skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a question about citing laws, that link cited 21 of them.

Not all cities are building their own internet so that means we don't need to do anything is logic that I just don't follow.

My city didn't build their own. Last time it came up the news reported that it was because Comcast bribed the city council to charge unreasonable fees for adding cables to the existing poles and ensure that only Comcast could do the work on their own schedules. No one disputes that, but everyone who can do anything about it shrugs because Comcast is still paying them and its not illegal because money=speech.

But I guess because some other states with more broadband competition don't have as many restrictions (sense a link there?), and "all the places" that can haven't built their own broadband, I can no longer complain about not having any competition in my market and my leaders are removing laws that protect me from them but instead put in more laws that protect them from me?
> give us some evidence of its existence rather than just baldly assert it the way its taught in gender studies.

Wait, wait... what? So go out and do a bunch of scientific studies - but don't refer to any of the existing scientific studies because ... reasons. Yeah, that's a really useful way to have a discussion.
I never used this platform until today, wow.
This reminds me of old Mashape and early Blockspring if they had a baby (loved those). I'm very excited to dig into this more! WOW, I can tell more developers would love this if there was more outreach and love around this product!
The Internet Is about to Become Like Paid Cable. And We All Hate Cable
The legal filing itself (http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92066968&pty=CAN&eno=...) is one of the most interesting and entertaining legal filings I've read in a long time. The author, Pamela Chestek, is a well-known figure in FOSS legal circles, and worked on the GNOME trademark issue with Groupon (https://lwn.net/Articles/654124/). It's rare to read a legal filing that makes you want to cheer.
Republican congressman calls on FCC to delay net neutrality rollback vote
It is possible to include minority groups in a community without pandering or using reductive caricatures. It can be difficult if the community has little familiarity with the actual experiences of those minority groups. In that case, it would be important to seek out people who are from those minority groups, or who at least have a great familiarity with those groups, to direct efforts to grow the community in their direction.

If a person is anxious about being reprimanded for using an offensive stereotype, they do not have the expertise to employ "culturally appropriate" materials and ought to do more research/inquiry or delegate the responsibility of the outreach to somebody else.
Agreed. Sometimes, you may not even be able to get the a refund. Amazon seems to be incurring a growing cost for refunds and its reneging on them whenever the chance arises. That's what happens when an entity becomes a monopoly.
iOS 11.2.1 and tvOS 11.2.1 are now available, update restores HomeKit sharing
Three ways to fix IT hiring
Sorry, I though the intentional hyperbole there was completely obvious, but it looks like you read that dead-pan / literal. Never mind, I don't have time to invest in this right now.
2016–2017 Web Salary Survey – O'Reilly Media
Accenture isn't evidence of scale.

It has revenue per employee of only $88k, nearly the lowest in the S&P 500, close to Starbucks and McDonald's, but with much higher paid employees. That's a complete clusterfuck of a business, and exactly why you don't want to do consulting.

https://priceonomics.com/which-companies-have-the-highest-re...

Whereas Facebook has $2M of revenue per employee, and nearly $200k in profit per employee, which is more than Accenture's revenue per employee. There's not remotely a comparison.
IBM's next turnaround tool is  a new open-source font?
Patreon to World: 'We Messed Up'
Lodge makes a good plastic scraper with a different radius on each corner, but really any hard piece of plastic will work.
Can someone explain how this pertains to Firebase hosted and FB realtime DB apps built using Angular5?
Maybe that Google sets up an AI lab is not in the interest of the US, but it is in the interest of Google.

Google is a multinational company and its employees come from diverse countries. Although it is headquartered in the US and its founders are American citizens, its core interests may not fully align with the core interests of the US.
Your comment reads like it was generated by an AI from the 90s.
As a 2014 Chevy Volt owner, it is far from Lemon.

Here are the most interesting Gen I volt stats (currently at 416K miles and still running strong)
https://www.voltstats.net/Stats/Details/1579

Given Volt has a decent battery, I would bet an average volt will have a life time around 300K. Its has its shortcoming in terms passenger space and styling, but its a work horse!
T-Mobile promises to end the “complete bulls–t” from TV companies in 2018
Reverse sear is even better; by going oven-first you dry out the surface and get a better sear.
You're right. 30 years ago, you can't do that with imperative languages. The only solution was a for or a while loop, sometimes quicker than the for loop.
The Weird Portfolio
I don't know.

But just because another industry isn't working on their problem doesn't mean we shouldn't work on ours.
IDK about the people in warehouses, but regular Target store employees are not treated badly. I mean, it's a low hourly wage job so the expectations are low, but I didn't dislike working there. They were happy to train me across multiple teams and work with my schedule. That said, it highly depends on the branch's general manager.

They do make you watch anti-union propaganda during orientation though.
This seems like a big bet that the net-neutrality fight is over. Buying a TV service makes it much easier to prioritize your own content...
I didn't say they did. But those professions weren't attracting "girls who like girly stuff" either and now they are. So maybe we're not attracting them for similar reasons.

And, fundamentally, what changed in those professions is they accepted that it was them that needed to change to be more attractive, not some failing in girls.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that they're paragons of equality because they aren't. But in the specific question of attracting girls, even ones who like "girly stuff", they have solved that problem admirably.
Yeah I've had two packages lost and one package stolen in the last month.
This is a remarkably direct and appropriate apology, along with an appropriate response, a rare thing indeed.

If not for their initial response to the first round of feedback, namely to put a "we're still doing it" at the bottom of their original blog post (with completely unreasonable and unjustified explanations for why), I'd give them full credit for responding appropriately. As it is, though, at least they fixed this. They're still going to need to deal with the giant pile of patrons they drove off; many people lost a significant fraction of their support because of this change, and that won't necessarily come back.

Between 1 and 2 years ago, I talked to some folks at Patreon about an unrelated topic (namely, trying to use Patreon for registered charities). They mentioned at that time that they had a change in the works to shift processing fees from creators to patrons, which they said at the time would be "better for creators" for various reasons, but that didn't want to talk about the details yet. (Since the issue is now public, I don't see any issue with saying that now.) That discussion naturally didn't include any information about fee structure or un-aggregation of charges with associated additional fees, e.g. the "$1 costs $1.37" problem, since that wasn't the topic; the impression they gave at the time was that the only change was to pass on the (presumably still aggregated) fees to the patrons, which wouldn't have been as serious a problem, and wouldn't have killed Patreon's suitability as a wildly successful microtransaction platform the way this change did. So, they've been thinking about this for a long time, and yet they sprung it on people without warning and without running the full details by anyone.

Update: there's now a survey from Patreon asking for feedback: https://twitter.com/Patreon/status/941010263385374720
Qualities of Highly Capable Dev Teams
Show HN: We listen to your feedback and here is it: ReactSymbols 1.1 \w TS&SASS
Hello Guys,

thanks for your feedback you have been sending to us so far. You have been amazing!

We gathered all your feedback add support of most wished features:

1. SASS build ⁃ Since now you are able to change one line of code and have branded all your elements into that color. And of course, we are giving you SASS files for all components. It’s even more fast and powerful workflow for prototyping or building complex web apps now.

2. Typescript ready ⁃ support of autocompletion, component auto-import and all other sweet features of Typescript.

3. Local NPM module support ⁃ Now you don’t need to use ugly and long paths to locate folder with ReactSymbols, simply define your NPM module as reactsymbols-kit and enjoy

4. A lot of other UI fixes to make everything smooth and pixel perfect.

All this just released in version 1.1 of ReactSymbols - http://www.reactsymbols.com

And we would love to hear your feedback again!

Vlasti from the ReactSymbols team
The big content providers don't have an ISP in the traditional sense - they interface directly with "users' ISPs".
congrats you are actively making your children the weird ones
Yah, the Netty model is more in-line with Go's programming model.
The fact you didn't engage with the community initially or ask for feedback speaks far more about your arrogance, incompetence and mendacity that the nature of the change itself. If I was using Patreon I would be looking for alternatives anyway...how long until the next "surprise"?
Crytek sues Star Citizen developer, alleging copyright infringement
Came for some chemistry, stayed for the obsessive perfectionism.
Great thoughts.
Why didn't other well-respected (better-respected, even) professions—doctor, lawyer, veterinarian—have to do this kind of thing to achieve balance or near-balance (or even swapping balance in favor of women)? Or did they have to do this stuff? IIRC the ratio on those started to swing heavily in the mid-80s, so it'd have to be something that happened around then, or earlier.
Convert MXNet NDArray to NumPy Multidimensional Array
> steel wool

My favorite tool for scraping stuck food particles is a one of those stainless steel ring chain mail things. They wash nicely in a dishwasher and do a good job of homogeneously scraping the surface of the pan.
You could also have said that where you come from, couple means two people in a romantic relationship. This doesn't mean that it can't also have other definitions. Every US English dictionary I checked has "an indefinite small number" listed as one of the definitions, and that's a much more common usage in my (US) experience than using couple to mean exactly 2.
I don't know about Shipt, but their moving there would start moving the marks on a lot of quality-of-life measurements and perhaps lift it out of dead last for nearly everything.
It does seem the author has way outdated information or set up the benchmark to tilt the balance in certain way.

A more comprehensive benchmark is done here. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...
Look up game theory lectures on coursera
Motion for Summary Judgment in Software Freedom Conservancy Trademark Defense
Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market
Server being internet-hugged. Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IFhxAy...
can't you call and get your old phone number back?
Internet traffic goes through whatever path will get it to it's destination fastest. Big Routers advertise to each other how long it will take to get somewhere through them. There have been times when either due to bugs, or due to a desire to slurp traffic, some machines have falsely advertised shorter routes causing traffic to pas through routes traffic wouldn't normally pass through. This time it was somewhere in Russia. This can be mitigated like most malicious acts / network errors if you write clever enough rules, but is hard because you have to identify the bad actors, or paths that lead to them.
There pretty mighty tools around to grep/patch/generate JSON data with shell scripts and they are made to deal with hierarchical data.

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/

http://jsonnet.org/

Both are single binaries, so easy to run them where you need it. I don't know comparable stuff for the other mentioned formats, whenever I need to deal with yaml in scripts i run

https://github.com/bronze1man/yaml2json

I would be totally fine with any format that can be converted to JSON on the fly. Of course I would love to have something like these tools more integrated within a shell, but the representing text format on the disk is not that important for me.
Yep, I saw this in rtl-sdr.com! They ask, for instance what does the S in SDR stands for, which obviously any legitimate commenter in such a niche site knows.
NASA to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery
The Maintainer of Babel Is Doing an AMA
Quite intriguing on a number of levels!
Thanks for sharing your experience. Very interesting. What country are you from?

"However, doing something as complicated as "computing and informatics" (a literal translation of the subject name) that early in the school education just made it absolutely terrible, much worse than the traditional classes were in my school."

Oh wow! Yeah, that seems like a little much for middle school. I was thinking more so at the level of teaching them how to code fun stuff in Python or JavaScript. Let's not scare kids away at this age just yet and it sounds like the program your school had did just that :(

"The IT is still associated as a "male field", regardless of the fact that the subject is obligatory for everyone in that age range for about 15 years."

Honestly, I am not even so sure that requiring it will necessarily increase the count of women that go into this field. If anything, it will at least introduce it to more women showing them possible opportunities. I as a women in tech for 20 years have my own theories on why many women don't go into this profession but they are unpopular opinions here.

The main reason I would love to see it included as a main subject is because I want our youth (men and women) to be prepared for the jobs of our future. I truly believe that almost every profession will require programmers or tech specific roles in the very near future and our education system is not preparing our youth for that.
Nice work! Any tradeoffs compared to Robinhood?
I'm running Arch Linux with spotify version 1.0.67.582.g19436fa3. It gets stuck at this screen as soon as I start playing something:

https://i.imgur.com/WJZKiUA.png

After that, the GUI elements just don't respond at all. There is no CPU usage, so it's probably not an infinite loop.

I enabled logging, but don't see anything significant.
The solution for my parents was to send me to an all-girls school with a feminist bent. That had its own drawbacks in plenty, but the upside was an upbringing relatively free of gender stereotypes.

And talk to them about it. If they're hearing one thing from their friends and another at home, they will experience cognitive dissonance, and they will wonder about it, even if they don't know to ask about it.

Edited to add: pinkification and genderization of toys seems to have accelerated since I was a kid. Entire aisles of toys in pink boxes instead of a single shelf of barbies. The explosion of Disney princesses hasn't helped either. (I remember being a teenager going to see The Little Mermaid and my mom explaining that it was a big deal because it was Disney's first animated feature in decades.)

I think maybe to some degree people are subconsciously frightened that women are now able to wear anything men can wear, do anything men can do. The reaction is to make sure that there are still differentiators between men and women (because, OMG, how can you interact with a person without being able to define you understanding of them based on gender? [never mind that we do it all the time in places like HN]) - and the easiest way to do that is to make sure the girls are pink! That way you can tell them apart!
Yes, I've also had similar experiences. I rarely get 2 business day delivery! Such a scam. The service is amazing only if it works nearly 100% of the time. Otherwise, you don't know if your Prime item will come in 2 days or 6 and it gets really hard to order some things with that uncertainty.
The whole blog is basically just a Facebook feed.
Not surprised. There's no way this made sense, and they already freaked out tons of people who cared only partly about the fee and partly about the feeling of helplessness when you rely on a for-profit platform that can change at a seeming whim and pull the rug out from under you.

Pulling back addresses the fee concerns directly and gives some feeling that the users can have some influence, although they'll stay wary.

None of this changes what drove the fee issue in the first place: Patreon tries to present itself as a donation platform but is primarily a paywall service. Since most "creators" use it to easily manage restricted access to shareable perks (i.e. perks that are non-rivalrous in nature and could be shared with the world), they will continue to have to serve that freemium business model.
If by "the internet" you mean "the ad-supported web," then we can't, and that may not be a bad thing.
One of the things that I have increasingly come to realize is that one of my daughter's core values is beauty. She loves to make beautiful things and have beauty around her. Yes, her favorite colors are pink and purple. So when we added those colors to the mix of logo colors, it substantially increased her enjoyment in Legos.

So every child is different. I think it is a matter of presenting opportunities to our kids in ways that are most meaningful to them as individuals.
Browserling Developer Tools – Converting, Formatting, Hashing, Etc.
“Really heavy” is generally a positive trait in cookware.
While I like that they are walking these back, I have a feeling that people who lost a lot of supporters won't see a 100% recovery.

I only lost a few, but it already has me poking around at different options for the future.
EULA's are not what I'm talking about. If I get a bill for $5 from my wireless provider because I went over the messaging limit, I want to know when those messages were sent. ISPs should be held to the same standard. If I go over some limit and I'm throttled, I want to know when.
Fucking lulz. Get rekt kiddo.
What are some of the "other sources of revenue" that you're planning on rolling out in 2018?
thanks :) we obviously think so too
The issue is that there is no current alternative to Patreon’s ease of use for gathering funds from a large number of fans, and a Patreon competitor can’t be built overnight. (Kickstarter’s Drip is not public yet)

Of course, being a pseudo-monopoly allows you to test the limits of monetization.
Hahahaha nice cover art. It's like the psychedelic version of an O’Reilly book.
I discovered this site years ago, when searching for information about how to season cast iron. I had a cast iron skillet I'd been using off and on for a few years at that point, but was still having trouble with food sticking, and so figured I'd made an error in seasoning the skillet initially.

I have to say, the techniques described in the article work well. I have a few skillets I seasoned using this technique, and using only a little more as cooking fat as I'd use in a teflon pan (1/2 Tbsp vs 1 tsp), I can cook eggs and not have to worry about them sticking to the pan. Many a delicious omelette has been made in my 8" lodge skillet after I seasoned it with this technique. The same was not true beforehand.

sevensor does correctly note that this can be a lot of work and take a whole day, but bmcusick also correctly points out that it doesn't have to. I seasoned the 8" Lodge skillet mentioned above over the course of a week, applying 1-2 layers in the evening while I was in the kitchen anyway to cook dinner or clean up. And after that week was up, I then had a cast iron skillet I could cook eggs in. Totally worth it.
I thought Linksys were owned by Cisco, but it seems like they were sold to Belkin in 2013. So, don't buy Belkin stuff.

The only way to combat this kind of anti-social behavior is through regulation. EU GDPR goes quite far for online services, but for devices it probably makes more sense to have some other kind of scheme. I think that a deposit-based scheme may be necessary given the lifetime of this kind of devices.
It's hard to believe that Patreon didn't ask for feedback on this model initially. I'm sure they did, but my guess is that they didn't expect the blowback from people that depended on $1-2 patrons to have such a large impact on their image.

IMO, before Twitter/Facebook, this apology would've never happened. They would've continued to press on with their fee structure and it would've been yesterday's news.

The real question is - is this still a good move for them? Or should they have dealt with the blowback either way?
Can you give some credible sources on "Tibetan and Uighur genocides that are ongoing"?
Unless those cave walls could be neatly concealed in a pocket or under a desk and served up a stream of rapidly-changing Skinner-optimised content, accompanied by irregular purposefully distracting notification signals, I don't think this is a good analogy. Why is it so hard to believe that we are getting better at hacking our attention spans?

Indeed, the cave wall comparison highlights the difference between stimulation and distraction. Daydreaming while staring at the walls of Lascaux would be a significantly more useful activity than having your attention micro-partitioned by the demands of a Snap streak.
This is confusing. Does this thing speak LDAP or provide a way to add an LDAP adapter? I would love to move my LDAP server into a hosted service.
If you're looking for compile time type checking, I'd say you should go one further and just write your data access layer in F#. The SQL type provider gives you much more thorough compile-time error checking than anything I've seen in an ORM.

There are a couple different ways you can set it up to use the actual database to do this, thereby eliminating the extra work of having to maintain two different copies of your schema in two different languages, and making sure they're kept in sync.
That's pretty harsh. They made a mistake and then apologize. While they didn't "initially" they did "eventually" - don't they deserve some credit for that?
I'm leaning towards incompetence - Hanlon's razor and all that.
I saw this from your BetFair posts. Very impressive.

Minor nit: your post timestamps do not account for time zones. I’m in the UK and it says your most recent post (BetFair 6, which I’m about to read!) was posted “in about a minute.”
I personally suspect it's a really bad idea to replace monetary policy with a fixed deflationary currency. But independently of that people should not be holding currencies as assets for more than very short term needs and emergency funds so if the comparison is Cryptocurrency vs Dollar then cryptocurrencies have a very long way to go before they're even half as good as fiat currencies for day to day transactions (nobody accepts them, they fluctuate too much, etc). If the comparison is Cryptocurrency vs Assets then I'd rather use as a store of value actual scarce and useful assets like companies and land than things that are useless by design like gold and bitcoin. If central bankers are untrustworthy is not really relevant for any of the two discussions.