skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@mirimir wrote "And I can imagine how both developed more-or-less accidentally from leftover boiled grain."

Not that this particular example was an accident from leftover boiled grain.
How would the economics change if we could only communicate at light speed, but had a functional Alcubierre drive (or other lightspeed technology) and could travel at FTL speeds?
While it's nice to not have state income taxes to worry about, total tax burden isn't all that much different from any other state. The only time you really come out ahead is if you can live in WA and do all your shopping in OR.
None of which answer the question. I had searched before I asked to see if there was any indication as to what might have changed - either algorithm or actions of site users :)
I've heard this analogy before but I believe it could be improved. Thinking in terms of months leads to an awkward divisor.

It would be better to go with a divisor of 10 so as to assign precisely one finger and one toe to each of the distributed work groups.

(But, I have to admit, you may want yet another group to coordinate and assemble it all.)
I tried Rocket League... I didn't find it that much fun and the learning curve was a bit too steep. I certainly knew what to do in the game, but I could never get out of my elementary-school soccer habits where I just chased the ball around like an idiot, never in a position to make a play. If I was in a good position, I didn't know what the controls did. As a result, not much fun.

Overwatch I got sucked into immediately. I knew the basic idea; kill the red team... and the rest of the details I picked up as I played. The matchmaking did a very good job of keeping the games winnable but not boring. The variety of heroes has something for everyone; from those that have been playing FPSes since they were 5 (Soldier, McCree, Widowmaker), those that picked up Overwatch as their first competitive FPS at 30 (Winston, Reinhardt, Moira, Mercy...), or those that want something completely different (Doomfist, Sombra, Symmetra). I have made many friends in that game, even met my (ex-) girlfriend via "stay as team" after a good match.

The biggest problem Overwatch has is that they made it appealing to the hard-core gamers as well, so you have to wade through all the people in the community that complain about "no aim, no brain" because they happened to play Aim Hero 13 hours a day and believe that's the only skill in a first-person perspective game that involves killing people. And the balance of the game is such that right now, they're kind of right... people with average aim in other games can absolutely destroy with Hanzo given the large hitbox of his one-shot-kill arrows. You don't need positioning, you don't need teamwork; just get those arrows in the immediate vicinity of the enemy's heads and you win, no matter what your team is doing. They'll probably tone him down a bit in the near future, though.
I have to assume that the government has the ability to shutdown the Internet at will. Perhaps even the ability to physically destroy the networks at key locations at will. They certainly have the ability to take the electric grid offline at will which would render most technology moot within a short period of time unless you have solar panels and battery backup.
Coinbase reportedly gets approval from US regulators for tokenized securities
Tutorial: Designing a GraphQL API
chinese market should be considered :)
Haven't considered "open plan offices" a "trend", or certainly not a recent one. They've been a staple of most places I've seen over the past 25 years of professional tech/dev work. Apparently they're suitable for every situation except management/executive seating. When they want to work together, they'll hit the golf club or go out for long lunches. ;)
Because making bread is quite labor-intensive

It's important to remember there is no evidence to suggest our 14,400 year-ago-ancestors had office / factory / workshop jobs to go to for 60 hours a week. Probably very little in the way of school or universities assignments to hand in by Friday. And they likely didn't have to pick up the dry cleaning or the kids on their way home.

I'm going to propose that, probably, everything the ancients did was labour intensive. Predominately due to not having invented the powered machine yet.
Shit, this is really going to hurt my portfolio. A lot of other tech stocks are down as well.
Yup this is another article going “we aren’t living longer we’ve just stopped <5 years olds dying as often”
I'm not arguing that this bread was accidental, but that people may have noticed that partially burned leftover gruel was tasty. Also, it's arguably easier to grind leftover gruel than dry grain. Because it somewhat holds together. I know from wet grinding homemade black powder, but it's the same idea. Except for the not-exploding part, anyway :)
Is it really so difficult to imagine that I needed to perform an action that can only be done from the root account?

For example, the pen test authorization request form can only be filled out from the root account.
Surprising how the ratio is so far reversed in India. Here in Canada (which is a similar market to the USA), Netflix is the cheapest option. Cable TV is several times more expensive for even a basic plan, and Amazon Prime costs about the same as Netflix (but includes the other Prime services).
"There are many popular trends that I believe are not suitable for every situation"

Doesn't that statement apply to pretty much everything? Horses for courses and all that.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. We just announced Surface Hub 2, more details (and video) here: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2018/05/15/meet-surface-hu...
Alternative headline:

"Netflix stock plunges to only +24% in 90 days"
Total anecdote:

Kinda sucks when shows leave Netflix and don't get replaced; half the appeal of Netflix is the ability to quickly switch between Futurama and Always Sunny, and more importantly to be able to watch those shows on a platform that doesn't completely suck (FX's app has got to be one of the worst apps I've ever used). When "Parts Unknown" was about to leave Netflix, I really questioned whether it was worth keeping my subscription. It feels like it's happening at an accelerated pace in the last couple of years.

The original content is good, and I realize that those shows leaving Netflix is probably more about Fox/CNN than it is about Netflix, but still makes me less interested in Netflix nonetheless.
That is a genius reply. This should be what people think every time they say no to a new idea with "put isn't this just xxxx, but a little simpler?". A little simpler can be very broad and Dropbox has done just what the founder envisioned - made a web-based flash drive.
Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services
To start, read this excellent article about what a senior engineer really is:

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
The luddites were not against technology, that's a common misperception. The luddite movement was a labour movement. They just didn't want to lose their jobs.
Pakistan here, its for 1k pkr/month here, and there aren't really that much programs in Hindi or Urdu so only people who speak good English (and have 1k/month to spare) can buy it. And there aren't any repercussions for torrenting and the internet generally sucks so..
Netflix would be cheaper in India too but you have to take into account that not everyone can speak English there
Even gov subsidies turn out diasterously and is frequently a big waste of money. See: the previous US administrations multi-billion dollar 'clean coal' factory that ultimately doubled it's already massive budget and was delayed repeatedly for years. And the solar company backed by the administration and touted as a great example of public/private partnership, which proceeded to go bankrupt and waste plenty of resources.

I know failure is common in all business but waste, cronyism, lack of urgency, etc all seem to affect public/private deals more than industry arrangements. Private industry is simply far better at choosing winners, coordinating capital, recruiting talent, and managing projects.

When these projects fail everyone then blames 'markets' and private industry for what happened... despite the massive involvement of government and the fact it would likely never have existed without state backing. Then use those examples as why we need negative incentives, fines, and regulations on existing industry instead.
https://github.com/mozilla/readability
Lawyers have also been using github too for some time now.

2013
jduclos.com/notes/github-for-lawyers

Previous HN Discussion on the topic from 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446275
You can get a macbook with LTE? Also designing everything yourself isn't all roses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8&t=1279s
A municipality will not participate in “planning together for growth” when it does not want to grow. We have such a regional planning process in the Bay Area; the plans it makes are pure fantasy. You could have 75% support among the 9-county population that commutes to SF for more housing in SF; something like 5% as many voters could defeat them, because only San Francisco residents have a say in San Francisco policymaking.
Netflix is in a weird position. Early on I loved it, but over time it seems down to a few good originals and a lot of bad ones, and third rate third party content. I haven't cancelled yet but probably will, as I rarely use it. I don't blame Netflix for this necessarily, but it has made it's consumer value much weaker. Internationally, there are much cheaper options typically.

As an aside, their taking of a political stance has led to a small but visible American chunk leaving, or at least claiming to.
Start with The Courage to be Disliked - @stewart recommended it this weekend.

https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1018229367929880576
My company started adopting open office plans a few years ago. Now they are moving beyond that to what they call freestyle office plans. Each department is allocated enough desks for 70% of their workers. You come in in the morning and, like an open-range animal, wander around until you find a free desk. If you need to go to a meeting you take all of your stuff with you so someone else can claim that desk. This is for a campus of 5000+ employees scattered across dozens of buildings. I can't wait to see what the next trend in office plans will be. Maybe gladiator style combat to see who wins the right to use a desk.
Before I moved to Australia from NZ, I always though of the Australian accent as your typical Ocker Steve Irwin accent. That's the Aussie accent we use in NZ to take the piss out of Aussies.

I've since moved to Melbourne, and in under a year, nobody even thinks I'm not an Aussie. The inner-city Melbourne accent is so similar to the Kiwi accent. All I had to do was start saying 'feesh and cheeps' instead of 'fush and chups' and I was 90% of the way there. The other 10% has been picking up the slang.

No way am I going to start calling jandals thongs though. That's just odd.
We do this by consensus, instinctively choosing whatever is most typical for the powerful, or perhaps a slightly exaggerated version of that.

So: doctors, lawyers, politicians, rich people, random TV personalities, CEOs, generals...
Presumably you would just load up the your Alcubierre station wagon with a bunch of backup tapes and send it down the interstellar highway. You could restore your backups before the original data is written!
They've been so aggressively getting rid of "real" content and replacing it with their in-house productions, the quality of which has slid quite a bit as they've ramped up volume.

I'm on the verge of canceling it, since most of what I want is on Prime anyway.
I consider it a point of pride that I can understand virtually anyone speaking English no matter how strong their accent is. I assume it's from being around a lot of people that learned English as a second language.

It would make sense that one of the factors that has made English successful is that it's very forgiving of varying pronunciations. Some other languages are much more precise.

But it does often require a lot more effort to understand someone speaking with a heavy accent. A really great podcast, History on Fire, is hard for me to listen to because the author has a strong Italian accent. I can understand it perfectly well but it's mentally exhausting so I don't listen regularly. I consider it a shame because I like the content.
Trump's Stupid ‘Where Is the DNC Server?’ Conspiracy Theory, Explained
It seems pretty obvious that what we know about is the barest sliver of what was actually going on tens of thousands of years ago. If nothing else, look at historical sea levels through the fluctuations caused by the ice ages. Vast areas that are currently at the bottom of the oceans were dry land, most famously the Bering land bridge and Doggerland, but huge, huge areas all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

https://www.deviantart.com/atlas-v7x/art/Coastlines-of-the-I...

Even in recorded history, terrain is much more malleable than you might expect - rivers changing their course, sometimes wildly, is not especially uncommon. For instance, it is well attested that the Yellow River has changed course such that it has reached the sea both north and south of Shandong in various eras.

http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20090526-history-Yellow-R...
CRISPR gene editing is not quite as precise and as safe as thought
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. I've heard first-hand stories from some early Whiteboard Preview folks at enterprises that used our product to cut down on travel & accommodation expenses, while maintaining the same level of fidelity/interaction that f2f meetings gave them, when doing things like technical sales meetings.

We're seeing many enterprises starting to see the benefits & the economics just simply make sense with the decreasing cost curves of large panel displays, and the increasing quality of interactive touch/ink panels.
How accurate can these dating be? Can you really pin down burnt bread to 14.5k years? Maybe this was ritualistic. I don't know if you can infer that they regularly ate bread. Maybe some peganistic ritual or burial ritual had bread involved.

Grain yield pre agriculture is supposed to be really low. So low that there are hypothesis claiming that it was used to brew beer and eating the grain directly wouldn't be viable for the tribe. I guess we'll wait and see as more researchers chimes into this.
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My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt
An Amazon manager, full of shit, once tried to tell a joke at a social gathering. He claimed that he and friends removed the engine from someone's car over lunch as a prank. This is the education level that some of them have. He literally didn't think people would know he was full of shit.
>Haven't people extracted keys from TPM chips with electron microscopes?

Once, with one brand, in 2010. And it took 9 months.
Sucks if you bought in this morning hoping for a big earnings surprise. (I didn't, but I know those that did)
I hardly ever watched TV, but found myself binge watching Netflix. The on-demand model is so much cleaner than regular TV where you have advertisements being shown for almost 1/3 of the time.

In fact, I liked Netflix so much that I cancelled it because it was becoming a distraction. If I have kids they definitely will not have access to any such thing, and I feel sorry for the kids growing up with it today.
They have e-sports you know. The gamer version of wanting to grow up to be a pro athlete would literally be becoming a pro e-sports athlete in dota or something.
I enjoyed your piece and respect your opinion. That having been said, as a professional resume writer and career coach to global clients, I have to disagree with the length comment. If one is going to include best practices, one needs to include a "core competencies" section at the top. Additionally, if there is any semblance of full formal education and varied work experience, that requires the entire document to be 1 1/2 to 2 pages. The latter being the maximum for anyone under executive level roles. I could quibble with some other points but overall well done.
Did you just buy it yesterday? It’s still way up for the last few months.
Scaling services for many independent businesses is somewhat of a different challenge than “vertically” scaling for one large one like amazon.com.
> there's an established 'story' and if someone tries to go against that established 'story' ... they will find themselves unemployable

Absolute baloney, if you were a little older you might realize that "the stories" are, in fact, constantly updated and revised which is how we would expect science to work. In this case there is other support for earlier agriculture (e.g. Tell Abu Hureyra) and the people involved in that work are hardly "unemployable":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Hillman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._M._Hedges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_M._T._Moore
I wonder how management would react to you just coming into the office and sitting up office on the floor. A bit of wall to lean against and you could be quite comfortable. Extra points for bringing in a bean bag.
Huh? Amazon seems OK now.

Edit: But hmmm, Quora just went down.

> 504. Gateway Timeout.

> Quora is temporarily unavailable.

> Please wait a few minutes and try again.

And they use AWS, right?

Edit: I just got as far as search, order, cart. But no account as Mirimir, so ...

Edit: Re Quora - http://downdetector.com/status/quora

I wonder what other AWS stuff is down. If that's it, anyway.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. The other thing I'll note is we see a general trend of most information workers jobs in the next few years calling for more creative work, so the need for these type of solutions will continue to grow--even if it doesn't seem vital in your role today, you may be surprised to look back at how your job's day-to-day has changed 5 years from now.
Outcry as Japanese winemaking couple ordered to leave France
People like to pretend that they're unique and provide something special. But in reality, I don't really think most do.
In a way that is true - it merely happens to be that when you don't have the near-infinite resources of a large taxpayer population at your disposal, violence's expensiveness actually becomes relevant.
That's a great way to end up with your passwords in a plaintext file
I make custom systems for a living, I also support a CRM/ERP solution for SciFi conventions which often has custom enhancements for customers.

The real answer is to meet in the middle - sometimes the you have to be willing to tell the customer no - its just how it goes - and sometimes you need to go back and bang on the developers to go get it to work the way the customer thinks it ought to, because the customer is correct, and the devs do not understand the use case.

The key is, dont tell the customer no too often, and dont bang on the devs too often - you gotta strike the balance, and only experience can tell you where that magic line is.
From what I make out of their changelog, it's simply Youtube messing with their API, which hooktube depended on to get raw video files. From the public's view, it's viewing without the tracking, but from Youtube's, it's leeching without the revenue. At least I think that's what's going on.
I'll throw in a feature request for zinc whiskers.

http://www.ecmweb.com/power-quality-archive/how-do-zinc-whis...
When Disney will launch their streaming service in late 2019, Netflix will be in deep trouble. If Disney is allowed to aquire Fox, they will have such a massive (and exclusive) catalogue, that Netflix will simply be too expensive. Netflix Originals are not too bad but also not exceedingly good and I personally wouldn't pay 11€/mo for them.
The secret to my hot sauces is pressure cooking in my Instant Pot. I wouldn't do it for fermented sauces, but if you like the cleaner-tasting hot sauces the IP is where it's at.
I’d love to read a rebuttal from someone who’s sold a successful B2B startup because I get the feeling that everything just seems greener on the b2b side to Justin at this point considering his history.
Hehe. Reminds me of my Murphy's law momemts. Whenever I am on a holiday, a deployment will fail, and I will have to login and check while my family plays volleyball on the beach.
I've started creating my own command-line flat-file note software [1]. It's very basic, brittle and still in alpha (committed version 0.4.0a2 last night), but even now I vastly prefer it to any kind of corporate app. Plaintext files in a directory beats almost anything else.

[1]: https://hawth.bitbucket.io
How long would a satellite like that last before being destroyed?
You see, what you might not realize...
How long have you been on call for and how many 3am wakeup calls have you had? I used to think these same. Protip: you won't always be on a good team.
I'm guessing something changing between 2016 and now. Maybe it was rate of growth, or how well Instapaper fits into Pinterest's product strategy going forward. There's all sorts of reasons it might've made sense at the time to acquire them, and for it to make sense now to let them go. You tend to not get real answers to these kinds of questions from companies, though.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah the ratings came out a bit tough on a lot of coins.... mainly due to the best coins in the category doing just so well with much better stats. All are graded by an algorithm so just some cold numbers... pretty telling...
For those of you who would like to learn more about the field, I highly recommend this 3 part lecture by Jeff Lichtman, one of the leaders in this field

Part 1 is about the history of brain imaging and general info about how the brain is wired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTOg0mzRJc

Part 2 is about how the brain is connected to muscles through the central nervous system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1qwQ3Qrzhs

Part 3 is pretty mindblowing, it talks about the imagine technique Google discusses here and about the machinery and microscopes that have to be developed to image a brain and the enormous challenge it posses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVy0n_rdBI&t=10s
It seems as if Netflix is focusing on quantity instead of quality lately...their original content isn’t as compelling as it used to be.
Well, it’s a crackpot website, so consider the source.
What happened is streaming tech isn't niche to Netflix anymore. It became good enough for HBO and Showtime etc etc of course Amazon so now you have a plethora of stuff to watch and Netflix isn't the only game in town but they will always be the original innovator. I hope they can innovate more and do something fantastic.
The fines are supposed to be proportional. Everyone has latched on to the $40mm clause, and decided that anyone in breach of GDPR rules is going to be fined millions of dollars.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Ink to shape and ink to table are two early examples of how we're infusing intelligence into the Whiteboard's canvas. We want to start showing people the power of the pen (or your finger/mouse if you're inking that way!) and how many things you think are difficult to do (e.g. drawing perfect shapes) or multi-step UI things (e.g. inserting a table with X rows and Y columns from a ribbon menu) can be more naturally done by simply drawing them.

This is just the beginning, but you can imagine many more examples going down this road that will unlock a ton more value in the core "ideation" scenario in which Whiteboard lives.
There’s a supply glut. And Manhattan rental prices keep dropping
I make craft hot sauces, and I stand by deseeding and depithing. If I want heat, I'll use a hotter pepper. Thai birds in particular carry most of the heat in the flesh, for example. The flavor difference from using flesh only is huge.
You're joking, but I do wonder if you can speed up fetal development in some way.