skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way it's better than the Microsoft tax which set, for a time, a lower bound on the price of a computer because one had to pay approximately the same amount for a low-spec computer as for a high-spec one. Eventually if you're making 20% margin on the components and that margin is lower than the cost of the Windows license, you have two options: use an incompatible operating system or not sell the computer. From what I understand, in the 80s and 90s, if you sold computers with Windows or DOS OEM, your license agreement probably said that you had to pay the tax on every system sold, regardless of the actually installed operating system.
Best generic mysql CRUD tool?
I have a database with about 7 tables, including association tables.

I want a domain expert to fill it with data, so that relations are correct (foreign keys etc).

Is there a generic tool, which just generates forms of the mysql tables and for example gives a dropbox of names as representer of foreign keys?

It would be like EMFForms, just for MySQL and web?
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see how happiness correlates to distribution of GDP rather than size of GDP.
If you think the rich and powerful won't pay someone to mark up their score, I have bad news for you. This is not a solution to that.
User actions and event simulator
In an event driven architecture, a user action could lead to an event that in turn could generate several other events to which the system must respond. This can get quite complex quickly based on the kind of user actions and the current state of the system. I was wondering if there is tool I could use to simulate user actions and get list of events generated by the system as an output based on some current state. It would be useful to have such a tool for documentation and demo to anyone interested to understand what to expect when user actions and events occur within the system in a certain way. Any ideas or thoughts?
I understand the inclination to do this - I think it's natural to want to live in a meritocracy. But I just can't image this not backfiring.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Are you serious? These bills make any website liable for escort services. Craigslist removed their personals section, Twitter as shadowbanned all sex workers providing escort services, etc.

This bill is clearly bullshit and intended to attack sex workers.
Programmer's wages + maximum frugality. I've lived in a variety of mostly rural locations, always with roommates. I believe the main obstacles are psychological. For example I had to learn how to actually not spend, and how not to feel insecure about having a net worth of approximately zero.
The article says you can earn points by donating to charity. So there is at least one provision for the rich to buy a better score.
g, a Statistical Myth (2007)
"vet" may not have been the best term to use, I'll admit. That said, services like Backpage are much safer for sex workers to use as opposed to picking up more random clients on the street.
There's always some risk, though the level is definitely reducing as airport systems get better at handling the edge cases.

But even taking into account the improvements there, there's still a bunch of sleep deprived humans at the end of your 12 hour redeye who are happy to take your bag if it looks a bit like theirs (this happened to me even though I covered my bag in unique stuff...)
>The parent comment was speaking of “capitalism” as an euphemism for “wage slavery”

Well, the TFA speaks specifically about the "modern" form of "wage slavery" in Japan -- as tied to big corporations, office and factory jobs, consumer culture, etc, not generally about working to make a living by being paid a wage.

Which is tied to capitalism. People didn't work like that before their contact with capitalism and when "free trade" was imposed on them by force.
the point of the right to be forgotten is if you did something stupid at some point and it is always available and super easy to find then anyone can always look you up and say hey did a stupid thing let's not hire them or maybe we should proactive and do something to them because the stupid thing was not just stupid but also maybe bad.

So yes it is the right to hide the past to the extent that it should not be super easy to get all available dirt on anyone at any time anybody gets nosy or irritated. But if you are willing to put in weeks of work to find out that someone once smoked pot or burned an american flag or whatever you can still put in those weeks of work.
I think they were trying to show something meaningful with the orientation by having their "Trend Line" be the one horizontal metric.

I didn't really understand how they came up with that as a trend line.

I agree that they made an obvious decision to give design preference over legibility. My first glance at the page was "this is neat", but as I tried to wrap my brain around the data, my thoughts changed to "what an unnecessary mess".
The presence of a credit system to begin with, with puts people in the mercy of corporation (private) or the bureaucracy (public neither in China nor in most of the world, perhaps with the exception of Switzerland, means "directly controlled by the people").
"Most" isn't necessarily a good thing, because it can lead to a false sense of security. For example, if you start thinking, "no need to check for null here, because the types won't allow it", you're open to being surprised when a null sneaks in at run-time. So you have to deal with the overhead of both types and run-time guards.
The majority of currently tracked space debris is the result of a single anti-satellite missile test China conducted. So less collisions more weapon based destruction. And any future conflict (between nation's reliant upon gps guided weapons)will likely start with anti-satellite warfare. This worries me greatly.
I've had bags get misrouted and delayed, but I wouldn't consider that "lost". Are you saying you've never had an instance when you didn't have your bag in baggage claim right when you landed?

One time my bag was delayed by a day and an airline representative delivered it to my home, which was nice. Another time I volunteered to be bumped in exchange for a voucher but my bag was already loaded so it arrived significantly before I did.
A run to Best Buy to pick up a new TV because you just put a .45 round through your old one?

Prince saying "I need a camel" in the middle of the night on Chanhassen, MN?
This is an oversimplification of gluten problems. DH for example does not necessarily go together with small intestine causing atrophy.
Qualcomm has plenty of 5G patents http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/03/31/5g-mobile-networks-next...
> I think it's natural to want to live in a meritocracy

It’s fallacious to think that meritocracy is a function of ONLY the present.
Humanity wants to keep space safe and governments are its representatives.
Having layers (first the airlines and then Unclaimed Baggage) makes it not just twice as unlikely but thousands of times less likely that belongings will be stolen in the way you describe.

Managers of a family-owned business in operation for nearly fifty years have to have low time-preference and future orientation enough to realize that scamming an expensive item would be foolish when they have an entire warehouse of legitimately acquired merchandise. Moreover, the goodwill from a story about reuniting a sentimental memento or a hard-to-replace valuable (“That laptop had the only copy of my dissertation!”) is most certainly in their business interest.
Could this be similar to attractiveness? Although there may be studies linking it to better “survival” genes, it doesn’t necessarily help with the situation at hand.
Ask HN: What is the vacation policy in your company?
Trying to setup a vacation policy that is inline with industry standards. What is your companies policy?
Thanks!
the qualcomm terms sound like none of the above
Propositional calculus is sound and complete, first order predicate logic isn't.
Always relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/931/ really helped visualize for me what going through cancer treatment is like. God speed.
I am the same as you, alas I cannot afford not to work the hours I do (for which I have copped quite a bit of flack on HN about).

I do wonder why people who can afford to spend time with their family and not work 60-70 hours per week, actually do.

I can only imagine it would be that they really enjoy their work that much, or their in a culture such as here in Japan where you stay until the boss leaves - or else. (Not my situation, I'm a chef, stupid hours in my industry).
If you consider being born into a well-connected Han family with close ties to the CCP 'a meritocracy'

China's problem with bribing officials like police officers and doctors just to get nominal service is so bad that Xi is making a display of curbing it, but I'm not sure their society and political system is structured in a way that can really prevent it. Nobody is accountable to the public outside of the party's inner hierarchy.

And the way they've described this system: it will ban citizens who 'violate norms' from using high speed rail, traveling by air, and renting apartments in the major cities.
Can you be more specific about these ways you imagine it backfiring?

Brooker tackled this kind of thing in Black Mirror, and while his vision of it was pretty bleak, it actually seemed a lot more open to social mobility than our current system in which inequality is becoming more deeply entrenched.

Presumably there's no way to live off your parents 'social credit' trust fund.

The Black Mirror version of this system would be deeply affected by attractiveness, for example, which would be one possible failing, but there's no indication that the Chinese version is as susceptible to that.
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> toaster (obviously)

I removed the outer metal casing, put the whole thing in the dish washer. Put the metal casing back afterwards. The toaster was like brand new and worked fine.
Are you basically saying that programmers want intuitive interpretation of numeric literals, without having to suffix them to indicate their type? This strikes me as a situation where editing programs as plain text holds is back. Most languages have complex and error prone implicit type conversions between numeric types so to keep the text representation of the program looking clean. But if there were a way for the source to contain explicit type annotations on numbers without necessarily requiring the programmer to have to look at them or specify them in most cases, that seems like a much better situation.

I think there are many such ways we are held back by plain text representation.
Pokémon Go will reward players for picking up trash on Earth Day
Show HN: Servitor.io – Server and website monitoring made easy
A concept has to be more than conceivable to have implications for real-world issues such as the nature of consciousness or the origin of the mind. The usefulness of Occam's razor is predicated on this fact, as its purpose is to avoid being drawn into endless speculation over ideas that are merely conceivable.
>if I visit a folder and see some files, I know what I see is all of the files there (+/- hidden file settings); if something is missing, it's not there, period.

Funny you should say that. Only a few weeks ago a colleague of mine was perplexed by a file which showed up in a 'save as' box, but not in Windows Explorer. It was an ordinary log file, same as a bunch of others in that folder, no reason for it to be different. Apparently he later discovered the file was visible if navigated to from C:, but not through the desktop shortcut he'd made to that folder. We could only conclude it was a Windows bug. Whatever the cause, it wasted a good deal of our time hunting for that file...
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Would you consider paging through a paper notebook to be the same level of effort and/or privacy concern?

I don't think paging through paper notebook is that far removed from going into the user's (probably only one) documents folder and looking for something like "hist301 final paper.doc" to find someone's name. If the paper notebook starts to look like a personal diary, you stop, in the same way you don't click on "company secrets.doc"
tl;dr: Implemented more features, fixed feedback, added a demo environment [0] but still looking for more feedback from the professionals. :)

Hi everyone!

A while back I already posted my first SaaS/Sideproject and since then I have been trying to implement more features, fix feedback and in general keep on improving. However, there is still a lot to be done and feedback is always useful. Hence why I'm posting this again.

To give some context about my project, I'll quote myself from the previous thread[1] below:

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Hi everyone!
Creator/developer of Servitor.io here, if you’ve got any feedback, comments or questions please ask them. I’m happy to read and answer everything, especially since this is my first SaaS side-project I’m trying to launch and I have much to learn. :)

Servitor was developed mostly to scratch my own itch that there wasn’t a good, reasonably priced and easy product that allowed me to monitor a few of my other side project servers and websites. Although I’m using it myself for a few months now it is still in early stages, so bugs and issues may be there. There are also many improvements on the roadmap, the most important features are: better graphs/Ajax loading, live statistics and more monitors. (Feel free to get in touch if you know an extra feature)

If anyone is interested in the technology stack, it is just plain old Mysql 5.7, PHP7.1 and Laravel 5.5. Instead of blindly using new technologies and running into issues, I decided to use the old-trusted stack and actually try to ship something for once. So far I’m on track I think.

Finally, I’m not a native English speaker, so my apologies for all (stupid) grammar and spelling mistakes. I’m hoping everyone is able to understand me without too much trouble.

[0] https://servitor.io/auth/demo

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16520161
> if a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability to see, distinguish those objects by sight alone, in reference to the tactile schemata he already possessed?

If a sighted person can see an object and distinguish it by touch alone, the opposite must be true.
I agree. I'd rather have a public system (albeit it might be flawed) than have private companies (facebook, google?) and the likes of TSA and CIA working, possibly together, doing pretty much the same thing
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You're assuming it's honest and not political fodder as well. Nah, the Congress would NEVER do that, right?
Correct the other steroids can still cause your natural production to shut off which is going to make your body feel like crap.

HGH is going to be beneficial because of it's going to increase collegan in your body which will make your joints and ligaments stronger. It's going to help with wuicker recovery from from work outs. Also most people report getting better sleep while using it. So hgh isn't going to make you huge directly rather it's more of a behind the scenes thing helping you out. If you are predisposed for cancer though you might want to be careful. Hgh of course does increase the rate of cellular growth and division so you are increasing your odds of cancer by taking it, I'm not a doctor and that could be bs but I think it's worth considering considering
As these articles have rolled out, I'm increasingly wondering whether Facebook could have grown to its current size just by being the communication and identity layer of the web. No news in your timeline, no TV shows, nothing. Could it have been a freemium model instead of ad-based?

There are so many valuable companies (Slack, craigslist, Angie's List, Yelp) that Facebook has tried to replace and failed, but I wish it had gone in those directions instead of feeding us to advertisers.
> Rather than an easy, technical solution

If I am a search engine, and don’t comply, I am going to jail. It’s not easy nor technical.
After gentle correction[0] by Edward Kmett and others, Martin fires back[1] with an unseemly

> Hey! Ya know how to drive a functional justice warrior crazy? Put him in a round room and tell him there’s a monad in the corner.

> [Male pronoun used because FJWs are all twelve year old boys.]

I like a lot of his work and advocacy, but this is disappointing.

[0]: https://twitter.com/kmett/status/982261235050622977

[1]: https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/982467413852737536
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Step 1: Start with simple circuits. And implement them on bread boards. Don't go for the printed circuit boards yet. There are many circuits out there for beginners. Choose one and implement it. Vary the elements in the circuit. For example if the circuit asks you to use 10k ohm resister use a 100 ohm resister and see what happens. In this case there might be drop in voltage(I believe, my memory is quite vague). To measure this you use multimeter. Learn how to do that. It is fundamental for any one wanting to play with electronics stuff.
(P.S: If you are from India there is a magazine named "Electronics for you". If you have the money buy it. It is quite amazing. I haven't read it 6 years though so I don't know if the quality is still good)

Step 2: Start reading the datasheets of different Integrated Circuits that you might use in your circuit. Its not that hard. Once you understand what Vcc, ground etc., are it becomes really easy.

Step 3: Try and solder the the elements that you used on a board. Soldering is a basic skill that many engineers I know lack. It is good to know it. I have fixed many broken radios and other electronic items using this skill.

Step 4: Start designing printed circuit boards on a software and send it to a company and print it(there are other means to do this too).

Once you cover this, you can do a lot of really cool stuff with electronics. I hope this helps.

Note: This makes you an amateur. Now if you want to learn about FPGAs and other stuff, then its gets a little tricky. You might need a book for that.
Probably the problem description should be something that is legal in most places but would cause real problems for anyone caught doing it.

so let's say Eric was out drunk with his friends and they walked in a sex shop and picked up some dildos because hah hah this shit is funny we are so drunk and then Eric took some silly photos cuddling the dildo or mimicking putting it in his ass and someone posted it to the internet and now eric would like it gone.

Now Eric's pictures on the internet are actually sort of funny so they have gotten some exposure, and so Eric finds he can't keep his job at the local macho place of employment - I don't know why, maybe he's not good at talking shit to anyone who talks shit to him so everybody picks on him about his stupid funny photos.

So he gets fired or quits because can't handle the harassment, and is sick of going out and hearing hey it's dildo guy. So he moves away. Nobody in his new town know's he's dildo guy, but then he goes out one night with this girl, and somebody exclaims omg it's that dildo guy, hey look at this everybody I got me some google skills, I saw this hilarious picture one time.

Now on the one hand Eric has given the world a lot of (unpaid) entertainment as dildo guy, but on the other hand when he commits suicide because he is emotionally unconstituted to go through life being called out every now and then as dildo guy then he makes people feel bad. So in order to allow Eric to make his stupid drunk dildo hugging photo and not ruin the rest of his life for something embarrassing but totally legal let's just give him the right to remove the stuff from google. That way, when he moves from his old town where there are lots of people remembering the whole dildo picture situation, in his new town people didn't know him when it was fresh and his stupidity is somehow 'forgotten' thus preserving the ability that people have had throughout history of moving from one area because their reputation at that area had become to problematic to continue. Google makes sure the reputation follows.
There are a variety of project subject areas in the series of Engineer's Mini-Notebooks, and some of them are quite advanced:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Engineer%27s%20Mini-...

It can really be most worthwhile to start with the introductory Engineer's Mini-Notebook volume, "Getting Started in Electronics" where everything is so simple. Once available at Radio Shack for $2.49:

https://www.scribd.com/document/103603952/Engineer-s-Mini-No...

Then work your way through the other Engineer's Mini-Notebooks of interest and you will be able to recognize all kinds of other resources that can be helpful to build on this foundation in similar ways.

Regardless of your objective you will need a foundation in analog circuits and here's a classic reference for schematics:

https://archive.org/details/howtoreadschemat00herr
You can on Android.

http://blokada.org/
>Presumably there's no way to live off your parents 'social credit' trust fund.

LOL. Doesn't matter what the system is - the people with power will always find a way around it. USSR - check, China - check.
Social mobility at the cost of honest expression of personal beliefs, though. Essentially, lack of personal freedom through rigorous self-censorship.

In that episode, Nosedive, the higher up you got, the more "fake" it got. The lower you got, the more "real". Culminating with the archteypical "likeable truck lady".

Loss of freedom, no matter if through oppression or through more insiduous means like reverse psychology, is a very heavy price to pay.
Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive who didn't become a poet until much later in life:

> Stevens was financially independent as an insurance executive earning by the mid-1930s "$20,000 a year, equivalent to about $350,000 today (2016).

> By late February of 1947 with Stevens approaching 67 years of age, it became apparent that Stevens had completed the most productive ten years of his life in writing poetry.
Right to be forgotten go beyond search engines. It’s a very dangerous law.
Wasn't there (or perhaps still is) a government subsidy for electric vehicle purchases in Norway? There may also be a government subsidy for insurance, to further encourage people to shift away from ICE vehicles.

Cheaper insurance may have nothing to do with the quality or safety of autopilot in Tesla vehicles.
It's not only old.people who do the double click thing. I see the same with a lot of our sales reps when I watch them use our stuff.