skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use your main account to post this? You take credibility away from yourself by posting from an alt.
The Last Question – Isaac Asimov [pdf]
I read that most employees have a strike price above $15. I think this is an unmitigated disaster for employees, especially with the vote structure etc prohibiting the board or any major investor taking influence.

I personally would probably recommend to cut losses and run - it looks more like Groupon, Gopro or Twitter right now than anything else.

Who is to blame? CEO and underwriters for overpricing their IPO? To me it looks like Snap was simply strangled by Instagram in the worst moment. The last private round was priced when it still looked like Snap would continue growing explosively, IPO was hence massively overpriced and employee options as well.

It probably is not helping company moral right now that the CEO gave himself an $800 million bonus for the IPO.

Source (paywall but free figure at the top):

https://www.theinformation.com/soon-free-to-sell-few-snap-em...
Some Thoughts on Kong Dog Toys
Unless, of course, you are asked to provide evidence of your vote with the camera you are likely carrying with you into the polling booth.

I'd guess mail-in ballots increase participation at the expense of some coerced ballots. Surely the net outcome is positive. On top of that, it helps to remove the chance for the use of intimidation at the polling stations. I remember that being an issue last election.
Does it take into account the background color of my xterm so things do not become unreadable?
Once you fix the obvious typo there, it says "GW is [...] _as_ valid and important measurement as the amount of energy it stores"

Which is entirely true... Both the overall capacity, and the rate at which it can deliver power are critical metrics for an energy storage system.
If you don't use FIM there is no way in hell the above list will protect you from targeted attacks.
I am seeking out a similar lifestyle - living off-grid and becoming self-sufficient.

You will have to start thinking differently, and the challenges you face will be unique. This new critical thinking may even improve your mental effectiveness at work. It will be like running the small business of taking care of yourself, with many tasks to complete, inventory to monitor, and expenses to pay attention to (few of which will be paid to large companies that provide services to aggregated clusters of people).

The stigma and social isolation you are anticipating will be a good thing. Through your efforts to craft a truly customized lifestyle, you will filter out those who desire dependency on traditional society. The ones that want to spend time with you will be those seeking out a similar change and adventure.

I recently visited several large cities across the US, and I have always lived in a rural setting. This experience made me realize that the founders of places like Rome and the US all went "off-grid" in the sense that they retreated from the crowded, complex societies they were born into and crafted their own life where no one else had ventured.

Personally, I view my off-grid plans as training over the next couple of decades to become an expert at taking care of myself when my body and mind deteriorate and I am no longer useful to society. I think of it as the ultimate retirement plan - gardening, solid health, and home construction as base stats to comfortably live out my final years without a dime spent on hospice.
It's not a tragedy for one of the families if you let her off scott free.
While my intuition would be that incidents are fairly rare for social reasons, intimidation/coercion with postal ballots is essentially invisible, until and unless people come forward and complain (which intimidation and coercion itself can be deployed against.) So, even if it was common, the elections would look smooth by the things we usually look at.
If we did we might not keep them as pets.
The two Polish sentences every respectful Pole knows:

W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie.

And:

Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.

I sure youtube will find you proper pronunciations.

Some called the mouse "gryzon" which means rodent, but that was very early days of computers in Poland - say 1990.
What is the usefulness/learning_effort ratio of this tool?
The thing is, the reason they gave her for banning in the initial letter they sent her is actually consistent with international law -- she was raising funds to send out a search and rescue ship which returns refugees to Libya.
Those are all surface-level comparisons, completely outside the actual languages themselves.

And in particular, this thread is about static analysis of pointers to improve ergonomics while retaining memory safety. Javascript's approach to memory safety is just to use a garbage collector, which is essentially the opposite of the approach taken here.
They're also using this as a 'public beta' I think. The idea is that employees could get the car back to the factory if they had to fix something faster than the general public (and is probably more willing to forgive issues).
The Guardian has some more context (for those of us not keeping track of previous events, such as AlphaBay's takedown a few weeks ago): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche...
"...it always annoyed me that I was paying Verizon something like $300/year for a phone that I had long-since paid off."

I went 6 years off contract after they gobbled & throttled Alltel customers. I was a previous VZW contracted refugee & refused to be yoked into minute/MB counting again and the very frequent overcharge disputes. I was paying that $300 for their superior national coverage, the 180° opposite of their norm customer service & freedom from stealthy "web access" fees. They knew we were f'ed under contract & it showed.

Tmo works well enough now that I don't travel as much. I am on a grandfathered plan here now, too. Meh, I can always pay more, right?
I just finished listening to "am I being too subtle" by and read by Sam Zell. Initially I was slightly put off by the authors raspy Chicago tones but by the end it really felt like the author had been telling his stories to you personally with the colour and character that one would pick up in person and I was glad to have heard this telling rather than as you say a 'robot'
Obviously these lists are subjective but a couple of examples would be:

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Evolution)

MindStorms by Seymore Papert (Education)

Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn (Scientific Method/ Philosophy)

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Formal Systems)

The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (Entrepreneurship)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Peter F Druckert (Entrepreneurship but most likely because I had a quite crazy experience while reading it)

They are all books written by what I consider careful thinkers i.e. people who are able to avoid confusing what they want the world to be with what they actually observe.

They don't have to be right and can be highly subjective as long as their premise is clear and they are aware of it.
> Recently the EU ruled that linking to pirate content transitively makes you a pirate, and similarly in the US aiding piracy is illegal.

How about links to links to pirated content? How many levels of indirection would it take to not be "linking to pirate content"? I assume that he must've received some kind of take-down notices (the site claims claim they haven't, but sure, we'll assume that they're just lying), but wouldn't it make as much or more sense for those notices to go to the account-holders on github where a lot of the repositories storing the actual connection data are?

With the information given, my opinion is that the connection is too indirect for the level of response. The site itself seems full of mostly-legal content (the same free channels that show up on my Roku, for example). It seems like overkill to me.
Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M and the stock is skyrocketing
> A child who has done only english has a similar option, but it will require considerable extra work on their part to switch to french. So a public french immersion high school cannot be considered open to all

Yeah ... No.

Are you just looking for things to complain? If there's some school with a good reputation is it automatically 'limiting access' to those kids who don't live in that neighborhood? Jeez.
I'm not sure what empty promises you are talking about. Tesla cars are pretty good and run great. Of course you cannot go country-wide trip with them but IMO that's not what they are made for in the first place.
Me either, and that's exactly the issue. Look at any top books list and it is mostly white males. Either men have an easier time getting published or men are inherently better writers. I believe the former is the case. By seeking out female writers and other diverse voices we can start to tip the balance.

Historically, men were the only ones that had the opportunity to write, so any books from older centuries are going to be by men. But that doesn't have to be the case now.

ps. Love Jane Jacobs! After you read that, if you are interested, you may want to check out The Power Broker to see the other side. It is one of my top nonfiction books. (warning, white male author ;)).
It doesn't support LS_COLORS, unfortunately.
Yes, but home-built airplanes come with all kinds of limitations that are, to continue the analogy, more like "can't use commercially ever, and any use for non-commercial purposes requires a big disclaimer on every message sent.

http://www.odtug.com/media/tvzzjjck.jpg

My use of commercial aviation in the GP was quite intentional, btw.
Fun fact: The Germanic umlaut symbol actually developed from placing a small "e" above the vowel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Hist...
Absolutely, I was just trying to avoid using "ownership" in my previous comment because it's more of an abstract concept than the type system and the borrow checker (which have concrete phases in the compiler, typeck and borrowck (though typeck also does more than just enforce linearity (er, affininity?))).
I find it funny that the content creator you linked to still uses Patreon, despite them not providing any value over other payment services ;)
I didn't mean to post that to correct you! If anything it confirms your point, really.
yawn, oh no they wouldn't do that would they? sips coffee
> Uber reached out to the authorities and other automative experts about this recall. There was NO objection from authorities.

After one car caught fire, they wrote up a plan that involved talking to authorities and experts, but that would be much too late. At that point they had already ignored the problem and intentionally endangered their drivers.

> what would you have them do, pull these cars off the roads?

No, not give them to their drivers in the first place. Buy other cars. "Uber managers in Singapore were aware of the Honda recall when they bought more than 1,000 defective Vezels and rented them to Mr. Koh and other drivers without the needed repairs, according to internal Uber emails and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with people familiar with Uber’s operations in the region." Uber wouldn't have to worry about taking cars off the road if they didn't knowingly buy defective cars.
How to Use QA to Debug Your Life
Almost everything in Btrfs is in the kernel. And except for some glue that I'm not familiar with, the same is true for ZFS. That means Btrfs volumes are very interoperable across distros and kernel versions, you merely need the kernel module built which most every distro includes. You don't even need user space tools to just mount a Btrfs volume, and get passive scrubbing, and data integrity guarantees.

This is basically an active (daemon) user space file system volume manager, leveraging a bunch of kernel layers. Assembly will require having stratis installed and running, it's not at all a general purpose file system solution. This is trying to fix a specific problem, how to leverage multiple storage technologies invented by different teams over different eras with mutually exclusive terminology goals.

Depending on the likely long list of dependencies, some of which will be version specific, who knows what the portability of such volumes will end up being across distros.
The 13 degree spread was the interesting part, but only as a quick indicator, not real comparison or analysis.
If you're interested in autonomous driving the author here Alex Roy is on the Autonocast podcast:

http://www.autonocast.com/
Without resorting to hyperbole a reasonable case can be made that Tesla losing $5B is more utilitarian than SNAP,GRPN,ZNGA losing $5B.

It is all about how society allocates its capital/claim checks(to use Buffett's term).

Case is simple: we need to move away from fossil fuel economy at some point before it is too late.

We can argue whether TSLA approach is wrong and whether we have plenty of time to adapt.
Ask HN: Best way to host lots of little web apps?
I have a bunch of web apps that I'd like to host without too much headache? Digitalocean is nice but I have to manually monitor each one. None of them require databases or any complex configuration.
The story was actually from 2013, but yeah, the DOJ tries to pass that theory. Fortunately the Ninth and Fourth Circuits have already shown they won't play ball, but there are other courts.
Most likely consumer grade LiCo with carbon anode. LiFePo modules are twice as expensive, demand for them certainly exceeds supply
Please explain this concept with your understanding of power and energy:

> lithium ion batteries are typically designed with a W:Wh ratio of 1:1 - 1:4
Dude hackernews is degerating into being very buzzfeed/reddit-esque
RIP Climate Change 1.0 (1992 – 2016)
Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately depending on your viewpoint, it won't matter for much longer. Once Patreon demonstrates the viability of the business, which I think it pretty much has, making a clone won't be that difficult. There's not a lot of technical moat here. (Having to deal with real money means it's certainly more than the HN-mythical "I could do that in a weekend!", but, still, it's definitely in the range of "hobby programmer in under a year with enough dedication" to get a fully functional site up and running to start.)

Speaking as a decently-large Patreon user and one that has advocated for it to the point of probably sounding almost like a shill on HN despite not being connected to them other than as customer... I don't use Patreon to use Patreon qua Patreon, nor do I do use any of their site discovery mechanisms to discover anyone. YMMV. I support the artists. If and when the artists I follow move around, I will follow them; I've already got a couple of recurring Paypal payments for people who work that way.

Ultimately Patreon's political preferences won't matter for much. It may superficially resemble the debate about Facebook/Google news filtering algorithms, but the situation is actually entirely different and the question isn't all that relevant in the long term. I think the fact that we're not talking about "free" here helps a lot.
I am using this account now.

Lets be realistic, negative feelings about Musk aren't going to gain me much credibility on HN no matter where I post it from.
I almost never use the human-readable file sizes.

For this to get any traction it is going to need to accept every argument ls does and play nicely. Most people who work with nix systems work on many systems and some of them don't control the software loaded on them. If I have to remember that on this* system I have to use these arguments because I have exa, vs this system I have normal ls that is going to be a deal breaker for many.
That's why I voted the article up: the discussion about how Dertroit/Japan/et al are fighting the wrong war and still handicapped by the dealer system and old ways of thinking.

An electric Honda is just a Honda without gas. I'm sure I'd be a great car.

But you still have to go through the dealer system to buy it. And it won't get software updates without dealer involvement (so basically never outside safety recalls).
> - only use stable and tested OS (Centos/redhat. DO NOT run production on anything else, especially ubuntu.)

I'd tend to agree about Ubuntu because... why aren't you just using Debian? I would generally opt for CentOS for a prod server, but I am now starting to think about using OpenBSD in production environments.

Ultimately it comes down to the way you configure the server, not the distro you use. The only benefit of Enterprise Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora, Oracle) over Debian out-of-the-box (that I am aware of) is the presence of SELinux, which you can still set up on Debian. All have insecure configs by default.

I will say that the live kernel patching in Ubuntu Server now is cool. I used KSplice on CentOS before it was discontinued (only on Oracle Linux now).
> > For example, exa prints human-readable file sizes by default (when would you not want that?)

When its being used as part of a script.
GoPro actually had a good quarter and the stock is spiking 15%
WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Was Detained in Las Vegas After Def Con Conference
Even if the rumors were true, it's meaningless. Every business the size of Google has a list of potential acquisition targets. (There was a leak of one such list from Amazon or Microsoft, I believe.) "Interest" and "intention" are two separate things, and the latter counts for a lot more.
Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M
With more EVs, we won't breathe so much car exhaust in cities. This is important.
"exa prints human-readable file sizes by default (when would you not want that?)"

When doing automated text-processing and wanting to easily do precise calculations, without having to deal with different units.
I spent much of last year in Southeast Asia within ten degrees of the equator and rarely had A/C. It wasn't a problem for me, though my computer was often unhappy.

I went to Egypt as a teenager and remember the temperature in Sharm el Sheikh cracking 50C. We would literally sprint from the A/C in the hotel across the beach to the water because the sand was too hot to walk.

Equivalent latitude doesn't mean equivalent climate. As an example, which of these cities is further north, Buffalo, NY, USA or Cannes, France? Hint: it's the one known for topless sunbathing, not the one known for sub-zero outdoor football games.
This is really cool - bringing the great treatment of `ack` to ls. And can confirm how fast it is!

The unix philosophy is a great idea, but it doesn't really lead to a good experience. Glad people are making more integrated tools!

Oh, and It's in homebrew already: `brew install exa`
Tesla's big advantage is that most other car makers have publicly ridiculed electric cars [1] and heavily promoted the roar of gasoline engines [2]. Electric car sales are widely expected overtake gasoline cars in the next 30 years [3]. Recently, car makers have had to eat their words in the wake of dieselgate [4]. Old school car makers will have to retrain their audience to embrace electric cars [5]. Meanwhile, Tesla benefits from being an early adopter.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/chrsyelr-ceo-evs-idUSL1N0O71M...

[2] https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AWs5/2016-dodge-charger-when-it-rain...

[3] http://futurefuelstrategies.com/2017/07/20/ev-sales-projecti...

[4] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/17/volkswagen-be...

[5] https://electrek.co/2017/06/26/porsche-electric-vehicles-mis...
You'll also find that almost all reporters do the things you don't like. It's a mostly-inevitable consequence of the system of incentives and constraints that apply to almost all reporters.
this article (no affiliation with the author, just happen to enjoy his work) is also worth a read

https://gaps.com/patreon-earners/
Couple who slammed Dallas wedding photographer online, in media must pay $1.08M
Show HN: GitPoint – The most feature-rich GitHub mobile client that is 100% free
> It's an oddly uninformative document.

Indictments are lists of charges; expecting them to be informative for questions other than “what is the defendant being charged with” is irrational. (And “what is the evidence supporting the charges” is a separate question.)

> All the other overt acts listed appear to have been carried out by his unnamed alleged co-conspirator alone.

A conspiracy charge only requires any of the conspirators to have taken an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
> Sorry, but "we don't need evidence, our imagination is enough" is not anywhere near "very reasonable".

The video literally shows clips of behavior. The common theme of the video is “manifest observable behavior”. The video explains how actions, not speech, are what broke the terms of service. I really recommend you watch it. (Odd use of quotation marks – you directly quoted me, but completely made up what Patreon said.)

> Just because the Patreon guys are fans of Antifa […]

If they were such fans, I'm not sure they'd have removed IGD.
Playing devil's advocate here. I don't know if he did or didn't do it, but surely this could be an advertisement?
>If you mean the former - that's a trickier thing to evaluate. Less people have access to a gun than a car, for starters, and most people use a car much more often than they use a gun. Cars are designed to transport people and goods - guns are designed to cause damage - so defining 'accidental use' of both is an interesting question. A bit of quick googling comes up with some numbers, suggesting guns are now - in absolute terms - the cause of death for more USA citizens than cars ... but naturally there's some dispute about how those numbers are determined, and some strong interest in not comparing those stats to other countries.

I'm interested in both car accidents vs gun accidents and car accidents vs all gun related deaths, especially in countries with sane gun (e.g. well thought out, not let's ban everything) regulation that aren't the US.

Here's some stats that I've found just now:

Switzerland: gun related deaths per 100k people: 3.01, with 3.3 being the traffic accidents number.[1][2]

Czech Republic: gun related: 1.8, traffic accidents: 6.1.[3][2]

1 - http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/switzerland

2 - http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/czech-republic

3 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
You can pretty much use it like ls for most things, so I'd say very little investment needed.
But this is "Modern".

The problem I see with these "modern" command replacements is 1) muscle memory and 2) I have to log into some old systems that simply will not have anything this "modern".
I recently moved from Nashville (quite humid) to Flagstaff (quite dry) and the difference is amazing. Large temperature swings are barely noticeable in the dry climate, but would require substantial changes in weight of clothing in the humid one.
Yes, that is how most businesses work: no cash => bankrupt. Though it seems that automotive companies don't have that problem... Something about government loans?
"The latter would have been a much better fit for the sounds in the language."

The Cyrillic alphabet as originally developed for Old Church Slavonic lacks several sounds of Polish, namely the velarized /l/ (which has now become a semivowel /w/ except in peripheral dialects), and the palatalized affricates /ź/ and /ć/.

If you are a Russian speaker, you might think that Cyrillic could represent palatalized sounds by use of the soft sign, but that it not what the soft sign was actually used for originally. It was meant to represent the front reduced vowel /ĭ/ before the fall of the yers. So, Russian choose to represent its phonology by extending the Cyrillic alphabet in a way that was originally unintended, while Polish chose to represent its phonology by extending the Latin alphabet. How is either of these choices better than the other?