skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google devotes web’s most valuable realestate to social responsibility stories
"Many of our businesses are the most profitable in the world."

As an employee, who's not invited to share in those profits, why do I care? Why would I rather have that, than have more stability and more vacation time like they do in Europe?
My thoughts exactly. The data isn't totally random but it's most likely very lacking in many ways. Yet another example of how perfectly correct math will most probably lead to wrong results due to false premise
I usually read the comments first but this time I read the article first because there weren't any comments yet. I was aghast. Then I saw I wasn't alone when I read the comments from you guys.

How could something so horrible happen to so many so routinely? Any what can we techies do about it? I'm always searching for meaning in my work and I'm having trouble remembering anything I've worked on lately that's nearly as important as this issue.

Then I realized that the solution is already in the article:

In the course of his thirty-five-year career, Shafer has assumed control of more than three thousand wards and estates and trained a generation of guardians.

and

When Concetta Mormon, a wealthy woman who owned a Montessori school, became Shafer’s ward because she had aphasia, Shafer sold the school midyear, even though students were enrolled.

and

Parks and other private guardians appeared to gravitate toward patients who had considerable assets.

It's all about the money! They don't go after poor people.

How can we high achievers turn this into a business opportunity that's a win-win-win for everyone and put the bad guys out of business? It's almost like we need a watsi for senior citizens. Thoughts?
I think it (may!) also depend on where you are located:

- If you are located in a suburban / semi-rural with more stores around, you may be less likely to use Amazon
- If you are in a very rural / urban area, you may be more likely to use Amazon

Of course it'd probably be hard/impossible to find, but I'd like to be able to see a map of customers/purchases on Amazon in relation to urban and other areas.
Slightly off topic, but when a page with minimal styling like this comes by, how do you typically view it?

I usually do something like this in the inspector:

body{
width: 601px;
margin: auto;
font-size: 1.3em;
color: #483f3f;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

But that's a pain to write out each time.

I'm not against un-styled websites at all, but I wish they were more readable by default.
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Drug discovery startup Recursion Pharmaceuticals raises $60m Series B
"iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) and later iMac models can't be used as Target Display Mode displays."

From the page you linked. It hasn't been possible with new iMac models since 2014. I'd expect the Pro to be the same.

Personally I would love it if tablets and new iMacs had video input to enable use as external monitors but unfortunately not
The number is artificially inflated by multiplying by 10 years. It's 660,000 people a year, which is still a huge number.
People being too stupid to discern between 4chan and real news is not Facebook's nor Google's nor my problem. How about promoting critical thinking instead?.
Yes, I have used FreeBSD and ports. I thought OP's message implied that there are 3rd party applications that are available exclusively for FreeBSD.
This is literally a security bug in the legal code.

Why doesn't anyone care about this? How do we FORCE our politicians to fix these legal bugs so that we are protected?
JavaScript Promises and Monads
> ... went with RN over ObjC/Swift, is I can just Cmd+R and boom, my changes are live in a second).

As someone with experience in Delphi, C++ Builder, Smalltalk having younger developers rediscovering this looks funny.

Have a look at Flutter and Xamarin.
It seems like they were able to take "the relatives are just after the money" argument to an absurd level where any form of control over the estate was simply not possible for family members or relatives.
Visual Explanation of Load Balancing Algorithm
That article seems to indicate they're been given serious looks, and that even their proponents object to the idea of diet/exercise as an alternative:

> Even Seyfried acknowledges, despite his zeal for treating cancer by tinkering with calories, that in all likelihood diet and nutrient-based cancer treatments will serve as adjuncts to existing therapies.
Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini Passes Away at 66
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"Also there is evidence that e-cigs deliver some toxic stuff of their own such as formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), nitrosamines (linked to cancer) and lead (a neurotoxin). Though the toxicant levels of e-cigs may be “9–450 times lower than in cigarette smoke,” as this study suggests, levels of formaldehyde andmetalshave been found to be comparable to or higher than those found in conventional cigarettes.*Silicate particles, which are a cause of lung disease, have also been found in e-cigarette vapors."

source:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/e-cigs-and-second...

I'm not sure why you consider the OP's statement to be bold as I don't think there are many instances where ingesting chemicals into the lungs is considered healthy.
> Just put it on some shock absorbers in a container and send it across the ocean, it's not going to be accumulating damage in shipping for decades as it is in the museum.

I agree it's a lame excuse. At some point they moved the headdress into the case they engineered so clearly it's possible to move the headdress without it instantly falling apart.

Although I always find these requests to return artifacts a little odd anyway. On the one hand, yes, it's part of your heritage and I totally get why you want it returned. On the other hand, if ownership was transferred legally (gifted or sold rather than plundered), I don't see that you have any legitimate claim of ownership. Imagine if France asked for the Statue of Liberty back.
Bilinguals process new language quicker than monolinguals
I'd start even simpler and use a tool like Figma to prototype the UI and workflows that are at the core of your app. Then start actual development based on the feedback from showing it to potential users.

A lot will depend on why you need cross-platform support at launch. For most direct to consumer apps, your intended user base should skew to one platform or the other and should be large enough to support a beta and launch on a single platform. Not launching with both platforms supported won't make or break your app and launching with both without much mobile experience to begin with could even prove to be a distraction while you try to iterate on you're app's design.

If you're selling an app to businesses, then not supporting both iOS and Android at launch would be a real roadblock. In that case starting and maybe even staying with Ionic could make sense.
Trusts and LLCs out the ass. Legal entities within legal entities within legal entities, held offshore in some cases, and so on. Personally, I literally don't hold a single titled property in my own name, and never will.
Building an Asana add-on in less than 60 seconds (serverless)
Any post having to do with YC, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc are voting ringed to hell by their thousands of employees.

As the site has grown, HN has become a bit of a mouthpiece for large organizations through these de facto voting rings.

Best idea I have is for HN to add a profile field like: "Organizations: [google]" which would prevent voting on any Google-related submissions. It could also add a disclaimer in each comment of these submissions, so users wouldn't have to remember to do that.
What's your story on ACID, particularly on transactions?

Transactions: If I want to insert 2 documents, but zero if either fails, what does that look like with Firestore?

And if I store a document and run a query milliseconds later, will the query include document I just stored? Or are queries eventually consistent?
While this seems horrible, taking care of those who are in true danger without stripping the rights of the still cognizant is a hard problem. It's very likely for those who need help to deny it or fight it, so in the end, you need to be able to exert that final control, but how do you do verify that the person being protected really needs it?
> Startups often need access to capital to promote ICOs.

This should be a huge red flag. If a business is spending the majority of the money from early investors to find more investors, rather than actually developing and marketing their product, that's pretty much a text book pyramid scheme.
It's long-form journalism and I think it's perceived to have more value than bullet-point style reporting. While there can be value in long-form stories, 98% of the time I just want the bullet points so I can decide if the story is worth reading.
Wow, that scrolling is a trainwreck
I'd submit that reducing gun death suicides is not an unworthy cause. Not everyone who would commit suicide with a gun will proceed with a different method. Guns can offer a fast and easy solution to suicide that a person without that access may need to sleep on, and eventually choose to reach out and find help instead.
I use this with my kid - she asks me a question and I often ask her the same question to see what she would think or even guess before I tell her the real answer. It's a great way to also develop verbal skills as well not just reasoning I noticed. Gradually through some new words and concepts at her.

But I went to far, now she caught on and is doing the same to me. "Have you done you homework?", "Maybe, what do you think Daddy?"
I heard that they actually changed the temperature of the lake that way.
My experience agrees with yours. Many big-budget teams use a hardware emulator like the Palladium XP or the similar Synopsis device. Both built from FPGAs.

Hardware emulators are expensive, but a single mask respin at 7, 10, or 16nm is even more expensive.
Have you tried Snus? The Wikipedia page makes it sound relatively safe for a tobacco product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus
I’m still looking for a product that provides firebase-levels of ease of getting up and running (no API to design, rule-based authentication, etc) , but runs on your own infrastructure, off of a traditional RDBMS.

Someone tell me they’ve found the holy grail?!
Why is this marked as a duplicate? It seems to be the only post from this url, and the only post with the phrase "dropbox brand"
Thanks for building this! I was wondering about this a few months ago, glad it’s finally here. This is such a good example. https://twitter.com/johncoogan/status/890780575480430593
This shouldn’t be marked as a dupe. It’s a new redesign.
Same recommendation for desktop too. Switching from Arch to FreeBSD couple of months ago was the best move I could do.

Silly way to compare stuff but my Arch always run with processor at 70-72 degrees Celsius. Same setup on FreeBSD and my processor runs at 39-45. Since everything else but kernel runs as exact copy it shows to me that FreeBSD either has less kernel overhead or does scheduling better.
In my experience, the design of FreeBSD makes compiling projects much more easy. The standardized system really helps at many tasks.
If someone could guarantee Canadian data residency for SMS & voice, I would be a very happy person.
You can package the JRE in with your app very easily using the tooling provided, customers don't need the JRE installed on their system.
You work around this by installing two versions of Visual Studio side-by-side.
Experience taught me that it is always the best option for production code.
The idea of emergent PR via this sort of mechanism combined with a trustless and difficult-to-regulate infrastructure offers significant promise for breaking the glass ceiling that makes fame so difficult to achieve.

Ever wonder why news personalities and many celebs are so seemingly mediocre? It's this glass ceiling.

Platforms like Youtube solve part of the problem, but big fame takes big money, and so the funding mechanism has to be much more direct and consumer-driven than ad revenue sharing. ETH is perfect for it.

Many regulations on money transfers and political donation are designed so that they benefit those already in power. If you want to be a real leader it takes spending in excess of $1B, but once you do it you are feared and adored and have a place in the history books.

This is the game that our leaders are playing already, which is why Paul Ryan has a net worth of over $7M and the Clintons have wealth over $250M. They are simply the beneficiaries of massive marketing campaigns and care little for ideas or substance. Trump is the most blatant one to date.

It will be a good thing when this game is open to real competition so that non-elites can take a shot at getting the next $2B image makeover and a few years controlling the nuclear football.

It all starts with the simple freedom to fundraise and donate so that non-elites can form coalitions to elevate one of their own to larger-than-life status.
which is not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel
It would be better if I quit, but wasn't planning on doing that, so I switched to vaping and haven't smoked since.

Best? No. Better? Probably.

One of the funny things with vaping is after two weeks smoking a cigarette becomes disgusting.

I'd say it's also a lot easier to quit vaping than smoking cigarettes. So that as well is a move in the correct direction.
The federal government tends to be corrupt in ways less "shallow" and outrageous, but on a much more enormous breadth and scale.
Any time I hear these latin legalese terms I forget that we're living in 2017. It appears our justice systems would prefer that we were all subjects to Roman emperors whenever it suits them.

EDIT: I've been downvoted, so maybe I should explain my complaint. The article describes an "emergency ex-parte" hearing as one in which only one side is represented. Does that feel like 2017 justice to you, especially in the context of the article?
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Why we choose Gatsby over Next.js and Wintersmith
> We use Guacamole at work to give our customers access to the internally-hosted web app we're developing for them.

Quite interested to hear more about your use case. Does it simplify access control? Is it just for accessing over HTTP, or e.g. over SSH?
Not 100% of course, but so far we haven't encountered any problem. We also checksum both the operating system and all downloaded data periodically so we can catch and repair any corruption. Of course this won't help if the system doesn't boot any more. So far we haven't had this problem.

In addition to the system part being read-only, we also try to minimized writes to the data partition. We're using some of the ext4 settings to make sure writes happen less frequently as we're perfectly capable of recovering from lost data after a reboot.
There is a newer version for production:
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE
First time I’ve learned about MessageBird— how do they compare to Twilio?
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Who's writing the laws you have to not get caught not following is a highly underrated contributor/detractor to one's quality of life.
>C++ (b/c its fundamentally still just C)

I agree with your comment but hate this comparison. C and C++ are completely different languages. Idiomatic C++ looks nothing like C and vice versa.
Yes I know open source programs compile and run on FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems. And also that FreeBSD can run at least some Linux binaries.

I mistakenly assumed that OP was referring to 3rd party applications that were exclusive to FreeBSD.
They used to. The native version has been in beta for a while and it's fairly stable. I've used it locally for about a year.

https://thenewstack.io/native-docker-comes-windows-mac/
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That's two different sources of corruption. The shared script prevents that the SD card is being written to - which means that the filesystem won't get corrupted due to half-written or inconsistently written data. The other source of corruption is the SD card's microcontroller which does not know that the SD card is being used in readonly mode and may do stuff like housekeeping, garbage collection etc. nevertheless - which might be interrupted by a power-out.
These ICO shenanigans remind me of that saying from poker, which is something like "if you're looking around the table and you don't know who the sucker is, it's you".
French person here.

What's ring voting ?
Looks stylish and artistic. Not exactly what I usually think of when I think of Dropbox. I use them mostly cause they're the most reliable cloud storage method I've tried. But looks nice to me.
Ask HN: How would you monetize a Chrome extension with 85 000 users?
We built a Chrome extension http://sideplayer.com for $500 and and got 85k users so far thanks to free marketing.

How would you monetize it?

Some of the ways we've thought about:

1) Donate button.
2) Paid PRO version.
3) Ads.
4) Affiliate offers.
5) Creating a new paid extension and promoting it through Sideplayer.

Any suggestions? Thanks!
It blows my mind that accelerating a mass gives off gravitational waves. But it makes total sense since mass increases with speed, if only the tiniest bit until you get close to the speed of light. Which is probably why you can't detect the waves unless you have some massive event (pun intended) like 2 black holes colliding.

Do those waves come at a cost of energy? Just what the heck is a gravitational wave?
I use Eclipse with its native SWT UI and VSCode still blows it away in UI speed.

Actually, if Mozilla's Servo tech gets integrated into something like Electron, then we will have some serious performance capabilities surpassing pretty much anything else comparable.
So what's going to happen to the common worker?
In loving memory of Immutable.js
This is really neat!

While I'm not personally big on backgrounds I think this would be perfect as a substitute for those large hero images/videos that tend to require FAR more than .6kb to load. I'm pretty sure I'll wind up playing with this at some point and seeing how I can leverage it for random things.
Isn't that highly against the policy?
Now, it's just a short loop, but the gif in the project repo seems remarkably organic when compared to a similar bot that just uses 20ish lines of code to turn at walls. It even seems to pause and "think" at points
Cloud Firestore has support for transactions:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/updat...

So yes, if any of the operations in the transaction fails (and cannot be retried) the whole transaction will fail. It's atomic as you'd expect. If you've ever used transactions in Firebase Realtime Database you'll be happy to know that the transactions in Cloud Firestore are much easier to use since they don't require selecting a common data parent.

Queries are always strongly consistent. If you do a write-read sequence you'll see the value of the latest write.
Introducing Clean Swift Architecture
No, that literally says they use VMs - they just internally manage them.
For a new language to have practical applications in the Linux codebase, it has to run on every architecture supported by Linux (and ideally more), and use the same linker and ABI as C. A tall order, to say the least.
Read The Diamond Age afterward. It's not exactly a sequel, but all indications seem to show that it takes place in the same world, a couple decades later.
Regarding offline mode. How is sync done? Is this OT based? How are conflicts resolved?