skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a successful medium sized business called SpeakWrite early in my career that specialized in voice transcription for the legal industry. The company was founded by a former lawyer, and the office culture was very traditional. The software team was treated with respect, paid well, and everyone had their own office. It was great! Having worked in tech/startup culture since then, I much prefer the traditional office culture. Now I work remotely as a consultant and have my own office, but miss working on a closely knit team.
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>DEF CON provides conference WiFi with preauthorized certificates (WPA2), so [if you remove all other known open networks] then [you can have secure and sane WiFi at the conference].

Emphasis mine. Merely "removing" networks from your device does not preclude you from being attacked. Broadcom and all the locked-down devices that aren't iphones or high-end android devices who use them demonstrate this quite nicely.
> Kuro5hin

It's finally dead!

http://kuro5hin.org
Works fine if you also disable javascript.
Money isn't the problem here. It's mainly a political problem.

Once you resolve the issue of poor political leadership, the problem basically solve itself as money and investment engender a positive feedback loop that take care of itself.
Sounds like an excuse to me. At least I don't see what online criticism has to do with having a town-hall, by moving the discussion in-person it prevents online sniping, no?

Edit:
All that said, probably a smart move by google. Their is clearly a very strong divide in our culture right now and they probably made a PR mistake by letting themselves get caught in the middle of the issue once already.

Not only a strong divide, but one that's very emotional for a lot of people, where progress and civil discourse are especially challenging.
Well, even if it doesn't make you money, I hope you know how much you're appreciated in the Clojure community. Thanks for all the hard work!
What is the point of solving hunger and poverty when we are unable to solve climate change? Having more people and more people who can afford luxuries will only make that problem worse. I know it's a tough argument to swallow, but that doesn't make it less true.
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Because the terms of the deal dictate the allocation of control. There are many differences between investments and acquisitions, control being the most prominent.
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That's a poor result on our end -- we're building the feature that you described so that we're more on point when we have a low match like that. And the sad part is we actually do have national coverage of physical therapists, so it was a lost opportunity to get you to that next step.

If you're interested, would love if you tried the next version that we're working on. Our goal is that it will be able to better handle cases like these (which happen about 10% of the time right now -- which is a lot and in our minds leaves a lot of room for improvement.)
From the article:

The parents seem to have some vague concept that spending hours each evening on Facebook and YouTube will impart, by some sort of cybernetic osmosis, a knowledge of PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Haskell.

And you posit that their computer literacy will go up if we start throwing them off the public computers so they can't even use Facebook and Youtube?

Your argument that they aren't so hot currently in no way rebuts my assertion that if you start throwing poor kids off the internet at public libraries they will be left even further behind than they already are currently.
I created and hack away on jsoup, a HTML parser/scraper for java. https://jsoup.org

I created it initially just to scratch a personal itch (to make another project, https://alterslash.org, more resilient to upstream changes in HTML), and now get a lot of satisfaction just in knowing how much it's used around the world for all sorts of use cases I hadn't really imagined when I started writing it.

And it's great fun finding new areas to benchmark and micro-optimize.
> we see a character’s computer burst into flames

If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.
Pacific Legal Foundation is a non-profit in Sacramento that files lawsuits to push the law in ways that protect private property and personal freedom (as they definite it; I'm neither a fan nor a supporter but want to be neutral). They're kind of an anti-ACLU or anti-Sierra Club in a sense that they use strategic litigation for political reasons.
We have a requirement of saving 100million data points every 5 mins. What options should we explore for real time system for last 15 days of data and archival system for last 3 years of data?
On some machines I've made DDG my default. I sometimes revert to google as a backup, and its sometimes better. but generally DDG is good enough for daily use. I figure the benefit of defaulting to it is worth any slightly less quality searches for basic day-to-day lookups
For a moment I thought this kind of massive price increase on a core component would matter for HoloLens and then I remembered the dumb thing costs $3,000 USD anyways.
How legit is this study in your opinion?
Sheer joy is an interesting term. I like making things but I don't think that is my primary motivater for _what_ I make.

Most of my free stuff is because I think the things should exist and they are things that shouldn't have to be paid for.

Some things are just plain geek fun

https://github.com/Lerc/stackie - Makes textures using a very compact stack machine language

https://github.com/Lerc/kwak-8 - Emulator for an 8-bit computer that never existed

Some things I wanted to have exist

https://github.com/Lerc/smallcalc - A compact pop-up calculator for the Cinnamon Desktop

https://github.com/Lerc/plops - (old) A lightweight Desktop widget engine that I made when I developing for 256-512mb boxes/

https://github.com/Lerc/whio - A Javascript canvas rendering lib for beginner programmers using Globaly avalilable functions + mediaWiki plugin to run in a worker.

http://fingswotidun.com/code - A wiki usisng the plugin from the entry above. Has some introduction to programming javasctipt tutorials.

And the mad project that I come back to every couple of years to push a bit further along.

https://github.com/Lerc/notanos - A html/js login deskop for Linux.

And a lot of games.

Here's a silly one http://screamingduck.com/Lerc/LD13.html

Here's a really hard one http://www.screamingduck.com/Lerc/LD14.html

And here's one that might give your browser a hernia http://fingswotidun.com/ld21/
Remember that offering is not quite the same as available. From your link, it seems that Ford offered this as a package starting in 1956 for some models and it did not sell well [1]; some accuse it of making a half-hearted effort. However, I have to say that kudos to Ford and Robert McNamara for trying to sell safety and offering safer options well before others.

1968 was apparently the first year that seat belts were mandated in cars.

[1]: http://www.autonews.com/article/19960626/ANA/606260836/ford-...
At a higher level, is this the same concept as Datomic?
> Unfortunalely, your browser doesn't support accessing your webcam.

This is in Safari — is this really the case? I'm not a web dev, so I don't really know, but AFAIK Safari can do web cam. And if not now, they should support WebRTC in High Sierra, correct?
Nanomuscle?
Ah, that's funny!
There is a larger question as to whether that California law violates the US Constitution or not. I think not, but we will probably see what the USSC has to say about it.

If he wanted less surfers traipsing across his property, seems like the easier solution would've been to drastically increase the parking fees. As I understand it, it's almost impossible to walk to the beach down that road so access to the parking would've been much easier to restrict under the costal access law. So this is almost certainly done as a provocation to see if he can change the law via the courts
Extending Atom editor the React-Redux way
California laws cannot violate the California constitution or the US constitution. Presumably, the land owner believes the law in question violates his rights as a citizen of the state of California and/or the United States. And when you're worth $1.5 billion, you can have these sorts of fights with the government.
Uber’s new in-app chat helps you avoid exchanging creepy texts with your driver
How do we make renewables more competitive so that we can get our local utilities to invest in them?

A carbon fee and dividend. Price carbon at its true cost and let the market decide! There is important work being done by Citizen's Climate Lobby. CCL is incredibly effective, but we need the help of the creative minds and energies of HN. Check out citizensclimatelobby.org to get involved in your local chapter.
Hi. Welcome to chatbot/n.
1. 100% of the problem that climatologists discuss is heat from the sun, trapped, by greenhouse gasses that we release. As you rightly point out, we can't control the sun, so we must control how much insulating gas we put in the atmosphere.

2. Even it China cuts is emissions, with the USA outputting more than 4 times per person, would that be enough? How exactly is it that China spends more on reducing emissions while USA spends zero? This is a collective action problem (much like CFC's were in the 1980s, or not peeing in the lake you depend on for drinking water), it requires grown-up behavior from all nations now so as to no despoil the inheritance we might leave to our children.
This looks cool. I love things that get rid of extra dependencies. Influxdb is nice but then I have to support it, get stuff into it and get stuff out of it.

Timescale isn't currently supported by RDS/Aurora though, so it looks like more influx for me wooohooooo!
As much as I hate bringing politics into places it wasn't, this wasn't from the author; It was from a quote

> "IBM Watson is the Donald Trump of the AI industry—outlandish claims

> that aren’t backed by credible data," said Oren Etzioni, CEO of the

> Allen Institute for AI and former computer science professor.

> "Everyone—journalists included—know[s] that the emperor has no clothes,

> but most are reluctant to say so."
Many of the 30,000+ employees are non-tech. Uber needs lots of hires for driver recruitment, training, support. They have people on the ground in every region they operate.
Cut down the trees and use their timber for building. Then repeat (trees grow to maturity in 15-25 years in my neck of the woods).

Concrete-based construction is popular because it is easy, fast and cheap, but the hidden costs are the massive associated emissions.

Timber by contrast is harder to work with, but locks the carbon into the building, which hopefully will remain standing for many decades.
Masses of humans working at restaurants does not make a country rich. A sign the America is losing it's wealth
I've long had this thought about charity itself, it seems that a lot of charity is propping up bits and pieces of capitalism so we don't look at the root causes of why we "need" charity in the first place.

On one hand it's great that children around the US can have life saving surgery because so many donated to their cause, on the other hand would we all be better off donating to a lobbying cause for single-payer healthcare?

If we could get that passed, every child in the US could have life saving surgery if needed and it wouldn't be a matter of whether or not their community is charitable enough.
Generally speaking, a TimescaleDB database just looks like Postgres to admin tools. So this looks interesting, and we are already internal Kubernetes users.

Will have to look at more.
True leadership would be inviting James Damore to speak at the meeting.
Can't you rebind them through the regular keyboard preferences? Even without, _just_ binding them that way in Emacs is a huge improvement for chords.

Also, as much as I love Linux, it's not really feasible for anyone doing professional development to just up and bail on an operating system. There's IT infrastructure built around using OSX at some jobs.
We've been talking with Amazon, and you can help the process along:

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65
That reminds me of this video and the left/right brain compartmentalization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
Sliced up like salami. Why? To get more clicks?
I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself. It starts so simply...
A lot of startups are trying to cover for the fact that they don't have anything ready to offer and haven't previously accomplished anything.
Bill Atkinson apparently kicks himself for not being the first to realize that simply making the stacks work over a network could potentially have been the first "web browser" (or at least, internet hypertext engine)

HyperCard was totally awesome at the time.
Ask HN: How did you find an audience for your startup or project?
How did you find the audience of initial users for your startup or side project?
Housing affordability in rich cities prevents the poor, who are on opiods, from moving to where better opportunities are.

Increasing housing supply in silicon valley and subsidizing moving are the cure
Wasn’t that the same type of conflict that doomed the Newton? The engineers didn’t want marketing to talk about the handwriting recognition (nice extra, look what other things we do) but marketing ignored them. The Newton never recovered.
You'd allocate some of it to heat and light. But the fact that solar panels are useful implies that mankind would prefer to allocate a portion of that energy differently.

"100% of Earth's inefficiently-allocated incoming solar energy" is too subjective to earn a Wikipedia entry, but I assume it's a substantial fraction of the entire "100% of Earth's incoming solar energy".
It seems a bit unfair to hold AI to higher explanatory standards than our fellow humans. Most people make decisions based on intuition and emotion. Then they rationalize those decisions after the fact and invent explanations that seem plausible.
This is silly. The biggest social programs in America are Social Security (basically a UBI for old folks), Medicare (health care), and the #1 economic development success of all time, public education. The kind of social programs they're talking about in this article are so unambitious it's hardly surprising their results aren't measurable.
Findings from scientific studies are not immutable truth. Nor does citing them automatically make your interpretation of the cited study to be truth. Perhaps the article should have stated, "In a 10-page memo Damore [made claims etc etc] and included citations and references to several scientific studies."
The source of all frustration
And bacon. Around 9 out of 10 products in the bacon section are actually 'Manufactured Meat Product'. I'm in Australia which usually has quite strong consumer protections, but being able to call it bacon is misleading. Only looking at the ingredients list gives it away.
Thanks man - Pentax K1000's entry is actually a stub that needs work; still - glad you liked it =)

This is a slightly better entry in terms of cameras

https://www.theymadethat.com/organizations/slx/polaroid-corp...

On a related note, if you happen to know anyone related to the the K1000's design and manufacture, feel free to add it
You could hop from the PC to something like a PLC and sabotage an industrial process (like stuxnet)
So much wrong about this blog post - first, written by the creator of a VPN company, someone obviously biased, with a stake in the industry:

Many of the items you claim are not addressed by TOPG absolutely are. Questionable/sketchy product marketing & SEO, ethical business practices, etc are all covered in the detailed comparisons Ethics section. Other items you claim he SHOULD look at go against his methodology and are impossible to indepdently verify - such as technical architecture and sustainability.

The main purpose of jurisdiction is to see which countries are more likely to illegally spy on its citizens and which have a track record of being an "enemy of the internet". You claim a VPN located in the US (like the one you made and have a stake in) are subject to government agencies such as the FTC, but many if not most of these companies are regularly allowed to flout FTC rules on native advertising and bad SEO and such which is why the industry is largely in the misinformation mess that it is - and we all know about Five Eyes and why that matters - any laws claiming to protect its citizens are kind of negated by programs such as PRISM, XKeyScore, and every other one we've learned about from Snowden.

You claim you get suspicious of TOPS reliability is because the data is wrong on Cloak - "TOPS claims that Cloak’s native apps leak IPv6 and DNS traffic." The detailed comparison actually shows whether the service officially tunnels or actively blocks IPv6 and runs its own first party DNS server. This is worded plainly in the header and further explained in the glossary. Lastly, if these are actually not the case for yours or any service, all he requires is a link to the official site where the data can be validated. I'm wondering if the point of the article was a lead up to the end in an attempt to turn people away from TOPS so your joke of a service (which surprise surprise, didn't score so well on the chart) isn't seen for what it is.
I like it. Server SSDs in M.2 or PCI-e is a bad idea because it makes hotswapping difficult and SATA is a bottleneck... very elegant solution. Seems like this will require greater depth of server cases though... not really a drawback but a consideration.
Yes, the core innovation in public blockchains, the double spend problem in trusless networks, is not present in private blockchains and private blockchains can he simplified with basic block that have existed for decades.

The biggest and critical issue with private blockchains is at the political level: how to make a lot of parties (e.g. bank) agree in a protocol involving critical things (e.g. money).
I'm pretty sure that I am unsure of what I'm talking about. Time to go read.
The idea is to get demand to dry up, so prostitutes will be incentivized to find other lines of work. Ending prostitution, and the exploitation it brings, is the goal. Criminalizing johns but not prostitutes will make prostitutes fear the authorities less and come forward if they have been victimized.
Is the business model to charge for the clustering release?
I think this is the worst thing about startup culture. Don't get me wrong, I like startups, but there's so much hype and so much money around them that it sucks all the oxygen out of anything else.

I can't count the number of times I've been talking about an interesting project idea and heard "oh, so it's a startup!" Or worse, been talking to someone else about their project idea which they immediately follow with "and then I can turn it into a startup!" whether or not it makes any sense at all.

Recent history is littered with ideas that started as an interesting project, turned into a startup for no reason, blew out into some hypergrowth social unicorn, made no money, and then folded, taking the original project with them. Looking at you, Readability.

Entrepreneurship is fundamentally creative, but not all that is creative is entrepreneurship. Startups are a specific structure for a specific kind of project. Trying to cram every idea into that mould strikes me as the business equivalent of "I just learned about NoSQL and now I want to use it for EVERYTHING".
It's common for reporters to attribute all facts to someone's claim. I think it's generally a good idea and avoids bias. Personally endorsing a claim would be risky.
With thermal throttling, simply stopping the fans and running processors at 100% may not be enough to HCF anymore.
So, who will do a hypercard for the web? Or better still: a hypercard based alternative to the web?
Large firm sizes are encouraged by state protections like patent law, regulatory capture, and other monopolistic advantages granted by anti free market practices.

The economic calculation problem, described my Mises in his criticism of centrally planned state economies, starts rearing its head in large firms as well [1], leading to the inefficiencies you mentioned.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/economic-calculation-in-the-corpora...
This sounds similar to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3955/bang
I do not know Travis well enough to say if he is a "good" or "bad" person but playing devil's advocate for a second: is it really a crime to organize a board in your favor? I imagine this is done all the time.
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I'd blame the public for applying guilt by association. Damore didn't agree to those things himself.
machine learning / data science
> ...product less capable than the IBM Prolog-based expert systems that I built out 15-20 years ago to triage and correlate network events in a large WAN infrastructure...

That sounds like IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). They wrapped a big Prolog-based DSL that the users wrote their correlation rules in, around the underlying Prolog engine. You could dip into the raw Prolog if you wanted, but it was considered an advanced user technique. The vast majority of "advanced" users used the set of cookbook Prolog functions the DSL was represented as, and even more users only ever touched a GUI that represented a tiny subset of that cookbook. People figured out what parts of Prolog the Prolog engine actually supported mostly through trial and error at first, before IBM finally published more details about it.

This rules-based approach ran into the same challenges of expert systems: beyond a certain threshhold number of rules, reasoning about the rules logic became dramatically more difficult. It didn't help that IBM never supplied support tooling for the underlying Prolog engine to aid in performance profiling, debugging, build support, etc.

The lesson I drew from that experience is if you supply your users with an embedded language in your app, make sure the advanced users get access to the kind of tooling full developers want.

It is interesting to see that the Watson-Jeopardy system uses Prolog [1]. I have to wonder how much of that was re-purposed to the chatbot project you observed. If it was, then its disappointment might be predictable; the range of possible problem spaces in a support setting is going to be larger than the relatively more constrained NLP of the Jeopardy format.

I've yet to see a good NLP system oriented towards technical software support, backed by a support knowledge base, that functions substantially better than current text searching and result ranking technologies, so I'd be very interested to hear about other people's positive results with applying machine learning to this area.

[1] https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-process...
The OP's link actually lets you fire up the stacks and edit them, although I don't think the state is saved when you close
The convenience of a public transportation systems is priced into the housing near its stations, meaning it mostly benefits the wealthy. The road network, on the other hand, reaches into neighborhoods which are far enough away from the center to be affordable to working-class families.

The people who end up driving despite the tolls, parking elimination, etc. are those who can't afford the rent near the public transit system. Cars are a significant cost for them, but not as much as the rent premium they'd have to pay for a well-connected location.
So you can never use the phrase "backed up by studies", then?
Nice!!!

Edit: emailed them, hopefully I matter a teensy bit.