skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't used paw, but agreed with above about Insomnia, and:

- GraphQL support is pretty decent

- Copy as CURL is awesome
Sorry you're having a sucktastic week. As you know there's little I personally can do in an HN comment to make that better. I also know you think deeply about a lot of things, so I'm quite certain there's little I can say that you haven't thought of or come across before.

One concrete thing I'm doing that helps me is find someone to meet with on a regular basis to talk about progress on things we individually find important, things we want to work on. We use this to hold each other accountable for progress in these areas and to bounce ideas off each other. I know there are groups out there where people support each other in their entrepreneurial endeavors (I think I've heard these referred to as "Masterminds" groups); that's not what I'm doing, but the common thread is people (or just two people, in my case) getting together to get feedback and support on their personal goals.

I know how frustrating it can be when you feel stuck. (There are stronger words, but I'm purposefully not using them). I hope things get better for you and that you can find a way to feel that you're making progress.
The goal is not to not show a single bad result, it's to show the good results.
Reminds me of [1]. It's tech's equivalent of the crazy mother pushing her children into beauty pageants. It should not be applauded (in many circumstances).

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-17-year-old-that-yahoo-pa...
Huge advantage? Can you elaborate?
So can I assume that you are happy with the current Ad Supported model? Do you see any way to improve it?
Respectfully, this is a broken mental model. Patreon and a tip jar are a much better approach to trying to monetize small websites. It can be done, though it isn't easy. Also, almost no one "makes a fortune" at this stuff. Some people make surprisingly good money. Jeph Jacques was initially make $10k/mo via Patreon for his web comics. But it isn't for a single article or whatever. He posts comics five days a week.

I envy both his financial success and his lifestyle, but even he doesn't have what you are describing. You seem to be asking some version of "How can I buy a winning lottery ticket?" Well, we all wish we knew how to do that.
Ask all you want for citations, I live here and see it every day. It is definitely getting worse, I have coworkers who have been punched walking to the BART for no reason.
IBM has just achieved an 'impossible' step in quantum computing
I'd be willing to pay probably $0.25/article for what I read on NY Times and Washington Post. I'd be willing to pay anywhere from $0.50 to $20.00 for many of the answers I come across on Stack Overflow (depending on how certain I were before reading the answer that it would actually solve my problem... plus how long the problem would take me to solve on my own and whether I can find the answer elsewhere) since I can directly see how that contributes to my productivity at work (and because I'd be able to charge it to my company).

Side note: In general, I actually wish there were more ways to pay per article. I really want to pay for people to write good content and it scares me that many great content creators of old are going out of business in the digital age. The problem is that for many sources, I'm not interested in a subscription to their entire repertoire since I only want an article or two.
You might be interested in tis-interpreter:

http://trust-in-soft.com/tis-interpreter/

It can’t prove a program is 100% conformant, but it can detect a much broader range of undefined behaviors than regular compilers, and does other things more strictly (like, IIRC, limiting the declarations exposed by standard library includes to what the standards guarantees they expose).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531823
i wonder how it will compare to the "Complete Linux Installer"App project.
This has a roll on effect as business with increased real estate costs pass it on to consumers. So you are not only directly paying higher rent or purchase but also for products and services.

What's supposed to happen is inflated prices take up an unjustifiable portion of income and make things like families impossible forcing people to move.

Wages are supposed to keep rising to keep pace rendering some business unprofitable, making others expensive and forcing others to move altogether, all adding up to cause a correction in prices.

But in the real world its not really working that way. While wages are rising there is also large import of labour keeping wages in check with people resorting to more and more desperate measures like sharing rooms.

Without that perhaps the labour crisis would become unmanageable forcing businesses and government to rethink some policies. At the moment its the financial and real estate sectors making out while the average person faces the brunt. This is replicated worldwide in most major cities.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531823
Rendering the invisible visible
My personal site is a terminal
I'll try to explain it the way I understand it, which might be completely wrong.

Imagine you have a lightbulb (producing let's say max 1000 units of light/brightness [which are two subtly different things]) connected to a dimmer that has for example 8 discrete levels. What would you say the dynamic range of this setup would be? Obviously measuring the contrast ratio from when the dimmer is in the zero setting (=light off) to max setting would result infinite contrast ratio/dynamic range. That is not very useful though, so the next best thing is to measure brightness difference from the lowest on setting ("1") to max, which gives you actually a reasonable number, in this scenario 125:1000 or 1:8. I hope this example was illuminating.

So I guess the idea is that bit depth fundamentally determines what is the minimum brightness representable without going to zero (where be dragons), and as such determines the max usable dynamic range.
One trope I frequently encounter as a FreeBSD professional is "Linux is used by so many people, it doesn't have vast and sweeping bugs anymore".. the many eyes fallacy. In reality, you get bystander paradox.. everyone wants RedHat or IBM to do all the hard work and they reap all the rewards.

I find my field of systems pretty interesting.. there's so much to do and not a lot of people rushing in to do it as the heavy hitters retire or move to entrepreneurship etc. It's probably much cheaper to harden a *BSD or Illumos system in these domains, and much easier to get the results integrated into mainline. The financial and fame are much greater in doing it on Linux though.
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531823
> You are free to buy the redwood forests

Much of the forest land on the peninsula is privately owned, not by individuals, but by conservation organizations.

> The main problem is SFH

Except that people like their yards and pools.

All else being equal, denser housing is better. But all else is rarely equal. Almost invariably, increased density comes with increased population. The SFH it replaces doesn't get turned back into open space, it remains SFH. Or it turns into more MFH, so now you have N times as many people living in the same space. That is the problem.
It's already down.

>Additionally comparing poorly performing employees with serious drug addiction is just not super cool.

Drug addiction is a serious issue that linking with underperforming seems to obscure. There are plenty who underperform sober.
Where are you located? What's your app? It's not shameless self promotion unless you're shameless about it! :-D
I think the audience is other games graphics programmers and technical artists who can be expected to understand all this terminology. As a game graphics programmer the article was written appropriately assuming I'm representative of his intended audience (which is implied by his use of 'we').
> The best places to live are the best in no small measure because they are underpopulated.

I don't really get that. Where I lived in Italy had about 300,000 people in roughly the same size area as Bend (less than 100K), and I thought it was a pretty nice place in a lot of ways. We didn't have a yard for the kids, so we went down to the local park with them, where they saw their friends and we'd get to chat with parents. Because most people live in towns, they're able to protect some natural areas close to the town that I could ride my bike to.

I get that some people really want the 'country' experience, but then you shouldn't live in the middle of millions of people (the bay area). There are shit-tons of small towns with lots of cheap-ish land outside them that are nice in their own way.

By letting cities be cities, we get to protect more land, which I think many of us support.
New scheme improves the data rate of in-package DRAM caches by 33 to 50 percent
PowerPC is a harvard architecture. Its not just for small uCs.
Ok, maybe that would impose a limit on "the entire universe", but what if we just are considering "this causally connected component" of the universe? (Aside: there may be a bit of difficulty/ambiguity in defining "this causally connected component of the universe". I think the basic reasoning should turn out the same in each of the reasonable ways to define it.)

like, a person's brain can be split in 2 and have them live, iirc, so that it could split into parts that are no longer connected at some point, doesn't seem to by itself rule out the consciousness of a part I think?

That isn't to say that I think "this connected component of the universe " is conscious. I don't think it is. (I believe in the existence of souls, though by that I do not mean that I am confident that a human-made AI couldn't be conscious. Maybe it could, I don't know. If it seemed to be, I think it would be best (in most contexts) to err on the side of assuming that it was?
Point is, I think there is something humans have(/are) that "this connected component of the universe" doesn't.)
We might be able to help at Chargehound. We're the only automated system that fights chargebacks for you. We're also the only one on Stripe's platform that's endorsed by them: https://stripe.com/works-with/chargehound
Quite an interesting article with lots of good insights. This was particularly interesting to me:

The increasing disparity in financial conditions is a major cause of the slowing of growth, because those in lower income/wealth groups have higher propensities to spend than those in higher income/wealth groups. Said differently, if you give rich people more money, they probably won’t spend much of it, whereas if you give poorer people more money, they will probably spend more of it, each motivated by the extent of their unmet needs and desires.

I intuited poor people spent more than rich people, but never understood why, but this actually makes a ton of sense.
Here's the backstory for my app: https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/my-answer-to-the-gratuit...
Neither of those are plentiful on Mars.
> In fact, not even ProtonMail has the ability to read your messages

Protonmail is a website which can read contents of your email, did I miss something?
If you want to monetize your website by selling advertising, you have 2 main routes:

1) work with an SSP (supply side platform) that will help you sell your inventory, manage your tags, manage your yield, etc. It'll help you make your inventory available to a lot of advertisers. It has a cost and you don't have full control over what type of ad is displayed on your site.
Example of SSP: Appnexus, DFP, OpenX, RhythmOne, Sovrn, etc.

2) Directly upload tags from advertisers onto your website. It can be time-consuming, may require infrastructure investment, needs sales team

As far as privacy goes, it depends on what you consider as a matter of privacy. Most likely your advertisers will want to fire pixels on your page to capture information on users, check that traffic is human traffic, etc. Publishers will also want to capture user data as a way to value their inventory more.

Hope that helps.
To chat or not chat?
A local startup has an interesting position, but it's very unlikely for me to move in at least a year due to a couple of personal reasons.
Would you still go and have a chat with the hiring manager to find out more? Or I should avoid wasting everyone's time? Personally, I'd like to have the talk because I am really really curious.
Opioid Lobbyist Left a Digital Fingerprint on a Campaign by “Patient Advocates”
It is for app and web site developers that want to accept credit cards through the new Payment Request API. The backend would process the credit cards with their usual payment processor. The payment API is easier for users since Google remembers credit card details and they don't have to type them into a form.
Some of the comments from people whom I infer are significantly younger than I, seem aghast at the idea of having enjoyed the non-connected life as a youth. They are similarly quizzical when they learn that I seldom carry a cell phone and still maintain a landline.

That was the reasoning for my pointing out that it may sound strange.

Even as a well-grown adult, I still go outside and play, sans any compute devices at all. I often hike, snowmobile, ski, snowshoe, ride an ATV, etc and don't even bother with a GPS unit or bring a cell phone. Mentioning this sometimes nets some responses expressing everything from curiosity to suggesting that I'm recklessly endangering myself and others.

Yes, yes I have had (online) people tell me that my doing so is actively endangering others who may need to come rescue me. I'm never quite sure how to respond politely to those types of comments. I guess it is difficult for some people to understand that life existed before the ubiquity of communication devices and always-on networks. They sometimes express more dismay when I point out that, in some locations, not even cellular service is available.

Ah well... But, yeah, it sounds strange to some folks - given the responses I've had to similar commentary.
A lead paint test kit is not the same product as a lead water test.

Lead based paint has 5000 ppm (parts per million) of lead [1]

Water is considered unsafe at levels over over 15 ppb (parts per (billion) [2]

So her test kit is orders of magnitude more sensitive than a lead paint test kit, it's not even in the same ballpark. (if you're standing at home plate and her test kit is at first base, then the lead paint test kit would be over 5000 miles away)

[1] https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/20264_LEADSPEAK.PDF

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm

* I couldn't find any specs on the sensitivity of her product, so I used the EPA's cutoff for unsafe lead levels
Making big data a little smaller
My biologist friend isn't patient enough to ELI5, but AFAIU don't genes realign through the natural course of replication? That is, there is no specific, canonical sequence at large scales, neither between two individuals nor even two cells, even if the complete set of base pairs[1] is otherwise identical (i.e. no mutations).

I realize that the magnitude of this natural shuffling, even during meiosis, is nowhere near like what happens when sequencing DNA[2], but (assuming I'm correct) it's helpful to realize that this problem of deciphering the "correct" sequence reflects something intrinsic to the operation of the machinery; that this applies even when the relevant macro sequences are all genes that directly code for phenotypes as traditionally understood; and that gene sequencing works precisely because many (most?) genes are relatively tolerant to being spliced in at random locations in the strand. (Which is different than saying all locations--or even any two locations--produce identical results.)

[1] I refrain from saying "complete set of genes" because I imagine for some genes location at both the micro- and macro-scale is everything. AFAIU the term gene is sometimes better understood as more a description of the result of possibly non-local sequences which maintain reproductive affinity than an identification of a specifically adjoining sequence of base pairs.

[2] Or is it?
As a kid who ended up not "changing the world," thanks.
Millennials Are More Likely to Buy a Self-Driving Car
Actually, I am asking a slightly different question: how can we build an alternate monetization model for online content (outside of ads and subscriptions).

I like your example. I will look up Jeph.
Which is one of the reasons I don't understand a few "pro-science" folks that go against organic by equating things like anti-vaxxers to people that believe sustainable and organic farming are better for our health and for the planet as a whole.

Sure, people defend all kinds of things with stupid arguments, but just because stupid arguments may be used to argue for something doesn't mean that other arguments are not correct.
What Arxiv URLs were you trying?

LaTeX is really tricky to parse, which is why you're seeing those "failed to render" errors. Judging from our logs, it works about ~80% of the time. That's up a lot from plain Pandoc though - it could render hardly anything from Arxiv.
Physics Boosts Artificial Intelligence Methods
USU professor hopes 'BeePi' hive sensors will help honeybees
The landing page leaves everything to be desired if you have no idea what this is about in the first place.
> Fort Bragg and Redding are cold and foggy much of the time

Fort Bragg is on the coast, and Redding is inland - they have wildly different climates. Redding is pretty damn hot, actually, and supposedly very sunny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding,_California#Climate

The politics are probably not something most SF people would like, though (nor I, really).

There are a ton of beautiful places around there, though, and in southern Oregon as well. The oak/madrone/pine forests in that area are extremely beautiful in my opinion.
So very, very true. This is not the right forum for telling my story of the garbage purloining skunk who got his head stuck in a peanut butter jar.

You know the adage about how a skunk won't spray in an enclosed area, so that you can throw a blanket over a skunk and not worry about being sprayed? It's a lie. Mr. Skunk does not care.
If you are in NYC you can test your water for free: http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/1266/request-lead-...
> Tokyo added more housing than the entire state of California:

And anyone who wants to live in a 250 square foot apartment and get stuffed (literally!) into a subway every day to get to work is free to move there. But the people who find SV desirable move there in no small measure because it's not like Tokyo.
Anecdotally, I'm a software engineer in SF and know many other software engineers in SF that don't fall in any of those 3 categories. We are mostly from other countries, some of us on H1b, and are very happy here.
University Labs Put Cybersecurity Under the Microscope
So what's the root cause? When we drive a truck full of food for the poor over the border, is it stopped and relieved of its contents by men with guns who sell the food and the truck to non-poor people so they can buy more guns?

Or is it because nobody wants to drive that truck full of food in the first place because the poor don't have anything worth trading for it?
How to validate query params in Ember.js – the Ember way
Already answered the example question.

About quantra.io, is an API that can be used to generate curves, price Interest Rate Swaps, price bonds and some dates and calendars calculations.

Check apidocs.quantra.io
As a gamer, I can also confirm that I tend to have a tough time with dark areas in a lot of mainstream games. If I can get the game to realize that I'm trying to look at them (usually by getting the bright sky out of my viewport so it does the "HDR adjust" fake thing) then the darks come out of the contrast floor and I can suddenly make out the detail.

The problem with the game doing fake-HDR is that while it looks great in trailers (or... at the very least, looks like the engine is doing something fancy with lighting, "great"-ness notwithstanding) it doesn't match what my real eyes would do in a situation. Unlike film, a video game doesn't have control over where I'm going to point the camera. I do. And sometimes, I need to see over that ridge, but the detail in the shadows is important too, and the game camera can't see what I'm actually looking at (with my eyes) and adjust accordingly.

Breath of the Wild is a great counter example, because it doesn't really try to do the HDR adjust thing at all. It doesn't really need to; sure its daylight scenes are a bit washed out, but real daylight is a bit washed out too. My eyes adjust, just like they would outside, and I can actually see what I'm doing. That's important! With games, tempting though it is to control the camera effects just like you would when shooting film, you can't control the player's actions. It's usually better for gameplay to mellow out the effects, so the player can focus on their actions without being distracted by the 'pretty' effects.
what ad supported model? what ad are you talking about? i haven't seen any for a while. at least not second time from the same site. if a site tries to push an ad at my eyeballs i just block them in my browser. that's why i never ran into the Verge r these 9to5 sites and other such sites. i am not sure if they are still working.
Yes, but it's missing a calendar. Definitely more secure though
APT 1.6 alpha 1 – seccomp and more
Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of
I will make.
yep, after verizon. with a 3rd party for extra spam filtering.
Absolutely. Yes. Do this.
Is that the one with no headphone jack?
What differentiates Insomnia from Postman? Both are non-native electron apps.
I suppose more engineery explanation would be that we allocate "0" to represent everything below noise floor and whatever maximum value to represent saturation, which leaves us with [1,max-1] as the useful range for our signal. And the dynamic range is in respect to that, instead of [0,max]
I guess it depends on whether or not she deliberately made it look like something for which she ought to be arrested.
Also, if you want make test API calls as part of your CI process (or just want to monitor them regularly), I created my own tool: http://www.apilope.com. I always missed such features from REST API tools!
Amsterdam refuses to publish Whois records as ICANN whois GDPR row escalates
I'm disappointed they haven't fixed the server-side character movement. Even in a slow, non-action game like Second Life, client-side player movement is essential to making the game feel natural. And while I don't expect Linden Lab to have the budget of, say, World of Warcraft, plenty of smaller games have implemented it because it's so important to the user experience.

Waiting for the server to affirm your button press to move your character just makes the game feel instantly wrong and frustrating.
Is Apple the only company that can reliably build quality electronics?
As noted above, in addition to Patreon, you can do a tip jar. Here are some of my posts on tip jars, including instruction on how to create one:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search?q=tip+jar

I don't get a lot of tips, but I don't have a lot of traffic either. From what I gather, my track record of getting cash directly from my audience is vastly superior to that of most people doing stuff online. I mean, until Patreon. But I used to have donate buttons. I have always made more from my audience just giving me money than from ads. I can't figure out merchandising.

Even so, I can't figure out how on earth you turn this into a middle class income or something like that. Still, I think it is a model that holds promise given what is happening with ads.