skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please link me to some examples of violent pro-communist rallies in the US? Besides, did you miss the whole McCarthyism thing in the '50s in your history class in school? And even here on HN, there are plenty of people who use the term 'socialist' as a pejorative.

Note also that communism is an ideology that is broader than the Soviets or the Chinese of the 50s and 60s. Modern-day communist activists don't go around trying to relive the 'glory days' of that era; they don't wave the hammer-and-sickle flag. As I said elsewhere, if you think that the ideas of the nazis are worth pursuing, then argue for the ideas. Just get a new name. After all, if it really is the ideas that are important rather than the branding, they should stand on their own.

You can argue for fascism without specifically identifying with the Nazis, just like you can argue for communism without specifically identifying with the Soviets.
Kind of. From what I understand, any customer large enough can get small features added, and they just get turned off for the other customers.
Sounds like the Web version of Compaq + HP.
If you are doing hobby side projects that are solely for learning, then this article's advice is (mostly) not intended for you. If your goal is to explore new tech, try new approaches, go down rabbit holes, then by all means, go for it!

The author's use of "side project" is referring to "I'm building something outside of my day job that I hope will turn into a business." IF your goal is to make money, then the author's advice is spot on. Get to MVP. Get users. Listen to them. Iterate. All the advice we hear that applies to startups, applies here.
If you have slightly more space and $$ than an end user there are, IMO, much better options available. I see more and more in the grocery stores orange juice squeezers that make juice out of oranges in front of you. With a clear plastic front you see the machine slicing oranges and squeezing the juice for you into any container you want.

Cost-wise it is more expensive than buying not-from-concentrate juice in a half gallon quantities, but not that much more so. Definitely <= 100% premium and you get it freshly squeezed right before you.
Assuming you have a dynamic ip this won't be possible without a cloud service.
> Someone will come along and talk about how a senior dev at Google can expect $250k a year. You'll get two categories of replies: "I don't believe this at all, Glassdoor proves you are wrong, nobody I know makes that, blah blah" and "bro that is totally normal".

That's the thing. On one side, you have people who at least have a bit of publicly available data to point to (although sure, one could point out flaws in salary.com and glassdoor.com). On the other side, you have random people saying "Bro, you're totally wrong, lots of people make $400k." Even if I didn't have a dog in this race, I know which side I'd believe.
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There are low-tech versions of spoilage alert. oxygen sensitive stickers that change color if too much o2 detected inside the package..

However - there is one food label that I have always wanted on meats: slaughter date, freeze/pack date, sell date, cook date, eat date.

So if I go to the store and there is meat in the freezer - when was that meat caught/slaughtered/packed/frozen.

Am I eating something a year old?

If you had that labeling - I would be willing to bet that healthier eating habits would ensue - not that the meat industry would prefer it though..
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Lol. Not that surprised since Stripe's backend is basically still Ruby on Rails. Probably a Ruby engineer that wrote the article, writing Python for the first time in a while.
What is an example of an on-demand, app-mediated service that is actually profitable, regardless of whether labor is contract, etc.? Is any one in this space actually making money off customers?
I'm surprised there are no comments about the video itself.

How was this video made? Imagine trying to make it. What would you do? You need to write the code, but do you do it before or after you write the script? Or do you write the script after you write up the code so you know how to produce it?

Everything flows so smoothly. It's mesmerizing to watch. It's like code appears as fast as he can talk. But in a natural way, where it seems like it's typed as he's talking. But he certainly isn't typing it in realtime.

I'd like to make videos like this too, so I'd like to learn more about how to produce one.
Quasi Quote looks to be ':', comma is '$', but syntactically, Julia looks pretty sparse other than mathematical expressions:

Reference: https://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/metaprogram...

But the question is, do people actually do much metaprogramming in Julia? Unlike CL, which is almost what it's designed for (or something that fell out of the design), rather than an after thought addition to the language (although Julia's does look rather well designed or an addition).
Did I make a mistake? Is it unfashionable to be for well documented, reliable and stable Linux And OSS tools? I like old and new programming languages too. Those are not so incompatible. Is there a thematic disatisfaction I am missing?
Seems so. But I meant more privacy on a local machine basis. That is, someone would really need to dig through the filesystem to find browsing information, rather than just looking at the standard locations.

I recognize it's a weak privacy measure, but in my situation it gives me a mostly private browser on a shared user account.
Juicero is shutdownero.
OT but maybe the right place to ask: How can I as a marketplace avoid disintermediation where users try to deal directly with each other after a short while (eg Homejoy).
I own two SPARC servers (a 2003ish V245 and a 2007 T5120) and both are rather ridiculous ... idle power draw for a V245 is like 240 W and just 150-180 W of that are the fans. [1] A T5120 draws some 180 W idle as well. Especially the latter was also heavily marketed as green computing / efficient data centres / throughput computing. Completely ridiculous offering at the time.

Needless to say, I didn't even bother to set these up lest build a rack for them (my normal rack is both full and too short). If packaging weren't so annoying with computer servers I would've sold them long ago.

[1] The good stuff. High static pressure, high flow fans from Delta with ball-bearings, and of course only speed monitoring, no regulation. These Sun servers make for excellent magnet boards for holding papers just without using any magnets.
Oh boy it's going to be fun maintaining this project.
The diet sodas are getting crushed along with the regular:
http://fortune.com/2017/04/19/coca-cola-pepsi-dr-pepper-soda...
Article is from 2000 but the advice is timeless.
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> taxi..horrible experience..smartphone..track location

So I use a taxi app. Real time tracking, payment, etc. No Uber, no undercutting safety standards or labor laws.
Good job. Very cool!
So, your problems were of your own making. Got it.
Yup, that's the yin and yang of programming. Programming is an art, but real artists ship.
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I think this is a good list, but I think reason 3. should be higher up. Rule 3. worded differently:

3. Rule of thumb is that a battery lasts around ~1000 cycles. Phone batteries are discharged fully about once a day, so that leaves a lifetime of almost 3 years.

Tesla range is ~ 300 miles, so using this rule of thumb it should last around 300,000 miles. This + reasons 1,2,4 and 5 are why the battery barely degrades over the lifetime of the car.
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Magnificent engineering to solve a stupid non-problem. Sigh.
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Now is the only time you can charge premium for new chips. Nobody will pay that in a year or two. In five years it's on Craigslist, and in ten, it's ancient crap you find on motherboards pulled from machines thrown into the dumpster.
Another popular and flawed modem Arris released into the wild is the SB6190. You can easily DoS it: https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Puma-6-Flaw-Lets-Attacke...
> keeps you from cooking with rotten food

If only we had some kind of olfactory or optical equipment stuck on the front of our faces that could help determine the rottenness or mouldiness of food.

Failing that, perhaps producers of packaged food could use some kind of common standard system to inform consumers of the date by which the food should be used by, or before which it might be at its best.
Hmm... Whats this entirely detailed sensor that has ALL my access/identity/sentiment/social data on it - where I am required to pay a monthly fee for, and life in modern society will basically stop if I dont have one? The one where I am expected to follow and celebrate every release of one with far more tracking/identifying/documenting features -- and then spend more money on upgrading my tracker?

You know - the one where governments and police departments have equipment to fool the device to connecting to just them so they know exactly where I am?

That next logical step of Agafia sounds ludicrous!
Nice! I have a similar but much younger / smaller site for comic books. I would love to hear what you did to pay your early contributors, as right now it's just me, and I think that's the next step. I have no issue finding writers, but I'm not sure what I should pay them, how I should structure that relationship, or if there's any legal stuff I should look out for.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I don't blame this on the people doing it. There are some idiots but in general it's mainly because a lot of people don't feel challenged and therefore look for something interesting.

Managers should encourage innovation but control it. I see so many projects where management rejects every kind of change without discussion. Either only losers will stay in that environment or you get this kind of underground projects. If management looked at something more than only deadlines and budgets the whole climate would improve.
As does Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...
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Maker of $400 connected juice press closes up shop
Of course, after hailing and waiting, and then taking the ride, you had to pay for the taxi. And frequently the credit card machine was "broken" and you had to argue with the driver about not having any cash. In a time when many individuals have moved away from cash almost entirely, that was a huge source of friction, and Uber and Lyft largely solved with in-app credit card payments. Because you had to have the app to hail a ride, payment for individual rides after entering a card for the first one is frictionless for the user.
Yes, it's common practice in Germany.
> If bread cost that much, we'd start eating more rice, pasta, and potatoes.

Or maybe we'd import bread from other countries where it goes for $5/loaf? Nah, let's just protect our virtuous $100/loaf domestic industry at all costs and blame the greedy consumers for being selfish and cheap ;)

s/consumers/employers

s/loaf/programmer-hour
120 million USD in funding and such a spectacular failure because of one article. This whole episode goes on to show the power journalists have. I know the sales number were bad but with so much money the founder could have bought the market or pivoted but with no coming back from the PR disaster the investors most likely just wanted their money back.
Expiration dates are more for best taste rather than food safety. You're able to tell when fruits/veggies go rotten with your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Yea, I chat with ex-colleagues about their work and how they're faring since we've worked together.

I'm a director of eng. as well, so there'll be times when I reconnect with former managers and reports and provide/get mentorship that way as well. The key is to actually keep in contact and in touch beyond any singular job; if you were able to mentor them while you shared an office, that relationship is still valuable afterwards. Of course, this means that you have to develop the skill & reputation to be a good mentor to others around your job.
Well, XeLaTeX is what you want to use TTF/OTF while preserving TeX compatibility. It's very stable; I use it for my word processing.

As I see it, there are three major issues with TeX:

1. It's very difficult to compose commands (macros? I don't remember the terminology despite having written a small TeX clone) without understanding how they work. I found it very difficult to understand without re-implementation and a lot of reading of the TeX book.

2. Because of 1, it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot by command misordering or not specifying a necessary closing macro.

3. Debugging is very difficult. The error messages are obstruse and make dealing with 2 very difficult.

If a layout system managed to address these issues, even by targeting TeX, as pandoc does, many people could deal with some loss of flexibility.

However, if you do learn the technology, you can do pretty much anything in print with TeX.
It's like... 70% fresh squeezed. The fruit is chopped up into smaller pieces, so for the most part there isn't much difference, and it is very new fruit. But to the target demographic 70% might as well be 0%.
Do you have embedded graphics? My experience with many documents including a 300 page book was that (re-)encoding/compressing graphics was the bulk of the processing time (>90%).

There is an easy fix: specify a lower compression setting. It defaults to the highest or close to the highest setting, which is inordinately more expensive.
All of EU, but in my opinion it's mostly a scam.

Companies that perform this certification lobbied to make it mandatory whenever selling a house. However, the certificate does not tell you the real energy consumption. The calculation is based on "weighting factors" for whatever energy production format the politicians want to favor currently, so at least where I live, in Finland - where energy consumption really matters in the winter - when you buy a house, you pay for a certificate that is not very useful, and then you ask the previous owner for the actual energy bills he had, to asses the real cost and consumption.

The latter is, of course, what everyone did already before this certificate system.

OK, it's just a few hundred euros per sale. A bigger problem in the various energy saving initiatives is that houses built to this code sometimes develop very nasty air quality problems (due to air not changing in some places fast enough, or subtle leakages in the airtight balloon where you live) which then forces costly renovations and in the worst case destroy health.
On one side, not including links that have a political nature may keep this project unbiased.

On the other side, a project with a provocative name like Trump Forest accomplishes a desirable goal (reforestation), and it could be argued that it uses a click bait for the common good.

Perhaps I should be more explicit about what I'm trying to accomplish?
The overall aim could be: Inform and empower people to make choices leading to an increased chance of a good future for the human species.

From this point of view, protecting the climate is urgent and more important than the political noise around this.
What the Industrial Revolution tells us about the future of automation and work
I find this title a bit misleading. I thought the article was going to be about how the typical interview process is broken, and that plenty of good programmers are being missed by the process. Or that employers are way too fussy about candidates already having the exact experience in the exact language and tools that the employer uses, instead of just looking for smart problem-solvers, and giving them time to get up to speed on specific tools and technologies.

Instead it's really about how to ensure an employer's offer will be accepted. In other words, it's about solving the problem where the employer has already found a programmer, but the programmer doesn't want to work for the employer. Not really sure how big of a problem that is.
Author Yuval Noah Harari explains what he calls “the paradox of knowledge”
If you want to start with TeX, I highly recommend the book A Beginner's Book of TeX by Seroul and Levy. One of the developers behind LuaTeX also strongly recommends it (in the preface to the ConTeXt manual), and calls it "the book that turns every beginner into an expert". This one is more readable than the TeXbook, and builds up your intuition nicely. Learning LuaTeX is relatively easier after you understand the basic design of TeX.
They're starting a web site called GoFireMe.com, to crowd source their layoff packages.
Try out RhodeCode it focuses on Source Code Management with strong security and performance. Should be also a fast alternative.
Hey, I'm a TA at some CS courses, can this be used to find similar codebases? Maybe it useful to find similar programmers, find possible code copies and/or identify the author of a snippet. Any ideas?
New Experiment Reveals Secret Behind 200,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Glue
There's absolutely no reason why everyone who wants one shouldn't have a static block of IP(v6) addresses. If they're hard to get, that's an ISP problem rather than anything else.
I once heard there is certain mentality that when given more options, more people end up making purchases where they otherwise would not. For instance, if you have one fast food chain along a short stretch of road, less people will go to that one location than if there were multiple, competing chains in the same area.

I believe this is called agglomeration[0][1], and may have parallels beyond physical, competing stores, into realms like similar, but differently named CPU's.

[0]http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098017694131
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration

edit: rplst8 mentions binning, and that seems like another likely factor as well.
what...? You're saying cars can drive 1.5 to 15 million miles on average? They barely ever make a million miles[1].

[1]: https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/ive-been-using-a-950000-...
Election Hacking Efforts, Wider Than Previously Known, Draw Little Scrutiny
We have IPv6, everyone has practically infinite amount of public (and hopefully static, unless ISP did a major fuck up) IP addresses these days.
Yep, but artists don't ship every single portrait their made. Often, they experiment and they made practice
OK. This sounds like a perfect use for either private browsing mode or another profile with history etc set to false though.
Except for the fact that you cannot use gitlab.com for anything business related because it has abysmal performance and okay reliability. Basically they use gitlab.com to stress test gitlab.
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There is also the third way -not to earn, not to necessarily learn, but simply to feel pleasure from making a software art and experimenting with things. When playing with my side project I feel like a painter adding new lines to the same canvas for years, like Gaudi spending his 15 years of life constantly redesigning Sagrada Familia.
Well, I also learn stuff this way but often I get bored with them once challenge is completed ;)
Why a 24-Year-Old Chipmaker Is One of Tech’s Hot Prospects
Yes, but that's only on the capital gains. You still pay income tax on the value of the equity when it's granted.
A little late to the party - but same here!
New Think Tank Emails Show “How Google Wields Its Power” in Washington
I think the "full experience" you speak of is getting fresh juice rather than some pre-oxidized slurry in a bag.

And shame on the VCs for not using their heads. You can't get a half pint of juice out of a pint bag of fruits and veggies.

Which reminds me of my brilliant idea of making fresh squeezed lemonade for our wedding guests. I had to cut a whole 25lb box of lemons in half and then press them into the Kitchen Aid to get about two quarts of juice. It took me hours and a lot of elbow grease to do that.