skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

I ship a similar product that has included Google Drive integration (and many other back ends) since 2013 - https://www.expandrive.com - happy to answer any questions too!
Turning OSM into, essentially a view of local governments would remove the wiki aspect, where anyone can edit it.

Additionally, there is enough problems getting the global OSM community to come up with one tagging scheme. If every country made their own stuff, it would not be one map.
Ok but I mean Japanese people aren't unaware of or unconcerned with these issues either
I've used computers for the past 30 years and having switched to ultra flat keyboards (cherry strait being my personal choice) of modern age I just can't see how old type mechanical keyboards can beat the experience.

Can someone explain to me what advantages draw them to mechanical keyboards?

Not hating, just trying to understand the phenomenon.
I actually do see a parallel, but it's the opposite of the one you're talking about. Refusing to abort a fetus with Down syndrome comes from the same sort of squeamishness and relativism as refusing to condemn an indigenous culture. It is condemning people to suffer out of some misguided attempt to be understanding and compassionate. It is an overreaction to horrors of the past. It is combating arrogance and elitism with relativism. Refusing to say that people with Down syndrome shouldn't be born is similar to refusing to admit that some cultures should be destroyed.

Maybe that's a stretch.

But you actually bring up a good alternative: abortion. We can easily detect some of these situations (single mothers, twins, and certain disabilities) early in pregnancy. Maybe offering abortions would discourage killing children?
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and many many more...
Not only that but very often we have people with little more than cursory knowledge in something trying to sway people one way or the other.

I'd like to see arguments from both sides from people with deep knowledge in the subject rather than people who happen to have a voice.
I see. It may be that Concatenated SMS is what my VoIP provider is failing to support. (I saw some talk once about fallback to MMS for long messages, but maybe that was just speculation or an uncommon scenario.) I guess I'm in the same boat either way. :/
> This is a distillation of Roger Kimball’s (and many others’) accusations that Marx was an intellectual’s intellectual

I don't even see why it matters. I myself am not an expert on gravitational waves. If Neil Degrasse Tyson or Michio Kazu read a scientific paper by Rainer Weiss on gravitational waves and then break it down for me in layman's language, I don't see why that takes any shine off Weiss's Nobel prize.

As it is, Marx wrote some work for the public like the Communist Manifesto (although 170 years later where the names Metternich and Guizot are less familiar than Merkel and Macron, it may seem more obscure), as well as more dense works like Capital.

It's an silly argument - if Marx went over things lightly, his ideas would be more easily attacked and he would be called lightweight. If he writes densely and goes over each argument thoroughly to make it airtight he can be accused of being difficult for the layman to understand with light reading. I guess Marx preferred making his arguments more airtight than worrying about accusations of being a chore to read.
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>> Honestly, you have no idea how good you have it road-wise, compared to Denmark or the UK or especially the US.

But roads are easy when in a small country with a dense population like Germany. Heck, you can drive from one side of Germany to the other in a single tank of gas. Compare that to properly large roads like those in Canada, or Russia. (I'd add Australia but the weather is so good there that they have no word for pothole.)

How small Germany is compared to one of Canada's medium-sized provinces.

https://mapfight.appspot.com/de-vs-british.columbia/germany-...
Same here. I wish they offered it for personal accounts. I would happily start paying for Drive to use it.
I think this is mostly because of a sound old keys make.
You suggest that poverty is happening in a "post-scarcity society" because people are mentally ill or don't play by the rules, and that Japan is more or less what you have in mind by a "post-scarcity society." Also we have the statistic that 15% of the Japanese are in poverty. So by synthesizing all these we get my (admittedly glib) gloss on your ideas.
The population wasn't much more "true believers", in letting religion dictate such things, than the average person today. It was just part of their culture.

The role of the elites is also over-emphasized - such "religious" wars responded to great group enmities and desires for plundering among the peoples, not just some elites manipulating them throu piousness.

In fact tons of similar wars happened in the ancient world between within Greek city states, or between Greece, Persia and other states of the time, where no religion difference was used to justify them (or could be used, as city states had the same religion).

There, in Thucydides for example, the arguments for war are written bare (control of trade routes, plundering, defending their territories, not willing to submit to another ruler, defending their way of life, etc), without needing to resort to any religious causes.

The same things are masked in the lingo of each era -- in late 18-19th centuries it was all about the "glory of the nation", in the 20th century it was all about "promoting communism" or "defending the free world", now it's all about "protecting human rights" etc.
Also, getting a hotel reservation is much more painful without CC. Some hotels outright refuse to do a reservation without CC, others will charge a higher rate.
So that people with VS2015 would have to buy new version...
Where do I get this?
And read the comments. People who seem to be biomedical researchers are claiming this isn't a big deal and all cell lines are essentially the same anyway, etc. Its like they have never had a quantitative thought in their lives.

EDIT:

And then the other comments about how biomedical researchers dont get paid enough... If only they had more money they wouldnt study the wrong cells (which doesnt matter anyway somehow) for decades after it was a known issue.
You will toe the line if you want a good performance review.
Which makes sense, until you get to fire-exit doors in the UK, which all open outwards in work buildings, which they have to by law if the building contains a certain number of people. Hence many small shops/offices will have exceptions.

But a whole myriad of rules: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-appro...
> when the electrons hit the screen

I am NOT talking about the main electron gun. I am talking about the deflection plates.

Just to be perfectly clear, a CRT has three active components:

1. Electron gun to create a beam of electrons aimed in the direction of the screen.

2. Vertical deflection to move the beam up and down.

3. Horizontal deflection to move the beam side to side.

Here, you are talking about #1, and I'm talking about #2/#3.
I bought a keyboard from Unicomp hoping to get something as great as the Model M. It arrived with keycaps popped off during shipping and failed not long after that (https://twitter.com/mcculley/status/659798006208856064). I have since bought several Das Keyboards for myself and my staff. I love them.

Of course, we have private offices. I would not advise using these great keyboards in open floor plan offices or coworking spaces.
1. They feel really nice to type on

2. They are often very well built

I have a ortho chiclet keyboard which I think is pretty nice, and miles ahead of any membrane keyboard. But 99% of the time I still end up using mechanical keyboards.
The title is wrong this goes to "Docker for rails development"
I think the XT was a model F
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The examiners don't get bonused on allowing patents. But if too many of their decisions are challenged, their career prospects dim.
At least that's the way it was in the 70's when my dad was a patent examiner.
The way the game worked then was for the examiner to negotiate with the filer to reduce the number and size of the patent's claims until the patent could be allowed, but was so weak as to not be worth challenging by the filer's competitors.
I use the one by tijder: https://github.com/tijder/SmsMatrix

It works well enough for me, though I don't use SMS too often though.

What I did like is that I can add another account to a room such that I can monitor texts from both matrix accounts.
Looks like you want more of a greengrocer type of store rather than a pharmacy.
Nietzsche and Goethe are the two greatest prosists of the German language. Nietzsche had an awesome command of philology and was a syphilitic. His writing is seductive.

> Nietzsche wasn't very good at expressing what he meant.

His earliest works are lucid. As his disease progressed his work approaches rambling nonsense.

Goethe was a polymath and statesman, much more involved in the world of human intercourse than Nietzsche. A regret of mine is having read too much Nietzsche and not enough Goethe back when I had an excellent command of German.
The sad part is that in my case (while still using an original Model M from PS/2, circa 1992)it is some thirty years younger than me.

Only for the record, there are guys specialized in procuring, restoring and reselling Model M's:

https://clickykeyboards.com/
You are wildly uninformed about these experiences.

There's no "truth" that they show you. You just... have an experience. And then you think about it. And then maybe it changes you, maybe it doesn't.

Just like any other day, only turned up to 11, dose-dependent.
hi, i noticed there isn't an option to delete my account, and the faq didn't address this from what i could tell. is there a recommendation here?
Lakes don't have the required quantum properties, I think, but this might work:

http://math.mit.edu/~bush/?page_id=484
I think this is a great idea and it sounds remarkably like what DNS servers do for IP addresses. Could we modify DNS servers to provide this information (and potentially better localize it--like how country TLDs are controlled by given countries)? I think could also be very helpful for kids or the elderly in the US--they could remember a phrase much easier than their full address.
How has this not been leaked yet?
Text-to-Face generation using Deep Learning
No, it just means that carriers who charge by consumption would have aligned incentives. If there is no effective competition, the market will still fail.
Ask HN: What are some of the best paying companies in the Bay Area?
In the recent days after having conversations with friends I've found out that Glassdoor data is inaccurate for smaller companies. Given that, I wanted to know what are some of the best paying companies in the Bay Area.
When I say "best paying", its for a software engineering, individual contributor role. So far my conversations show that Google and Facebook are the top ones, but there are SF based unicorns which are not that far behind.
Thank you for pointing this out. The link should now be fixed.
Marxism is widely identified as the intellectual underpinning of Communism, but Marx's philosophy has been hugely influential beyond just that particular economic model. For example, Feminism is often said to be rooted in Marxism, so it's arguable that many of those who identify as Feminists are also Marxists-by-proxy.

As is often the case in philosophy, Marx was brilliant in critique, but lacking in his prescription. Philosophy tends to be great at asking questions, but not so much at answering them.

I suspect many intellectuals who call themselves Marxists identify with Marx's critique — which arguably still stands and a brilliant and revolutionary body of thought — but not with some of its eventual realizations.
> The examiners don't get bonused on allowing patents.

Yes, they do. They are paid based on how many patents they process, and it takes less hours to approve a patent than to reject one.
Call me weird if you must, but I truly appreciate the Apple keyboards. Probably my favorite is the new model Bluetooth keyboard. I love the very very minimal key travel and low activation pressure. I used to have to use “natural” keyboards to keep carpel tunnel at bay, but the previously mentioned features seem to accomplish the same goal. My only nit with it is that I wish it was a full size keyboard including numeric keypad, but I’ve gotten used to not having it now. I also mostly like the new laptop keyboards too, but they can be a bit noisy for my taste when I’m typing fast, especially on the 2016 12” MacBook.
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I don't get it. Isn't this the same as what implemented natively in GNOME, or with Backup and Sync on Windows and MacOS?
I have bought several of these for myself and my staff. They are great and I highly recommend them. (This comment was typed on one.)
"I've taken my fair share of drugs of all sorts, and maybe I'm just a grumpy bastard, but I've never felt like the author describes. I've never seen God or the afterlife. I've always been fully aware than even deep into a trip or a roll or in the depths of a k hole, it's just the drugs that are making me weird."

Honestly, people are different and they react differently to drugs.

I knew someone who did a lot of LSD, but he never had a single visual hallucination, while such hallucinations are incredibly common for just about everyone else who takes the drug.

Also, I think set and setting and probably intelligence and life experience as well really affect what you get out of psychedelics.

A die-hard materialist taking them in a clinical setting, expecting his experience to be "just noise in the brain" might be more likely to get something more superficial than someone who is deeply religious, who takes the psychedelic in a church or temple and who expects a spiritual communion with his or her deity.

But, of course, you never know, and either of them might get the surprise of their lives. The other day I was listening to Erik Davis interview a researcher who'd administered psychedelics to thousands of subjects, and said that the people who have the hardest time with them are die-hard fundamentalists and die-hard materialists -- people who have something to prove.
Always a shame to see a company shut down that many people have poured years of effort and belief into.

Maybe a lesson here - I have engineering and PM responsibilities and couldn't be more squarely in the target market - still I have never heard of this product, I wonder how they marketed it…
That's their decision, and serves their purposes.
How much is going to CapEx? I thought they burnt at such a high rate because of their autonomous R&D.
We just need a carbon tax that appropriately prices the pollution in. Just set up a market where people can trade carbon and companies can make money by sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere.
> Hasn’t Marxism had its chance?

No, the two closest things to Marxism that have been tried as alternatives to 19th century capitalism are modern mixed economies (fairly successful in practical terms) and Leninism and it's derivatives (mostly horrible in both practical and moral terms).

Both are pretty different than Marxism on fairly fundamental levels. (The first incorporates many elements of the Marxist program, including it's fundamental prerequisites, but abandons — or at least delays, as the long term arc of the modern mixed economies might be interpreted as a kind of “evolutionary Marxism” with periodic setbacks — key others; the second likewise cherry picks from Marxism, but also abandons the fundamental prerequisites.)

> but why would you think it’d turn out different if tried again?

Well, because it wouldn't be “again”, Marxism is fundamentally different than anything that has been tried before, and the nearest approximations to Marxism that have been tried have widely divergent results.

> How many precedents are there for a complete upheaval of the economic system on that scale that have worked?

The displacement of the dominant feudal economic system with capitalism and the displacement of the original system named capitalism with modern mixed economies (often called “capitalism” and retaining some key features, but distinctly different) are at or, in the former case, beyond the scale of the replacement of modern mixed economies with Marxist ones, and both were reasonably successful.
The mother.
How is this not considered collusion?
> whatever you like

Car Talk. RIP. :-(
https://cloudinary.com/blog/evolution_of_img_gif_without_the...
I am not a good reader so I started using audiobooks. I should try to note down interesting things while listening.
There is also the hackrf one which is pretty much on the same level as Kiwi if not a bit better you can find it for about the same price but the difference is that the HackRF often goes on sale with a 30-50% discount.

On a tangent number stations is like the number one “secret” I would love to be solved, I’m really curious if these are still used to direct I/Os or of these are just the RF community version of trolling these days.
Not only that, much of software developed today is targeting the cloud where resources are still very expensive.
Seconded. They’ll even build you a custom keyboard layout. For example, I have a dvorak keyboard that doesn’t need to be messed with in software. You can get them in PS/2 or USB configurations.
> The turbine will produce about three megawatts of energy on average which, when working at full capacity, is enough to power 2,400 U.S. homes for one month.

The "for one month" makes no sense here, but if you drop it the math checks out.
I think there are many reasons to be skeptical of inflation and productivity statistics because they don’t seem to capture the rate of innovation in consumer goods such as smartphones and related areas like wireless plans. I wrote a piece on inflation statistics showing how U.S. inflation statistics fail to account for the quality improvement in iPhones: https://medium.com/@vince.pavlish/using-iphone-prices-to-che...
Forking becomes less likely/more costly as a system is widely adopted, and as it is widely decentralized. I agree with you on historical precedent but have more faith in this for a variety of technical and structural reasons. Disclaimer that I’ve known Arthur and Kathleen for a long time (pre-Tezos) and have helped out a little with some infrastructure/security a few times with the project, but that also means I have seen how the sausage is made.

My “article of faith” is that one time someone will get this sufficiently right to facilitate a lot of awesome stuff. Based on what I’ve seen, I think Tezos has a good chance of being “it”. People should definitely do their own research, and it isn’t an all-or-nothing trust thing; trust can be built in a network over time and through use.
But, if the server sends you a private resource, this implies the server must already know your identity. Being private it's not supposed to send it to anyone else, so it needs to identify you in order to know "does this user have access to this resource?".

Am I missing something here?
I grew up using the Model M's in various computer labs. For my own computers I didn't have enough money so I stuck with membrane keyboards. I recently got some Cherry MX browns.

Nothing is like that Model M IMO. It is probably straight nostalgia thinking about it. I've tried nearly every keyboard type due to working in consulting and using all kinds of laptops and desktops but I have a new personal favorite: the Chromebook Pixel keyboard. It feels like sex to type on.
> For example, Feminism is often said to be rooted in Marxism

There is both a branch of feminism that is Marxist in the strict sense, and there is the school of feminist critical theory that utilizes parallel structure to (and is largely inspired by) Marxist critical theory, swapping out the central conflict of class for one of gender, but feminism in the broad sense is not inspired by or related to Marxism, and the idea that it is is mostly one of the anti-feminist Right in the West, used to attach the negative emotional charge of Marxism with the general population to feminism.
Ask HN: What is the best use of a scatterplot you have ever seen?
I am preparing a paper for school about scatterplots. Their benefits and use cases. Would be cool to have some examples of especially great ones.
If this article is your cup of tea you might also be interested in "Learning How to Learn" a Coursera course by Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowsk. It boils down to a similar system but gives more background, science, and detail.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/we...
So true! For that I like taking quick notes of what I'm reading or at least highlighting points that stand out and then later go over the notes alongside the book. The highlighted bits can even be somewhat arbitrary, as it still helps to make different parts more distinguishable and aids recall.
A blog by the city of Montreal promoting itself?

Usually the places that are the 'most affordable' are so because the economy is not good.
While the line drawing fallacy certainly comes into play here, one can with some confidence say that /before a single neuron is formed/ is most certainly a safe spot to point at and say “not yet.”
Unfortunately I'm German so I can't recommend good translations, but it should definitely be possible to read Goethe in German and English simultaneously. Look for Dual-Language Editions with side-by-side views of German and English texts.

Definitely worth it to freshen up your memory. I hope you find some time to do it. Although I kind of disagree with the view that Goethes thoughts are "more important" than Nietzsches'. Both sometimes contain astonishing levels of obviousness (used here with negative connotation) and both have works which are hyped due to their names.
You will never chat by phone with someone in another solar system. In principle you could record a message which they will hear years later, and then they'll record a reply which you'll hear even more years down the road; hardly a chat.

Also, text will be much cheaper to send over that distance, so think telegrams not telephones.
Showing my boss 1 week ago the median salary wage for all employees of a specific job title ... :D
Beauty is in the eyes of the developer.
Thanks for commenting. I understand your position, but the extreme "hermit" case is exactly what I'm talking about. I didn't say anything about purchasing a shelter. I can hang leaves over sticks like humans have done for millennia. I am owed nothing by the world and I have no right to demand that companies provide me with anything.

I agree that I probably understand "freedom" differently than most, but my definition demands nothing from my fellow citizens (which is what "companies" are made of). :)
"> HPPD is almost certainly a real disorder.

I just looked that up and have assumed it was normal for most of my life."

I've always had visual snow and similar symptions as described for HDDP, color patterns and flashing/movement, visible on any flat-colored surface and especially with closed eyes (similar to what Prisoner's Cinema is described as being). I have never taken any drugs in my life, other than alcohol.

Honestly, I've always just thought it was a normal part of the visual processing that happens in the brain.
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Azure Sphere dev here. Like any early project, we had to make many strategic choices on where to invest limited development time in. There are an endless number of features and platforms we'd love to support, but Visual Studio is an obvious first environment to target. I can't give you a timeline, but we're definitely investing in cross-platform tools.

I must admit I'm disappointed Seeed set such a high price for the dev kit, but there will be more boards in the future.
What about Windows support?