skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a kind of ImageMagick
I remember seeing in one of those "The Things That Will Really Surprise Visitors About $COUNTRY" type articles for the US that in most of the world, "where are you from?", either in the sense of location or what family you come from, is one of the standard conversations openers or early topics, whereas the US is actually unusual in that you'll very often here "what do you do?" (i.e., what is your job) in that conversational position.
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I feel like CSS frameworks are not themselves modern. My thought has been that web components are preferred over css classes.

In React, I use jsx-styled to style my components. Then I simply re-use the components as needed. This way I don't ever need to use re-usable CSS classes.
I too would like more information about both of your projects. I'm currently designing a digital technology platform for a charity for the blind in the UK and transcription of speech to text is one aspect I'm investigating, in addition to the more obvious text to speech.
Had Gizmodo not changed the login approach, could FB send a DMCA takedown request in good faith to GitHub? I'm asking for a...um...friend that is developing a client-side-only open source tool that allows them to automate tasks on websites they visit from their computer, some of which may require credentials.

Is the law settled with regards to distributing non-commercial tools to do something a site may not allow in their ToS, or is it similar to doing it yourself where it's fuzzy based on the reasonableness of the ToS and intent and a whole bunch of other things?
> There aren’t credible alternatives.

Other countries (e.g. Germany) do not routinely chlorinate their drinking water and seem to do fine.
>law in the US is "More Fair" the more money you have.

I've read enough history to know this isnt exclusive to the US, but rather the same in every country in human history.

Only religion, politics, and birth-right seem to have any pull similar to money.
New product for next generation
Graft, paper systems cost less to develop so it's harder to skim money from them.

Electronic systems have the nominal advantage of handling disabilities and different languages more easily.
This is whack.
this is why gps spoofing should come as a feature, to prevent apps from doing this sort of baiting of users.
Boy do I feel sorry for the less technically-minded, small business owners, who don't know how to leverage HN.

Having to fight tooth and nail to kick up a widespread fuss is not a viable solution to a technical support line — nor should it warrant gratitude from the community.
IoT Plant Automation
A writeup of my thought process: https://github.com/roshkins/Partnerings

I discovered this on my own, I would love to learn about any related math. I can see Combinatorics, possibly Group Theory, and maybe coloring a graph as relevant related topics.

I also learned that this is similar the problem of Gay Dating, although no one generalized it to multiple people.

Would love some thoughts!
Seeing facebook run ads constantly makes me think they'd find a way to turn you against the courts, and turn the courts against you.

Money can do lots of PR and marketing work.
It's worth noting that, while fascinating, CRISPR is not yet a solved problem, as the technique in its current iteration can apparently introduce random mutations and damage [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05736-3
I'm fascinated as well by that.

I don't know why , it reminds me of that one time where an engineer applied for a job at Google and had to go through about a dozen interviews.

Ultimately he was rejected by them.
Came across this and it made me think. Like anything old habits are hard to break, this even holds true with methods used to clean firearms. In some cases the same methods have been begrudgingly used for centuries. Yes centuries! The best new products are often beautifully simplistic and intuitive. This product is an great example of how years of so called innovation can still miss the most rudimental and practical design and prompts a common response rarely heard anymore of "I cant believe no one has thought of this before". Stop putting a square peg in a round hole and look at things with a child's perspective, it can often produce profound solutions!
Shoo fly don't bother me
Here is what I do:

1. Switch off DNS from PiHole to ISP DNS (or Google/CF, whatever non blocking DNS)

2. Reload page in Chrome with uBlock Origin and selectively allow domains to load until the page loads.

3. Whitelist domain in PiHole

This works b/c both uBlock Origin and PiHole out of the box use basically the same blocklists (or you can force them to).
Do you have a source on Venice? That seems totally false. I’ve been there and seen 500 year old buildings. This aeticle indicates that some steps have submerged, but doesn’t mention building on top: https://www.climatechangepost.com/news/2017/9/21/historic-pa...

As for best case outcome, I don’t see how that is equally likely to all other outcomes. It would just be one case among many, no?
1) and 2) seem to be largely effects of a globalized eceonomy, with outsourcing and resulting inequality. Automation seems to be truly a boogie monster you can put blame on.

Trains also took away long distance horse buggie jobs. They were largely automated too. And finally, if you think driverless cars are nearby, then so are completely humanoid robots who can do all the work a human can do.
I'm glad events as such surface to the public. While the merits of Facebook are undeniable, they are an evil company.
A home builder or remodeler will have varying attitudes, ranging from full compliance with best practices / law via hiring a certified abatement subcontractor vs "just leave us the keys and someone will get it out overnight." You should call a good local environmental engineer, who will give you direction you need. Will cost a few grand.

Alternatively, if its a bathroom's worth of 'hot' ceramic tile (having asbestos or lead), best, legal bet is to just call an abatement company and have them rip it out on the assumption that its hot. You will spend more on testing and research than just following protocol and sending it off to the appropriate landfill. Or if you are tightly budget constrained, just leave the tile in place and place new tile on top. Thats the easiest of all. Hope thats helpful.

(edited with a few clarifications)
I'm sure you'll work out how to interact in polite society one day
Show HN: Shaper – A simple GUI for building code templates
Sounds like you are looking at more automated solutions anyways, but if you end up making a backup from a Drive that is synced to your computer, realize you are only backing up links to google sheets, docs, and slides, not the actual files. In the case that those files disappear from the web your “files” will no longer open.

As far as I can tell, your only option is to export them in their native format (e.g. .docx) if you actually want the data. Learned this the hard way!
They should de-emphasize Dart and refocus Flutter development around Kotlin and make that a first class citizen and untangle flutter from Dart. Kotlin already is the language of choice for Android development has a very similar style to Dart (as in Dart provides few if any advantages that I'm aware off). Google already supports Kotlin in Android studio and adoption over the last few years has been enormous. Providing continuity for Android developers is hugely important.

There's a Kotlin native compiler in the works that will support IOS, Android (native), servers, and WASM as outputs. This makes it a proper full stack language. Compiling to WASM to target frontend code is the sensible thing to do. As far as I can tell, Dart 2 compiles directly to javascript instead of using WASM. This does not make sense to me as a thing to push in 2018. Kotlin has one as well but they have shifted development towards their native compiler and supporting javascript vial wasm.
Never though someone would actually prefer a command line image editor over a GUI equivalent. Now I know a faster way to convert or resize images and I don't even have to leave the keyboard! :-)
Horrifically Bad Idea: Smartphone Voting Is Coming Just in Time for the Midterms
> One question I have is how sequestered the undersea carbon really is

Depends on how you interpret "sequestered". In the sense that it's locked away somewhere for a long time, like organic matter frozen into tundra, it's not very sequestered. But as long as there's lots of seaweed there'll be a lot of carbon taken up. Even though individual plants may die and release their carbon on a relatively short timeline, new growth will take up carbon.
This is a great concept for musicians, however I’m sure it took awhile to build up the user base. Cool to see more niche music communities floating around the web. I run a similar site www.synthshare.com except for producers to get feedback on their music.
I'm sure people get rejected from precheck. I doubt that people rejected from precheck would take up a job where they have to travel on a plane four times a week on average (or rather, they travel enough that they go through a full-body scanner four times a week).
This reminds me of a joke from my college days.

Two engineering students were talking at lunch.

Enginerd 1: Today the strangest thing happened. I was walking around campus, and a beautiful girl rode up to me on a bicycle. She hopped off the bike, took off all her clothes, and said to me "take what you want!" And that is how I got this fantastic new bike!

Enginerd 2: nods approvingly Those clothes would not have fit you anyway.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168785071...

Which is practically a love letter to these scanners and still has 0.88 μSv at the high end.

Again though it's not a question of full body does as this is highly concentrated radiation exposure onto high risk tissues.
It's also true that some huge fraction of Dalvik/Android exploits were based on the same sorts of optimizations which can be used to make wasm faster.
I'm not usually the environmental type but this shit is sickening. So much waste. So many resources pissed away for nothing.
Automation here prevents underreporting and other abuses - it's regulatory automation, so an alternative would be to hire more regulators to review documents. Automating this unsatisfying work increases the amount of law applied for the same cost.
Transitions? All I saw was that scrolling would bring me back to graphs that I'd already seen, which, after a ten second wait, would be abruptly replaced by new graphs.

If these long pauses are "transitions", I see nothing to admire.
With Dart they can completely ditch the JVM and Oracle
Exactly...great comment and thanks for the link. I have not heard of Moloch but from what little you discuss it would seem we share insights, so I look forward to reading him.

Florida, for example (where I am from), is a retirement state mostly. You know what retirees reliably vote for? Fucking hard-ass law and order so they can drink their booze and eat their prescription dope without the fear of being robbed.

I see no chance that any politicians can ever win in Florida with a message of "soft on crime", so its depressing to think that this crap and injustice justice will ever be fixed.

And you know...it's hard to blame them for wanting that. They have worked their asses off their whole lives and now want to live the remaining years feeling safe.

And yes...the "one bad apple" metaphor always rears it's old ugly head when it comes to this topic. Hell, I've lived in the Florida DC and I personally saw inmates who would enjoy busting up any new "liberal" program as long as it got them an extra cigarette or a can of soda.

They literally couldn't give a fuck about anyone but themselves at that moment, and see any program that may be put in place to help inmates as security-bypass vectors that are to be exploited as soon as possible.
A few months ago, I had to build themes for 20+ sites. The sites varied in features (some had slideshows, some had blogs, ..) I wanted to build the projects from boilerplate code that could adapt to the various features as needed, but no tool existed. I pulled in my brother, @ebertucc, and we created Shaper. Now I spend 1-2 minutes instead of 2-3 hours setting up code projects.

The app was built in a few months using Node, Vue and Electron. We're launching this Alpha version to see if Shaper is something we should develop beyond our immediate needs (a few lawyer friends are clamoring for Shaper to segment and generate contract documents).

Curious to hear what ya think!
> The editing brought out the best for the home viewer, the people at the show were probably still laughing however, which naturally does not have the editing

Yes, that's why specials are almost always film the same routine twice with the space hair and makeup for each show. It's better after editing. Anfter editing you cannot talk about any big findings on timing of laughs in the routine because you are only talking about the timing of the editing.

> As a side note when you're calling something stupid you come off as not thinking it through https://sivers.org/ss

Derek Sivers is an actual idiot. He didn't know you could write a macro to control a desktop UI and also write a mock WAV file to CD-ROM driver for Mac OS. The guy is lucky, not smart https://sivers.org/itunes

He also hates paying taxes so he can fuck right off
Saudi sovereign fund builds 3 to 5 percent stake in Tesla
The problem with these kind of threads on regulations, nuclear power, the epa is there is a lot of talk as if the commentators would live with their families right next to a nuclear plant but its in the comments of those who are personally affected where you see the concern, empathy and maturity.

A lot of these 'strong opinions' often give way to the fastest u-turn known in history when people are personally affected. Empathy and maturity means you don't wait to be personally affected to change your mind.
Mountain of Bikes Left at Dallas Recycling Center After Ofo Leaves City
Property and violent crime rates started dropping in California in the early 90s[1], along with the rest of the country, before three-strikes was enacted. Crime in California has also declined at rates similar to states without three-strikes policies (e.g. Illinois).

[1] http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/crime-trends-1.png
There's a great episode of The Memory Palace about this: http://thememorypalace.us/2009/01/episode-4/
Elon Musk Considering Taking Tesla Private at Stock Price of $420
Seeing how much free content exists on youtube, I imagine the future is going to be creative/hobby based.

It wont pay as much as programmers who eliminate jobs, but given how starvation is over, people live alone, and I watch my friends with tons of college debt spend money on bars and activities, the future will be entertainment/human based.
Linus (from 2009) on problems with signing every commit: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...
Build a CRUD-Y Blog SPA with Node and Angular
A unified "Utilities meter usage API" where you could plug in the meter number and retrieve the current and historical 12-24 months usage data, no matter the provider or the utility/commodity.
No reason people would have to do it manually it could be done in the browser just like cert checking for HTTPS. Something like HTTPSS: http somewhat secure.
> The way you handled this does not speak well of your character

Given the question asked at the head of the thread, any response for which that was not true would have to be viewed as a kind of humblebrag.
So because we are dead in a few billion years we should give up after ~20k years? That's beyond nihilistic and straight into middle school emo
Classic phishing scam reads exactly like this all the way till the last but one line!
Wonder how he verified if it was real google calling him and asking all these questions and giving instructions or not.
What model Samsung do you have? I have been using the KS8000 for a couple years and have only ever noticed the small ad that looks like another app in the home screen. I've never had Samsung ads in 3rd party apps.
I also believe Google is experimenting with taking its customer support up a few levels, which for years was figure it out for yourself. With both Chromebooks and YouTube subscription, I've gotten very good support through chat including call backs. Isn't that what Google One, is supposed to be about?? , real customer support if you are a paying Google Drive, G-Suite, YouTube monthly payer, etc.
Ive heard this about trucks being automated for 3 years now.

Truck drivers have probably heard this for a few years longer than that.

At what point do you blame the individual for not learning any skill in this time period?
This reminds me of something I've wondered about with brute force cracking.

Suppose Alice uses a 14 character password, each character chosen at random from the range [U+0021, U+007E] (e.g., the 94 printable ASCII characters above space). There are 4.21x10^27 or 2^91.8 possible passwords for Alice.

Bob, on the other hand, uses a 20 character password, also chosen at random, but Bob used a much smaller character set. He just used the 10 ASCII digits. There are 1x10^20 or 2^66.4 possible passwords for Bob. (Bob would need 28 digits for his password space to be as large as Alice's).

Bob's passwords come from a much smaller set, and so could be brute forced much faster--if the attacker knew that they only had to search that much smaller set. In most cases, though, the attacker will not know that.

But, a lot of people do use reduced character sets, so I'd expect brute force attackers to give some preference for searching those first--but how much? Would they be likely to find Bob's 20 character all numeric password ahead of Alice's 14 character all-94 password?
Delorean DMC-12, of Back to the future fame, and its design
And yet there is a nice chunk of lead in my car.

It's all in how you use it, asbestos included.
No you don't, you are not the creator of it therefore have no claim to copyright. It is not an original work of authorship. You can have a patent on DNA but not on naturally occurring DNA according to the supreme court.
This tool only works with the user's personal authorization and direct consent.
Future cash flows to be interpreted as 'free cash flows' i.e. profit.

What I'm articulating is not complex or obscure or even really very theoretical - it's literally the most basic idea for valuation, though admittedly the term 'cash flow' might be misleading in the context of accounting.

'The company is worth how much money it will eventually put in the bank i.e. how much profit it accumulates'.

That's it.

Dividends are a separate thing and technically have no effect.

If a company pays you a $1 dividend, then you have $1. If a company keeps that $1 for you in it's bank account ... well, you have ownership of that $1. So it's a matter of accounting, not of valuation. Pragmatically, there are differences but theoretically dividends don't matter.
> FB was touting and selling this service to any and all intetested parties.

Where do you get that from? My understanding is that the API used was closed in 2014, and existing applications were given until 2015 to stop using it. That's when the data was gathered, and that data was used later in 2016 by CA.

In this case, this is another API that is closed, and this application is trying to get around that. Again, I understand that this application has good intentions, and is hopefully secure, but they are still breaking the rules. If anything happens, then it's Facebook who is on the line.
to clarify: speedbass was a prank meant to poke fun at folks who are more interested in taxonomizing music than exploring sounds with an open mind.
> It's not a good thing to have your entire web usage history recordable and attributable to you anyway. What requests were made should only be between you and the site in question.

That I agree with but we're talking about people who have very marginal access to the internet already like the article is talking about where the benefits of allowing local caching while maintaining content security is a huge boon compared to the possibility of some tracking.
The Bottom-Up Surveillance State
The risk is not limited to location data. Leaking any audio or video could also be problematic. I also wonder how much location data could be inferred with accelerometers.
Nixon _reluctantly_ created the EPA as a response to one of the only periods of sustained popular environmentalism in American history.

I'm unsure why this gets bandied about as a feather in Nixon's cap. Just as a factual matter, as soon as he was politically safe from environmentalist pressure (post-1972), he retreated completely on environmental issues, vetoing the EPA's budget, ordering the EPA to spend less than was apportioned to the agency.

It's an example of the potential for citizen activism, and an example of Nixon's inclination to consolidate power in the executive branch. Certainly not an example of "the post-WWII modern Republican party at one time wanted to expand environmental protections beyond the minimum required to quell citizen activism."

"All politics is a fad. Your fad is going right now. Get what you can, and here's what I can get you." - Nixon, to the Sierra Club, 1970
Ask HN: East websites like HN about startups
Hello HN, I've enjoyed HN and I think it's the best things and most underrated website I found to browse as a bored teenager. I am asking where I can find news agregator like this but focused on East startups.

Thank you.
If your only full time job was to guarantee an election win for a candidate, you would know exactly which counties to target nationwide. There are only so many of them and we have these things called computers...
Rust doesn't have such type. And type annotations in Dart are optional - when programmers are not obliged to use them, guess what will happen? They do NOT use them. People are lazy.

Dart's types exist only on compilation step. You can try to use "strong mode" in theory, in practice you will never compile it with third-party libraries.
I'll be excited about WebAssembly when it can manipulate DOM. Until then, it feels mostly like a thought experiment in that the number of people that it makes sense to use right now is miniscule.
Thanks for that city generation link. I'm adding that one to my list of DM tools.
It's cheaper.
Ask HN: Advice about a screw up
I interviewed with a company a few months ago for a leadership position and was rejected after the phone screen itself. Obviously I screwed up bad. I don't need a job and absolutely don't have to talk to that company in the future as well, as there is enough demand for people in my area.

However, I admire that company a lot, it's a growing company and would not mind being a part of it. Certainly don't like the idea of having that option completely closed off.

I feel, memories for companies for hires in a leadership position are longer. Is that the case? Is it worth thinking about this one company? If so, is there anything specific I can do outside of growth in my current job?
The material stil has to be mined. Even with US companies treating the health risks to their employees in an exemplary way (hah!), there still would be extra deaths in asbestos mining and processing in Russia or Brazil...