skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For every statement that in hindsight is hilarious because we've surpassed it by miles, there's thousands and thousands of statements that are wrong because of their sheer optimism.

Just watch The Jetsons :)
No kidding. You can be as prepared as they come and as fit as they come and still face a dangerous situation knowing that someone else's life is on the line going in to risk your own. If that does not qualify as brave I don't know what does.
Show HN: Abot – Anonymous Feedback Messages for Slack Teams
Stack Overflow survey is too often misinterpreted
The "Most Popular Technologies" section of the Stack Overflow survey is often interpreted wrong due to missing context. It does a great disservice to the industry because of how respected the survey is.

I've been directed to it twice in the last week by 2 different people interpreting the same information in different ways... and both wrong.

They need to segment their technology survey better because non-technical folk are getting ideas like JavaScript is surpassing everything else without consideration for the underlying application of the technology. I mention the JavaScript conclusion as just one example.

Let's narrow the context down to web applications for a specific example.

Comparing PHP to JavaScript might be the best example. (based on the only server-side stats I could quickly find) According to stats, PHP is the most prevalent server-side language in use for web applications, yet it ranks in popularity on Stack Overflow at 30% compared to JavaScript at 69%.

Of course JS is ranked higher because it is used as a client-side language on just about every website, in addition to whatever server-side language is being used.

As a result, we get people concluding and spreading disinformation that languages like Python, Java, PHP, etc.. are antiquated because of JavaScript's rising popularity.

The survey is just a popularity contest. It is also misunderstood in that it highlights the shiny things developers prefer to be developing with without any prying for the tried and true mundane tech that companies may use for the sake of stability and maintainability.

Stack Overflow needs to at least segment the language survey into application types, such as server-side web, client-side web, native mobile, desktop, etc. Until then, this popularity contest is useless and does a disservice to the industry due to its popularity and easily misinterpreted data.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology
Apparently we will gladly give away our rights and freedoms to hurt "the other side".
If you're coming from backend languages, perhaps you'd find it easier learning node first, then going into the front. This way you won't have to learn both the concepts of front end development and the new language all at once, you can do language first then front end paradigms
Within a decade? I'd be surprised if even 0.1% of meat is lab grown in 2028.
It's potentially a more reliable way of saving out a web page...

Or in a 2-step process, do that, then feed it to a PDF converter for sites that don't play well with printing.
I found nix-pills more useful than the manual: https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html
I meant leave greens specifically, sorry.
dang, could I ask you to review and provide some feedback on your evaluation? I'm very confused at your comment. I was asking if the parent was in fact referring to lying, and if so, whether this was legal. This was a direct response to the parent comment's suggestion that consumers like us should lie on the phone. How is my comment off-topic when I was directly asking about the legality of the parent comment's advice? It seems to me that it was as on-topic as any comment on that suggestion could be.

I'm also confused at your flamewar comment. I saw that people were keen to challenge me on the morality aspect, but it was not what I was actually objecting to or taking the discussion on -- I was asking about the legality. If you look and see where the OP himself finally responded to my question [1], we had quite a nice discussion on that very topic that even got upvotes with no objections so far as I could see (but do let me know if you see otherwise). How this a flamewar, when we had a nice and civil conversation on the exact subject I inquired about?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17466984
LEDs are simpler to cool, and at this scale it might be possible to use the heat for community heating.
I'm astonished too. The section on use cases doesn't help to justify why we need all this complexity. Maybe they are trying to compensate for the inefficiency of the Unix permission system ( having user, group and world is lacking in a lot of situations by today standards ).

The other solution is to implement a totally different mechanism ( ACL + some other thing, Capabilities ) but then you lose retrocompatibility.
What if it takes 6 months for new hires to be net contributors, because they have to be trained in X which hardly anyone else uses?
But... they already voted on this.

From the article: (the EU parliament) "takes the view that the current #PrivacyShield arrangement does not provide the adequate level of protection", "calls therefore on the Commission to suspend the Privacy Shield until the US authorities comply" https://twitter.com/bendrath/status/1014832868969910273?ref_...
I wonder if they would accept that.
Show HN: Hacker News job trends
Yep, sorry I should have included the reference. This post is by the redux-form creator, in which he states why it was a bad idea, and announces its 'spiritual successor': https://codeburst.io/final-form-the-road-to-the-checkered-fl...

> Also, everyone high up in the React community, including both inventors of Redux [1], say that Redux is not the best place to keep form data. Oops.

[1] https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/1287#issuecomment-17...
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 release date, price, news and leaks
Agree. I can't downvote, so I just agree :)
Brother MFC L2750DW Driver Download – Printers Driver
News #64-Angular’s Tips&tricks|Probot|Cryptocurrency|Service Workers|open Source
Yes. I really wouldn't like to be the Commission facing this one at the moment, particularly since the current US administration will presumably see this as related to the larger international trade-war.

My personal opinion is that this isn't tradewar politicing by Europe, it's the result of a genuine interest in citizen's privacy, but I can see why it could be taken as such.
becoming maintenance experts on critical systems, assuming responsibilities that no one else wants

The problem is people who are not experts and do not take on responsibility, but stay anyway.

The responsibility-taking experts are the backbone of any organisation.
Apologies in advance for not truly contributing to the discussion.

> Same here in India. For all the talk about Medical Tourism to India, it works only because Americans come here to India with Dollars, and $1 = 70 rupees. Your purchasing power suddenly increases by 70 times.

How is this logic?
>machines with over 1TB memory already commonplace

WTF
I don't think they intended to grow slowly. When they launched, there were similar aggregators already (digg?). I think they just kept the site under the radar long enough to become sort of a Craigslist for content. The design was antiquated and simple, userbase was limited but loyal. It just caught on from there, sometime around 2012-2014 when people wanted more content per unit of time invested (vs other social networks).
Fascinating animals, I keep several of them as pets.
Sadly they are basically extinct.
Only reason you were refunded money was because they originally errored in their favor. You probably would’ve received nothing but a class action was threatened by private or government actor.
Face Detection for CCTV surveillance
ProxyCrawl | Ruby, Javascript Engineer, Cloud-Computing, Human Resources | 100% remote | Full-time only |

Competitive salaries depending on role and experience (ranging $60k - $140k)

At ProxyCrawl we care about data, all our team loves the freedom that the internet gives to access anything at any time and that's what we want to share and provide to the world. Internet should be open and accessible for everyone.

Current job positions:

- Remote cloud-computing infrastructure engineer
- Remote senior backend engineer (ruby)
- Remote javascript engineer (node + frontend)
- Remote human resources (yes, we are growing a lot and need help hiring)

Check full list here: https://proxycrawl.com/about-us#jobs

All our team is remote and from different countries and timezones.

Please email your resume + portfolio to us at jobs [at] proxycrawl.com
Polyglot [0] is a python multilingual NLP toolkit.
The quality is not great, but it supports a lot of languages.

[0] https://github.com/aboSamoor/polyglot
Potential Pi Killer: Libre Computer Renegade Elite ROC-RK3399-PC
Netflix and Amazon are struggling to win over Indian viewers
Angular didn't lose mindshare because of TypeScript, it lost mindshare because they completely changed the API of Angular, meaning a bunch of companies had to do expensive ports/complete rewrites/switch to new tech. A lot of companies are still stuck on Angular 1 for this reason.

Most Angular devs I know are happy to use TypeScript. (In fact going out on a limb, most JS devs I know).
I had some cricket-coated chicken at a bug farm in Pembrokeshire the other day, it was tasty. As the crickets were ground into a powder it was very inoffensive. I don't generally like food that can stare back, such as whole fish, so cricket flour is good for me.
Topic modeling and sentiment analysis to pinpoint the perfect doctor
If you were only briefly confused, I congratulate you - it would have confused the heck out of me for much longer.
Can you give reasons why you wouldn't use it in 2018? Also, what is your proposed alternative? It's disingenuous to dissent without offering the people the savior. If I own a company, need a large swath of developers and we'll assume any random product that could consist of mobile/native app/games, you name it, I'm going with C# everytime because there's nothing else like it. I'm not committing 100KLOC+ of code in some random version of Python, that like all code, may live a lot longer than anyone ever expected. That's for sure.

It's one of very few fullstack solutions available for game (serverside+Unity), mobile (serverside+Xamarin) and web (serverside+Blazor), maybe you want a WPF or UWP app too. Or all of it for a single stack shop for anything you want. Nothing else is pulling all of that off today, and may never. MS is doing a fantastic job keeping it vibrant, alive and supported. You're not really convincing me without more than what you left there. A few years ago, yes, I would've agreed 100% with the general attitude but the tide has turned. I dove in deep on Python, got back out before I hitched my career to that.

To specifically address the points I disagree with.

-Tooling falling off? Examples? I've worked around or with it for a decade now and never saw the tooling fall off.. it's best in class. I really don't understand how this is any worse than anything else.

-Build toolchain? An example of a dire toolchain is Javascript's, not C#'s. That is a mess that I want nothing to do with. I can't get behind this one either.

-Roadmap schizophrenia? They have it figured out now on the .Net Standard and Core. Your alternative is Python 2 to 3 transitions. That was the real mess.

-Integration with other Microsoft products? Good or bad, you probably aren't going to find better integration with MS products than using .Net. I can't get behind this complaint either.

That said if anyone has attacks on .Net I'm willing to listen but I don't see it. It's the worst, except for all the others.
For games, multimedia, editors, graphics heavy, etc it's a non starter and will probably always be. If not in absolute terms, then compared to the native equivalent.

Even for simple apps (like productivity) they eat battery like crazy.

Slack does less than what ICQ could do 20 years ago, and wastes 1000 times the resources.
Agreed, it's rather one of Perl's strengths.
It could otherwise be read as "agile as f*"
Find Names and Meaning
Find baby names and meaning on www.babynamescube.com
I see Wolof is under "Upcoming UD Languages", I know nothing about R but I see what I can contribute and/or get from there.
Thanks!
This is why I made an extension that makes sure you always load the old design - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
I bought an LG TV. You can update the firmware offline with a flashdrive old school style. I imagine other TV manufacturers have this as well.
A simple crypto profit calculator
Scratch is really great - do not get me wrong! But I find it too advanced. They do support various external hardware. And I can highly recommend the Make lock mbot. Truly awesome.

But Scratch is one step up the ladder to me. It is a commitment to an eco-system and a super nice but blank canvas.

I find Logo to be simpler and more limited. This is a "good thing"(tm) when getting kids hooked. The first hit should always be free :-)

I have gotten some of my non-technical friends to buy mbots. They like the idea but the learning curve was to steep for them.
Could you not register a URI format with the mobile OS to open an IttyBitty reader app that contains the rendering scripts?

Sure, initially that means only users who've noticed it would be able to benefit, but the app would be generic, not vendor-specific, so over time, it could become a standard & make it into the OS, at which point it becomes properly useful.

Edit: (sorry, I appear to have been rate-limited)

In reply to @mstated below:

---

Only really that itty bitty's compressed in the URL, not in the transport (& could be extended to add encryption).

It's absolutely true that, that may be tackling the wrong area - if data: were extended with compression/encryption options (not that itty bitty has encryption, but it's an option with the JS layer there) then the itty bitty decoder has nothing to do.

BUT, experiments like itty bitty might spur on ideas & standards changes for things like data: which to me makes it worthwhile.

(Self-contained, standardised, compressed [, encryptable?] content objects [in this case URL] renderable via ubiquitous web technologies feels like a win, itty bitty or not)

---

Also, if links are shared on html-based platforms, some block data: url's in links. Not sure of the justification, but reddit doesn't seem to render markdown formatted URLs with data: on them, as links. Not sure how to tackle that one - itty bitty sidesteps the restriction.
Thanks for doing the math, looks plausible to me. Just for the argument sake, since there seem to be logistical problems (hey, Hanoi is not that far away, right?) to the whole solution: you could carry out several non-adjacent welds in parallel and then join these segments together, that would speed things up.

The data cable seem to have water damage problems, something that would not be a concern here it seems.
Optimize your article for keywords
Illinois is bankrupt, get out now.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-illino...
Power rails would be way too expensive and interfere with cultivation.
No, you're wrong! Robots will automate everything. It doesn't matter that we can't even fully automate detecting traffic signs, with the whole might of Google behind it, but surely robots will be able to perform the super finicky manual labor tasks required by agriculture before the poorest people in a country run out of money to buy food that is now 10x more expensive.

I'm being sarcastic, I agree with you. Automation is nowhere near to what it needs to be and probably won't be for more than 10 years from now.
They have a nervous system and DO feel pain, afaik the extent of pain they feel is not really known.
A vet had to amputate a limb of an Axolotl I keep as a pet because he got into a fight with another one and he did not even finch.
Alternatively, don’t force the company to accept/deny specific forms of communication; simply make it clear that any communication is sufficient to cancel a contract.

There’s no point for a company to build a convoluted website if any customer knows they can send an email to info@example.com or a direct message or a text "I cancel my contract with you, my account number is 1234." and the only claim the company could make to counter that is that it didn’t receive the e-mail/message. Not that it’s internal processes didn’t allow for the message to be received, but that its infrastructure never actually received it (in which case the user would have received an email bounce message). To be nice, request the company to acknowledge receipt of the notification and, if not received, repeat on multiple channels (including certified snail mail).

Oh, and make it illegal to hide surprising bits in terms and conditions due to the information asymmetry typically accompanying those :)
MockLab – mock the APIs you depend on for earlier, better testing
Samsung forecasts slowing profit growth for Q2, missing analyst estimates
JavaScript – React and Chart js
Talking about Plato and his idea of sexuality and love, the Symposium[0] is worth a read. Aristophanes speech in particular is, in my personal opinion, one of the best thing ever written in this context.
Management needs to be in control. That's why they don't adjust.
We're still learning how to convert an amino acid sequence into a folded protein. We're still learning which parts of a DNA sequence are and are not active and under what circumstances and which other parts of the DNA control that and how.

We're as far from building an organism from scratch as a newborn is from solving Fermat's theorem.

As for building an organism from an existing DNA sequence without understanding that sequence, were perhaps a little closer. We've created a human child from the body of one egg and the nucleus of another (plus a sperm).

But that won't work for an arbitrary DNA sequence, as there's much more to a cell than a nucleus. Each species has its own collection of organelles in its cells; its own signaling structures built into the cell walls.

Imagining that DNA is all you need to recreate an organism is a common misconception about biology. If you're interested in this field, I recommend picking up a textbook at the AP Biology level to start with.
You can contract away basic rights. It’s called an arbitration agreement. Whatever is then written into a contract is adjudicated by whoever is defined as arbitrator. There are very limited appeal options.
Hmmm.

Could you not put an encryption layer into a derrivative of this for some generic PGP end to end encryption, without involving/trusting a centralised provider..?
Booksy, the worldwide booking system, raises $13.2M
> There aren't really that many things I can say to you, a private citizen, that are prima facie illegal.

I agree, but at the same time you probably wouldn't be interested in saying most of these lies, so it's difficult to use that as a basis for assuming the legality of the ones we might be interested in.

> Most of them involve violence of some sort or deceiving you about something you're giving me money for[1].

This is where I'm stuck. Fraud seems to have a wider scope than money (the obvious counterexample being if you're giving someone something other money, it can still result in fraud). What I'm unclear on is how wide the scope gets. Does "something" have to be tangible and does it have to have a clear monetary value in damages? I don't know what the answer is (which is why I asked), and it seems to me that it could go either way.
None of those issues are actually serious problems for agriculture in most areas most of the time. And energy will never be cheap enough in our lifetimes to change the calculation significantly.
>Is there a strong reason why all shells have this crazy syntax

For most things no. They could just as well have proper hashmap and array structures for example, instead of the clusterfuck they have.

Or how about exceptions and try/catch (instead of traps and the like).

Or the side effects of the bizarro [ command (it's a command, not just the syntax for an opening bracket).

And tons of other things besides -- e.g. better argument parsing.

Better ways to add auto-completion instead of the monstrocities of bash completion and the like.
It predicted running out of oil in 1992, for example. Besides, we will never run out of oil, just like we never ran out of wood nor whale oil.
Very nice, although I would hate to be the one to review that patch. A large number of small "fiddly" changes, it's easy to be afraid that copy/paste occurred and that some error snuck in.
As much as I propose to shut down coal plants everywhere, fast, grid operators don't have a natural incentive to keep the grid stable.

It's the job of the State (in broad terms) to either force how that's supposed to work through legislation, or to nudge it with legislated incentives.

If what we have now is that coal is a guarantor for base load conditions, I can see how a politician may come to the (on the surface) reasonable conclusion that we need to prop up the guarantor of base load, coal in this case, if coal was in danger of being closed due to it not being profitable anymore.

This kind of thinking has a LOT of precedent in other areas. (The US subsidized corn to make starvation in case of a global blockade/war impossible. The EU subsidized farms in general for the same reason.) These stop gap measures can easily spiral out of control.

What see is a severe lack of vision. We should legislate, by force or nudge, towards a bright solution with modern solutions. Batteries, a decentralized grid etc is much better option for national security than some large coal plants.
Curious what subreddit you're referring to. I've seen all you describe and worse in the politics subreddit.
Why not just plugin a laptop via HDMI? This worked 10 years ago and it still works today.
The only issue being that there are a number of small, focused subs that contain the best information and discussion on certain topics on the interwebs. I don't give a fuck about the site itself, but the people active in say r/machinelearning and a number of other subs are incredibly valuable to me.

There would have to be a mass exodus of entire subs for this to change. Which probably won't happen until the situation becomes untenable. I don't believe reddit's leadership, despite the harebrained ideas they have shown so far, would Digg themselves into such a hole.
They qualify as JavaScript because className etc. are exactly how you work with HTML attributes from Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/att...
Logic Theorist
Yes, they should play more cat-and-mouse at the government, before releasing anything to the public.
It's going to look quite alien at first, but this is a great demonstration of how this will actually help the language. The regexp examples are a common one always felt overly verbose when I do that. The risk is that it makes it very easy to write overly terse code, I don't think I'm the only dev who's ever written a "clever" list comprehension only to come back to it later and struggle to get my head round it.
It's a duck.

Seriously, "puzzle" in the sense that things are assembled and related to one another to create mental constructs that are pleasing to contemplate. The solution is to read the book and work the puzzle. Or it's a duck. The duck thing might work better for some of the more literal-minded, including the author of the critique.
Yes. Coal plants take a long time to spin up or down, so are mostly suitable for base loads.
You don't need JSX to work with React. JSX is a paper-thin DSL on top of `React.createElement`. Use that, if you want.
Thailand cave rescue: former navy diver dies during operation – live