skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, cause:

- The concept fails. People is not giving you money for no service.

- Your answer lacks the creativity required for a person with good ideas.
Real life is not a Pixar movie.
The cloud is DRM. I think that and not scalability or anything else is the primary driver for most apps. It's a way of putting your code where users can't directly access it and charging a monthly fee.
Hotels Owned, Indirectly Controlled and Influenced by Chinese Govt Interests
this is assuming an overdose death is worse societally than having said user alive, unemployable, and addicted to opium or an opium substitute for the rest of their lives. I don't mean this morally...life is precious and should be saved. But I don't know how many societies could deal with a massive addict class that only exists to siphon benefits and energy.
Why your developers' time estimates are terrible
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> I do hope you meant mg, not g

ahaha XD Yeah sorry. one pill == 500mg :D

> Have you thought about consulting professionals re this?

I did but since I found a way to accomodate my schedule (more or less) by working in the afternoon and evening and sleeping through the morning (til about 10.30 or 11 AM) I'm fine for now.

I'd be more interesting in the CHANGE itself.. like in experimenting on changing my sleeping habits, more than in the results.

I'm a tech/sci/IT nerd afterall :P
Rare genetic mutation found in Amish community could combat ageing
Interestingly, your link didn't work for me because comodo.com was blocked by Quad9 :)
block the ips, try to block the domain..lots of options
This is nice but I really hope people don't become complacent with this and rely on GitHub to notify them of such things.
Devaluing those who don't conform to local cultural norms destigmatizes violence against them. If you promulgate the belief that cultures should not mix, you cannot disavow blame for violence committed against those of a minority culture just because you personally didn't raise a hand against them.

> If someone walked down the streets naked, would you not think they're crazy? If a man wanted to stone a gay person, or shun a woman for exposing her hair, would you not look at that person with disdain?

You are conflating laws with culture to make a strawman. GP specifically talked about black culture, not violent-religious-fundamentalist-nudist culture.
Crying wolf by making up deliberately exaggerated scenarios in order to push a social agenda is not valid, and damages the reputation of scientists.
I live in a small suburban city within the Little Rock metro area and have run the numbers before. You could replace income and sales taxes with a straight land value tax (also replacing the tax on improvements to the land) and a household's tax burden would be roughly the same, if not less.

Granted, mine is just one sample point, but it was enough to keep me interested and wanting to see further (and better) studies done.
Battery packs could be swapped out and charged out of the vehicle. This would make a lot of sense.
If you were prohibited from building a 20 story apartment block on your land but your neighbour was not, then your land would be worth less and subsequently you would be taxed less.
Thank you for your commenst :) but let me ask a question: Why do you consider them mutable? They are related into a commit and they are stored into an specific ref (it is not the default for Git notes). Git notes are also used to store static code analysis results.

The tool could generate the report as a file, sure. But The problem is that you will need a service to retrieve that file and compare - and then it becomes a non generic solution.

Indeed, my question is what do you want to do with that file? It can generate it, but nobody will take benefit of it, right?
Speaks to a problem of means testing property taxes on anything other than the property value - how to define poor in a way that can’t be games by skillful accounting?
'Move fast and break things'...'disruption'? There's a lot going on in prison dynamics that are way out of SV's scope- this is people's 24/7 lives. Not saying it can't be improved, but SV engineers don't have a fantastic track record of foresight when it comes to downstream psychological effects.
The "use blockchain" people are missing it. This is for dealing with companies that handle purchases through the very traditional Quote -> Purchase Order -> Delivery -> Invoice -> Payment system.
If you got the info by scraping Southwest's site, I don't think it will matter if you present it without reference to Southwest. You're in trouble for how you got it, not how you present it.
Of course it is, it's just systemic, not individualized.
100 km queue of Mongolian coal trucks at China border
If your point is that Carl Sagan may not be the foremost authority on nuclear winter, I think it's already been made (though, that is an interesting catch). I have no ability to speak on that subject, I was merely pointing out that I find it misleading to suggest that firestorms have been shown not to cause climate effects when the opposite is also true in some instances.
> Early windows development (for years after it became popular) was done at a DOS command line.

2 decades and a completely different kernel ago, sure.
I think this is a fair way to read it. I have made my bones on ripping PHP and JS up and down, left and right; I didn't trust them as far as I can throw them. SPAs sucked because JavaScript sucked, and PHP sucks because its existence has put more frustrating work on my plate than anything else.

I still feel that way about PHP. ES6 and ES2017 changed my mind about JS, though, along with the eventual maturity of the stack: babel, eslint, good testing in Jest. Everything I always hated about JS totally does still exist in its bowels, that's never going to change. But the guard rails have gotten very good and more modern flavors of JavaScript have added a lot of stuff that makes life easier (strongly opaque modules, async/await, and arrow functions are probably my top three). The build ecosystem is still bonkers, yeah--but there's a baseline level of sanity that I can work with. I know there are still land mines in there, but they're flagged and mostly out of the way.

On the other hand, any time I'm stuck back in PHP, it is fundamentally the same stuff that has been sticking needles in me since I was in high school. Yeah, the language has advanced--but I'm not sure the general practice has advanced all that much, and the parts of the language that are problematic are right up in your face.
Not entirely true, the government can always take your 401k
I think blockchain factoring is interesting, though in the US there are many tax and legal issues surrounding factoring [0]. So blockchain tech alone isn't a sufficient solution long term (as we've seen vis-a-vis ICOs.) I still think there is innovation to be had here, though.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/American-Factoring-Law-David-Tatge/dp...
It's a shame that you're being down voted. You're right about the political cooptioon of science. In my original message, I was trying to be minimally divisive.

I think you're wrong on climate change, but for understandable reasons. We're been peddling lies under the name of science for so long now (see the role of sugar in nutrition) that science has lost much of the credibility it needs to drive the changes we need to address climate change. I don't blame people for distrusting counter-intuitive science generally these days.

Maybe that's why we keep talking about ineffective emissions regulations instead of prototyping effective geoengineering remedies for the carbon forcing and ocean acidification.
As U.S. Debates Ending Electric Car Tax Credit, China Aims to Expand Sales
I don't quite understand your point about reducing battery size. What would that accomplish?
Note: this is not about delays, it's about departing early. A delayed departure can have knock on effects (missing your next train), but an early departure can have immediate effects (not making it on to the train).
Directly from an employee.
Trump lifting of restrictions on importing elephant body parts
I love C, but haven't done professional work in it for ten years - where are people looking for C programmers?
Interesting to look at differences by city:
https://www.yellowpages.com/new-york-ny/trends/

Highlights - Jetskis in SF, Escorts in NY
Yeah, sorry for being unclear - that is what I meant. I don't see wasm as at fault here, it's just a bummer that this new attack surface was introduced by writing the wasm implementation in C++ instead of memory-safe languages. It's not something so complex that it really needs to be C++.

Most (all?) browser wasm backends function by just generating the internal IR used by the existing JS runtime, so it's not especially necessary to write the loader/generator in C++. The generated native module(s) are often cached, also, which diminishes the importance of making the generator fast at the cost of safety.

I wrote all the original encoder and decoder prototypes in JS for this reason - you can make it fast enough, and the browser already has a high-performance environment in which you can run that decoder. When the result is already being cached I think writing this in C++ is a dangerous premature optimization.

Similarly it's common to write decoders as a bunch of switch statements and bitpacking, which creates a lot of duplication and space for bugs to hide. You can build these things generally out of a smaller set of robust primitives to limit attack surface, but that wasn't done here either, despite my best efforts.
You seem to be taking a very hostile stance against what, a detailed and researched article about a project you don't deem worthy enough for your interest?
Unfortunately our prison systems are not designed for rehabilitation but rather for profit, control and punishment. The fact that prisons are underfunded to the point that rape and assault are taken for granted is a disappointing statement on our society and value for human life.

Controlling the gangs would require an investment in policing and education, something the prison industry and our politicians are in no way prepared to do.

When a person is sent to prison they are essentially remanded to the state and the state should bear any and all responsibility to ensure their safety. People in authority, especially the prison staff should be held personally liable for this. They are not except in extreme cases and then only rarely.

Prisons are treated as a means to simply house and profit from society's dregs and in many cases its most vulnerable. In addition these troubled, and oft petty criminals are trapped with the most violent. How someone is expected to emerge from prison and become a productive member of the society that put them there is beyond me.
These issues of keeping track of stuff seem utterly trivial compared to what Amazon already does. I fail to see why this is a problem. I also fail to see why requiring businesses to follow the law is a bad thing. If it's too difficult, then talk to the legislators, don't just ignore the rules and regulations in place.
Toronto has the tool library:

https://torontotoollibrary.com/
We are giving up on free speech to avoid people been offended, of course lawyers in big companies will find a way to use that to their advantage.
Is visiting a website now some sort of contract? I have no contractual relationship with Southwest, what do I care for their TOS?

In the EU all TOS are basically just a reiteration of standard consumer law, you can put into yours whatever you want but none of that nonsense survives a legal challenge.
EMC acquisition — Isilon by any chance? :-)
google spamhaus ddos?

and dnssec is fundamentally flawed
I think it's worth pointing out that the global nuclear arsenal today is about a fifth the size it was when Carl Sagan made this warning. We've made significant progress toward reducing existential risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...
Well, it's definitely true that it's not like GCJ, because it doesn't compile Java code and doesn't support Java libraries. So you can't just take a Kotlin/JVM program and compile it for Kotlin/Native, since the JVM-based libraries it uses won't be available.

But both GCJ and Kotlin/Native compile a high-level, garbage-collected language to native executables, so I suppose they're similar in that sense.
Yeah, nationalizing all companies would be ugly.

And has nothing to do with taxing personal wealth over 10 million (or other arbitrary big number).
Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption in the US
Ask HN: As a developer/designer/founder, what services/tools are you paying for?
You only partially quoted me. I said a "large part of their interference," not all of it as your quote implies.

It has been confirmed by the intelligence community that a general theme of the interference was that they wanted to ruin Hillary specifically. I suggest you get up to speed on the official findings that have been declassified and released.[1]

I also suggest you read up on the Uranium One situation[2] as what you are portraying is very different from what the facts say, and follow a debunked narrative. In fact, in his Wednesday testimony this week, AG Sessions indicated it did not currently merit a special prosecutor due to lack of evidence.[3]

If you'd like to continue this debate and making claims, I request that you back them up with credible sources.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/the-inte...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/hillary-clinton-ur...

[3] http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essenti...
I used changelly for a transaction, there was a problem with the wallet I was using but technical support got back to me, asked for a new wallet and sent the transaction again. ShapeShift does seem to have lower fees but you should be able to get your coin back from changelly.
No offense, but as a father of an 11 month old, the baby bidet is a terrible idea. Causes of concern / thoughts:

1. Is the bidet going to hold the baby, suspended in place, with a water shield, so I can direct the water where it needs to clean? Because if not, their is no way I can hold said baby and spray / clean with one hand. As new parents know, the water will need to get in many, many places and needs to be direct-able.

2. As new parents know, the moment the diaper comes off, things go everywhere. So is this bidet going to strip my kids cloths and diaper before spraying? Or would I have to strip and then place the kid? To many logistical issues if the latter....

3. Safety. Temperature. Pressure. Direction. Spillage. DIY Plumping. Etc. To many hurdles.

Not all kids sit still, even when you are changing them. Using a bidet just seems one of those ideas that might appeal to the 1% with a team of nannies, but to us regular folk, I'll stick with a changing mat and wipes, it is just easier....
Not sure if this is what you meant by tag browsing, but I've been using https://github.com/kupospelov/vis-ctags successfully today.
It should never have been something you could only do through Verizon. Verizon didn't build the phones. So why should Verizon have any say in what I put on my phone (as long as it doesn't affect their network)?
Ask HN: Do you regularly use remote desktop?
I am thinking of making a product in this domain and I wonder if people here use remote desktop clients regularly (rdp, vnc).

What client software do you use? and for what purpose do you use remote desktop.
> If you promulgate the belief that cultures should not mix, you cannot disavow blame for violence committed against those of another culture just because you personally didn't raise a hand against them.

This is a slippery slope fallacy, saying any sort of action in one direction will lead to or promote violence. A lot can be accomplished without violence.

> You are conflating laws with culture to make a strawman.

No, I'm not. Those are laws because they are social norms that have been deemed unacceptable to break, thus are enforced. Regardless of whether or not you call the cops, you would still think they're crazy for walking around naked, because our cultural norms say that anyone walking around naked is crazy, not because they're breaking the law.

> GP specifically talked about black culture, not violent-religious-fundamentalism-nudist culture.

Where did I mention a violent-religious-fundamentalism-nudist culture? Be honest, would that _really_ be the first thing you think about when you see someone walking naked in the middle of the street?
Google will stop letting sites use AMP format to bait and switch readers
As a parent of several kids, diaper changing really seems like a solved problem. With a little practice it takes literally seconds for a wet diaper and a couple minutes for poo.

The most time consuming part of it all is the clothing unsnapping, re-snapping with winter clothing on.

Finally, the hardest part about the washing is getting the baby dry after to prevent rashes, not getting them clean. A couple flushable, bio-degradable wipes.

The last thing I want as a parent is another gadget that needs maintenance and/or refills.
FCC Rolls Back Limits on Local Broadcast Ownership
Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics
They could, but they don't want the potential liability when they get it wrong. And they will get it wrong, sales tax rules can be incredibly arcane.

For example, in Minnesota groceries are tax-free but ready-to-eat prepared food is not. If I buy a pizza from Papa John's it gets taxed, if I buy a bake-it-yourself pizza from Papa Murphy's it doesn't.
My answer:

Main, kinda obvious stuff:

- Github subscription

- Digital Ocean hosting

- Namecheap domains

- Udemy courses (learning react from Stephen Grider, awesome)

- Audible audiobooks

Other:

- https://gingkoapp.com/ for breaking down goals, writing, all sorts of stuff

- Netflix

- http://www.harmontown.com - I love great comedy

- Fenix - great twitter client

- Editorial - brilliant text editor for iOS

- PocketCasts - good podcasts app on android

- Moon reader pro - fantastic ebook reader for android

Awesome free tools that I use:

- Emacs with org mode for pretty much everything

- draw.io for diagrams

- figma - discovered it only recently, an insanely brilliant design app.

- Sometimes workflowy for notes

- Sometimes trello for organizing bugs/features
Indeed, some people in the recent fires were able to save their homes with a garden hose (!) depending on the intensity of the fire in their area, particularly when the fire was spread by flying embers. That's not unusual in wildfires, though only some fraction of buildings can be saved this way.
With how often serious bugs ship to Chrome release channel, I don't think evergreen is implicitly a good thing in the OS that drives my computer, especially if it's my work PC.

If you look through the chromium issue tracker you can also find multiple bug reports where people were struggling to get their chromebooks to update to the latest release, because auto-update had broken. Some of those people were Google employees.
Indeed,

You get a combination of a wifi network being the one sort network every person is guaranteed to be already on and every company dreaming of cloud-based-app supremacy "synergizing" every useless whatsit they have access and the IoT nightmare is in full swing.

"What could possibly go" - wait, we've seen answers to that one already.
> Roughly in line with the rest, but as I understand they designed their timetable to make sure that people can make their connection

Hmm. Maybe that's something that's missed in the beancounter-ish environment of today's transportation networks... to allow for "slack times". Basically, have the train spend a minute more per station so there is always some inherent amount of time that can be used for stuff like a wheelchair user or a horde of kindergarden kids without impacting everyone else...

IIRC something similar was attempted and then rejected at a local bus line, because it would have meant to hire another driver and a bus, and the beancounters said it's too expensive.
Engaging users through high quality AMP pages
Is there anything similar for Java and electron?
We're working on it for billboards:

https://www.adquick.com

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/adquick-seed-funding/

We still have a long ways to go, but I think there's a good chance we'll prove you wrong :)
Is there an extension to biased objects of more sides, say a die?
>whereas Pascal/Modula/Oberon are dead as a dodo.

Dead as a dodo? You need to check your facts. For instance, the FreePascal mailing list is very much alive and well. People are using it to make and ship real projects and products. Not as many, maybe, in volume, compared to the most widely used languages such as Java, C#, C, JavaScript, etc., but definitely not a trivial number (anecdotal, based on what I've read, and seen on the mailing list).

Heck, even Delphi, which is a descendant of Pascal, is still going somewhat strong, with many users, despite wrong turns taken by Borland and others who owned it at different times. And there is also Lazarus, a sort of free clone of Delphi, based on Free Pascal with GUI support, IDE and libraries added.

As plenty of others have said here in the past, this board (HN) is representative of just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of business software activity going on in the world. So you can't draw valid conclusions from what you read here, except for this microcosm.
haha, this is very funny as having used both the London tube and the NYC system, I dream about the tube. It's better in every way. Trains are nicer, stations cleaner, people are much more courteous.

NYC is almost guaranteed standing on many lines at all times of the day.
I can't give you a link to official figures, but from living there 6 years I can answer a few questions.

Suicide: by train isn't uncommon, but if they have to delay one line, there are similar lines people can use to route around the area (usually, and to great discomfort).

People on the track: I have only seen this once, aside from workers and they know the schedules and have watchers to make sure the lines are clear.

Morons not moving: pretty hard Todo that with the sheer mass of bodies moving out ;) also there is a system everyone adopts, on the outside everyone lines up in two lines outside the carriage doors, and let's the train empty, before attempting to get in.

Its quite amazing how well it works.
I don't think Amazon comingles "Sold and shipped by Amazon" inventory. Or at least they didn't use to - do they now?
In my experience, tesserect 4 with LSTM is far more accurate in recognizing characters. It was not there in 2015, so the post would probably need an update or a follow up.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-with-LST...
It would make a lot of sense, but Tesla already floated the idea and decided not to pursue it [0]. That seems like a lot of work just to make a bad technology 'good enough'. Swapping bad batteries for more charged bad batteries doesn't change the fact that batteries are a bad technology.

[0]: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shuts-down-battery-swap-prog...
What had to be done, is done. Thanks.
Hey Kyle!

I have some experience in this space. I run a startup idea repository and newsletter.

In my experience, people really want to be put in touch with their first paying customer. As a rule, the more you can help assess the demand for each idea, the better.

I have some ideas on how YCombinator could do this at scale, and start founders in a more advantageous position, if that's of interest.
In the context of the 70's, everything was a disaster or crisis waiting to happen. From movies that made you worry about earthquakes, burning skyscrapers, killer bees, to books Ehrlich's book, Rachel Carson's overhyped "Silent Spring" and magazines like Newsweek that touted a coming ice age. If that wasn't enough, the overwhelming sense of fear of a war with the USSR, or running out of oil due to an OPEC embargo was a real thing.
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