skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something about the verbose text-only UI that just screams "written by a lawyer". The copy is not even objectively that wordy, it just feels like it started as legalese and was pared down to this instead of starting with a blank page and adding all the popular SaaS-landing-page tropes.

I like it.
They are not dumb, they just don't work for the people and terrorism is not even a threat they care about. On the contrary, they consider the people a threat and consider terrorism a form of propaganda, that is useful to trick people into accepting all kinds of crap.
I've been nomadic for the past two years. I quickly learned that travel is a lot of work. Every time you move, you need to figure out where to go, where to stay, how to eat, what to do, etc. if you do this every week, it consumes much of your productive working hours. Much better, for me at least, to stay in the same place for a minimum of 2 to 3 months.
Very much so. Get the a good fan and make as tight a seal as possible between it and the air intake.
+1 for airtight container. We had cheaped out on this and just purchased some cheaper plastic Rubbermaid-style containers -- to my wife's horror, she opened it one day to find maggots. She was sicker than the dog ever was (the dog didn't get sick and we threw that container out wholesale, food and all).

We purchased an airtight "food container" with a screw-on lid -- from a major pet store chain, and for some absurd amount of money -- but haven't had an issue sense, and the peace of mind was well worth it for my wife's sake.
Yes. I just closed the tab after a "loading spinner" sat on the sidebar for a couple of seconds, right as Firefox warned me that a script on the page was slowing the browser down.

I'm just really tired of sites pushing hundreds (or even tens, really) of MB of script for text content.
If you are doing it right you can put _more_ money in your mutual fund. The idea for lots of people doing it is to earn, for example, a western european income but have eastern european/south east asian living expenses. I live in Zurich and will spend way less money travelling next year than staying at home.
A question that has been raised elsewhere and I think worth revisiting is: Does Uber need a CEO from a certain industry, or does industry not matter? Transportation industry vs software, etc.
> I just don't have enough problems to scrap everything for a completely new language.

I was not recommending that at all. I tried out Typed FP only after a project with a lot of complex data transformations (which is a sweet spot for Hindley Milner based types) and couldn't hold it all in my head. In the React world, the equivalent would be a deeply nested component hierarchy, passing around a lot of props, and having a large state-tree and correspondingly complex reducer.

You can definitely use the typical Redux+TS/Flow+Immutable stack there without any issues, but I think there is a much better developer ergonomics on offer here.
One the biggest criticisms of renewables might have just been debunked
I'd add an prerequisite to even thinking through whether it is time to leave a job -- know what your goals are in your life. You have to have those defined to know where your job fits, and know whether your current position is driving you towards your goals or not. And sometimes it really isn't an obvious conclusion -- a great job may give you a happy, satisfying work life, but leave you stagnant in your overall life trajectory. Or a miserable job may leave you wealthy and free to pursue your dreams at 30 years old because you sat through some pain and misery until a good payout.

But aside from big picture questions like that, I've found that when push comes to shove, by the time you start asking if you should leave a job, the answer is almost always "Yes", otherwise you wouldn't be asking.
I've been trying to figure out what career change I could make. Simply finding another software dev job wont be an improvement if I hate writing software.
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Yep. Been through those too when I lived in Wyoming. Fortunately never anything larger than an F2.
That would be an interesting way to fund and scale production capacity for that lab grown meat too. Some stuff is just hard to figure out until you try doing it at scale.
Acknowledged. Advocating for a more specific form of theism would require more specific arguments.
Cf. Christopher Alexander's "Fifteen Properties" http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/fifteen.htm
You said they resold cables, and then linked to a company that sells sleeving.
Although I'm not in the industry, I assume that depends on verbose and difficult to understand contact terms...
In the documentary that was just released [1] Kim Dotcom claims that NZ more recently offered to drop the case if he agreed to leave NZ. He states he "declined", but in more colorful language.

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kim_dotcom_caught_in_the_we...
Those Spanish wines that are made to look French and fool the consumer with their lavender fields etc as described in the article... Winemakers are blaming the Spanish, but there's also the French grocery stores to blame: why put the French and Spanish wines on the same shelf? Are they trying to confuse consumers because the margins on Spanish wines are much higher ?

Here in the US, nearly all wine stores I've been to sorts wine per type (red, white, etc) for local wines and have a specific foreign section "France", "Australia", etc. Even regular grocery stores tend to do this too.

If groceries chains did this in France, consumers would then rarely buy the Spanish wines unintentionally.

I don't think the winemakers would have a hard time lobbying for at least forcing grocery stores to display foreign wines in a clearly labeled section.
Earlier rather than later. If someone you respect decides to pack it in, you should have a look around. That doesn't mean follow them out the door since it is always easier to find a job if you have a job. But you should take a good hard look at the situation.

As for the article, I have definitely fallen for Believing your own bullshit.
>Slightly above 50% of US pet dogs and cats are overweight.

because they are spayed/neutered. We've never limited food consumption by our cats and by our dog and never neutered them, and they have never been overweight.
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How thick is it? Other plant "milks" I've tried (almond, rice, soy) seem to resemble skim milk in texture, and you have to get something labeled "creamer" to find a consistency that resembles 2%, let alone whole milk.
I’ve done it for around 3 years. My only tip would be for you to ask yourself why do you want to do those two things at the same time. From my personal experience doing both, you don’t actually work productively, nor do you immerse in local cultures and get to enjoy the travelling part. Eventually I realized that I need to choose one, travelling became a distraction.

So my advice would be: don’t do both at the same time.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a well-dressed man or woman, but fashion is something you get bombarded with.

As a thought-experiment, replace fashion by typography. Imagine you wake up, and you have to think about typography, then you get to work, people talk about typography, you come home and turn on the TV, people talk about typography, then at some point, it becomes too much. Personally, I'll probably still appreciate the craft, but I consider it a "solved" problem for myself, something that others deal with, and I direct my attention elsewhere.

As for the communication aspect of clothing, that's actually something I have resentment against. You change clothes only once or perhaps twice a day, so the communication is extremely low-bandwidth to start with. And an even bigger problem: it reduces the person to one thing. A person wearing a pilot suit becomes a pilot (only), a person wearing a labcoat becomes a doctor (only). But obviously people are more than their profession.

And clothing can also be a way to intimidate or to mask intentions (think of the used car salesman wearing a suit, not because he likes it, but because he wants to sell that car).
I've got 40 gallons of potable water in the garage that I can tap into in an emergency. In fact, most of us do...
No, just feed them less and exercise them more.

Don't feed carnivores anything but meat if you don't have to. Especially cats.

Also, if your still want to feed them vegetables do so after you've satisfied their dietary needs.

Overfeeding is the problem.
Ask HN: Secure email provider
I was looking for a secure email address. After some research, Protonmail, although it looks good, and has a A+ SSL rating, can't be used with POP3/IMAP, only with their proprietary API with their web client or mobile client, and that is a deal breaker for me.

Countermail allows to upload your public key so that any non-encrypted incoming email es encrypted in the inbox. A few others also looked good for one or another reason including some in offshore locations for extra privacy/anonimity. Then I tested them on Qualys SSL tool and some other tools and the rating of most was terrible. Countermail had a C rating, what a dissappointment.

PFS = Perfect Forward Secrecy
DANE = DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities

My findings where:
- Germany based posteo.de has an A+ SSL rating, incuding PFS and DANE, can encrypt incoming email with your public PGP key, problem is you can't use your own domain, although they do have many domains you can choose from.
- Germany based mailbox.org has an A+ SSL rating, including PFS and DANE, can encrypt incoming email with your public PGP key and you can use your own domain.
- Belgium based mailfence.com has an A+ SSL rating including PFS, but no DANE. Can encrypt incoming email with your public PGP key and you can use your own domain.

Please note both Germany and Belgium are 14 eyes countries. They have good privacy legislation but if a court warrant was served to give information about a user they would have to comply.

Posteo.de claims that they don't provide possibility of using your own domain so that they don't know anything about you, so they have privacy in mind. In my case it was for a business email so I wanted security and being able to use my domain.

Mailfence donates to Electronic Frontier Foundation and Digital Rights Foundation but doesn't support DANE for now. Is DANE that important?

Any other service on par with these that you know? What are your thoughts?
What do people do with their homes and stuff? As a renter I don't know how I could possibly pull that off.
Does the process use the whole oat? If not, what's done with the solids left over after processing?
Cats are obligate carnivores.

Dogs are carnivores. They need protein, fat and bone.
Issue #7 is that Play/Pause get "hijacked" by Safari tabs if it starts playing audio (music / video / notification). For example if I have music playing in iTunes and then visit a YouTube page. Normally I'd press Play/Pause and iTunes paused. However now Safari hijacks the media keys and pressing Play/Pause pauses the video. Now I have to switch to iTunes and CLICK the play/pause button, and then switch back to the Youtube video. Even worse: this happens with websites playing audio notifications (e.g. WhatsApp Web). When this happens, Play/Pause stay mapped to that website's notification sound and I have to close the tab before the key is released back to iTunes.
If you boil meat to make broth and then throw out the chunks after some hours, you have pulled most of the nutrients into the broth. So, yeah, I would say they use most of the animal.
You forgot the good old "clueless top-down micromanagement". Usually wrapped in some flavour of "agile", although it's anything but.
Another pitfall to be wary of in analyses like these is that imdb's ratings change over time. New releases typically have inflated scores that regress over time. Ideally, this sort of analysis shouldn't use anything under a year or two old, so using only movies from 2016 and 2017 puts this particular study off to a really bad start.
I grew up in China and came to the U.S. more than 10 years ago.

What I have been seeing is the decline of the United States.

That's said, I'm worrying about China a lot more. I think it's on track to repeat the mistakes it had done before.

You often see articles here saying China will surpass the States in A.I. and science. I doubt it. I doubt a country without freely accessible information will be competent. I doubt true intellectuals would like to live in a place like this. soviet union was an example.

I used to get angry at these things (censorships, corruptions). But now I'm tired, not because China is clearly drifting away from what I want it to be, but because I saw many fellow Chinese really believe in government propaganda, and justify its wrong doings. They have the Stockholm syndrome, decorating a nightmare into a beautiful dream (of China being the new world leader and all the censorship shit is necessary to fence off the invasion of western culture. such a bullshit!). And there are also many others who simply don't care.

Now I just want to hide somewhere and mind my own things.

Who will be replacing the States? Europe is weak and is at its bottom, Russia is no better than China. Maybe Australia or Canada.
>the gap between the richest and the poorest has never been greater

I'm not sure that's true globally - check out "Bill Gates: Global inequality is falling faster than ever" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/bill-gates-global-ine... for example.

Regarding inequalities within countries, things used to be bad that way in 1900-1920 with low taxes, then up to the 70s tax rates on the rich went up to 80 or 90%+ which reduced inequality and then that ended with Thatcher/Reagan being voted in but a high tax regime could be voted back in if people want it.
The lines that follow makes a stronger case

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Remarkably, if told to fetch a toy with a name she has not heard before placed in a pile of known, named objects, she works out what is being asked for. Betsy, another border collie, will bring back a photograph of something, suggesting she understands that a two-dimensional image can represent a three-dimensional object.
I think the real question should be why do companies feel the need to hire a "Professional CEO"? Is there some intangible skillset which only previous CEOs posess which is required to lead a company?

Plenty of startups have been lead to success by founders with zero business accumen. Why not look internally for someone who knows the product inside and out, and actually still cares about the company rather than showing up for a payday?
Tencent did not create League of Legends. They just bought the company that did, Riot Games(American).
This was for qualifying though, right? Not a race. So irrelevant
Yes this is no doubt the current implication. I was expecting something like racer.
We've banned this account for violating the HN guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do that with?

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109347 and marked it off-topic.
I freelanced for a while in Australia, it was a wonderful time. Worked at a startup, and a larger app agency. The pay was WAY better than here in Sweden, also the much lower taxes did wonders for my economy.

I had a great plan, just got a temporary working visa, booked a flight and a crappy inn in the middle of Sydney. A week after me and my partner arrived at Sydney I started looking for some short 1-3 months contracts and got a few (20+) opportunities. I did a couple of interviews and found a nice startup that had a good vibe, and that wasn't _cheap_. Did a little bit of work, a lot of travelling and had a great time throughout.

I'd say go for it, the worst thing that can happen is that you go back home with the feeling that you appreciate your home a LOT more!
This is paraphrased from last time it came up so I apologize for any inaccuracy:

They're reject cells from the manufacturing process. In manufacturing you have a specification your products must meet or exceed for you to sell them with a certain rating. Some fraction of the cells a factory produces don't meet that specification, so they're either thrown out or used in unimportant applications like this.
I wouldn't worry about this for an "emergency" supply - especially for a small supply like you'd be able to keep in your car. If you break down on a hot day away from town somewhere, I'm sure you'll be glad to have a gallon of water with you, BPAs be damned.
I'm happy with my Yaesu VX-6R, bought it 11 years ago, same day I got my license. Incredibly sturdy and amazing build quality, submersible to 1 meter, die-cast aluminium and O-ring sealed ear-plug/antenna connections. There are some new models now with more digital features. https://www.yaesu.com
What about writing software do you hate?
You might find this article interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-23/a-history...
Spolsky should be required reading for any IT manager.
My parents had a dog that would go out to the garden and dig up carrots to eat. They thought it was varmints until they caught him doing it.

Our Pit Bull/Mastiff mix will come running when he hears a cereal bowl being filled. That would be because when cereal is served, odds are there's fruit going on top of it. That dog is a hound for bananas, but he'll settle for peaches. It's blackberry season here in Seattle, so he gets a handful or two on our walks. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, I don't recall that we've found anything yet that he won't eat. Makes for low-calorie snacks to put in his Kong.
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Working for free isn't legal, unless it's an internship for which the intern received academic credit...(some other exceptions too).
If I were to guess, it would be the process.
Open Container Initiative v1.0.0 release (7/19/2017)
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I did a similar analysis a year and a half ago in which I found that yes, IMDb movie ratings are not uniform while RT/MetaCritic are, but that's only part of the story. All forms of movie ratings are actually poor predictors of box office success (especially with Indies/Documentaties; I'd love to look at rating/BO data again while faceting by genre of movie) (full blog post: http://minimaxir.com/2016/01/movie-revenue-ratings/)

The Four Point Scale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourPointScale), while a problem from a utilitarian point of view, is still practical from a consumer psychology point of view, which is why the popular ratings systems won't change easily.
So kind of like Facebook...
If you seriously score 1, then getting up to a score of 2 with a bug tracker will improve your life, the other 10 questions rank lower in cost/benefit.

The rest is much harder to influence and make happen, but if you can't get a bug database to happen before your new-person enthusiasm / grace period ends then I'd jump ship.

I've a bunch of experience working for places which don't score well on the Joel test. It's not the end of the world but you will have to make adjustments so you don't dream of better while reading about how other people have build systems which spin up instances and run integration tests on every check-in while simultaneously running machine learning over their live logging for early fault detection.

Remember those kind of things are the exception rather than the norm and focus on the things you can change.

You probably have a month or two more before your "I can fix this!" attitude fades and you end up the jaded developer that you saw when you arrived and wondered, "how do they put up with this environment?".
Clearly the less mainstream your tastes are, the less useful a mainstream rating is going to be. A site can, as Netflix tries to do, adjust ratings based on expressed individual preferences but it's marginally effective in my experience.

For myself, it's fairly rare that I find myself way off from the critical consensus. I'm more likely to not care for big box office action films but, then, these aren't usually at the top of critics lists either.
> they were once a normal citizen as well

China has a widespread nepotism.
I'm a Bartz fan based on Autodesk; she's the operational definition of adult supervision. But at 68, I think Uber wouldn't be the right choice for them or her. And after Yahoo, she wouldn't touch Uber with the board situation it has.
Exactly what I came into this thread expecting. Was curious why when it looks like there's already great IDE support for Rust with existing tools.
That protects you against most organisms, but not all chemicals can be boiled away.
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It is worth noting that "Benchmark, meanwhile, is reportedly still pushing for Whitman to get the job."

source - http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/27/technology/jeff-immelt-uber/...
>Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream.

I can imagine it very well. Just like most countries require an ID to purchase a mobile account / SIM card.
Plant based milks have been around for ages and they work great to substitute milk that you drink or put on your cereal or something.

But they aren't going to replace milk that we use in, say, the production of butter, cheese, casein, or lactose products.

I'd be curious to see what a pie chart of the end products from our milk production looks like.
TypeScript is far more powerful than you think. Between const, readonly properties, Readonly<T>, ReadonlyArray<T>, readonly indexers, and type safe object spread {...} via keyof T, TypeScript provides the tools to write immutable code, fully checked by the compiler, without paying runtime costs.

It also has tagged unions, product, and sum types, nullability, and extensive capabilities for typing 'this'. So I'm left to ask what exactly is the unique advantage of writing JS in OCaml? Because it's not immutability. Remember too, that OCaml has plenty of warts.
The choosiness is also culture-dependent.

I have eaten pig feet, pig stomach, shark fin, unidentifiable organs and very bony meat at somewhat upscale restaurants in China. I'm sure there are some foods that are seen as basically inedible in China, but those do not necessarily coincide with Western tastes.

A lot of this is probably influenced by perceptions of "poor-people food" (like lobster) instead of being based in human nutritional needs. My Chinese friend was surprised when I remarked on the great taste of grilled pig liver, since it was the least expensive of the dishes he had me try out.
We use it for distributed locks on resources. (Granted, that use case is also covered by just about any other network-accessible cache-like resource; we just happen to also use Redis for cache, so it was already conveniently on hand).
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Can you say more about how you found contract work? I've heard bad things about ODesk and similar sites.
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Thanks, we've updated it from “Pets consume 30% of all meat products”.
The girl who was suggested was not the same one with whom he had matched. It was a girl in Latin America.
With enough training data I reckon I could write an AI for forums that filters out this sort of suggestion.
It's 2017. It's not even acceptable to consider working in a company that's a 1. Should have left during the first week.