skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. This was a college project years ago but recently I’ve been thinking about revisiting it. With properly provisioned DB users, ACLs, and stored procedures, it could actually end up being more secure than it would be with an intermediary application server.
> wingsuits are dangerous

Are they really that much more dangerous than parachuting? I know they have more fatalities but wingsuiting is only more dangerous because people take more risks with them and fly close to the ridgeline(typically you only get into wingsuiting if you are an experienced parachute operator). Similar to in rock climbing with typical roped climbing vs. free soloing(sans ropes).
I am increasingly hearing that the US is in a state of impending collapse from a variety of sources, and I always ask, well if it is, how much time do we have? In the absence of any method for accurate forecasting, I defer to J. Richard Gott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Richard_Gott. According to his method, which he used successfully to predict when the Berlin Wall would come down, the US probably has about 800 years left, based on a 75% chance it has lived about a quarter of its life.
‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement
I think of it in terms of: do customers already know that they want/need it - alternativly phrased - does is it solve a current customer need/painpoint?

Taking that into account, google is indeed rather a red ocean idea. Whereas, the iPhone was a Blue Ocean product. The original iPhone was a bad phone to make calls with, it didn’t know MMS and no App Store. Many would prefer a Blackberry back then for serious stuff. But, is was magical enough to create a new market through its appeal.
Have you tried installing it from homebrew? brew install coreutils
This assumes you have brew installed.
Where else are they happening?
Not sure if this will be better or worse with 20-40 minute electric charge times :)
Why does it need to be an even match to make it a good vs. evil story? Tolkein is the classic example of high fantasy. Does Frodo square off against Sauron on equal footing?

> There is no power struggle.

This is an interesting but very different point. Are there implication in modern good vs. evil action films that violence is the answer and that the pursuit of power to conquer evil is good?

Those are arguably recent trends in film. Though, again, they're hardly new themes.
> Also, are you sure your WM won't be updated to work with Wayland..?

Not the parent, but yes, in my case, my WM maintainers have stated that it won't be updated to work with wayland.

I can only hope that when (if?) wayland becomes the standard, there is a compatability layer that allows to run wayland apps from withing xorg.
I've used Embedded Ruby (ERB), I was also converting YAML to JSON before CloudFormation added native support for YAML templates (Sep 2016). My company's web application was a Ruby/Rails stack so `.yml.erb` syntax was already quite familiar to our team. Pre-processing the template is a simple shell one-liner that you can easily add to your test/deploy scripts:

cat template.yml.erb | ruby -rerb -e "puts ERB.new(ARGF.read, nil, '-').result" > template.yml

A lightweight template-preprocessor step adds just enough scripting automation (in a familiar language/environment of your choice) to cut through boilerplate, and avoids imposing yet another domain-specific intermediate abstraction layer on top of the whole stack (e.g., troposphere's Python API, arguably also Terraform's HCL).
I hadnt heard this - after a bit of digging it looks like SSE + http/2 will replace a lot of the same use cases, but the consensus seems to be no: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28582935/does-http-2-mak...

Interesting thought though - I think more options there will be better in the long run, as long as it a "both" instead of an "either/or".
Sort of tangentially, it would be tragically hilarious if public self-driving or car-sharing car eco-systems won't succeed because of the ever encroaching advertising/salesman.

You know you're onto something when you're making private car ownership appealing to a public transport advocate.

/no one mention the dystopia where i can't block out ads, pitches and sales from my own private vehicle/house :P
I guess it should come as no surprise that the birthplace of directly-marketed neutral grain spirits sells it to the public. Unfortunately it seems that it's illegal in many U.S. states, all of Norway. Here in Ontario I've heard they used to sell the equivalent through the LCBO (the monopoly state retailer of spirits, recently no longer the monopoly on wine and beer), but the product pages linked from forums talking about it are dead, and the manufacturer no longer lists it on their site. I hear Everclear (major American grain ethanol brand) can be bought in Alberta.
Every programming language is unreadable in that sense for those who're not proficient with English. I've learned programing much earlier than English, for example, so all those "begin"/"end"/"procedure"/etc were just cryptic words. I think that programming even influenced my English.
This is similar, but I meant figuring out how you're going to solve a problem using code, not figuring out how you're going to fix your code.

One example I can remember is my dad coming out and holding up a pen, and asking me how I would view all sides of the pen without moving my head. I said, "I'd spin the pen around," and my dad yelled, "of course!", threw a twenty at me and ran back to his office.
Why Not Python? (2017)
I think amelius is more concerned about the prices concert-goers have to pay for tickets, rather than about venues' profits.
No.
https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms
I spent what seemed like way too much time playing video games from my youth to my early 20s. It seems like those are the days I always want to nostalgically recapture, so perhaps I was having a great time and it was well spent. I can hardly get immersed in anything that deeply these days.
Positively or negatively?
Actually if you’re frustrated with the web ui then just drop into a cloud shell instance and do everything from there “in the command line”

And even though the UI can be a bit sluggish at times i can’t say AWS was any better last time I used it
"Xanadu is a story of building castles in the air for thirty years"

You mean the name "Xanadu" is perfectly fitting :)
I wrote a hymnal[1], and currently Amazon has a copy for sale at double the price of a new copy from my website. That put me in the unusual position of leaving a three-star review of my own book. I sell the book as nearly at cost+shipping as possible, as I don't want to profit off a religious book — but that doesn't mean I want someone else to profit off it, either.

[1]: http://olpbhtb.com
Ad revenue, I presume?
Science and engineeing may be intimately intertwined, but technology does not "depend on" science in any straightforward way.

Sure, technology does not depend on science in a straightforward way - it's dependency is quite complex but it's there. You can't translate Schroedinger's equation directly into an understand of semiconductors but you certainly need the basics of quantum mechanics for an understanding of modern chips.
I haven't spent any time in the Arctic Circle but it's been an itch I want to scratch. The last 10 years I've been based at about 19° S but I went and spent half a year in 46° S. Arriving in summer, my brain kept thinking it was 4PM all the way to 9PM :-) Short winter days would race by. I found myself thinking 'day over already?!' a lot. The advantage was you were always discussing the dawn beauty with neighbours as everyone saw it.
Actually they really supported innovations, maybe not the way like it supposed to be when you pursuing to receive economican benefit from R&D, but it's because political interests occupied first, second and third places, economy questions was on fourth place in good days.

There were no arms conversion, so economy didn't take any benefit from beautiful minds behind the scenes.
there's bots on twitter.
Be wary of anything that seems to suggest that social pathology or social evil must lead, or must even tend to lead, to social collapse. Civilisation can roll from strength to strength, serene and happy and proud in itself, while (sometimes even because) the marginal, unloved, non-compliant or just unlucky are crushed pitilessly and unceasingly beneath its wheels. In fact that's the normal state of affairs. Providing examples from US history is left as an exercise for the reader: and that's not to suggest that the US is very much, or perhaps even at all, exceptional in its historical level of social brutality.
I am potentially looking for a co-founder but am not entirely sure if it would be a good idea. I own a fledgling revenue-oriented transactional SaaS startup in a niche. Volume is low, margins are high, acquisition prospects are good if we can get rolling. Bootstrapped, started as a side project a couple years ago. Have a web app in production but finding good talent and financing the development has been challenging. Most contractors either price out of my budget or get cold feet about learning their way around the somewhat complex code base. Right now operating without a developer at all. Have some customers and a highly lucrative partnership in the final stages of negotiation (worth as much as $40K/week) but it's unlikely I'll be able to close on the deal if I can't line up some ongoing dev help. On one hand, I'm committed to seeing this through by whatever means necessary. On the other hand I have a bit of a sunk cost problem and am not sure, given the amount of work and money that has gone into the product thus far (and modest angel investment), that I could reasonably part with enough equity to interest a "co-founder." About me: tons of domain experience and contacts, highly product-focused, self-taught developer (have written reasonably large portions of the code base for tasks that I'm capable of coding well).
> nobody uses it to produce vodka by mixing with tap water

Why not?
Storing data in DNA is a lot easier than getting it back out
Sorry, I replied at the wrong point in the thread. I should have replied to him.
My biggest regret is not taking my health seriously when I was younger. It turned out my nagging issues with eating were more serious than I thought, the gravity having been cloaked by the gradual onset of symptoms. By the time I was finally diagnosed with celiac, I had been suffering from debilitating issues that harmed my ability to consistently work for well over a decade. The problems with celiac shaped my life and even personality in negative ways, and I’ve been left with chronic problems related to nerve damage that may never heal.
Employers want JavaScript, but developers want Python
Amen.

I can only add to this that you never drink vodka for taste. You drink it for the effects. The only two qualities it must be judged on is 1) how quickly and easily it goes down 2) how little hangover it results in. The less you have in vodka the better it is on both points. Hence, comrade Igor's advice is a sound one. Even if it sounds a bit alien.
Let's use some bigger, current metrics to measure whether or not US is collapse or not, instead of some random stats about shooting, or observations about US collapse.

1.) US GDP is 19.73 trillion in 4th quarter 2017, best in the world. https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-gdp-5-latest-statistics-and-h... second best is EU, at 17.1 trillion.

2.) US GDP per capita is $57,000, pretty impressive considering it has a population of 330+ million people and growing. compare that with $8000 for China.

3.) US ranked 3rd in GDP per hours worked, pretty productive for such a big nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

4.) Dollar is still the hegemony

5.) US military is the biggest in the world, and has the most combat experiences. It has provoked many wars over the years, some good (toppling dictators, preventing communisms from spreading, advocating democracies), as well as some bad (instilling instabilities in regions)

6.) US innovation is everywhere, in tech (internet, hardware, software), finance, entertainment (games, tv, movies, music), lifestyle, education, services, etc

7.) there's a bigger upper middle class than ever, lower middle class has shrank . http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-cl...

8.) With tariffs punishing China, Apple/Amazon investments of billions into american cities, and fines levied on China for unfair tech transfers, US will revive manufacturing and economies in middle America
Island: A Sandbox Environment on Your Android Device (2016)
> Welfare state is not "let's financially encourage the disintegration of families". It's "let's help individuals that suffer from the lack of a family support system".

In policy, outcomes are at least as important as intentions. The question is whether welfare has this effect, not whether the original/current proponents of welfare intend for this effect.

There's the kernel of a reasonable idea here [1]. Unfortunately for your parent post, even the studies most favorable to this conclusion find only a modest effect and cite factors like relationship quality and access to decent paying jobs as much better predictors of marriage success.

> People on unemployment benefits still look for a job, because they value their dignity over money.

Even the studies that are used to justify your parent post's viewpoint ultimately conclude that this is true for the vast majority of people. Interestingly, those studies also find that the poorer you are, the less likely you are to consider loss of welfare benefits when making a decision about marriage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_trap
I don't like that this is a semi-paywalled article.
In addition to what others have commented, that's just saying that the venues exploit the concert-goers anyway, so why not just join in and help yourself to some of the loot?
The World’s Tropical Forests Are Already Feeling the Heat (2011)
Microsoft would seem to be one counterexample.
Probably for some uses. One major drawback of isopropyl is that it’s so much more toxic than ethanol.
America is the most powerful and impressive developed country in the world, attached to a vast and profoundly depressing failed developed state.

C.f. SF Bay and rural Oklahoma.
Could you please not use HN for ideological battle? These disputes are always all the same, which makes them off topic here. On HN only the diffs count as interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Standard Oil?
Even that doesn't work if the product is in any way complex.

In someways I think it is better to concentrate on value to the purchasing decision maker. Provide the decision maker with real value below the CAC and you have a valid business idea.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16226830
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological tangents. Political battle is low-value discussion (for this site) to begin with and has a way of proliferating dismayingly. It is the opposite of what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
could you sell it on amazon yourself for the same price you have it on your website? That would discourage anyone to sell it for a profit
It might be if it had a constitutional amendment saying Medicaid, Medicare and/or Social Security were untouchable. It doesn't. There's no spending in the US that's not on the table. When or if push came to shove it's not hard to imagine some or all of those programs being cut just as it's not hard to imagine taxes going up.
Hmmm but that trend would likely hold true across the US, unless you think Costco has some specific brain-washing process :)
How so? Not a malevolent monopoly in any sense. I still do not understand the antitrust case to be some sort of proof of monopoly -- the court settled for them making public the implementation of certain API's, and allowed them to continue shipping IE with their OS (as they should -- how else would people download a web browser? Force everyone to buy one at the store and install them via CD?)

EDIT: incredible how many downvotes I've received on this thread, as I continue waiting for that example :)...
This is original browser war Netscape vs Microsoft and honestly, I don't see nothing like that today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEFu-B1wj1E
So, you support an open web except not for people who want to protect their content?
"Standard's actions and secret[14] transport deals helped its kerosene price to drop from 58 to 26 cents from 1865 to 1870. Competitors disliked the company's business practices, but consumers liked the lower prices." - Wikipedia

Not a malevolent monopoly in any sense. Once they had gained the dominant industry position, sure, they could have price gouged for a short time, but without government protection, my claim is that they would have lost their position. They knew that, so they didn't.
I watched several of his YouTube videos. I wish I had a colleague, a boss, a mentor, a neighbour or a grandpa like him. May he find peace and satisfaction in the thought in his old age that he could be so humane, inspiring and loveable in a time when we are so obsessed with machines.
I took a London Black Cab recently and thought I would have a driver that would know the postcard sites and not demand a postcode to be typed into Google Maps on his phone.

Since I was by now in a picky mood about the customer service aspect, I did wonder why this driver had no 'upsells'.

So what 'upsells' would you have for the passenger in the back of a cab?

Well, you can be on a trip to a meeting in posh clothes. Just having a mirror to see if you look the part could be most helpful in a cab, obviously a full length mirror isn't going to happen but something to check the spinach in your teeth might help. So there is a whole set of breath fresheners, mints, chewing gums and whatever else people need to get the spinach out of their teeth.

Also, where can I get a latte in the back of a cab? Okay, maybe that is not going to happen, but a bottle of water can't be that hard to stock and keep chilled.

What price an umbrella when you arrive with no coat expecting better weather?

Then there are those that have not had breakfast yet. Cereal bars have shelf life, how much are they worth to late, starving people?

A small pack of tissues, costs pennies but if you are late for that interview and need to blow your nose, would you pay £1 for those tissues?

Cigarette lighters, maybe not booze and fags, but there is a whole cornucopia of every day stuff that the drunk crowd would want.

I imagine there are good reasons why cab drivers do not offer these sorts of upsells (everything can be bought en-route), however, why do you need the products to be sponsored by brands and many millions of dollars of VC to sell a few candy bars and a few combs?
Honestly, it's not worth the time for me to do that; it mostly sells by word of mouth. I'd rather say, "I wouldn't recommend buying it this way," and let people carry on doing as they wish. I'm not that worked up about controlling others' behavior.
fwiw I wouldn't worry: GP is just adding the previous links so that HN readers can see those previous discussions. If it were a problem you'd perhaps not be on the front page. dang is a moderator.
> the fall of Christianity in the USA, or at least adherence to its teaching and participation (i.e. census stats disregarded)

Two questions:

1) How are you measuring that if not via the census?

2) Given the Wikipedia list of “Importance of religion by country” places the USA nowhere near the top or bottom of the list, and that nations which are less religious than the USA include socially aware and stable nations such as Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and all of the Scandinavian nations, why would declining religiosity be a cause or effect of national collapse?
So long as you don’t need to use the developer tools, because a 1950x and 64GiB of RAM aren’t enough to make that run snappy.
> Seems to me like the question of CloudFormation vs. Terraform has more to do with whether the business makes a strategic decision to allow for vendor lock-in or not, rather than mostly aesthetic discussions over the merits of YAML vs HCL.

While I agree that CloudFormation is a vendor-specific tool which makes Terraform the obvious choice to avoid vendor lock-in more generally, in this particular case, the author is fully entrenched in the AWS ecosystem without any hint of desire to avoid lock-in, and gave as reason #1 for his decision a mostly aesthetic discussion over the merits of YAML vs HCL.
No it isn't [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/08/30/ideas-are-not-cheap/
Drivers get a 25 percent commission on each paid order plus a $1 base commission for each order (including free products), with the average driver earning around $100-$115 per month. However the top 10 percent of drivers are converting somewhere between 30-60 percent of riders into customers and making up to $275 per month.

Wow. Given how mileage degrades a vehicle’s value, and leads to necessary service and repair, I would guess that Uber is a net loss for the driver. Now though, a cool $100-$275 per month? How insultingly bad is this gig economy? You can literally make more flipping burgers, or begging on a busy street corner.
>but in David versus Goliath the giant never was the bad guy. He was just fighting for the other side and David killed him, that's it as far as I know.

Remember the context in which this story exists, where it's written and for whom. Goliath is the "bad guy" for two simple reasons.

1) he was a Gentile, and, therefore, unclean in the sight of God,
2) he stood against God's chosen people, and by extension, the will of God.
Just asking in passing will mean they have to digest that app very quickly and then try to make a decision. So that's not really surprising.

I found more benefit just focusing on problems, like "What annoys you at work related to your job"? Unless they just can't articulate, you quickly find things to latch onto where a technical product (software, hardware, whatever) might help and you go into more detail with them.

The goal is really finding under-served markets, which I think what the article says to do, because products seem pretty straight-forward once you know those problems exist.
perl can be hard to read. but then again it can be easy e.g. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a229b77c8ab25026633f1ab819...
we have a collaboration with slice.is, where you can get a $2m insurance, which is (i) an actual insurance and (ii) provides better coverage than any platform
As is the Beaker Browser! Next release coming in February.
Or more like a surprisingly BAD ad. There's no law forcing restaurants to have neutrality in serving time, yet no-one is complaining.
The difficulty with this question is that progress is relative to goals, goals depend on values, and values are usually considered subjective. So progress is subjective.

If you value winning a political conflict above all else, then the good-vs-evil propaganda may well be progressive, to your allies. If you value understanding human beings, it’s probably regressive for that purpose.
You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA. There is no private/personal option.
This is a huge showstopper for me and, in my opinion, anyone who wants to use it for educational purposes.