skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
130 Story - a daily microfiction challenge.

https://www.130story.com/

I started this as a Twitter game a few years ago; it felt like a compact idea with a good hook. Earlier this year I automated it- so it picks its own words and collates the stories on the website itself (mostly successfully).

It doesn't have a big following, but the people who play are passionate about it. Some people play every day, and the most prolific author has written ~650 of them.

I've seen people get better as writers, some experimental stuff (like an improvised longform story built over many daily prompts), and occasionally I see a microstory that knocks it out the park. That makes it worthwhile.
Show HN: Charades and other party games (Android)
Show HN: Study of British place names: locations and frequencies of n-grams
Yeah, vigilant is the equivalent of a kill switch. So not connected to VPN = no internet
There is an important omission here: battery technology. I'm not talking about tesla power walls - although they would go some way to smoothing the troughs for solar.

I'm talking about the 7.2 megawatt-hour sodium-sulfur battery systems that islands like Reunion adopt, or Japan's 34-MW, 245-MWh wind energy stabiliser.

Installing local generation systems and removing the burden on the national grid systems which lose so much energy to transmission will also have an impact that I think is not calculated here in the visualisation graph.... it can make up to 6-9% of a difference! This figure can be up to 20% in undeveloped countries.

...but I have not read the paper - maybe those effects are mentioned there
Thank you for all your work!
Well it was called AI back then.
My favorite part is Ask MeFi's popular questions: http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorite7
have you tried Vim? or Vim keybinding in your favorite editor?
Yeah, they definitely put up their own money - it's also public record :)

This is how reporters know a firm is raising another fund (beyond just expecting them to every 2 years). The amount/percentage of the total fund that the partners pay in themselves varies by firm and fund.

Here's the records from Benchmark's Fund 7

Partners put up $80mm of their own cash, in a vehicle named Benchmark Founders' Fund VII, L.P.:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507661/000150766111...

They then raised $425mm from LPs through a vehicle named
Benchmark Capital Partners VII, L.P.:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507669/000150766911...

So the Benchmark partners have 16% of that particular fund, though keep in mind VC funds have different economics than just a straight up equity split. 16% is pretty high compared to some other firms I've reviewed, but I admittedly haven't taken the time to sample widely.
I think that's an issue many seemed to have overlooked about the whole "Google Memo" thing. Your personal views are just that personal. It's something you should be doing on your own time. When you're at work you're going to have to deal with different personality types and differing personal opinions. Part of being a professional is being able to set your personal opinions aside and focus on the job. It would be analogous to someone sending out a memo asking if everyone excepts Jesus Christ in to their hearts as their personal lord and savior and saying they're going to hell if they don't. It's fine to have political, social or religious views, but the workplace isn't really an appropriate place to bring those things to attention.
I've been working to fill what I see as a gap in free software. My library encodes data into sound and works cross-platform. As far as I can tell it may be the most robust, cross-platform freely licensed library that does this, though there is still much I need to improve on

https://github.com/quiet
Over half of Google employees polled say memo author should not have been fired
Eh, not really. Many Parabola users who use OpenRC instead of systemd still use systemd-udev, as opposed to eudev or one of the other non-system forks.
It looks like some kind of zero knowledge proof. Why I can't just generate that and then discard your data?
> But all the real, meaningful goals in medicine are basically the same for everyone

I think your view is a bit narrow. For instance if you get cancer, the goal is "cure MY cancer." And like unhappy families, many cancers are broken in unique ways.

You might find the abstracts here interesting:

http://www.immuno-oncologysummit.com/Personalized-Cancer-Vac...
Actually, I think the larger talent pool is pretty inescapable. Here's some wild guesses:

There are 3.87M software devs in the USA in a population of 325 million: https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...

Call it a density of 1% across the USA.

San Francisco has a population of 870k, round up to 1M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

If you assume that SF has a software engineer density 20X what the US does, then they have approx 200,000 engineers available for hire.

Assume that only 25% of software engineers are good for a remote job. That means that you'd have 960k engineers available for hire remotely, almost 5x the pool of SF.

Yes a lot of assumptions above (and there's also a skills matching and discovery issue), but I think that illustrates the size of the talent pool for remote hiring. And that doesn't include software engineers who aren't residents of the USA.
9 Year Old Achieves Microsoft Certification [video]
"Just call this number and give an exact time at least 36 hours from now when you will be at the gate. At that time, you will be escorted to the beach. If you are late, you will need to reschedule"
Sounds good to me, I would probably do the same thing.
"On the other side, numerous prominent organizations lined up to file briefs in support of Khosla’s position, including the Pacific Legal Foundation, California Farm Bureau Federation, California Cattlemen‘s Association, California Association of Realtors. and California Business Properties Association."

Why?
I was wondering the same thing. At the volume GDAX is processing ($100M/day [0]) they should be making $100M in gross profit every year [1].

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/#gdax
[1] $100M * 0.0025 = $250K /day, or almost $91M per year.
This is another contradictory to what I said.

I said working for public good - not supermarkets etc. Working in public spaces for community benefit. That is a huge difference. Why should someone on benefits work for a private business or even public offices? That is ridiculous! They are receiving public help, they should help the public.

There is absolutely no place for the nanny state. Try not to look at things black/white.
Yes, but I guess in that case you would put your lambda function behind an API gateway, and limit the user requests.
If it's a static content you would serve it from a CDN.
Not a specialist on this, but that's what I would do.
What are the best programming language tutorials?
Regardless of language, what is the best (clearly written, examples smoothly build on each other, easy to understand) guide you have come across?

Background: I am working my way through Hartl's Rails tutorial because of it's high recommendations and want to continue my self-education.
I have happily used PIA for years on Ubuntu and macOS and Android, but I never, ever use their clients. Just download the ovpn files[1] and set them up with the native support built into your OS (or use something like Viscosity for more functionality). On an unrelated note, I'm happy to know that my (reasonable) annual subscription allows them to support FOSS projects, they should really publicize that more!

1: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip
2: https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/
i stopped using pinterest because they stopped displaying anything unless you were logged in. they are clearly using it as a mechanism to drive sign-ups, though - do you have any similar but less annoying plans to exploit network effects?
How to Create a Virtual Reality Tour in Unity for the GearVR
I built Cmdo, a command line todo list written in python. Still in its early stages, but it’s been fun to create

https://github.com/Kaundur/cmdo
Ruby on Rails. You'll immediately notice an 'app' directory. Resources are in app/assets, controllers in app/controllers, models in app/models and views in app/views. There's a routes.rb file and a command line interface ('rake routes' does the same as 'php artisan routes:list', 'rake db:migrate' is the same as 'php artisan migrate').

While you can deploy Rails by just copying files (it will reload classes and recompile assets on page refresh whenever possible) it's still a best practice to have the dev and production environment different.
That's what 99% of the businesses that accept Bitcoin (that aren't themselves crypto-coin based businesses) do. Overstock is a counter-example. They keep 50% of the BTC they collect now as investment.
Thank you for this! I have a post-it note for sideproject ideas and wanted to build exact system. I'm glad you already built it :) Also glad I found out about it before building it myself.
For now, the posture is weird. The parties are fighting over whether closing up the existing beach access is a "development" that requires a Coastal Development Permit ("CDP"). The appellate court confirmed that it is and that Khosla closed up the existing access without the required permit.

The Constitutional issue is whether it's a taking to force Khosla to provide the level of access that the State wants. While it's clear that the State owns the land up to the mean high tide line, what it actually wants here is for Khosla to maintain the existing public access. That not only includes a pathway to the public shore, but access to the sandy beach, the existing provision of parking, etc. Khosla asserted the Constitutional issue, but the appellate court ruled that it was not yet ripe. In other words, Khosla can't argue there was a taking until the State actually denies his permit to close up the beach access. (The theory is that there is no reason to resolve a Constitutional question until we actually see what position the State takes.)

I think Khosla is actually right on the Constitutional point--if the State does make him keep the existing beach access (parking and all) that's a taking. That said, Khosla had full notice of what the State wanted before he bought the property. He basically tried to arbitrage on the fact that other potential buyers wouldn't engage in an extended legal battle with California to exercise the full extent of their private property rights. If he loses on that arbitrage bid, he'll have deserved it.
how do you get cut and paste working with tmux? it seems to intermingle text among the different panes.
Yes, getting the key mappings to your liking is key. There are lots of resources available. One good place to start is the online book The Tao of tmux https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read.

Using copy mode to navigate the scroll buffer is also a useful feature - you can really cut down the use of a mouse in the terminal.
What about @?
It should have its own key already. Smart phone keyboards make it readily available in login forms for a reason.
Using Machine Learning to Visualize Customer Preferences
I think genie is an anglicization of djinn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn
I've always just bit the bullet and compiled Python 3 and installed it to ~/.local when I had to deal with such a system. It generally compiles without needing me to build any other dependencies. Unless I need sqlite, berkeley db, tk et al., that is...
I wouldn't have thought it was just designed to be inflammatory. It is rather striking they pay so little in relation to turnover. Presumably their reported earnings are low but given they have been increasing in market value at about $40bn/year it might indicate the accounting methods are not accurately reflecting reality. Time to modify the tax / accounting rules I think.
Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
Well, I did say early on that such hypothetical discussions would feel off-topic in response to an article about an actual class-action lawsuit based on current law. Not off-topic as in verboten, but in the sense that such un-scoped discussions would probably be meandering and pointless.

I don't think too many commenters would have a hard time agreeing that younger employees would help many companies bottom-line; it's not like child labor came to be because people hated children. What is there more to discuss? You act as if discussing within the "limited" scope of current law is somehow anti-intellectual. But isn't it a bit anti-intellectual and ignorant on your part to think that anti-discriminatory laws came out of thin air, or happy feelings? The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 [0] Admittedly, this law was enacted with a Democratic president and Congress, though a Republican-led Supreme Court affirmed the law and sided with employees in a major 2008 case [1]. At the nation/state-level, these laws impose constraints, but ostensibly they do it for the benefit to the overall national and state health.

Google and other companies operate within the U.S. and California jurisdiction. This means they have to follow federal and state law. But it's not all about just following the laws, companies enjoy the benefits and services that come from being within the U.S. and California, which implies in part that what benefits U.S and California also benefits Google, in the long run. If you want to posit a scenario in which Google did not have to be constrained by American law, then for that discussion to have any intellectual worth, that scenario should also include a Google that does not receive any of America/California's benefits or protections, i.e. what would Google be today if it decided to move to New Hampshire? Or China? Or Andorra?

All interesting hypotheticals, I'm sure. At the same time, not particularly relevant to the article at hand.

[0] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20scotus.html
Pollution Is Turning Sea Snakes Black
That's part of the problem. They focused all their attention on making a Spotify competitor, when the core principle of what SC unique is the community and a vast underground culture of unknown artists hoping to make it big.

The two are similar in that they're online streaming services, but insofar as everything else, not even close.
Pretty much should be how bookmarks work anyway. The point of bookmarking is an intention to return. If the site is down or your network fails a bookmarked page should still work.
Interesting. When I display my threads in HN, this comment is now hidden. Why?
In my experience, Mozilla IRC has always been quite friendly and helpful. I'd start with the #addons or #introduction channel.
Sure enough a valid point.

When I didn’t know it I was productive too, circa Rails 0.14.3. I’ve stepped away for programming for many years and skipped mostly through Rails 3 and 4. Recently picked right back up in Rails 5 and just as productive as ever.
Ask HN: What do you think the most effective solution to the opioid crisis is?
What do you think the most effective solution to the opioid crisis is?
I dunno it kind of looks like they're going to eventually take someone's money based on similar promises.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/investing/google-waymo-self-...

I mean, the fact that they've been using funds from advertising to research this problem is admirable in some sense, but they are actually taking someone's money to do this.

Hype from marketing departments on technical matters is not to be trusted.
I think Snap is pretty dead. Between Instagram and Facebook stories, I just don't see the appeal of Snapchat. Most of the time, if I want to send stupid shit to my friends, I do it in Messenger because we can laugh about it later, too.
Did you enjoy NXDOMAIN?
I wonder why? Is the same phenomenon at play with Trump's approval rating? It's been in the high-mid-30s for many weeks now [1]. 80+ consecutive days at the time of this writing. Even outside of Russia-related scandals (like hiring Mike Flynn [3]), he has done some obviously bad things (like the Billy Bush tape [2]).

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_Billy_Bush_re...

[3] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/sally-yates-pr...
https://github.com/jonocodes/envoy

Docker Envoy

Encapsulates a kind of different Docker workflow. One where your Dockerfiles live in a separate area from your project. Includes a bunch of bash helper functions for common things the containers need to do like wait for other services.

It also provides a little Dockerized testing system using pytest - which I might eventually separate out. I am working more on the testing part these days. And I'm writing a book about some of this.
Got some numbers/public information? Would love to know more.
Would a flashmob be legally allowed to storm the gate? Ladders and all, just like in the good ol' days when people needed to bust into a castle...
Facebook is medium popular in Japan, lots of Japanese have Facebook accounts, no idea about Korea. Nobody is really using wechat outside of china unless they have a strong connection to china.
So are there any examples of people cutting off the lock and just telling security guards to call the cops?
Google cancels all-hands meeting due to employee worries of online harassment
I program with the German layout, found it pretty okay.
Yes. There was a recent blog post about it: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08/01/noscripts-migrati...
https://github.com/adnanh/webhook

Incoming webhook server
How Easy It Is to Become a Fake Instagram Star and Get Brands to Pay You
It happened in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

It will happen again. The use of the phrase "artificial intelligence" itself ought to be forbidden until such a thing actually exists in the corporeal world.
I wouldn't say that your point necessarily offends anybody. My point is that it might be not clever to present it like that. One way to get rid of enemies is to befriend them.
RSS is a terrible format. You should use Atom feeds.
I kind of resent the way you say "literature students" as though (1) you think it's valid to assume from my comment that I'm a literature student (I'm not) and (2) that somehow literature students in general are all the way you describe (they aren't).

Maybe in the future consider adding to the discussion constructively instead of resorting to silly (baseless) hyperbolic rhetoric.
CRISPR startup Egenesis engineers pig organs for human transplant
Yes, a few times - the first around 10 years ago. Not my cup of tea.
No. Duck Duck Go was awful for me. Search results were overly general and pretty much useless.

I like that Google has like 11 years of my search history saved and can deliver me relevant results. And I don't have to pay anything!

What's there to not like about that?
I agree with you. I'm from India, living in the US, for quite some time I thoroughly enjoyed the FoS and FoE concepts exercised in the public (IMO, India is nowhere close to such freedom), but the levels of political correctness among peers seems to be a little too suffocating, which is exactly the thing I miss from my Indian experience.

It's like the moment you try to have a conversation about some serious topic, you feel like you are receiving youtube comments in person.

Only recently, I realized this requirement for PC is why most social talking in the US tend to be about sport (NFL, NHL, NBA), TV (Game of Thrones or some reality shows) or podcasts.

Dare to speak about a social issue or challenge a solution that's supposed to be addressing the issue, you'll be at the receiving end of a verbal lynch mob.
'Pink slime' case against ABC is settled for $177M
This is nothing that cannot be achieved by a write locked DB, with verification via inputs from smart contracts. You are basically using the security of these massive P2P networks to shore up a consultancy model.
privilege

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin privilegium law for or against a private person, from privus private + leg-, lex law

So as long as he pays the fine, he gets his own law? I take it the fine doesn't have an exponential growth penalty.
Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea
Show HN: Leviathan, a Clojure IDE for MacOS
You can't talk about a hypothetical world with a UBI without making assumptions about what programs we currently have that are lost to fund the UBI.

In the most "free market" version of a UBI vision, there are no government-subsidized social workers. If you are blind, deaf, learning impaired, addicted, etc you are at the mercy of whatever help you can find by paying for it.

But there are also visions of UBI that combine it with current social services, as opposed to replacing them.
An anecdotal but interesting illustration of the suprising finding that "social programs don't work": http://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-helping-hurts/

The tl;dr being in the mid 1900s when somebody actually DID try to measure the results of a mentor program for at-risk youth, they found the impact was slightly negative.

Actually fixing societal problems is a really hard problem and what actually works is often very counterintuitive. I think the whole field could do to let the data guide them better (also difficult because so many outcomes are "make people feel better", and most people are pretty bad at actually knowing how they are or will be feeling).
But where do you really have to type it anyway?
Not sure that really applies. You NEED to buy things. Rent/mortgage. Food. Transportation expenses. The guy's right - at this point, why would you ever spend BTC on those transactions when you can spend $ instead?

The reason why you spend any currency instead of buying BTC is because you need to. Not because you're willingly buying something unnecessary to forsake potential earnings in the future.
If nothing else, DDG doesn't keep me in a search bubble, which is something I've definitely noticed and very much appreciate.

Furthermore, DDG isn't an ad company. DDG occasionally adds 1 well marked ad on the page, and it's not directly targeted to me.

If DDG is tracking me, I certainly can't tell how they're leveraging it. That doesn't mean they aren't, but it's as good an indication I've gotten so far.
Haven't taken a deep dive into any data on this, but the first thing that comes to mind is marijuana legalization
> So little of its results don't have a little "Ad" next to them

Yes, Google is an ad-supported business. What confidence do you have that DDG won't go the same route?
> but being represented in a movie isn't going to make Latino people be able to force push in real life.

I'm... confused why you decided this was a valid argument. Nobody said that anybody would assume this. The point of the other comment was that young Latino kids are used to seeing white males as the protagonists in stories, but seeing a Latino guy as a protagonist has altered how they perceive themselves.
That's a pretty bad idea, you shouldn't rely on this kind of stuff.

If there are people running OSX or Linux that want Windows downloads, or someone is behind a captive portal or proxy (like squid), they probably won't be able to reach it anymore.

If you have a real problem with bots, I'd look at what IPs they are coming from, and how often they try to connect. Something like IP blacklisting, or fail2ban might work for your use case.
The author is probably 20 years old (give or take) Undergrad student.

What is wrong with you people? Always have to put others in their "stereotypical silos" and stupid them they are the racists and homophobes ?!