Remember when there were multiple companies making laptops and you would comparison shop and read reviews and look ahead to some new line of Fujitsu vs. Sony vs. Panasonic laptops and maybe visit dynamism.com and see what was being sold in Japan and so on and so forth ?

And then 2-3 years later there was one laptop manufacturer: Apple. Everything else was irrelevant in the face of a solid block of metal with a glass screen that lasts 5-7 years and "just works". When was the last time you spec'd out different laptops - other than perhaps to read with mild interest about some Dell model built for Ubuntu that might possibly be an option but probably isn't.

I have mixed feelings about this ...

On the one hand, Apple laptops really are the best that has ever been and have largely "solved" the category.

On the other hand, without any competition we get strong-armed into certain design decisions that might not work for us ... glossy screens, no more full sized USB ports, maybe headphone jack goes away ...

Electric only drive, skateboard style battery platform (with dramatically lowered center of gravity) and AWD with multiple motors ... I want these innovations. But I would also like some choices in styling and design - especially since I dislike the Tesla interior design so much ...
Oh sure, I have no problem with that as long as they explain what they're doing (and they do). It's just ridiculous that not only is their "unlimited" plan just as limited as all of their other plans, but it's not even the top tier.
When you say the hacks took a long time, are you talking about the time to study and understand the machines or the time a prepared tampering would take?
I do my best not to read the internet, but I have compulsive habits and I find myself looking at sites like this one without really intending to
You could have multiple independent inspectors do such certification provided state/federal laws are strong enough to discourage bad actors, but there's a bigger problem than that: how do you guarantee that the hardware is the same? You don't, especially if malicious State actors are involved.

Even in the case of inspecting software, you'd have to guarantee that the systems are secured after inspection and not tampered with. That's an even more difficult problem.

The systems are simply too complex.
Definition question:
would you say that AgileBits (1password) are "rolling their own crypto" or 'merely' implementing proven third-party crypto?
$60/mo is not a cheap plan by any stretch. $20/mo for metered and $30/mo for unlimited is cheap.
Paper and Rust.
Wikipedia gives "Zażółć gęślą jaźń" as an example containing all the Polish diacritic letters.

Is there a standard way to write this when limited to ASCII?

For example, Danish/Norwegian replace æ, ø, å with ae, oe, aa. It seems less likely that something could exist and be reasonably readable for Polish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_orthography
If you determine the slip fees get too high, make sure you have invested in a really good anchor and chain, according to one person who recently talked about living on a boat for over 5 years in Hawai'i. He stated that those typically included with a vessel are not necessarily adequate.
Could the warrantless search of laptops etc. at borders, and the demand for all passwords have something to do with such access?
Hi I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) and co-authors of this post. Let us know if you have any questions!
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Suck it up. Either set your IDE to conform to the house style whatever that may be, or deal with the drubbing in code reviews and, by extension, negative marks on your performance evaluation.
Let's think through the process of "ballot box stuffing".

You'd need to put enough ballots in the box to sway the count in your favor, while being watched by multiple people from both "sides" who all don't trust one another.

But let's assume you are able to do that somehow (hey, maybe you paid them all off?). Great! You've swayed the counts in one precinct... In 2012 there were 2712 voting precincts in Virginia... So to sway one state, you'd need most likely thousands of people working together and not one of them can reveal the whole plan. And that will get you one state, so multiply it by 50 to really sway an election (yes, i know you wouldn't need all 50, but ether way it's still way beyond realistic). At that scale it seems like it would be easier to just convince people to vote with you.

And you'd need to do all of that without leaving any kind of paper trail. Paper costs money, printing costs money, it's not going to be cheap or easy to hide making all those ballots. Someone is going to notice. And all it takes is one slip up, and it's all over.

Nobody is saying pencil+paper voting is perfect, just that it's the best thing we have at scale, and it's extremely difficult to "hack" without someone noticing.
JDate isn't actually limited to Jews only, I'm not sure if it's still the case but few years ago Jews were actually a minority on JDate.

It was at some time considered the 'better dating site' as far as demographic goes before dating sites for the 'better educated and better paid' demographics became more prevalent.
Linting not only addresses syntax but also addresses a lot of other issues:

- Unused variables (more often an error than not)

- Redefining the same variable name twice

- Having a class method that doesn't use the "this" keyword (usually a logical error)

I think it is worth keeping those kind of rules on even if you turn off ones like how many spaces at the start of the line.

Linting also isn't just for you. It is for the other people on the team so that they don't have to deal with the B.S. of either "fixing" the 50 lines of code you indented with tabs or dealing with multiple styles in the same file.

Although it is a good point that linters could just fix the formatting rather than just complain for a lot of issues.

Although coincidentally when I started using the AirBnB style guide, it corresponded almost identically to the style I was already using so the shock wasn't there.

The author clearly has a hacker "get shit done" kind of mentality and to an extent I love that. But it would drive me nuts if he was on my team.
Does it help? Isn't that a distortion of religion? I've read some Popper.

This feels like the "god of the gaps" argument, that reduces god to pretty much anything. In reality, religion is far less abstract.

The abstract axioms of reason aren't really the same as religious articles of faith.

> It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all

Depends what you mean by "reality". The closest institution wrt the nature of reality, is "science" which strives to discover its nature, and even implies by method that it is purely phenomenal. Compare/contrast with a church - which defends its doctrines rather than verify them.
Who else is going to be producing 500k EVs a year in the next 3-5 years? No one.

Renault-Nissan already produce around 100k EVs per year. Is it that hard to imagine them doing 500k in 5 years?

What about China? They're certainly making plans for these kinds of volumes.
It seems like it could work with a spin-off company, especially if the market judged the company (minus the spin-off) and the spin-off as being of greater value for whatever reason, e.g. 'focus'.
I like patreon but at the same time I'm a bit uncomfortable with how the interaction aspect of it sometimes works. Lots of artists are essentially charging for interaction with them rather than a product. From the article: "In this system, it’s almost impossible to separate a work of art from its creator — or, at least, its creator’s public persona. Is there a future for someone who wants to be a musician, but not a personality? “No. I don’t think so,” Hollens says. “I don’t think the reclusive thing is going to happen anymore. That’s not the world we live in."
While that works for plenty of artists I'm sure there are others that can't handle it. In addition it seems really exhausting.
Yes, I meant better/cheaper education and free healthcare. I am not actually too familiar with education in Canada.

Being from Eastern Europe my education has been completely free so I assumed it's the same in Canada as it is seen as a more socialist/liberal version of US (at least that's the impression I get about Canada from here).

The argument expressed in my comment still makes sense though, actually it's even stronger since education is not free in Canada.
It is for people who are a member of both audiences
It is pronunciation with u, not prononciation...
How Netflix' Serverless Paradigm Targets Developer Experience
Helping end users?
If you wanted to do O(n) functionally, you could do

[1, 1, 2, 3, 4].filter(
(obj => x => {
if (obj[x]) {
return false;
}
obj[x] = true;
return true;
})({}),
);

What's happening is that you're passing an object (hashmap / hashset) into a function that returns a filtering function, and that object is used inside the closure to track the dupes. It's still a pure function because even though you're mutating the passed in object, the filtering function is still deterministic and referentially transparent.
What you say seems to directly contradict the Wikipedia link above, which says:

"The pepper is randomly generated for each value to be hashed (within a limited set of values), and is never stored. When data is tested against a hashed value for a match, this is done by iterating through the set of values valid for the pepper, and each one in turn is added to the data to be tested (usually by suffixing it to the data), before the cryptographic hash function is run on the combined value."
Full Transcripts of Trump’s Calls with Mexico and Australia
I found it rich the millionaire said that given that his grandfather gave him $34k to buy as house(0).

(0):https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/16/millionaire-tells-millennial...
Most of them lag the release by a similar amount, which you'd expect since the trend of giving kids smart phones didn't start the moment the iPhone came out (would have seemed insane at the time, in fact).

[EDIT] thought the sleep one especially is weird. WTF happened in the 90s to make sleep get so much worse?!
There is another way of thinking about the economics of this. IIRC the typical price is 12 cents per kwhr. You would need to utilize the battery in sold energy no less than 2000 cycles just to break even. About 5 1/2 years of constant monetized operation (which is a ludicrous proposal). And this assumes no cost on the energy production side.
AirDrop is great for this, if you're working in small groups. It's one of the few things that Apple makes that still "just works."

Unfortunately, it only works in small groups. If you're in a large office, or need to send something to someone outside the building, you're SOL.
It's digital crack.

I'm pissed that I was effectively forced to let my 13 year old get a smartphone because all of her friends had one (which meant their parents had caved).
The "me too" functionality is protection, not closing - registered users with a certain amount of reputation can still answer them. Similar to Wikipedia's system.

Every "me too" protected item I've seen has half a dozen "me too" answers deleted at the bottom. It's likely necessary.
> Is it possible to accept that and remain monogamous?

I think this is something very personal and varies from person to person. To some sex in a long-term relationship is important, to some it isn't. Some hop from partner to partner, some stay committed for decades. There's probably not a one-size-fits-all and there doesn't have to be.
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Unfortunately HN cannot render blockquotes readably.
A subreddit on the subject - https://www.reddit.com/r/liveaboard/
I feel like the twin goals of living off the grid and having a social life, though not perfectly orthogonal, might be hard to achieve. In other words, one will probably suffer from the other. That said, if you do decide to buy a boat - get a cool one - then everyone will want to be your friend.

My association with "living off the grid" has always been finding some house in the woods at the end of a very long dirt road. If you're docking a boat in a big city, theres probably tons of people around you - that doesnt really feel like "living off the grid" IMHO
And thus the first shim was formed...
LastPass doubles premium tier prices to $24 a year
The ctenophore’s brain and the evolution of intelligence
> Even with cursory and rare glimpses on technology news sites, or conversations with colleagues, you'll end up learning about React at some point or another.

> The "routine looking for valuable content" on the other hand, would just bring in tons of noise (short term fads that die off, useless fanboyism, etc).

This is the exact same reason I don't watch or read the news: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informatio...
I see, I hadn't considered the legal context of the term public in the OPs statement simply because they are such communal places. But yes that makes sense.
I live in New Jersey and just had solar panels installed on my roof. Peak power is about 7.8 KW. On clear days, power production in the summer is about 50 kWh

I have been keeping daily logs this summer and find that my daily power consumption swings between about 25 kWh on cool days to 65 kWh on really warm days. Definitely a lot lower than 100 kWh mentioned previously.
Not only is he absolutely right, interaction is a selling point.

A prospective customer/client is usually more comfortable with someone who keeps up an open line of communication than having it automated away by forms, FAQs, etc. For many industries, they expect the hands-on approach and this can be the way you get business over other competitors.

I'm not kidding when I say that simply being friendly has won me business.
This is comparing apples to oranges. Gore is rich, has a big house, a pool, etc. Of course his house is going to consume more energy than the average. He does claim to try and live a carbon neutral life. If he does, should it matter how much electricity he uses?

I'm more concerned about whether he still flies on private charter jets vs the Southwest jets he claims to fly. I find it hard to believe he flies coach...
The french `bON ton` is the closes to ą you can get.
For unique, I prefer to let javascript do the work:

// Grab unique
[...new Set([1,1,2,3,4])]
Is the Ethereum team defending their ground against claim by EOS?
It seems to be how it's typically handled in practice. Example: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/09/how-dropbox-securely-...
You allow people to observe the counting of votes and do exit polls (which is currently the case).
I had hard time following the text too. I usually don't mind jokes, but when joke/content ratio gets > 1, I think it's too much.

Fortunately, I had a few minutes to kill while eating lunch, so I read it all.
#Wikileaks – #CIA #Dumbo tool allows agents to disable security cameras
Wow, didn't know that existed.
Cause that's Socialism(TM)!
All you have to do is scan through Wikileaks' twitter posts to determine what side they are on.

It takes a certain willful blindness to think otherwise.
This is hard to read because of the childish pronouns.
If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed?
> multiply it by 49

Increase by 49 or multiply by 50, no?
In the UK there's not particularly stigma attached to it, but I would be careful to research the economics of it -- how much a month will you be paying to rent whatever mooring you have, how much (time and money) will upkeep and maintenance of the boat cost you, what's the initial expense of the boat and how much are you losing on a probably-depreciating asset, do you need to pay to dispose of sewerage, and so on... Do the cool things in life, but look carefully before you leap so you know what you're getting into and don't hit a brick wall of disillusionment.
I agree. Because of its demographics, HN can sometimes turn into a bit of an echo chamber. As a mechanical engineer, I wanted to offer an alternative poerspective in case anyone was wondering why wouldn't everyone just move to the US.
It's only prime solar hours if you point your solar panels due south. That gets you a higher figure on paper, but if you need the power later in the day you could point them a bit more to the west and get a lot more usable power when you need it. With solar panel prices falling, it's a race to see if it's cheaper to over-provision solar panels or batteries.
That would require a huge amount of work and expense, and at the end of the day cold water isn’t very good at cooling off giant masses of air and furniture.
Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back
No, that a switch statement is more verbose than a single function.

Switch statements in OOP are a sign that something is wrong.
Exactly, software hacking voting machines scales much easier.
It's 24/7 air conditioning working. In EU you get around 100kWh per day also if you use home air condition 24/7.
Race Running App
I wasn't aware there was a stigma. It's not like living in a car, since many boats are designed to be long-term habitable. I know someone who does this in San Francisco and he pays $280/month in slip fees, a bit cheaper than rents in the area.
Communication Guru: The art of communicating like crazy
It strikes me how prescient the movie "Sneakers" was
I believe that in the UK, the number of ballots given out at the polling station is strictly counted, and when the ballot box is opened, the first check is that the number in the box matches.

I'm not sure what they do if someone has taken a ballot but not put it in the box.
So are you saying it's sensible that we're stuck with emails printed on reams of paper because it's too hard to define a better spec? There is really no reason for digital files not to be mandated in 2017 except "lol bureaucracy." Frankly, if someone only has access to paper files they should be required to scan them. As is, at least as much work is being done in the opposite direction (printing tons of paper) which is just ridiculous.
Wiktionary has audio: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%C4%85czki#Polish
Neither do American millennials. First world problems.
I don't think we should encourage mail-in voting. It opens the door to all kinds of voting fraud.

A major point of the polling booth is that nobody can see what you put on you ballot, and you can lie to anyone about it. No family member can pressure you to vote in a certain way, and if somebody offers you money in exchange for your vote you take their money and vote for somebody else. And if your employer threatens to fire anyone who votes for the wrong person, you just tell them you voted for their favorite candidate, they can't tell the difference.

Mail-in voting is nice for people who physically can't visit a voting booth, either due to disability, sickness, or scheduling problems. But it should never become the norm.
You still have to sell that output. And until you do, you have to store that output. And if you can't sell that output, then you have to get rid of it in a fire sale.
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