skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was interesting because I've used an OWL ontology to create a business functional model of a complicated platform. The tool WebProtege was very helpful.

An ontology has more structure than a mind map, and you can apply reasoners to them. It was useful for me, but it undermined a layer of obfuscating abstractions some of the technologists had created as a firewall between themselves and the rest of the org, so I lost traction for being politically tone deaf.

Mind maps are easy to dismiss because they are a unifying abstraction created by someone's point of view, which must compete with every other point of view in the org. Once you model it, it implies responsibility, accountability, and that can disrupt the relationships that people have invested in.

The act of documenting something well also adds newly competent stakeholders to decisions, which has the consequence that it dilutes authority in the org.

In this way, mind maps can get a reputation for being naive technology solution to a problem that isn't actually a problem, because the nebulous relationships they expose in fact already work for someone. The helpful guy with the mind map just doesn't 'get it'.

Personally, I look forward to ontologies becoming more common in orgs, as they are immensely powerful for getting everyone aligned on a body of knowledge - assuming that's what one is aiming for.
I got a paywall.

Here's the paywall bypassed link to story: https://outline.com/jvkzEv
They were hired to design the replacement, not the one that collapsed.
There are now barely two workers per senior in most developed economies
> Right now, example queries that no longer return real results include (but may not be limited to): [...]

> [...] km to miles [...]

> while these searches don’t trigger third party organic results, they DO trigger ads:

Whaaaat? I just tried "km to miles". While the built-in km to miles converter gadget does appear at the top, there are actual search results below that. Pages and pages of non-ad results. The first bunch of results are various unit converter pages.

These SEO scoundrels are such pathological liars that they no longer even care when they are lying in a way that is instantly falsifiable.
Yup, Lightmod (https://sekao.net/lightmod/) works for both Clojure and Clojurescript.
Iowa plans to plant milkweed state wide to help the Monarch recover. All part of a national effort.

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Planting-a-billion-milkweed...

Almost sounds touchy-feeling, until you get to this part (of the link above)...

"... The Endangered Species Act has tremendous impact on private land ownership. And so we don't want to get at a point as a partner with DNR with our other partners out there, we don't want to get to the point where there is no choice but to do this then it becomes mandated under the endangered species act. We'd rather have voluntary participation."

tl;dr; If the DNR shows up, we'll finally have to do something about our water quality.
Homelessness in SF isn’t actually exploding, it’s getting more visible because development (to accommodate the labor force boom!) is steadily chipping away at the “out of sight, out of mind” areas where tent cities used to hide. Such sites receive most/all development because the NIMBYism and anti-gentrification activism are so much stronger in populated areas.
They designed the replacement that was installed in 2008. The bridge that collapsed was designed by a different company in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge...
Interesting you should make that connection, because I've always thought of Workflowly as org-mode lite (not meant at all as an insult, by the way, I think it's a great product). Though I haven't used Scrapple I can see how that would be a cool product. Though TheBrain is already pretty mature.
>Could one run a VPN through a blockchain?

you joke, but if you trust intel/arm, you can conceivably run a provably trusted (via remote attestation) VPN on SGX/TrustZone.
> For instance, Windows binary deployments are quite predictable (and often dead simple...

It's neither predictable, nor simple nor easily portable when it's about a mixture of managed (C#, Java etc.) and native (C, C++, asm etc) code. I'm happy to know the Windows UWP platform finally has it built-in but I code WinForms and console apps targeting Windows 7 + Mac and Linux with Mono and using SQLite always means a problem (yet I always want to use SQLite to store anything (except just some things that obviously fit other ways of storage better) because it's great and it's a standard supported everywhere).
Event: Crypto Hackathon at Impact Hub San Francisco in April
Resource safety and expressiveness on level of Python (or close) combined with speed of C.

That said, while I love the idea of Rust I find the language itself offputting somehow. I don't know, maybe I just need to give it another try.
Many people are not simply paying for an encrypted connection, they're mainly paying for a) an IP that cannot be easily attributed back to them, and b) a large garbage can for DMCA complaints.

The Raspberry Pi provides neither of those, and requires occasional maintenance.
> its jokingly said that the gods require a blood sacrifice.

Usually we're referring to something like a paper cut or a sharp edge on a prototype.
She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword
I'm surprised the article didn't note Little Rock's "Thanks but no thanks" PR blitz (mostly free) they announced early on.
Nine Airship Engineers Wanted
Backend language: Scala. Long live FP and type safety.

Backend framework: Play. Inspired by RoR, works with Java/Scala. Light, fast, scalable out of the box.

Database: PostgreSQL. Introduction is not needed.

Database library: Slick. Nothing beats compile time type safety.

Frontend language: Typescript. Better than pure JS hands down.

Frontend framework: Angular (5). Because Typescript is a first class citizen.
Well, "hard to go wrong" except when it's wrong.

California central district wants 14 points, with line numbers. Arizona district wants 13 points, no line numbers. The 7th Circuit's typography recommendations say Times New Roman might as well be Comic Sans. The Supreme Court italicizes case names differently. Massachusetts state court wants 1.5" margins on two sides. Wisconsin wants 1.5" on just the left.

Templates help, as does Butterick's Typography for Lawyers, and a good checklist. But it's still a slog to internalize all the local customs in a multi-state practice.

And yes, these are heuristics to identify locals and repeat players, which might be helpful to courts. But, again, that's a separate skill from legal reasoning, and it comes at a high cost for clients.
Ask HN: Are custom languages defensible as a business strategy?
I commented on a 2 day old post on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/845s2c/how_graphql_replaces_redux/dvrcqs9/?context=3) but I think it might be more of a HN question

someone said

>> I'm.telling you guys : fuck frameworks. Fuck graphql.
Yep. This is why I prefer my custom languages that cover my specific needs.

and I said

If you're not being sarcastic, can I ask what you use to create them?

I've been looking at MPS, but I also need to consider whether it will be possible to get people who have MPS competencies, -- seems there are not many MPS developers, so it seems like an infeasible business strategy to depend on it.

I would think if an organization uses its own special language it might be difficult to find developers willing to work with it -- and so a custom language could be an infeasible business / development strategy -- better to build a framework in a hireable language.

https://i.imgur.com/Z3TQTwj.jpg

Or are the advantages of custom languages so great that it doesn't matter?

I guess what I'm saying is, -- yeah sure don't get hung up in frameworks, but if you're an organization that wants to be able to hire people in the future to deal with your code base, maybe you don't want to construct some arcane language.

Maybe a custom language is not really feasible as a business strategy if you aim to be scalable and to scale, which is critical for investment.

Maybe the better strategy is to be able to attract developers.

Developers want to evolve skills relevant to their future hirability, or to future projects.

If you're a lone dev on some indie project that's never gonna be worked on by anyone else -- sure -- do what you like. -- but is it a decent long term strategy? And so ultimately, is it a good investment?
I find it hard to imagine that so many people have jobs and live on the street at the same time. “Working homeless” is a thing but typically means couch surfing or car camping, not rough sleeping.
int get_value(int* pointer) { return *pointer; }

How is a compiler supposed to reject this for undefined behavior? It'd be absurd to demand the compiler someone knows all possible usages for get_value to find if any of them pass a nullptr, so what is it supposed to do?

And this is why the spec says things like that deref'ing a null pointer is undefined behavior, so that the compiler can take that function and do the thing you'd expect it to do and transform it into a simple memory read.
A modern dabbawala platform
You’d think so but then you just have one more organization that doesn’t share anything with anyone else.
Rent-seeking at it's finest.
Bothered by Midgies
If there is not one person who will be it, then we must make our own. You don't need to inspire all people everywhere in one go, so you don't need 12 million followers to do that.

You just need to look around, and then do your best: volunteer at school or uni, post Kerbal Space Program let's plays, or use a top to explain angular momentum to a 2nd grader.

We can't rely on one or two celebrities and then sit on our hands. We take our telescope across Africa and inspire a few kids at a time, all the time.
That time is completely configurable between you and the person you are opening a channel with, 3 days just seems to be the number everyone is gravitating toward using as a good default since it's long enough that short times offline won't cause you to be vulnerable to fraudulent transactions, but not long enough to cause issue if the channel you are working with decides to close up suddenly (because after the locktime is up you can broadcast a transaction which gives you all the money in the channel).

And yes, your bank can reimburse your for fraudulent charges (the amount and timing depends on your location), but that also depends on your bank not deciding that your fraud isn't actually fraud, it depends on you (as in your person) constantly checking your accounts for fraud and manually reporting it to the proper channels when it happens, you are still out the money while they investigate and reimburse in some cases, they will lock and reissue your card which often takes days to arrive leaving you without a card in the meantime, they can deny your account entirely for any number of reasons, they can control what you are able to buy with your card for any number of reasons, the cost of a bank account is far from free, they can and will charge you to get access to your own money quite often, and they can deny you from withdrawing your own money at any time for just about any reason (including "you are withdrawing too much money").

Neither option is perfect, nobody says they are, but I really believe that a system like Bitcoin and LN are a significant improvement over the traditional banking system in many ways. It is worse in some ways for sure, but I feel the benefits far outweigh the down sides.
Back in the 90s, when we got all of our gaming news primarily through print magazines, the big ones like GamePro and EGM would publish the best envelope art sent in by readers with their letters. There were often elaborate scenes, from Mega Man, Chrono Trigger or even DBZ, drawn onto the envelopes surrounding the address.
Flight Recorder becomes part of OpenJDK
New Approach to Legal Translation By Susan Šarčević ISBN 9041104011 chapter 7.4 page 201
How to Score Leads for Values Alignment
That time Divine auditioned for ‘Blade Runner,’ while Grace Jones turned it down
I've been using org-brain since a few weeks after its release when it was posted on Reddit. It was basically the tool I had been waiting for, combining the significant amount of knowledge I've built up in random files and org-mode outlines, but able to connect them in meaningful ways. If you jump back and forth between org-mode and brain there is some manual maintenance, but it's been worthwhile. Great tool.
Is never realized before but their four colors are the same as the google logo.

I imagine it was never deliberate but it probably would have made getting that google sponsorship easier.

Seeing their last photo then the google logo below create a very strong brand tie in.
Spectre variant 1 is only really a problem for JITs, and it's mitigated with masking. Disabling speculation to defeat variant 1 is probably not worth the performance cost.
Wolfram alpha tells the user how they interpreted your question, google doesn't. So how do you know google is giving you the right answer? Without search results, alternative answers are harder to get. Remember the 'how far is the sun' query ?
From the SEPA Credit Transfer Scheme Rulebook[1]:

A Recall occurs when the Originator Bank requests to cancel a SEPA Credit Transfer. The Recall procedure must be initiated by the Originator Bank within 10 Banking Business Days after execution date of the SCT subject to the Recall.

...

A bank may initiate a Recall procedure for following reasons only:

• Duplicate sending

• Technical problems resulting in erroneous SCT(s)

• Fraudulent originated Credit Transfer

[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/sites/default/files/K...
I think there are a lot more different kinds of people in the world than you do
On collecting memories: An interview with writer and essayist Adam Gopnik
Why does it sick more than irc to an almost unbearable degree?
Yup I considered migrating from google sheets but limits seemed too low for what I wanted. Sheets isn’t great, I split to multiple spreadsheets when I hit the limit but it works for me
Applying Security to Twelve Factor App Webinar
You can call it being cynical, but honestly it is just applying the past actions to a "new" medium. People have already created laws, regulations, and other utilities to regulate free speech in various forms (books, newspapers, magazines, film, VHS, DVD, etc).

History shows us there are many people that either do not understand or believe in free speech.
Not to be confused with Android Hangouts Wear, a completely different google product.
Ask HN: YC Research Cities Now Listed as a Past Project. Is There a Post-Mortem?
See on https://ycr.org/

Same with HARC - any post mortem?

I'm really glad that YC is ambitious and tried to do these things. Of course, failure is a natural part of ambitious bets. I'd also love to hear what they learned and why they didn't end up being overwhelming successes.
When taking notes in a class (español), always an iPad + Apple Pencil + GoodNotes. Proven to be super handy during few years of use.

On a Mac, there’s a brilliant Quiver app for note taking, with syntax highlighting, diagram support and other programmer-related goodies.

For editing notes collaboratively, or as a shared knowledge base / brainstorming resource, notion.so which is quite nice.
I would be surprised if Walmart accepted open box drone returns at all. My local electronics store does not. It makes sense too. I've bought two drones and both died quickly due to collisions. Maybe there are drones that are stable and easy to fly, but the product category seems designed to eat money. I lost interest after the second one.
That makes sense - cool idea and definitely see the value if and when sports gaming becomes legalized...
I ran into that at times, but it's so infrequent, I don't consider it a drawback.
Curl developer accidentally publishes security info
This will be an interesting experiment. The EU keeps coming up with ways to essentially destroy the internet as we know it. But I theorize that the internet is the only reason the economy continued to grow after the 90s. I think they may rewind themselves back to insignificance. Even China, with it’s draconian Great Firewall, wouldn’t be where it is today if academics and businesspeople weren’t regularly VPNing out to access the collected knowledge of the world.
> Could one run a VPN through a blockchain?

You can encode any information you want on a blockchain, and it can be anonymous and specific to the user.

But it would be ///painfully/// slow.
I agree, but
> if your threat model is just "Open WiFi is sketchy" or "XYZ network blocks YouTube"

He listed the reasons where this is useful. And it definitely is useful for those reasons. Your list is unrelated.
Go & Postgresql on the server.

Angular 2+ on the frontend.

Why?

Go is fast and bare bones, and works nicely as a backbone to an API (especially with a GraphQL intermediary). Postgresql plays very nicely with Go, especially if writing queries by hand.

Angular 2+ is great. Vue is also really nice, but I love what Typescript brings to the table and find that Angular being built around TS makes me enjoy it more than retrofitting Vue + TS definitions. I decided on Angular 2+ with great trepidation, but the bad rap carry-over from AngularJS turned out to be entirely undesreved. It's a wonderful framework, and I'm enjoying it greatly.

Also, a shout-out for AWS Lambda. I use it here and there for heavy workloads (personally I wouldn't replace my webserver with it entirely yet), and it made my server infrastructure MUCH more pleasant.
My company collects/analyzes apps from the App Store to test their security, so I have pretty easy access to the machine code for apps.

Certainly a fair question.
There should not be anyway to "cheat" Amazon - as Amazon is the 2nd largest company in the world, anything you can do to outwin them should be allowed.
I think this is the difference between the "projects" all through the book and the "exercises" the earlier commenter is looking for: The projects in the Rust book are just a construct to give the example code context. It's not you working through the problem — it's Steve Klabnik, with you just following along. In fact, a reader who is actually learning Rust can't do the projects, because they don't have the requisite knowledge before reading the chapter that the project appears in. "Exercises" are more of a challenge: "Now that you know this stuff, try to accomplish X task on your own." By accomplishing the task, you both prove to yourself that you understood the material and help solidify it in your mind. Retyping code doesn't give the same benefits or experience.

The second list of examples you gave does seem like the right sort of thing. I'm guessing the earlier commenter overlooked those because they're listed under the header "Summary," which kind of screams "skip me."
If anyone can be a miner, then malware can be used to do a 51% attack. Something like that happened with Monero recently [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/sites-are-using-your-brows...
One notable finding was that the astronaut's telomeres grew significantly in length while in space, and after returning to earth shrank back down. As telomere shortening has implications in aging as well as in cancers, it will be interesting to follow up this finding and determine 1) the differences in terrestrial and extraterrestrial atmospheres that account for the increase in telomere length, and 2) the implications that this may hold in terms of cell senescence and tumor growth.
Oh I see... I've edited my comment.
The Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe as Specified as an NPM Package
Let's fix the good old command line
Sounds like a pretty good way to drive adoption.
Well I guess you're safe against UAF! (har har)
Your demo on the front page is super spot on. I get what you do instantly.

Hope you guys all the best. This is so cool, I am on the waiting list!
Can you elaborate on this setup? A portable VPN server, is that correct? You have a Pi that has openvpn installed and you connect to the Pi? Do you have issues with captive portals
example the coffee shop or hotels?
No helmets are heavy and get hot and sweaty very fast.
They have to calculate for worst-case scenario. Imagine it were completely full of people. Dancing. Plus, people do ride motorcycles on them if they can get them on.
Nah, it's really not that simple.

Well, you came here and asked and I gave you a response because I happen to know the topic and wanted to help. It's your choice to not believe what I explained but I doubt you'll get a very different answer from other people.
You're absolutely right. I was thinking in terms of a previous attempt by some people, using a planar camera array with no motion involved. In that case it was impossible to reconstruct the lightfield satisfactorily. You only got a small pyramidal volume and a lot of ugly interpolations because of the small number of cameras. In this case however you can reconstruct the real deal at an arbitrary precision by increasing the scan time. If they can render it properly in real time, it will be amazing.
Yeah I feel like magazines sort of popularized this in that era. As a kid, I would send mail art in to some skate and gaming magazines that I read.