skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on Standard Ebooks (https://standardebooks.org) in my spare time. Not only is it not-for-profit but the work is released under CC0 too, where applicable.

We got on HN a month or two ago--people really seemed to like the project and we got a lot of great new contributors. If anyone else is interested in contributing, drop me a line :)
"Corporations are not taxed on revenue"

True. Now, perhaps offtopic: why are individuals taxed on revenue (ie salary, benefits ect), but corporations are not?
No, they've been granting private RSUs for at least a year before.
I built an interpreter for the pseudocode language my uni uses to introduce programming. It´s in Spanish, you can give it a try here:

https://pl-lang.github.io/playground/

There´s an example program here:

https://github.com/pl-lang/jsplint

My goal is to help students who might be struggling with the assignments.
Having done a lot of work using both the old os.path library and new pathlib, the ergonomics of pathlib are much, much better. The behavior of the overloaded operator is well-defined, unsurprising, and otherwise intuitive.
Problems with Hugo
Why would it be restricted to post-IPO employees? It's pretty common to get RSU grants at a startup pre- or post-IPO. Typically you can negotiate the mix.

Source: have received and negotiated on offers within the last three years from "name-brand" pre-IPO startups.
Is it possible that Microsoft might have HL-2.0 which perhaps does not rely on this Chip?
Khosla loses (again) bid to prevent public beach access
It would be great to have a game like Eve where there's a "race" that consists of an AI controlling NPC bots scattered throughout the galaxy. Either an "evil" AI or a "benevolent dictator" AI.

Or even better, an AI controlling human players (creating tasks, rewarding, punishing, etc) towards a goal.
If only we would start looking at people as individuals and not as groups we arbirarily define and lump people into, we might make some progress towards removing discrimination and bias in our society.

I think almost anyone would agree that we should not punish/reward any person for some arbitrary trait they can't control like their gender, race, sexual preference, etc. And that we should only care about the person's character, work ethic, and ability - to not so eloquently paraphrase MLK.

The fact that someone can agree with that above statement and then turn around and support policies/activism that reward or punish groups of people based on those very characteristics just mentioned is a viewpoint I honestly can't understand.

I would be very interested in hearing an honest argument as to why we should have more women in tech or more men in daycare or more X in Y, instead of more people in Y who like Y and are passionate about Y and want to improve the world through Y whether they are men or women or gender fluid or whatever they want to be.
"@airline1 @airline2 @airline3 Which of you can sell me a seat from XXX to YYY that's large enough for an adult male?"
Numerous startups:

http://ideol-offshore.com/en

http://www.nauticawindpower.com/

https://composites.umaine.edu/research/deepcwind-consortium/

http://dwwind.com/press/deepwater-wind-develop-west-coasts-f...

http://www.bluehengineering.com/tablet/index.html

http://www.tridentwinds.com/

http://www.hexicon.eu/

I'm sure there are many more.
Developing lifetime extension & stasis technology is a way to significantly increase the amount of space we can have access to.
Threads like this are what keep me coming back to orange website. They are rare & touchingly innocent flowers amongst a field of awash with metaphorical blood.

Thank you.
If they'd increased revenue by selling dollars for 90 cents that only would have cost $10.9m, much cheaper than the $443m loss. Maybe they should try that next time.
> Some are likely cultural, some are likely genetic and the interplay is going to be vastly complex (see e.g., epigenetics).

OK, let's say that some segment of it is cultural. Now what?

Let's say that I'm female, and I have some talent for engineering/programming, but I'm raised in a culture that says "Women don't do that. Women marry, stay at home, and raise children." And I look at my mother, who is doing exactly that, and I see how trapped she feels, how stifling it is, and I really don't want to wind up in the same place, but because my culture is what it is, I don't think I have any other choice. Clearly, that's bad.

But let's say instead I look at my mother, and see that she's fairly content and happy, and I think, "That looks pretty good." It's still the same cultural constraint, but now I am willingly assenting to it. Now, is that still bad? (Yes, it's still bad as for the general culture, because it's still constraining others who don't want that. Is it bad for me specifically?)

If you say "Yes, it's still bad", you're saying that you know better than I am what decisions I ought to make. (This presumes that I genuinely understand the alternative. But don't say that, if I really understood, I wouldn't want to choose that. That's cheating. It's also insulting.)

Note that, in my example, the differences are neither genetic nor cultural. The difference is in the example that I see growing up, whether or not people are happy fitting into their culturally-assigned place.
The underlying XUL machinery that XUL-type add-ons access is going away. It's never been there in mobile Firefox. That's why they have to go.

Whether Firefox add-ons should be restricted to what Google Chrome supports is another issue.
I don't buy Herbalife products for the same reason I don't buy most Apple products. They are overpriced for what they are and I am capable enough to make whatever cheaper alternative "just work" for me without additional help from Herbalife and Apple. But I do understand the value they provide for many people willing to pay for it and willing to buy everything tech related and everything supplement related respectively from them.
> at least not beyond their own avoidance of wrongdoing

Such as enforcing that people contracted to carry out work on their behalf do so in a manner that conforms to their ethical stands?

A fund policing the habits of an investment is literally the people who own the business policing the actions of their employees -- I think most of us agree that a business has the right to enforce ethical standards on employees.

> not the police or courts

Both of these institutions are primarily complaint driven -- the fund filed a complaint that people they employed violated the rules of their employment and is asking the courts to make it right. (Slight more convoluted, but that's the gist of it.)

> state is the plaintiff in criminal cases

That has nothing to do with indemnifying someone from the financial consequences of their actions -- a third party can offer to pay your penalties.

> seems to be benchmark asking that newly added board seats be removed

Are there no prior cases where board actions to create board seats were reverse because of fraud? I'm skeptical.

But more to the point -- so what? We have well established law that you can revisit agreements made on a fraudulent basis and they're asking the courts to mediate just such a dispute.

I'm actually unsure how you think any of this should work based on your objections, aside from that corporate managers shouldn't be liable, even to the corporate owners, for their actions.
The $637 million (or $750 million depending on when/how you look at it) was definitely handed out specifically as a bonus for taking the company public:

https://www.recode.net/2017/2/2/14465646/evan-spiegel-snap-i...
Twicsy (Twitter picture search) still gets around 1.5 million visitors per month, but nets no money. But I wouldn't call it sheer joy though, maybe sheer stubbornness?

http://twicsy.com
None of us can
For 5% more, you could own 100' of waterfront.

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Gig-Harbor/6010-106th-Ave-NW-98335...
Just you wait edge computing will move a lot of power to the client... it's coming, especially for AI, cars and any intelligent device.
It's 'crypto currency'. It's not centralised M-Pesa (African digital currency created by Vodafone), or PayPal.

If you don't understand what it is, you may buy the wrong crypto asset. I think it's fair to say it's a good idea to know what you're investing in!
But apparently saying you'd get downvoted gets you downvoted just the same. Just like on Reddit!
Re: editors, sometimes you simply cannot get away with multiple windows in place of panes, unless someone decides to do insane amount of work just to make editor integrate-able(?) with screen/tmux/whatever WM you happen to use; vimdiff would be a great example, as it is basically impossible to use it without panes.
Working on a project for connecting fans of the band Phish and allowing them to share and curate their stories... Paying out of pocket for minimal hosting costs, donation buttons all go to Mockingbird Foundation... Hoping to launch in the next month or so. Doing it because I am a huge fan of the band and the community and it's a huge part of my life I'd like to give back to.
You could argue that it's a pay-per-use problem because of inherent unpredictability in that pricing model. When you have "big" resources behind you, it's less impactful but still and issue. The difference with a server based vs. serverless here is how the cost grows. You can predict what the cost of a server is going to be and strictly control it. Can you actually do that with the serverless option?
If no one would have a job than it will mean the analysis done on the social network profiles will be awfully wrong. The thing it will be searching for is not perfect people, but people who do some things in social networks that somehow, by some nasty AI algorithms, will qualify them to do some job, simple.

I firm believe that everything I've said on Orkut many years ago was sincere and honest and matches well with my personality. If some algorithm is looking for someone with my character and abilities it will certainly find one in my Orkut activity.

The same way, if you don't have a social media profile, then certainly you're a good match for some job that is looking for someone with these characteristics.
> with a cost to personal safety that we've collectively decided we're willing to live with.

It's funny that, as a collective, we're willing to also ignore the safety risk to others.
I agree that shells need a great overhaul. But how it should look and how the path towards the "better shell" can realistically happen I have no clue.

I applaud your courage!
That sounds like it's working exactly as it should. If everyone tweeted every little problem, each tweet would quickly be lost in the noise.
I am skeptic of everything "climate change" not because the theory lacks soundness (on the contrary it is a reasonable theory) but by the manner it has been espoused to the public over the past 10 years. The Earth has many, many problems just as dangerous; why has this one tiny topic been magnified to degrees of mass-hysteria above all else? That is why I am a skeptic. It has the annotations of a ploy with ulterior motives, a very successful ploy at that seeing the breeds of millions of pseudo-intellectual climate change advocates created out of thin-air thanks to mainstream media. History is ripe with such hoaxes.
From MIT[1]:
"The first chill occurred in the 1970s, as progress slowed and government funding dried up; another struck in the 1980s as the latest trends failed to have the expected commercial impact."

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603062/ai-winter-isnt-com...
Isn't there also a third danger with anything that scales your bill as your app scales - the possibility of some black hat ddos-ing you for the hell of it?
Couldn't you use a separate certificate for super-secret-subdomain.example.com?
Fixed!

"Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a group of behavioural symptoms that include inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness."

Just a little bit more on point ;)
Swift also does Reference counting, the difference is huge. Speed of code is in another level. I am new to Lazarus, but I am guessing they do the same as Delphi.
I'm sorry, I just don't buy that. It doesn't have to be a hard cap, it could be a soft one. i.e. at £x your servers start shutting down, you'll get billed for a few extra minutes over your cap, before things have finished shutting down. Servers are totally capable of being shutdown without destroying databases.

Besides, we aren't really talking about production databases at large companies. The people who want caps are devs learning and experimenting. It could come with dislaimers that if you enable a cap and exceed it that your services will go offline unexpectedly, and that may leave databases in inconsistent states. But for a large number of usage scenerios that is a completely acceptable tradeoff.

The simple fact is, not having a cap certainly puts me off experimenting with a service due to a fear of a mistake causing a big bill. And developers learning and investigating a technology is what preceeds them recommending that technology to their companies.

Last time I looked Azure allows a zero spend cap on free accounts, but you can't change the amount to anything else, and once you remove it you can't switch the cap back on. Thats limited, but it's perfect for a learning environment.

If Azure can implement a zero spend cap, there is absolutly no reason that either AWS or Azure can't implement an x spend cap in exactly the same way.
Single-pass will also juggle within a seconds-long buffer. Does two-pass help on that micro level, in addition to the way it can allocate bits across an entire file?
When FB, Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all worth several hundred billion how much room is left to not get copied?

Seems like the best you are hoping for is that you end up entrenched before they react (like twitch vs youtube).
AWS has so many services that trying to decide what to stop if you reach a billing threshold would be impossible to automate. Similarly, pricing is not built into the individual services APIs, so adding a per-item billing threshold would not be a trivial task.

> based on their business/hobby needs

AWS is not interested in hobbyists - other vendors are picking up the crumbs there.
I'm not claiming the ability to actually write the algorithm that will decide on these matters for all interested hiring parties.

But apparently you are.
And when you think you've learned regex, learn that you haven't: http://fent.github.io/randexp.js (a regex "reverser" of sorts) [1]

Seriously. Test every non-trivial regex with something like this, you'll probably be surprised at how permissive most regexes are.

Regexes are great. They're super-concise and perform amazingly well. But they're one of the biggest footguns I know of. Treat them as such and you'll probably do fine.

---

[1] for instance, the URL regex they use is incorrect, and it's super obvious when you plug it into that site:

^(((http|https|ftp):\/\/)?([[a-zA-Z0-9]\-\.])+(\.)([[a-zA-Z0-9]]){2,4}([[a-zA-Z0-9]\/+=%&_\.~?\-]*))*$

`[[a-zA-Z0-9]\-\.]` you can't nest character sets like that. So this matches the letters "[]-." as well as all a-z,A-Z,0-9 ranges.
Certainly many slowdowns on highways and major roads stem from awkward, inefficient merging traffic - I can imagine autonomous cars would come together like the teeth of a perfectly smooth zipper.
One quibble: the YouTube embed removes the control bar, so the user can start/stop but not go back and forth. No bueno.
I completely fail to comprehend the tech worlds recent obsession with self-driving automobiles.

Do you realize that the consumers are not asking for this feature, by and large?

Let's focus on rolling out electric automobiles while our planet can still sustain biological life, can we please?
Cpanel, Houston Texas
Fair enough, I did some more digging.

$1.99 billion in stock-based compensation was recognized in the first 3 months of the year.

$637 million of that was given to the CEO according to his October 2016 employment contract, which all vested at IPO in March 2017.

Then there's the pre-IPO employee RSUs. Those typically are subject to 4 years of time vesting, as well as a performance requirement that triggered when the company IPOed.

$1.3 billion of those were recognized as of March 31 2017 because they met their performance vesting requirement (IPO-ing). Those were probably the shares that had already satisfied the time-vesting requirement.

The company still hasn't recognized an additional $1.3 billion in stock-based compensation that will be recognized on its financial statements over a weighted-average period of the next 3.1 years. Those were probably issued relatively recently since they haven't met their time vesting requirement yet.
I looked at Lambda (we use AWS a lot at work) and decided to simply stay with a flat rate DO server. I know what it costs, no need to worry.
Seems like something you could possibly make money off with ads given it's a pretty popular meme
Thats the fault of the company for not taking advantage an opportunity for improvement. I fail to see how that should be attributed to the medium.
Can you upload your config somewhere else? Link is not working for me.

I purchased an ergodox ez, and while I love the feel of the mechanical keys, the default layout, and any layout I can up with, was too radically different from normal qwerty.

So I purchased a matias ergo pro, which is great, and can do negative tilt which the ergodox can't seem to do natively.
Bandcamp does have a feed.

It is also not particularly Patreon-esque. You don't pay the artist a recurring fee. You can listen to the music for free only a handful of times, then you need to buy it, in a one-time transaction.

Bandcamp is really a place to discover music, buy it and download it. It's not similar to Soundcloud, or Spotify, which focus on streaming. A more apt comparison would be Beatport.

The target audience of Bandcamp are DJs and music connoisseurs, who want to own the music they like, in high-quality formats.

Bandcamp does a really good job of staying focused on these core user groups, and apparently is also doing rather well, financially:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific...

I guess they're something of a reverse Soundcloud.
Greek Yogurt company celebrates state-of-the-art filling lines
Sequence IDs coming soon to Elasticsearch
That is the realest website I've ever seen.
Or is it because for a very long time men were the doctors and women were the nurses.
That's questionable. I believe there may be an issue with the economic model if there aren't sufficient transactions (once the issuance starts to slow). Not enough crypto for the miners. They then don't support the network. The network is then less secure. The price then reflects the lack of security.

There's thinking that the winning crypto(s) currency will be both gold + currency.
I've been using Tilix for months now, and I love it. Fast, pretty, and works.
I think I've been misreading the BBC title the whole time as also saying "Tonka beans". Oops. It's in the subtitle but not the real title.
>This is because most of society is still struggling with day-to-day tasks like getting housing, clean water, reliable food, healthcare and dealing with physical conflicts.

It's been nearly 100 years since anyone struggled with that in the West. Nobody's expecting Eritrea to put a satellite in orbit.
Now, static type checking is provided by systems separate from the language implementation, but the (sic) still exists.

That's almost a direct quote from the static typing proposal. No such checker existed at the time. There's a half-completed one, "mypy".[1] It's a bit different from Python 3.6 type annotation, though it tries to stay close.
>chrome will let you do that: chrome://net-internals/#hsts

Aren't the hashes there only for the public keys of the site instead of the public key of the CA?

Also, does anybody happens to know any extension for Firefox that does anything similar to that?
That's funny. But I like the idea of signaling the market some way. In a sufficiently competitive market even your opt-out signaling would would work. In the deaf market of the airlines however, scaled coordination enough to tip power back passengers, may be the only unfortunate answer. You would need to coordinate your "drive instead of flying" with enough people at the same time in the same geography.
That is the point, investors, and engineers alike should be wary of such companies whose foundation seat on sand.

And I don't really understand when Twitter has set a bad precedent for social media companies, why people still bet on Snapchat. Weird choice.
When I say left I do it through the eyes of an Eastern European that has been through communist dictatorship. I know how left looks like and what it means to be ruled by double think.

It baffles me to see people in US basically jumping with both feet in this postmodernist social engineering ideology.

I've lived it and you don't want to do it. You'll be reduced to cattle.
That's correct, there is an issue open for it and if someone wants to implement it I'm happy to take a PR for it.
Are bugs in flour really that big of a health concern?
And use all of the masts as an ELF antenna array. That will give those racks something to think about: subsurface phased-array radar for submarine spotting, earthquake and atmospheric study, etc.
What would be the cost for it? Just curious if you or others have a ballpark estimate.
It would require taking the evidence gleaned from a local trial and applying it at a federal (nation wide) level (since that's where the immigration bounds are).

Sadly that would be "socialism" so it's not politically popular... damned legacy of the red scare.
Well FB was once in the same spot.
Hey, Let's Actually Read That Study About Vitamin B Preventing Birth Defects
For almost a year, I've been writing a SEGA Dreamcast emulator called WashingtonDC.
It's slow and it doesn't play any games yet, but it can boot the firmware menu and display the animated "spiral swirl" logo.
https://github.com/washingtondc-emu/washingtondc
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance
Porting an ancient 6502 Forth to Z80. Nobody will ever use it and there are already loads of Z80 Forths around, but it's fun and forces me to learn exactly how a language that's always interested me works. Not on Github yet.
There we go so since people are saying "it depends" I guess you can't just go work for them on that basis.

And I bet if you bring it up during the process it wont help at all.
Nothing is "idiotic" about it. Any time a headline contains the word "record," it's probably nice to know which (among many) data series is being talked about.
Uber's Travis Kalanick sued for fraud
I just use WorldBrain (Chrome extension). It is based on Falcon, but you perform quicksearch (wb keyword) against your history and bookmarks.
The MagTek reader acts as a USB HID (aka a keyboard). When the cursor focus is put on a text field and you swipe a card, the MagTek device acts as if someone typed each character into the field. Then the javascript detects that and parses it out