skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of comments in this thread seem to assume that painting something yellow will cause the typical driver to notice it. That is not my experience. The typical driver doesn't notice anything that isn't on her phone. New businesses on her everyday commute sprout fully-formed from the earth, the day that her maps app finds out about them.
I dunno, I know a lot of 'compliments' are nothing of the sort, but I can see this one being well-intended. It's not actually saying anything bad about the target, just awkwardly pointing out that they don't really fit a negative stereotype. And because 'socialness' isn't a quality where more is always better, it doesn't have quite the same damning-with-faint-praise vibe as it would if it were about, say, intelligence or looks.
Considering how this would decimate the market and cause large amounts of frivolous lawsuits, I can't imagine this passes even pared down.

She's announcing this merely to pad her resume before running in 2020. It doesn't have to be feasible, just needs to sound good.
> yes I know Chicago has a train, but it's not super convenient

This is as far from truth as it gets. Having a car in Chicago is a liability and one can go anywhere from anywhere within city limits and even to suburbs with public transport.

I have seen the chicago public transport being put above NYC in many rankings
> a strange combination of rugged individualism applied to others and an outsize enthusiasm for unearned handouts for oneself.

It's not strange, nor is it a combination. It's just one thing, called "FYIGM."
One thing to keep in mind - should anyone find themselves sleeping in a very cold situation - is to eat significantly more than normal, particularly fatty foods (butter!). In the cold, your body uses a lot of calories to keep your body temp up and eating a dense meal right before bed goes a long way to your overall comfort.

I also have a belief that keeping a hot beverage ready-made in a thermos (tea or just hot water) should be considered a safety item when winter camping, sea kayaking, etc. Warming yourself from the inside is more effective than trying to throw on extra layers.
We have the technology. Now when do the robots take over?
Sounds like a good place to use QubesOS.
Any indie hackers willing to host a fellow hacker and girlfriend at Barcelona?
We're staying from August 15 to August 28. Any help would be excelent since we were staying at a friend's house while his family was away, and searching for a place now we find really expensive prices for hotels/hostels :S

Thanks!
I don't know that I've encountered a space heater based on a heat pump, but in my mind...

"air conditioner" - a machine which keeps one or more rooms in a house cool, powered by a heat pump.

"heater" - a machine which keeps one or more rooms in a house warm, usually not powered by a heat pump.

"refrigerator" - a machine which keeps its own interior cool, powered by a heat pump.

"freezer" - a machine which keeps its own interior below freezing, powered by a heat pump and usually attached to a refrigerator.

All of which is to say, a heat pump is a machine that moves heat. It's named after its effect. But "heaters", "refrigerators", and "air conditioners" are named after their purpose, not their mechanics, and include heat pumps--if they do--incidentally, as the mechanism by which they achieve their purpose. If somebody came up with a refrigerator that still kept your food cold but didn't use a heat pump, I wouldn't hesitate to call it a "refrigerator".
Expensify uses SQLite for their core database.

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
I personally don't like social logins. Lol but that's just me. I also don't use a gmail address as my primary, so unless my email service is blacklisted for some reason, I wouldn't use that.
I've set my Ubuntu server up with dropbear-initramfs almost 2 years ago, but a few months ago, it stopped working. Since 18.04 was imminent, I decided to wait and not fix it, and hope my new UPS keeps it running.
Yes. I tried 3 weeks ago, it works. That's the only western site I frequnt and still accessible from inside. My savior!
Guile Scheme is a pretty nice language. It is a superset of r6rs and probably provides att bigger stdlib than ansi CL (with a proper module system with all the introspection you are used to from CL)

The reason for guile Emacs is that guile is the official extension language of the GNU project. It is a very capable implementation, and the elisp implementation is a lot cleaner than the one in Emacs.

You would also gain a lot of features not available in elisp. proper threading (with both pthreads and fibers, delimited continuations, and much more).

Not only that, you would get a runtime for elisp that works outside Emacs. Imagine being able to write programs and just load guile-org-mode and be able to script the org process without invoking Emacs.
> How many engineers are doing things like using real numbers from previous work to build models before estimating?

Fogbugz created a feature called Evidence-based Scheduling (http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-based-scheduling-ebs). It's probably the only real quantitative approach that I have seen while working on web development projects. I'm probably wrong to assume that more "technical" fields like aerospace do much, much more than this, but it was really interesting to use this with what was mostly CRUD-work.

EDIT: added link.
* walking with my son

* riding a bicycle

* camping
I know you’re joking, but you can - you know - literally outrun the feeling of cold in most situations.

You’re really cold? Eat. Run. Increase your insulation.
Not the guy who asked, but thank you for the explanation!
China freezes game approvals amid a government shake-up
Ride my bike, 20 miles or more. Try to do it in an hour.
Almost all my main apps have a sync history. Before was using batch processing and a version field:

customer:
name, ...., version = 1

update customer:
name, ...., version = 2

and sync manually. Now I use a log/event sourcing like setup, where every write to the BD is also stored in a log table and sync from there. Much better!
Yes, Viridis is quantifiably better than Parula, as the talk shows, but Parula comes with the standard Matlab, and the jump from Jet to Parula was of such a tremendous magnitude that I kind of fell in love with the Parula color scheme right away. Jump from Parula to Viridis would be less noticeable, I guess.
The talk opened my eyes to the fact that there are much better ways to use color for information presentation. (Sorry for the late reply)
This link seems to cover a lot of the differences. It sounds like a decent system, but not one that would ever work in the US. The private healthcare companies have too much to money to lose and would use the media to frame such as system as communist and dangerous.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-US-...
The United States collects information on every phone call its citizens make domestically but you find it implausible that they keep tabs on US citizens abroad? If anything, what's striking here is how hamfistedly the Chinese government is conducting this program, but I suppose that is because intimidation is the point.
Hah, its almost like the people who do the labor should be the ones who decide what to do with the surplus they produce, instead of people who inherit tons of wealth and choose to buy up ownership of businesses.

Elizabeth Warren has stated before that she is a capitalist. Which means that ownership of companies is held entirely by monied interests, never by workers.
Is this going to be an issue?

Or just a benefit?

Ive had python libraries break with updates.
Haha, great point.
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This is a fantastic idea, and I can't see how anyone (other than the people who stand to lose directly) could oppose it.

All the same I know that they will. Consumers are anything but rational, and that is by design. The ultra-rich know well the value of hearts and minds, and that it's quite possible to spend money convincing (at least some) people of whatever you'd like them to believe.

Maybe it's just because I'm a pinko-European, but in the unlikely event of this succeeding, I think it could really be the start of the pendulum swinging in the right direction in global economics.
> the idea that the data representation of a UI should match the shape of the UI

that's one weird assumption. I always worked with shape the data as the real world and shape the ux as the user workflows, with businness logic doing whatever transformation needed

that's the only way I see that works for long term project. if you try to semplify the real world model, you'll always come to regret it later

i.e. I'm modelling now leaflets. We're supporting many grid per spread om the datamodel, eac with their shape position and dimension, but the ux will only show one grid unless a client happens to need more than one

I guess need and solutions change dramatically between a project and a saas
Pedantic side note: EDNS0[0]is the name of the DNS extension mechanism, of which “client subnet”[1] is but one use of EDNS0.

0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6891

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7871
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Elements of the Saudi government likely assisted the effort, hence the ongoing lawsuits
And how possible to embeb it in a mobile device? Too crazy, I imagine...
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If you find me funding, I could give you CI for mobile app development, a decent MVP, in 3 months (which is me taking how long i think it takes and multiplying by 3) :P

But, like a previous poster said, it _WOULD_ be in violation of Apple's ToS. So a legal budget would be required.
>>In the four decades after World War II, shareholders on net contributed more than $250 billion to U.S. companies. But since 1985 they have extracted almost $7 trillion. That’s trillions of dollars in profits that might otherwise have been reinvested in the workers who helped produce them.

Nonsense. So tax them more on dividends, if that's needed. Why add more lawsuits from anyone on why AT&T bought x company when "it's not good for the common good"....whatever that is.
”Months later, the com­pa-nies sealed a deal: the $14 mil­lion, 15-month com­mit-ment in­cluded Sam­sung “360” cam­eras dis­tributed to hun­dreds of Times re­porters, as well as heaps of ad space. The re­sult­ing 360 videos got prom­inent place­ment, some on the home page, and they car­ried a credit for Sam-sung.”

Fascinating look at NYT as a follow up to the recent thread on HN about their quarterly earnings.
Well, they weren’t “hand picked”. More often than not, they just came from families wealthy enough to cough up for expensive art school and the cost of living in NYC. A lot of my social circle falls in this category.

That said, parent makes an important point. The US is full of art majors in general, but NYC is overflowing with them.

But, US arts jobs are now almost entirely freelance; especially if entry level. While the cost of living makes it more difficult, NYC is still one of the only places with such an abundance of work that this is feasible. You can probably get freelance work there but moving into a full-time position will be a matter of upper-class networking.
There are majority of society and economic activity that are neutral to policitics.

Why cannot YC improve invocation by focusing on those areas?!

If your dad said harsh words to you, are you going to claim that you are made inferior to normal citizen or you are working with a repressive parent?
> it feels like they are just doing this to please their readers by reinforcing the negative image of China.

It's not like China has been doing a good job on removing this negative image of themselves, aren't they?
Granted, not that they should care, they just pay attention at their own game.

Either yanks or russians pulling strings in MENA to satisfy their geopolitical ambitions, or the CPC doing the same in Subsaharan Africa, or major cities of the western world.

It shouldn't really surprise you to see headlines like this.
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Interesting, I noticed how big my database file was as well.

I considered the Lite meant offline storage.

Still a huge fan, I went from noob programmer to knowing databases because how quickly I could make and play with databases in sqlite.
My understanding is that there are several countries in the EU where you are expected to pony up money for healthcare. It's usually token amounts, but the fact they do that indicates that's not what's "destroying the American health system".
I know what you mean but in a way I think there is a difference since the material has to withstand inward pressure; compressive forces.

A tire/tyre rubber has tensile strength, most (all?) pressure vessels on earth are tensile. It seems odd the difference between compression and tension when it comes to certain forces.

Anyway, I just though it would matter.
> Laws and social pressure are also a moderating force

Perhaps this was true in the days prior to the internet, but it certainly isn’t the case now. In fact, social pressures in the online sphere can be the opposite of a moderating force. In the analysis of the online culture wars, many authors have pointed out how the alt right bursting into the mainstream was in many ways a response to the societal pressure to conform to ever increasing (and at times, absurd) rules of a radical “PC culture”.

As a disclaimer, this isn’t to justify the alt right movement or to condemn political correctness wholesale. But the point is that societal pressure is not moderating anything. On the contrary, the internet has allowed people to simply retreat from the parts of society that previously may have pressured them into moderation, and instead to enclose themselves in the parts of society that not only accept their radical culture, but encourage it.

> If the lack of general empathy and over-demonization of the "other" is a problem, well, try being a person of color in the 50s or before.

And yet the rights of racial minorities still made massive strides in absence of the internet. Many of the commenters here have made arguments that along the lines of “a gay person would never have found acceptance without the geographical boundary breaking communities of the internet”, and frankly, I’m not sure that is true. The changing attitudes towards LGBT persons isn’t any more radical than many of the other social revolutions that have taken place without the internet.
> [...] I can't see how anyone (other than the people who stand to lose directly) could oppose it.

And there you have it; the shareholders and CEO would stand to lose directly, they have a huge amount of money (and they're both national and international players; a foreign investor would give less of a shit about US workers), they're in politics (directly or paying for it), etc.

I hope this gets traction, but I'm cynical, and I'm confident the US is already an oligarchy in the pockets of those that made 7 trillion out of their 250 billion investment.
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Right, and this model is itself monstrously inefficient and a result of 19th century (and earlier) modes of production persisting due to the presence of a guild and the absence any reform in the legal system. This is how furniture making and shipping used to work too, but then we invented factories and wage labor.
I may be old-fashioned, but I use a desktop PC lol.
Heck, if it's just iOS development, it might be possible to do a cloud CI that doesn't violate the ToS. When I was building all my iOS apps from Linux, I wasn't using osx.... I was using cross compiled clang....
One year ago today, I graduated from a coding bootcamp
How to Develop PWA: All You Need to Know Before Creating a Progressive Web App
I was specifically and explicitly discussing foreign operations on U.S. soil. Why are you beating me up for not talking about what the U.S. government is doing abroad?
Does it annoy anyone else when someone says something like "I wrote X in 50 lines of C"

And then the first non-comment line is:
#include <X11/Xlib.h>

Which itself is over 4000 lines and includes tons more code.. It's a pretty meaningless metric.
Tencent Disappoints on Earnings as Its Games Face Regulatory Hurdles
The market doesn't any longer condone leadership where finishing and following through matter the most. We're in a race to the bottom as we barrel ever further down an economic rabbit hole. I can't, therefore, blame "leaders" for the conditions you correctly point out.
Spying is always bad, when its the other guy doing it. Isn't the rule pretty much, its ok as long as you don't get caught?
And all of this runs on a 1M+ loc kernel ;)
I once worked at a company exactly like this, and I agree entirely. It was awful, and I'm glad I quit. In fact, it was the only company I've ever quit (of the four companies I've worked at, I got laid off from two others, and I'm still at the fourth).

It's not worth it. The company was resource-starved, management had no experience managing people whatsoever and ranged from "clueless" to "abusive", and the owner/CEO was a notorious cheapskate who underpaid us (when I left, I found out I was making 3/4 the salary I should have been), refused to provide any kind of health insurance, and was so paranoid about losing control of the company that he only sought funding from angel investors and refused to either seek VC or give employees equity. When I worked there, we were in constant demo mode. We were always prepping for a big demo for one small-time investor or another. I think we spent more time on demos for investors than we spent supporting customers. Hell, one time we came within a hair of being on Shark Tank; it ended up falling through because of bureaucratic reasons, but after it fell through I was told that the owner/CEO had no intention of ever accepting money from any of the VCs on the show and just wanted to be on the show for the media attention.

Oh yeah, and when our landlord began discriminating against me for being transgender, the company just rolled over and refused to provide support. Why? Because they'd gotten a massive discount on rent because they were the very first tenants in a building that had just reopened after years of being closed, and they were afraid to do anything that might kill the deal because they wouldn't have been able to afford rent anywhere else downtown (and they insisted on being downtown because the owner/CEO's son, the CTO, lived there and wanted to be able to walk to work). Never mind that they would've had a space three times larger for the same money if they'd just set up shop in a suburban office park like every other tech startup in Dallas. I had to get the city involved myself, and the owner/CEO almost sabotaged my case during one informal mediation session (I ended up winning, by the way).

When I quit at the end of 2014, we were only marginally larger than when I started in early 2012. That's two and three quarter years of my life I'll never get back. My only consolation is that I'm still friends with a few of my coworkers from that period of my life.
Water will never make it up to the 13th story of a building just with the pressure from the water mains, so those building will need to do something to increase pressure on higher floors.

In a five story building, the water can get that high just with pressure from the mains, though the pressure will be much weaker than on lower floors, so the building doesn't need to have any mechanism for increasing the pressure. It probably wouldn't be done for newer buildings, but when the older walk-ups were constructed it would have been considered acceptable as a way of keeping costs lower.
If there isn't a concrete example of the statement that you can discover, then it's up to the person who uttered the phrase to give you one. If they can't do that, they are likely bullshitting.

For example, I can say "All holomorphic functions are analytic", and the fact that you cannot come up with a concrete example, or even that you don't understand the meaning of the sentence (if you don't know anything about complex analysis) still doesn't mean that it is bullshit.

Metaphors are not a problem; you can also explain them in the above sense.

> "Careful study leads one to hidden knowledge"

Different people might interpret "hidden knowledge" differently, that's true. But then I would say that whether or not the statement is objectively bullshit or profound depends on the interpretation of whoever uttered the phrase was using.

So if it was uttered by Deepak Chopra, it is probably bullshit. If it was uttered by Carl Sagan, it is probably profound.

I mean, this problem is not specific to bullshit/profound statements, but to language in general. For example, common objection to evolution is "evolution is just a theory". Here, the word "theory" can take on two different meanings, and the truthfulness of the sentence depends on the meaning that is assigned to the word "theory".

This only poses potential problem for the study, where the statements should be selected so that the confusion due to usual (assumed) meaning of words is minimized.
In this case the author matters a bit. It's Elizabeth Warren, the congress woman who is putting forth a bill to "reign in" wall street.

I'm a fan of her and I like the parts of the bill that I've seen. I think we do need more regulation on wall street.

> That shift has had a tremendous effect on the economy. In the early 1980s, large American companies sent less than half their earnings to shareholders, spending the rest on their employees and other priorities. But between 2007 and 2016, large American companies dedicated 93% of their earnings to shareholders. Because the wealthiest 10% of U.S. households own 84% of American-held shares, the obsession with maximizing shareholder returns effectively means America’s biggest companies have dedicated themselves to making the rich even richer.

One of the best things I learned from becoming an engineer was the concept of feedback loops and how you need to constantly monitor and dampen them when they start to get out of control. The above certainly illustrates how the wealth gap started to increase over the past 30 years.

I'm not sure what the correct ratio of how to payout mopey to employees vs owners but you could start by looking at what ratio public hedge funds or investment banks payout(like Virtu or GS).

> In the four decades after World War II, shareholders on net contributed more than $250 billion to U.S. companies. But since 1985 they have extracted almost $7 trillion

This is just intentionally obfuscating. What percentage of the dividends paid out where reinvested automatically. What percentage of the cash paid out in stock buy backs went right back into the market, you cant' tell because in the first line she used net contributions, but int he second she only mentions the money flowing out but not the net. It actually could be net positive but that wouldn't fit her narrative.

> My bill also would give workers a stronger voice in corporate decision-making at large companies. Employees would elect at least 40% of directors.

I really like this idea. I assume the directors would be qualified people and not just a random employee.

To be honest the largest issue I see int he markets now is the dictator model where a single founder controls the voting. We've only seen this model in tech work during the bull tech market of 2004-present. 2008 was down but tech still did much better than most other asset classes.

What happens when tech has another 2001 and people want Mark Zuckerberg fired or they want Google to focus on their bread and butter instead of the moon shots that cost them money, or Snap to, well do anything to earn the valuation that they and promises that they fooled everyone with.
I had a friend a few months back looking for a CI setup for iOS and they found the same thing. For anyone wanting to kick the tires, it is called "App Center": https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-center/.