skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, you'd be shocked how easy it is to do. One thing I struggled with for awhile was trying to make the perfect piece of content, editing and getting stuck in that paralysis.

I was able to make a dent in recruiting because I am an engineer and know about problems engineers have. Further, I found a niche where recruiters want to learn how to write basic web scrappers and started teaching them how to do so.

If you find a similar niche or compliment to the industry you want to enter that you have some experience in, its pretty easy!
Smaller, more efficient, long lasting batteries
I'd love some help. I will shoot you a message. Thank you.
Reminds me of the video disc: basically a record with analog video on it. It had a much higher data density than ordinary records. Couldn't be played on an ordinary turntable though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
I have to admit I disagree strongly. How could you have this opinion and be in the workforce over the past 20 years? Automation isn't one day a human-looking robot shows up and does 100% of your job better than you did it and now you're unemployed.

Automation is we got a new machine in the shop that increased throughput, and we never replaced Betsy and George when they quit. It's getting that new cashier system that is idiot-proof and has pictures to tap of dollar bills vs. a keyboard or requiring any sort of math skills. It's redesigning the bathrooms to make cleaning take 30% of the previous time using basic automation and techniques.

It's a long slow reduction and dumbing down of the workforce that won't happen overnight, but has already been happening and on an accelerating pace for 20-30 years or so now.

Compare the skills needed to run a short-order cooking station 30 years ago to today - it's not even comparable. We would call such a position skilled or semi-skilled this day in age, as the average kid off the street couldn't be up and running in 6 hours of training. It would take months to replace that worker with someone in-kind, where now your labor pool for such jobs is basically "anyone who can show up on-time and sober" which of course pays considerably less.

I see automation as the long slow destruction of semi-skilled labor. You either are effectively a cheap very flexible human robot, or you get paid well in a highly skilled position. The middle is being hallowed out rapidly.
Or, simpler

1) Quit job
2) move to the woods
3) shun all electrical devices
4) mediate until you become one with the universe
> you then won't have any healthcare or education costs

70 to 80% of healthcare plans are covered by US employers though. So maybe we should compare total comp plus benefits? Health plans aren't total costs, though, because cost sharing and care is expensive... But that means adding cost of living adjustments. But if you are using a chunk of your salary to plan for retirement in a lower COL area, maybe those aren't even fair.

An apples to apples comparison is incredibly difficult.

https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insur...
Photonic computing is interesting; last year I attended a python meetup, and two of the presenters were writing Python tooling for designing photonic chips (called IPKISS). Seemed well suited for sensor data processing.
I don't have any of those apps for the same reason (barely use them, don't want to have even more apps). But I guess you still need to scan your card? The kiosks have proper card terminals, they work faster than adding card details to an app (with the exception of Apple Pay).
A munter is also someone who takes drugs, it comes from the context of taking pills at clubs - a munter munting gets munted.
Disabling links to websites in posts for the sake of preventing fake news is kind of sad. I get why but it feels like punishing the majority for the minority of bad actors. It’s also still possible to spread fake news without a link.

Anyways, this is your ideal network and so please disregard my opinion on how it should work :)
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It has quite a reputation from back in the day, but I find Something Awful to have a very high level of dialogue, probably because you have to pay a small fee for membership, and they aren't afraid to probate/ban people.
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Location: Nottingham, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Python 2 & 3, Ruby, Typescript, HTML/CSS/SASS, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, Heroku

Résumé/CV: https://rsmith.io/cv

Email: robin@rsmith.io

I'm Robin, I am a true full-stack web developer with over 7 years experience, working at every level of modern web application stacks: frontend, backend, database, server, deployment. I have a wide experience in modern web frameworks and languages, and in writing good quality code backed up with automated tests. I am an excellent communicator and am passionate about what I do, building my own apps in my spare time. I also maintain a regular blog: https://rsmith.io/blog.
Usenet.

It's a shame it's been mostly abandoned.

In so many ways it was reddit long before reddit even existed, and was superior to it in so many ways.
Google Play Store says “This item is not available in your country.” (Denmark)

Hello's loss, not mine…
Shameless plug:
- https://socii.network
- https://hub.socii.network

I’m working on a social network that does most of what you mentioned. I never thought about reposts being a quick and easy way of stopping the spread of viral misinformation, I like that idea.
foobar2000 on the App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669?mt=8
Prestwick. Concorde used to land there sometimes. I know someone who was in the process of landing a microlight at Prestwick when concorde had to fly in because of bad weather at Heathrow.
Ask HN: Should I use ReactJS or ReactNative for my Startup
I'm building a FinTech platform, utilising a core banking API, but the people I have spoken to have not shown a clear preference for either ReactJS or Native. Neither side ever fully explains why one over the other though. Any recommendation for either would be hugely useful at this juncture
True. A lot are not very good though. A lot are covers for getting your email and trying to sell you services. I like Drift.com's Seeking Wisdom podcast and anything by Gary Vaynerchuk(I am sure this audience will hate him but he knows what hes doing)
"Getting munted" is also slang for taking drugs from the clubbing scene in the 90s/00s. One who does so would be a munter.
I think you are conflicting what people want with what people would use!

Also: feeds are not ranked because of monetization...they are ranked because they work better that way
Augmented reality. I really think it'll change how we spend our time throughout the day (perhaps for the worse).

I think the change will be similar in magnitude to the invention of the internet.
I started using React properly a year ago and I was dreading having to tinker with scripts for 72 hours.

The developer experience I got from create-react-app was astounding - it gave me the most productive frontend experience (live reloading, preconfigured Babel) I've ever had.

These days I turn to React for quick throwaway projects because I know create-react-app will have me up and running straight away.
Isn't that mostly a result of UI/UX problems? IRC has fostered a good community of tooling. But the content side of Usenet seems to have been completely ignored, outside of file sharing.
I think they will continue to pump PC tech into mobile devices until both converge, still a few years to go for this.
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred - Nottingham, UK

I'm Robin, I am a true full-stack web developer with over 7 years experience, working at every level of modern web application stacks: frontend, backend, database, server, deployment. I have a wide experience in modern web frameworks and languages, and in writing good quality code backed up with automated tests. I am an excellent communicator and am passionate about what I do, building my own apps in my spare time. I also maintain a regular blog: https://rsmith.io/blog.

Technologies: React, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Python 2 & 3, Ruby, Typescript, HTML/CSS/SASS, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, Heroku

Résumé/CV: https://rsmith.io/cv

Blog: https://rsmith.io/blog/

Email: robin@rsmith.io
It has only changed for people who were playing stupid games with what consent means, like interpreting scrolling past an already checked checkbox as consent when it was clearly nothing of the sort. If you were being clear and direct with users about what they were signing up for, then you have nothing to fear from GDPR. I don't have any sympathy for business who were complying with the letter of the law while finding any excuse they could to subvert the spirit of the law.
I agree that a certain well thought diet could have further health benefits but the context of the post is obesity prevention.
Wow, their rap genius platform with inline annotations and comments is actually one of the best blogging interfaces I've used. Blows medium out of the water.
> here's another cause of inequality: that computers and the internet have made it easier to start a company that gets really big.

I don't see how it is a problem. It is just another opportunity for talanted people to start their own business. Not everyone can run a company and not everybody's as creative or smart as someone who earns millions of dollars a year. So here's a question: why should someone, who doesn't have any abilities to run business, who isn't creative or smart have the same income per year? I don't really understand what's equal about this.
An HIV vaccine seems to be on the horizon. That will be a great achievement.
FrontPage and other early content management systems were never trying to make the perfect design tool. They were trying to make web authoring as easy as Word. And in that, they did work. (My first startup was doing content tools in those days, and we did very well up until the dotcom crash.)

The problem is that it is difficult to serve both purposes - ease for content authors isn't the same UX as ease for designers. And the effort to write good underlying code no matter what insanity the users do is a hard problem. I don't feel that it is an impossible task... just a hard one, and there isn't enough business need for such a tool that anyone has made a go of it.
We us Ember at my company. We started using it around the 1.0 release. We have been very happy with it. But as a shop that doesn't really have any dedicated front end developers the most frustrating thing for us is that their conventions are always changing or worse threatening to change but don't so your left always wondering if what you are doing is the right thing. People have been waiting for controllers to be deprecated for years. That being said I think they do have to make these changes to keep the framework moving forward and I appreciate the amount of effort they put in to keep things backward compatible. I think now that they are providing code mods for a lot of the new conventions people won't be as hesitant to upgrade. Before there was a lot of friction when upgrading to a new version that had different conventions and you felt you should go and modify your existing code to follow the new conventions. I have confidence that with their strong user base they will stay relevant for many types of applications. If people are hesitant to try it I'd tell them to keep in mind that even though Ember has conventions and provides the ember way of doing things it is possible to integrate most of the exciting things going on in the js world with Ember. Some people even use react components in their ember apps.
Personally I am hoping for large scale carbon capture. Environmentalists hate it because it’s too deus ex machina — if you believe it will happen then nothing we emit now matters. I take the tack that we _must_ figure it out because the alternatives aren’t tenable. As a species we do well when it’s clear what we have to do, and I’m bullish that we will figure out how to remove significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere before climate change effects hit the insane point (insane = 100M sea level rise and mass migration that puts what’s happening now into the “small effect” bucket).
How HSM works?
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That crowd will change what they consider important as they have overtime. At one time people resisted the car.
Or globalization that eliminated middle classes. Or compounding exponential growth from existing wealth. Or shifting of money away from labor towards owners, compensated with stock that has disproportionally grown in recent years. Or...
> That's a bold and unfounded claim.

Forbes and the New York Times have written articles on it. The Affordable Care Act has a provision that requires Doctors to disclose payments.

Empirically, I dated a girl for about 2 years who was a sales representative for a major pharmaceutical company. When I asked about her job she said it was mostly dropping of brochures, swag, free lunches, and holding contests to promote products. Top producers (doctors) received all expense paid trips to medical conferences held in exotic locations or were invited to be paid speakers at said conferences. It was not too different from what the marketers did at the insurance broker I worked for at the time to cater Agents to write their lines.
Socrates Defence
Not necessarily. There's always a chance you'll find something you learn really quickly/turn out to be really good at, and enjoy despite not struggling at all. A prodigy might still find their favoured subject areas to be interesting.

And then there's also the fact many worthwhile things turn out to be merely tedious grinds, not particularly difficult. Doing exercise may or may not be 'hard' (depending on the person), but going to the gym or going for a run for 365 days a year might not be all that easy of an endeavour, even if the actual challenge level is virtually nil.

As for your example, well the best answer would be to go and learn what you'd enjoy more in the end, not based on whether it's seemingly easy or hard.
They want to make sure their profiles are real people, not bots. A profile that refers to shadow users is more credible. The security is for their advertising clients, who want to show ads to real people, not bots.
Nothing better than some significant unintended consequences to remind us how little we actually know.
When most people think of social networks, they think of a way to connect with friends and family - not a way of discussing interesting issues (i.e. forums).

"Funded by subscriptions" more or less guarantees the former will not happen. People want stuff for free.

>Shares or "retweets" not supported. Also to disrupt viral spreading of stuff that is almost never about socializing, and nowadays instead disturbingly often about wanting to be virally spread as a goal in itself.

Sadly, reshares are part and parcel of a community - even before the days of the Internet. For many, gossip is part of socializing. A friend posted that he's just getting married. People will want to spread the word. How can they without reshares? Rewrite it themselves? Resharing is simply part of usual human interaction.
Nominative determinism?
In my mind, if you need a large framework that a whole team can use day in and day out, Ember is the go-to choice. It's got a lot of batteries included and the learning curve is pretty steep, but it has patterns and a way to do things for just about everything. It's also been rapidly absorbing the best parts of other frameworks and approaches -- fastboot, glimmer, etc.

- Angular had the spot, then bumbled the transition from 1->2->5.

- Durandal died/was transformed into Aurelia, whose hype never materialized.

- Backbone +/- Marionette seems to be in super slow decline, but doesn't update as fast as Ember.

- I don't know much about Polymer but it just seems like an interesting project, not something I'd suggest an org to use (I'm probably wrong).

Ember shouldn't be compared to tools like React/Vue because it's almost never just React/Vue, and Ember itself has lots of plugins that come into play. "React" =~ React + React-Router + Redux/Reflux/Fluxxor/Flux/whatever, and roughly the same with Vue -- though you can choose to extend Ember with plugins, by default everything you need is baked in, with ONE set of well-written if not long documentation. I can certainly say that Ember is more coherently put together than react/vue + react-router/vue-router + redux/vuex.

One of the biggest problems with ember of course, is the breakneck pace of change. I think it's slowed down somewhat recently, but keeping up with it can feel like a full time job sometimes, if you get stuck behind for too long, it gets harder and harder to update your codebase.

As far as I'm concerned, Ember should keep doing what it's doing, it's basically the only worthwhile competitor these days in the most-batteries-included (aka frontend framework rather than frontend library) space. If anything these days, Angular (5?) is looking like it's pivoted it's way to essentially emulating Ember, so I'd place it second.
there’s lispbuilder-sdl which I was one of the founders of years ago, although it maybe suffering from bit rot these days

https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder
Q&A with Nick Farmer, Linguist, #TheExpanse
Eradicating the malaria carrying mosquito through crispr gene modification
Like Norwegian & Swedish.
We already play god.

People are just having sex without thinking twice.

I'm married and in the appropriate age and i have thought about having kids a ton.

I'm not sure if i'm even allowed to create a new thinking human being only for the motivation of having a kid.

The crispr thing takes all our medical advantages just an additional level up.

You see people argue about if you should do a gen test for down syndrome (don't get me wrong here! A human being is a human being. But yes there is a consensus in our society that you become a human after a period of 3 month, at least in germany) and other complications but would never think about denying a doctor to use a incubator for a baby which would never ever be alive today without the medical advances.

There is an unbelievable huge hypocritical thinking in this. Yes tons of human beings would not be alive today without medicine but on the other hand the responsibility coming from all this knowledge doesn't matter?

I believe that in a moral/ethical right way you would need to do your BEST for your kid and this means making sure that by using crispr you do that.

I have no idea where this journey will bring us and yes there is tons of things to figure out but we will be able to overtake natures randomness for future live. And we have to.
I've been doing software consulting for startups for ~10 years.

My best generic advice is to try to put yourself in the mind of your perfect client/customer.

It can be easy to forget this, but they're just as desperate to find help as you might be trying to find work. Think about where they might go—online or offline—to find help, and go there. Rinse and repeat. You may not even meet your actual client this way, but may meet someone who knows someone. That's just about nearly as good.

Once you have a few stable clients, that's where a good network comes into play. Do good work, be nice, and tell people what you do, and the work will keep coming in (and likely in amounts greater than you can handle).
Yep, SA obviously has a brand of humor, but the discourse on a huge variety of things is absolutely top-notch. Active moderation keeps the riff-raff out.
Most websites are not just simple, static text.
Can Jane Average understand how email works? Because that's really all their is to understand about distributed social networks: you own your data, but if you send someone a message you should consider it public (could be shared/forwarded to anyone) unless you trust the recipient not to share it.
I'd add to that:

- Decentralized

- Designed with strong privacy and anonymity of its users in mind
I doubt this. People don't even bother asking sophisticated query to search engines.
Wow IPKISS looks like something I would want to use. Ive been trying to write some of this myself and it's annoying. Thanks a bunch!

I'm working (like, on the side) on building a fully photonic computer. The progress is very slow, however some things fall into place quite a bit. Most photonic computing designs still use bits, mine would use signals which makes the computer much more powerful.
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>We absolutely should because it's a fundamental aspect of doing their job

A rather trivially learned part of their job. It has little bearing on their ability to build a beautiful cabinet.

>The difference between me and a professional carpenter is literally the ability to use tools effectively to build an item

It's much more than that. How about Michelangelo? Do you think the only difference between you and him is that he's had more practice with a chisel? Doubtful.

>It's like theoretical CS vs. real-world programming. It's good to know sorting strategies and whatnot, but knowing how to use the tools is what gets stuff done.

This is the lone of thinking that leads hiring managers to build teams of mediocre devs with a lot of buzzwords in their CV. I don't care so much that you know e.g. C#, I care that you are a great problem solver. If you have that part down I'm fine with investing a little time into you so that you can learn C#, ASP.NET, whatever. The latter bit is easy.
I used to agree with you but there are several points where you're flat-out wrong.

> they add no value to the process of purchasing a car/truck

Unless you get a new salesman they typically are experts on the cars themselves. Yes there are exceptions but especially if you're shopping at higher end dealerships (think Audi and higher, basically) they're going to know everything about the car and be able to tell you exactly what model fits your needs.

> the person whose incentive it is to get me into their most expensive car

Car salesmen are paid on gross, and the dealership's profit on a $120,000 7-series is not going to be twice the profit as a $60,000 M2. In fact, highest gross is on used vehicles, and those are the hardest to price shop since every one is different.

> car dealerships have been held up to exist in such an artificial way

That depends on your definition of artificial. Audi isn't allowed to sell me a new Q3, by law. If you change the law and get rid of dealerships, guess what happens? Audis are now available at MSRP only. No haggling, no getting a good deal because something's been on the lot and is a prior year model.

The part you don't mention is the used car market. What happens to that when dealerships disappear? You can buy one from a private owner but then you get no warranty at all and you have to trust that they're not trying to screw you. I hesitate to draw a finance comparison, but don't dealerships offer some form of liquidity to the used car market? Audi corporate does not want to manage the trade in inventory. Won't the value of trade ins (and therefore used cars) drop like a rock at that point?
Oxycontin is legal.

Many of those who became addicts would not have save for sinister machinations by Purdue Pharma. See this article on "Oxycontin's 12-hour problem":

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

I don't like prohibition and the recreational drug market is ripe for reform. There are better and worse ways to do that -- see Mark Kleiman's writings for strategies to construct legal marijuana markets where the incentives for companies to manufacture addicts are minimized.

But the opiate crisis is not an example of supply inadequacy due to prohibition. The pharmaceutical industry has artificially increased demand.
If someone has a blood cancer (i.e. they are damaged at a DNA level) and can only currently be cured by a danagerous stem cell transplant and then the ability comes along to fix their DNA back to what it previously was at the genetic level wouldnt you agree it would be more unethical to not allow them access to that treatment?