skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our cities are too expensive, thanks to NIMBYs, and have terrible schools, thanks to various factors but mostly America's long history of segregation and oppression. Neither of those things will be fixed, probably ever much less any time soon.

So the question is, how do you make the best of what you've got to work with? My wife and I moved from downtown DC to just outside the Annapolis city limits. We probably do more culture/community stuff now, because thanks to Uber and a low cost of living, we can easily justify trying those things out.

If I could find a comparable job in Topeka, I'd totally try that out. Yuppie cultural amenities are everywhere these days. Yeah, it won't be New York, but only New York is New York, but somehow the rest of the country manages to get by with their second-string versions of things.
The problem is games are so expensive and there are so many of them you can't try them all, so it's not enough to know a game exists - you need some indication it's worth buying. That's the purpose of a review, and if you can't trust the reviewer to be reasonably unbiased it's of no value.
> Given the simple algorithm and without any entropy, it will be trivial to crack the password if the hacker has your multiple passwords.

If. Depends a lot on how easy that attacker can identify those accounts as belonging to one set. Easy when they all go to the same email, but deep in the realm of individually targeted attacks if there is a layer of redirection. It's a tradeoff, password managers come at the cost of making their users part of a very high value dragnet target. I guess the proper way to do it would be to augment managed passwords with a brain-based component. That, and stuffing the password manager with a few canary accounts on high-value sites that send out login notifications.
Robert Mugabe is an example of this.
Publicly elected boards, perhaps? Or elected by employees with open candidacy?
A lot of our customers are SaaS companies. To them, a feature request is worthless if they don't know who gave it. We don't plan on supporting anonymous feedback until we expand our focus to consumer apps.

Also, if you don't leave your email, how will you know once the feature is built?
Ok. How do those journalists, web devs, publishers, photographers, etc pay their bills?
> I use my phone a lot when it’s lying on a desk, can’t unlock it when the fingerprint sensor is on the back.

You can still unlock a phone via its PIN if you don't want to pick it up. (Edit: I have not owned an iPhone since the original. Does the iPhone not provide a PIN option when Touch ID is enabled?)
When I had an apartment I didn't buy one because I had no room. Now I have a house the xbox one S needed special pricey cables, and there were no games. So I never bought one.
I really like the idea of the Kinect but I couldn't use it when it was big.
It's not so easy to make space nuclear power light and reliable. Most likely a nuclear powered spacecraft with electric thrusters would be a dog.

Nuclear thermal rockets aren't that great either, the temperature and thus the specific impulse is not very high, and they have high dry mass and would be really expensive to develop and hard to make reliable.

In space you have 1.3 kW per square meter sun power constantly without the atmosphere or clouds in the way, and solar cells improve constantly.
What? Many suburban homes in the US have wells on their property.
Even worse - entering a password into a device without keyboard. Smart TVs, streaming sticks, consoles, etc. Extra fun when every input character is immediately masked.
Why would we then detect dark matter inside our universe?
Community marketplace for amateur YouTube talent. I'd been an amateur voice actor for 10 years so I had a lot of contacts and felt like I was intimate enough with the industry to build something they wanted.

The other person linked to it already.
You should tell that to Slack! Clearly didn't work out for them. /s

In all seriousness, ChartMogul wrote a great post about how freemium can work for SaaS https://blog.chartmogul.com/saas-pricing-two-sides-freemium/
There's almost always a "special delivery instructions" field.
One problem is that NASA is running out of plutonium [1] as the Pu-238 used to this point was largely a byproduct of the weapons program and not a lot of nuclear warheads have been built lately.

[1]: https://www.popsci.com/new-technique-could-double-plutonium-...
You can usually extend the evaluations a few times. The Win2k16 server trial is 180 days and can be extended 6 times with a simple script call. If you cron it right you get 3 years.
> Probably, but I wouldn't. The idea of giving a company full access to your locks is a bit wtf in my books.

What if Amazon accept full liability for use of the lock though their system?
Ask HN: How do you decide which open-sourced project to use?
I am curious about how you go about selecting an open-source project to include in work that you are doing.

What variables do you consider?
- Number of Contributors?
- Frequency of Contributions?
- When was the project last updated / changed?
- How active is the development of the project?
- What other projects have used the project under consideration?
- ... <etc>

Once you've selected a few contenders, do you pull the project(s) and begin playing with and testing it? Envisioning how to integrate into your own and what changes may be necessary to accommodate it.

For example, let's say you want to use JSONPath in your Go project. There are quite a few implementations:
> https://golanglibs.com/top?q=jsonpath
I had to reproduce quicksort or binary search (I don't recall which) by hand, on pen and paper, in an exam :)
Sure, but you're asking your server to support a full query language. Even with data-fetch on a js-impl (or ... a hell of a lot of by-hand tooling in Python with Graphene), this overhead really hurts your qps.

To be honest, I sort of wonder if the right place to implement the GQL interpretation and scheduling layer is in a service-worker.

That way, the client devs who love this complex query language can also support the queries they need and ensure their calling conventions don't violate performance boundaries in the gql server implementation.
How does that change things? Why does that mean that I should not be able to unite with my fellow consumers to hold them accountable?
That's mostly a horrible accident though.

In retrospect what we should have done is released version 1.0 about 7 years ago when the parser was more or less fully compliant with the spec at the time and just been prepared to bump the version for backwards-incompatible changes (note that at the time the conventions of semver were not as widely adopted as they are now).

What actually happened was we planned a 1.0 release, and so made a series of "final" pre-1.0 version numbers like 0.90, 0.99,etc. and then kept finding one more thing to do, coupled with a decreasing amount of time working on it, and finally spec changes that we didn't keep up with. There certainly wasn't any TeX-like intent to converge on a number, just a series of decisions that seemed reasonable at the time, but had an overall effect that was ridiculous.
"It has to be good enough for Toronto."

As a Toronto resident: I guess this means begin construction and then don't do any work for 5 years, all while burning through city funds.
> So I guess this is all at a very early stage of development.

That should be the top link
Thank you for summing up my feelings. I've been actively moving everything away from Google and Facebook lately. They're just distractions to living a fulfilling life.
At that point just use a manager. The point of an algorithm is that you can generate it using only your brain. Your brain can't easily calculate hashing digests.
> But do you think that trans people have power?

In this particular case this identity is instrumentalised in order to modify the behaviour of Patreon.

This simply wouldn't be done so readily unless the identity within this context carried power.

I do not think that trans people in general have power. However, a lack of power in one context, can sometimes be an arbitrage opportunity in contexts where an oppressed identity is currency.

I'm not against this but the underlying power dynamics are too interesting to be ignored.

That said, I dislike the usage of the phrase "literally scared for their lives". This phrase is meant to be used to call on others to defend lives and here it is being used to call on other's to defend an ability to make money selling porn. Crying wolf undermines the ability for truly endangered people to ask for help. It is ethically repulsive to me that people that consider themselves good dilute the meaning of cries for help for base political expediency. By doing this, they may well deprive the most desperately helpless people of their only means for help.

It seems obvious to me that they're conflating economic opportunity with safety, as it is the only viable political position left to them. As has been established elsewhere, companies do not owe workers a means to make money. I do not personally agree with deplatforming, but there is currently no right to a job, and, if such a right was to exist, it would not be possible to administer it fairly depending on the relative oppression/privilege of a person. On the other hand, I guess accrued wealth and number of potential income sources could be seen as reducing the likelihood of homelessness and perhaps we should use this to determine whether a loss of income could affect somebody's safety. (In this case I think that's unlikely: there are so many other online social networks that are supportive.)
Can I use client side certificates with http2?
pretty nifty gmail extension!
> than I think Silicon Valley as we know it (knew it) is dead

Didn't you hear? It died with DrKoop.com, eToys, Pets.com, Webvan, et al.

Silicon Valley has been a constant target for that premise for four decades. It's nothing more than people wishing for ill upon something because they dislike it, entirely separating what's actually likely to happen from what they want to have happen.

Here's what is actually going to happen.

Silicon Valley is overflowing with capital, experience, talent and a high tolerance for risk. There is no hint that any of those things is in meaningful decline today. Over the coming 20 years, new tech giants will be created there. Then someone will be saying the exact same thing you just said, just as 16 and 25 and 37 years ago.
The document is over 100 years old. I'd say the HN rule of not posting dumb comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html) extends to ahistorical internet dismissals.
If you already know it, then yes, it's still handy sometimes. And it's a small language, unlike Perl.

OTOH I'm not sure I'd recommend bothering to learn it. Python is more verbose in Awk's domain, but not by so much as makes a huge difference, except at the scale of one-liners. (Or a-few-liners, at least.)

Another reason to learn it: the AWK book (by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger) is a great very short intro to the spirit of Unix-style coding. You could think of learning Awk as just the price of admission to that intro, paid along the way.

I wrote plenty of Awk in the 90s -- https://github.com/darius/awklisp isn't very representative but it was fun.
We've been here for a few weeks, and are leaving in a week. Headed back to North America for an undetermined amount of time. We'll definitely be back though! Valencia has been great.

This cafe, Cafe ArtySana, is one of my favorite spots to work in the whole world! Great coffee + food, great wifi, plenty of outlets, and they don't mind if you work all day.
That only works for the python side of things, right?
[tinfoil]

So at what point is musk and all these others going to have to be called into to a room to have a sit-down for the break-away civilization leaders to tell them what they can and can’t do?

[/tinfoil]
The site isn't very informative.

How is this different from the many established and trusted alternatives out there?

What happens to my information if I put it on your servers?

Is there a phone app?

It says "Sign Up For Free" but we know there has to be a monetization strategy to stay in business. How much does (whatever is being sold) cost?

It's a crowded space and I see no obvious reason to put all of my data into this particular walled garden.
Sometimes mail bounces. I liked to delete those messages off the thread.

I find that using Gmail with mailing more than X people is impossible because the replies all get mushed together. I now change the subject line for individual replies so I don't get lost.
Well, I don't think, there will be a law soon that requires an FB account or alike. But there have been cases, that people had to show their FB account at the border, or need it for school/University (or for job interviews )- so if there will be a structural disadvantage for people out if the corporate chain, then it will be a de facto law.
Scare quotes are unwarranted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
Reliance on Kinect and always online killed the Xbox One. Sure, they backpedaled but it was too late. They really messed up.
NSA Worker’s Software Piracy May Have Exposed Him to Russian Spies
This is both cool and really f*cking scary; I'm glad there's going to be a "smart city" or at least "smart district" but at the same time what would Google do with this data?

I've got a massive issue regarding my digital footprint and I know Google spreads my data like the plague if it gets chance.

There needs to be some sort of organisation that could do this but not for profit which Google/Alphabet will no doubt get in someway shape or form.
If the neighborhood is so nice, she can trade up for a townhouse or condo in the area. None of those problems are solved with a low density single family home.

> Your feelings don’t matter

They do when the argument begins and ends with tugging at my heart strings. And I honestly don’t see these Jarvis arguments from the 70s holding up for much longer. Not when everyone else is hurting.
It really was. I actually quit web development a few months before I learnt about Firebug because Internet Explorer was causing me loss of sleep (seriously). When I discovered Firebug I almost wanted to start doing it again, but then I quickly reminded myself that it wouldn't help with IE6 retardation.

I was really surprised to see an inferior clone appear in Chrome. I then started to hear people talking about Chrome dev tools and would always ask, "did you not know about Firebug?", and the answer would be no. Strange.
It is marketing by the book vs freestyle marketing.
Worth noting that Python's csv library is optimized C, and it handily beats Go's so this benchmark must be dominated by non-CSV parsing.
We're at the very edge of the event horizon and so is dark matter, just on the other side.
Convert the warheads into batteries?
I actually like this idea for cleaning services and such. Now you don't have to arrange giving them a key and trying to track down that key when you're done with their services. Tracking down that key is the worst. They have no incentive to give it back.

I'd like to see how Amazon manages the access. Can access be revoked manually? Can you generate your own access permissions to give to a friend? Is this access code a one-time code?
See the bullet cluster; you misunderstand the evidence for dark matter.
Mind backups do nothing for me. Imagine if your airplane ran out of fuel over the ocean. You're going to crash and die, so you get on the radio, and air traffic control says "don't worry, your estate already restored a backup of your mind into a cloned body. just go ahead and plow into the water at full speed, the new you is already awake and seems happy and comfortable."

Would you think "whew, I really dodged a bullet there", or would you think "fuck that clone, I don't want to die!" ?
> Except they have to get all of those millions of lawsuits dismissed individually by advancing that argument and failing in even a single of those cases through a novel argument on the part of plaintiff, sympathetic judge, etc could open an avalanche of lawsuits against the firms.

That could only work if people actually filed the lawsuit. However, filing a lawsuit isn't free (as the below random website attests [1]). If it's a near certainty that the lawsuit will be dismissed, few people are going to want to pay $320 (plus any other costs) to file it.

I'd like to hope people have the principle to bang their heads against the courts until they take (the proper) action, but I'm pessimistic.

Honestly, maybe novel political solutions are the answer? Could a state pass a heavy tax on binding arbitration, to be paid by the party that required it?

[1] https://calaborlaw.com/how-much-do-lawsuits-cost/
> and attempts to determine if the password is based on an algorithm.

How is it going to do that? Especially since every website has different length and character requirements?
Faster Growth Begins with a Land Tax in U.S. Cities
Was really hoping to see more non-xbox kinect uses over the years. More art installations, more retail, more whatever. Sad to see it go.
Amazon is pitching the Amazon Locker tech to apartment buildings now https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/amazon-launches-the-hub-pa...

Having used them a bunch while working at Amazon they're super nice, but not very practical for large/heavy packages because I had to get them back home. Getting one at or near my home would obviously make me order everything I could to it. It would also remove my biggest complaint about AMZL deliveries not being able to get into my freaking mailroom.
Patreon’s API unlocks rewards across the web for art funders
It's not in Europe, so I see zero reason why it should be permissible here.
It does, but if anything that argument is a point in favor of “fingerprint sensor on the back is poor UX”.
>They got away with stuff that wouldn't fly today

Linkedin manages to be even worse than facebook in that regard, even today
Regardless, I'd say there's a good chance your password will be compromised at some point, through no fault of your own. Hell, if you had a Yahoo account, you should have probably rotated it, what? Three times in the past year?

It's the forced rotation of passwords due to breaches that throw a wrench into the algorithm scheme. Even assuming no one ever actually figures out your leaked password because it was properly hashed and salted, if you as a good citizen are rotating your passwords with every breach, your Yahoo password should now be in its fourth iteration, while your other accounts may only be on your first or second. Trying to keep track of that, in practice, is unmaintainable.
I'm with you. If I read a blog and am interested in the product, please don't make me work to find it. I expect that clicking on the logo will take me to the product website.
Dark or light UI: the ultimate UI design and prototyping question
The first time I was exposed to the concept of space-based industry was playing PC game Privateer as a kid. You land on these giant asteroids with attached mining bases... to transport ore to planets and refineries.

It never made sense to me. Why setup all of this massive capital investment for mere ore?

I think one of the very first space industries is going to be automated mining, refining, and production of nuclear fuel. Once freed from the widespread and totally irrational fear of nuclear technology here on Earth, the magnitude of advantage of nuclear power is stunning. Before the regulatory regime killed nuclear investment, it was well on its way to becoming cheaper than coal.

Cheap, abundant energy solves virtually every human problem, whether on earth or in space. A stable supply of space based nuclear fuel will lead to exponential growth in space based activity and greatly simplify colonization of our solar system... and beyond.
I remember the Milo demo. The mix of overpromise and under-delivery is astonishingly consistent.
I think it's more like ~0.6kW/m^2 out at Mars
> “We find that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,” said Krueger. “And over 60% was due to the [the rise] of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers.”

So, not exactly temp workers, but contract workers who require less overhead and are easy to fire.
Yeah, reading between the lines of the Guardian's hyperbole, Google are building a campus site and are doing a bit of property development around it, which will incorporate some of their ideas on transport and security systems. There's nothing particularly odd about a company which has an urban planning subdivision doing a bit of urban planning. They might have got a sweetheart deal on the land offering dubious value to the local taxpayer, but that isn't discussed. There might be something about their IoT technology which is worse than the cameras and sensors which most high end office/apartments are already equipped with, but again, this isn't discussed. The city is still approving the planning process through normal channels, and the land is apparently an ex-industrial wasteland without existing residents to be affected. Just because Google is after you(r browsing data) doesn't mean this article isn't paranoid...

(For those unfamiliar with the Guardian, its mix of news content bemoaning young British people's lack of access to affordable housing and relentless stream of opinion pieces objecting to any and every type of (sub)urban development has always been one of its more amusing quirks)
But you still need to give it a supply of noble gas, correct?

So how many AU per unit of noble gas do you reach at terminal velocity of the thing?

Also what are the manufacturing limitations for noble supply - given all the talk about us running out of helium.

Aside: it would be ironic if they had helium balloons at the launch party of some such rocket...

Finally, what is the state of the noble gas when consumed by this engine in a full vacuum of space? Is it destroyed into a state that is unrecoverable?
No, we see evidence of dark matter everywhere inside the universe, around galaxies; you may be confusing dark matter with dark energy.
I bought the original Kinect, and I bought an Xbox One after the Kinect was no longer mandatory but I later bought a separate Kinect for it. It has moments of transcendence and a lot of failures between those moments. There's a handful of games where the Kinect sensor really makes sense, and a lot of games where it was shoehorned in and wasn't fun. The biggest problem is that it requires a lot of space. It's a pain to set up, and often a working setup doesn't work for the rest of your life, so you have to rearrange furniture every time you want to use it. It's an interesting piece of tech, but it never really got to be easy enough to use to be what Microsoft wanted it to be.
This makes me sad, because my experience with my own Kinect (360) was very much a "this could be awesome if it wasn't burdened with stupid crap".

I bought it for my kids. Turns out, the Kinect is awful for kids. They were far too little for the Kinect to properly see them, and the motions to actually use it were super fussy. Then if I walked in to try to help them, the Kinect would freak out that there was a new person in view. The dog walking by would mess it up as well.

Basically, you would need a large dedicated room for the stupid thing, and you would need to be at least 8 or so to have a chance at using it properly. Then the games were meh.

But it could have been so much better.
Strawman. He's not accusing Siftery of violating the ToS. He's accusing your company of spamming (even if within Twitter's ToS) low-value tweets.
That's debatable. I kind of like mine. Not as fast as its big brother, but that was never the intention.

And the OS is a beautiful successor for NeXTSTEP.