skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the approach of having an SPA on top of a REST service back end in that you have two code bases that deal with distinctly different problems/goals, and you focus your attention when working on one side or the other.

When you are working on the back end, you worry about security, data integrity and speed, focusing on “stateless” actions (other than what is kept in a database, perhaps).

When you are working on the front end, you worry about looks and ease of use and maintaining state transitions, with a fallback perhaps of simply reloading a page + route (w/in page) if things go pear shaped. I guess speed is still an issue on the front, but caching and request count reduction seems to handle most of that.

As an added bonus, I like working in an FP style in Javascript more then OOP style in Java, but that puts me in a minority.
What questions should a recruiter ask to learn your tech stack?
Stealth and Transporters. Made it kind of a boring game after figuring that this was the dominant combo to beat the boss.
I don't think this is true. I used to work for a company in a Connecticut suburb of NYC. Most young people wanted to live in NYC and commute in because they'd rather live in a city.
FAA Streamlines Airspace Authorizations for Drones
Out of the 30ish thousand cities in the US how many have insane zoning policies like that? You might be thinking of HOA rules or CC&Rs, which are not centrally planned by the government. I agree that most zoning is stupid/overboard but your examples are just not true. I'm sure you can find some examples that are overly strict but for the most part we're just talking density (how many stories can it be) and usage.
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Microsoft says AI and machine learning driven by open source and the cloud
My how times change quickly. I remember signing up for Hulu just to be able to watch my TV shows on my phone. Now I subscribe to Hulu because I don't have cable at all. I'm 33 and out of the 10 friends I'm thinking of right now only 2 still have cable TV and most of the rest of us have cut the cord.

I'm also on the edge of cutting Hulu as well as most of the limited TV time I have goes to Netflix and HBO at this point. The major networks haven't put out as much enticing content in the last few years.
Alaska is close enough, it's wide enough to cover 4 timezones

http://www.alaska.org/how-big-is-alaska

Granted most people live in the space of 1 or 2.
A surprisingly large number of things that we normally don't think of as computers are Turing-complete. It's a very low bar of complexity. And regulating requires modeling requires simulation. That's what Turing's result says: to know whether a program halts you must run it.
Iceland went to a permanent DST (GMT) back in the 60’s. But health officials are seriously advocating moving Iceland back closer to the solar noon (GMT-0100). Apparently consistently waking up way before sun rise may have negative consequences on the general public.
From the comments in the link:

FlameandFury » March 6th, 2018, 11:52 pm

I don't know when people started seriously searching for
knightships, but this is the first elementary spaceship to
have a new slope in 48 years. As well, it's been 14 years
since the almost-knightship was discovered. Congrats!

Its a long time coming! Congrats!
I wonder how they are going to handle testing. The tests directory seems pretty bare, surely there are some libc tests (written in C I guess) that can be directly imported?
Is egress filtering really that egregious?
People say this all the time. But if you look at a population density map of China, you realize that the vast majority of people live within the natural GMT+8 range, and the western region is very sparsely populated.
It appears someone beat me to it, take a look above. It's been a topic of discussion here before, and there are some very good reasons why this is not the case. Like not knowing what time someone might be awake in a different location, or not knowing what business hours might be across the world.
No, it's the other way around. A billion means one thing in english speaking countries and another in most of the rest of the world. For a frenchman, it's indeed ambiguous -- there, a billion (english) would be a milliard (french), whereas a billion (french) would be a trillion in english. I imagine that is the reason why it's not seen as an abbreviation, in contexts where you want to be accurate.
If this article impressed you check out Shape Detection API that can scan barcodes, QR codes etc. in less than 26 lines and works in Chrome for Android without any external apps: https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#barcode-detectio...
Imagine my surprise when I clicked the "a mineral water calculator" link and my browser downloaded an Excel spreadsheet. It'd be cool to port this to the web.
I would accept your compromise in the winter, but I'm keeping my 8:30 sunset in the summer.
I've never had luck repairing Apple products. I've destroyed ribbon cable connectors on an iPad and an iPhone. Without microsoldering skills and equipment that's a hopeless situation.

I had a third party fail to repair the "touch disease" problem on an iPhone 6.

Anything I've fixed that involved replacing glue strips or removing little splintery bits of broken glass left the device in dodgy shape. Things don't quite fit right, they make squeaking and cracking sounds when you touch them. Aluminum enclosures seem to get gouges and scratches in the process, even when using soft plastic spudgers to separate and scrape things off.

You can never be certain of the waterproofing after you've messed with something.

These are thin, tiny devices that are half put together by machines, half by people that do this for hours and hours day after day with specialized tools - and even they don't get it right all the time.

They're not toasters. I think the days where a normal person can fix this stuff are ending if not already long gone.
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Virtually all of them do. If you don't believe me, please do read your neighborhood's zoning code. I have no idea where you live, but if it's in the US and outside of a handful of neighborhoods built before WWII and grandfathered in (Manhattan, downtown Chicago, etc.), I'll bet you $100 to $10 that there are rules pretty much like what I described.

EDIT: Here is an excerpt from the zoning code of Newark, Delaware, a random smallish city I happened to visit five years ago:

"(1) Minimum lot area. Except as specified in Article XVI, Section 32-56.2(a) of this chapter, the minimum lot area for any dwelling or permitted nonresidential use, together with accessory buildings, shall be as follows: a. RH—One-half acre. b. RT—15,000 square feet. c. RS—9,000 square feet. (2) Maximum lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage for any building, exclusive of accessory buildings, shall be 20%, and the total maximum lot coverage, including any building, accessory buildings, and manmade improvements on the ground surface which are more impervious than the natural surface and which are used for parking and driveways, but not including swimming pools, patios, terraces, outdoor grills, and similar facilities not intended for parking, shall be 44%. (3) Minimum lot width. Except as specified in Article XVI, Section 32-56.2(b) of this chapter, the minimum width of a lot shall be as follows: a. RH—100 feet. b. RT—90 feet. c. RS—75 feet."

It goes on like this for hundreds and hundreds of pages.
We Can Now Store Light as Sound, and It's a Game Changer for Computing
Based on this study's conclusions it seems that the ability to easily retweet (or re-share on facebook) combined with social networks surfacing our engagement (e.g. JD liked this post) to our first degree network is really at the root of all of this.

I wonder how/if rumors used to spread on Twitter before retweet was a first party feature.
This is a genius form of grass-roots arbitrage: transferring money from affluent and politically safe areas to less wealthy and more contested ones.
False news stories travel faster and farther on Twitter than the truth
One solution is for matrix.org to provide a hosted instance of matrix-puppet-slack - although we (matrix.org) are not very comfortable doing so because we'd start gathering everyone's slack credentials, which is quite a lot of responsibility. It'd be much better if everyone could run their own and have responsibility for their own bridges. In practice we haven't had much bandwidth for bridge work over the last year but hopefully this will change soon.
What does "3:00 PM" mean? Serious question. If the government is shifting work hours at different times of the year, then "3:00 PM" will mean different things. It will be before school lets out sometimes, and after school lets out during other months. It'll be 2 hours before work ends, or only one hour.

I'm no fan of DST, I think we should pick a timezone and stick with it. My argument is that DST is better than having a massively coordinated change in work schedules, because that's even more complicated than just moving the hour hand twice a year.
I'm not sure if you adressed my "no string stitching" point.
If you are so allergic to cryptocurrency, why didn't it bother you when Keybase started writing their root into the Bitcoin blockchain (https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco...)?

There are obviously annoying ways in which keybase could support cryptocurrency, but you are making a lot of assumptions about what Keybase is going to do that are not based on the blog post. For example, wallets do not mine coins and Stellar does not support mining.

Why don't you wait to see what comes out and submit a feature request if you don't like it, instead of flipping out about some hypothetical feature you won't like.
Houston doesn't have zoning, but it has development regulations that include many of the same restrictions found in the zoning codes of other US cities.

https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/
> Why is there not more remote work even at the big tech companies? If everybody was not forced to crowd into Silicon Valley in order to work for the large tech companies, Silicon Valley and San Francisco home prices would get much better quickly.

You're absolutely right! There's a lot that can be done, and it can be done by the big tech companies. However, I'm told it is possible that there might actually be some advantages to sharing a physical location that are not readily replicated remotely. Maybe those people are wrong and I'm horribly misinformed, but what I've read does suggest that the costs are worth it.

Maybe you have better ideas? I hope so! Please, help me understand better!
UTC is a terrible choice, I don't even know what time I would wake up in UTC. My family in NC would never know what time to call. I'd be OK with PST or MST/PDT. I'd prefer more light in the evenings though, I work an early schedule and don't actually care if it's light when I go to the office.
> makes sense

It might make sense by the logic of domain names, but it doesn't by the logic of return on the investment of scarce resources. cern.org or cern.ch or cern.anything would meet all functional needs just as well and for much less.
Oh really? Didn't Elon Mask call Toyota's manufacturing "slower than a Grandma with a walker" and he thinks Tesla will school Toyota, the company that literally wrote the book on efficient manufacturing?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...

Silicon Valley hubris can be downright embarrassing sometimes.
Not yet. The older version hasn't been updated to the version which Matrix actually uses these days, sadly.
Your handy postcard-sized guide to statistics
Yeah it’s kind of like entering a weird world where everyone’s going to start mentioning they still like their trusty old Blackberry. I had no idea. Although, I’m in b2b so that may be that’s why I was caught unaware about the PayPal love. It seems the main use case is for small amounts on less well known b2c sites, at least in this thread.
No, it has definitely been consumed.

The only impediment to billing them is political.
;( I'm sorry
Who cares about POSIX?

And yeah, Redox is how "we replace C". A full operating system where C is not the main language.
I definitely see why you couldn't replace linux or postgres with rust rewrites anytime soon, but nginx?

Nginx seems totally probable.
That doesn't make sense; why clocks can change themselves but business schedules don't? Pretty sure there are more clocks than schedules.
I really dislike this trend that Tesla are setting where their customers are little more than beta testers and I fear that the other automakers will follow in their footsteps. When I purchase a car, whether it be Ford, Tesla or VW, panel gap like (https://twitter.com/model3owners/status/842449318749601793, https://twitter.com/bgluckman/status/965664986298306561?lang...) is just not acceptable.
Display name != Username
Time zones don't fix the issue of knowing a good time for something. You have to look up your different offsets and then math it out, which is exactly what you'd do even if the time zones didn't exist.
Since I work remote for a company in Arizona I actually get an hour back on Sunday, I lost an hour when it went back my first meeting at 745am now it's going to be a more reasonable 845am.
I didn't say fully developed, I said fully capable which in context is to mean that they are capable of going out on the open net without anything they see permanently warping their worldview inaccurately. Its reasonable to shield children from negativity in the world they have no capability of understanding and will end up with warped ideas. At beginning adolescent age that capability is reached, and if they are further shielded from the world they'll form an inaccurate and unhelpful worldview most likely. At best their development will be delayed.
The status quo already leads to centralization and gives Cloudflare a tremendous market.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to say that the only people who use PayPal fall into those categories - in fact, I don’t, but use PayPal semi-regularly for some purchases - just that there are some PayPal users who can’t use common alternatives.
As a bit of counterweight to all these "$5" replies: we paid about €7K for our logo - which is not a lot.

I've been a logo designer myself, waaaay back, and have always known that just having someone designing a pictogram and styling a word is kinda winging it. There's more to it than being good at drawing/sketching/Adobe-doey.

Our logo was a three month process with a branding agency, of which the actual logo design took less than a month to iterate.

The main part is getting straight what the brand represents, who's it for and what the persona of the brand is. You want the designer to really understand what the product/company is about. We couldn't have done this went starting out, since we didn't know all that.

So, if there's a take-away from all this, besides that good logos cost good money, is that you should get your product really straight, before spending money on a logo. Bad or fuzzy product view gets you a bad logo.
This is a really good, simple, reason I had not even thought of. Thanks!
Addressing the Theory of Constraints with DevOps
The non-goals of Redox
We are not a Linux clone, or POSIX-compliant
The question you ask now is "what time is it in X place?" if you want to know if its reasonable to call someone.

But that is insufficient knowledge. You also need to know their work schedule, when they prefer to sleep, if they are busy that day. You call people regularly who are preoccupied or who just aren't in the mood.

I have two cousins who share a time zone apart from mine, but one works the night shift. So one sleeps 10-18 and works 22-06 their time and the other sleeps 23-07 and works 09-17. If you call one in their in between hours one is just waking up while the other is tired, in the same time zone.

You cannot even just assume "people everywhere wake up at 7 and go to bed at 11 within their timezones" because timezones are not consistent between countries, within countries, or across continents. Different cultures have different daily routines and schedules.

This is why people have just gradually, especially in newer generations, gravitated towards asynchronous communication as a default.

On the flipside, if you wanted to ask the question "we are on the same universal time, is it safe to call X?" you are asking a better question anyway since you need to know the regular available schedules of people where that person lives, just not on your presumed "normal" timetable.

Travel alarm clocks are a great topic, because they already require manual intervention for all the aforementioned time zone inconsistencies. To build a working "automatic" travel clock you need a full computer with GPS to do precise location to map you to the TZ database and then to also look up sunrise and sunset because those aren't consistent even with timezones.

An "everywhere is UTC" clock requires just as much hardware, but only one question - when is sunrise here? Because you just set your wakeup time near that if you are diurnal. Which not even everyone is. Especially in the hacking space where there are plenty of night owls.
That's quite a stretch. (Of course, the Commerce Clause has been stretched far beyond sanity before...)

And standard time was not instituted by the government, using the powers of the Commerce Clause. It was instituted by railroads, who found the exact issue you described to be a pain when trying to schedule trains.
I'm not making a value judgement about the devices or them being "budget". You're imposing that on my comment because for some reason you feel attacked by my statements.

I am simply pointing out the realities of the market and what the data says. Emerging markets are incredibly important in these numbers and emerging markets overwhelmingly choose Android for obvious reasons. Android simply has more market penetration in price-sensitive areas.

Look at Samsung's device ASP, it's around $300. Apple's is closer to $700. If you cross reference these ASP numbers with market penetration, the narrative will become clear. If Samsung's Galaxy line had significant impact, you'd see it reflected in the ASP numbers.

If you want to have an actual measured conversation, feel free to introduce new facts or data that might help us both gain a better understanding of the mobile landscape. Until then, I don't think this conversation is entirely productive if you choose to throw away all the data I pointed out and attack me personally.
https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/apartment-rent-r...

According to this site, rental prices in Houston were less than a third of prices in San Francisco in June 2017 ($1046 vs $3441).

That sort of difference is certainly going to drive away less affluent people.
Hi I live in the relative north and DST is actually worse here. And go much further north than me and it doesn't really matter either way. I would kill to have it gone.
I lived in NYC for about five years. I noticed that urban living is prized by people in their 20s, but seems to quickly fall out of fashion later in life. Particularly when it comes to child-bearing age, large cities like New York are fairly impractical for the non-rich. My friends in their 30s and 40s that hadn't left for the suburbs would regularly talk about how they wanted to leave the city.
Not so fast. Having grown up in a permanent DST on the 63th parallel, I can say that waking up and walking to school in constant darkness is also quite depressing. So much so that health officials in Iceland are now debating towards moving Iceland back closer to the solar noon (GMT-0100 from GMT) citing public health reasons.
The Intel Optane SSD 800p Review: Almost the Right Size
Pre-reveal non-owner reservation holder here. I suspect this will be unusual: between constant delays and consistent quality problems, I cancelled my reservation last week. I got a plug-in hybrid instead, for about the same price as the Model 3.

I'm a huge believer in the tech and Musk's vision of the future. I learned I am not a believer in Musk-the-executor when it comes to cars.
But there will be a point where Tesla has to sell to beyond the fanbase and early reservation holder/enthusiasts, they have to sell it to the masses who don't even necessarily know who Elon Musk is.

The Model 3 is aimed to be that car, but I have a feeling the general buyers will be a lot less tolerant about issues than early adopters/long time fans.
Primer on Go Assembly
It’s open secret in the SDV industry that all the top players have remote assistants systems, and that it is the to key removing operators from the vehicle. It’s a little disengenus to claim that Starsky is the sole player exploring this space. There are startups that provide full remote vehicle control [0], and GM’s acquisition of Cruise 1.5 years ago was in part driven by an especially good demo of their remote assistance tech.

All that matters in the end is the safety and cost of the resulting system. Remote assistance operators and bandwidth are not cheap, and a system that has a high level of remote faults is most likely operating too far out of operational domain to be truly safe.

[0] - https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
MyPhoneExplorer and Samsung SideSync on Windows/macOS had this for a few years now. Glad to see an application for Linux now.
How many murders can a police informer get away with?
Nobody has 18 hours of sunshine year round. If you have the same number of hours of sunshine year round, you have 12 hours.
"Massively coordinated" is just every news anchor being obligated to say "Remember today the work day starts at 9:00PM and ends at 7:00PM" (with casual reminders weeks before of course), that's it, has anybody even tried to see if that brings chaos or if is just a baseless myth?
You always have to ask the question "what times are good for you?" because everyone lives on a different schedule.

With global UTC it just means the times each of you give don't need to go through a complicated conversion process to interpret.
“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift, 1710

“...a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on” - Terry Pratchett, 2000
... especially when you call a skilled specialist to do a low-skill-required "handy-man's" job.
Could you please not use uppercase for emphasis in HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For anyone looking for a direct link to the skepticism of TIGHAR, here it is: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295

I don't have a dog in the fight either way, but I'd have appreciated a link to the criticism :)