skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would still argue you did the right thing. Sure it would be nice to always have enough domain expertise to pick the right solution in the first place, but you didn't have that knowledge at the time. This experience cost you a little pain but your system is working and you are now smarter.

A developer will be presented with thousands of situations like this across her career. If she takes the YAGNI/under-engineering approach, it almost always ends up a similar story - some growing pains, some re-engineering, a lesson, and a working system.

On the other hand, if she errors on the side of over-engineering, there's no bound on how far off the rails she can go. At best she ends up with some extra useless code that someone will delete later. At worst it becomes a time sink that consumes the entire budget and schedule.

YAGNI forces you to always hew to the side of under-engineering. And if there really are design considerations that you know are easier to bake in early than retrofit, it's almost always possible to arrange dev stories in such a way to force those design decisions out early.
The population has been migrating south. Why are the stations migrating north?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_Stat...
Not having read the article, I’ll just chime in and say anecdotally that since I use Firefox on my iPhone I’ve clicked on numerous Pocket articles suggested on the new tab screen. Even though they only show two suggestions at a time, they tend to be really interesting reads and fit in well with my interests. Clearly they have a good algorithm.
Editorial control over Youtube, not just Youtube Originals. Again, similarly just because some ISPs uses their own internet connection and can manage filter the traffic for internal use, does not mean they are responsible for filtering every connection they provide to customers. Or telcos, they also run some phone subscriptions, but are not responsible for every phone subscription in their network. Because they are platform, even as a user of their own platform they have certain control over their own use.
I may be misremembering, but AFAIR They artificially reduced diesel consumption figures by having the vehicles run different power curves during testing. Meaning they used more fuel, and made more particulate emissions than they claimed to. So they made it look like the cars would use less fuel than they actually did.
Very good points! You’re right on all of them. I remember one game shop had a “RealSound” technology that sounded impressive for a PC speaker. Maybe “Mean Streets” was the name.
Try my gmail.
All browsing history is kept on your device and recommendations are calculated on your device. The only cloud synchronization is the recommendation engine - no different to the existing synchronizations like the update checker or the phishing sites list.
Thank you. It's useful when I have multiple virtual machines open in my PC and something this simple is really nice.
> This stuff should be basic literacy for everyone.

Arguably, one compromised PKI x.509 CA jeopardizes all SSL/TLS channel sec if there's no certificate pinning and an alternate channel for distributing signed cert fingerprints (cryptographically signed hashes).

We could teach blockchain and cryptocurrency principles: private/secret key, public key, hash verification; there there's money on the table.

GPG presumes secure key distribution (`gpg --verify .asc`).

TUF is designed to survive certain role key compromises.
https://theupdateframework.github.io
The first thing that jumps out at me, actually, is the use of a shorter time period than is likely available. From 1900 or 1920 to now is a pretty short time period.

We have (some) records dating back to the mid-1700s: https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/0...
So the answer appear to be that, yes, he can sucker an awful lot of people.
Pretty cool stuff.

Works great in Firefox. Turning on JS in the Safari Develop menu didn't work for me, but I'm using a late `09 Mac mini running Mac OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) so that may be why.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but in a low-growth first world - which we are probably living in, now, interest rates have to be low.
The best beginners books I've read are Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction (free) https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ and the Little Schemer as a primer for learning computation. Little Schemer you can do with pen and paper no hardware required and it's not a long book, so can split it up for an hour a day then have time afterwards to start an actual computer science course, most of the work is done online with Brython so can do it in an internet cafe without needing to install anything and the lecture videos are short youtube presentations under 5 mins usually so not a lot of bandwidth needed https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/schedule.html or they can just teach themselves later however they want as the goal is just get them interested in computation.

There's another book out of print called The Schemer's Guide by Iain Ferguson, which was geared for highschool students and could be done entirely in pen and paper. You can buy it used off Abe Books or amazon for $10 and just hand out illicit photocopies.
An overview is available in the Green Paper: https://files.holo.host/2018/03/Holo-Green-Paper.pdf
Yup. I’ve read about the product but haven’t tried it. I’ll likely check it out.

My issue with these services is (and maybe this one is different) is that I have to run 3rd party software and extensions and I never know how long these companies/products will stay around.
They quite clearly should be distrusted in the current conditions. Electronic voting should go. This greatly reduces the attack surface.
Hi there. Same here.
> This was probably the stupidest possible problem for the American political machine to make a wedge issue

Read it as an issue that unites middle American industrialists and rural anti-elitists and the politics make sense.
I could be wrong, but I took him to mean “post comments” and not “submit content” although I could be wrong. Obviously some great content exists on YouTube, but it’s been a given for years that the comments are incredibly awful and essentially unusable.
First, most of the credentialed ones are funded by fossil fuels industries. Either directly or via shells to obscure sources. And so their objectivity is at least questionable.

Second, there's support from public relations firms, also clearly funded by fossil fuels industries. It grew out of the "smokers rights" campaign in the early 80s, which was funded by the tobacco industry. And indeed, the "climate-change denial" campaign is basically a clone of that. Involving the same firms, but with much broader funding.

So basically, virtually none of the climate-change deniers have a clue about the underlying science. So "intellectually engaging" with them is pointless. You could maybe help them see how they've been manipulated. But that too is probably pointless, because they're up to their noses in a smothering meme swamp.
It indeed seems like Mozilla does not publish user stats for Firefox, though detailed statistics for AMO are still available.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addons_in_use/?l...
> Does “* denier” really count as vitriol?

Great question. I agree with your logic, and that on its face it isn't vitriolic, or even really offensive (or shouldn't be at least). However I've only ever really seen the term used by people that are using it as a pejorative. For that reason I take more of a structuralist view on the meaning, which is subjective.

I've never heard somebody (excluding trolls) describe themselves as a "climate denier" either.
A fair question: has the climate alarmist side not cherry picked or even used fraudulent data to suit their cause as well? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-e...

Our skepticism isn’t about the climate changing, (remember when it was called global warming?) it’s a skepticism about the causes and the degree to which human influence plays a significant role. Any time there is any skepticism at all, we get labeled “deniers” or otherwise ostracized. That’s pretty unique in science, usually skepticism is considered a healthy part of the scientific process — unless it’s concerning a topic that has substantial political implications.

Given that a large segment of the climate change advocacy also “coincidentally” support far left economic policies as a “remedy,” how can it be a surprise that people like me have a deep skepticism of the whole human-caused global warming debate. Another time we had “settled science” with so much politicization was when Eugenics was being advocated.

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/why-politicized-science-is-da...

I’ll predict the inevitable downvotes, which really only proves the point: debating human causes of climate change is akin to debating the existence of Jesus Christ.
Good times. I enjoyed your thoughtful entry on the SCC at https://steveblank.com/2009/07/30/hes-only-in-field-service/ . When I was using it as a kid on Z80s with radios and having a Z80K was a mere aspiration, like a computing Corvette, it was usually with pleasure. I'm looking forward to reading more about the the Z80K and perhaps learning the causes of Zilog's demise. It, like Tech Design Labs TDL from New Jersey and so many others, remain in the genes however far back it was.
As a customer I've found just ignoring all EULAs to be effective on the flip side. They are meaningless in my opinion and I don't give a crap about what it says. I'll use the software as I want.
It is a file sharing scheme, these are just the human dynamics that stem from it.
WhoTracks.Me
Why Blockchain and Decentralization are the Future featuring Charlie Shrem
I would like to see a similar evolution in paperwhite displays. To have a 17" or larger display with a tiling window manager stacked with urxvt terminals running zsh and vim.

I think this would be a great alternative UI conducive to concentrating on coding. And give my eyes a break from a glowing screen. It would also be useful outdoors which might open up new possibilities for sustained outdoor programming.
Whoops, thank you!
There was some decent discussion about that earlier on HN [1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17739631
Facebook can go real big here. The have ridiculous distribution (2B+ monthly users). If they roll out a crypto payment or stored value system to their users, the network effects / lock in will be insane. Only Google could really compete (Amazon doesn't have the same international presence as Facebook or Google; Microsoft doesn't have enough mobile presence; Apple only has rich users).

The question is will Facebook take this seriously and invest over the long term to win. Historically, they've had a terrible history of investing and committing to new efforts that don't pay out immediately (killing Parse, sunsetting big parts of their platform, shutting down their Creative Labs, etc.)
Argument against is simple: Mitigating effects climate change as you suggest will be extremely expensive. (Protecting cities from rising sea levels is really the least of problems...)

If we can do something much cheaper (prevent climate change) and there is a 99% chance of it working then of course you should; probibalistically...

Yet despite what the math says, the path the world is on is obviously to do nothing. The efforts done now to stop man-made global warming is a rounding error.... The Paris agreement is short of what is needed, and no country is close to fullfilling the Paris agreement.

So our children have to pay for the enormously more expensive mitigation instead.
You could say the same thing about the term "conspiracy theorist". It's just more convenient to label opposing voices with a single, derogatory connotated, term. Especially when the aforementioned group is comprised of many genuinely stupid/malicious individuals.

Now the problem with those groups is that their borders are made intentionally blurred. In the case of climate change: industrial/government lobbyists and shills try to mingle with genuinely skeptical citizens. Grouping all these people in a single group is one of the only ways to fight against that, especially when the raw information dissemination power of the opposing party is so much stronger.
> Why is that? Did I say everyone had to adopt it?

Given the overall trend towards SaaS I expect tooling vendors to try to enforce this whenever they think they can get away with it. By working on or using these projects you're giving them more ammunition, even if your intentions are to just add another option.

> You don't think there's value in someone in a low-income situation being able to experiment with and use a full development experience without having to upfront invest in computing power?

And it's better that they get stuck paying rent to some cloud vendor just to access their editor?

I'm all for making stuff more accessible, but this is the same nonsense as FB's "Free Basics".
I tried Wiby and also got that same "90s internet" feeling, especially since it prefers sites without CSS & Javascript.

I like the "Surprise Me" button, where it takes you to a random page from the index. (I got a 90s era Babylon 5 fan page.) It could be interesting if didyougogo added that, but it would need to add a NSFW filter.
I'm assuming the case when one gets paid fairly, regardless of their location.
In my previous comments on one of GitLab posts I expressed my disagreement with the way their salary calculator works: it calculates salary based on location and I'm against that.

When discussing those things first thing to keep in mind are legal complications for both parties, and being open about this lets everyone deal with risks properly.
France, Germany, Sweden, and many others seem to be doing fine, so it doesn’t look like “all” of them, not even close.
Yeah, it's Mozilla's proprietary cloud synchronization service.
Nice.
This is the best example I give for why Macs are great. Because they think about these things. This is a built in functionality in the Apple ecosystem.
The article makes it sound like there is no possible way for the probe to melt. Is this actually the case? Is there no possibility that manufacturer defects or a solar anomaly that could cause unexpected problems?

I don’t want to downplay the good design and engineering that went into this, but should we be so confident without actually having done something like this thousands of times?
Then why did Venezuela do so well facing essentially the same pressure before the current socialist "revolution" ?

And by the way, why does equality for all mean this ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3192933/Hugo-Chavez-...

Apparently, can't have socialism without Justin Bieber. Not for sharing, of course.
Appeal to authority is not a legitimate argument in a discussion.

Neither is reducing one side of the debate to climate change being a "hoax".

The general debate in the scientific community resolves around the question as to what extent humans are involved, and this debate is still alive even if the majority wants it to be suppressed.

The fact that the majority of scientists behaves irrational and pushes inadequate models into politics doesn't make their arguments any better.
I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York since it turned into a real town behind the authors' backs.
How does you application prevent MitM attacks?
My parents still have a presumably functional CGA monitor in the basement because we’ve never thrown away any electronic we’ve owned. I am sure there are people like that out there.
This whole thing makes me sad. There shouldn’t be any political overtones at all. The science behind climate change is relatively straightforward (greenhouse effect is real, humans dump mountains of CO2 into the atmosphere constantly) and the whole thing just makes sense to reasonable, intelligent people once they have the knowledge to consider it thoughtfully.

That being said, there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it at this point. Unless we find a way to stop crisscrossing the oceans in quarter-mile-long, bunker-sludge-burning cargo ships and flying jets all over the place.
To expound on that: The matrix in most PS/2 keyboards only supports two-key rollover (reliable detection of two keys pressed at once). In the case of three+ keys there is a chance for missed presses and other artifacts.
Overnight-marinated special.
Interestingly, people visiting Bielefeld often think it is a great way to start a conversation with locals. Having no intention of using it as a meme, but rather as a way of „breaking the ice“, not knowing that they will induce the complete opposite reaction.
Or Americans, as it seems rejection of science around climate is disproportionally high in the USA.
"(remember when it was called global warming?)"

I keep seeing this phrase lately. What does it mean? [To clarify, I'm asking about why people keep saying "remember when it was called…" as though it proves some point about it. Global warming is still an accurate description of the predicted and confirmed phenomenon.]
Those property prices aren’t unreasonable given lack of property tax and higher population density. It’s the same in india.

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-03-08/don-t-b...
Speaking as one with no inside knowledge ...

Sometimes a link can be submitted and then deleted, and sometimes it can be submitted and flagged dead. What you describe is consistent with both of those.

It could be something else.
It's about risk management. What you suggest would work in the 1% case (using your suggested 1% chance without debating it), but we would still need to do something about the 99% case.

This is called the precautionary principle.
A distinct difference in behavior is that OS X+ Finder has the ability to view the same folder in multiple windows, which is a necessity if you're going to keep the miller column view.

Classic Mac OS Finder did not allow this. Every time you opened a new folder, a new window would open. If you navigated to a folder already open, the previous window would jump to the front. That's how spatial Finder worked so well. It's difficult to combine both these patterns. It's one of the reasons people felt Mac OS "just worked" without necessarily being able to elaborate as to why.
> There's a reason why DOS stands for Disk Operating System. :)

This is a retronym. Before purchased by Microsoft, DOS was developed by Seattle Computer Products under the name QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). This was changed by Microsoft to MS-DOS with a changed meaning of "DOS".
I recently read a nonfiction book called The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone [1], which talks about the interplay between solitude, loneliness, and creativity. The author talks about loneliness and solitude in her own life and she examines artists for whom these traits played a prominent role in their lives and their work.

Many artists have written about the necessity of loneliness and solitude for achieving original work [2]. Neuroscientists [3], psychologists [4], and philosophers [5] have expressed this as well.

Like everything else, our lives need to have a balance between socialization and solitude. I think many people suffer anxiety because society tells them they "need" to be constantly social, surrounded by others. The stigmatization of solitude is not uncommon. Introverted people encounter this on a regular basis. However, a healthy amount of solitude in our lives allows us to be ourselves with ourselves, unconcerned with the demands of others and the pressures of society. In this setting, we can truly be original and whole.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-City-Adventures-Being-Alone/dp...

[2] "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." -- Ernest Hemingway

[3] "Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!" -- Santiago Ramón y Cajal

[4] "In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone." -- Rollo May

[5] "That is why I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The vertical he gave seems to do just fine with centralization. Asana and Trello are very popular for the work-tracking use-case.
Great read but I don't think this is a huge problem, yet. The US is the biggest and most vibrant economy in the world. It has the most advanced military, it spans a huge land area, and the country has massive impact on global culture. Until that changes, I don't think the average American needs to speak another language.

Note this is about the average American. Obviously for people who conduct international business, I think the story is different.

I'm actually bilingual and I do appreciate the benefits. But again I just don't think learning multiple languages is needed for the average American. What's probably missing more from the American educational system is STEM competence. I think that is a lot harder to argue against given what it confers in terms of economic and defense benefits.
55km is not insignificant though. Some very rough estimates - 55km is 0.5% of the distance from the equator to the pole. If the temperature range between those two extremes is 50C then the shift corresponds to a net cooling of 0.25C, which seems like it would have a noticable impact on those graphs.

Obviously there is more to it than that, but I don't think it makes it a non-issue.
With an astronomical-enough price, you can afford to hire 10,000 random people, put them all through a college game-development program, and then train the 1% of them that turn out to be good at that particular job into competent game developers. Or maybe use the money as capital to acquire a game studio.
1. It seems like the tories have been at civil war since the referendum so the number can't be that small. Corbyn doesn't seem too unhappy about the idea either, although for different reasons than, say, David Davies.

2. Germany may ban them in its constitution, but it seems to work for Switzerland. Again, if you don't trust people to handle referendums maturely and responsibly, why trust people to elect representatives that will handle the same issues maturely and responsibly?
It is a lot easier to create a successful conspiracy theory than it is to create a successful conspiracy.
I thought of something similar has a holiday project.
A small search engine using SQLite FTS5 for a small set of websites crawled with Scrapy.

I made it public yesterday on https://fts.fail/

Good luck slaying that dragon though.
not an economist, but during periods of wage-inflation (i.e. now or soon), won't interest rates need to increase to prevent the economy from "overheating"?
The description is horrible on their github page, do you know if this integrates your browser history into recoll or what exactly?
I was a believer and then watched this and lost some of my faith

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaiZ5BHaUMY

I believe if you want a solution you're going to have to work on things people want like Elon Musk’s batteries and solar roofs. Find a way to make the market work for you or youre unlikely to get support
> Given that a large segment of the climate change advocacy also “coincidentally” support far left economic policies as a “remedy,”

Yeah, what if we make a better, cleaner and more sustainable society by accident? How terrible would that be.
Anyone know why they opted not to use Webtorrent for this? Obviously straight Bittorrent is more battle-tested, but the extra friction of having to know how to work a BT client is non-trivial.