skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact, kids. If you pump down an aquifer (any aquifer, anywhere) faster than it is being replenished from above via rainwater, then any other water sitting around it will eventually start to intrude. And if that outside water is salty or otherwise non-potable, then problem! Meaning that saltwater intrusion in coastal areas is a pretty much constant potential risk anyway, regardless of any sea level rise.
Ask your sleep doc about modafinil, it will set you straight wrt excessive sleepiness. Check for anxiety too, that can mess up your sleep.
Very fun.

I put in some scientific proteins, and it spits out their common fluorescence staining colors:

ZO1 (stain tight-junctions, often blue): https://picular.co/zo1
(see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1399&bi...)

hN1 (a protein usually stained red or green with GFP or mCherry): https://picular.co/hn1 (see https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/HN1-Antibody-P...)
I completely understand the decision to not stand their ground. Going up against Slack means going up against a multi-billion dollar company, and potentially all the legal firepower that entails. Even if every monetary cost were covered, there's still the time and opportunity cost of dealing with legal headaches.
To me the weirdest part is how apparently important it is to some people that the world fit into their expectations.
‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?
…did you read through the issue [1] linked in the first comment there? Nobody could actually find evidence that Rush was a fork. Thanks for bringing up a libre Lerna alternative, though.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/673
Invariably, the higher the company status of the attendee, the higher the likelihood they will have problems.
Yep, this thread is meant for substantive discussion of Butts and I ruined it.
http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-...

There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.
This is SUPER DUPER cool!
Im 36. Just do it now. Youre younger than you think and in 10 years you’ll just wish you had done it anyway.
> It was a kind of version of the Web where you could browse online data the same way you browsed your file system. This is what made it cool.

That sounds like Gopher.
> For it is a sad fact of musical history that after Coltrane, there was nothing left to say on the saxophone. But Kenny G said it anyway.

I.e. nothing? Haha.
Your response here is at least an order of magnitude more caustic than what you're replying to. At the risk of generating more bile, you should consider that you not only are not going to be getting the change you describe with your style of argument, you're making this community (such as it is) look bad and finally (and perhaps most importantly) you're reflecting poorly on climate-change believers, a community of interest that I consider myself a member of.
Indeed. I'll stick with unadulterated Open Source Definition licenses. I know those; I know how to integrate; I know how to comply. They're known entities, and licensing is well aware how and what they are used for.

This tirefire of a license is untested and a "Social Justice of the Week". Frankly, the further I am away from the likes of these, the better.

I also greatly appreciate what Stallman said, here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

" There would be programs banned for use in meat processing, programs banned only for pigs, programs banned only for cows, and programs limited to kosher foods. Someone who hates spinach might write a program allowing use for processing any vegetable except spinach, while a Popeye fan might allow use only for spinach. There would be music programs allowed only for rap music, and others allowed only for classical music. " - RMS
"we prefer that you do not include the word “Slack” in your product’s name."

From the people who had no problems naming their product identical to the colloquial name of the oldest maintained GNU/Linux distribution, thereby confusing the hell out of actual technical people for the longest time with press releases.

Also, Bob Dobbs called...

(Edit: you can take away my upticks, but you will never take away my slack. "Hacker" news my ass.)
Not enough guitars for Godspeed, I reckon, but it definitely deserves a place alongside "Telephone and Rubber Band" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ4pve5Mkc) and "Opus Number 1" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs). Any other good telephone related tracks?
Don't clean up anything. Just apply for the next 5 development jobs you see. See if you make it to the interview and how that goes.
That will help you understand where you stand.
Also see that other post on imposter syndrome above :)
You don't need to be perfect to start your first job as a developer. You are supposed to learn on the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio...

This is the best source I could find. Limbaugh has 14 million listeners, Hannity 13.5M...Alex Jones is sitting at 5.9M.

I don't know if Trumpism will last beyond Trump's term. I certainly hope not.
I can agree about one maintainer vs many
"I... just don't do it."

You mean you do not ignore cease and desist orders by principal? Why? There should be at least some criteria by which you judge which ones you can ignore and which you can't? What if they told you to cease and desist programming forever on any project because they state in their terms that once you mess with their UI with JavaScript you are not allowed to program anymore? Ridiculous right? So would you listen? Probably not.

So lets see what they are 'forbidding' you: They don't want you to write code that makes browsers do other things to their site... How is that any of their business?

What if a new browser comes along that renders all of their fonts differently so that they become unreadable, is that any of their business or is it the business of the people who use that browser? I'd say the latter.

I agree that a disclaimer and a change of name should be enough. I'd suggest 'SlackingOff' as a name.

You are free to write any extension that does anything to any website as long as you aren't hurting users' human rights and as long as you aren't hacking them if you ask me. Users can decide whether they want to use your extension perfectly fine on their own.

Also note that you are free to not write any extension as well. It is your life of course :)
Well, probably by training the net under such conditions. Actually I see no reason that, with a sufficiently large and accurate dataset, a neural net can't be trained to pick out a "safe[enough]" emergency landing spot. And, a well trained net should be able to fly in any condition, including limited avionics, better than a human.

You might ask where this data will be coming from. I suspect 3D physics simulations are accurate enough that they could be used to generate data. Particularly if optimized for the physics behind helicopter handling.
He should talk to a lawyer, especially if he accepted a binding agreement by using Slack that forbids any of the research he did to figure out how to get his integrations to work.
Interesting perspective. My own domain is within linux-audio which does not involve all that much cash (I've investigated various funding models for my projects as well as observed them for others and it is a hard game). Most of the projects are on the smaller side, so when you have a few people shift gears to spend time on volunteer events/activities it frequently slows down or pauses development.

I do try to put in community outreach time as it scratches a different itch than the more development focused day-job, however it does frequently seem to not lead too far. There are many cases where people interested in contributing are very junior individuals who need some assisting along the way due more to a lack of experience rather than lack of familiarity with the project in question. Linux audio in particular is challenging since it involves the intersection of several different domains (low-latency programming, DSP, C/C++, user interface coding/design, audio/speech processing backgrounds, technical writing, etc). So, people do end up being more green than I would expect compared to other open source domains.

Thanks for the specific suggestions. I've considered doing a specific hack day/weekend/etc event for a while, though I've never acted upon it since I don't really want to deal with the possibility that I end up spending a day or more and there is no activity in response.

I do like the idea of openings though. It's a clever way of presenting what the project has to offer as well as presenting specific enough profiles of people that it might get someone over the initial hump of "perhaps I should ask about contributing".
Isn’t balloon helium mixed with oxygen so that children don’t suffocate inhaling it?
The menus are grey to indicate that they're button-like. In particular, there's nothing you can do as a user to edit them. Admittedly they're not that different from static labels, which would also be grey but not have the button shadow.

The middle area is white and depressed because that's the content area. It's a bit like a text document or text edit control: it's normal to be able to click in it and select stuff and edit it. It's a bit unusual in that double clicking opens a new window, but that's also true if you double click a linked embedded image in a Word document.

Overall it's pretty consistent.
It's really hard to tell how much of the last 15 years is unusual vs the new normal.

Presumably things can be adjusted for with slightly increased premiums as it's still very close to break even for now.
Unoriginal or not funny ones; if they're unique and not some lame meme, they'll often get upvoted
Right now if you take an ordinary ambulance and let it enter one of Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnels and speed towards the hospital at 150 mph with no time outs for traffic that would be a large enough advance for most people with way less risk. Sometimes one new "good enough" technology overtakes a sexier one.
So do you think it should be legal to sell tobacco and alcohol to minors? Should there be an age of sexual consent? Or is this a legitimate use of government? Just wondering how far you are willing to take that opinion.
Almost 200k movies to watch from single platform
"second most common element in the known universe"

Yeah, but its impossible to harvest He in space (Collect the sun's plasma? Land on Mars, and drill there? A big He collecting sail?)
Think your life as a sine and happiness and sadness is the high and low. Having children multiples the amplitude. You will feel happier you ever thought by simply watching them. You will be able to cry on stupid endoftheworld movies because kids. You will walk out of your house at 2 am because otherwise you would hurt those little fkers. You won't sleep well for years. You will be able to squat one more series if you imagine you're saving them with that.
To summarize you will get more _life_ out of having kids with all the highs and lows that life naturally contains.

This is a boost I would never miss out.
Seems like Joel is quite stubborn regarding his values and vision for Buffer, which i believe is a good thing but i can see how it can lead to differences with co-founders and investors once the vision does not align anymore. Felt like it was all over for him when they asked him to eventually step down and from that point he planned to remove them.

In the end it also means that their investors most likely lost their confidence in buffer, otherwise no investor would get out in a deal like that.
In case anyone is wondering how this works, it does a google image search and then extracts the primary color of each result. That’s why you see unexpected colors like grey for “heart”: image search returns black and white hearts.
an autonomous helicopter startup doesn't have unions with collective bargaining agreements (contractually obligating them to have at least 1 human operator).
> Markets cannot incentivize conservation.

This is absolutely false. Even a basic understanding of supply and demand shows that a decrease in supply causes the equilibrium price to increase and the equilibrium quantity to decrease.
I know we don't like to talk about politics on Hacker News...

But: This. Is. Fascism.
Here's a spiffy new fork: https://github.com/betterlimp/betterlimp
Creating for yourself might have the interesting side-effect of not pleasing others.

(I understand, publishing something implies you seek an audience. A beacon for like-minded individuals, then.)
Don't think they can enforce this at all, I would just change the name and call it a day.
The burden is on you though, certainly no one can force you to make decisions. :)
Why is it not logical or sensical?

The FCC presented evidence that ISPS will often build up to a mile of wire reach new customers of these high-value service contracts.

> not exactly as dire as the headline makes it sound,

ArsTechnica. I can't recall the last time one of their political articles (which are the vast majority of ArsTechinca articles that ones that reach HN and Reddit frontpage) was an honest explanation of the situation covered in the article.
James Kyle who did that license change is one of the biggest attention seeker in open source. He is jubilating right now on Twitter and it looks like he got what he wanted as Vice wants to interview him https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1034883723273990144

James also though he likes to lecture people is also one of the biggest bully in open source, even the creator of Ember called him out https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/937618418471198720

Let's not give this toxic person more attention.

As for the license change, it is useless as it is already being forked. Also, if we are going to ban every company that does business with evil government institutions, there would be no one left to use the software. This just looks like what a 12 year old would do, James is kind of too old for these kind of things. Oh well.
Only over the short-term. Over the long-term, these should even out, all other things being equal.
Those people probably still don't have it quite as difficult as these two:

http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm

http://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/chew-shit-fun
But it's also not-quite-right to call these situations a monopoly, except via arbitrary shifting definitions of what "broadband" is to rule out valid options.

There's always other options for internet access - probably 2 or more wireless providers, satellite downlink with slower uplinks, and, for businesses where high-bandwidth is a necessity, investing in their own wires/point-to-point links.

These are all "simply a matter of cost" – and businesses can make these cost-decisions in their own expenditures and even choices of where to locate operations.

Further, if uncontrolled prices lead to excess profits in these areas, that's exactly the mechanism to draw in competitors. Regulatory price caps mean to potential competitors, "why bother?" Excess profits instead create a juicy target for upstarts, creating the desired competition.
"No means no" is also currently a common parenting phrase to teach kids about what to say if someone is touching them in inappropriate ways.
Why David Chang Matters
Thank you.

I believe stride's video conference was based on it too, we tried it and wasn't that good. But I will try it separately too.
Markets can predict future shortages and rise prices in anticipation. Nobody wants to sell cheaply today if they can get more than the prevailing interest rate by sitting on the resource. And if we are talking about really long time frames where the risk/reward ratio is not clear, why should we assume the governmental decision is better than someone who has financial skin in the game? Maybe the conservation decision will actually be a bad outcome, conserving at a great present cost something that will be worthless in the future.

Global warming and other environmental problems have nothing to do with this. The environment is a shared resource so market participants have no incentive to preserve it, on the contrary, they rush to "use" as much of the common resource as possible and maximize present gain, before someone else kills the planet and there are no more money to be made. The solution there is to tax the externalities and transform the public resource into a private cost that must be minimized, thus preserving the resource. Helium is not such a public resource, it's private to those who have it, produce it and store it.
Can't remember, it was a while ago. I will say that anybody who knows what Blizzard is will know how bad their IM was.
Because... I have lots of things to work on, lots of things I want to build, lots of people I want to talk with.

None of them involve talking with a lawyer in a different country over something that's really not that important in my life.
Thanks to the Eighth Circuit for this "business-friendly" decision which is friendly to a handful of mammoth telecoms and unfriendly to all other businesses.
Article explains somewhat about the hows but not really the why, other than alluding to “differences in vision.” Maintaining transparency about these things is a bit tricky!
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I respect their decision and rights, but I don't really understand this move. I also believe this sets a dangerous potential pattern within the developer community.
I personally don't agree with certain statements/immigration/ICE etc. but I'm more put back by this.

Coding is becoming easier and will increasingly include more of the general population (which is a good thing). This means it's about to become much more diverse in regards to religion, political beliefs, personal morals, citizenship, etc.

I don't mean this in the political/philosophical sense. I mean soon people will start showing up in Github/twitter comments, contributing pull requests, with a genuine interest about coding, who look like people you personally dislike. Maybe they are wearing a Trump t-shirt in their profile photo, but their code is great. Are you going to reject their pull request or ignore their comments?

Governments & company policies change frequently. There's also an unlimited combination of potential beliefs, moral stances, crimes by an unlimited number of people and companies. At what point would you decide to add or remove amendments to your license?

I also feel it's hypocritical to use a product owned by Microsoft (github), while calling them out in your license by name. I mean, are you protesting Microsoft or aren't you?

How do you know that an upstream dependency you are benefitting from wasn't created by one of these companies?

To highlight the humor of this line of thinking, why not block oppressive regimes, serial killers (>= 6 people, <6 are ok), certain religious groups with worse principals than ICE?
VR is overhyped, its use cases are more niche than people are led to believe.

For entertainment, real-estate previews, watching movies together, the experience, learning & simulation, and art modelling its great, but other than that not really. VR social chat is not going to be a big thing, even after gen-Z. People tend to forget what social chat is for, communication. VR just adds no value to that process.

If someone wanted a VR social experience, we've had MMOs for ages. VR social might as well be a VR gaming MMO. It needs to provide a medium to spur social interactions. That market is not very big, although Roblox (10MM average users) would be an interesting market to look at to see where that goes. Your market segment in VR social is going to be smaller than an MMO, which tops at around at 10MM as well. Instagram has 800MM users. Population of america is 300MM+. Put numbers in perspective, its a niche market and won't ever be big. To make a profit, you would have to dump an incredible amount of investment in comparison to making a simple CRUD app. RoI needs to be justified.

VR has already been around for 15+ years, I grew up playing VR games at Disney as a kid. This market is not new. VR is only fun for certain games as well, generally the same games that made Wii and Xbox kinect fun.

Even if VR/AR became entirely portable and seamless, its still not going to have widescale adoption. You can't replace real life.

VR's biggest profit potential is towards small niche groups of people with alot of money to throw around. Much like the mobile game market works, only a few users contribute 90%+ of sales citation needed. Currently, DoD is using VR/AR for leadership & simulation & hypothetical scenario training, because mistakes / setups are expensive and cost lives.

VR gaming will never be a big market until the cost of equipment goes down. And frictionless setup / no context switching. Its still a very high barrier to entry, and a high cost to maintain.
For a professional job, there's usually a waiting period of a couple weeks before the job is ready to onboard you. It's extremely rare and unexpected that a company gives you an offer on Friday and expects you to start on the following Monday.

It's not just your manager, it's your coworkers, it's your team. You don't want to leave them hanging at a critical juncture with no time to find a replacement. It's not for no reason, it's because relationships matter, more than you know, and it pays a lot of dividends to invest in long-lasting relationships that carry on even beyond your job.
And classic Mac OS.

http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
I was good friends with a daughterful Skanky family growing up - almost wonder if it was the same one.

Much in the same way that the pronunciation of harassment over-corrected to "hare-es-ment" for a while in the 90s (avoiding "her-ass-ment"), they led the pronunciation of their name towards Skanchy, like Scrunchy, or Crunchy before relenting.
This is an excellent piece and kudos for being transparent. This is possibly a story of virtually every startup that doesn't quite make it to 10X: You get funding and expand team rapidly but then revenues are not keeping up so you cut down and then wonder where you go from here. For many startups there is a path of being sustainable profitable business that perhaps will never become unicorn but then investors aren't happy with that. I think buying out investors is an excellent idea in this situation and every founder should always think about this possibility when signing the term sheets.
HBO’s Misguided Quest to Become Netflix
There are people that I have interviewed that didn't even know the bare basics of programming. you are well higher on the list than you think you are. apply.
Is the Alpha download-able somewhere ?
It's funny because if you scroll through Google images fast enough, you will catch glimpse of monochromatic placeholder images for images that haven't loaded yet. The placeholder image seems to be the average color (maybe with some object boxing to reduce contributions from backgrounds and such) inside the image. This website is kind of the opposite in that it presents the placeholder color as if it were the content itself.
Finishing things.

I've started countless projects all with a wave of optimism on how its going to be different this time, how this will be the side project that earns me enough recurring revenue to leave my job and start making things I want to build full time, but I never can finish them.

I am in awe at people who can work on things for 4+ years without getting large scale feedback or revenue from them. My attention span for a side project lasts a month at most.
Agreed. I did a double-take to see if Wynton Marsalis wrote the article.
So say we all, so say we all.