skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generating PDF's from HTML is a huge PITA. I really like what you've done.

re: "is it clear upon viewing the landing page what the product is about?"
Yes. I think your landing page copy reads well, but could use a bit of polish. Emphasis how well PdfApi solves common margin and background rendering issues compared to other alternatives.

re: "are there any questions that you have that are not answered on the page"
I'm not sure you need to answer all of a users questions, but considering you are targeting startups and developers, I'd focus on building out your API documentation.

re: "would this product provide value to you if your startup needed to generate PDFs"
Potentially, but considering your audience (developers/startups) I suspect most of us would tackle the issue locally with a Chrome headless setup.

re: "what would you use instead"
I've used the following to generate PDF's from HTML:
* Chrome Headless
* WKHTMLtoPDF

This is good work. I like what you've done. Build out strong API documentation with multiple code snippets and examples to improve your developer marketing.
Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?
Homesteading is an old American tradition dating back to the old land rush.

Even today, there are places in America (and elsewhere) that will give you land or money if you promise to build a house on it, or turn it into a farm, or stay there for x number of years, what have you.
I'm happy to be that guy: the EU doesn't stand a chance and they know it.

It's not a thesis, it's proven, court established rule of law with more than a century of built-up precedence establishing how things actually work when it comes to US sovereignty. This is all quite laughable.

It's identical to saying: well, the US is just going to enforce its freedom of speech approach on Germany or the UK (where offending people is increasingly illegal). So all people and businesses in those nations should disregard their own laws and comply with US laws, you don't want to test the thesis about just how far US jurisdiction extends, better to comply with US freedom of speech laws instead.

Imagine me traveling to Britain and telling them that since I'm an American, their speech laws don't apply to me. I'm governed by US speech laws, regardless of where I'm at. That'd be good for a jolly laugh: look at this delusional, entitled American that thinks they control the planet. Or try telling the Chinese the same thing on their territory.

There are millions of small businesses in the US, very few of them will ever comply with GDPR - even if they have occasional stray EU customers - precisely because the EU has no jurisdiction and those businesses don't operate by EU law.
I just get "webcam unavailable", even with two monitors. Chrome 67 on Windows.
A roller carry on bag with jammed wheels would qualify.
The Sweater Curse
When looking at quality of life, GDP per capita is your number, not absolute GDP. There are quite a few more Iraqis than Oklahomans.
I agree with you here. I think the primary divide was based on accumulating power and influence around the world post WW2. The difference in political ideology at that time may have been a convenient front but the real competition was economic. I'm not sure what drives the divide today other than old cold-war memories or just two very powerful countries competing with each other. I suspect there is animosity from the US because Russia won't really do what we want them to. Russia also tends to support causes opposing US interests due to protecting their own interests, balancing of power, and also just to stir the pot a bit.
It’s not just the X bit —- unixes also don’t implicitly put the current directory in the path.
In addition to what others said, side loading apps is definitively possible on both platforms without a lot of effort (and doesn’t require JBs either).
Lots of hills and low population density. I bet it is hard to get good internet in Vermont. Universal access to broadband would matter more than anything else.
>if you tried to say that people's needs have radically changed in that time then I fail to see how.

Their needs have changed, because their expectations have changed. 20 years ago I didn't expect my map to be able to ask my calendar when I had to be at a place, to figure out ahead of time the best route. It's a niche example but I think the point stands.
User Experience Research Field Fuide
I moved to Vermont to work remotely in DC without the $10K incentive. That was some 12 years ago. My quality of life and that of my family is vastly improved. I wouldn't have moved to New Hampshire, though I can see it from where I'm standing in Vermont.

The point isn't to get everyone to move, but to motivate some people who otherwise like what Vermont has to offer but are on the edge. If you are more on the European democratic socialist end of the spectrum of preferences and you plan to live in the US, Vermont will probably suit you. If you're on the right-to-workers end, you'd probably prefer someplace else.
If these are required for self driving is this a type of admit of defeat when it comes to computer vision?
Outside of 3rd party tools (RES) that will allow you to mark users with whatever tags you want, mods can also give custom flair to posters.
Getting Started with Elm Language for Web Apps
> A lot of people are going to die

A lot of people already die everyday in car accidents. The only difference will be that we have no one we can blame if the vehicle in question does not have a driver.
XPath Expression Editor for Your Browswer
Zeldman on frameworks and Web misuse
Does that mean the Central African Republic is the most efficient economy on the planet?
On top of the taxes, housing is pretty bad too. You can be a reclusive hermit in southern / central VT on the cheap, but the closer you get to Burlington / Essex Jct the more expensive it gets. This is in part caused by the size of the University of Vermont - high demand for housing, small area. Many buildings have too many units crammed into them for the same reason. Not nearly as bad as the valley, but another reason not to pick this state for remote work...

Source: Vermont resident with a local IT career
I've used DSPs and embedded systems, those compilers have sufficient quirks already and usually don't follow the standard to the letter. I'm not worried about "signal" values, I'm worried about pointer arithmetic values.

x86 SIMD is saturating as well

> If you want your naive overflow checks to work on your x86 project, why not just use a compiler option like -fwrapv?

Fair enough. Or people can stop pretending that UB is just an excuse to throw your hands in the air and do whatever they want with the code. Including null checks.

Because when things blow up it's on the major platforms.
Hilariously the title of the article is sans-serif.
It depends on where you are. It's fine where I'm standing. If you want to live in a dairy farm at the end of a dirt road you will have problems.
> You are being very rude with that statement.

If you want to write a blog by all means do so. I have written a handful of blog posts but I don't have the time / motivation to do that in my spare time on a regular basis.

I think its silly to assume that all software engineers want to and are good at writing blog posts. Could you explain what is rude about that?

> you owe to the community a blog or something similar

Do I?

Maybe that should be put in the terms and conditions if that is the case.

I have a decent score on Stack Overflow from answering questions (~379k people reached apparently), is that good enough for you?
> don’t store a single thing more than needed

Easier said than done and is harder than what sanctimonious pricks that designed this law probably had in mind.

Everyone with presence on Apple's platforms fears them like the wrath of God and you can't risk not storing data that your users _volunteered_ if that will help you stay on Apple's good side by having better control over more abusive portion of your users.

Then there's the question of whether it is ethical to delete data that was volunteered that could however aid in discovering criminals that chose to abuse your system. Authors of these laws probably think that and nsa would know that I would often seem to agree with them but deep down I'm not so sure as I have deep suspicion that we are cared for and our european security is deeply dependent on arrangements similar to ones done in bletchley. If it's moral for them to store data then it should be by analogy for us. Or in short I dread that my inaction on my web properties would aid existing criminality so out of ethical considerations I'd rather store more.

But now with GDPR I have fears of scenarios like someone admitting to cheating on their spouse on my properties, deleting that info later on, then the spouse discovering that through GDPR request and committing physical violence. Or dictators hunting dissidents by submitting GDPR requests over european VPN. (edit: maybe they wouldn't even need VPN as I'm from EU and would have to grant requests irrespective of user's citizenship? headache)

I don't want to contribute to either scenario but it would seem EU is thrusting this headache of a choice on me, so as a citizen of EU country, fuck the EU.
Indeed, it illustrates that immigration is a pernicious force that gives rise to extreme inequity, draining talent and skills from less prosperous regions and concentrating them in one area in a destructive cycle.

A most undesirable state of affairs.
I am actually not sure. before posting this comment I spent like 20 minutes reading the defense literature/media to get a more precise understanding of the technical details. The commentary is pretty vague but I think the difference between HARM/Anti-Ship is you fire-and-forget but before you fire, the missile does have a TARGET that the missile then is tracked onto while in this case you release the bomb to a general area and then it either identifies a target and locks on or it destroys itself in the air. I think that is somewhat different from previous smart weapons.

warning: this could be apocryphal since I can't find the documentation that made this distinction explicit but i remember reading about this a few weeks ago.
This maybe isn't the only thing they're doing.
They still don't support C99 fully.
JavaScript and SASS build
From the West Coast? Vermont has the best East coast skiing. I’d put it in the bottom quartile of West coast skiing.

It isn’t bad at all, but it will never compete with the Rockies.
I don't think we can say the AI Winter is here until these large funding rounds stop.
I love the idea, but I agree that the pricing is just wrong.

At $120 USD per year it's probably one of the most expensive and less featured text editors in the market.

How much would this cost if it was a desktop or even a mobile app? Probably much less than 1 year of the service.
The world definitely needs this, it has 230 stars in just 10 hours!!! What a useful tool, I think a maidfile would fit very well into the short list of *files of https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
I think we are already in a Dystonian future and people are distracted and don't notice.

Vast prison population and byzantine court system,
Declining life expectancy,
Horrific traffic,
Surveillance state including 24/7 location tracking,
Births below replacement rate,
Systemic Unemployment and Age Discrimination,
etc

Individually they don't seem bad until one of them bites you. But, the world is a very nasty place for many people.
If you are looking for warmer I would suggest Carrollton, GA, Montgomery, AL or Chattanooga, TN. AL has the second lowest property taxes in the USA and while not 2015 Detroit cheap it does have 2018 Detroit cheap housing prices.
Vermont legislature is clueless if it thinks this or anything else other than a major overhaul of tax system and modernization of the infrastructure would bring people to Vermont.

I spent a few weeks recently bumming around the state.

1) Contrary to what Vermonters may think, real estate in Vermont is expensive. Not NYC or SF expensive but none the less very expensive unless it is in a totally need to be burned and rebuilt state.

2) Property taxes are ridiculous. Every time I look at a property I compare its property taxes to property taxes of comparable properties in other areas. Vermont loses to New York! It also loses to New Hampshire. Let this sink in - NH makes most of its revenue from property taxes and property taxes there are still smaller.

3) I put about 800 miles on my car in Vermont. One of the things I really pay attention to is overhead cables. Guess what? Outside what Vermont considers "major cities" cable break out and fiber break out boxes are nearly non-existent. Sat dishes everywhere sort of confirm the point. Internet connections in both random AirBNBs and regular BnBs sucked. Not the Amtrak level bad but close ( after I was done with Vermont I went to New Hampshire. Cable fiber boxes where everywhere and every place I was in had a very decent internet connectivity )

4) Going out costs major $$. New York/Philadelphia level $$. For definitely not New York/Philadelphia level of variety or convenience.
have a Data Processing Agreement with the CDN, like with any hosting provider you use, spelling out a reasonable policy for what they do with your users data. Mention them in your privacy policy. Which Google could just offer as a self-service thing for Fonts, since it doesn't need any customization. And suddenly your use of the CDN is compliant.
Please change the title to "Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant".

In the current form the title "Google Fonts not GDPR compliant" is just FUD, as the argument "Google Font is ok because Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks" holds some water imho.
Maybe confirmation bias?
We shouldn't (and don't) jail people who advocate for the right to have sex with pre-pubescent children. Simmilarly, we shouldn't (and don't) jail people who advocate for the killing of all Jews [0]

When the Nazis escalate to actual violence, I have no problem with taking legal action against them. (Although I do still have a problem with private companies bowing to public pressure to act against them in a vigilante manner. ) If you want to propose a specific rule/law you would like to see applied, you can do so and we can debate the merrits of that rule/law.

You should not get to decide on a specific group that the rules/laws should or should not get applied to.

[0] We do make illegal specific incitements to violence. But not the mere advocacy of violence.
Outside of SV, $10K doesn't cover what Microsoft paid to move us to Redmond...20 years ago. Apples, and oranges, and other fruits in our comparison, I realize. Point is, unless one were planning on moving there anyway, $10K doesn't go a long way toward offsetting the expense of picking up and moving across the country, or even just up the road from Boston.
Get Rid of Mock Maintenance with Full Fledged In-Memory Fakes
or directly tied to reducing the chances of killing innocent people.

Better or smarter imaging/targeting makes these weapons safer, not more dangerous.
:applause Seriously, it's a great idea and a shame it hasn't been adopted more widely.

I would take issue with their terminology though. To me, geothermal energy is extracting energy from hotspots in the earths's crust, as in Iceland, hot springs, and so on.

This is just using the stable temperatures below the surface as a source/sink for a heat-pump - no energy is being extracted. Hence ground-source heat-pump.
In C11, the spec was changed to make zeroing out padding mandatory.
The tutorial is hosted on Gitbook. I'm finding that it updates very slowly on mobile for me. Even if it isn't broken, it feels broken. Hadn't noticed that as an issue previously.
I'll wait until Gothic becomes a thing again.
Container Clusters in 3D
How dare Australia make Jeff Bezos follow the law and stop Amazon from undercutting local competition!
I am really tired of these. Will open an issue soon
I am sorta mixed on this. Is it better to be killed by a person or a computer? does it make a difference? what if the computer system kills less `innocent' people than a dumb human? I don't think it is that black and white.

It is very troubling though.
Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)
It's not only about class, though, these accents tend to be easier to understand-- a particularly useful trait for audio recordings.
Iron Sky victorious in court on VFX copyright issue
Vermont and New Hampshire are great to ski in.
> the idea behind the GDPR is gaining traction outside the Europe

I hope it does. Europe, however, has a unique penchant for unnecessary bureaucracy. Nobody is complaining about GDPR’s requirements. It’s the ancillary administration which is destructive.
When you mmap() a file you can specify the virtual address so it will be the same every time.
Illy Coffee Cans Recalled Over Explosion Fears
Any plans to make the compiler on Windows work with clang/msys rather than Visual Studio? I played with the flags and somehow managed to get an Hello world compiled to .exe, but it would crash upon start.

I know it's kind of stupid, but relying on such a huge behemoth was my biggest turnoff.
This data does not take into account mobile app usage.
because it works on dumb people :shrug:
Udemy rubs me the wrong way. When I see courses that are supposedly several hundred to several thousand dollars, constantly marked down to pennies on the dollar, that seems like a red flag. I've tried a few of the tech courses and in my experience, a lot of them are outdated or outright worthless. Their micro-certification courses are about as long as a news article. As someone else said, there's definitely some good courses thrown in, you just have to be able to find them.
Gosh, what would the world be like if our troops and munitions weren't murdering civilians and prolonging conflicts in a monotonically-increasing set of nations around the world? It's not "unknowable"; we just have to start voting...

...haha what was I thinking never mind. Also what does net present value have to do with any of this?
No it doesn't. California is 8th in terms of GDP per capita within the U.S. If you look at the list of states that are within +/- 10% of California's GDP per capita, you've New York and Massachusetts (which are suffering from out-migration), and Colorado, Nebraska, and Minnesota (none of which are major targets of internal or external immigration).
Got a good pointer to more details? I don't know anything about that spec.
You're absolutely right. Not taking population size into account makes this entire comparison of QOL pointless, not just that between Iraq and Oklahoma. Considering GP is the one that initially made the comparison, I'm curious why you're making this reply to my comment and not hers.
>To clarify, I'm banned from Facebook, not for being a dickhead though

Could you, somehow, clarify that last part?
Isaac Asimov's short-story "No Connection" features a race of intelligent descendants of bears who basically treat each other equally, with equal dignity.

If a bear feels called to a particular vocation, that vocation is equally respected whether it is ditch-digger or administrator (which is just another job). If no bear feels called to a particular community need then the bears perform that job on a rotating basis. The story didn't describe what would happen if a lot of bears felt called to a particular job, but I presume there would just be very little work for any of them to do in that job, and that most of their time would be spent on the "community jobs".
OHD has 41k badged staff. Enough staff to triage 2 situations a minute constantly would barely make a blip.
Consider me impressed. Thank you very much!
The population of Sweden is 10 million vs 325 million for the US. The issues faced by each country are vastly different in scale and policies which work at one scale will not necessarily work at the other. In this context we should be comparing the policies of Sweden to the policies of New York (but even that doesn't really work because of the vastly more diverse population of NY).
It's easy if you live quite close to:
Burlington, Rutland, Barre, Montpelier, Winooski, St. Albans

and otherwise a matter of luck.

Those are the top six cities by population, and the top two put together are about the same as my suburb of Boston. St. Albans is about 30 minutes from Burlington and an hour and a bit from Montreal; you can get access to culture and technology, but you'll need to drive.
Our postal service offers it. I’m not joking either!
FDA permits marketing of AI algorithm for detecting wrist fractures
Don’t forget Boston Dynamics... my dream of riding around town on a fuel cell powered BigDog may yet come to pass. Yeehaw!
I was at someone's house/trailer a few weeks ago and he had satellite internet. I have no idea what the upload speeds are like, but we spent most of the time watching YouTube videos and it was at least as good as my DSL at home (I live about 10 miles outside town).
How do public research labs use funding for research?
Because adblock is not available for apps?
>It's not like it shows up in writing, after all.

In fact, that's one of the ways Shakespeare's English was reconstructed: by finding rhymes or probable puns in his and contemporary texts that would make sense with one pronunciation but not another.
Keybase.io chat is quite good too.
I think the mistake a lot of people make is mixing up anonymity with a lack of persistence. You may be anonymous, but you still have a persistent handle (unless the situation calls for it). That persistence is also "rewarded" with upvotes (or downvotes), which on HN even have some consequences.
Does the Central African Republic have a comparable standard of living to the UK and California?
Mostly, yes.
Try one of the towns along the southern Connecticut River valley. You're a couple of hours from Boston. You can take the train the NYC. You have urban/college town amenities and culture if you want it. You can walk to nature if you want it. The schools are good. The traffic is good.
Hell, even the "head of Stanford University’s A.I. lab and chief scientist for A.I. at Google Cloud, one of the search giant’s most promising enterprises" who literally said “I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways. It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.” had little to no effect on Googles direction towards military applications. She couldn't even get a publicized email out.

The article certainly supports your theory.
Gates, Buffett: Bet Against Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
Waymo is already doing level 4. Check it out, a Waymo van was on Jimmy Kimmel the other day:

https://youtu.be/c6twRCBtd-g
With this much money, surely things will end well and this money with be used prudently to advance their future.
No, because the quality of life is not similar. I think the parent of your post implicitly used that quality of life and poverty rates between the two are (relatively) comparable.
> cross-Pacific trade isn't as big as cross-Atlantic

Huh? Newport Beach is the busiest port in the world. Cross-Pacific trade dwarfs cross-Atlantic trade.
A very interesting investigation. Surprised this hasn't picked up more interest on HN.
These funding rounds just mean we are using existing tools. The AI winter is regards to discovering new AI techniques, not re-applying existing discoveries to business.
Yeah, life sucks when you're poor. More so in many of these countries than in the U.S, and less so in a few.

You've said nothing. Every country has economic strata. Pointing it out only in the case of the U.S. is specious.
You fight terrorism by education.
Let me guess, communist princelings on the board?
For a modern *nix equivalent of DESQview take a look at Twin: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
There are also states that will pay for your education if you provide services. I had a friend whose MS in nursing was completely paid for by the state in exchange for agreeing to work at a clinic in a low-income neighborhood for 2 years.

She loved the work, the state got a motivated Nurse. Win-win.