skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely the money has to dry up sometime?

Why? A bit simplified, but think of the money as coming from the profits from the companies that have been successful. It's just how investment works. And when you add up all the gains and losses, it's still a net positive as the economy grows a little bit more year after year.

And what do you mean no net good? The companies create jobs which create huge amounts of income taxes (always) and corporate taxes (when profitable) that pay the salaries of the people who, for example, maintain our parks, or manage a city's recycling systems.
Cool. I didn't know that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest
Does the from concentrate stuff have anything different other than some water removed? One you add water back in isn't it the same as the not from concentrate stuff? I.e. Still the same 4-6 oranges no matter what?
That Dockerfile simply runs the commands listed therein in a glorified chroot, and then packages the result. The commands could easily be wget tar.ball && tar xf tar.ball && ./configure --prefix=/bla/bla/docker/ && make -j4 && make install

So, the question is, how to package something with guix, and how to run it.

With docker you run something as docker run [--interactive] [--terminal] [--entrypoint=...] <image> [[command] args]

Your libsodium fork example is nice, but we still don't know how to package a simple program.
I just saw and clicked an ad for this ICO and it looks just like Howey Coin's site - https://icerockmining.io/en.html (I don't know whether this is a scam or not, i don't recommend investing or avoiding it, I just wanted to point out how similar the website looks to the howeycoins website! DYOR) (Being overly neutral for its own sake here, but it seems very questionable)
A potential victim's ignorance of their risk doesn't mean they aren't at risk.

Because I'm not specifically aware there's a cross-town bus with my name on it, I'm somehow not about to get pancaked?
Exactly. Here's an article about FB being sued for allowing discriminatory ads:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/2...
This seems like the way that this should be addressed. The case against Net Neutrality was made almost strictly as a case of regulatory overreach and overly burdensome regulations that inherited irrelevant restrictions and unenforceable provisions designed for specific telecom use cases that don't apply to ISPs.

The first issue is clearly addressed by a legislative approach -- it stops being regulatory overreach when the regulators are mandated to enforce. The second issue depends on how this bill is worded, but in theory it gives an opportunity to create more specialized regulations that directly address the issue at hand without bringing on board historical cruft that applies to a different problem domain.

EDIT: after actually reading the article and the actual resolution [1], I see that the second point is unaddressed; this just directly reverses the ruling. Even the first point is barely addressed because it doesn't expand the mandate; it just asserts that the mandate means something that it arguably does not mean.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...
No noun is too proper to verbify :)
I can't discern your point. Are you saying that there is some kind of "equality" since the geniuses are doomed to suffer from mental illness?
an owl enthusiast. I found the lack of bird related content

Agreed. This is a better site https://www.owlsnearme.com
The original title was clickbait, yes:
"He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment". Yea, but for one weird trick, the patient would have died. I'm not sure who hates him, but I'm sure someone does.

Mods or OP thankfully changed it.
I've really appreciated ghost, been using it pretty much since launch in one way or another. Been really cool to see it develop over the years.
You're begging the question in both your definition of free speech and assuming a certain bundle of privacy rights.

There's plenty to debate on what speech freedoms people should have and what privacy rights people should have, but it's silly to claim that there's no conflict between them conceptually; if you're stating that there's no conflict, you're assuming a certain set of each, which is just you defining the problem a certain way so that you can say it is solved. If other people don't agree with your definition of the problem, then your solution doesn't hold for them.
> Would it be possible to just disable the usb driver from the OS(or just limit it, to a very very few tasks).

Yes, but think about what verifying that would look like. Epoxy is much easier to install and it doesn't disappear 3 months later when a Windows update ships.
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An acre (which is still used in the US for land measurement) is roughly the amount of land a team of oxen can plough in a day.
Two problems with this analysis. Christianity was rapidly growing before its adoption by Constantine, specifically among slaves and the underclass as it offered hope to the downtrodden. Resemblance to Hellenistic cults are superficial. Second, Islam was spread by conquest, it had nothing to do with being from a trading town.
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>starting on the New tab

Is this not normal? It seems to be the default for me. I was reading HN for a while before I even realized there was a different 'front' page. 'front' doesn't appear as an option in the menu.
I'm not sure what you mean—but it is very important to note that the bulk of the work of creating a new, globally-internationalized typeface, is hard, tedious editing of glyphs and kerning tables etc.

Sure, AirBnB staff were involved, but they did not put in the huge amount of effort necessary to actually create the font. So that effort did not happen on AirBnB's property, so to speak, while AirBnB design staff "got to commission a font" as part of their career progress.

https://airbnb.design/introducing-airbnb-cereal/ is PR puff, it could mean they spent an afternoon or a decade of human-hours on this.
There are other highly divisible numbers. 60 was probably chosen because of its approximate relationship to the length of the solar year.
When I read something like this, it makes me wonder if the marketing industry has some sort of "branding" problem. Maybe they could get some real experts to work on that?
Pets.com was a potent and visible symbol that the money for nothing dotcom era was over.

I suspect that the upthread poster picked exactly the right 90s example for what they wanted.
Yes easing has been tapering off, but the balance sheet reductions are a whole other beast that only started in ~November and only from the Fed. Once the ECB starts, and potentially the JCB (although I think they've changed direction now), there will actively be a drain on the world's economy instead of the artificial faucet.

Don't quote me though, I'm several months out of date on following it super closely.
There was a strong interest within our company about this course (I work in an agency in Helsinki). I'm curious if the authors of the course would be willing to share some stats with me: how many people are actively participating vs saying they will (for anyone with @companyname.fi emails). If it's possible, could some of the authors get in touch via my profile :)
Wasn't Op complaining about Google DNS, not Namecheap? I've never had any notification issues with Namecheap after almost a decade of them managing most of my domains. If anything they over-communicate about expirations and auto-renewals. Auto-renew works well and even after an expiration it's usually easy and fast to get your domain back up.
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> But it also reflects the willingness of shareholders and deep-pocketed private investors to keep fast-growing upstarts afloat long enough to conquer a potential “winner-take-all” market.

That's the gamble. Destroy competition, get lock in, become a monopolist and the free market is your money printing machine. If regulators had teeth to break up such monopolies, we wouldn't be seeing these gambles, and maybe more honest competition.
Hooboy, it only takes a bit of loss of confidence for a corporation to liquidate. Never underestimate the difficulty level of refinancing corporate debt in a shaky macro environment.
This is the job of the registrar
The title of the PDF is golden:

Microsoft Word - HoweyCoin White Paper v4
Couldn't you build a lookup table that reverses hashes back into their IP addresses? It might not be worth it for IPv6, but it would probably work for IPv4.
Really? Seems like an awful lot of tooling for what is essentially "Put binary and dependencies in folder. Move folder around at will" in sane environments.
I personally found a period of 1-2 year to be the absolute worst. On the next cycle the man is gone because it's past the average tenure. The emails about it were lost or auto deleted. Any documentation or process is useless because the company or the supplier has changed.

To have a process be remembered, make it monthly or quarterly.
Try http://hckrnews.com/, infinite scroll works nicely.
Interesting concept, although I don't even want my general vicinity to be tracked or shared without my consent.
> the House is not going to vote this way

Unless you have a working crystal ball, that's a prediction, not a fact.

> and this is a largely pointless political drama thing

Not true. The repeal of net neutrality is extraordinarily unpopular (including among Republicans) and all of the House is up for re-election this year. The Republicans may lose their majority.

In my opinion, this has a better shot of getting through than most. That is, if you don't prematurely give up hope.
Nobody likes a rat, so it’s worth it. Especially in prison.
In America, you have the right to sue anyone for anything at any time. The plaintiff's lawyer may file a motion to dismiss or a judge may dismiss a case, but that doesn't stop anyone from trying to sue in the first place.

That being said, people sue companies because companies have money and companies are more likely to settle so they can go about focusing on their core business (which is not litigation except for patent trolls).

All this boils down to greed regardless what side you favor in this issue. Companies want to keep money they believe if rightfully theirs and individuals want to take money if they think they can get it. The fact that individuals are consistently lionized and companies are consistently is vilified is quite absurd.
Things aren't addressed either. Because the House still needs to vote.

Bicameral Legislative process in the USA. Laws need to be passed twice before they have any effect, and Trump has the (nearly) final say in the form of a presidential veto.

Assuming the Democrats manage to vote as a bloc in the House, there still needs to be ~25 Republicans who switch sides on this issue. Net Neutrality is... for some reason... seen as a Democrat issue.
But you can easily calculate why its impossible to build a battleship beyond a certain size and understand why that trend is silly. I challenge you to do something similar with compute and AI. Not that I necessarily disagree with your thesis of better computer != better AI.
That sounds like a different product, not a better deal.
it's not really application specific, just stuff like

requests==2.18.4

the actual packages generally aren't important.

The cases were that would become interesting are where they require some C library dependencies first, like libpq-dev. In those cases something like guix/nix would be nice because it could be used to pull in the specific external dependencies as well.
User docs are customer-facing, and therefore entirely fitting to be under marketing. Of course building the documents requires engineering contribution for technical details.
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>creating a Mastodon server

This is really what Mastodon needs, a solid sponsor. I want to use it, but the loose federation model without core instances that have a critical mass of users makes it hard to commit to. In Japan, when Pixiv sponsored Pawoo, the Mastodon usage shot up, I think that's still one of the biggest instances worldwide right now.

Also, Mastodon needs a good Mac client. I would pay for both that and to support a general Mastodon instance backed by someone with name recognition.
> Is it harder to get to the HN front page now than it used to be? This is a very difficult question to answer.

Could just be a phenomenon of:
1. lots more submissions
2. larger user base
3. user base with wider interests - and limited front-page slots to fill in
Tesla's financials are terrifying. I hope that Tesla succeeds, and I believe that they can. However, there is nothing about the company that makes an investment in TSLA feel like a sure thing to me.
Network Solutions is an utter joke. I had them develop a website and the website was finished with web best practices from 15 years prior. Messy code, zero responsive design. Photoshop used to the max. Then the same website hosted with them was mysteriously "hacked" and disappeared. They had zero backups and continued charging to host the website they lost. Absolutely zero recourse for their incompetence. STAY AWAY
Signal, WhatsApp, Matrix et al. show notifications when the participant’s device keys change. You’re right that most users don’t verify. The opportunity for detection or prevention of common forms of surveillance is better than none at all.
ok like regardless of whether or not it educated me i had a pretty good chuckle. they're good memes brent.
Google to see who handles github.io, one figures all sorts of bad crap must be going on in their subdomains, even if they do try to police it.
Just the other day my mother asked me why I don't sign up for a package deal to get TV for essentially $10 a month. Why would I? Why pay $10 a month to be force-fed overly loud advertisements that play for more than 50% of the runtime of the shitty shows that ruined the networks I loved as a child. The vast majority of my curiosity about history comes from the history channel and discovery channel, learning about wars and "science" and things, while my interest in tech can be traced back to Modern Marvels, a show on the History channel. All that was dead by mid 2000's, replaced by "Deadliest Catch" and "Did aliens do history? (probably not but we will lie to you and say they might have" and "Is bigfoot real? (OH COME ON)"

Sometimes I try to watch TV when I visit home, and it is infuriating in every possible way. An ad break every five minutes, sometimes twice in a row. The thirty minutes of ad space is populated by a grand total of two different ads that scream at the top of their lungs to get your attention. Sure the ads may have seemed funny or insightful or unique the once or twice the marketing department for a company viewed it, but I promise you after the tenth time seeing it it in one hour.

TV content used to enrich my mind, at least on certain specific and enjoyable channels. Now I view it as actively being cancerous, and am disgusted every time it's on in my mother's house. I worry for her mental health.

I mean for christ's sake, just look at "The Learning Channel"!
It's dangerous to assume there isn't such a thing as pointless regulations that actually harm consumers by making a useful service/product more out of reach.
This is part of the reason why "mental illness" is a broken term for certain applications. Unevenly-matched skill (coping, etc) vs. circumstance (group psychology, social standards) is one alternate POV that better explains why a "mentally-ill" person could create genius works. They have become conditioned to exploring extremes by dint of circumstance and personal history; their liabilities, struggles, and even periodic victories in these contexts allow them to produce works the likes of which are rarely seen or even contemplated in "non-genius" company. The audience knows intuitively that they are experiencing some fundamental truth, though they cannot in a small number of steps arrive at the sequence that allowed the truth to emerge.
Nice pattern identification. I live in New Zealand and we are Australia's Canada.
First thing I looked at was "did they implement git diff?" The answer is "no." That's something you're going to want to see in a port. I use it daily.
Our Job Titles: Developer, Programmer or Software Engineer?
They don't. We are using vaccine technology from the 1940s. The FDA basically allows something that was developed before 1962 to continue, while anything it considers new (phages) have to go though the impossible FDA regulatory process.

The bottom line is if we didn't have a vaccine for the flu already it would be impossible to create one now.
1. The candidate must know how roman numerals work to pass. (This was before OP said it was a take home test which makes it a little better, but ...)

2. The question uses the term "decimal," rather than "integer." Roman numerals don't account for decimal numbers, so it's not even an accurately answerable question as posed.

3. When you google Roman Numerals and decimal, the first link tells you this. I assume the writer didn't event attempt to google.

4. The question will filter out candidates who don't know how roman numerals work and / or googled it to research how roman numerals work. Not only are these good candidates filtered out, but now they are telling all their other good candidate friends about that company and their stupid questions.

5. The pool of good candidates that will respond to your opening just temporarily diminished by a few people (depending on friends in #4)

6. For all this, the business didn't even test something that is in any way relevant to what that business does, unless that business is a digital clock face maker for smart watches or something.

If any one of these happened, that's bad. Way more thought and consideration should have gone into this question.
How does it matter that the role for which they are hiring a developer to write docs is labelled "developer marketing" instead of "documentation engineer"?
How about sqlar as a container format? https://sqlite.org/sqlar.html A regular sqlite database file, with anything you like in it. Mountable as a file system with sqlarfs. Written by the sqlite guy.
> Over all, 76 percent of the companies that went public last year were unprofitable on a per-share basis

How is this the entire economy? I bet if you added the revenues (or market caps) of all those companies together, they would pale in comparison to Apple.
I wasn't trying to justify otherwise?
I think the site is supposed to be more of a PSA for non-savvy investors rather than a fraud deterrent.
That reminds me; I wonder how the uutils project[1] is doing. While I still haven't gotten around to giving Rust a shot I think their idea of reimplementing coreutils in the language has merit.

[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Modern cows are milked twice a day, so it's more convenient morning and evening than e.g. noon and midnight. I don't know if the cows of long ago were like that, because the whole concept of a "dairy" is sort of modern anyway. I'm similarly suspicious of this "navigation" explanation. Timekeeping is important for determining longitude, but ancient mariners didn't know how to do that.
I don't know what you mean by seven tiered support structures. My tech lead was a Senior Staff Software Engineer, L7, level seven, etc. Just meant that he was a relatively senior guy (not that he didn't get his hands dirty, there were just better places for him to do so). There are lots of levels on Google's SWE job ladder.

And maintaining a 1200 line shell script that can brick hardware in people's homes and disable their WiFi (or internet access altogether) is something to be careful with. There were five or so SWEs doing wifi-related things for Fiber (including me and one other person new to the team), and yes, he was the only one of us who knew shell well enough to reliably catch mistakes. He was a few years older than the rest of us, maybe that's why.

I have a BS in CS from Georgetown and a MS in CS from Stanford. I don't think I ever had a class at either school that required me to write a single conditional statement or loop in shell. I probably never would have picked it up at Google either if I hadn't joined an embedded team.
I think you're unfairly circumscribing the OP's viewpoint since many Catholics also view Christianity as overthrowing an old order (the headship of Adam, the violence of Rome, the rites of blood sacrifice). I don't think contemporary Catholics support the practices Luther rebelled against such as selling indulgences either.
This is, after all why they are doing it at all- you should 100% call your representative, not at all because the house will pass it or because Trump is going to sign this into law, but because you are validating that this should be part of the 2018 midterm election platforms to your representative. This is an issue that will get people out to the polls. Let’s prove it to them!
But MoviePass "could also choose to raise prices ever so slightly". It seems very likely it would not work.

What's the categorical difference between the two business models? Guess it's the fact that when MoviePass tries to change prices it will force every user to opt in all over again. Opting in is part of the everyday user interaction for Amazon.
Isn't this what we said about the housing market a decade ago?
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But... none of those issues have to do with imperial units. If you have a 30cm wide board, you can't get 3 10cm wide pieces either. And 2"x4" in lumber sizes refers to the size of the lumber prior to drying, treating and planing, all of which shrink the wood a bit.

What is it about metric projects that makes those issues go away?
Why does he factor out the zero valued flock of birds variable?

That seems extremely dishonest. The reason why we name variables, is so that they can hold different values. There is no guarantee that every run of the script will have the same initial variables. If it was, you might as well just type in the result.
Automan does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1NT4I0s34
The easiest way to ensure the stability of the systems that you own is to prevent anyone from changing things on them.
Can't you just moved the usb ports around? What's the difference?

(Edit: Haven't --> Can't)
Packaged zyre and czmq. I'll send the patch for their inclusion, but until then here is the code:
https://notabug.org/thomassgn/guixsd-configuration/src/maste...
Your comparison is laughable. Try competing with Comcast and AT&T.
Devs hardcoding things in their software in a rush making the software tougher to deploy and operate causing greater incident rates and therefore page-outs. Devs interested in greater resilience and stability in their software should be opting for dependency injection of pretty much every damn thing in the world around them whether it’s a network service or file system location. Otherwise, presume that it can go away at any time. A common pattern among developers trying to save time that costs more in the long run is to hardcode a path to an executable. A simple /use/local/bin/ buried in an infrequent job that is installed on developer machines but never in prod is all it would take to cause an incident in prod that costs the company millions. I say this both as someone that has written this and had to fix others committing the same error in their code and QA passing it along.

Ops tends to be where the brunt of technical debt is truly buried. Bad code is one thing but seeing the code in action with real world data is a different beast altogether.
I find that I have to use good headphones to get repeatable results. Otherwise I can hear the same clip differently from one repeat to the next, which is really weird.

Using Audacity and my Sennheisers, a notch filter from about 500 to 1000 Hz reliably changes laurel to yanny in the clip that's being shared on Twitter. There is an intermediate setting where I can hear both at once.

The original source from https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel stays laurel no matter what I do.