skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> This is a completely unnecessary, uncharitable attack.

Not necessarily. If your parent had been a car-user and staunch supporter of Pigouvian taxes, they may have felt personally and unreasonably attacked by their previous poster and merely responded in kind. Notice that the language is identical, signaling a reflexive reaction.

Personally, I think they are both right about what needs to be done. Personal action and collectively enforced action.
Or the $3.5B approved for BART to upgrade some lights and wash more of the urine smell off the seats.
Definitely agreed that it's important to take a look at all of the domains that have an affect on the situation. That said, one of the things "take shorter showers" and similar efforts does do is raise awareness and helps people keep it in mind as part of their daily life. This can have an effect on the decisions they make in other areas as well.
Show HN: CingI, a distributed pipeline/task runner in Elixir
Also too, of course you should build your "prevent floods from wrecking our shit" system to handle floods "beyond anything we've seen before". Building it to handle less than what you've seen before would be stupid.
I wonder what would have happened if they competed on pure price. Like if they basically gave away 10m devices. That’s a small amount but it could have kickstarted something. App developers have to choose which platforms to support. The cost is nearly doubled if you go from just one to both dominant platforms. Adding a third would nearly triple it. It is not worth it if suddenly you can reach a whole lot of people. Going after developers is good if there isn’t a market already. Going after consumers might have created a critical mass where developers would have just showed up on their own.

Maybe a campaign to hand a new Windows phone to every college kid on campus would have worked. College kids aren’t flush with spending money, so a free phone would be a boon. But college kids also graduate and get jobs, making future phone purchases a possibility. Plus college kids tend to be trend setters for technology in situations like this.

Eh, I am rambling. People much smarter than me have probably already thought of this.
There is no question about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_CIA_interrogation_tapes_d...
As an aside with similar sentiment, this quote really drove home the point of flexible humans are to their situations.

"Centralisation breeds anomalies: beach resorts often buy their seafood in Mexico City’s wholesale market, hundreds of miles from the coast."

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21665027-its-combinat...
Then in my opinion it sounds like it is still not "properly implemented" with a toggle. Thank you. I have always been curious about Android. I do agree it's probably better not to have this feature by default then to have without a toggle. Just depends on use case.
Huh; why on Earth does WhatsApp make the default visibility of your "last seen" to "everyone"?! Also, speaking of 'tracking', I'd love to be able to track the sources of fake news forwards, but I assume such a technique would not work for anything like that.
Because OWS explicitly don't want third party clients. It's a controversial decision, but IMO they have good reasons for it. This said, if there's a client that works on Debian, it should work on the Librem (perhaps with some UX work). Currently on desktop, Signal is an Electron app.
Can you imagine how much additional livable space is going to be available across the world if people convert their garages into another room?

Assuming 12 ft by 22 ft (minimum space for a one car garage, rounding down nation wide to be conservative), that's 264 sq ft. In 2016, there were about 125.82 million households in the United States. That's 33.216 billion sq ft of additional living space!

They say they're not making more land; I'd argue we're going to be way more efficient with the land we have in the future.
Violence in Catalonia needed closer scrutiny in age of fake news
This setting doesn't seem to be enabled by default, at least on Android. I just scrolled into settings > Who can... See My Location >

Found it to be on "ghost mode (only me)." I never touched this setting before.
I strongly suspect he does not.
From what I understand, Japan thinks the climate is getting warmer due to human action, and serious steps need to be taken to deal with it.

I have a question for the global climate change skeptics out there.

Are there any major countries in the world besides the US and maybe Russia where the central government agrees with you on what is happening and what to do about it? (If there are give us some links)
But then we're headed even more into a WebKit monoculture... which is dangerous in it's own way, I think. I don't know, there's no easy answer here, because a brand-new modern web engine is basically an impossible task for a standard FOSS community.
The official React.js tutorial implemented as an interactive screencast
Which, as I discovered today, is a massive PITA. A letter arrived in the mail saying the freeze won't be effective until I mail them a copy of my photo ID.
I'm having trouble of thinking of anyone trying to use the threat of violence to change the government in the USA in the past 30 years except for the Unabomber (because he wrote that manifesto) or the usual white supremacist separatist movements that refuse to recognize the federal government so 2nd amendment doesn't really matter to them anyways.
California Gov. Brown Signs Bill Reducing Penalties for HIV Transmission
There were several different wireless earbuds before AirPods including Earin, Bragi, HearNotes and many more you've never heard of but they're all inferior to AirPods.

Apple is never the first or second or even third entrant into a new market, but when they do enter they're usually the best by a significant margin.
I find services like WeChat or Line to be superior based entirely on the fact that you can have an actual username. I'm still not sure why whatsapp forces you to use and exchange long sets of numbers to get someone's contact.

Obviously WeChat is not secure in any way, though ;)
I think the solution there is actual mobile apps, that can have an order history for you, a re-order last order button, etc. Just pull open your phone, make your order, and walk in store to pick it up.

I make the same order every time at my local burger chain, but I make it using an app from my desk, scheduled to be ready by the time I get to the store. Literally the best solution from my point of view.

This is also (coincidentally!) the product the company I work for offers. :)
A good amount of the "key apps" are free anyway, so a lower margin wouldn't have helped there.
I can't find a citation, but I remember the tour guide saying it was 98% for _anyone_ who entered the Stasi during it's last decade of operation. (They had gotten good at extracting confessions.) Yeah, people would confess even if they were innocent, because of the conditions or because of threats to their family.
Ask HN: Learning pentesting – pwnable Amazon AMIs?
I've been interested in pentesting for the entirety of my cs career. I realized recently, that one of the barriers to entry is having a lab that I can play with. Do there exist pwnable Amazon AMIs?

I'd like to be able to spin up an AMI with a known exploit on it (maybe specified to me, maybe not), and then work out the puzzle of exploiting it. I'm also willing to pay money for a service that does this (but not ~$800/month for the OSCP lab)
Yeah, that plus the fact that the campaign is just running on their own site (rather than a third-party crowdfund site like kickstarter, fig, crowdsupply or indiegogo) means that we're kind of relying on their word as to how much support they have really received.

My hope is that this is a successful campaign and that a good product is delivered, but the pre-order / crowdfund situation, at best, has an appearance of sketchiness.
Just once, I'd like to see the people that planned something and signed the deals stand up to a politician. Just see the demand to make a huge, costly, unreasonable change (likely for political reasons) and say, "No, fuck it. We planned this, you already spent $3 billion on it, it's not changing now. If you want it changed, it's cancelled, the $3b goes up in smoke, along with your political career and everyone who's ever so much as had lunch with you."

I know, it's not realistic... but it would be nice to see. I have this picture in my head of the entire government running like it did in The Pentagon Wars (that's billion, with a "b"...) and nobody can stop it.
Ask HN: How to transform SEO expenses into revenue in financial model?
Creating proforma financial models for a startup.

The basic model logic is:
- $1 of advertising expense creates $x of new revenue
- $1 of monthly recurring revenue requires $y customer service reps
- headcount drives other than advertising expenditures

With the exception of a few salaries (e.g. CEO, CTO, CMO) which are manually entered, the logic above accounts for most expense.

I like this model logic because it adjusts automatically in response to changes to advertising expenditure and/or the efficiency of the advertising spend.

But advertising won't be the only marketing activity. Marketing efforts will also likely include content creation and promotion for SEO.

Any ideas on how to model such expenses? E.g. $1 spent on content creation today yields???

On one hand, I'm tempted to just lump it in with the advertising expense so the model doesn't get too complicated.

On the other hand, part of me thinks I should create some new logic for these expenses. E.g. $1 of content creation expense today yields $a of revenue one month from today, $b of revenue two months from today, etc. But that seems really complicated and subjective.

Any suggestions?
The system works.
either way! im going to use Latex tables more because they are so easy and so damn good lookin'
I think you're both actually agreeing. The other coding toys are marketed towards boys ("aimed at boys").

That means that it's less likely for girls to get exposed to them overall, because media aimed at them is different, teacher's behavior towards them is different, even their own parents' behavior towards them is different.

I get that marketing "for girls" might give credence to the "for boys" marketing... but if you look at the jewelbots page, the only point that is explicitly "girls" is the fact that the kids in the pictures are girls.

Everything else has been brought in by us. The "jewel = girls" aspect, the "friendship bracelet = girls" aspect... though some other media is even more pointed at that. Bit mixed feelings about it. I feel like it's trying to operate within the weird gender divide that exists in our society
Th original sinkhole was caused by a collapse of a under construction subway tunnel. This second time is just regular settling, there was no second collapse.
Earin actually shipped and so did Bragi.
>American States have always paid their debts to the financial market.

I don't contest that, but what I am saying is, like National governments they can dismiss their debt. Although, of course they would have non existent credit after such an event. The States unlike some European governments are not used to functioning in the absence of borrowing.
Then that's just what they need to print attendance badges. They aren't going to not take your money because you have no proper affiliation. Put something plithy in there and you are sure to make some new friends at the conference.
Show HN: Send and Open messages at the right time and place
No chance.

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Interesting, but isn't this kind of the opposite of "do it live"? I would think "lip synch" would be a better name for it.

I've done a couple of live presentations in my career (in fact I just did one last Friday). I think they're great for audiences, when the circumstances permit. People connect to the physicality of the typing in a way that looking at some screenshots just doesn't provide.
They have posted a profit the last 8 quarters.
Side note, for anyone interested in how chips are produced, this is one of my favorite videos:

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Visual Studio Team Services surely doesn't pay list price for their bandwidth on Azure. It's the same company! Azure is the colo!

You seem to assume running a colo means having some bearded Linux admin on staff that runs all the applications with init.d on bare metal. Not so, kubernetes is a thing. They wisely haven't chained themselves to any of the critical proprietary Azure lockins.
Why do war criminals get the Nobel peace prize
I presume peace prize is for doing something good what good has it given the world after Obama or Aung sung si received it. Or for that matter Israel’s and Palestinans received it. Has world become a better place or worse
I really love how the embedded comments look, but I'm a bit concerned by your other sites. I want my content to be at the forefront, not the commenting system. Is that going to be an issue if I use your system, or are the extra features configurable?

Also, is there any possibility I could use my own users with your site? I don't want to have to make people sign up with another provider just to post comments.

EDIT: Your onboarding is really poor. I tried to create an account and it gave me some odd comments about an email "I specified in the config", and I have no idea what to do now. It seems I have half-created an account where my email is already used but I don't have a password to log in with. Neither can I reset my password or find documentation on how to embed comments.

EDIT 2: It looks like all the permalinks in your embedded comments point to the forum site? That's not something I want for my content, hmm.
s/Keynes/Klein/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
Good to hear from someone who was valiantly trying to create apps for this platform. I always wondered why developers never flocked to the MS platform since it always seemed wide open with not a lot of competition compared to the IOS and Android platforms.

Thanks for laying bare why it failed so badly.
> mostly aimed at boys.

>They're just marketed to boys.

To me that is the definition of aimed at. Designed for stereotypical boy activities, marketed to boys. What does it mean to you?
Yeah... because compatibility here is MUST.
Just this past friday their fully automated CI devops whatever deployed an old major version to some parts of their infrastructure, the entire website was 500 for an hour and git pushes were barking up Ruby stacktraces.
Oh I didn't know it was just NFC, I don't know why I was convinced it was a 3-party protocol requiring device connectivity. Good to know.
Does the USA have a central government with a central policy? Obama believed in climate change even if Trump doesn't, most of congress, even on the right, believe in some amount of climate change (e.g. McCain). I'm really at a loss to find that unified anti climate change sentiment in the states. It's more like a democracy where politicians and electorates are allowed to have different opinions.
Far be it for me to be prescriptive about what girls and boys should like. Truly, we think of ourselves as more "feminine" in design. Some boys like things that are feminine, there are many people that identify as feminine.

We are here to change the number of coders that identify as female. In order to do that, we talked to a lot (over 200!) of kids that identify as female and built what they asked us to build.

You can read more about our reasoning here: https://medium.com/jewelbots-weblog/what-if-we-could-build-m...

and my view on femininity here: https://medium.com/thelist/papas-please-let-your-babies-grow...

Thank you for your feedback and thoughts, these conversations are super important if we are going to change the number of women in computer science.
I'd love that! My email is at the bottom of the page.
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The Advantages of Decentralization [video]
Buy companies you're an enthusiastic customer of. To my mind this is your only chance of getting an edge over the efficient market and its heavyweight players.
This is the Internet I want
Being better doesn't make them less of a copy. Fast charging was a thing before Apple put it in AirPods. Motorola did the pausing trick long before Apple and I believe Bose or Sony did it too.

Managing to best everyone else at their best feature is what the AirPods do but nothing they do is innovative.
A mass evacuation out of Houston for a hurricane is impossible. I have seen it time and time again - every time they try to evacuate us, a bunch of people just die in the streets, and then there's the risk of a NOLA situation where all the people who are poor to evacuate at every whisper of hurricane die of disease from disgusting floodwaters, or exposure. Or drown.

The population of the Greater Houston area is 5.6 million. Just look at the map https://goo.gl/maps/rU1ZWvfjy9w You can get out via 45, 59/69, i-10, 290, 69NE, or hell even 249. It's quite possibly the most spider-webbed city in the country. You can go to Austin, Dallas, San Antonio.

And every hurricane those freeways are deadlocked, and people are caught by the storm from behind, and old people's oxygen tanks explode on their busses because of texas heat, and that's without a full-blown evacuation ordered. We even run out of gasoline, the Oil City.

I'm not sure what the solution is but yea, evacuation out of Houston is not an option. I just wish there was some way to tackle the "big truck" mentality out here so we can start reducing our contribution to climate change. Our one attempt to build a inner-city metro is a comical failure that people just crash their giant trucks[1] into on a regular basis because they built the damn thing on ground level on main street.

[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6W45lG1Jg)
Are you allowed to have higher prices on Seamless? That would seem to be a pretty straight forward method of not killing your margin.

I wonder if a restaurant association could take on the cost of building a competitor that could compete with Seamless; Especially if restaurants manage to convince the public that Seamless is as toxic as Uber, a solution to absolve people's guilt that is just one click away might be successful.

I say this because I hate having to get on the phone.
Hmmm, so LIDAR isn't as worthless as Uber tried to make out in their Waymo lawsuit...
The Permian extinction was a global warming extinction. The atmosphere was methane and hydrogen sulfide. Oxygen levels dropped too low for anything to survive... read the book 'Under Green Skies' which makes the case for that.

There are reasonable people predicting that type of mass extinction will occur within our lifetime. This blog makes a pretty good argument it will happen:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html?m=1
For what it is worth, every time I hear the phrase "working toward financial independence", it sounds like Newspeak to me. Let's call it what it is: almost everyone wants to make money because satisfying our various needs is part of the human condition.
Lets Build a GO API
> You still don’t get it.

I do. Believe me, I do.

> developers that still don’t get the entire point of what I’ve been talking about

They do too. They acutely understand all of the advantages and drawbacks of a HAL, and how it would effect the project that they work on, and have chosen explicitly not to allow one. I'd like you to understand why, because these are intelligent people, many of them dedicating time and expertise for nothing in return but the satisfaction of the contribution itself.

It sounds like a great idea to have an abstract interface for these things. That's what a microkernel is all about. Microkernels are great, but Linux is a monolithic kernel. That is the core of its design. Linux isn't going to adapt its core design to be more compatible with proprietary software. In fact, Linux should do nothing to be more compatible with proprietary software, because that would simply perpetuate the problem.

A monolithic kernel does have some advantages.

* The kernel can change without breaking drivers, because drivers are part of the kernel

* There is no layer between drivers and the kernel, meaning no overhead, no translation, but raw communication.

These advantages are fundamentally broken by introducing abstraction layers. Extra abstraction also introduces more maintenance work.

If AMD really wants a microkernel, it can start focusing on its FreeBSD driver.

> None of this functionality has to be closed source.

That is entirely my point.

> If you want to have this functionality open, the best solution is to work on a stable ABI for them, so that AMD builds many separate modules for each, and you can slowly clone each of them with an open version, or AMD can selectively open them.

That is a compromise. A compromise that kernel devs are not willing to make. Linux is Free Software. Free as in Freedom. Free software users do not have to deal with the problems that are caused by proprietary software, of which there are many.

> How the hell do you propose adding functionality with a latency of a few days or weeks between design and release into a kernel that only does releases every half year, and LTS releases every few years?

> The majority of users will be stuck on a several year old kernel.

The "majority of users" are running enterprise servers. That is the only reason to use a longterm kernel release. Users of a longterm kernel will not expect driver updates, in fact expecting the opposite. The vast majority of users similar to you will be running stable kernels.

> Stable kernel updates are released on as-needed basis, usually 2-3 a month. [1]

That is an entirely reasonable time-frame for updates. If users want a more bleeding-edge release, they will use prepatch (RC) kernels.

[1](https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html)
> I'm curious what the percentage of npm publishers that have this toggled on is, and I wish that was available data.

I know we're tracking this data and I bet a follow up post will be written at some point once some numbers are available. As you say, I expect 2fa will see wide adoption as soon as a stable version lands in the upstream Node.
More likely, common decency and humanity works.

Some Americans like to talk a good game about "watering the Tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants," but not many are really willing to cross that moral threshold of looking their neighbor square in the eye and shooting them dead where they stand.

Not because they're sheep, or cowards, or collaborators with the system, but because the thesis of the Second Amendment is no longer compatible with what most people consider to be the principles of civilized society. Killing is no longer the privilege of gentlemen.
What kinds of crime?
Oh, they have a toggle. They've just changed it every time, and broken it in subtle ways every time.
Those graphs are determined purely from messages - no away states, nothing

There's no way to disable that.
We have free mobile OSes, but what's much harder is hardware where they can run.
On the house, it's just because I'm renting... but maybe I can ask my landlord :)
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Look for catalysts. Make a list of stocks that are undervalued, then buy them when there's good news.
I think the real C++ part is so important because it respects the abilities and intelligence of children to participate in the adult world using a real (yet approachable) technology that is also used in industry. This also makes these skills earned poking around with a fun toy transferable to solving their own problems, doing coursework at university, and later on entering the technology labor market. Other programming toys aimed at kids like NXT graphical programming or scratch don't have the same transferability and I've noticed that kids see right through that.
Thanks for your thoughtful response. Are there any articles or books that seem particularly representative of this point of view to you?