skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a member of a CSA (community supported agriculture, basically buying food direct from farmers) that was setting up a new greenhouse every year, mostly for tomatoes and cucumbers - popular crops that are vulnerable to the challenges of Minnesota weather.

As an aside, they also raise heirloom-variety turkeys. Minnesota is the #1 turkey state in the country, great area for it, and 99.9% of the turkey sold is a single breed. The heirloom breeds are rare (and delicious, and expensive) treats.
That still gives you no right to expose them to such harm. I simply do not care what you believe, it's wrong.
People who use hyperbole are literally worse than Hitler.
A link to an article explaining what's interesting about it would be better than a meta question.
What is your “This person has no idea how the real world works” moment?
Look for “USP Certified”. NatureMade is a popular brand that tends to have this. Costco brand (Kirkland) also often does - note that Kirkland prices are cheap in Costco but not so much on Amazon (resold or something). If you have a Costco near you, it is a very cost effective way to get fresh food and supplements. It’s silly but it really helped me become healthier, because I stopped being hesitant about the price (I was raised in a not-well-off household... the mental barrier can be pretty strong even though it’s irrational vs wastes of money that are neutral or harm health, while nutrition is very helpful and a pretty good bang for buck)
>I'm not sure if there's any hope of erasing something from an SSD besides physically destroying the SSD.

I was under the impression that TRIM/UNMAP would erase the flash blocks currently associated with some sectors, is that not the case?
I had to provide a picture of the death certificate and a link to an obit (IIRC, it's been nine years).
Polish Haitians
A) Cannabis is already legal in a bunch of states and there are tons of US based start ups in that space already.

B) Because cannabis is a controlled substance, Canadian companies will have no way to participate in local markets in other countries.
Didn't Cosgrove retire? Why would he be interested?
After seeing my friend struggle with her Golf, with it spending more time disassembled for various unrelated issues than actually on the road, I am staying very far away from VW cars.
Surgeons don't get to play God as much anymore. Checklists dominate and are the hallmark of a good institution. One of the biggest risks in hospitals are central lines and infection. So cleaning protocols / enforcement and as much automation as possible are ways forward. The ACA imposes financial penalties on hospitals if they don't reduce infection rates and readmission rates. You can only do that if you improve quality. A hotshot with an ego is bad for business.
Cryptocurrency Fraud Case First to Rule Return of Misappropriated Funds
Actually this is exactly what major investment managers do with cash. There are services provided by major banks (e.g. State Street) to the IM industry that do automated sweeps into multiple bank accounts (hundreds or thousands of accounts in some cases), repos etc. Keep in mind that typically mutual funds, CITs, etc. are structured as separate corporate entities with separate cash books, so even though (name your major fund company e.g. Vanguard, Fidelity etc) may have trillions in assets, each individual fund may have a much smaller amount under its name.

While I can't speak about Tether, hypothetically speaking if you had a single legal entity with $2B in cash, I would expect it to be well diversified in very safe and managed pools, either bank accounts (up to FDIC limit), repos, CDs, or other safe short-term instruments.

Source: investment management industry knowledge and personal experience with the same.
While I am not ruling out any shenanigans (and would only really trust an audit from a big 4 firm, if that), the report says that their cash is unencumbered. From investopedia [1], "Creditors do not have any claims to assets that are unencumbered, as there are no associated debts relating specifically to the assets."

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unencumbered.asp
I assume no more than usual, as genealogical and DNA information were not leaked.
By legitimate do you mean able to bank? Because that's the only real drawback I see in the legalized states. And it doesn't seem to be that big an issue worth losing your US consumer base over, since I assume no way in hell can they export to legal states.
I believe that both malice and incompetence are involved. With malice excused by the possibility of incompetence.

But regardless, there is a very legitimate reason for the people who already have cables installed to object to the next company to try. This naturally leads to increased regulatory costs in a dense urban environment.
Airbnb: Sunsetting React Native
Will Apple and Google Top Disney's $71B Bid for FOX?
Definitely not holding my breath for change, that's for sure!

Interesting points about the difficulties of in-house staff. Although my first instinct would be to expand it, you're right about ti getting stale, and also that structure was one I've seen make mistakes (maybe because they were stale). Tough nut to crack indeed..
We did have a bunch of patches to actually make a lot of builds reproducible, but integrating changes like that has been pretty slow. I'm pretty sure a lot of these patches have since been adopted, pulling things much closer to bit-by-bit reproducible.

Unfortunately there's no real metric we have to keep track of that at the moment, like Debian ("%XY.Z are working"). But it looks like basically all distros are finally starting to converge on this.
Following your opinion You'd say that there are no well design projects build with RoR, right? I think that's not true while you deal with the tech debt. Also, about the dynamic typing, you could really mess up the things with static typing programming languages like Java...
U-M? ARC-TS?
A line I just used yesterday in a company presentation about feedback loops "if you don't understand a system's key feedback loops you don't truly understand the system"
I really wouldn't be surprised if it turned out a large percentage (over 35%) of hacker news commenters originate from robots / ai / chatbots being trained / tested surreptitiously.
not sure what you are talking about. people getting their videos demonitized is a huge problem.
* https://satoshis.place/
I would have ported the application to Free Pascal 15 years ago when their Extended Pascal compiler vendor went out of business. That's a long time to wait! :)

I'm curious what manual translation and rewriting would be necessary when moving to Free Pascal compared to their Pascal2D transpiler and compatibility library.
Akka vs. ZIO vs. Monix, part 2: communication
The following example will provide your answer:

https://play.golang.org/p/NeGuDahW2yP
This was an excellent read. Thanks for the link!
This is the type of topic where I feel that HN community tends to not provide valuable insight as it's outside of the community's collective expertise. How many individuals here have hired SVP+ level employees and how would that compare to the collective experience of Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon?
Drowning in Light (2014)
I have a different view on it, I actually like Dart. I like the strong types and how the language is more suited for enterprise development than both typescript and JavaScript.

There is the added benefit of being able to reuse assets from your mobile app in AngularDart, which I suspect may see an increase in use along with flutter.

I’m not coming from Kotlin or rust though, but a .net core backend with JavaScript on the front end and Xamarin for apps. I can definitely see us move from AngularJS and Xamarin to flutter and AngularDart though as this move would be a nice improvement.

I’m not too worried about the lack of available projects and libraries on dart compared to say JS, as we typically wouldn’t include some one man hobby project anyway.

That being said, I think we’ll wait and see what happens throughout 2018.
>Definitely better

You can change a security question. You can't change your DNA.

Biometrics are usernames, not passwords.
If that person ghosts

To get around the ghosting problem you could use GPS to see if the person is actually where they're supposed to be for the speed date. Essentially, people would get a notification when >x people are available in the area and they could go to a coffee shop and flip a toggle which instructs the app to start sending people to speed date them. If they leave the coffee shop or turn off their phone or anything else then the app would toggle off their availability and stop sending dates.

It could be similar to the way Uber manages driver availability in an area. Except instead of sending you fares, it sends dates.

The beauty of a system like this is that you could go to a coffee shop and read or do work on your laptop and toggle on your availability. If people don't show up to date you it doesn't matter because you're not wasting time anyway.
The librem5 approach is definitely superior. I can't wait to receive mine!
Yes! Great minds think alike, arkades! I completely agree with you and disagree with the two commentators. Atul is absolutely a good communicator/storyteller/popularizer (whatever terminology suits people). I used to read his Cheesecake Factory article where he discussed standardization of healthcare, which I thought it was good.

In the recent years, I find him at an excess amount of healthcare conferences speaking or writing on topics that's not within his realm of expertise such as patient experience, opioid pandemic, technology, artifical intelligence. The audience is often captivated by his stories and writing to not be able to differentiate how he's really repeating others' work and quick to write about what's currently trending in healthcare.

He's a good writer, physician, knowledgeable but not an executor.
There is no type safety issue, and there is no cast. Div on integral types is explicitly implementing as an integer/truncating division: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/ops/arith.rs.html#436-452

There would be no type-safety issue or cast if it were implemented as a real division either, incidentally.

There is room to argue Div should not have been implemented at all on integral types (as in Haskell where integer division is a separate operation entirely), but that's a completely different issue.
Being that her friend and apprentice was Alan Greenspan you can see where people get a little weird about rand. Also the rand think tank that spews serious amounts of fascist policy.
Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers (1994)
Personally, I know it like I know a lot of things: poking around one day, probably looking for something else in the /var directory ("is it /var/log, or /var/logs?"), and "'ello, wot's this?". Best I can recall, I've never had a practical reason to know this, or a lot of other things I know.
Also, I think Gawande _wrote_ "The Checklist Manifesto"!
On the path to an artificial cell
If they at least replaced @Override with override keyword, it is not like Dart had to deal with backwards compatibility of 5 language versions.
> what youtube is calling their standard

Those seem to be the Blender team's words, not YouTube's.
Sometimes the bottleneck is your wallet.
> But, how do you systematically unit test nested functions?

Why, with nested unittests, of course! Just put them in a nested type first:

void main()
{
static int nested(int x)
{
return x * 2;
}

struct Test
{
unittest
{
assert(nested(2) == 4);
}
}
}

Well, OK, that's more of a hack than a feature, and you obviously can't test non-static nested functions (as there'd be no way to give values to the outer function's frame variables). But you asked :)
As someone who has spent some time inside the Windows 10 environment working on UWP applications, I always thought that Xamarin would someday be my goto whenever I have the opportunity to dive into Mobile development.
I am comfortable with C# and I have always felt happy writing in XAML.

But looking into Flutter, I think it's undeniable how smart this project truly was. Even if it isn't backed by a popular programming language, since Dart obviously does not fall on that category.
Untrue. I have personally cared for several applications that have lived from Rails 2 through to 5 - and most of the code hasn't needed to be touched.

Sure things change - hashrockets are out for example - and I have regexed the codebase a few times, but the core business and presentation logic has stayed the same, and the process has been fairly painless, even when skipping a version now and then.
I've done some mentoring calls with a guy who is a competitive weightlifter in his spare time. He's a junior dev, extremely polite, and very eager to learn.

Our company just hired a remote developer who really focuses on his physical health, and it shows. Quiet, respectful, and an A+ dev.
I disagree — lots of HN denizens support a single-payer model. What's silly is thinking that Amazon et al could trivially push it through within a reasonable timeframe.
We still haven't found good replacements for those materials (asbestos in particular) at similar price points.

While I agree that we shouldn't be wrapping every hot water pipe in asbestos and painting kids bikes with led paint there's got to be a more flexible middle ground between outright ban and allowing widespread use. Leaded brass plumbing fittings are everywhere (and labeled to indicate they should not be used for potable water) and nobody complains.

I wish asbestos in particular were still available for situations where you need insulation that's really hard to catch on fire, there's really no replacement for it that I'm aware of.
Déraciné Is a Return to from Software's Pre-Dark Souls Roots
Bitcoin’s wild ride
> The good: Single file components with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. (...)

I don't see how that's a good thing. To me splitted files feel much more cleaner.
Reading those examples reminded me of TrueCrypt, and its very strange shutdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt
As a Canadian customer, I was pretty steamed that I could buy coins, but they didn't tell me I couldn't sell them until after I'd already purchased. I managed to transfer to MetaMask so it ended up okay.
According to the Security Now podcast the information was/is separate.

"The good news is there are apparently three entirely separate databases. There is the user login account database. There is the financial credit card charging-people-for-the-service database. And also, separate from either of those two, is the genealogy we've-got-your-DNA-that-you-uploaded-to-us database."

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-667.htm
There are several slcie iteration ways in Go.
They do have some performance differences, depending on the element types of slices. Please view the example in the end of the article for details: https://go101.org/article/value-copy-cost.html
Ouch. This is an incredible man who is a bad choice of CEO. CEO is fundamentally an execution-oriented, anti-creative role. Bezos know this and it implies that

1) He’s going to CEO this himself
2) He wants this intiative to fail
True, but a lot of people do not see it that way. (although that's partly due to prominent Republicans hitching a ride on the Libertarian wagon when it's convenient)
Ask HN: What makes Quora better than Reddit?
I have not dug into reddit as much as I did in Quora, so here is my observation.

Quora has a better design. In contrast to reddit's policy of displaying comments, answers and rants alike, Quora has a defined format and is easier to read. Many subreddits are so poorly designed that they look horrible.
Show HN: Pion-WebRTC, a Go Native WebRTC Implementation
Sorry. I was thinking "customer" in the context of drawing up requirements for a project. Often with the PM over your shoulder insisting that yes, you can do everything the customer is asking for, no problem.
It's the old tradeoff: dev speed vs performance. I just prefer to go with the tech stack that I feel makes me more agile, more capable of changing direction if need be. Both points of view are valid, of course.
> (Also, don't Rust and Go have closures? Surely that would satisfy this requirement.)

Indeed they do. It's completely unclear why they don't satisfy the OP's requirement.
It's much easier to get quality control in a closed environment than outdoors. And legal marijuana is driven strongly by quality as a market force. Illegal marijuana, on the other hand, is more about volume than quality, particularly when you consider interdiction-based losses of entire crops or shipments. So outdoors makes a lot of sense.
In the time it takes to configure Webpack I can write an app in Rails. Convention. Over. Configuration.
GHB is a tricky drug. Not enough and you feel 100% normal. Too much and you pass out and become unresponsive for several hours.

It's very hard to dose.
Wouldn't have to be a wierd error message. "The package foo cannot be installed because it's dependency bar cannot be reproducibly built."
There have been cases where the same SSN was issued multiple times on accident, but they haven't been reused on purpose.
Operative Framework HD – The Digital Investigation Framework, You Can Inter
Great comparison, but other than articles what kind of products or scalable accomplishments has Atul Gawande achieved in healthcare that is comparable to the impact of the iPhone?
Well Microsoft deemed they are still relevant enough to add them to C# 7.
>While the article states that other languages were evaluated, it seems as though the project was motivated entirely by the author and the evaluation was just paying lip service to what was basically a foregone conclusion.

Now you understand how all of these "How we chose this language" writeups work.
Hey, this is lovely, and, incidentally, a great primer on Assembly for folks who may not have had a chance to explore it yet.

Thanks for sharing!
tl;dr: folks fall for a scam, and are then upset when they are scammed.
The question is so what if your profit margin is 2%. Are you big and expanding or are you contracting and belt tightening? Do your shareholders demand higher earnings? How much power do they have? Amazon famously zeroed out profits for a decade in pursuit of growth.
From First Mile to Nth: Onboarding Beyond User Onboarding
I often walk through the Joel Test with sharply declining urgency ...

That is I more or less demand source control, work on automated builds/tests (on each commit, not daily), start to log everything I see in JIRA (or another tracker), Look for an up to date schedule (ie, discern business priorities and timelines), attempt to start specifying how future things ought to work, train my coworkers to see when I'm wearing earplugs to drown out their non work related chatter....

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
> It’s best known for classes on “orgasmic meditation,” a trademarked procedure that typically involves a man using a gloved, lubricated fingertip to stroke a woman’s clitoris for 15 minutes

Who would have thought that a company that offers this could have a dark side?
Currently more than a little tempted by Phoenix and Elixir.

http://phoenixframework.org/
>If you download an illegitimate copy of a Switch game that was purchased on a different console/account, Nintendo can detect the mismatch as soon as you log in and immediately ban the console from its network.

What is stopping hackers from purchasing one game legitimately and just spoof the data after?
> This honestly took me a while to learn

Yeah same here. I think I pissed off my manager pretty quickly at my current job by trying to change how they did certain things before getting an understanding of why they did them that way, but I realized my mistake and went into more of an observer-mindset for awhile.

Over time I built up a reputation with reducing friction in smaller ways on specific features I worked on, and then applied that same thinking to larger scale issues I saw. They were much more receptive once they knew I could make valuable contributions, and now I'm one of the main people establishing patterns and architecture decisions at my company.

Learning to establish myself for awhile before making process changes was a great learning experience that I plan to take with me to all future roles.
For curious onlookers: true, one can "can whip together apps so quickly", as long as:

* Your code is empirically around ~1 KLOC

* You won't have to maintain it in the future

So yeah: if you're going to make a one-off-deploy-once-never-touch-again message board/blog app with Google Maps integration, choose Rails. Otherwise: don't bother.

Making Ruby/Rails maintainable at scale is a sisyphean task: it's possible, but at an enormous cost. This is why there are several attempts to bolt a type system onto Ruby, the most recent one being developed by Stripe [0].

I've no hard numbers, but the narrative "without Ruby my startup wouldn't last long enough to worry about engineering it the right way" sounds very very suspicious to me when talking about even remotely complex problem domains. Your speed will drop to zero in about 3 weeks from the start when you have to refactor some fundamental piece of code/data structure anyway, and then better hope you at least wrote some tests. And having to write tests essentially halves your dev speed anyway, so I really am not sure where this "prototyping speed" meme comes from.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17217815
The fundamental problem is that the people who already own property have 0 incentive to change anything. They also happen to be the voters.
Introducing LF Page Speed Monitoring
Ah, it was ambiguous (to me) what "The last point is unsupportable" referred to.
Meet Microsoft News: stay informed across the Web, Windows 10, iOS and Android
It's not really surprising that the only part of the UK that gets significant investment is the only part that's able to make any money.
That awkward moment when you appeal to authority, but it is the wrong authority.

Coinbase doesn't trades securities, and had not even registered as a broker-dealer at the time of any of these complaints.

Wouldn't the Federal Trade Commission be the more apt generic regulator to lodge these complaints to?
I think you are confusing CEO with COO.

CEO typically is providing vision, mission & strategic direction while the executive team he builds is more execution oriented.
Lead Poisoning in Rome – The Skeletal Evidence
If there were no trend, then there would still be new records established over time, because the longer we keep records for, the more time there is for rare events to occur.

So I think that in order to argue that new records are evidence in favor of a trend, one needs to quantify the likelihood of it not being due to chance somehow.
Do you work for Volkswagen?
We had a similar task a year ago in a Python codebase and we ended up building a function in Rust for it. Rust's splitting iterators over `&str` return references to the same data as their own `&str`s, which is a huge performance win. We would filter the split strings and conditionally store them in a `HashMap<&str, &str>`, which we later drained, both automatically freeing memory behind the scenes as able. We also shaved off a lot of time in some cases by avoiding parsing and comparing strings in cases where we had fixed-length integers (e.g., UNIX timestamps in a known range).
I've got a friend who works for these guys. It's always felt a bit off in the way weird hippie sex communes always would. I'd never have guessed it was this culty.

Wow
> "What is the first thing you will change?"

My response: "My mind" ... As i seek to _first_ understand and then to act...
I'm skeptical about extrapolating too much from a JavaScript example. That ecosystem looks nothing like the rest of the software development world.

Erlang has been around in a niche role for >30 years and still going strong, even stronger now that Elixir has reinvigorated interest in the platform.