skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this has a lot to do with the housing crisis.

Hear me out...

When I was a kid I was lucky enough to be raised in a new development community packed with YOUNG families. Imagine this. These were 1st, or maybe 2nd home buyers (age 23-32) who were STARTING their families there. It was a time when young people could afford a nice home in a safe neighborhood, AND support kids.

The result was amazing. Kids. Lots of kids. Kids roamed the streets. The sense of community was abundant. Halloween and Christmas were a BLAST as all the families went to great lengths to dress up their home.

Nowadays? I live in a different neighborhood. People are RENTING. There's no safe, nice, affordable neighborhood for new families to settle. Sense of community as a result is diminished. People don't feel planted and invested in the home so they're less likely to be invested in the community. I don't see any kids these days. Halloween, could be any other day.
They certainly do. Are their fences occasionally weak, or their cabins sometimes crude? Yes, but the fundamentals can be overwhelmingly good.

See the Linux kernel which for all its warts is arguably the greatest software engineering achievement, and is by any measure one of the most widely deployed software programs.
I live near a forest, we were unattended.. we all survived. Sometimes I laugh.
Alternative title: how I learned $100k isn’t a lot of money

Another alternative title: rando offers little details about how he ran a business that lost him money and insists its just cause statistics
> It is difficult for modern readers to conceive of the desecration of human remains as comparable with the act of burning someone alive.

To this modern reader, it seems perfectly understandable. After all a man may wish another man dead for rational self interest. As evil as he may be, it’s at least comprehensible. On the other hand, someone who avenges himself on the bones of the dead is clearly unhinged. How could you expect to reason with such a person?
I think the commenter means it shouldn't be an excuse for state governments.

Although I didn't see a specific excuse state governments are using to hide their suppliers, just that the state governments are being "secretive".
I see what you are saying. I think there are ways to do it. The Soviets were successful in their central Asian and Caucasus "Republics". They tended to coopt a local leader and got them to do their bidding. Even Russia now with Chechnya has been able to use the same formula. It's not impossible for the CCP to do the same.
I wish though, that except for eval and exec, that the majority of Ruby code could get an incremental/LTO JIT similar to HotSpot and a GC like C4 rather than an inc gen GC.
Not compressed, compiled to machine code.
That assumes you're allowed to use the code you wrote in a previous project in your new project.
Sure, but what if we only prefer it because we grew up eating it? Chicken/egg/chicken.
In general access to candy every day is something I see more at the low end of the income spectrum and less at the high end.
When David Cameron (former leader of the Conservative party) called the EU referendum, he did it principally to quell dissent within his own party

That's the current narrative of EU loyalists but it's not at all correct.

There had been a eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party for decades. The referendum was put into the Conservative manifesto in 2015 because of the rise of UKIP which was making a similar promise - that's what changed. Putting this policy into the official policies of the party converted UKIP support into Conservative support and allowed Cameron to win a majority. Having promised to do it and won an election partly on the back of that promise, they then proceeded to organise it.

With respect to Cameron having no plan, I agree that was quite stupid of him. Refusal to contemplate the possibility of ever leaving is one of the big problems EU ideology creates in people. Convince yourself it's unthinkable and you won't think about it.

But it's not true that "the Conservatives" had no plan. The pro-Leavers certainly did and still do have a plan: leave the EU whilst negotiating a reasonable future relationship that involves compromises on both sides. So the idea that there's "no plan" is another nonsensical bit of narrative. What people mean is the "plan", such that it is, heavily relies on the EU being willing to negotiate and they aren't.

As for your last point, the top reason cited by voters for why uncontrolled immigration is a problem is pressure on public services. Being able to limit the numbers of unemployed and poor workers doesn't help with that, therefore, I'm not sure why you bring it up.
Being from Croatia but living in Sweden I've always been fascinated by lactose intolerance.

Numbers say that it's much more prevalent where my family comes from compared to here up north. Swedes can often drink regular milk well into their adulthood while many of my peers from former yugoslavia stop drinking it in their 20s or 30s.

I recently found one study[1] claiming it has nothing to do with being a "swede" but rather that lactose tolerant peoples have migrated to northern europe. Why they've chosen to migrate there is beyond me though.

I can understand their argument though, that cows milk has not existed long enough in northern europe to have affected the population. But that doesn't mean the population wasn't already tolerant before cows came along.

Edit: Reason this article made me think of lactose intolerance is because romans were disgusted specifically by northern tribes, perhaps the northern climate does something for lactose tolerance.

I know other cultures like Bulgarians are also mentioned.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22643754
Maybe you are being sarcastic. In any case, the legend that the Romans have spread salt over the ground of the razed city of Carthage has no basis [1].

"Starting in the 19th century, various texts claim that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus plowed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after defeating it in the Third Punic War (146 BC), sacking it, and enslaving the survivors. Though ancient sources do mention symbolically drawing a plow over various cities, and salting them, none mention Carthage in particular. The Carthage story is a later invention, probably modeled on the story of Shechem."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth#Destroying_c...
I am glad that his funds are not doing well. But Myhrvold is an example of people who can have a lot of qualities we support but then also have a lot of qualities we don't support. People like to categorize people into all good or all bad but a lot of people have both in them.
Are you willing to share what you are pursuing? I'm curious. I'm feeling a bit hamsterwheely myself right now and am constantly looking at the horizon for an alternative approach that could work for me.
Self regulation, really?

Startups could never self regulate and never will. And a few bad startups can be enough to do massive damages.

Look Cambridge analytica: this startup alone made the case for regulations like GDPR.

As a user, I really am pleased with gdpr, so that "do-no-evil" startups stop selling my data around and not caring at all about my privacy.
C4-cycle rice, which should need less water and thus eavporate less, is also an area of research.
How your home is under 'staggering levels of surveillance'
That's strange considering we've been told that kids today are the best behaved.

"Today's teenagers are the best-behaved generation on record"

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/25/5748178/todays-teenagers-are-t...

"Today's Teens Better Behaved Than Their Parents"

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/the-kids-are-more-...

"Wonkblog Today’s teens are way better behaved than you were"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/13/today...

But it's summer ( notoriously slow news season ) and what better to sell than fear to parents. The other parental fear piece within the last 24 hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214841
Ehhh... I like cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy but this feels like an attempt to shoehorn something into cryptocurrency "because blockchain". As far as I can see, ordering of messages is not protected at all without using the method that provides forward secrecy. Deniability is non-existent with this scheme. Every person you've ever sent a text to is saved accessible to everyone forever. It looks like messages aren't even padded at all other than just up to the 32 byte block.

As far as the claim that it's somehow censorship proof, there's absolutely nothing at all here to prevent an adversary from identifying and blocking messages. It's a Bitcoin Cash transaction, but it's not magic. If Eve is in a position to block a message from Alice to Bob, Eve is also in a position to block a transaction from Alice to a miner.

Also that Satoshi Nakamoto conversation is farcical to say the least. I honestly don't see a single advantage to this over existing solutions.
The path to explainable AI
>One of the reasons for it

Another being that community organizers and concerned citizens were sufficiently disenfranchised and disempowered that greedy developers obtained permission to destroy pre-existing communities, open space, and neighborhood character to create built environments that are dense enough for good public transit to be cost-effective. In some cases, this happened more than 1000 years ago, so no one minds anymore.

>When people with influence are using public transit, it stops being shit.

Is there any evidence for this? Has a population ever actually forced its leaders to ride shitty public transit, and subsequently seen a turnaround?

Most New York professionals rely on the subway, and it's falling apart anyway.
Deep Thought Tabs
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deep-thought-...

Adds funny, profound observations in newly opened empty tabs, with fresh images each time.

- WebExtension written in plain JavaScript. No libraries. No cruft.
- Displays "deep-thoughts" even in offline-mode (no background-images).
- Fetches relevant fresh background images each-time from Unsplash and Flickr.

Checkout the source to learn how to create simple webextension addons for Firefox in JavaScript.

Few interesting bits of code:

* Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm.
* Ken-Burns effect for still images.
* Visual (image-preview) tooltips in CSS.
* Asynchronous XMLHttpRequest.
> When I opened this thread, this was downvoted. I can understand why, it's kinda dismissive of the article. However, I can also understand the frustration and would generally agree.

Although I didn't downvote, I often downvote comments that are negative on knowledge. You know the type. If we're talking about CS they will argue that you don't have to know algorithms and data structures to be a good developer, because you can just go on stackexchange. If we're talking about data, they will argue that knowing what a p-value is useless because the methodology is flawed anyway. If we're talking about knowledge itself they will argue that going to university is a waste of time. And of course, no matter the subject matter, you never need "all that maths".
>"Over 90% of startups die"

One of those widely repeated number, but not true: number is below 60%.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/06/2...
Rubinius uses LLVM IR for this. The only problem is rbx is still very slow on startup and interactive use.

Ruby (MRI) will have to reinvent the wheel in order to get a panoply of optimizations that some very smart people have already baked in: like the ability to target almost any platform from the same library.. GCC requires cross-compiling per target.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Maybe because some founders don't think they're going to be rich by acquisition but rather by organic means (i.e. customers actually buying your product/service), although frankly I don't know anyone who wouldn't at least consider acquisition as a possible outcome.
The median pay for software developers in 2017 was $103,560 based on government collected data[1]. So it's safe to say that a bit more than half of software developers in the US make $100,000 or more.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Are any of these “investors” making any money off these ICOs or why is anyone investing in these?!
More specifically, the equity in a "startup" is not solely owned by the founder(s). There are liquidity exit expectations within 7 years.
Isn’t this survivor bias? Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.
Not just in Polish - word Niemiec, Nemec, немец etc. you will find used (not necessarily as the most common word nowadays) in many Slavian languages.

Simply because Slavians share common roots of the language and can more or less communicate with each other while Germanic tribes were 'non-speakers'.
Bertrand Russell also paints an extremely negative view of Nietzsche in that book. The whole work is extremely biased, it's a dangerous book to read on philosophy if you dont already know the field well, theres too much bias and its too difficult to tell what is bias.
A sacrifice for shareholder value.
This is objectively not true based on reliable data from the BLS[1]. The median pay for software developers in the US in 2017 was $103k.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
> The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.'

Though this "depends" is a quite high bar in reality. I know a regional
internet provider that runs purely on software routers on commodity x86_64
servers. You need to be a quite large company (or operate in a very specific
domain) to ever hit this level of traffic.
For the curious the startup was Shoe of Prey, I think
"bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer"

The article is a bit light on details.

forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhochman/2017/05/31/shoes-o...

crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shoes-of-prey
Of course it's an over-the-top strawman. I just find it shocking that the parent apparently thinks that capital punishment by itself isn't barbaric enough, but on top of that it should be a drawn-out and painful affair. Which frankly is an argument straight out of the dark ages.

Ok, fine, the parent didn't explicitly say that is a view (s)he shares.
The robot revolution is just beginning
(For the record, and to confuse my own statement, I actually generally agree that self-regulation isn't historically effective. I'm just also not sold on GDPR as a US resident/am as nervous as heavy regulation as I am of a lack thereof, and when I read your post it begged a devils-advocate counter to your statement from a different angle.)

As a user, I'm _not_ pleased that the law has devoided me of a choice to participate with businesses under a previously acceptable business model, and without any input/say on my part, assumes my agency to chose which businesses I interact with. I accepted it as my responsibility to know that some may be selling my information, and to make conscientious choices accordingly. This not even touching on that the law does precisely nothing against the sort of data incidences that I have the most issue with (Equifax).
Millionaire Murder Suspect Had Victim Dig Tunnels in Home: Prosecutors
I wonder if Matz may consider even just adopting Crystal in the future, considering it is almost 99% compatible with Ruby and has 10x-20x performance gains out of the box.
> "startup" specifically refers to companies that are started for the purpose of ultimately being sold

Or exiting via IPO (which of course is a type of sale)
A definition of 'racism' that includes "lots of people who look identical to me have turned up and now it takes ages to get a doctors appointment" is useless and deserves to be ignored - which it was, as evidenced by the population voting to leave despite being told it was "racist" to leave a union made up almost entirely of white people.

Most people didn't vote for Brexit. Only about 29% of the population did

Exclude the people who can't vote because they're children or not actually citizens, and you get a 72% turnout, the largest in history. Your claim is worded in such a way that it's technically correct whilst simultaneously being wildly misleading (who knows what 5 year olds think of the EU, and there are plenty of stories of naturalised Polish immigrants voting to leave...)
New in Helpmonks: Grouping and filtering of emails – Team emails made easy
Not all new companies are start-ups.
http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
This article notably leaves out India - where since ancient times the cow and milk & butter have been venerated. Milk, Curds were considered an integral part of the ancient Indian person's diet.
There are more things to optimize for in life than finances. :-)
The World’s First 3D-Printed Carbon Bike Frame
How three Mexican window-washers of Chicago’s skyscrapers see the world
> This article fawns over a guy who quite mistakenly thought his terrible automation software was better than Windows

The technology behind it was (and still is) amazing. I'm not aware of anything in any other major operating system that even comes close.

> who then went on to "invent" callback URLs

No, that was Greg Pierce. Soghoian was still at Apple at that point.
Update: keeping this project behind the scenes for good, no website, different name. Thanks everybody.
Magit is great. I found myself use the command line git less and less, and just get things done with Magit.

One problem I have is Magit slowing down somehow. I found out that it's because Magit spawns git and the Windows anti-virus kicks in, trying to verify the files it touches. It doesn't seem to be a problem when running git on command line.
Are there machines that can sift through a sample of dirt, detect cells and isolate them for library prep and sequencing? Or are you thinking of human missions to Mars?
This is a terrible article that just uncritically assumes the worst of the 'kids today!' stereotype (which has been around since Plato's time) as a starting premise. I know it's Sunday but I'm surprised to see such fluff high up on HN.
I can’t help think “It’s a series of tubes!” when seeing the title. Very cool stuff though.
Reminds me of how I grew up wishing I could eat cereal and watch TV - at all.

It’s good to know that it’s my parents’ active decisions to shape how I think, and not something I can’t control like my innate willpower, which led me to be so successful.
>Success of Homebrew was based on marketing

No, as a user of every previous package manager for macOS, I can tell you that Homebrew was successful because it actually worked, and worked really well, and it kept working even for prerelease versions of macOS.

This doesn’t mean that it’s well designed or secure. But it’s not a marketing cream puff.
Safari's last-layer used LLVM until 2016; it's switched to a custom JIT since then (ref: https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...).

Since you have some experience - do you think shelling out would have been much more painful?
When you say "all of this", that's only true for the browser-scraping part. You still need to use the API's CreateFavorite and DestroyFavorite calls on old tweets.

(As discussed, purely calling DestroyFavorite won't work on Tweets outside the 3200-tweet-capped API-accessible data store).
Tidal mudflats don't seem to accumulate salt in the same way evaporative salt ponds do, since the water is not trapped allowing for concentration. So maybe something where tidal water is allowed to flush out overly saline water would work?
I like that article. I have had concussions, broken bones and a lot of other injuries in my youth, probably almost died a few times. I wouldn't want to miss any of them. I find it sad that a lot of today's parents try avoid any kind of physical displeasure for their kinds while at the same time putting a lot of psychological displeasure on them in the form of school and job anxiety.
Apart from CarMax, there are essentially two routes for selling a vehicle. The first is a private sale, which basically involves taking on a temporary, part-time job to have people meet you, test drive your car and then negotiate for the correct price. Craigslist makes this easier, but it's still intense. I'd love to see hard data on the amount of effort involved in private sales, but from anecdotes from friends who have done it, a person can easily invest tens of hours in attempting to get the vehicle sold on the market. That adds up to $1k fairly quickly. Private sale makes the most sense as a hobby. (I'll note that some startups like CarLotz exist that basically have a consignment model for private sales that may work slightly better in certain circumstances.)

The second route is the "trade-in." Most dealers almost never pay cash for the amount of money that they offer for trade-in. It's purely a negotiating tactic meant to make a buyer feel better about a (relatively arbitrary) price on a car ("$14k for a 2015 Ford Focus is kind of high, but we really like that we're getting $4k for our 2007 Pontiac Aztek!"). Whenever you work with a dealer, you're almost always getting fleeced. Again, some people enjoy the process as a sort of game or hobby, but you're likely not making a profit unless you're extremely good at it.

EDIT: I read this over and it sounded a little fanboyish. I want to make clear that I've been gone from CarMax for almost 5 years and I don't own stock or have any other financial stake in their success other than some friends who are still employed there. I just think they're a good company (although I didn't love working in IT).
That quote seems to imply they only tested the cross-bred varieties. No CRISPR.

That said, whoever wrote this article doesn't seem to know the difference between a species and a variety, so i'll take it with a grain of salt ;)
Off topic and rather personal question: I prefer Mercurial for my own VCS needs because (1) it's written in Python so I can hack on it or write extensions using a proper Python library if needed and (2) I find the UI better. But seeing how Git is becoming just as widespread as the English language in the software world, would it be wiser for me to abandon Mercurial for Git?
Talk about trading your future for a relatively brief, near-term gain. This is just going to salt the land cumulatively until nothing will grow there, ever.
Have no use for the app, but the mid section of the website ("A wealth of information") is well designed and pleasant to look at. Though I think I've seen this exact style used somewhere before. The page as a whole looks like a mishmash of at least 3 different styles (hero / mid-section / "lite vs pro"). Ditto for the color scheme. It's not bad as is, but it could use a bit more restraint and consistency in the design.
> Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.

How "old" are you talking about here?
That table lists Russia and the Congo as more ethnically diverse than the UK. OK, if you define ethnicity in such a way that it has no correlation with skin colour or any of the traditional aspects of racism, then sure. Maybe there are more ethnic tribes or something in the Congo than the UK.

Now go define it in the way people actually mean when they talk about racism, and see what happens.

Projects like Galileo are impossible without centralization

That's clearly nonsense. The International Space Station is not the product of a giant centralised power structure. It's the result of an international collaboration amongst governments, none of them able to control the others. And the ISS is much more complex an endeavour than Galileo.