skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a small nitpick but the Saturnas vacuum, the first product featured, was actually Lithuanian. The most obvious clue - the name is written in Latin alphabet, not Cyrillic.

Of course, with centralized economy, most of these designs probably had to be approved by Moscow but it doesn't mean that it was the seat of all creativity and innovation.
No, it doesn't. It is not ladas, it's lada and it's from a type of ship - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D1%8F...
You can see logo of lada and there is a ship there
The 'worth' of a private investor's portfolio is a vanity metric. A more precise measure of YC's success would be money invested VS realized returns. Are those figures available?
I had a difficult root canal performed once and had to pay $2000 out of pocket. I had no insurance.

A friend of mine also had a root canal and also paid $2000, but they had insurance.

It's not an equal comparison as I know of dentists that you can also go to get a root canal for $500.00 without insurance but the cost to my friend with insurance seemed excessively high and makes me wonder if many dentists are just milking it.
So it is a premined coin that you need to buy in some overly complicated manner and it solves the same problems as other cryptocurrencies. I fail to see the point.
"Lada" has nothing with Greek.

It is a transliteration of Russian "Лада" - short form of "Ладная" - beautiful/harmonious.
Public private partnerships are quite de-rigeur in the west, what's so special about China that the same is somehow not-so-subtly construed as a demonic plan to debase capitalism and instill the vicious vector of bogeyman communism in a Chinese community near you? Frankly IMHO the media on China coming out of the US - Bloomberg, NYT and Washington Post especially - reeks of xenophobia and tabloid hype.

America's journalists may do well to visit the museums of Chinese in LA and New York, as I did, and take a long deep look at the China side of their country's nasty and continuous history of whipping up anti-foreign sentiment at all levels of government and society then conveniently sweeping racism under the rug. Disgusting.
The first time I watched Simple Made Easy, I didn't like it, even though I'd written quite a few situated programs in my day. A year later, I'd learned Clojure and re-watched it, and it all made so much sense. It's now one of my favorite tech talks.
Well the joke would be on management. I am sure that ALL of the solutions engineers think that the product is garbage, given that they are the ones who have to deal with the problems.
> Central planning has always proven to be an inefficient way to allocate resources

Capitalism and planning isn't as far apart as it might appear.

What is a large multinational corporation except a centrally planned bureaucracy incentivized to maximize profits to shareholders? And where is the majority of wealth in the West (especially in the tech world), except in the hands of multinationals?
OK, I've added an "Add PDF" button to open a file select dialog, which should let you load files without drag-and-drop. Please let me know how it works for you.

Thanks.
This might not apply to many who frequent HN, but not enough people know about Free File options.

If your adjusted gross income is less than $66,000 you can likely file your federal and potentially state taxes for free.

If you make more than $66,00 AGI, the IRS provides fillable forms that are pretty easy to use for your federal but might not be applicable in all circumstances.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
Amen, and well said. I'm a psychiatrist and I worry the most about sleep, full stop. In a disease (or set of diseases, or whatever) that can make people feel so out of control, sleep is one of the best ways to take back control.
More Rich Hickey: https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
This isn't a fault of email but the way we use it. I think what you're really saying is that we like to keep personal chat separate from impersonal spam, and I agree with this 100%. Couldn't we do this by keeping two separate email accounts? I just feel like we have spent thousands of man-years trying to come up with the one chat application to rule them all that everybody will adopt, that has no privacy concerns, that doesn't rely on a single service provider, meanwhile email is right under our noses.
How I write my blog
Mixers are physical systems. The precise words for the distinction you are trying to make is between linear and non linear systems.
If you were running the largest network of communications in any country you would also have a political requirement to maintain a public hat-tip to government at all times as well as private cooperation. While the brusque visual nature of this sculpture is admittedly unnerving, I can assure you based on nearly 20 years in the country that it is not some sort of oppressive symbolism but rather more likely a PR designed retro-communique to traditional party socialist mores in order to stave off criticism from party hardliners. Government interface is simply the nature of society and a requirement of big business everywhere. The US included.
To borrow what someone else here said, a high school diploma is just a "congratulatory" piece of paper.

There are many approaches to schooling. Anything works better than the factory model.
Yes, and in addition, I believe antibiotics are currently considered by pharma companies insufficiently profitable to dedicate significant resources to. They're mainly going after chronic conditions now, since chronic means steady income stream.
Great talk by bcantrill.

Don't put your hand in the lawn mower.
Yeah the two main questions they asked us was;
1. What are you building?
2. How are you going to get tens of thousands of paying users?

Also asked a few follow up questions about the product. The call lasted for 6 minutes. It all happened super quickly. 3 more days to go :)
Love this. Would be great to have the converter. Not so much to mockup sites but to generate help docs and blog posts on my bootstrap site.
Lada (Лада) is also a Slavic goddes of beauty, spring, fertility and family - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_(mythology)
Sourceforge immediately pulled the plug on all of this when they were bought out a while back
Yes, this is why the razor blades are called Ладас in Russian and used to have a picture of a running man in style of antique Greek drawings.
France is taxing youtube advertising in profit of the "CNC" (i.e. the cinema mafia).

I hope Google shut downs Youtube France
I was just about to comment about this! I moved outside of the states, and have a non-US bank account, which is something that TurboTax doesn't handle in their free version. I ended up using H&R Block through this Free File, and it covered both federal (1040) and CA returns for free, which TurboTax wanted to charge $30 for CA return and like $40 or $50 for the federal since I have a non-US bank account. If you make less than $66k, definitely check out that link because it can save you a good chunk of money depending in your tax situation.
Drivers on mobile phones could be fined without even knowing they’ve been caught
Pour Microsoft uTorrent devient un logiciel malveillant
Ah, good catch. It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600701. But maybe a second discussion isn't so bad.

We'll change the URL to that from http://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-sur....
Very interesting article. Too bad google glass didn't catch up, or we could set up reasonably inconspicuous face recognition to help these people. Otherwise, I guess they could have a hidden camera somewhere on them and a (wireless) earbud that tells them who's in front of them.
I'm pretty skeptical of portable powerbanks at the moment. I wish Apple came out with an official one because I would buy it in an instant. I left my power adapter at my home when I took a week trip to visit my parents. On the last night of my trip I had left my laptop plugged into my powerbank after discharging my laptop pretty low (probably ~15%). I did not pay attention to which way the power was flowing though, and came back to a laptop which wouldn't turn on or respond to anything. I ended up having to take it to an Apple store where they send it off. I'm unsure what exactly happened as Apple doesn't seem to provide such insight after repairs. However, I believe the powerbank fully drained all the power out of the laptop and some how damaged the power manager. The laptop would not charge for any reason.

Since the repair, I've also had issues with the laptop not waking up correctly, or turning the screen on, and frequently have to power cycle to get the screen to wake up after closing the lid for any extended period of time. I was rather shocked that the laptop would allow itself to be damaged in such a way by having it's power drawn down by some external device.

I now no longer use a powerbank with it.

The powerbank was a "USB C Power Bank RAVPower 26800 PD". Absolutely love it, still use it with other devices. Just not on my laptop anymore at the moment.

I think it can be safe to use, if one pays close attention and never let the powerbank charge from a laptop. Accidents do happen and I simply can't afford one at the moment again.
Edge of where our brain can function maybe.. not really equipped to figure it out yet.
Probably like ADHD, lots of docs would suggest that bipolar is both over- and under-diagnosed. With the rise of the atypical antipsychotics, it became sort of a 'flavor of the month' diagnosis for folks with anxious depression, or treatment-resistant depression, or irritable depression, or depression with substance use disorders. On the other hand - it's still underdiagnosed as well, with one (older) survey suggesting ~1/3 of folks waited a decade or more for a correct diagnosis [0], and no reason to believe this has improved all that much.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12633125
I agree with everything you said except honestly believe the medications are what are causing the issues in many cases. My concern is that kids are being diagnosed with a chronic condition, and then being treated like ADHD. My favorite fun fact is that people treated with placebo in a NIMH study were less likely to be rehospitalized then those treated with actual medication[1]. Many of the most popular medications(Zyprexa & Sequel) cause insomnia and in extreme situations psychosis. The NIMH completely threw out the study deciding that recommending placebo was completely illogical.

[1]: http://psychrights.org/research/digest/chronicity/Neurolepti...
You're saying there's no best practices? No lessons learned from a decade of front end development. That seems inaccurate to me.
What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems
Quants paid really well :)

(but it's not exactly quantum)
Yep, also this type of ship is kinda very related to the place where the car was made. It’s a city residing on a big, big river - Volga and Lad’ya - the type of ship is a symbol associated with that city and the river. My hometown, lovely place :)
Just to repeat the point, it’s about intentional versus unintentional usage. Nobody is saying that it’s wrong to test things like familiarity with a wide range of material, only that it’s important to only test the things you intend to test — i.e. what basic scientific principles would tell you to do in any similar situation. That doesn’t mean that you couldn’t e.g. publish a big reading list and say that the English test may include material by these authors since anyone could read that list; it’s just about keeping the competition fair by making sure anyone can learn all of what they should prepare for.
I actually deleted my facebook account because I felt like it was negatively affecting me mentally. I've never been the most social person (although I'm working to change that), and I would spend a lot of time alone reading my facebook feed, thinking about how I don't do as much cool stuff as all the people I'm friends with. I realized that I would only really post things to seek affirmation. Initially I just changed my password to something long that I couldnt remember, to keep me from logging in, knowing that I could reset the password if I needed to login. I never did though for the next 6 months.

I also deleted the instagram app from my phone, and blocked reddit on all my PCs. Hackernews might be next I'm afraid - I just don't see that it's a good use of my time anymore. I've even been considering getting a non-smartphone next time I need a new phone. Maybe it's just a reaction to everything going on online, but I'm enjoying being free from social media.
Wow, terrorism really is overrepresented compared with how we die these days. I wonder if that's some kind of evolutionary echo of a more violent time when a leading cause of death for most humans was regional strife. We're apparently still pretty interested in who's out there somewhere, scheming to come and kill us.
It's not that hard to do your taxes on your own, especially if you have last year's as a model to check yourself. For computationally-oriented folks, I imagine you probably want to have a mental model of how you're presenting yourself tax-wise (instead of just blindly trusting Turbo Tax). In that case, most of what you're getting with Turbo Tax is UI.
Post-citizens United, it’s the corporations.
And yet whenever we try to eliminate “loopholes”, there’s some group complaining vigorously to keep that complexity. The new tax law simplified taxes for most filers by increasing the standard deduction (by eliminating exemptions).
My proposal: Our shiny new aircraft carrier shall be christened "Boaty McBoatface".
Many other problems rendering the site on iPad for me.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/%D0%9B%D...

You have no idea what are you talking about.
And yet Rotten Tomatoes had made it work for years.
As a huge synth geek the soviet era synthesizers are sought after and also produce unique sounds. Here's a comparison of Moog(US) and Polivoks(USSR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbdyMP_CiIY

Also! They look cool.
Corporations don’t file a 1040.
The genetics would argue otherwise. Here's an interesting recent illustration: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29167880
In fact Soviet school of technical/industrial design was surprisingly high. Even in military related products.

Being graduate of physics and technology department of university I still remember basics of course named "Technical design and ergonomics".
"Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize winning economist, once wrote that after you think about the gap between poor and rich countries, it is hard to think about anything else."

In The Economist "Free Exchange" - the first in a series of the economists professions shortcomings

The article suggests that the profession's focus on quantitative models had meant that studies which ask the important question of why some countries grow are failing to get much attention.
How many are few? Because messaging apps work that way (chat groups) and most groups with over ~10 people is a tsunami of terrible jokes and fake news. What works though is creating temporary groups around events (trips, concerts etc.)
By users' freedom you don't mean users who own patents, since they stand to lose their property under GPL restrictions. (Google Implied Patent Grant if that doesn't ring a bell.)

So most important corporations, etc. Copyleft was a very clever idea; but deciding to go to war against all intellectual property was a step too far. Immense billions have been spent already replacing GPL software with truly free software under a freer, more liberal license.
How do you know the new tax law simplifies filing since it didn't apply to 2017?
Apple used to have superlative customer care and their products are fully-warranted for one year after purchase without the additional purchase of Apple Care. What this poor chap went through is simply inexcusable. Of all companies Apple is fully cognizant there are manufacturing defects and what they owe their customers is top-notch customer care. That's what the "Apple Tax" is supposed to be paying for.
At a minimum for it to work you need to equalise the boxes in a row.
Woman awarded $6.45M in revenge porn case
I have a child with this issue. He doesn't live with constant stress over it. I had not really thought about how well we accommodate it. The article was eye opening in that regard.

We've learned lots of tidbits over the years that help him feel okay about it. For example, normal people are more reliant on context than they realize and can fail to recognize someone out of uniform or met someplace different than the norm.

For example, see Person Swap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg
Not my website, but: https://whereisscihub.now.sh
We built Pricify.co because we needed a tool to track item prices on a lot of websites. The problem with most price trackers is that they work only with limited website. Pricify.co is the first AI based price tracker that can track products from any website. We already have hundreds of users. We are currently working on building a mobile app and a chrome extension.

We would like to hear all your feedback and questions about Pricify.co
Reading is often boring when the text is not of interest to the reader. Perhaps it depends on your major and so on, but as a former English major I would find it extraordinary for someone to go 4 years of college and never read any text they weren’t interested in. Not to say that any of the books I read in college were bad, but taste is a thing. Just because something has won a Pulitzer Prize or whatever doesn’t mean it will be equally interesting to all people.
The title could be clearer. The source code for the Subversion software itself is hosted by Apache, not SourceForge.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/

What was apparently lost was some other projects that SourceForge uses the Subversion software to host.

So the title should probably say something like "in Subversion" rather than "of Subversion".
And our president shall be Donald Trump!
The latest version of the vue-cli (might still be in alpha or beta) generates an app where webpack works out of the box very nicely
Or you could kiss my ass and stop being snippy. Online interaction is not exclusive to conversation and intimacy. I dont have time or inclination (nor does she) to sit on the couch and say "look at this photo I took at lunch" or "what does next weeks evening calendar look like.."

An app could solve that. Well.
> To be honest, this is horribly unfair.

I’ve heard of one high school where this was especially bad: they had a perhaps laudable goal of encouraging everyone to take APs and go to college but didn’t have the support that requires so recent immigrants were taking AP English before they were even fluent.

There was a worse analytical trap: this problem was masked for years because the school did well on a ranking which measured the number of students taking AP tests against the number of students who passed at least one test because having native Spanish speakers take AP Spanish got a bunch of high scores even though they bombed every other test because they just weren’t proficient enough yet to understand it. I still wonder how different it’d have been if they’d had funding for something like after school language practice.
The Wikipedia list of (famous) people with face blindness is super interesting. Chuck Close (who cites it as inspiration for his portrait work), Jane Goodall, Markos Moulitsas, Oliver Sacks, Woz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_with_prosopagn...
America, one of the few developed nations where doing your taxes involves paying a third party to help you tell the government what it already knows.

TurboTax and HR block lobby considerably to prevent the government from making the process of paying taxes free, fast, and painless for the overwhelming majority of taxpayers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
It's pretty much guaranteed that fewer people will itemize this year.
It’s not really a vanity metric in this day and age. A lot of the best companies aren’t going public... ever. The measure that determines whether it’s a vanity metric or not is liquidity. If there are a dozen investors willing to buy stock at $x it’s worth $x.
Show HN: Instagram in terminal
See your Instragram feeds inside your terminal:

https://github.com/billcccheng/instagram-terminal-news-feed
USB-C devices still seem to be notoriously likely to not entirely support standards when it comes to power levels, etc. So yeah, official stuff would be ideal, though I've had nothing but success sticking with Anker brand stuff so far both for chargers (I've not used the Apple one in months) and powerbanks. I am not surprised by your story though, sadly.
Most power adapters for electronic devices will take any AC input from 100-240v and transform accordingly to the device (which cares more about DC), but definitely check before plugging it in. The Americas and Japan are 100-127v, and the rest of the world is 220-240v with a few discrepancies here and there. They also range from 50hz-60hz AC, so some devices that rely on the frequency for time may slow or speed up depending on what region they were made and where they are used.
> For that matter: all devices sold in USSR were coming with principal schemas so anyone can repair and reproduce.

Repairability was an absolute necessity for Soviet tech. There simply wasn't enough production capacity to adequately supply most households with even one of a certain item, not to mention replacement items for those that broke down. Appliance repair was an everyday necessity and it was seen as a somewhat lucrative career path. For example, Latvia was where the washing machines were made, and here everyone had one in their homes, wheres other soviet republics had queues 10 years long just to get a washing machine. Similarly, when my grandpa wanted to get a car, he would have to sign up for a 6-7 year queue, with no guarantee, and he'd still have to pay an exorbitant price for it (I think it was something like 5000 rubles when the monthly salary was 120 rubles.) In the end he somehow (probably bribery and underhanded dealings, like so many things happened then) bought two wrecked Moskvitches and made a single working car out of them.

Anyway, back to the repairability stuff - a common story heard everywhere was about women complaining about their lazy, good for nothing alcoholic husbands - that they'd get rid of them if it weren't for their "golden hands," meaning they could build or repair anything, if they got to it. Capability to repair something was more valued in a person than most other personality traits, and it mattered because if you couldn't get something built or repaired yourself, you'd never get it done. In that sense, in those matters that fell through the cracks, the Soviet Union was the ultimate libertarian society.
thanks much better
Haha it's definitely not apparently useful. But what I've found is that some of the information I'm vacuuming up occasionally becomes relevant. HN is more about triggered than active recollection.
The burger is not just beef. Everythig in there is processed, artificially sweetened, and rich in preservatives. McDonald's is not healthy, don't be ridiculous.
@markhenderson can you tell us more about this event? What was achieved in the past? What are the goals for this year?
I disagree. It's the dawn of autonomous driving; Tesla needed to get the message out that lives had been saved by that tech already, and did; etc. The Mandarins aren't moved by context, let's put it that way. They had no legal power to squelch Tesla, so after blustering as if they did, they have opted to use their more petty powers, as far as I can see. The Feds could have given some quarter, here, given the stakes - and I don't mean money. The Feds had powers enough but wanted to reach for powers over publicity that they didn't have.