skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Videos are consumed, though, unlike these widgets you mentioned.

There should be two choices you make as a consumer, for two separate things:

One, your streaming platform marketplace of choice. Amazon, Hulu, etc.

Two, the specific media you want to watch. You pay for that.

If you want to watch Stranger Things for example, it'll cost around $15, and you can purchase that on Hulu, Amazon, whatever.

Streaming services can get good at streaming, and compete with each other for the best platform.

Media creators can be good at media, and compete with every other media there is.
Makes sense. The ugly and skeptical philosophy of Socrates was very controversial compared to the beautiful words of the Sophists, but now we all consider the disciples of Socrates to be the best philosophers. Maybe we should start having more respect for the controversial outcasts.
Google Inbox would be an example, but there are so many and they all work similarly.

Modern features are snoozing messages, automatic grouping of emails by type (promotions, spam, important, finance, family, etc.), and fewer buttons and options.

Modern design looks nice, and it makes buttons for more common actions more prominent: new message is huge, reply is big, add label very small, etc., while in Thunderbird there are 10 times more buttons, and they're all the same size.

It just needs a lot of work.

I'm not a designer, so I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong, but those I mentioned are the things that I notice and that I would start from.

As for Google Inbox specifically, it gets rid of all spam and hardly ever gets it wrong. It also encourages you to get rid of useless emails thanks to grouping done well and a few related features, which made me achieve inbox zero for the first time.
AF_Unix comes to Windows
I can see it being occasionally difficult but I touch type anyway and keep a mental model of what I'm writing. The tradeoff would be worth it for me.
If it was worth the cost, people would do it :)

We actually have done optimal modeling before, using distributed combinatorial optimization.

FWIW Intel documentation is often wrong, so you'd need a real motivating benchmark.
Hi there! I'm living in a third world country, and I need to move to a good English-speaking country that respects human rights, where I can have unrestricted internet access, and can safely build my startup without being fucked with.

I'm a good programmer, but I'm self-taught, my degree is unrelated to CS, so that makes things more difficult. I probably need a startup or self-employed visa.

What are my best options?
There's lots of other ways to "find out if people can program" than the above nonsense. The easiest is if they have any open source projects.
Sincerely thank you for being so generous and supporting open source. It benefits us all
If I had a pound for every time I have seen an article proclaiming xxx is the new SV id be rich.

Whilst some areas do have the required teir 1 universities and USP eg silcon fen or wider the oxford to cambridge belt a rust belt state is unlikely to succeed.
They've had a problem of upgrades being painful/slow/difficult, and so people not doing the upgrades. They've fixed the second part by taking away the choice; the first is barely changed.
Marco here, Kong's CTO. We hear you, we are aware that plugin development is not as easy as we wish, and we are planning to rollout a few improvements next year to make it mainstream, including:

- A built-in Lua plugin API that abstracts away the underlying complexity of NGINX and OpenResty. Among other things the plugin API will make it easy to interact with the lifecycle of request/response objects.

- An official testing framework for plugins (unit and integration tests).

- A new DAO to get rid of some magic and make the overall system more robust and extensible (with an in-memory DAO implementation for example).

- Support for remote gRPC plugins to support plugin development in any gRPC supported languages.

- And finally supporting plugin installation/versioning within Kong itself using the HTTP Admin API to install/uninstall plugins cluster-wide on any Kong node (as opposed to installing plugins on the file system).

NGINX and Lua (on top of LuaJIT http://luajit.org/) were chosen for their reliability and performance, the next step for Kong is to focus more on making the overall Kong ecosystem bigger therefore simpler plugin development is a very high priority item in our roadmap.
Yes but you need to pay each time you press "W".
I always do. For mid-to-senior it's more out of curiosity, but for entry-level it can impact my decision, especially for bootcamp grads.

I know the prevailing sentiment on HN is sometimes that hiring managers like making candidates jump through hoops to make themselves feel important, but I don't think that's the issue here. It's simply that someone who came to programming late in life is at a severe disadvantage compared to people who have been interested in it since fifth grade, and some kind of programming in your spare time is the best (only?) way to catch up.

Contra the article, I don't care if the project shipped, or if it's thoroughly unit tested, or how many iterations or whatever. I just want evidence that you're in the larval stage.
Actually it fells like this. In my job I also get the time to work a bit on the side-projects.
> This is a confusion of monetary capital (which Ricardo, as a stockbroker by trade, knew intimately) with the physical machinery in factories (about which he knew very little). Yes, monetary capital moves easily in search of a profit—today, even internationally. But machinery is specific to each industry, and the crucial machines in one industry cannot simply “move” to another without loss of productivity.

> In fact, the relative mobility which Ricardo assumed for his ubiquitous concept of “capital” is the opposite of what applies to machinery. Machinery designed for one industry simply cannot move to any other, even in the same country; but machinery in one industry can (and frequently is) shipped between countries.

Yet if one doesn't make a distinction between "monetary capital" and "physical capital" this whole argument falls apart. Reallocation of malinvested capital is the cornerstone of a market economy and leads to a more overall efficient system. If someone makes a bad bet and fails in their entrepreneurial endeavor their "capital" will be liquidated and used in a (hopefully) more efficient manner.
Aah Still selling this snake oil?
10th of Jan. 2017, and nothing has happened.
The Republic of Ireland's constitution guarantees a member of the Dáil (Lower Parliamentary house; similar to the US House of Representatives) for every 20-30,000 people, and districts are redrawn and reapportioned frequently.

This seems to be a pretty ideal number to me - it's about the size of the township I grew up in. Many people in their district would have personal ties to their representative, as a further detriment to attempts at lobbying/corruption.

The US constitution used to have a similar provision, but this was abandoned by the ammendment process in the late 1920's.
Punk science: a growing movement wants to make scientific tools available to all
It's like gambling: shoulda/woulda/coulda.

Why do people like these things? Pipe dreams?
White Women Tears – Critical Theory on Lindsay Shepherd
I think a few dozen tiles were purchased at 1 ETH when it was about a dollar per ETH. People seemed to like it although it was challenging to build things. I can see in the contract data that some people bought tiles, mined blocks, but didn't understand how to place the blocks on the tiles, so the blocks remain hidden.

Anyway yeah I'm thinking of resurrecting it soon. I've kept an entrepreneurial/techie ear open since I built it and I think I finally know what I want to do to bring it back to life.

As far as ownership, I'll probably just buy all the remaining tiles myself (the money goes to me anyway) and then sell at more reasonable prices on the secondary market.
Show HN: Mset – simple alternative to JSON config files
Facebook Says It Won't Use New Face Recognition to Suggest 'People You May Know'
There is a chance although any major overhaul of immigration laws almost always requires the support of both parties so I think the chance is still low. It would have a profound impact, I think, both repressing and encouraging immigration to the U.S. but the exact parameters of this are hard to say.
Python and Cryptocurrency
Hello World,

A while back BAyPIGgies asked for volunteers to help with the BAyPIGgies Python Meetup.

I jumped at that opportunity and offered to lead educational efforts.

I want YOU to join me.

My first educational project will be: "Python and Cryptocurrency"

I will create educational content which teaches "Python and Cryptocurrency".

The subtitle is: "Use Python to Learn Cryptocurrency, Use Cryptocurrency to Learn Python"

To get started down that path I enrolled in a free class on Dec 26 offered by Coursera and Princeton:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

YOU should join the class with me; I want fellow students; we can help each other.

After I finish that class I will study these classes:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cs255/

I welcome anyone who wants to join me in this effort.

No experience necessary, just a desire to learn and teach.

My goal is to finish the "Python and Cryptocurrency" project by July 1, 2018.

I will attend the 2017-12-21 BAyPIGgies Meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/242072372/

I will carry a clipboard which will allow me to collect names of volunteers.

Look for me!

I want to meet anyone who wants to work on BAyPIGgies educational projects.

After the Meetup, the best way to reach me is bikle101-gmail.

Sincerely, Dan Bikle
I really don’t understand the industry fixation with C++. It has to be one of the WORST (as in “error prone death trap”) computer languages ever devised. God how I wish it would fade away into obscurity.

If half the effort wasted on C++ compilers and usage learning had been spent on something worthwhile...
Except fertilisers are bad for the environment, especially Nitrogen which is mined.

I have a friend who is building a commercial aquaponic setup and he claims that not only is it better for the environment but it is price competitive now and will be cheaper than hydroponics as the prices of fertilizer keep increasing.
#2 statistic here is also largely bullshit based on a very flawed understanding of risk. "...help us better understand the world around us", this stat does the complete opposite.

Further reading:
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/942730083973951490
If you've tried recently to sync up a self-hosted ETH wallet app, you've probably noticed what an incredibly long time it takes to get the whole blockchain. Meanwhile the HDD is thrashing around like crazy; if you're not using an SSD then forget it. Wallet apps like Parity are a little more forgiving (probably smarter in how they handle the blockchain), but still, it's dozens of gigabytes already.

To me, the single, shared, universal blockchain idea seems more like a proof of concept. It's also pretty hard to ask every node in the network to see every possible transaction. I am virtually certain that whatever ends up taking over the world will not operate that way. Things just don't scale like that.
This is my story as well. It's especially the case in a corporate environment when you're the love Linux insurgent holding ground in a sea of Macs and Windows
Do you mean that browsers implementing this will force website owners to make their sites work with tracking domains delayed? This does seem like a nice side benefit.
It's hard to say in the abstract. Please send me your resume.
It's sad to see Mozilla dropping off Thunderbird to basically a spin-off entity (this seems to be the direction).
Hi,
Recently there was a proposal to do away with Employment Authorization for H4 visa holders. What are some of the next steps you would suggest we take.
Thank you, edited to avoid distractions.
Netflix has been winning the war on proxies recently according to my friends - all VPS and VPN blocks are either already blacklisted or get blacklisted a couple of weeks after going live
It resembles the lightweight listicles of a career site's newsletter.
I thought it was non related work outside of work that was covered
Indeed. I’m as skeptical as it gets re: UFOs—and in general, really—and I have no idea how to process these videos without coming to the conclusion that something significantly outside of all current human understanding is going on.
> The Ethereum community has "allowed" people to use poorly constructed libraries to build contracts that were later invalidated by someone "goofing around"

Ah back when Ethers were $7 each instead of the $800 today

The real question is whether your poor investment decisions are relevant to the discussion of this thread

These are commodities, broken things about them makes the more valuable or scarce, just like when an oil pipeline is destroyed in a conflict zone. Your opinion about oil has no bearing on you making money.
Depends on the audiobook. I think technical docs would be alright, which is what I want this mostly for. Lots of technical docs I'd like to listen while I work out.
Replying to myself, on second thought, I genuinely think the point is the public gets these messages so it has a constant reminder of how dangerous the world is for law enforcement.
Traction, I always find it a good book to gift to friends that are trying to start businesses.
Reminds me of Bret Victor's (ostensible maker of the iPad) post on interaction design:

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
For those with advanced degrees from U.S. schools, the odds could be 80% or higher. And the trend is definitely favoring higher skilled, higher paid workers.
The article is a bit sparse, but take a look at the output of the Loy Yang 3 and the Tesla (HPR) in this graph: http://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/HPR-fr...

Tesla ramps up as the LYA3 is dropping at 1:59am, then the Tesla drops off a bit before 2:02 am as the Gladstone generator kicks in (not in the graph)
Sounds great. The problem, when I play the video on their website and I close it while it's still playing, I continue to hear the video's sound.
> Do people in Switzerland really live that much better than Americans?

I actually expect the answer to be a resounding "yes", especially for people away from coasts. Switzerland doesn't even have coasts and it's pleasant to all its citizens!
Remember the rule of paw, don't pick the prickly pears by the paw.
I've found Mutt, Alpine, Sup and Notmuch all to be very good, depending on your needs.
I am a holder of H1b visa in EB2, currently working for large tech firm in bay area. Do patents help in getting O1 or H1 EB1 visas ?
I don't know about how bigger firms feel about it, but I'd probably not regard it as a positive. Only show me code you think I'd accept at my work place.

For juniors it could be a positive signal though, if you're the kind of person that always looking to learn new things. Depends on the situation if you should show it or not: who are you trying to come across as?

If you have the resume, don't show it. Otherwise, do show it and let me know what parts you like and why some other parts are WIP (comments are great here).

Another thing to take in consideration is your own criticism. You might be really critical of the project since you're an exceptional programmer, and great programmers tend to move forward quickly and look back at their own old code with distaste. :)
I think a whole lot of the divide we see is not state/region based but city vs. rural. See how many quite conservative congresspeople CA sends to the house, many of which just voted on a bill that will increase taxes on many Californians, especially those who live in the big cities. The bay area sprawls out pretty far but drive into the Sierras or up north and it's a different story. Trump won Placer county (aka area around Lake Tahoe) by 51-39%. Further north, he won Lassen county 70-20%. This in a state where Hillary won and the legislature is roughly 2/3rds Democrat.

I see no reason the cities in the midwest couldn't host a tech boom, and over time start to turn the cultural tide as a result.

More globally, this divide makes me sad. I have trouble thinking these people who hold views I find quite wrong are bad people, but it seems somewhere our national conversation has broken down completely. Sometimes maybe for good reasons, but still it's quite depressing.

Edit: typo
Getting a dev is fine but you want the dev that can execute and work in a team
https://www.discoverfrance.net/France/DF_resources.shtml:

”Deposits of petroleum are almost nonexistent, and natural gas reserves discovered (1951) at Lacq in the Pyrenées are now nearly exhausted.”
I suspect that those with H-4 EADs would be allowed to continue working until their EADs expired so I wouldn't take any drastic measures now other to renew your H-4 EAD as early as possible and possibly apply in the H-1B lottery.
Should we all move to the midwest? Maybe we have a chance at changing things for the better? Wishful thinking?
There's a little hyperbole there. Religious folk like the decalogue near courthouses (but generally lose lawsuits about those); they don't think Moses received the rules of the road in stone. And I can't imagine anti-sharia laws "burning through tax dollars" any faster than other window-dressing-type bills in liberal legislatures. Red and Blue legislators gonna bloviate and introduce useless bills, but no one "funds" them.

But, it does seem striking to say you can't live in even the watered-down religious culture of the Midwest (which is no deep South). Like, Lake Wobegone Lutherans are too much anymore.

I won't gainsay that either way, but recognize you're no longer talking about tech as a search for profit or talent, but an aspirational social structure.
I'd like to point out to those that downvoted shiffern's comment that large armies only arose after agriculture made it possible. Downvotes do not counter historical fact, no matter how much cognative dissonance the facts cause for you.
Depends on what platform you are. I'm currently on Ubuntu and I use Google Inbox wrapped in an Electron app.

I used to use Mailbox (which I think became Google Inbox? or was it Sparrow that did), Sparrow, Airmail.

Thunderbird turns managing emails into a full-time job. No shortcuts whatsoever to help you getting rid of unimportant emails, awful spam protection.

Of course, if you're productive in Thunderbird who cares and why not just use that, this is just my opinion :-)
1. 10% Happier

2. Traction

3. Unshakable

4. Shoe Dog (This has been my favorite book thus far of 2017, I did not think it would of left such a lasting impression on me about life and success and business)

5. Start with Why

6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck
Hedging risk by doing a side project relevant to your employment interests is perfectly valid. If you are employed you have the luxury of doing something random in your off hours. If not, you need to be very mindful of what happens if your side project goes nowhere and your savings run out.
The claim has never been that it had no advantages.

The claim has always been that, although agriculture is a dominant strategy at the cultural level (obviously, from history!), it allegedly involves a less pleasant life experience for the individuals (more work, higher rates of malnutrition, whatever else).

If I understand correctly (big "if"), agriculture scales better with population, and so while the HGs are inherently limited in population size, the farming society ends up larger and swamps them. 1000 HGs vs 10k farmers is going to have a pretty straightforward outcome, even if it's the case (as these theses claim) that the HG is happier, healthier-on-average, stronger, smarter, etc. (After all, the per-individual advantages are not alleged to be enormous).
Yeah good point, that must be why all ecosystems fail without human intervention.

/s
Facebook Is Coming for Zillow
How does this work in practice, with a high number of cars with such apps? Say everyone arrives home from commute at roughly the same time, how is the delay factor decided/distributed?
Hi Peter,

There's lots of talk about 'rethinking NAFTA'. As a TN visa holder (living in Canada and working in the USA), this certainly concerns me. But I just am not informed enough about the situation to know what to expect.

In your opinion, is there any risk that the TN visa program, used by many tech companies to get talent from Canada and Mexico, is at risk during these negotiations? Should I be worried that next time I head to work, I'll be turned away without warning?
oh you mean north Hollywood aka Vancouver :-)
Yes, they definitely can help, supporting the criteria for original and significant contributions and essential roles, among others.
Breaking up the big liberal states has been proposed by conservatives, because they want to get more conservative leg members. We'd need to break up conservative states too. There has been discussion of breaking Seattle off into it's own state or country. That would add a Republican Senate and House Rep, since the test of the state is more conservative, so you have to do a 3 way breakup of WA state. Anyway, these things are all hard to achieve and infeasible in practice. IMHO.
I think they are just using the Ctrl-Shift-Tab	and Ctrl-Tab shortcuts to browse through tabs. Those work in Chrome and Safari, so you can keep your fingers on the keyboard.

I haven't found a way to use Contexts to introspect tabs (I suspect it would need some soft of browser extension to do so).

The Quick Tabs extension does a pretty good job if you don't mind invoking it after you get to Chrome.

It's not quite as elegant as finding windows, but it's pretty good.

From anywhere at all:

Contexts: Hold Fn, type "Chr"
Chrome: Cmd-E
Quick Tabs: Type tab name, Enter
Owning property is a luxury, one which may not even pay off in the long run.

It seems totally reasonable to prioritize being treated like a human being over an arbitrary exchange of assets.
Dgraph announces its first production-ready graph database release
Linode in the U. S., then ssh tunnel? I did that for the London Olympics with a London node, worked a treat. Seems to my ignorant mind to harder to detect.
I've been using Apple's Mail.app for a long time, but it's nice to see Thunderbird as a real alternative to it or Outlook.
Bitcoin Advantages and Disadvantages
With tracking domains disabled!? Website operators will be annoyed by the delays, so they have an incentive to make the display of their website independent from tracking, which then also should make the website work just fine if tracking is blocked completely.
What's the average income of a Kazakh? I suspect that GDP figure appears inflated because a lot of oil wealth is generated and goes to only a small portion of the society
Not physical paper, but you can download all the data they have on you at any time if you want.
The exchange integration ( we use outlook 365 ) for mail works fine, just set it up as IMAP.

The calendar stuff is a bit rockier, but there is project to keep it alive here: https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar/
I think they'll definitely have better results in 3rd world countries if they didn't try to deliver it the hard love way.
the article has done well to cherry-pick a relatively liberal spot in an otherwise conservative state

Aren't those called "cities?"

arent ashamed to force their backwoods culture on you from the hinterlands

I lived in Cincinnati Ohio for 5 years. How did people force their backwoods culture on you? I had zero culture forced upon me. I was the subject of a targeted racial harassment once, and I remember one unpleasant discussion with a cringe-inducing person once. Most people there in the late 90's/early 2000's were fairly live and let live. Where they weren't, aside from the above, much of this came from the Left, as an instance of the left eating itself.