skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to put things into perspective, if pentagon optimizes it's spending and saves $125 Billion, all public colleges can be tuition free and government will still have ~$62 Billion left. [1]

Side note: Public colleges can also be made tuition free if government scraps financial aid programs that it has (~$69 Billion) and directly pays for all students that go to public colleges. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/heres-e...
Looks good thanks for sharing, you could also use an anonymous scraping API to scale your scraper up if you are crawling on high volumes for instance using this node package. https://www.npmjs.com/package/proxycrawl
Guitar Hero Live goes offline in December, making 92% of songs unplayable
If Tesla has a branch or subsidiary or something similar in the EU, then GDPR applies regardless of where the data is actually processed or where the data subject is.
Linux can be an absolute bastard where drivers are concerned, but Windows actively fights you when you try to modify the drivers. Windows is more likely to work correctly out of the box, but if it doesn't it is a bigger pain in the ass to fix.
> If you have an accident, they are more than happy to drop the crash data "proving" that you were at fault...

Indeed. It is disturbing that Tesla is not in the slightest bit concerned by how obvious it is that it is lying about its motives, as that indicates that it does not see any downside from doing so.
If the nest information is tied to your address (which is clearly personal), doesn't that make it personal information?
This is a hell of a post, and I agree with almost all of it. One piece of advice I’d give is that terms like “false flags” have been so poisoned by lunatics that it’s probably worth avoiding them. My impression of you at the start of this comment chain was “he probably thinks we’re going to be marched off to FEMA camps by lizard people,” to “Oh no, actually he’s quite rational and making solid points.”

Part of that is clearly my problem, but part of it is the reality that most of the people using certain phrases are nuts. I don’t know how much of the allegations regarding Syria or Novichok in the U.K. are genuine, and it doesn’t really matter. Your larger point about how widespread violence is a primary economic tool of the US is better supported without reference to them anyway.
Josh James got immediate and easy buy-in from investors because he founded Omniture, a $1B+ exit. So you'd probably need at least one successful exit to get this much leash. Presumably, investors will start to watch much more closely if he can't make good on Domo.
https://forestry.io/ - it's a nice front end for hugo.
Man, if people really are going to be this blasé about it, I guess it really is a routine occurrence.
The problem with the chronological feed is that you get people's posts bunched together. If a friend is having a night out and posting lots of selfies, meal pics, drinks pics, etc then that's all you'll see when you log in. It'd just be one person's updates for pages on end. That's a bad provably experience that stops people coming back to the app. The algorithm tries to improve that.

Also, and I don't know about Instagram, but on Facebook if you have 250 friends you could be seeing as many as 1000 posts a day from your network. You'd never see anything more than an hour old if it was chronological - imagine all the stuff you'd miss any time you didn't choose to scroll back.

Chronological ordering is awful.
Lotta smart people at Facebook, I imagine they've looked at this and have come to the conclusion that it's not lucrative as you think.
I’m not sure why this is news. I was interviewed for a position almost 10 years ago to develop software that categorized satellite imagery using heuristics, object detection, and classification. I assumed that similar projects had been going on for decades before.

Much of the ‘AI’ research has been directly (or indirectly) funded by DoD, 3-letter agencies, NATO, and many other countries since the field’s infancy.
Plume¹ is my blogging platform of choice... in 2020. Perhaps...

¹ https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume
Yes, but this purportedly-unbiased analysis does not explain these assertions, and resorts to strawman arguments:

For example:

> The first of their “personal stories” was about how a person involved in developing the factory was told that they can’t use yellow caution tape or beeping forklifts because they offend Musk’s sensibilities. The lack of these things, according to Reveal, could be to blame for the “high” rate of injuries.

The assertion that Tesla lacked yellow because of Musk's preference is attributed to the factory's former safety lead, Justine White, and documented in her 2017 resignation letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-...

You can argue about whether Reveal should have talked to Tesla's former safety lead, but the story doesn't assign blame to lack of yellow or whatever for the rate of injuries. In fact, the story is not about Tesla's "high" rate of injuries. The story notes that Tesla's injury rate in 2017 fell steeply. The point of the story is that, according to Tesla's own internal log, injuries that are mandated to be reported were not listed on the official report.

According to a Reveal followup a month later, Tesla's official injuries report has been amended with the injuries that Reveal accused Tesla of hiding:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-left-injuries-off-t...

The dailykos article doesn't have to agree that Reveal was overall in the right to investigate Tesla, but an objective analysis would note Tesla's actions in response to the investigation.

In fact, if you read the Reveal followup, you'll see that the added injuries don't even make Tesla a particular outlier:

> The additions raise Tesla’s 2017 injury rate to 6.3 injuries per 100 workers, just above the 2016 industry average of 6.2.

So noting the followup, and the adjusted stat, is well within the comfort zone of an article that attempts to objectively defend Tesla. Yet the dailykos writer seems to have completely missed reading the followup and can only throw insults at Reveal. That does not seem like an "unbiased" analysis to me.
The git repo (https://github.com/krematas/soccerontable) describes a batch job, too.
This looks like a great idea.

I'm going to give it a try for my next post.
It really depends on what you want and what you use your computer for.

There are obviously political and ethical aspects you may be concerned about but I think it's better to just not get into that now.

You mention needing a laptop with hardware supported by Linux. I would recommend first beginning with looking at various laptops sold with Linux. This should take care of any hardware incompatibility others have mentioned (though do your research).

Linux (or GNU-Linux) packages most of it's drivers in the Linux kernal (please correct if I'm mistaken) so that if a piece of hardware is supported it is ready to go after you install the OS.

It should be noted however that graphics cards/units have various levels of support with from what I understand Intel currently having the best open source support with Nvidia haveing pretty decent proprietary drivers. Ati/AMD varries though that shouldn't necessarily preclude you from an AMD processor. Importantly do your research on support for those components.

As far as software is concerned that I haven't the foggiest idea what to recommend. If you just need a web browser, an office suite, and streaming video, then Ubuntu I would say handles all that pretty good. (It's all I've run for the last couple years, and mixed before that).

Most importantly patience, research, and if you can't find an answer always ask. And be open to learning (until you die).
> When Mr. Acton departed Facebook, he forfeited about $900 million in potential stock awards, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Koum is expected to officially depart in mid-August, in which case he would leave behind more than two million unvested shares worth about $400 million at Facebook’s current stock price. Both men would have received all their remaining shares had they stayed until this November, when their contracts end.

I cannot believe this. Seriously, I think this article is bs.
Is this true? Doesn't the GDPR only applied to those within the EU (i.e., resident or not), or anyone, anywhere, if the company handling the data is in the EU?
can you use custom domain?
This sounds very useful! I googled but didn't find much - perhaps I did not use the right terms. Can you please post some links that point me in the right direction?
In theory, but in practice that money would never be used that way in the US of course.
Curious if anyone managed to screenshot or archive the tweets, as the entire account has been removed from twitter it would seem. Always interested in these kinds of stories/drama as case studies for what to look out for in future endeavors.
Damn thieves!!! They are going to steal all the private repos code...

Like they did with Quicktime...
Same goes with other Chromebooks I've used (ASUS and Acer).
> I wouldn't want to scrape Google to make my own Google, but rather to make private repositories of information that I can then query efficiently.

That's what Apify in original post does - including a public database of scrapers, so there is a high chance you could use already finished scraper :).
Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.
They never mentioned customers or selling anything so my thought would be a fun domain hack.

In addition to the two cimmanom shared: my.house , club.house , safe.house , public.house , waffle.house , shared.house , play.house
> The investors generally don't want to invest in companies run by a committee of investors

There are governance structures between one where the CEO spends "$600,000 for catering services from...[a] sandwich and salad restaurant...owned by Josh James and his brother," and committees of directors. Uber, where a supermajority of the Board (which contains independent directors) can vote off the CEO, is one amongst many examples.
IIRC I think I might have seen it even before smartphones.
I second the recommendation to get an Asus Zenbook, with the same cons. The case is solid and durable; specs range from reasonable to outstanding (especially at its price point). I would also look at the IBM Thinkpad, as I've had friends and coworkers praise its Linux interoperability.
French CNES' director of launchers on reusable rockets and SpaceX
Have you used one? The OS is so lightweight, it doesn't seem to matter.
> Anyways, the main reason why I wouldn't recommend LSD is because I think an individual that's interested should research it themselves and decide if they want to themselves.

strongly agree. while i have enjoyed many different drugs myself, i would never recommend that someone try drugs. if they're already interested, i'm happy to discuss what i know about / have experienced with particular chemicals.
>Great place to be. Lots of innovation in MLMs.

Religion and MLM companies seem to be strongly correlated.
Toshiba, 130 years down the drain. They did not adapt to the changing market and their internal culture was risk averse. Rot at the top (accounting corruption) and inability to compete in numerous market segments played into the company's rapid descent to obscurity. Given they invented flash storage and SSDs, perusing their online store gave zero options for BTO with different SSD storage options. Imagine that. They would build and launch devices without competitive analysis. Too much focus internally on "fortress japan" and cross selling to keiretsu cronies. Meanwhile, Chinese and Korean firms were eating their lunch.
Nice work, but ”short of reconstructing the ball, which remains future work” made me smile.
Oh wait.

>They will make a retention offer but will not do things like hang up on you, REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE MOVED OUT OF YOUR AREA

You're stating this like it's a normal requirement for canceling subscriptions. I understand you're praising WSJ for not doing that but...

Do you accept treatment like this in the US? Are press subscriptions a lifetime commitment over there? Do I need to indenture my firstborn to any magazine that I subscribe to as well?
That's why you get an Intel one, like the one mentioned.
> Air cooling is however quite likely out of the question if you want to keep your hearing.

I think air cooling is 100% out. Using the current generation LFA3647 Xeons, you pretty much need dual 8180 kind of setup to get Cinebench score of around 7500, that is 410w TDP for two processors. With the same 14nm, squeezing such computing power into a single chip is not going to lower the TDP. We are about to see the hottest (300-400W) Intel processor ever released.
This is often taken to an unhealthy extreme.

You need to have some fairly specific goal in mind to start doing anything. AKA are we building a PS4 game or a self driving car?

Methodologies like Scrum are all about transitioning a long term objective into short term progress. But, you really do need some fairly well thought out goal.

Further course corrections quickly get very expensive. Sort of like sailing from Virginia to Europe then deciding 1/4 of the way in on France then changing your mind to Spain at the midway point is probably fine. However, changing your mind to Australia is a much bigger deal.
This is very true - luckily I am currently on pre-butterfly, so this laptop might be a perfect testbed.
You should probably focus on only one aspect, and rock it. Like if the weather does have an influence on my business, I would want an app that understand 100% of it. But now I am left thinking none of these triggers can make or break my business, so I won’t probably use it.
Google buys GitHub. 6 months later it launches a new different code hosting site that is tightly tied with Google services. 3 years later new site and GitHub both shut down.
Hugo if you're ok with self hosting

https://gohugo.io
Sure, find a maxed out 15" model. It'll do pretty much whatever you need it too. Mine (purchased new) still blows a lot of stuff out of the water as far as baseline day to day performance.

Mpbs were, and still are, very popular dev machines, so most dev tasks are pretty easy to achieve. Just be careful not to install multiple package managers or you may never find some of your libraries again.
This is actually an X11 thing - it predates Linux. Instead of "the clipboard" X has multiple clipboard-like things. In X terminology they are called "selections". There's an arbitrary number of them, but there are only two selections that are used by most apps: the "primary" selection and the "clipboard" selection.

In most apps, the primary selection is populated merely by selecting something, while the clipboard selection is populated by some sort of explicit user action, like ctrl-C or a context menu.

The clipboard selection is pasted with some other explicit action. Usually it's analogous to the way you copy to it, like ctrl-V, or a context menu.

The primary selection is usually "pasted" with middle mouse button. Sometimes there's also a keyboard shortcut, and if there is it's often a modified form of the clipboard-selection's paste shortcut.

Most people get confused by the fact that there is more than one "clipboardy thing". They copy to one, and then paste from the other and winner why their copy didn't work.

The fact that there isn't a consistent action to get to each doesn't help. It is consistent if you stick to apps from the same "family" (eg: Gnome/gtk+ or KDE), except terminals never use ctrl key shortcuts. (Because control characters already mean something in terminals.)
They say abruptly.

And this is normal in a mistaken accelerator pedal application. You press down on the 'brake', the car speeds up, you panic stomp down on the 'brake' as hard as you can.
So you integrate with a few systems, you learn where the gotchas tend to be, you call those out as things you'd like to know more about when making your initial estimates, etc. Today's software dev has probably integrated with more systems than they have written linked lists. We just have a habit of forgetting all the little details.

If you're looking for a formula that lets you estimate once and then move on to the "real work" now that that tedious BS is out of the way, there isn't one. But you can still do something. There's ground between "I can't estimate that in 30 minutes" and "I can't estimate it at all" and it's up to you and your stakeholders to come to terms on how to balance the risks in your estimates (in broad terms: too inaccurate estimates vs too much time wasted estimating requirements that have since changed).

(There's a parallel theme in some other comments: "if it's a well-understood problem why am I not using the existing solution?" Similarly, there's a difference between "well-understood" and "perfectly abstractable and automatable", otherwise almost none of us would be employed these days. :) )
Meaning is a process of its own creation, not a measuring stick. Often when people speak of meaning as though it were quantitative, they usually are referring to how much they help other people. Meaning is also interactive, it rarely happens in total isolation. If everyone around is constantly conflating meaning with monetary success, it's easy to feel confused and despair. Don't blame money, but rather look for bits of beauty in life and share them with people you care for. At least that's what seems to work for me
Can anyone explain what’s going on to those who aren’t aware of the situation?

Also, the tweets seem to have been deleted, did anyone archive them?
Why I have to sign in to an article posted on this news forum blows my mind. Please post stuff the entire world
Can read, not just stuff local New Yorkans are subscribed to
Ask HN: How Do I Stick with GNU/Linux If Important Apps Crash Frequently?
I've never owned a Mac. I haven't used Windows except transiently for about 4 years.

I'm currently on a Dell XPS 13 9360 (Late 2016) Developer Edition with the stock Ubuntu 16.04--in other words, about as orthodox a GNU/Linux setup as one can have.

For work and studying, I use some non-free apps like Slack, TeamViewer, and Zoom. All of them have crashed or behaved weirdly at critical times when I needed smooth, stable operation.

So I've been thinking about getting a Mac. I would rather stick with a (mostly) free OS, even if I have to use some non-free programs at the application layer.

The problems I experience do not tend to surface with software like Chromium, VSCode, etc. so maybe I shouldn't be blaming GNU/Linux. But I also have things to do and a family to feed, and don't want to dig in my heels and waste time and energy diagnosing problems--I'm a developer, not a sysadmin!

Is my experience with proprietary apps on Ubuntu typical? Is the situation on Macs truly better? What can I do to improve my GNU/Linux experience (again, without becoming a full-time sysadmin)?
I used to have a blog, but for the last couple of years I've been using Medium.

For my use case, an unknown very occasional blogger, it doesn't make sense to invest in a dedicated website or pay for a service like Ghost. I imagine this is very different for full time bloggers or more notorious individuals such as Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror).
I built a Hackintosh that worked until a mac update brought it down. Went to Linux and this lead to much frustration but I learned a lot from trying diferent variations of Linux. Use linux Mint on two laptops. (one a mac pro that apple no longer surports) and the pc. My only problem with Linux is less suport of 32bit. Apple shows no support for older macs but linux always comes thru.
Damn thieves!!! They are going to steal all the private repos code...

Like they did with Quicktime code...
But IQ performance likely predicts success in data science, and not only that, it does predict success in a variety of subjects. I'm also with the post on the bottom -- I don't think Lior believes in his post. I interpret this as humble-bragging. There's enough silliness in this post that permits the author to wiggle away; I'm sure the author already agrees that it's unfair to pick two highly prejudicial examples, or reduce causal modelling down to Occam's razor.

Or perhaps it's a jab at subtle misconceptions on causal learning and empiricism. Either way it's not meant to be taken seriously at face value.

But do get started on IQ.
Ask HN: How do you avoid people distracting you at work?
I work as a developer at a large company in a large open office. We have many scrum teams and communication via Slack is normal. My coworkers frequently walk up to my desk to start conversations. I would like to encourage them to use Slack instead at certain times such as when I'm under pressure with a project but I'm not sure how to signal this to them. I have too many colleagues to simply ask them kindly not to distract me at certain times so asking the people around me not to distract me if I have headphones is ineffective.

Do you have any strategies signalling to your colleagues (many of whom you might not know) that you would prefer not to be distracted at certain times?
SAP isn't "windows desktop software". This whole thread started by saying that Microsoft can leverage its Windows dominance.

SAP can either be used as web based software and even thier "Windows" Software is mostly built using thier proprietary cross platform ABAP platform.
> Unreasonable management seems to be giving developers PTSD here.

It's inexperience all around. Also, most places have no clear long term track, so people bounce after 2 years rather than growing to understand each other.

Managers are generally free to cut estimates in half, and move to a new role or move to a new organization when things fall apart. They're not trying to be villains, they have a lot of pressure coming from a lot of directions and think that estimates are bogus anyway, thanks to star trek and the occasional miracle that happens. (sometimes things really are much easier than they seem)

Developers are optimistic, wildly underestimate, and feel bad when they miss them. The overreact and start massively overestimating. When they progress to the next stage they take the time to give a good thorough estimate to have it slashed by a manager, who knows they overestimate.

Nobody sticks around long enough to really understand the state the other is in, so you get this vaguely Kafkaesque world that makes everyone a little crazy.
Sad but true

"Why do I need a Google+ account to use GitHub?!?"
Thanks! That immediately jumped out at me and made me question if the article was meant to be satire or something
> Investors don't want to run the company.

Sometimes they do - I've certainly seen it happen at one company I've worked at, to the point where the board decimated engineering.
Why I have to have an account to log in to read an article blows my mind. Please post things that the entire world can see, not just local New Yorkans.
Ha think about all of the surface area on Facebook employees faces/arms that you could tattoo advertising on. I wonder if they have considered the financial opportunity cost there?
Actually, I think we need a new, stronger rule. You must have guaranteed strong controls (the ability to review it, at the very least) over all data generated by virtue of your existence as a free agent.

In the future, everything will have sensors in it. If we leave things as they are now, your Samsung refrigerator will be reporting back what you eat, and when. A good place to sell that data is to grocery stores and General Mills.

That's great if you want your doctor to know that information, or if you need an alibi; "your honor, I was eating yoghurt at the time".

Oh wait - bad example, because you own the refrigerator. My point was that in the future, when you go outside, everything will have recording devices in it. So, the public spaces and government rituals you are subjected to need to be dealt with, as well.

Property rights no longer suffice for these situations.
Data.gov, a catalogue of public government data
This was exactly what I needed today. Thanks