skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's literally what got me into programming and entrepreneurship. Wrote and sold my first piece of software in Hypercard (and then SuperCard!).

I desperately wish it were still real, for my kids. I think it'd be far be the best way to get them coding.
GP didn't mean "exhausted" as in tired, they meant "they've run out", i.e., once all the true believers with cash to buy have bought, and Tesla now has to sell to the population at large.
... Taking a whole server offline, and forcing thousands of drug users to go "uh... Guess I have to use a different server now".

From what I've heard, people are just selling over Facebook and WhatsApp, and the police just can't be bothered with it because what are they going to do? Arrest people for buying small amounts for what is obviously personal use? Or try and track down and pin a case on someone for posting stuff. I can't see them taking Facebook down.
> Ruby hasn't seen much change in the past couple of years

This is the complete opposite of my experience as a Ruby developer. Ruby performance is starting to get really good!
Bitcoin mining is proportional to how many there are, it will suck up more power with more miners performing difficult hash operations by design. Bitcoin is a fucking blight on the planet.
Right. This is not a general loophole, but a loophole for products where the manufacturer has no US presence. Because of portals like Amazon and eBay, there's more of this than you might think.
A matter of perspective. Everyone I have met with a cycle time of 1-2 years tends to be a low-value contributor. I get the feeling they move often because that's about how long it takes their team and management to conclude they aren't worth investing any more patience in. Some people only have interview skills.

But, I have not worked in a startup environment for almost 20 years so maybe in the right environment it is totally normal to expect people to jump around that often. I would advise being careful about keeping that up if you ever plan to move to a more stable part of the world because it is a stain on your resume.
I'd say it was more of an opinion rather than a tribal belief or following. I guess it depends of the definition of tribalism.

In short, I'd like humans to just get on with each other and treat the world we share with other species with greater respect. If that puts me in a tribe, then so be it!
I am not providing firsthand testimony so that people can toss out half baked ideas as to how I can comply with their priorities if I am willing to jump through a few hoops as if I have the time, energy and mental space to jump through more hoops.

All future replies: pretty please address the issue raised concerning systemic problems and stop talking about me and my life.

The expectation that I need to dance around storage limits, migrate to a new service after years and years with gmail as if that is not a burden and generally care more about the upper class values and priorities of internet strangers than about my own actual needs is monstrously classist and dismissive. And it completely ignores the issues I raised.
I've been addicted to Kakoune[1] for about a year now. My only complaint is it's a bit short on language specific features, due to the small community.

I really should try Spacemacs. I'm quite curious to see how the two mentally compare. For me a huge thing about Kakoune is seeing the selections ahead of time - Vim always had me guessing at what a delete (or w/e) action is going to do. Kakoune makes that so nice.
The server-side swift ecosystem is incredibly small, and that's by far the most important thing for adoption.

You're not really going to share backend source with your iOS apps, so there's nothing to really gain there. Languages are so homogenized these days that moving between the popular few is pretty simple and requires fairly minimal rampup.
> If that were the case, you'd see full support for a "wall". But a "wall" is topic non grata because it "is racist and xenophobic" and other choice epithets.

It's hard to argue agianst that when the politician driving the push for the wall wraps it not it policy, or evidence that a wall costing tens of billions of dollars would be effective in reducing migration, but instead racist and xenophobic language.

To me the whole "discussion" about the wall is just to create a xenophobic and populist lightning rod, not to bring any serious policy debate to the table.

Do any of the statements linked below, which were well reported on, seem like productive ways to discuss immigration?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/donald-trump-announces-pr...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-don...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-slams-shithole-countr...
I think any news story out there is just a rehash of Waymo's medium post[0]. I believe this post was entirely in response to Uber's press coverage 3 days ago around running trucks in Arizona[1].

[0] https://medium.com/waymo/same-driver-different-vehicle-bring...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17081626/uber-self-driving...
Despite it being legal nonsense, it's all about finding the right Judge.

Perhaps there is more bandwidth in Marshall, TX now that they don't have all those pesky patent cases.
Switch the clocks once, halfway from 11 to 10:30, and be done with it forever. :/
I'm interested in this project.

What do we know about the people behind it? Any developers on the team frequent this site?

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/the-knife-of-... is representative of what I found when I tried to research the site and its founders - is it an accurate portrayal of the company and its people?
> But if we've already installed a driver, then we must have received its signature before T, otherwise we wouldn't have installed it at the time. So we should still continue to trust it after T.

And now you leave open an attack surface of "forge a signature off an old, expired cert and then fool the OS into thinking it's been installed all along."
The fact that people have to be reminded that we're under some kind of threat means the threat isn't really all that serious. The US has not had a serious invasion since 1812 when the British burned the capital. Other regions of the world, most of Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Russia have suffered millions of deaths and had their infrastructure destroyed utterly in the 20th century. Latin America has had more CIA forced coups and concomitant death squads than I can count. To think the US is in any way at a comparable level of risk is not intellectually rigorous.
A growing number of “baby boomers” are moving to urban areas
I think the common complaint was it was too dark for school aged children waiting for the bus.

I'm not saying this is a super valid complaint, it's just the common one.
I like the opposite approach, diamond and blood diamond.
It's a false dichotomy - equality versus deficits. We can have low deficits and policies that prevent a two class society.
You don't need to design an experiment, because it is trivial to show that the specific language you speak is not heritable by looking at natural experiments.

For instance, the United States has experienced waves of immigration from various European countries in the last several hundred years. Specifically, there have been large waves of immigration from Germany, Poland, Italy, and Sweden. Yet there is no meaningful population of German, Polish, Italian, or Swedish speakers, fluent or otherwise, in the United State. Also, most Caribbean islands feature extremely high degrees of African ancestry, but the language of these nations is whatever the language of the colonizer was (so Haitians speak French, Dominicans speak Spanish, Jamaicans speak English, etc.). Native Americans speak English and, as a result, their native languages are in danger of becoming extinct. American blacks do not speak African languages, despite being descended from Africans.

This is in stark contrast to skin color, which is highly heritable. So people descended from European immigrants have the same light skin as their ancestors. And people descended from Africans have the same dark skin as their ancestors.
I think it's the reverse, countries that are villified don't want to use the USD.
There is no one best way. Just get out there and start absorbing information. There is no one magical book, website, or resource that will make you fluent. I would avoid Rosetta Stone though(personal bias).
Selling Vision: How we sold $250,000 of product before we had a product
They could not attain high enough smelting temperatures to produce quality iron.
a healthy dose of skepticism might be in order if you think there are massive increases in death. I’ve seen the articles too, but please, throw on a skeptics hat when you read them. Easy enough to fudge those statistics to say whatever gets you in print. Think about it reductively next time your boss calls for an early meeting - is he trying to kill you? Negligent because of the massive risk of death you now face trying to get to the office an hour early? It is all a little absurd.
8 Companies from YC Winter 2018
Throw in lightning and all of a sudden bitcoin can handle millions of transactions per second using only 6% of the power consumed by the world's banking sector. Not too shabby.
I'd love to know more about the LifeViewer component -- it's wonderful! Is the source code available, and what is the license?

Here's what I've found so far -- it's by Chris Rowett:

http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1026

http://lazyslug.com/lifeview/

Years ago I made a cellular automata AfterEffects plug-in that let you zoom in and pan to follow gliders around. It also had a colorization feature (since the cells were 8 bits and AfterEffects deals with RGBA) that let you sample a colormap of 256 colors from another layer along a line between two animatable points (so you could easily animate natural color gradients from images and video). You could initialize and draw into the cells by overlaying or combining channels of other layers, so you could use the full power of AE to precisely control and visualize the simulation.

It wasn't particularly "interactive" (beyond tweaking control points on the timeline then running it in AfterEffect's preview mode), but you could control all the rule parameters and animate them with the timeline, and apply any AfterEffect transformations and filters to the drawing overlay input or the colorized output.

This video shows the CA AfterEffects plugin, and also the same CA code running in a couple of live interactive editing tools (including SimCity).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVJ08gK2o8

I've rewritten the CA code in JavaScript, but the current user interface is arcane, and I would like to rewrite it in TypeScript as a module that can plug into some nice interactive playing and editing tool like LifeView.

http://donhopkins.com/home/CAM6

https://github.com/SimHacker/CAM6

It's really hard to make one user interface or visualization that works well for all rules. A cellular automata viewing and editing tool that supports different rules needs to be deeply customizable.

It turns out that each CA rule needs its own specialized user interface with rule-specific drawing tools, effects, controls and presets for visualizing, playing, painting, explaining, etc.

I wonder if anybody working on a free successor to AfterEffects that runs in a web browser?
I can't wait for the mcafee themed bear photos! Bears on drugs , bears hiding in Mexico, and bears trying to sell you cryptocurrencies in back alleys.
How Chatbot integration benefits e-commerce retailers
I know this was half in jest but it speaks to a larger point, that of the "implementation ghetto".

I'm going to get a lot of pushback for saying this, but there are basically three roles in any company: (a) people who do the work, (b) people who make sure the work gets done, and (c) people who decide what work to do.

If you follow the strategy outlined above, you will never rise beyond a pure implementer of someone else's vision.

Empirically, understanding more about the business domain and industry seem to be important if you want to do (b) or (c). If anyone has more tips, I'd love to hear them.

EDIT: When I say "above", I'm talking about in the comment two levels up, not the article.
The researchers also sequenced the genomes of bacteria resisting colistin and those susceptible to it. They were genetically identical.

Even though they have the same blueprints, they’re activating their genes differently, Weiss says. It’s unclear how or why this happens.

I think that's the most interesting part of the article. Skip to that if you want to save some time and don't need the background on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

It also highlights a misconception I had that genetically identical individuals would express the same genes when subjected to the same stimuli/conditions. Can someone with more knowledge share more details about how gene expression works?
The myth of Easter Island’s ecocide:

http://www.marklynas.org/2011/09/the-myth-of-easter-islands-...
Curious, where are you buying real rubies from at that quantity. A quick google search returned about 10 different places, but they look more like the jewelry quality level.
Baseball has been moving away from lively metal bats. Too dangerous for the infield. Never ending debate when I played 6A baseball in HS.

Now, slow pitch softball had Ti bats in the early 90's that added 10 mph. Even then some of the new composite materials out hit Ti.
Christ, this is silly (disclosure - I work at Google)
Well, you don't seem to feel very strongly about privacy, so you could have safely ignored the rest of the parent comment's advice.
True, but not a decision of my own making. I'm talking about times where I explicitly recommend a refactor to get things in good working order, but I'm forced by my manager to not do that, and instead get it done ASAP.
The Myth of Easter Island’s Ecocide
Yeah, I recall reading that a couple years ago. Indeed a fascinating topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
For romance languages that don't have declension:

0) Figure out how to read/pronounce words in that language

1) Learn important irregular verb conjugations in present tense (to have, to be, etc.)

2) Learn how to conjugate the different forms of present tense verbs

3) Look up list of most commonly used verbs + nouns. Memorize those.

4) Layer in conjugations for new tenses

5) Practice with native speakers
I've been using them for a year or so, and I've never had a complaint. Good range of servers, nice speeds.
It all depends on the details. For pure storage of encrypted data it's probably OK. But I guess for an Alexa app the data will go through Amazon's algorithms and it won't be clear what else they will do with the data.
I live in Boston (42°N) having grown up at 52°N, which may sound extreme to East-Coasters but is hardly exceptional by West-Coast or European standards.

I can assure you there's plenty of sunlight here at midwinter, it's just poorly utilized.
Why do you think it's useless as a currency? I've noticed "We accept bitcoin" signs more and more frequently. I've also used it to pay friends who live abroad. I don't think you've actually ever used bitcoin but apparently you have plenty of opinions.
The iPhone already does safety, weather, and police notifications by default, and you have to opt-out. This is essentially the same thing, but users have to opt-in.
It's quite obvious actually, a very neglected truth. Humans are animals and sustaining the body takes work and time, the body needs it though, all mammals have maintenance to do. It shows how much modernity is twisting some basic stuff. The problem though maybe is what other truths we'd had to take into consideration by accepting that one, mainly that our society, lifestyle, work expectations & etc literally kills us slowly.
My issue with these platforms is it is very easy to find people who are excited about starting a company or working on a large project but it is very difficult to find someone who actually has the discipline to stick to it for two or three years.

I run a discord channel that has several hundred coders and I get 5+ requests weekly to work on a project with someone and those projects are almost always abandonware in a few weeks even after recruiting help from my channel :/
https://lifehacker.com/the-truth-about-jet-lag-and-how-to-ov...

https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/jet-lag-and-sleep

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/jet-lag/
I kind of hate the way this article is titled, considering that literally all the quotes from professional economists involve them saying "oh, this isn't very radical -- we've been saying this for 50 years and nobody has listened".
> In the last couple months I decided that I needed to stop tweaking every last thing

That's why I use emacs Prelude[0], a set of defaults which are, all-in-all, pretty great.

I much prefer having the same environment for everything. The fact that you have three different, presumably incompatible pieces of software replacing parts of Org mode is itself pretty revealing.

[0] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
And the flip side is that, absent DST, sunrise would be at 4am on the summer solstice in Boston, rather than a marginally more civilized 5am with an extra hour of sunlight after normal work hours.
I would love to use it, as I'm desperately looking for a partner for my site Unfollow.IO and another project since 2016, but I have no credit card. Would you accept PayPal?
All we can do is use studies along with our own experiences, experiences of family and friends, to gauge how a drug works. I went to a large university and Adderall was commonly used to study. Lacking a deep focus is only a problem if you decide it is. Brain damage is a problem, regardless of ones' opinion on it. And narcolepsy is too. Any serious physiological condition, is pretty much a problem regardless of what the patient thinks. However, the problem that ADHD is prescribed for, is mainly a lack of focus, a lack of "inner thinking." Which is really just a slight intonation in the brains' reward system. These kind of behavioral issues are mostly well-solved using CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy. Which can be done at home via standard pavlovian style reward/no-reward trials.

The reason psychiatric treatments require experimentation is because most psychiatric drugs are poorly understood in their mechanisms. We use them mainly because of pragmatic effects - not because we actually know their precise mechanisms.

I never said my experiences are universal, just that amphetamines have a markedly simple mechanism in humans and other animals -- that is, increasing dopaminergic activity, along with noradrenal activity. It is common knowledge that by increasing levels of dopamine, harder tasks can be performed without as much exhaustion. But mind you, the body's energy supply isn't unlimited - and though the mind might be more resilient, the body still pays for the extra activity done under guise of ease.

It is clear that you find the tradeoff worth it. Like you said, everyone has different experiences and finds different tradeoffs worth it. For me, the tradeoff isn't worth it - I find that taking amphetamines daily extracts most of the beneficial effects into tolerance, and what follows is pretty much just maintanence. If you find the tradeoff worth it, then clearly you should be using it. Only you can decide whether you are getting an overall positive effect from a narcotic that provides both positive and negative effects.

My main point is that we cannot deny that amphetamines are hard drugs - narcotics. And thus, it seems wrong to give them to kids with such ease.
Paleo and progressive diamonds?
As a security consultant, it makes me sad that the criteria for "taking security seriously" is as low as just "having an entire team dedicated to ... security".

Every company should have a team (or depending on size, at least a person) dedicated to the security of software and infrastructure. Even the most traditionally slow-moving companies these days have security teams. If you do not have this, you are behind and are laughably unprepared for the modern age. I wish the public would start recognizing this and publicly shaming companies that don't take security seriously.
I don't think programmers hate DST per se. I think they just hate having to write code that has to support the time change in general. If it doesn't change, it's not really different than just keeping it at Standard Time.
It is always easiest to blame 'the people' for making bad decisions and enabling systems we disagree with, but you are right that this is a mistake. More important is addressing the predatory nature of the systems that makes them successful.

When there is only one option being sold to you (the 'free' one), what choice do you have? And when you don't really know the cost you are paying (because who knows the true value of any piece of data you provide), then how could you know if you are paying a fair price?
It's of no surprise, we've long been warned that we are in for a drug-resistant germ catastrophe in the coming decades.There's already strains of some infections that are extremely resistant to all known forms of medication. The biggest problem being that the advancement in the medical field for developing new cures is minimal. We're re-using the same anti-biotics and anti-x solutions for everything. Unless there are major medical breakthroughs in the next 20 years, we are expected to see complete anti-biotic resistance strains emerge.
So because a small sample of people didn't show overwhelming support for it, it's not an option for anyone. Yet "vote with your money" is still touted out as a viable option?

I'm not following this argument.
You can disk-back redis at various consistency levels if you so choose

https://redis.io/topics/persistence
Inflation is low because money velocity is at record low levels. Just printing (i.e. borrowing) does not cause inflation. Giving it to the poor or spending it on large infrastructure projects causes an increase of money velocity which combined with printing causes inflation. Without velocity printing just means money is getting parked in a bank account. That has no effect as the money is just sitting there.

There is a huge amount of money in the sidelines ready to be used (MZM - money with a zero maturity) as a result of years of quantitative easing.

What this article is proposing is popping the cork from the quantitative easing bottle. The problem is that once you do it you cant just stop it. When it blows it blows and the built up potential is already insane.
Is it paid? If they'll use the feature in their product there should be payment for your time.
And FYI where I just heard that this week was in "The Podcast History of Our World", which is totally awesome. In one of the three "The New Kingdom" episodes.
Fair enough. I do winter hiking and the like. It’s just hard to get much sunlight outside of a typical work day.
It's also a little absurd to think it has no impact at all.
The Guardian has SSL cert problems
If there a github repo that just lists places like this, where you can find jobs online?

Also Fiverr, and many, many others...?
Give it time. :)
Or perhaps it’s not outrageous at all.
"Skepticism" might apply more if we were dealing with clickbait, but when you compare the "benefits" that DST provides with the misery that it causes, eliminating it is a no-brainer.

http://www.sleep-journal.com/article/S1389-9457%2800%2900032...

https://www.gwern.net/docs/melatonin/1996-coren.pdf

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140329175108.h...

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/94/5/1305/?nl=nytnow&em_...

..and many more. You'll note a complete lack of sensationalist articles in the above links.

Keeping DST amounts to self-flagellation. Much like the existence of the penny, it's a thing that has few legitimate reasons to exist and many more legitimate reasons to be burned to the ground.