skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really looking forward to trying out Ghost 2.0

I help run a small publication with some friends and we've been having difficulties with Medium and think it's time to move to a new platform.

One problem we haven't figured out a solution to yet is importing our Medium articles into Ghost.

My current plan is to export the Medium articles, parse them, then insert them directly into the Ghost DB. Is this is a viable solution?

I guess I have two questions:
- Is Medium import going to be a feature offered any time soon?
- How does the SEO configuration/setting work? Is it set up on article access? on article publish? on article creation? Would inserting articles directly into the DB break this process?

Thanks!
ELM – Upgrading to 0.19
Wasn’t Bill Gates a strong proponent for (and even investor in?) thorium reactors? Did that pan out?
Is there a better source for this than "Thorium Energy World"?
There's nuance in throlling and prioritization. All traffic must be prioritized somehow or it's not going to work well for anyone. Perhaps WPS-enabled lines on grandfathered unlimited plans should be getting the lions-share of bandwidth over retail users watching cat videos.
> "Significant numbers of people are expressing a sentiment through their alleged abuse of the feature, and instead of trying to channel that constructively, the company is devising ways to ignore it."

What's the character of leadership who would unjustly silence group A just because significant numbers of people are expressing sentiment to silence group A? Not sure if not doing what they are doing is actually better.

On another note:

This is not necessarily abuse. Even with no abuse, you can have different definition of fake news, than FB have. In such case, you report, someone at FB reviews, and nothing happens. Having weight on you does not change this. The "leadership" is "ignoring you" in a same way as before. Apart from the fact that it's not "ignoring you". They just have different opinion than you.

Note: I used "you" but I don't think that you necessarily have different definition than FB, if was just more convenient to formulate it this way.
It's very easy to give up in other languages. Haskell forces you to find a pure way by giving you no other alternative - and most of the time, a pure way is actually easy once you try.
I read all of your posts, and I couldn't find any quote. Why don't you give us the specific # in the indictment?
As disgusting as that was, at least some justice was served in the end. The judges were sentenced to 17.5 and 28 years, respectively. That pales in comparison to the cumulative prison time they unjustly imposed on others, but it does show judges aren't above the law.
> 7-8-10 rounds

If you need 7-8-10 rounds you got something very wrong.
Because oxygen and especially hydrogen are such a pain to store compared to water some rocket designs contemplate just leaving all the fuel mass as water and only splitting it into its parts as needed before firing.
ELM 0.19 – new elm.json format for packages
And you sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Negative news comes about companies every single day and I never hear people go on about it being caused by short sellers.
yep and it makes this statement rather suspicious:“Of the ~3500+ hedge funds out there, we track ~5% of them. We believe these are the good guys: long-term oriented and rigorous in their research.”

Its the 5% that performed well in their backtest, but that doesnt mean they will perform the best going forward.

What Titan did in 2016 was chose the top 5% of funds that did well up until that point. Then when they saw it performed bad in 2017, they most likely went back and chose a different 5% that did better. And recalculated all the returns.

The problem is you cant keep doing this once you actually start investing with real money.
sounds useful. i cd often. can you expand on your bookmarking system?
Me too, every day since April. That sort of Twitter campaign costs tens of thousands of dollars. My bet is Motley and the dossier are related.
Hes a rich fuck ... sold it to a relative. California is a shithole
A local source of water would make the hotel much cheaper to run.
I wouldn't mind seeing Grabb-It fail either. I'd find it sad if the fix for underpaying unofficial taxi drivers is more targeted advertising. I seems like we're getting closer and closer to those dystopian futures where every square inch of a city is filled with ads.
Rather than complain that customers don't read the fine print, how about removing throttling from the fine print and have companies advertise what they are selling?

If they are selling an "unlimited" plan, then it should be unlimited (i.e. without throttling of any kind)

If they are selling a "20GB then throttled to 128kbs speeds" plan, then call it a "20GB plus" plan so everyone knows what they are buying.
Heh, interesting. Not that all the saber-rattling about patent violations particularly makes me want to do business with Knowm.
I was under the impression most farm subsidies (> 2/3) in the US go to extremely large corporations - they want the annual subsidies because it keeps them in business every year and can afford the lobbyists/PACs to pressure congresspeople to vote for the subsidies in Congress.
My understanding is that it's a bit more than a simple coffee vending machine. It uses a similar process to that used in coffee bars (I assume along the quality of Starbucks, not your favorite super-competent local shop). It grinds the coffee fresh, has high quality ingredients, etc.
The supreme court could reinterpret anything.

The trend at the moment is that they aren't interfering with past rulings and that's not about to change with the new addition.
You are correct Sir. In my un-named Scandinavian country with many mountains, we have a dedicated emergency cellphone network. That is the only way.
Very interesting information!!!
Speaking of islands... How about Hawaii? They burn a lot of oil to generate electricity. I wish we could speed up the move to wind and solar there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plant...
>Video performance is a LOT harder than you think.

But it's been done. Skype video calls worked on far inferior hardware and networks back in the day.
How can we be sure it wasn't just a few disgruntled people who wanted to just put a spoke in her wheel?
That's true in the inner system but by the time you get to around Jupiter the Sun is dim enough that you can have ice on the surface of bodies without atmospheres.
They had these services in place. The service was changed after the repeal of Net Neutrality.
These issues are important because who cares about the quality of their cars if Tesla goes out of business.

And you can’t sustain profitability with this level of rework.
These reactors do refine uranium 232. So still making something that is really dangerous. https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html
> Many of them are specifically drawn by the idea they'll get to sit down and solve a problem on day 1

I don't see how engineer #1 or engineer #100 changes that.

When I onboard a senior engineer, they get a problem on day 1.
If they paid for the work like more reputable companies do, that wouldn't have been a problem.
Does the fact that the government seems to have done nearly no due diligence regarding capacity planning play a factor in your criticism of Verizon? They relied on one emergency device with one communication link and thought $39/mo was sufficient apparently. That's silly and incompetent for any IT professional.
Don't you mean not optimize for speed, since they will be building the wrong things initially?
That is a very good question.

Another thing to note is that GAE standard api does not work in Flex or GCE (no portable api for datastore, memcache, runtime apis for versions and modules, etc.) So basically any code that you write in standard gae is locked in.

Another interesting note is that standard gae is covered in free tier but flex is not covered in free tier.

It seems like google is trying to lock you in with standard gae and then make you pay order of magnitude more for the infrastructure once your service gets some traction.
Is anybody really confused about what these plans are offering? Especially someone handling IT for a large government entity? The plans say:

> Important Plan Information

> Unlimited Plans 4G LTE only. During times of congestion, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic (only after 22GB/mo on Beyond Unlimited or 75 GB/mo on Above Unlimited).

Beyond that, anybody who is purchasing service for something like a fire department would know the difference between best effort service and a service with an SLA. Consumers will always be best served by having over-provisioning and best-effort service, because their needs are by nature bursty. Put another way, if you build a network that never throttles, you're leaving tons of capacity on the table that would be better used to offer faster burst downloads.

That problem is not best-effort service, it's a government entity that doesn't realize it needs a level service with real guarantees.
There's an argument to be made that you want someone incentivized by something rational like compensation.

If your critical employees joined the company for romantic and/or emotional reasons, it can be very difficult to retain them should they somehow become disillusioned.

You can far more easily acquire funding to increase compensation than you can make someone change their mind about how they feel about something the leadership has done or the direction the company is heading.
I've read that income was negatively correlated with suicides.

From your time article:

> the study’s authors do point to findings that higher income generally lowers suicide risk. For example, an individual with family income less than $10,000 (in 1990 dollars) is 50% more likely to commit suicide than an individual with income above $60,000.
> Rather than complain that customers don't read the fine print, how about removing throttling from the fine print and have companies advertise what they are selling?

That's the larger problem I alluded to. My point was about these important public services not doing some of the diligence many of us can. It's not about fine print or not, clearly what Verizon does is wrong, I'm just saying that these places need to put in a bit more research.

I think everyone here agrees that these companies shouldn't mislead, so just repeating that seems like obvious and meaningless discussion. I put "despite the overarching issues", "we can all [...] bemoan that [...] Verizon [...] have red tape", "I empathize", "fix the [...] wording as we'd like it to", "that needs fixing", "in the meantime", and "bigger problem [...] that's a different deal" all because it's clear what the larger problem is. My point is nuanced about public services and due diligence in these current annoying times, but clearly my attempts to avoid the obvious point didn't work.
Wouldn’t you learn how to properly manufacture a car before trying to release it at scale ?
https://fi.google.com/about/plan/

Looks like it's 6 gigs for $80 total,
then up to 15 gigs unlimited at fast speeds after that,
then unlimited at 256kbps after that.

Similiar definition of "Unlimited" as Verizon, but they are more upfront about it.

However the Fire department was using 25+ gigs, they would run into the same capping issues.
What are you talking about?

> In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto forced to work against their own will.

Seems like what they were saying fits well with this.
Interesting, it seems like a nearly contradictory definition.
I understand it's not there yet ... but in your experience were you able to live through a couple cycles to the point wherein you feel it might get there someday in terms of nutritional value and taste?

Also, should add ... I think most people don't care that much about the nutritional value of fake meat. A lot of fast-food meat is already processed and crap.

Anyone who can make something that's 'not steak' simply taste like 'steak' will do really well - it's going to be a cost consideration before anything. Consider the 'meat' in Taco Bell is 75% 'filler/chickenfeed' already.

I think huge chunks of people wouldn't mind eating vegan so long as they could eat stuff that tasted like meat, even if there were some extra processing.

That's why I think it will be a fast-food chain that will make it mainstream: they are cost conscious (as their consumers are), they have the reach and marketing power to change consumer behaviour, and their consumers don't have high-nutritional 'real food' expectations.

So a 'McNotBeef' would do really really well even among regular folks, even traditional meat eaters.
Not to start a flame war, but imho this is my definition of a "terrible book". Of the everything and the kitchen sink variety. By contrast, I very much enjoyed LYAH, not least for its self-effacing humor. Hutton was too dry for me. There's a less well-known "Thinking Functionally with Haskell" book by Richard Bird that is concise and targets the mathematically inclined crowd.
The root problems are the LACK of regulation of throttling algorithms, content classes, obsfucated service agreements and enforcing the honesty of claims. Letting telcos "regulate" themselves and take over the FCC (Ajit Pai, et al) leads inexorably to unsustainable collapses and calamities like Enron, not necessarily within the telco arena, but externalities borne out in the real world.

No regulation leads to social Darwinian inverted totalitarianism where corporations are free to indirectly exploit, savage and murder whomever doesn't pay.
I wonder what proportion of HN would have different careers if software engineering paid, say, as much as humanities while humanities paid like software engineering. It seems like everyone here (myself included) isn't really in it for the money, but who knows what would happen.
I’m fine with homework assignments as long as they’re paid. I was given a task to implement a new feature for an interview to the tune of $300. I didn’t get the job, but I got paid, and I have held the company in high esteem ever since.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding how the Angel/VC business work
I am on the look for a good book covering how the VC industry works from convertible notes to double dipping to dilutions to Seed, Angel, ABCD rounds etc.
Memristor
I doubt their labor is costing clients $1. The prison is certainly charging a lot more than that and pocketing the difference.
I'm sorry but you're simply factually incorrect.
It's not about what criminals deserve, it's about how to make sure they stop being criminals. A broke ex-con without a support network is much more likely to return to crime just to survive. Helping them avoid that is a net gain to society as a whole, whether they deserve it or not.

Focusing on what people "deserve", instead of on what's best for society, is the reason the US has the worst health care in the western world while also spending more tax money on health care per capita than anyone else on the planet. We'd rather spend 10 dollars making sure no one ever gets more than their fair share than risk one dollar going to someone who doesn't "deserve" it.
For chronic medications it is common to have a single prescription include multiple refills. So one paper document might get you 4 months worth of medication, but only filled 1 month at a time.

Mail order pharmacies often fill 90 days at a time, possibly with multiple refills. 90 days dispensed at once is uncommon at retail pharmacies, but is possible in at least some cases. (Not sure if it is laws or contracts that normally prevent this).

It is also possible that a pharmacy may not have enough to fill the script all at once, so they dispense only part, and you come back for the rest later. (I've never experienced this so I'm unclear on the details.)
I'm saying I have priorities as a voter. I've been watching both heads of the mainstream party long enough to know what they are. A few random links from 2013 aren't going to convince me that my priorities aren't important.

The google search was still open in another tab. This is what I was talking about:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-bill-would-ban-g...
Here's a well-explained article about fractional derivatives and integrals (1). One freaky outcome is that the factorials of fractional numbers can be found. (Example: negative one half factorial = square root of pi.) It can be applied to all things quantum mechanical (2) so there's a fractional Schrödinger equation etc. I had to look it up, but the links are worth the bother.

(1) https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath616/kmath616.htm
(2) https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5533

https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath616/kmath616.htm
Step x - sell ability to target users based on gullibly and trustworthness scores
Sorry, chalk it up to fatigue and the consequent decline of my comprehension skills. I don't know why I misunderstand that sentence so badly.
No, I haven't been diagnosed with any, but I know what you mean when you carry a lot of stress in posture and mindset.
Right... and who will decide that? Prison Wardens aren't exactly known to be fair arbiters of such things.

Apologies, I don't mean to come off as pessimistic. But its clear to me that prison for most folks meant a place for really bad people so nobody in regular society gives a shit for the plight of prisoners and over time it has created a system where its hard to introduce any meaningful reform.
A bit unrelated but I sometimes wonder what Bach would have thought of, and how he might take advantage of modern day electronic keyboards. The ability to change voices at will (even on different areas of the keyboard), and importantly for Mr. Well Tempered, the ability to change tunings with the press of a button.

Surely even these days keyboards should be sensitive to key aftertouch to get a clavichord like vibrato that Bach was fond of.

It'd be like Switched-on-Bach^10 but improvised live by a single madman on his electro-organ.
Scala FUD FAQ for newbies
I think they meant optimize for speed of writing code not running it.
wow i can't help but wonder what the deal with all the downvotes is, it's not like I said something with no substance or I wasted anyone's time; every time I put a lot of thought into something this is the shit that happens smh
I responded with an extreme example because of your extreme conflation of "needing to do some type of work of your choosing" with wage slavery. You seem to be ignoring the central point that you GET TO CHOOSE THAT WORK.
Costa Rica IIRC leads the world in renewables, followed closely by some North African and Middle Eastern countries.
True, it did (from congestion-based throttling to data-cap-based throttling), and nefariously so. But that's not my discussion point here. According to the article, they have special services for "public safety services" that this department was not using. Why not? Does their neighboring department? Or the state of CA? Trying to save a buck or general ignorance towards what's available? The general ignorance can be excused due to misleading claims of "unlimited", but I'm saying in this sucky world, they have to overcome that and maybe they can with more research or asking other departments/governments or Verizon themselves.
An interview is a two-way street. I've walked away from two interviews because the whole ordeal was going to be very time consuming and I just wasn't sold enough on the company.

I did do two coding exercises, though. In one case, the exercise was very fun, and I was able to use it as an excuse to work in a language that I didn't work often in. In another case, I really believed in the company, but I would only do something that took about 1-2 hours.
I like this idea. I HATE the homework, because one look at my resume tells you that even if half of it's true, I've been around the block and can pick up anything that doesn't actually require specializing in it since 2000 when I started working professionally out of college (as opposed to co-op jobs where I also did IT).

And very little in IT fits that bill.

IT hiring processes are part of the reason I took a sabbatical in 2016. I didn't have time for all this homework plus networking and interviews all for finding a new job on top of a new baby and a stressful day job.

Of my four eventual job offers, yes four, so I was clearly in demand, only one even had homework, and it was a short online logic quiz, not even coding. Everything else was phone/in person interviews.

Screw your homework. If you really need it, this article has a good mitigation plan.
The two hardest problems in programming are naming things, garbage collection, and off-by-one errors.

— Raul Miller, J Forum message, 2013-01-21
There is context to that promise of "unlimited". The government bought one cheap consumer-oriented cellular internet plan for their mission critical emergency communications. There is a bit of mismatch on the intended purpose of the offer. I'm sure you'll even find a disclaimer of liability and disclaimer of suitability/warranty in the contract. The government f'ed up, no way around it.

And I'd wager heavily that the government employees/contractors had ample budget to read the contract.
The relevant program is the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) [1], which is explicitly intended for environmentally sensitive areas. Given the requirements imposed on the land it is (in my own anecdotal experience, central US) unlikely that one would be able to put an entire farm into it and "get paid not to farm." It's also not linked to "high yields."

[1] https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...
This is what freedom mobile does in Canada. All their plans say in big letters "250MB" or "2GB" or whatever, and then buried in the fineprint somewhere is "if you go over nothing happens except that we reserve the right to throttle your plan to 256 kbps for the rest of the month, and if you continue using tons of data we reserve the right to further throttle to 32 kbps for the rest of the month".

I'm happily living on a 250MB plan.
I am trying to understand the moral/ethical issue here. Care to elaborate? There might be something I am missing here cause I just don't see it. It's a genuine question.
Wot no FiraCode?

This is 9 years old; pointless?
Yes, I am one of them. This is what, the fourth Bitcoin bubble that has burst? The December bubble bursting is no surprise for most level-headed folks that have been following this for a while -- just for the newbies making extremely risk bets at the top of the latest bubble.

Also, most of us are not deluded enough to think it going up to $100k+/BTC is a certainty; there are a number of reasons the larger BTC experiment/bubble could deflate for good one day. But there's also rational arguments for betting otherwise.
this whole homework / whiteboard discussion is disturbing, how about do a good interview, prepare, and target the individual your speaking with, ask specific questions, not blanket questions pulled out of a "how to interview" book, and then send em home with an assignment or two....

if you cannot work through asking someone detailed questions, to find out how they operate and solve problems, if you cannot formulate words to ask me the right questions... do i want to work for you???
How is that obvious? I, offhand, don't know how to obtain Backpage's financial records. Can you provide evidence or a sound logical argument demonstrating that Backpage obviously didn't earn meaningful (maybe we have different meanings of this word?) amounts of money from ads for child sex slaves?
What's the API support like these days? Can I use MarsEdit to easily post? Are there iOS apps for on-the-go thoughts?
A few petabytes in some cases. Some advanced balanced sampling in Spark must be used for testing the models.