skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but when you encounter a leaky abstraction someone has to pull back the curtain for you and help you get past it. Magic inevitably has brick walls behind the curtains.
I don't understand why he didn't nail down his equity situation before doing any work. Yeah, it's pretty shifty of the 'founders' but then it's pretty basic for techies, especially early startup engineers.
Should link the whole Democracy at Work channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/democracyatwrk I think it offers a refreshing viewpoint that many people on HN should consider
Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?
There are different ways to do that by redefining the way bankruptcy works. E.g. Personal bankruptcy could result in 2-3 years of handing over most of your income to the state (which distributes across the original loan providers), expect any major assets to be liquidated (e.g. Your house), before you're considered debt free.
Allow me to remix my earlier statements:

While not scientifically proven, the State of California currently classifies RoundUp as "probably carcinogenic".

More than 800 cancer patients have joined the lawsuit against Monsanto.

I don't know about you, but being exposed, for years and years, to something that requires a mask to administer. Hmmm gonna have to go with "more cancerous than a banana".
Ramirez hits 2 HRs and 3 doubles, Indians win 11th in row
And and I'm sure many people use the mysql.com installer for MySQL https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
The filesystem was amazing.

Interesting tidbit: Dominic Giampaolo, who was one of the main developers of BeFS is now engineer on the APFS team [1].

[1] http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/
Which CPQ are you guys moving to? We are also looking to move off of Oracle in the next FY but have not come to a consensus.
So which is it, they believe their own BS, or all they want to do is make FY money?
A tool for family happiness
Pitiful.

Oracle India was even worse than Oracle. I truly feel terribly for the exploited workes there. You all had it way way worse than us.
FTA:"193 of the world's governments share a goal to achieve universal health coverage by 2030." What does this mean? Aren't governments always paying lip service to some form of "universal coverage"? Isn't that one of the goals of any good government?
Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks

In a few hotspots yes. But the vast majority of programmers are just office workers like any other. But unlike HR and so on, they face the threat of offshoring...

It's like saying all musicians are highly paid and have loads of perks because look at Jay-Z.
Well I already explained why GDP, the core metric economists fixate on, is flawed and incomplete. Unemployment rate as well is incomplete in that it doesn't account for those who drop out of the labor force (not to mention it says nothing of job quality or wages).

I think at this point the burden of proof is on economists to justify their profession. They completely failed to foresee the recent financial crisis, with the so-called "Great Moderation" and economists like Ben Bernanke saying the depression problem has been solved.

* Theory of competitive advantage is flawed and doesn't hold up to reality. Free trade is not unequivocally good. I wrote about it in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15159057 , but I'm basically parroting economist Ha Joon Chang who wrote multiple books about this

* The assumption of individuals being rational and utility-maximizing is false (eg. charity, stock market).

* Efficient market hypothesis. See any financial asset bubble.

* Austerity economics. The severity of the Great Depression was exacerbated by the government's austerity response. Yet here we are 80 years later demanding austerity from Greece and such.

* Money multiplier http://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/advanced/the-money-...

* Phillips Curve

Steve Keen wrote a book called "Debunking Economics" that explains theoretical flaws in the basic supply/demand curves that are the foundation of economics, though I'll admit I didn't read the book.

Ultimately though, neoclassical economics is just too damn oversimplified to result in many meaningful actionable policy takeaways. It's too constrained by its owned rigid model of how economies are supposed to work, and thus too free market dependent and status-quo preserving.
Well, those 20% aren't so deluded. In fact 12% of all Americans do enter the top 1% at least for a year. [1] (Granted it's not clear from the above link whether the poll question was worded to clarify this ambiguity.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-...
>take the stress out of living paycheck to paycheck

If I could live for free (no rent, free food, free electricity, etc), I probably would quit. I don't have much savings and my quality of life would drop a little, but I would probably take 6-12 months vacation and just dick about, playing video games and concentrating on my hobbies.
That's gone actually, they removed it a few weeks ago IIRC. I don't use Google though, not sure if it's still enabled in some places. In fact, I'm not really sure what ktRolster is talking about; it is 150KiB, but honestly that's pretty small for a page these days, especially one with any images (today it's a google doodle, so normally it would be about 24KiB smaller).
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164568
Ask HN: Which are the best infographics of web delployment?
Hi guys, I'm starting on web development and now it will be the first time I put something from localhost to web, so I want to really understand how web deployment works, how the server runs non-stoppping, which are the elements that make this possible. It would be great if there is an infographic or something like that. Thanks.
Benchtop Jointer Machine Beneficial for Wood Industry
I don't agree with it, be the counter-argument would be that state-sponsored coverage involves taking money from people without their consent (taxes), whereas charity doesn't. You should always address the strongest version of the argument you're refuting.
Workers should certainly be able to afford to fly for leisure, yes. Many can now, whereas not that long ago only the "jet set" could afford to.
Is that really true? IE 5.5 had shadow Dom?
You've got two nostrils, so sniff them two at time and take half as long.
>Maybe it's a dep for another package?
This is likely the reason. I would imagine more people use things written in Perl rather than Perl itself as a programming tool.

Also, Perlbrew is not necessarily easier, simply because having one package manager manage your packages is better than having many package managers (cargo, npm, gem, etc). It suggests that maybe there should be a package manager for all these package managers... I'd personally want to use the simplest way possible to install something unless I had a reason.
creating apps in html is like creating a spreadsheet in word.

why didn't we stick to xml and use a language to transform it into ui.
2 interesting things happened in last cron.weekly’s newsletter
Programming is the easier part
Maybe it isn't so sad. I'm not necessarily saying that we live in the best of all possible worlds. But human existence has been much more brutal for thousands of years.
Particularly alarming section:

> August 17- Aeternity finally makes an offer to hire me that I am comfortable with. In the process of negotiating my employment, the owner of Aeternity was asking me technical questions, and the honest answers I gave made him angry. He wished that universe worked differently, and he blamed me, the messenger of bad news. The owner of Aeternity was so upset by the technical limitation, that he did something to me that both scared and injured me. I no longer feel safe working with this person. I am walking with a limp a week later.

He implies that a violent struggle took place but without saying so explicitly. Which is odd since a detailed description of a physical assault would draw immediate sympathy from we, the public-at-large.
printing fake money is very easy...
1000 kg of TNT produces one _ton_ of energy, not one kiloton, so TNT is set by convention at 10^-6 kt/kg.
Fascinating. That seems to confirm a lot of Zack's claims (not the physical assault parts, of course).

Highly unusual to start over with an empty repo when your lead developer quits. Which makes me suspect that the answer to the asked-but-unanswered question:

> Is this down to IP issues / lack of any contracts or legal agreements?

Is "yes".
also remember, the US can not shoot down ICBMs.

what i fear most is that US initiates an attack on N korea and then when things look bleak, the north retaliates with an icbm as the last resort.

i dont think we should corner them.

the powers at play seem tremendously dangerous, theres china, russia, iran.
Alibaba debuts ‘smile to pay’ facial recognition payments at KFC in China
The iOS app cost 1 euro for a perpetual license and there was at least an option of charging 1e/year for the android one -- don't know if it was ever tried out, though
We really should avoid that word when discussing Unicode. It just leads to confusion.
Are they actually super? Do you really think they would have amounted to anything if they happened to grow up in poverty or with a poor education?
Angular is a front-end framework for general purpose. Polymer is the library specifically to facilitate Web Component development only. So I think you are comparing apple and orange here.
> A different programming paradigm, for instance, would be the use of delimited continuations such that the API you invoke suspends the current call stack, executes the I/O operation, then resume the call stack with the result of the I/O operation.

guile has recently gotten guile-fibers which works like this. It is really an amazing way to do concurrency.
Except that ravens and other corvids seems to be self aware and are highly intelligent, it's correct that evolving things does not guarantee high intelligence.

Insects and especially social insects like ants are good examples of very successful survivors with very little general intelligence.
Well, there are some reasons for this, such as making sure the equipment is good and can easily be checked on/configured by support to meet service level guarantees (which are a thing with some business contracts). It's just not a very good reason.
The Albert Heijn Song

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yno1z
Your question starts with a false premise "Everybody lies". You lie, and justify the lying by projecting it on to everybody else. The answer is very simple, stop lying. You'll find everything beneath you fall away. Your relationships will all be adjusted to accomodate your truthfulness. Your life would be unrecognisable months from now. And you will no longer be super depressed about having to lie.

Personally I don't think a "more efficient use of time" is more important to me than how I feel in my day to day life. It's better to be late to work than to miss a once in a life time conversation with a stranger as I pass an interesting scene on the way to work.
It's really easy to get a human on the phone with AWS..
Currently only Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and SLES are supported. None of them is muslc based, right?
What's so frustrating about this is that yourube does not even sell red here. I cannot pay for what protube enabled.
Hooves | Copenhagen | Lead Dev. for app | you choose tech stack | Onsite | fast-growing funded startup

More infos here: https://thehub.dk/jobs/ctolead-developer-in-fast-growing-sta...
Can you share some anecdotes that make you think that Oracle India had it way way worse than the Oracle US counterparts?
It's different this time?
Using a similar analogy in the opposite direction: http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-resource-leak-... and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679471
It's weird, you hit the nail on the head in your first line, then skip the essentials on the next line.

WhatsApp: circumvent cellphone texting charges, making texting cheaper

Airbnb: circumvent hotel laws, making staying anywhere cheaper

Uber: circumvent taxi laws, making taxis and flexible transport cheaper

Amazon: circumvent state taxes (and VAT, until recently, and still the case in Europe, Australia and I'm sure many other jurisdictions), making getting mail-order goods cheaper

PS for Amazon: and also making mail-order a great deal faster.

PPS for Amazon: also cut out many middlemen to make things cheaper.

Facebook: make advertising to particular groups, accurately identified, a LOT cheaper

Google: Make it a lot cheaper to find things online.

But Why stay in tech ?

Aldi + their discounter competitors: Make groceries a lot cheaper by cutting out the middleman

GE, in their day: Make lighting and anything that could be done cheaper electrically a lot cheaper. Or possible at all in the first place.

VW, in their day: make owning a car a lot cheaper.

GDF/Suez: make transporting goods from Europe to Asia a lot faster (but mostly cheaper).

Keep in mind Jevon's paradox. Cheaper does not just mean cheaper, as in less dollars. It also means that whatever becomes cheaper becomes more ubiquitous. Faster. Becomes accessible for more people, either in difficult geographies, or poor, or ... It also means those things become feasible to use for various purposes that they couldn't be used for before. It means a lot more of said good/service will get used. And so on and so forth.

You want to make $1 million ? Become great in a particular subject, and consult.

You want to make $10-$100 million ? Start a company with a niche product, and do it really well.

Want to make $100 million - $1 billion ? Start a company and bribe the government, so that it either pays you directly or forces loads of people to pay for your services (lots of these in Washington and Brussels)

You want to make $1-$10 billion ? Make some stupid ubiquitous product cheaper. Think the most moronic normal things in existence. Breakfast cereal. Grapes. Web search.
That's a pretty interesting approach then; I like it.
Not really. It's harder to make your talent noticed in a big company. A software engineer's power is in producing software that is unexpectedly useful. In a big company that talent is often crushed under the weight of expected results.
I fully consent to paying my taxes, even when the money goes to things that I don't want my government to do. Everyone consents to the rules of democracy: Debate it, take a vote, majority wins. Sometimes I'll win, sometimes I'll lose, but I fully support the outcome every time (even if when I'm trying to change it for next time).
#83	elixir

#85	fish

I am glad to see these 2 in top 100.
How to Visualize Large Date and Time-Based Datasets with AnyStock JavaScript Library
Which does not exist for most users. Unless you live in a handful of countries it does not exist.
It's not about the contract, it's about the injury.
so quick? it's not as if string theory is just getting started.
The performance gain is in latency consistency, it seems [0] though this chart is silly, since I'm guessing the X axis is time, and you can't chart a centile, that's ridiculous.. Anyway, even the throughput improvement could be worth it, but I think the main improvement is in latency.

https://twitter.com/tgraf__/status/904475786622640128
It's not modifying plates in either country. Th RAF was active when that font did not exist.
Eric Schmidt on the Relationship Between Apple and Google (2007)
Not everybody consents to those rules. The founding fathers thought those rules were fundamentally broken which is why they encoded a stringent restrictive constitution including checks and balances and the bill of rights.
I am not so sure it's possible - to me it's more like stumbling across a stream - except this time my mind is the riverbed through which the stream runs.
If I don't click on "Dedicate my donation" will it not go to the person on whose profile I am at the moment?
To add to what sctb said: obviously the word 'communism' in such a title is flamebait; one might wish otherwise, but the internet is what it is. Moreover, generic ideological battle is off topic for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You yourself have badly violated the site rules by perpetuating it in this thread. Would you please not do that again? I presume there are other places on the internet where it's welcome, but it isn't here.
It doesn't autoplay in Firefox Reader View.
There's actually a notable security advantage to this. A userspace process can do key negotiation, hand the symmetric keys to the kernel, and then have an ordinary file descriptor, with the kernel handling encryption. Which means you could then pass that file descriptor to a separate process, let it read and write data, and not give it access to key material at all.
On my 2016 MBP Google keeps a constant 20% load on a single core. Sometimes it's even up to 60%. I really don't know what Google is doing there.
I think his point is that this only addresses patient consent and website publicity, and nothing about what they do to actually keep patient data secure and private.
> involves taking money from people without their consent (taxes)

And yet you enjoy GPS, roads, running water, bridges, numerous standards, air quality and pollution reduction by regulators, defense of property, fire departments...

This particular line of argument is tiresome unless you're willing to forgo all of the amenities others have paid (and sometimes died) for.

If you're not willing to give them up, adding healthcare to the tab is hardly a step too far.
Tinder Gold is the new paid- service
> involves taking money from people without their consent (taxes), whereas charity doesn't

This argument seems to be novel from the late 1800s. Before then, it seems to have been understood that the political system ran on taxes. It beggars the imagination that modern Americans seem to believe the old anarchist saw that cooperation and working with society via the ancient tradition of taxation is theft.
Congratulations Chase and the team, it's incredible to see such a complex product built in such a quick time period. How many folks from the dev team were in Uganda? And is this tool open source?
Start here http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/
Definite optimism as human capital
Yeah because history always treats kindly those who believe the ends justify the means.
" ... specifically due to sentiments like yours. Those in power with similar political mindsets as you purposely neuter the usefulness of these programs"

The only sentiment I expressed was that I am open-minded about UBI. You have no idea what my political mindset is nor do you have any idea what my background is.
But I don't think that is the strongest version of the argument: it's based on the rather weak premise that taxes are inherently unconscionable. Imagine we were talking about the army, instead of healthcare. The argument would start with the question "is the state obliged to protect its citizens?", not "my taxes shouldn't pay for it".

The counter-argument here is not one around taxes, but around the obligations of the state. If you don't believe in universal healthcare then you ipso facto believe the state has no obligation to provide it, and that's where the counter-argument needs to come from.
In India, Whatsapp is HUGE. I would go as far as to say if it were to go down for a day, we will see a dip in the per-day GDP. It is not that so much business is conducted on it, but also it is the dominant social messaging glue.

Whatsapp probably has about 220 million users in India[1] and also because of dwindling mobile data prices, it also has now become the alternate voice channel [2]. Also I read that 90% of all smart phones in India have Whatsapp installed.

(1) http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/whatsapp-hits-...
(2) https://www.medianama.com/2017/05/223-indian-whatsapp-users-...
It was ported from Fortran, and that version itself was ported from the original written in a LISP derivative called MDL.
I think you need to provide some sources for the statement that poor people have "basic food, housing, and education." Education, sure, in the form of public k-12 schooling (which is not always great, but certainly qualifies as 'basic'). But, food and housing? Let's forget about "white" for a second: tell me, where does an able-bodied, poor person get basic, safe housing, and food that's at least somewhat healthy to survive on? Are you talking about section 8 and food stamps? Because if that's what you're talking about, that's not really what I would consider fulfilling the role of "basic housing and food."
My impression was more passive-aggresive with a large dose of narcissism.
Ask HN: What do you use, if not Facebook?
Hi HN,

I found myself spending some time with friends I hadn't seen in ages this weekend, and naturally lots of photos and things were taken.

I'd like to share the photos with them (and only them), without having to go through a whole heap of effort, or resizing, sorting, and emailing huge photos, and maybe add some comments to the photos for context and future reference.

My facebook account has been dormant for years, for any number of reasons. Mainly, I'm over the firehose of data about people that I'm not really all that interested in, and I despise facebook's approach to privacy. I do, however, miss the ability to easily upload some shared memories with friends and family (with the convenience that it offered).

What does HN use to do this, if you're not using facebook?

Photo sharing sites are the obvious choice, but then you have to mail the link to a bunch of people, and they don't really provide the ability to add context (or a few comments) to photos. I also prefer to have my photos somewhat under my control. A full self-hosted social solution isn't required either (and it wouldn't be fair to expect people to sign up to ANOTHER site), but something with basic access control would be nice.

I know my requirements are somewhat vague, but they're not extensive either.

Comments or suggestions will be good :)
Swedish ä and German ä are the same character. 令 is a different character (of the same origin) in Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplied Chinese (and it depends on your browser setup which you get on screen, which is absolutely insane). It is like saying we should use English p as Cyrillic р, which only look similar, or as п, because they have the same origin or sound?

And no, CJK language users is not a minority, although many of us have become used to the font inconsistensies (because while wrong, they are legible to us).
In what way do you think the Bill of Rights is restrictive?
And they restrict all updates to them... those must be downloaded from AT&T. I have one.
That. I was at PeopleSoft when we got acquired by Oracle.

Went to a bunch of architecture meetings, and saw that nobody had a hint of a clue. "Project Fusion" was supposed to fix everything... As far as I know they're still working on that, some 12 years later.

Then I tried to get myself laid off; there was supposedly a list you could yourself on to be laid off with severance. After one month waiting I had enough and quit. So for one month I "worked" at Oracle. Best decision in a while.

That said, I do have some engineering friends who work at Oracle, and they generally like it, so your mileage may vary.