skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just how can we deal with the social issue whereby some people care about preserving the environment, and some just want to demonstrate their cool factor by having rare, 'special' things?

I've had a crazy idea for a while: sell certificates for those crazy collectors.

The certificates show that the collector has financed x and y to protect species z.

The certificates are numbered and traced.

Get a couple of celebrities to buy a couple of pre-owned certificates for a higher figure than they were sold originally and hey - we git an instant collectible.

(Yes, tongue in cheek; for those who likes blockchains: You can even have your own blockchain for supporting animals..!)
Ember is the PostgreSQL of JavaScript frameworks.

Similar to the way Postgres has deep roots that trace back to Ingres[1] in the days before SQL was a solidly established standard, Ember traces it roots back to SproutCore[2] in the JS framework pre-historic era of 2010.

And the same way PostgreSQL was seen as a second-tier or only "historically significant" open source database, the PostgreSQL team just kept at it, toiling away year after year, steading churning out awesome code and excellent documentation, getting better and better with each release. Like clockwork.

In the same way PostgreSQL is now, finally, enjoying more popularity and getting the recognition (long overdue in my opinion) for the awesome platform that it is, I expect that in time more developers will come around to appreciating Ember. The Ember leadership is definitely approaching the project and the processes around it like they intend to be not just relevant but pushing the boundaries for a long time to come.

For one example this boundary pushing, you should not miss @tomdale's talk at ReactConf about GlimmerJS (the view layer extracted from EmberJS). It is, in my humble opinion, simultaneously mind-blowing and and inspiring.[3]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
[2] http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcor...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCSloXZ-wc
Sending ufo over LA night sky again soon?
This is going to be the first year that Nim[1] received a stand at FOSDEM[2]. I'm super thankful to FOSDEM for accepting our request and can't wait to chat to all the attendees.

Myself and the rest of the core Nim team will be there, so do swing by if you've got some free time in between the brilliant talks.

1 - https://nim-lang.org

2 - https://fosdem.org/2018/stands/
Fantastic technology for the 1970s. Well done Soviets!

One of the best programmers I've ever worked with is a guy that got his Master's under the USSR before the collapse. Great guy (H1b).
I think that the History section of the article you posted proves my point.

> Formation of the raggare culture was aided by Sweden staying neutral during World War II and untouched by the war, due to which, Sweden's infrastructure remained intact, the country was receiving aid from the Marshall Plan, and export economy boomed, which made it possible for the working-class Swedish youth to buy cars, in contrast to most of the rest of the Europe, which needed to be rebuilt.
At this point, the landings seem like one of the least likely things to go wrong. Which is pretty amazing.
As a contractor I don’t feel I opted out of a “social contract.”

Instead, I opting in to a tailored package of benefits that I choose myself. I fund (at very reasonable cost) my insurances directly.

The phrase “social contract” sounds like statist utopian fiction to me. It’s a sad world indeed, when employees can only rely on the impersonal, bureaucratic HR department of their massive employer. Or the cold, dead hand of the state and its civil servants.

Freedom lies in taking responsibility for your own affairs. Insuring yourself against calamity. Saving money for a rainy day.

Step outside our one-size-fits-all system, and further both your career and your security.
Interesting. The minimum order quantity suggests that Oracle is not interested in small orders (and I'm almost willing to bet that if you asked to buy fewer than that for commercial use, the response would be "just use it for free".) $50/user is also quite low by Oracle standards... I guess they decided the legal fees involved in going after "small violations" are not worth the trouble.

However, even the extensions used to be free for "noncommercial use in a commercial environment" --- they silently changed the license relatively recently:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=85092
According to the study:

To make the study blind,
the placebo syrup had an identical appearance and taste and was supplied in the same type of bottles. The placebo syrup did not contain the elderberry extract, but was otherwise identical. Both syrups were produced and supplied by Razei Bar Ltd (Jerusalem, Israel).
Thanks! I'll put this into the article.
Good catch. Will add this example :)
While I understand this angle, I do think this can be helpful to people with smaller side projects.
I think this is the link:

https://support.google.com/mail/contact/msgdelivery?vid=0-35...
Dub and dubstep are different genres. They're the same concept applied to to different genres of music. It technically makes dubstep a subgenre of Dub, but the music they're based off is different enough that they don't usually sound alike.
What parameters do you use to measure the "successfulness" of a programming language?

I like Python, but as an Android developer, well Java is still the obvious choice for me.
Yes, but "cosplay" has always been tied closed to science-fiction and fantasy fandom. Simply wearing costumes is probably as old as clothing.
Yeah, email was the first thing I thought of as well. Surely that doesn't apply.
A "browser"? To browse what?

The WWW? Isn't that just a WWW viewer? :)
Semi-related, I just started working on a new project using .NET Core 2. Many years of C# experience, but my first foray into .NET Core.

It was fantastic to see some of the changes they made for the better, and actually have to look up how to do some tasks, mostly working with the file system in a Razor Pages site.

What's unfortunate is that we still have a CMS that uses proper Web Forms and MVC and all the official tutorials tell you not to use them. Not very helpful when we're trying to point a new student worker toward them.
I got this review:
https://blog.ssdnodes.com/blog/administer-your-vps-cheaper-w...
Simulating and testing the design. You generally don't want to spend millions of dollars on a semiconductor mask set unless you're sure the design will work correctly.

This part usually takes longer than the actual logic design and transistor layout phases.
Did you fill in the delivery problem form?

https://support.google.com/mail/contact/msgdelivery?vid=0-35...

I had a problem with ipv6 myself with gmail, but the problem was that I just didn't have ipv6 fully set up on my server, so either SPF or reverse DNS wasn't working or something like that. I think I just configured sendmail to only use ipv4 and that solved the gmail issue.
Writing native Android apps using Python, perhaps?

:D
Drivers choose Uber when other options are available. So why would you judge that, and imagine that your view of “societal consequences” should trump their right to freely choose the best employment option for them and their personal situation?
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I did not know it, thanks for sharing. This is a very interesting read.

"And in Go, which has a 19-by-19 board and over 10150 possible positions, even an amateur human can still rout the world’s top-ranked computer programs." -- that needs to be updated, though.

Completely aside, I do not when this article is from but the update I mention above shows how we have changed in the way we approach some problems (brute force vs. ML)
The duration of cough and days missed from work are not significantly different in the two groups. The number that is improved with elderberry is a self assessment score for a number of factors about how the patient feels. Their congestion and mucus production got under control faster.

It’s worth mentioning that the study was commissioned by the company selling the elderberry infused foods and syrups more than 10 years ago and notes in its abstract that it needs to be replicated.

Found a PDF at: http://www.sambucol.co.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/sambucol...
Yay!

I can still use my fallback minimalist window manager for another few years!

I don’t mean to root against open source developers, but every aspect of the Linux stack that’s been rewritten recently is a major regression over what I used 10 years ago, and I’m frankly tired of change for change’s sake breaking stuff I rely on to do my job.
It does. I'm sure some would move, but New York and California maintain high tax rates without turning into ghost towns. To be clear, I'm not arguing the union position is correct, just that it's not ridiculous on its face. It's feasibility depends on subtle second order effects like the one you describe, not on raising tax collection to obviously impossible levels.
I think the closest to "python with types" really is typescript. I hope Python can one day get there. Typescript really gets how strong typing can be accessible yet optional.

It's also my understanding that the TS community wants to replicate the mypy model where typechecking and compilation are separate steps; by adding a typescript compiler with no type checking to Babel.
I've seen idea boards and similar projects to these in the past. What inevitably happens is the board gets flooded with lousy ideas, which are hard to filter out or sift through. Credibility weakens, leading to a bias toward people who don't see that as a red flag, and therefore a bias toward more bad ideas.

I think that with a novel and effective solution, it may be possible to turn the tables and bias toward the best ideas being most accessible.

Assuming you have to try something, how would you attempt to improve that situation?

And finally, if someone claimed to have some promising ideas on how to improve it, would you be open to pursuing joining forces with them as a co-founder? If not, what do you think might be a different strategy to take to have this project stand out?
The Google Arts and Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded Gaze”
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3 serious flaws to Microsoft’s ‘Ink to Code’ approach
They have. Two other commenters have weighed in, but neither mentioned the replacement I prefer - newsblur.com, good enough that I'm a paid subscriber.
I noticed very few of the projects list skills that the poster has. This is a big turnoff for any potential collaborator. One would want to know what the poster brings to the table skill-wise, too.

Then I tried submitting a project and realized why: I can’t find a field that lets me add the skills I think I already have. Is it the optional “Specific Skills Needed” field? If so, it’s unclear that it becomes the “Skills I Already Have” section once rendered.
Yes, and individuals should be cautious about the terms they agree to when people are interested in pairing up.

I used the term "co-hackers" on the site specifically, meaning people can pair up to work on projects together, not necessarily as co-founders.
That's interesting. Moving from Southern Europe to Northern Europe that was one of the worst things for me. I simply could not get any sleep. One would think that they would have nice blackout curtains but in fact the curtains let all the light in, making sleeping impossible.
It the spoiled kid "look at me"-ness that has made gentrification more annoying in the last decade.

I have William Shatner singing " Common People" in my head now.
> Are you saying that we should treat entire classes of modern people differently based on the events involving ancestors with similar superficial characteristics like skin color and sex?

Not at all! I'm saying that the history of women in the US is different than the history of men in the US, and that the experience of women in the US is different than the history of men in the US. For example, women are far, far more likely to be physically assaulted by a man than a man is by a woman. And we're not just talking about a dozen or so cases: violence against women is epidemic in the US (and most of the world).

So rather than using "ancestors", we can use "people currently alive". And rather than "superficial characteristics like skin color and sex" we can use "ascribed statuses" like race and sex.

Or we can leave sex out of it. Let's say there was a group of men who have, for centuries, been victimized by the rest of men. They've been abducted, sold, tortured, murdered, humiliated and exploited for centuries. That's the story of Black men (and women, of course) in America.

We can't make some simple rules about "fairness" and leave it at that. We have to understand the history of people, the history of our culture, and the current ways our culture oppresses people before we can even begin to talk about fairness. If we want to be fair towards Black people we have to take into account the effects of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, discrimination, and institutional racism. If we want to be fair towards women we have to take into account chattel, disenfranchisement, sexism, and rape culture.

Not doing this is essentially breaking someone's leg before a sprint, and when they lose and they say "Wow, that was super unfair!" we say "Wow you had the same rules! What are you upset about? That whole leg breaking thing happened a _long time ago_"
They are very good at letting you make the quick easy change while providing no helping hand in ensuring all your code is utilizing the data structure's new schema correctly

They are "easy" in that sense which makes them popular with a subset if developers, while another subset loathes the terrible language services/tooling.

Incidentally many dynamic languages seem to have attempted to bolt on some faux type system; python type annotations, phpdoc, jsdoc, type specs, etc, etc.
What is going on in this post? A couple Nick Cages and then 2 scenes of Star Wars where on has a slightly different looking Leila?

Why does the text not simply explain what is going on?
And that would happen because of herd mentality outrage fueled by anger that ultimately derives from fear.
This whole article seems baffling to me. It has a tone of urgency, but I don't really think a problem exists.

> Once a specialty of uptown bodegas, the sandwich had caught the attention of novelty-seeking foodies: Whole Foods was selling them for twice what they cost in the Bronx, where they went for $4 and still do.

Why would an item cost the same at a Whole Foods versus the Bronx?

> The poor are still gentrification’s victims, but in this new meaning, the harm is not rent increases and displacement — it’s something psychic, a theft of pride.

I don't believe the people they claim to be victims of "cultural gentrification" would consider themselves victims in this sense. Do people in lower socio-economic class really concern themselves if something they had enjoyed is being enjoyed by a larger audience?
Good to hear from a fellow "survivor". I'm stunned to have gone from living in my car to being a middle class dope. Lost touch with Gene, I hope he did well.
No, it is launching from Kennedy Space Center.
It’s not a race to the bottom. People who provide services using apps like Uber, AirBnB etc could have chose other ways to sell their services. They choose those apps because they offered the best balance of compensation and flexibility.

If holier-than-thou types try to ban these apps based on their own worldview, millions will suffer the loss of their first choice and be forced to accept their second choice - or unemployment.
If you're curious what the Russians will be deploying in remote areas (outside of aircraft) this is their primary electronic warfare vehicle which can jam low-orbit satellites, which I'd imagine includes GPS and other NATO networked systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_EW_System

> The Krasukha-4 has the range for effectively disrupting low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and can cause permanent damage to targeted radio-electronic devices. Ground based radars are also a viable target for the Krasukha-4.
The Mac is highly optimized for battery life both in its hardware, software, and mix of software taking advantage of their own hardware. Can't beat that.

Xfce4 is definitely very light on resources, though.
I don't know the semi-conductor specifics... but it's a broad engineering concept.

Validation: Does the thing you designed actually do what it's supposed to do?

And the related concept,

Verification: Is the thing you build (and deliver) actually what you designed?
I wouldn’t mind so much if the front page of that military-oriented site didn’t have a picture of an actual flamethrower in action. Yeah, you’re not doing that with propane toys from Amazon.
Do those papers explicitly explain what your employer's various business partners and services will do with your information? Does your employment contract state that Equifax will sell your salary?
DeepFake is a technology primarily used for face-swapping stars of adult video with well-known celebrities.

It's been gaining popularity on Reddit recently, and someone had the idea to "replace all actors in every film with Nicholas Cage"

Seen here is a prototype.
> JNode, JX, JavaOS, Android are a fact.

I'm not sure if you're being intellectually dishonest or just willfully ignorant, but except Android all of those projects are long dead or discontinued. It seems Java wasn't a great choice. And while Android uses the same syntax as Java under the hood it's a completely different and doesn't share any code with, one very different from the JVM (Yes, Java != the JVM, but you're whining about the CPython implementation of Python rather than the syntactical differences compared to Java)

I mean this whole thread is ridiculous, you start out by saying "Python is bad because you can't write an OS user-space in it" which by itself is entirely ridiculous. You defend this by saying "Java is fast, therefore Python is bad".

You like to troll around these Python threads saying the same thing, "boo Python is bad because it's slow" and "boo where is the Python JIT". By all means make these points, but until you put some actual substance into your arguments they will continue to come across as very confused. And honestly it does seem like you are very confused.

> As a replacement for complex shell scripts, libraries written in C and C++, or scripting GUI applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space
I don't think that has an effect on male voter turnout because far worse things happen to you if you don't sign up for selective service.

But you're right, gender roles harm everyone. You can look at the effects of our idea of "masculinity" on male health, they're pretty devastating. One of the main goals of feminism is to eradicate gender roles so people are free to live how they like without laboring under some ancient, outdated ideas on how they should act based on their sex -- which they had no part in choosing.
I'm a fan of car modding myself, but I don't think replacing the entire instrument cluster with a single centralised system --- where one fault can leave you with no instruments instead of just one inop --- is such a good idea. Adding a secondary display for less critical indicators would be useful, however.
You're discounting the ability for meetings to disseminate material and the fact that not all pairs need to equally communicate with one another.
"Do people in lower socio-economic class really concern themselves if something they had enjoyed is being enjoyed by a larger audience?"

Yes. And they are getting pissed.
I was too distracted by how unusable Tumbler is, though.
Yep, in C++ you can pass in a lambda to create the comparator inline:

std::sort(
myvec.begin(),
myvec.end(),
[](obj& A, obj& b) {
return A.attr < B.attr;
}
);
The "Caddy of mail servers" should be a plugin to Caddy, since server types are pluggable. Caddy's HTTP, DNS, and TCP+UDP servers are all just plugins.

I typically don't recommend someone running their own mail server, but if they do, I wish there'd be a good one they can use, and that one would definitely be a Caddy plugin.
From reddit, regarding the Star Wars stuff:

> Top is original footage from Rogue One with a strange CGI Carrie Fisher. Movie budget: $200m

> Bottom is a 20 minute fake that could have been done in essentially the same way with a visually similar actress. My budget: $0 and some Fleetwood Mac tunes.
The spermatorrhoea alarm
Great post. It's always good to see more examples of people putting these tools to work.

With that said, I consider getting the AMI id dynamically to be an anti-pattern which undermines the principles of infrastructure-as-code. Specifically, it introduces an implicit build variable "time of `terraform apply`", which is not tracked in version control. Happily, because of Terraform's design, this sort of thing mostly won't cause your infrastructure to drift into unexpected states (e.g. production instance 1 running AMI X and production instance 2 running AMI Y). Within an environment, things should be consistent, but your staging environment may run AMI X while production is running AMI Y, and you wouldn't know from looking at your Terraform definitions.

I previously wrote about similar ideas in the context of pinning dependency versions, where wildcards can and often do get you into bad states. https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/always-pin-your-versi...
If you have something really new and interesting you can pitch it to tech sites, bloggers, etc. and get some attention.

A lot of times people are pitching something that is not really that interesting, or they pitch it in a way that reporters cannot turn into a story that their audience can understand. (I've made that mistake!)

Generally if you reach out to bloggers and tech writers you will get some response.
You're getting confused with homeopathy, I think.
Thank you! Grew up pretty poor. My mom was a single mother with a nursing degree back in the 80s when nurses made just above minimum wage. I'm super happy that the baby boom aging process changed that over time (supply/demand). She's now retired, but has 3 pensions, and no worries. Sometimes, karma just pays off.
Many Solar Systems Are Organized; Ours Appears Random
Movies without celebrities have been made for quite some time already.
Yep, completely agree.

“Cultural gentrification” is the usual hand-wringing nonsense; it’s virtually certain that the only people complaining about this are precisely those that are unaffected by these changes.

The economic impact is a bigger problem. The idea that property sits empty, while prices and rents continue to increase, definitely indicates that something is wrong.

It’s not unreasonable to think that the free market has failed in this case, and that perhaps preventing speculation through regulation might be an effective approach.
The closest is convertible equity, adopted by a good number of startups during their seed stage. You can read about SAFE by YC and KISS by 500 Startups, 2 informal instruments / agreements used to do convertible equity.
Perhaps there's correlation between sunlight exposure and being out in "large spaces" where the majority of what you're seeing is farther away than your homes' walls. Having developing eyes focus on a mountain panorama or distant trees across a lake leads to different stresses on the eyeball ... or perhaps some different training for physiological systems that deal with focus.
>making sleeping impossible

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Night-Eye-Shade-GNES/dp/B009V0...
Last week we announced that we'll ship a beta in the next couple of months. Flutter is pretty stable - we're just working on scenario completeness in a few areas (performance, accessibility, a few more widgets).

For those who are interested, there's a great demo of building an app in Flutter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflV0D0d1zQ

(Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.)