skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about lifestraw, but they seem to have made a dent in access to clean water. Do non-profits count? Kiva seems like it does good work and really helped popularized a new idea to help individual aquire loans. As far as transportation, Global Electric Transportation and Pangea Motors created crazy cheap electric busses to replace the outdated busses in the Philippines.
Do you consider Haskell to already be extremely successful? (Haskell planning began in 1987, the same year Perl 1 shipped.)
Well, there was the serious allegation of forced rape of an underage (13 I think?) girl. I doubt there'd be any emails in that topic, but I have to think that would have cost him a few votes if verified.

OTOH, the "but Hillary" argument seemed to trump everything else, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yeah, unplugging a community dryer at an apartment building to charge your fancy car probably wouldn't go over too well anyway.

someone needs to create self-driving mobile supercharging units - just call one up to meet you somewhere
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They were that flexible because you'd compile ONE program ONCE for (any ported) platform and that was that.

It took a little while, but eventually C got https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/stdint.h (in C99 :( ).
I assume you don't own an action cam.

There is no comparison.

Easiness to hold and wide FOV are game changers.

I often record for 5-10 minute chunks. Holding my phone for that amount of time while walking around would suck.

A phone is great for a 30 second video clip here and there. but if you really want to record a whole day of activity a phone sucks to use.

In my most recent trip i took 4 hours of footage over 10 days. I would never enjoy doing that on my phone.
See the first section on 'stdweb', and check the Github repo linked - the code is all there for DOM manipulation in the browser.

EDIT: what is going on here with the downvotes? Care to explain?
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As a long term owner of Bitcoin, I can say this is the absolute worst time to start investing in it. It's development has been taken over by a group of mentally unstable developers with weird personal agendas and beliefs. The official Bitcoin website and subreddit are heavily censored and are no longer a reliable source of information. It's widely reported elsewhere that their moderator stole millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin from users.

I don't agree with this. It may be a bad time to start investing, due to the price, but Bitcoin Cash is the corrupted currency in my opinion. Roger and his cronies were spamming the network for months, trying to create demand and when he finally got his big block coin, he wouldn't sell more than a few BTC for it. He's all about the money, along with Bitmain. I concede some core developers (like Luke-jr) are not the greatest, but they've been in control since day one.
Politics more likely.
We don't know how students in Europe can agree to return a percentage of salary yet, which is why we don't offer income share agreements in Europe yet.

I don't discount degrees at all, I just don't think they're the ultimate solution to anything nor do I believe they're the only way to be qualified for a job.

We have a lot of students with CS degrees that starting out could barely code their way out of a wet paper bag. I'm entirely unconvinced that a degree guarantees any real level of ability. That's not to say that no one with a degree can code, just that not everyone with a degree can code.
Let's say I make $60k a year now in an unrelated field and I join your school, but after graduating, I was unable to find a job in software.

Would I still be on the hook to pay you 17% of my income despite not landing a programming job?
It's more concerning that we oppose censorship until the censorship starts aligning with our moral compass.
No, you'd never pay us a dime.
No, Rust is simple enough, just few first steps are difficult.
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The said poem could easily qualify as protest art because it actually proved Germany is not really that much better than Turkey in terms of freedom of speech or freedom of artistic expression if you wish.
Is slide 6 (Fiber Works by "Total Internal Reflection") wrong? I thought that total internal reflection (TIR) happened when trying to cross from a higher refractive index (RI) medium to a lower one - not the other way around as depicted by the core-cladding boundary. Furthermore if the cladding has a higher RI, then the rays should become steeper upon transiting, not flatter like shown in the diagram.

I always thought fibers were single material (i.e. just the core) because the surrounding air (lower RI) lets TIR happen. It certainly seems to be the case in the next slide (Demonstration Using a Laser Pointer), TIR on Wikipedia [1], and pictures of fiber optic lamps [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fiber+optic+lamp&t=canonical&iax=1...

Okay after reading a bit more [3] I'm pretty sure it's wrong, and the cladding RI's must be lower. So my follow up question is... what's the point of the cladding? Why not just rely on the surrounding air?

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladding_(fiber_optics)
I can't imagine what kind of food you like to eat then.
The food-wine (or beer) pairing is an integral part of a lot of cuisines.
But I can understand that it may be a very alien concept if you like to eat Mac Donald burgers or American pizzas.
Free speech is precisely the norm of private parties being permitted to choose what speech they will make, or allow to be amplified, with their resources.

Private censorship of what is transmitted by the censors' own resources is not only not an infringement of free speech, it is central to the essence of the concept of free speech.

Likewise, criticism of others' speech and advocacy against others amplifying or supporting it is also a central part of the idea of free speech.
> Shared consumption of intoxicating substances is closely monitored by everyone in the group

Get better friends.
A very important advantage is that it's nearly impossible to get serious injury from manual drill. I played a lot with it as a child, doing some constructions and having a lot of fun. I don't think that it's safe to allow children to play with electric drill.
I think Linux is cursed by its development model. There is no way for a single, complete change set to be landed in Linux. So you get features like btrfs or lxc which are horribly broken at the start, and then asymptotically approach stability and security.
It does, if it's the exact opposite of what you're saying.
Also you need a "powerful" GPU (i.e. Metal), so not every Mac which is able to run Sierra supports Nightshift.
Depends on a). how much you value your data and/or b). how much you trust your backups.
To clear only the contents of a file (my most used and most favourite one esp with application logs)

cat /dev/null > any_file.txt
That's a totally valid use case.
Bitcoin can be many things simultaneously.
The timeline for community college is usually 2 years or 3 with a work term.

In the end it feels like a bad deal because you need to pay 17% and you miss out on the extra year of education
Thank you so much for your wonderful contribution to this discussion.
Author here, I will be happy to answer some questions.
> It's development has been taken over by a group of mentally unstable developers with weird personal agendas and beliefs.

They literally want to edit Satoshi's bitcoin whitepaper[1]. One of the supporters of editing the paper is theymos, who runs the censored Reddit sub.

I was banned there after reporting a violent user who was urging the torture of Jihan Wu[2] of Bitmain. Violent invective and hate directed towards races & nationalities somehow are not insta-moderated while mundane comments about Bitcoin itself get mod-queued forever? Its out of control there.

That lot is not to be trusted.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/issues/1325

[2] http://archive.is/oDdq5
We could call it Python 3.
Goodbye, Lua (2016)
What use case is there for a distributed ledger that is superior to a centralized ledger?

As soon as a critical mass is formed around a particular use case, consortiums, i.e. governments will form to regulate and enforce trust and the system will move to far more efficient centralized ledgers.
You basically just described Bluetooth 3.0 + HS[1]. The Bluetooth connection is used to establish an 802.11 link, over which data is transferred. It's only (up to) 24 Mbit/s, so it's still slower than some (direct) Wi-Fi alternatives, but it's much faster than normal Bluetooth connections.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Bluetooth_3.0_.2B_HS
Ask HN: What's the simplest way to build and maintain CRUD api?
Hello,

Looking to build a POC and want to know what the simplest way to build and maintain a crud api to use in a react app. Mostly the app will be doing is reading/searching through a db of items.

Ideally something as serverless as possible.
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I seem to have more energy than all my coworkers who drink coffee / tea every day at work. Here is how I do it:

- Get as much sleep as I need. Most days I need 8 hours. Some days I need 9. So I plan accordingly.

- Lunches that are light on carbs. Large amounts of potato, bread and or rice put me to sleep. On most days I have some sort of a salad for lunch with soup and a small piece of bread.

That is all. Plenty of sleep and not overeating. There are other things: a relatively active lifestyle, exercise, walks etc.. but the two items I mentioned above make the greatest difference in-terms of being awake and remaining alert all day for me.
NP-hard.

/dodge
Still found on Aix and HP-UX systems, which are the surviving ones. Solaris dropped it, and all other commercial big iron UNIXes are dead.

You can get some screenshots here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
You’re right, it alleges that the DNC defrauded donors by failing to run a fair primary.
Researchers unravel the biosynthesis of psilocybin
Goes to show that even the even the so called "experts" are humans after all.
It's a good cover story for the non-cognoscenti.
>Roger and his cronies were spamming the network for months

For fucks sake. Show the "spam," track it to an individual. The blockchain is transparent yet no one has done this.

This is what my other comment was about. Named users in the community have been made into horrific caricatures who are the basis for conspiracies no one is able to prove despite the transparency of Bitcoin itself.
No, you misunderstood me. I am not arguing for FreeBSD everywhere or Linux everywhere. To the contrary.

I'm saying use whatever filesystem Linux provides when you need to use Linux. And use whatever operating system provides native support for ZFS when you need to use ZFS.

We're using ZFS on FreeBSD to do our data storage, ASP.NET on Windows to run our business logic, and PHP under FreeBSD where PHP is required (previously HHVM on Linux because HHVM was the requirement). I'm saying pick the right OS for the right job.

I'm saying figure out your priority with stability in mind.

ZFS is a must when managing big data. It's nice to have otherwise. Decide which factor is the "must" in your case, and if it's ZFS, don't use Linux.
I admit to nitpicking at this point, but my OP was mostly to trying to say that for a company to be called the most important of our generation the value judgement needs to look past the personal level of affluent people who already have their basic life necessities met. Personally, I think the criteria for the greatest company needs to account for all classes of people. If poor people are replacing broken or otherwise overly expensive transportation systems with Uber and those pricing models are sustainable then I'll admit to not giving them enough credit.

Also, Bart allows bikes, San Francisco is always pretty pleasant riding weather, the busses are robust and have provisions for bikes, there's an assistance program for public transit in the bay. But damnit Bart why can't you have 24 hour trains.
You are cool, and it's all is amazing work. I bet it was very interesting to implement. But reading comments I think people don't understand that it's just demonstration of how much Rust evolved, not a tutorial of what they should do to use Rust for the Web. Kind of overkill :)
Some of these are not particular strengths of Linux. For example, dtrace compares well to strace (this relates to the kernel up design from earlier post). But you make a good point towards strong hypervisor.
I read most of the reports you listed and honestly I am not convinced. Faking the digital evidences is not something new. Take a look at the links in the "Evading forensics and anti-virus" chapter from recent CIA leaks: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ for a good overview. Basically, I would not trust any digital evidences unless it involves digital signatures with strong keys (or similar stuff).
Companies already do all those through technical means. In fact they have the full force of the law behind their efforts because they simply put some DRM on it and now it's illegal to try to circumvent.

I would LOVE it if the courts would remove the legal protections of DRM. It seems so strange that this court has gone so far in the viewer-rights direction, but hasn't bothered taking the baby steps to remove the legal protection of DRM.

Hmm, now I'm hoping LinkedIn implements some DRM so this fight can get truly interesting and maybe make some positive difference.
> No, it doesn't. Visual Studio Code is an extensible IDE that is stuffed with features - yet it doesn't use that much memory, and it's fast.

When I first used Visual Sutdio it was VC++ 6 and I upgraded my machine to have 256MB of RAM so I could run it. What features does VS Code have that VC++ 6 didn't?
>Would you rather hire someone with an official degree from a community college or someone that attended a CS Academy and worked for three years?

obviously, one would eventually transfer from community college to a university
Is Python really any different or is it just wishful thinking?

Why do I see Python programs that look like a weird mix of Lisp and Java? Surely it is because even with what Python enforce, there are many many ways to produce unclear code that really don't even has to do with the language used.

And why did my employer see the need for the comprehensive Python style guidelines manual... I guess Python bit just as hard as Perl.

Also now that Python is used more by newbies and non-programmers that is where more of the bad code end up (aka Perl late 90s, still pollutes the internet). The quality of Perl frameworks, libs, example code etc is actually increasing and getting easier to find.
Spot On
Suddenly we are quick to point out opinion pieces in a media landscape where that has become otherwise irrelevant.

Left = 'unverified facts', Right = 'opinion piece'
You're not kidding. It looks reminiscent of '60's early 70's work. Early Meyerowitz[1] for example. Coincidentally, in the street photography genre, somewhat hot is what is called "staged photography"[2]. Although some staged photography attempts to capture candid moments found between the staged photos.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/05/22/t-magazine/joel...

[2]http://www.americansuburbx.com/tag/staged-photography
If you love barriers to entry for others so much, you should go into a licensed profession like real estate or dentistry.
On top of that it's rather common to drive somewhere and leave your car overnight where there won't be a charger.

1. driving to a relatives
2. driving somewhere for vacation
Yeah, it is a very interesting situation. It is unfortunate that these private parties have so much power and support from the states but aren’t really held accountable to the voters.

This sort of system maybe worked better early in the days of the US but with our two very entrenched parties, all of this serves to prevent any third party becoming a viable option.
Workshop videos from Scratch2017BDX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FamVvpVhI98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCoI1IhQjg
It's not about whether they could if they would. It's that they didn't, and therefore the things they'd have done if they would have didn't come to pass.

I'm saying it didn't matter why. Just that at the end of the day, the kernel team isn't opting their weight behind this, and that should factor in to the decision.
Is it pronounced Dow or Day-o?
strictly as an investment vehicle

If by strictly, he means solely, then something that is strictly an investment vehicle makes no sense. The piper must be paid at some point.

I can invest in shares of a company, but the shares aren't strictly an investment vehicle, they serve as a way for the company to acquire capital to put toward it's mission.
Google’s experience raises questions about usefulness of diversity,bias training
I love coffee-- the smell, the ritual, the taste, but even 1 cup turns my anxiety from a normal 2/10 to a 7/10.

On top of that I don't even feel more focused or productive from caffeine. Actually I get easily overwhelmed and rather indecisive. My brain is not made for stimulants, as adderall makes me tired.

I'm going to try taking theanine with a cup tomorrow, if that doesn't improve things then I'm off caffeine for a long time.
We need to get over social news drama like teens learned to hide their provocative pics from Facebook.
"A few more bucks" is quite an understatement. P3S is around 500€ here. Mavic is 1100€ ;)
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Dow. It is the same word as Tao, but in the official Pinyin writing that matches its Mandarin pronounciation.
You create a new type of coin, sell it to investors for dollars and put it on the blockchain. What rights the owners of these coins get is up to you to decide, there is no regulation at play.
Even then, sensor drift is a huge problem.
What's wrong with pointing out a typo?
"You can call it collusion, but I'd say its X doing their job." I find this statement totally lacks awareness considering all the accusations of collusion being hurled at the current administration.
It's HN. People here think sleep is a waste of time and eating is a nuisance to be remedied by chugging nutrient paste.
> As a user, it's in my benefit if a competitor comes along, takes LinkedIn's data that they are freely publishing on the public Internet, and does something useful with it.

In this case, it's not to _your_ benefit. They're going to warn your boss that you will quit soon.
> phoning home to the company's headquarters

Because the Chinese always setup servers directly in their headquarter offices?

Seriously you guys need to drop the arrogant attitude. DJI servers were on AWS and Linode.
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It seems Ethereum, Bitcoin and Litecoin are correlated but how will they do with a stock market downturn?
On the contrary, acting tough is working - in the last month China has actually tried reigning Kim in. Even as recently as last night they (quite surprisingly) sided with the UN and killed about a third of North Korea's trade income.

All of Kim's behavior in recent years points to a very strong will to preserve regime - countless executions, nuclear weapons, and his almost presidential security measures to avoid a South Korean decapitation strike. I don't think he legitimately wants to start a fight with anyone, doing so will be the end of him and his regime whether China intervenes or not.
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> And lots of tools (and now, electric cars) can take advantage of 240.

Off topic: That's interesting to know. In Europe (UK) where 240V (well more like 230V these days) is the standard, it's not uncommon to see professional workmen using step-down boxes and 110V power tools for safety reasons.
Hopefully they can make it taste better?
Some companies have such dysfunctional culture that they can turn even the best ideas into poison. Mindfulness, like motivational posters, rap, and casual Friday are all the polar opposite of what they're supposed to be when touched by corporate.
But you're also putting faith in the person who prepared it that it truly is decaf.

I've been burned by getting regular coffees at restaurants and coffee machines when I ordered decaf.

I wonder how hard it would be to have a "litmus paper" style test for caffeine.
I can forgive imperfect English. He's not a native English speaker and his reviewers probably are not be either.
https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/3655/f-lux-vs-night-shif...
Oh wow, I had no idea. Thanks!
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WHY IS DONALD TRUMP a TRUE BORN RACIST?
My guess is they will tank since their value is driven by speculation right now.
"fancy car" -- EVs are available in all price ranges?
You can easily have crypto that can't be broken with all the resources and time in the observable universe even if it's "just" polynomial with a sufficiently high coefficient.
Gotham, a web framework for Stable Rust
Exactly! If a feature is good it's worth adding, and the GIL in any language is not good.

People are just as quick to bemoan a language for not having something (generics, templates, pre-processors) because they see some perceived need, but a GIL is never one of those things.
>There are other cryptocurrencies that deserve attention but I won't mention them here so I don't look like a shill.

Shit, I'd appreciate it if you named some. I'm actually planning on putting my entire next paycheck towards crypto. Currently eyeing Neo even though I apparently missed the boat by not buying it when it was called ant.
So what? Are you sitting and reading Anatomy textbooks in your free time? Who cares if they are interested in math or not. This is a highly obnoxious viewpoint and its no wonder to me they aren't interested in dealing with you.
One year in – 1,000% growth, $121M invoiced and 3 key takeaways
The concurrent garbage collector has been already written. It probably has bugs, but the basis has been done for the STM effort and redone now. The mess of race conditions is surely not a great place to start, which is why it would take a man year to finish :-) I don't see a much better starting point tbh, but to look at all the mutable data structures in python (of which there are too many) and try hard
> but Wikileaks essentially consists of Julian at this point

It does not, which is how Wikileaks was able to keep publishing when the Ecuadorian embassy took away his internet access.
Ah, yes, included the Millers Falls two-handed drill we have for timber frame mortising. (Haven't done much lately.)

Great tool, though admittedly much slower than electric chain morticers. But certainly more meditative...
Coincidentally I just decided a few days ago to ditch caffeine for awhile.

Last week I had terrible sleep, from 3-5 hours a night. Even though I was exhausted during the day, I still couldn't fall asleep at night.

I only drink two cups a day, with sometimes a Coke at lunch. But might be my old age that is making me hypersensitive to caffeine. Back in college I could drink cup after cup and still fall asleep when I was ready.

So I'm stopping caffeine for awhile to see how it goes.
The Prime Rib Problem
The secret Apple project for potentially
blood glucose monitoring would be amazing. Non-interstitial fluid / noninvasive sounds like a really hard problem that may require a very bright light source and/or a sensor more sensitive than used for heart rate. It's a worthy goal. Even more awesome would be a limited generic mass-spectrometer that could do more, arbitrary blood chemistry quantification in software without having to develop many/additional specialized sensors.
Cloudflare is helping defend a neo-Nazi website from hackers
You do know that Google is backing Kotlin right ? And that Apache Spark that runs Facebook's ETL is in Scala.
Or that Clojure is used at https://clojure.org/community/companies ?