skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My account was probably in that password dump. LinkedIn has yet to reach out to me, but will still spam me with people that are not on linkedin

Side rant:
LinkedIn is a piece of crap in societal concept and implementation. Recently I was so frustrated by removing old connections I just simply deleted my account.

Warning: I am going to be crude at this point: linkedin is an HR circle jerk of pointlessness
> Besides, if Trump is an ideologue, what is that ideology?

Republicanism is an ideology. Trump's is clearly farther right than previously elected R presidents.
This isn't the only intelligent GitHub extension, but it's certainly one of the smallest, I've seen.

It simply highlights and displays reference snippets, no complicated functionality, no worries!
Is there any concern that viruses could mutate and once again start to replicate?
Civilization will survive just fine without the burden of enabling idiots. Civilization wasn't invented in 1970, it has existed for millennia.
The fact that you can only do 3 transactions per second is totally besides the point.

Selling things requires a buyer. In case of a crash, you are trying to sell to the lowest bidder. If one even exists. Everybody in a situation like that is trying to sell and no one is trying to buy.

So whom are you going to sell to?
> You cannot synchronize two clocks that are apart. You can only synchronize them when they are in the same place.

You are categorically mistaken. Please read the literature. I won't be replying further.
Btw, here is one of recently declassified soviet videos about first nuclear bomb test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIDzZygIq0

It's a kind of report, explaining experiment setup, equipment, test process and results. Russian, no subtitles but picture itself explains a lot.
Doesn’t pandas.read_excel provide this?
Here were mine
Here were a few of mine, I’ve tried to get into ethereum a couple times

- installing mist and getting it to sync is very difficult and time consuming

- connecting to a testnet and getting ether on the testnet is also very difficult

- most ‘cool’ dapp ideas rely on oracles to publish data about the real world into the block chain. When you dive into it you realize that such an Oracle would be very very expensive to run for even trivial usecases.
How to make dynamic Open Graph images like Product Hunt, Medium and others
Please not matplotlib ... are we really stuck with matplotlib forever ..?
What I find most interesting is that how this entire time, most headlines have reported a $600+ million number as fact.

What is frustrating about that is to the uninformed, it reads like a cash available on hand, in these people's bank accounts. It appears it was far from that.

I'm not a Levandowski sympathizer, but these deals for startup founders in an acquisition are typically complex stock transactions, with strange vesting rules and tons of ways to get diluted or locked out of a liquidity event. Its not typically a grand pay day.

In the future I wish blogs & reporters would focus less on the fact that it was a reported $600+ million, and more on the fact that "it was more than $6 million, and the company had not been around 6 months". That was the real smoke that led everyone to the fire.
The best solution to this, in my experience, has been a data-backend for Excel.

No, I'm not talking about connecting via ODBC. Rather, generating Excel documents from a data store: which may possibly be versioned and so on.

Excel is not a good place to store data. It is good to work with data. It's really, really good to view data. People love it for that. But when you start to store a lot of data in Excel ...
Kickstarter for open source software
'Intentional' event redirects cloud traffic through Russia
> Edit: after seeing some good suggestions about physical storage, I've decided to increase the difficulty of the question, hard mode- How would you do this without physical stuff? (more, new answers about physical welcome too)

Store one copy in a gmail account, and another on imgur.

> assuming [...] memory goes away. (to be safe)

And tattoo the site+username+pass on your thigh.
Good news is with Azure Functions you could do consumption mode or pay for the specific hardware you need and run it either way.
We also exaggerate the addictive potential of drugs. For the most part, only a fraction of individuals, those particularly genetically prone to serious drug addiction, will suffer. Moreover, environment is often a strong causative factor in almost all forms of addiction.

Yet there are good reasons for exaggerating addiction potential to young children. Taboos are a coarse but effective social mechanism, and maintaining them often requires lying. Moreover, it's far easier and cheaper (especially given paucity of our scientific knowledge) than attempting to identify those particular children and adults most likely to become addicted.

Likewise, exaggerating the necessity for going to college is a cheap and easy way to guide expectations and channel effort. It's no surprise that upper-middle class children both graduate from college at higher rates _and_ generally have much better economic prospects--it's because of this very sort of unquestioned enculturation. Same phenomenon for Asian groups and other highly successful subgroups within society.

Reality will intrude soon enough. You don't need to tell a kid that Santa Claus doesn't exist; he'll figure it out. The only difference between that and other cultural lies is that when a kid figures out there's no Santa Claus he doesn't have a life-long chip on his shoulder or believe that he uniquely outsmarted the man. But when it comes to drugs, college, and now apparently homeownership, people seem to think they've attained some sort of unique, hard-won insight. And that cynicism is the only reasonable reaction.

I grew up super poor. Nobody ever told me to go to college. In fact, adults ridiculed "book learning" and school counselors exaggerated the unavoidable costs of college. But I did go to college--a private one with a generally elite upper-middle-class and upper-class student body. Both cultures lied to their children, but as an adult I can tell you which lie I'd have much preferred. And I can't say I'd have preferred the cold, hard truth, either. The truth is usually far more difficult, if not impossible, to articulate, especially to young people. Indeed, the truth usually requires context that just doesn't exist when you're talking about the distant future.
I believe a huge barrier to entry is the lack of accurate, concise documentation.

I did my fair share of solidity development myself and it was hard for me to find references on simple basic development on the platform. Diff ways to setup, diff sandboxes, no proper introduction of the tools, etc.
Buy real estate futures in malaria prone areas first you’ll be rich.
Well, that gave my dystopian dreams new levels of dystopia that I didn't even know could exist.
How the Getty Center fire resistance works
> You can say what you want, and unless you specifically go organize a large group of people and screaming in public something politically sensitive

note: screaming includes what we would call "organizing" and "protesting", including simply using online groups to form such protests.

So, yes, you do have to watch what you say. If you criticize the government for corrupt police or a chemical plant explosion that caused unjust deaths, you can expect to be locked up for an unspecified amount of time and forced to sign a confession of wrongdoing.

Heck, even if you're outside of China you have to watch what you say. Book dealers in Hong Kong have been abducted and held indefinitely in China for selling the wrong books. So much for "one country, two systems"
The Energy Transition: Too Little, Too Late
Why aren't they allowed to work in the first place? L2 visas are, and they're quite similar in intent.
The most interesting part of this article is discussing Uber’s valuation and the SoftBank deal. Shortly before this info about the valuation of Otto came to light, Uber agreed to the SoftBank deal which presumably led some to believe the company was going through a down round of sorts. Could Uber have considered devaluing themselves to downplay the impact of Otto’s value as part of the consideration for this SoftBank deal?
> Is it just that someone would probably notice and we could inject our kids with refertilizing viruses?

Right, or something of the sort. There would be many decades available to fix it.
This url lead to an attack site on my ipad that I was only able to escape by the fortune of it having loaded in a hacker news sub windo rather than chrome. Beware
For RSA, most non-experts have an intuitive feel for why the cryptosystem is secure: we all know that factoring numbers is hard. Do you think it's possible to give a concise explanation for why ECC is secure aside from "hand wavey black box" + understandable algebra = security?

Total aside: when I was writing this, you answered a lot of my questions in #bitcoin. Thanks for helping me out :)
Securely transporting stuff: HTTPS explained
"there will be little to no harm to the ecosystem if they will just one day poof away from the face of the earth"

Well, perhaps not if the specific species that carry the diseases vanish. Eliminating all mosquitoes would almost certainly have an effect.

Of course, that's one reason why gene drives are so attractive -- you can target individual species, rather than indiscriminately killing every insect in the area.
This is the darkest day of the Internet. We the customers are now accused for not buying better services, instead of being treated equally and anonymously.
English rivers polluted by neonicotinoids, first tests reveal
This thought process always bewilders me. Whenever it comes up that government agencies monitor our emails and phone calls, someone, as if on cue, always pipes up that that's totally no different from people posting on their Facebook timeline and other absolutely mind-bogglingly bad equivalences.

You, however, go the extra mile, here. How about you explain exactly how accessing published information on a public website is like building a network of cameras to monitor a city with?
What is the target audience of this? What are the intended use cases?

Is this supposed to be used directly by users or as an API for a user-facing application? How is this different from a document DB like MongoDB?
Hi…Ali from YC here. There are a couple of things I’d like to address in the comment above from YC’s perspective. First, YC has no “vertical integration strategy” to make “demo day and A round financing by outsiders” to “disappear.” In fact, it’s quite the opposite. We work very hard to make sure that there is a vibrant investing ecosystem around YC. Our core program is attractive to founders because there are hundreds of investors who come to Demo Day to invest in YC companies. YC would be much less valuable if this ecosystem did not exist, so it would not be in our interest (or in the best interest of our founders) to make these investors “disappear” or otherwise compete with them for Series A deals. In fact, YC's Continuity Fund expressly does not compete for Series A deals.

Secondly, it's highly unlikely that companies who do not participate in our Growth Stage program will find it more difficult to raise money because they will be labeled “damaged goods.” YC’s signal at the growth stage is largely irrelevant. Investors evaluate growth stage companies based on their business metrics. There is enough data at this stage to evaluate whether a business is working or whether it’s not. Companies with robust metrics attract investors; those with weak metrics don’t. It’s as simple as that. No late stage investor will care whether a company participates in our program or not.
I should really fix the browser crash, but I always thought it fitting that graphing infinity crashes the browser.
I don't believe you that normal people would fire an employee for saying "free speech should apply to workplaces."

I believe there's some other idea that you're talking about expressing and then defending by saying "free speech should apply to workplaces."

What is that idea?
The people that are going to use this aren't programmers. They are going to hate that the code has to be indented properly or it is considered an error.
+ The Clash
That's AP. It's better customer service to be available so you always get an answer, it's just out of date. Deposit being available next day means eventually your balance will be made consistent after all the settlement occurs.

Banking is an AP, eventually consistent, event-sourced system. All transactions are logged as pending and then processed later. If something is invalid, then it gets denied or reversed as another transaction. This is why you see deposits held, limits on ATM withdrawals, and charges on credit cards that take days to show up.

Some systems do the processing constantly so it seems instant but its never "real-time". In fact, Eric Brewer himself talks about this concept, usually called BASE as an alternative to ACID:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/NoSQL-History

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on...
I'm not worried about the actual effects on human traits, I'm worried about effects on society.
Thanks for writing this, as a Chinese Developer, I can get many great and unique opinions on my own country on Hacker News which I would never get on the Internet in China.

I have been watching Sam Altman's sayings for a long time, I believe his judgment is at least reasonable for some reason we cannot see from the article.

Actually as an ordinary Chinese citizen and IT worker, I have always seen SF as the best place in the world to work and create something. However, in recent years, the atmosphere has subtly changed, between Silicon Valley and Beijing, between China and USA.

Such different ideas are always good for understanding the world better.
> 1) It was only illegal from 2015-2017, right?

It was prohibited by regulation from 2010-2014 and 2015-2017 and contrary to non-regulation FCC policy enforced through case-by-case action from 2005-2010.

> 3) If the ISPs abuse their power, the FCC can always switch them back to Title II.

The ISPs did so repeatedly throughout the case-by-case enforcement period, which is why the FCC adopted the first regulatory package in 2010 (while this was finalized after case-by-case was struck down by the courts, the process was started earlier.)
Soli: Touchless human/computer interactions
The short version is that it's a gene that causes mutations and that in somatic and egg cells is turned off. A P-positive female can have offspring with a P-negative male (because the egg cell carries the repressor), but a P-positive male cannot have offspring with a P-negative female. It's easy to see why the P-element would spread through the population.
Don’t forget that natural, random mutagenesis is a driving force in evolution. Genomes encode factors that are potentially mutagenic as well as genetic repair mechanisms. The complex interplay of such forces is a critical foundation of genetic diversity, hence adaptability and thus evolution.
If you did it, you should receive the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Consider reading them in a few years time. In my own experience many books require a certain amount of white hair to be fully appreciated, GGM's being remarkable examples at least for me.
That's a superb xkcd that I hadn't seen yet, thanks.
Several of my family members and relatives who work in big corporations have waited months for a new server. It is more common than you think, and often it has nothing to do with physical capacity but rather bureaucracy and compliance overhead.
I think gene drives are just the beginning. If this kind of technology gets mass adoption, soon you have gene firewalls (i.e. anti-genedrive-genes), firewall suppressors etc.
Thanks! Thats exactly what I was aiming for. I'm glad that came across. I was thinking the same thing although I didn't actually discover https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/perl/ until after I had written Minimum Viable Perl.
How are you so sure that disease vector mosquitos don't play an important role in the ecosystem? I would posit that predicting ecosystem outcomes is no easier than predicting weather.
Surveillance is bad but it is also not hacking.

Boom. Easy to have both opinions.

I would love to limit corporate databases, but not via letting website owners declare arbitrary use to be criminal.
You can delete comments. Can you not? I delete things all the time. But then again, I just voted yours up :)
PEP 557 – Data Classes for Python 3.7
Why not Typescript or some languages with stronger type support? Auto-complete is much more useful with a typed language.
I upload my code to AWS, and it gets run.

You save your code to your Intel laptop, and it gets run.

Neither of us have the complete source code that is used to run that code. You have to be ok with that, and drawing a line in the sand at the hypervisor level just seems super arbitrary.
Your assumptions about my political views are mistaken. I was a liberal who moved to libertarian.

The statement that I made about minimum wage has the effect that I describe because it is a major liberal-conservative argument. As soon as someone states a position on raising the minimum wage, everyone else around will tend to assume that they know their political position. I could have produced other examples ranging from approving oil pipelines to the wisdom of tax cuts to cost effective ways to produce health care.

Now you may be atypical. But most liberals/conservatives respond with the same pattern. They figure out whether you're with/against, and then respond emotionally. And the issues do not neatly divide on "intolerance".

More interesting, the dividing issues change over time. Today woman's rights is obviously a liberal issue. If you go back 100 years, allowing women the right to vote was just as obviously a conservative one, because women were a reliable vote for Prohibition, which was a thinly veiled tool to attack blacks, Jews, Irish, and other "undesirables". You can thank the KKK for helping women get the vote in this country.

The dividing line really isn't as simple as it seems at the moment. But it is sometimes easier to see this with the perspective of history.
Someone posted a link to a really nice 3rd part addin on the reddit thread, on mobile so can't find the link unfortunately but was very well done. Shame on Microsoft for half-assing Excel for the last decade.
> I think that a pretty big chunk of Trump's votes came from people who would otherwise not have voted for him...but did so because they sensed, correctly, that their thoughts, ideas and voices were being marginalized (and demonized) by progressives.

That may be what you personally felt in this single personal anecdote, but it is not at all supported by the results for the bay area in the election[1].

There were an enormous number of Trump voters who explicitly stated that they voted for him because he was the only national candidate to criticize things like NAFTA and other policies which directly hurt them and/or people they knew. Presented with a series of bad options, they picked the guy who spoke to their concerns and naively wrote off the outlandish comments as news-cycle spam. Go back and look at the contested areas in Michigan and Pennsylvania where Trump did well. Or go back and listen to the town hall Bernie Sanders did after the election in West Virginia where Trump performed well-- you can listen directly to what swayed them the most. It wasn't a fear of retribution from progressive tech bosses for non-progressive ideas. It was jobs.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-preside...
Nitpick but shouldn't it be read code on Github, rather than read code at Github?
Sad that, it seems, any political comment with a spark of humour on here is voted down.

From G.K. Chesterton:
"A critic once remonstrated with me saying, with an air of indignant reasonableness, “If you must make jokes, at least you need not make them on such serious subjects.” I replied with a natural simplicity and wonder, “About what other subjects can one make jokes except serious subjects?” It is quite useless to talk about profane jesting. All jesting is in its nature profane, in the sense that it must be the sudden realization that something which thinks itself solemn is not so very solemn after all.

... The thing which is fundamentally and really frivolous is not a careless joke. The thing which is fundamentally and really frivolous is a careless solemnity. If Mr. McCabe really wishes to know what sort of guarantee of reality and solidity is afforded by the mere act of what is called talking seriously, let him spend a happy Sunday in going the round of the pulpits. Or, better still, let him drop in at the House of Commons or the House of Lords. Even Mr. McCabe would admit that these men are solemn — more solemn than I am. And even Mr. McCabe, I think, would admit that these men are frivolous — more frivolous than I am. Why should Mr. McCabe be so eloquent about the danger arising from fantastic and paradoxical writers? Why should he be so ardent in desiring grave and verbose writers? There are not so very many fantastic and paradoxical writers. But there are a gigantic number of grave and verbose writers; and it is by the efforts of the grave and verbose writers that everything that Mr. McCabe detests (and everything that I detest, for that matter) is kept in existence and energy. How can it have come about that a man as intelligent as Mr. McCabe can think that paradox and jesting stop the way? It is solemnity that is stopping the way in every department of modern effort. It is his own favourite “serious methods;” it is his own favourite “momentousness;” it is his own favourite “judgment” which stops the way everywhere." - from Heretics, 1905

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/heretics.xvi.html
From the post you linked:

> The only real roadblock is money. Fiber ISPs are super cheap at scale, but are effectively impossible to bootstrap unless you are already a millionaire.

(I didn't downvote you)
It’s not corruption if you call it disruptive!
> do you know any country where metro goes down for hours quite regularly?

Of course. In Sydney the trains have historically had plenty of issues, usually around power management. And even in Japan lengthy delays are not uncommon, usually because of suicides (have personally waited 40 minutes in a crowded train on the "chuocide" line while they cleaned one of those "accidents" up). And in living memory is the 2005 Amagasaki disaster, which killed over a hundred people!

I'm not sure Singapore's is "the best" or even what "the best" would mean, but it's world class for sure, and the price is fantastic. Tokyo trains cost more than twice as much. If you factor price in, I'd say the only competitor is HK, which is also fantastic.
6 Creations That Will Make You a Successful Hustler
robots.txt cannot change whether something is public, because it doesn't apply to humans.
Do you support the Civil Rights Act?

A person who holds the views that you describe because he is an Orthodox Jew cannot be fired for said views. No, I'm not making that up. Perhaps you should think carefully about what "freedom of religion" means to you!
Simulating a real-world system in Go
Why do you think such views are 'trying to thread a needle', 'contrarian', and 'functionally tripe'?

You are exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that there are (god forbid!) dissenting views from your own.
OT:

I'd be interested to know where folding editors first originated?

We have org-mode now of course.

My first encounter was 28 years ago now - December 1989 - an in-house editor called Teddy written by "Burkhard" that we had running on Vax - for Parasolid development in Cambridge, UK - think it dated from 1987 or earlier.
Cloudflare has you covered here. If you don't like them, there are many other options as well. If you have anything more important than a blog that doesn't have https enabled, you need to rethink how you're doing things.