skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. If you don't mind I will brag on her a bit.

Kenzi started writing fiction pretty seriously at about 14 years of age. So while 24 seems young to be a published author she has put in a decade of sustained effort honing her craft. She has completed something like 8 full length novels plus several others in various stages.

She seems to have found her daily writing pace and can write 2 or maybe 3 novels a year while working a full-time job.

She got her degree in Technical and Scientific Communication and works as a software and hardware tester along with doing some documentation for a health sensor company.

In the spring of 2018 her day job moves away, and she doesn't intend to move with it... so she will be looking for a new day job unless commercial success is surprisingly fast on the novelist front.
Don't forget to carbon footprint needed to process/make that petrol/diesel .. that oil from the ground needs to be processed and transported too.
When is it safe (ie. not face questioning during the citizenship application) to be promoted / leave the sponsoring company after a GC approval?
Using Raspberry Pi to Test Supercomputer Software
>The whole idea that Hunter-Gatherer was a superior lifestyle seems at odds with the fact that agriculture won.

As the famed Prisoner's Dilemma[1] shows, the dominant strategy (the one that "wins") is not necessarily the same as the optimum strategy (the one that's most favorable for all the participants).

Essentially the latter question simplifies to, "is it better if everyone in the world adopts X, vs. adopting Y?" The former question simplifies to, "who wins when people who adopt X come into conflict with neighboring people who adopt Y?" These are not the same question, and they need not have the same answer.

Far from "reducing conflict", one explanation is that agriculture gave certain tribes surplus food, allowing them to wage war and kill/enslave/absorb their neighbors, or even simply out-breed and slowly displace them. Many agricultural tribes will no doubt be peaceful and direct this surplus to other ends, but the presence of a single war-like (or otherwise expansionist) agricultural tribe destabilizes the equilibrium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Android Pattern Lock with React Native and Expo
I hope your friend's company in MTL isn't this one:
https://www.busbud.com/blog/benefits-of-being-a-montreal-sta...

It's a little disheartening whenever this kind of braindrain happens. This prevents other ecosystems from forming.
So we know that the newly-released Uber app for BB10 will last around two years.
Please have some sort of ACME support for automatically doing S/MIME.
> I think you should just do it. This is an article about a kitchen appliance and how the guy gave away 200 units and used Amazon Fulfillment to grow his company.

Good point. I actually unsubscribed previously because of their "native advertising" policy (and then resubscribed in the last year or so).

> Yes they can't make enough of them even though they are doubling production every year.

The point I was trying to make in the first post was that doubling sales/production/anything else every year for six years doesn't mean a whole lot without seeing year 1.

1) If they doubled production every year for 5 years maybe they should have had extra capacity for year 6.

2) If year 1 they sold 1 unit then this year they sold on the order of 64 (obviously minimal). If year 1 they sold 100 units then this year they sold on the order of 6400. From a production standpoint that is not a difficult task.

I was just disappointed that NYT ran what is essentially a corporate PR puff piece as a "news" article.
Hyperbole and a half by Allie Brosch

I am waiting for the republishing of Aurora Morales’ Medicine Stories so I can buy 10 and give them away. Incredibly potent, clear, and beautiful writing on healing ourselves from oppression of all kinds. True medicine.
I agree completely. A shared ledger is a great idea, but not when anyone can write almost anything into it. Then it starts turning into some sort of massive torrent that has to be synced around the world.
Thanks for all the work, it is my favourite email client since Netscape days.

Guess it is time to renew my donation.
How dare they actually value what’s important and be content and happy how dare they! I’ve seen the future California wants and some of it sucks. People addicted to electronic devices. Going entire days without looking another human in the eyes. Working 18 hour days at some slave startup. Come on man. Tech is not what’s important. I think those of us in the Midwest have a better foundation of what’s important. As you said, families, relationships, Friday night local football games, but you enjoy your society of sexual predators and socialism out there! KC btw has a small but active tech startup scene.
> Municipalities require you to cover every neighborhood within some usually comically short time frame like 5 years.

That is pretty unfortunate, because the USI model definitely seems to be working.

I don't buy the Powderhorn "redlining", their COO has been upfront about that neighborhood being on their map and the biggest issue with rolling out there has been finding a property for their network gear (which they finally seem to have found this year)[0]. Although I do get that it would be frustrating living there and watching the coverage map fill in around you.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/6oh5la/looks_l...
Hi Peter, I recently received my green card after having held H1B for the maximum 6 years. That's great but what do I do if I want to work outside the US, perhaps remotely for a US company? I gather the Green Card expects me to have certain sorts of attachments or days/year in the US. Also of course I don't want to pay income tax twice. My long-term domestic partner is a US citizen.
I posted this article on Facebook and received 0 responses. My wife, who has me in "close friends" and on "show first" frequently misses my posts.
Looking into this further, it sounds like fermentation proceeds just fine, but the brine can be cloudy.
I am confused now. I have been working on my side project almost 2 years (started working on it a couple of months after my first job in it). Firstly my plan was to deploy this project and open to users finally, however after some time, I realized that there is a lot of similar web pages and it is not a good idea. So I decided to work on this project as some kind of battlefield for testing new frameworks. Finally I ended up with a quite big project (about 390 commits, front-end, and back-end part). Overall the quality of this project is not so good in my opinion, I see a lot of places where things can be done better. Do you think does it worth to put information about this project and link to the github? Even when the code quality is not so good, code coverage is low?
I recently paid for Hiri[1], which very smoothly connected with my corporate Exchange server. I haven't used it extensively yet, but the interface is interesting and they seem to be trying to do something different with email.

[1] https://www.hiri.com
Then it will need to be informed what is the valid character set and language.
It is not arguable, it is an unequivocal fact that use of twitter is not necessary.

> that a handful of sites basically run what is considered the internet for most people.

That is the result of individual choices made by those people. That's like lamenting that a handful of musicians basically produce what is considered music for most people... So what?
I think it's racist to think that there are only "blacks and whites" in the Midwest, and even if that were true, that it would count against the diversity. Especially considering some of those "blacks" are actually Somalian, people from Africa with different beliefs and values who were fleeing their country's brutal civil war. Lumping them in with African Americans does a massive disservice to both Somalians and African Americans, especially coming from someone who said "Asian is too broad of a category".

It's incredibly ignorant to say Midwest cities don't have people of other ethnic backgrounds, it belittles everything those Midwesterners have worked for in this country.
This is company’s global turnover, not product’s. So, up to 4% of the turnover in the entire company, since WhatsApp is wholly owned by FB, then it’s 4% of FB turnover.
FB revenue for 2016 is 27B * 4% ~= 1B.
> Not to mention that they have a continent wide security service, special forces, many spy agencies and large armies.

The EU has no special forces, spy agencies, or army. Let alone a large one. Yes: the EU's member states have armies. But so do the member states of the CERN cooperation. That doesn't mean it's a particle accelerator with an air force.

Nor does the EU have any impact on criminal law, so you won't be arrested for anything anytime soon.

It is also a myth that EU enforcement of privacy rights (or antitrust laws) is used for protectionism. The number and sums of fines levied on companies from the EU/US/Asia, for example, closely track each country/regions economic activity in the EU. If anything, EU and Asian companies are hit more often than their US counterparts–possibly because the US actually has rather high standards for corporate governance.

> A further point relates to the problem that once states gain such control of how any company deals with data it is not gone be long before all companies are legally required to give standard access to all this data

Stuff like this is purely conspiratorial. And it doesn't even make sense: If there's a "you must share user data with the government"-law in the making, how do privacy rules make it easier to pass today than at any point in the past? With privacy coming up in the news any time the EU picks a fight with one of these companies, it seems as if their actions would only serve to educate the public about the value of privacy. And would such rules not actually lessen the value of the data amassed by companies, making it less useful to gain access?

> a view already expressed by many, many politicians

Hi there, Mr. President!
When he who hears doesn't understand him who speaks, and when he who speaks doesn't know what he himself means -- that is philosophy.

Voltaire
Yup, this was quite surprising to me having travelled a fair bit but not been to Germany in 10 years or so. "I'm supposed to pay my dinner bill at a fancy restaurant.. in.. cash?"
yes I have seen some who have progressed into publishing books based around some particular interesting topics they wrote about on their blog. But I am curious to know if some less obvious benefits come from blogging. I could imagine that you could get more of the spontaneous oportunities from speaking at conferences because of the in-person interaction after/during your session. But from blogging, the long tail might be what is really valuable. Blogging for ten years for instance, at least you have ten years of stuff online to your name. Has to be worth something.
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Encrypt Private Health and Financial Data in Real-Time
What if the battery shipped by drone is what powers the drone itself?

(I'm just trying to imagine some extreme scenarios, I'm not saying this is The Solution.)
What's an example of modern client design? Looking at the "visual refresh" it looked like modern Outlook to me. But, even then, the layout for all the basic desktop email clients (Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird) haven't really changed since the mid-90s. I feel like most of the audience moved to webmail or phone clients--not another desktop client.

I'm probably part of a very small group, but I don't really care for the visual updates (I feel like the average user gets lost with new UI, anyway). I want a tool that can handle a very large amount of email, snappy and quality search, and I do appreciate some of the little "smart" features (reminding to add attachments, delayed/undoable send, calendar integration suggestions). All of those things seem to be smaller bullet points on the product page, each with a lot of work behind them.
To be honest, this submission gives me the impression that it's clickbait material. The article is field with platitudes and small things you can glean from Cracking the Coding interview book. Judging from the user's submissions, this seems to be self advertising.
Wow, just last night I was thinking about how Thunderbird is getting so long in the tooth. It's still my favorite email client. Happy to see this update!
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange to file for bankruptcy after hacking
I find recent emails with Thunderbird's search pretty reliably, but for indexing a large archive of emails I can definitely recommend Recoll. I have it run a scan daily as a cronjob and it finds absolutely everything.

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
The Year in Pictures
You're comparing discrete regional diversity over a huge region spanning mutliple states to a single small area of northern California. Thanks for helping make my point.
I'm an EU citizen and was not aware of this "demand for data" thing. What does physical copy mean? Are they going to send me 20 boxes full of papers?
Would be interested in hearing if/when you received attention to it and how ETH prices affected users willingness to spend 1+ETH to play/us. Any future plans to keep it going and add to it?
yes, and the northwest arkansas corridor is a very pretty part of the country. But apparently for tech, they don't

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/429589/walmarts-new-high-...
> when I moved to more modern clients

Any chance you can give me your list? I haven't found any desktop e-mail client that rivals Thunderbird. Thanks.
While I'm as angry as anyone about the way that districts have been gerrymandered in the US, it also bugs me when I see critiques about gerrymandering that try to provoke outrage by showing the shapes of the districts and implying that districts should be square or otherwise simplistically shaped when viewed aerially. Humans don't fly, so the aerial view seems irrelevant and disingenuous to me.

It reminds me somewhat of a program on The History Channel called "How the States Got Their Shapes." And one of the really interesting parts was how states in the eastern part of the country had their lines drawn before the railroads and most in the west after the railroads. And so you see many more rivers, mountains and other natural features affecting state borders back east and a lot more straight border lines in the west. There's a very good reason (the Potomac) why Maryland's border looks the way it does, but if you just showed people the shape and told them it was a congressional district, it wouldn't be hard to convince them it was the result of gerrymandering.

I wonder whether there's a better way to visualize voting districts, perhaps using Google Maps transit data to visualize public transport/drive times to polling stations. There would still be the issue of deciding where to place polling stations, but it seems like once that's been decided, a district's shape should be derived from including all addresses that are most easily able to travel to those polling places. This would naturally create odd shapes, especially along freeways, bus/train lines and such. But making it as easy as possible for people to vote seems, to me, more important than having a simple shape.
Do people actually take seriously the notion that agriculture had no advantages? The biggest factor has been well studied: infant mortality. Hunter gatherers have more precarious populations and very slow population growth because they have higher infant mortality. Having food reserves from agriculture makes it easier to keep children fed through the occasional harsh winter, and that translates to higher population growth rates for agriculturalists.
multirow views

What do you mean ?
FCC Creates “Blue Alert” Event Code in Emergency Alert System [pdf]
(hey, Malcolm!)

Do you know how competition is measured? How similar or dissimilar can side projects?
I was hoping this was about some impending legalization of Peyote!
Data driven analysis.... really????
Not everybody wants “Scheme in the browser”. In the spirit of “Worse is Better”, plenty of people want to run C++ in the browser. I’m not one of them, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

That said, I’d like a few useful libraries (e.g. - fixed precision decimal arithmetic) written in web assembler. But otherwise, I actually prefer writing in JavaScript (as FP more than OOP) over C++/Java/C# (degenerate Simula 67 clones) for most application level tasks.

Writing in C++ won’t make DOM access or async I/O go away, though :-)
Thanks for not letting Thunderbird die. In my opinion it's still the best and most customizable opensource email client and there is just not a viable replacement.

Most of the open source email clients I have tested require you to run a local webserver and access the mail using a web browser with very limited features. All I want/need is a desktop app that can be customized to work similar to Gmail, pulls and deletes emails from remote SMTP/IMAP servers and allows me to create backups locally.

Thunderbird gives me that.
Print facial-recognition-jamming temporary face tattoos to avoid photography
If I pay American taxes and not Canadian taxes, that's fine. A bit unfortunate because the bracket I'll be in is higher as is the tax rate, but not the end of the world.

The only real obstruction I'm worried about is the legality of doing that work for money. I have some friends who I could employ too, and lots of cash could just sit with the company, but if I can't work for that entity (legally) there's no point in starting it.
Byron bay’s world-first solar train gets ready to trundle
I would also love to know the answer to this. I have an app that is nowhere near what I would consider ideal quality-wise but it's a project that is done, deployed, and open source. Do I even mention it? I wouldn't as it stands.
Inspiring to see successful startup founders re-investing in the community:

Andy Hertzfeld
Mitch Kapor
Patrick Collison
Drew Houston
Alex Payne
Josh Elkes
Carlin Wiegner
Notion
UCSF
I'm agreeing with both of your posts on this subject.
You have a choice of not offering your services in these countries.
Isn't his ultimate goal to create an immigration system in the US that is more like the Canadian one?
I don't think sympathy is what they were looking for.
"cargo cult of pointlessness": that is hilarious!
I do not invest in ETH. The reason why varies, but essentially I hold a belief that various portions of their stack have various levels of trust which are not well understood. For example, the Ethereum community has "allowed" people to use poorly constructed libraries to build contracts that were later invalidated by someone "goofing around". Other incidents show the stakeholders are willing to change core code to get their stored values back (or their associates stored values back). These issues are not to say the core chain of Ethereum is of low trust. It is not.

You are correct in assuming there is no way for a scalable and fast blockchain to store data that serves the worlds needs. Ethereum is built on the promise to do away with current decentralized services, by way of allowing the identity and value used to be placed on their chain and executed using some programmable logic, in a way that is trustworthy.

Of course we've been doing this for years with centralized services. Images drawn by people, for example, have no business being in a chain, but they could be "pinned" to the chain by way of some loose, lower trusted consensus than the main chain. A few of us could store it for a price using IPFS/Filecoin while others of us make a statement that we know the file in question exists by signing an entry on a main chain - instead of just putting the image there in total.
One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up
his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”

Holy crap. This is really, really cool. Actual magic.

But most importantly — programs are real.
You touch them. You see them everywhere —
they can only run when visible. You can change
anything and see what happens. No black boxes.

I think I'm in love.

The computer of the future is not a product, but a place.
I'd guess it depends on the employer.

When I hire, code samples (like Github contributions) are my first screen of a candidate before I decide to interview them. It is proof of ability to write code and a testament to what I consider to be quality. I do this in lieu of whiteboard challenges or Fizzbuzz tests.
I believe a better policy is to have a completely transparent system between apps/services, where a user can check what is being shared, and when.
I'm reminded of an old bash.org quote:

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_.
it responds to ping, it works completely,
I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Well this site : https://lakewaytilapia.com/Tilapia-Feeding-Guide.php seems to have all of the information you need to understand how much food it takes to generate useful amounts of Tilapia. Could be combined with an aquaponics set up to do the TCO calculation.
At least they were honest about the terrible pay. That's refreshing.
Not sure what you're proposing, but something has to go into the system (fish food or fertilizer) if you're going to be taking things out (food). If the fish are living off of the plants, then you need to feed the plants. If the plants are living off of the fish, then you need to feed the fish. Something something Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy something something.
Learning How to Be a Successful Founder with Spenser Skates
According to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, "Similar to the Amber Alerts that many are familiar with, Blue Alerts will enable authorities to warn the public when there is actionable information related to a law enforcement officer who is missing, seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, or when there is an imminent credible threat to an officer."

Is this intended to raise some sort of posse and encourage individuals to enter and resolve dangerous situations themselves? Under what scenario would a "blue alert" be useful? It seems like these alerts should go to other police officers rather than the public.
Oh, for sure. The funny thing here is that the line in 2012 was crafted to be patently absurd.
Instead of just making guesses about what the hypothetical payoff would be for a business, why not look at actual data?

A report from the Economic Policy Institute[1] found that minimum wage violations affected 17% of workers in the states surveyed (the ten most populous in the US) and averaged $3,300 per worker who was affected.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from...
https://haxe.org/blog/porting-bi-analytics-platform-from-fle...

http://www.openfl.org/

https://github.com/openfl

https://github.com/openfl/lime
Seems like they had already won once they had a reliable agricultural surplus. Doesn't matter if they were warlike or not their numbers are going to explode and they're going to start pushing out the HG societies.
People have figured out that selling widgets isn't the best way to have a continuous revenue stream.

I'll make note of that should I ever find myself selling widgets. Should I ever buy said widget, I'm sure I won't need another one until this one breaks. Seems to me one could make money selling widgets that are a little different than the last ones sold, so the customer keeps coming back for more. Starting to see where I'm going with this?

However, Disney isn't selling widgets. Disney is selling a product I've purchased hundreds of times over. I mean, I've seen a movie. I own bits of plastic should I ever care to reuse that product. Yet I keep buying more of them. Just like no one leases me ice cream, either.

But I'm not here to argue. I'm here to say, "should Outcome A come to pass, here's what you can expect from me." Disney can do whatever the hell they please.