skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from the UK too: we had a Dell XPS Dimension back in 1996, it came with the OSR-1 release which still had the original shell-based MSN client, so we signed up for the free 30-day trial included in the box so we could get on the Internet as well as to check-out the MSN stuff. I have memories of clicking around the original Explorer-shell based Internet Gaming Zone (zone.com would launch later) - then the free trial expired and we switched to CompuServ and Netscape.

Only AOL was able to eke out a market in the UK - often the exclusive content they had was too American-centric to be of interest to Europeans, though I remember CompuServ was popular in academia. When we were in CompuServ we only used it to get on the Internet - so after subscription-free ISPs like FreeServe and LibertySurf were launched we instantly ditched CompuServe.
german language. And I'm living in Berlin.
I imagine the latex of the balloon has a lower rate of loss as stretching decreases.

As it deflates, the relative weight of the balloon vs helium also goes up.
Living on the minimum amount of pension isn't as easy as it sounds, especially if you never had a well paying job. There are a lot of very poor old people that have to be supported by their families if possible or by smaller side incomes.
Nice to find another Holdsworth fan. Secrets is an awesome album, as is A Love Supreme.
Also no mystery heavy breather/loud typer.
I miss Medievia!
> I wonder how much longer Slack’s web client is going to remain a first class product?

It never was? The Android client takes 10 seconds to start, runs my device hot and the UI is so bad that the first time I tried to respond to a thread I couldn't figure out how to get out of the thread view.

The desktop client uses 1GB of memory gobbles my CPU and takes 20 seconds to start.

The "least bad client", the web client still takes 10 seconds to start, for no obvious reason. Last week I looked into it, it turns out that every time the client makes a request to the server it the TTFB is 300 to 500ms, on a connection with 40ms ping. So their backend is just as fucked as all their clients.

Even their email notifications don't work: every time I click on the link they send me it doesn't take me to the mention!!!

They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped.
That’s the tragedy of the commons at play. It’s caused by incentives that arise from a shared-resource system.

The solution is to (1) internalize the externalities and (2) allow individuals to take over the property rights of a resource, i.e. privatize it. This shifts the game-theoretic equilibrium away from resource depletion.
part that gives me pause, even though I'm 100% okay with being against the current policy of separation: what next? Totally silly, but what if it comes out that some food company is engaging in behavior that is deemed immoral. Lerna then tacks that onto the next revision of itself. But I, myself, really like food company's product and don't feel the controversy is warranted. Then what?

I understand the motivation with wanting to protest in the best way you can, but I think in this case, it is going to do more harm than good.
> Since the tax is typically a percentage of the price

For a duty tax, sure, but not not an excise tax. Those are often fixed rates. An NFA stamp for the transfer of banned weapons is a fixed rate ($200). Cigarette taxes [0] are also fixed values. Gasoline taxes have a similar fixed value [1].

[0]: https://taxfoundation.org/state-cigarette-tax-rates-2018/

[1]: https://taxfoundation.org/state-gasoline-tax-rates-2017/
Moody's Pulls WeWork Credit Ratings, Citing Lack of Information
It is a wildly different experience if you are male vs female.
There are many enterprises that have web-only workflows. Eliminating the web client for Slack would be like eliminating the web client for Google Docs.
Personally, I think you should treat all stock options/common stock as a lottery ticket with near zero value anyway when joining a startup. In 99% of situations, cash is all you're going to get.
I found it curious that this research only went back 450 years or so, since that takes you back to just before the Little Ice Age, a time of unusually cold temperatures, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. One wonders what they would have found had they kept going further back in time.

BTW, they already know that a lot of the melting in Greenland is from the bottom up (geothermal) rather than from the top down. But of course you don't hear too much about that, do you?

https://www.newsweek.com/puzzling-heat-deep-inside-earth-mel...
Where in Berlin do you really need to speak German?
Intenta conseguir trabajo en Estados Unidos. Para los chilenos es mas facil que incluso un Europeo conseguir trabajo en Estados Unidos por la visa H1B1. Pero ojo que solo las empresas grandes estan dispuestas a hacer la pega que implica (Abogados y esas cosas). Ademas a los SW les pagan mucho mejor aqui que en cualquier parte del mundo.
Source: Chileno en USA
This comment hurt my feelings and so I will disregard it.
Feeling always behind the others. I've recently completed my master in CS while working full time. I still feel that I'm vastly behind other people in terms of compensation and knowledge. I can never be motivated at my current work when I know there are new grads making double or triple of my current salary.
In that case, I think the rational thing for ISP's to do is to carve out enclaves where they don't compete for customers. I suppose the new political FCC will find that competitive.
When did we switch to talking about that (the 'before' part)? This thread is debating the OP's comment about how flooding in Calgary either gave people the choice in moving or never receiving assistance in the future.
If you are on a machine for which you do not control the installed software (i.e., work provided machine), then it is possible for anything you place on that machine to be obtained and viewed/stored by the actual owner (employer, etc.).

If you want your passwords to be secure, then you can not use/type them on any machine for which you do not control the installed software.

And for machines for which you do control what is installed, you also have to be certain that no malware has been installed unnoticed.
Mid-life crisis? How do you feel about Corvettes?
Researchers replicate just 13 of 21 social science experiments in top journals
Ok?

All I'm suggesting is that there are probably low-hanging fruit to make the credits last longer, if up until now the community has been behaving as if resources are free and unlimited.
An Academic's Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
Inertia is vast for the core systems that power large organizations. But these legacy systems do eventually yield as new requirements render change non-negotiable. Those ancient, messy, arcane, yet somehow supremely reliable systems tend to become frozen reflections of the organization they serve. It does eventually make sense to replace them when the organization has changed sufficiently that the reflection is no longer accurate.

New regulations, new products, new markets, new acquisitions, divestment, outsourcing... these are the real drivers of change that move an organization’s technology forward - not the new tech itself.
Hot Chips 30 (2018) Keynote 1: Spectre/Meltdown
> I didn't know one Electron app could target the other.

An Electron app consists of two parts: HTML5 (which can run Javascript, but within a browser-like sandbox), and native Javascript code, running under Node.js with no sandbox whatsoever. The native half of an Electron app can do anything to your filesystem (including the parts that contain other applications) that any other native app can do.
This is a good article, but I wish it went a bit further into the complexities facing Hong Kong as it seeks its place in a 21st century where access to Chinese investments is no longer throttled by access to Hong Kong. I first lived in Hong Kong as a student in 2006 and I remember thinking that the tech push starting in Shenzhen would be dwarfed by tech growth in HK given its already prominent status in the international community and density of top notch universities.

When I visited in January, though, it felt like the opposite has happened; Tencent has grown into an international behemoth and HK has failed to really choose to invest in tech growth. I have friends at SUSTC, so I'm glad that Shenzhen is making big things happen, but it is disappointing to see HK still focused on running/growing the economy according to a 1980s playbook. Even the cyberport really ended up feeling more like just a ploy to be able to build more housing rather than an actual tech community.

Still time to make big things happen in HK, but, in my opinion, it's going to take leaders in the business community to push for it and make investments. It will also take strong collaboration with the outstanding academic community in HK to make that happen.

I'd love to hear from people currently in HK about how then view the tech sector and what their plans are.
Helium is constantly produced by radioactive decay in the Earth’s crust. I’d assume that this is the helium that’s found in the atmosphere; the rest probably escapes.
I had a linear algebra professor named doctor buttcane.
2001 is considered gen Z. Before them are millenials, the oldest of which were born around 1980. If OP was in their late 40s, they would Gen X. So clearly they were referring to millenials, and not Gen X.
#2 and #3 on that list were clearly done as publicity stunts/"testing the limits" Bobby Tables-style than anything occurring naturally.
I would also offer for the debate:

By search category: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01_...

By category on Youtube: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?gprop=youtube&q=%2F...

The latter is relevant as Alex Jones has a popular mobile app, YouTube, and podcast presence, which is not captured entirely by radio presence. If only he weren't banned, we could see how the popularity spike would've resolved.
My guess is that you had an underpowered database instance backing Airflow.
Is the site getting overloaded with traffic? Nothing returns any results.

Edit: Left a search running for 10 minutes and got some colors.
Good thing the 10% that actually matters doesn't require JS. If your content is actually important, it'll be accessible without JS.
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Hangouts is a conference call, so yes. :-)

Audio quality is variable. Sometimes there's serious lag. Screenshare often gets stuck. Sometimes Hangouts (well, now it's Meet) goes split-brain and some people join to find no one there, even though everyone else can see each other. Browser support is hideously narrow. Unmute sometimes doesn't work.

Oh, and the worst part: There are all these pesky humans involved!

Seriously, most of the stuff satirized in this art piece are human factors, or at least factors that have not particularly been changed by Hangouts and its ilk.
This is actually a joke i have told my wife who has family in Florida: The only way i would buy property in Florida is if im allowed to build an artificial hill/mountain on it, so that in 100 years my family will own a private island.

I wonder if there is a long term business model here... Invest in land and prepare it to survive being surrounded by water, build infrastructure etc and then sell it to the same type of people who buy bunkers for end of the world situations.
> Injecting javascript into Slack via Chrome extension can have an impact on the privacy and security of our customers and our product.

So can taking screenshots of messages. If injecting JS can possibly affect the security of your platform then that's a vulnerability you should fix, not send a C&D to some developer about.
"Machine Learning" and "AI": when used by people clueless of basic logic or stats

"Synergy": Management uses this word a lot, often to appear not clueless (or helpless) of how business processes work

"Techie": Too broad a term to describe anyone. From a rich kid with lots of gadgets to a world renowned authority on a subject.

"20 years of experience between us" or "Combined 20 years of experience in xx Technology": When 10 kids are running a startup after working two years part time during college.
what about the one-in-a-million events that pilots continuously train for? Is one million flights a large enough sample?
There's a lot of negativity here.

I give Buffer a lot of credit. They seem to deeply internalize the idea of "realistic expectations" and it sounds like the buy-out was a win-win solution where everyone got (mostly) what they wanted.

As he says, the investors might not have been happy about it, but at least he has the backbone to resist trying to squeeze growth out of a market where there's none to be had (in the short term). Most CEOs wouldn't be as courageous, preferring to try to spend like crazy in the search for growth, which just torches investor capital even as it adds little long-term value to the business's equity.

In short, a bold move by a very honest guy who's in it for the long term.
Doesn't work for me: the boxes never load. I searched for potato.
Not everybody is perfect. Sometimes goals change and you realize what you wanted before isn't what you want today. Plus, he did mention his cofounders left, so maybe his ex-cofounders wanted the VC route.
Cool! Reminds me of xkcd's color survey results: https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
I also struggle with OCD. Have for 2 decades now.
It's easily the #1 thing I struggle with more than anything (repetitive thoughts to be precise) and it's a pain in the *.
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Lack of (career) ambition. Because of a workaholic dad I sworn to myself to always choose an easy worklife. Take the easy path. Currently in a family with kids and a nice job, but I lack the motivation to really make a career. Sure it's a fun (programming) job with a lot of freedom. But I only do what is necessary, nothing more. Money is not an issue or driver for me. People may see me as lazy. Will I regret this?

Also, is playing videogames in your thirties considered childish? I sometimes get the impression that people do. Not sure how to respond to that.
Earth's atmosphere does not exhibit notable stratification by molecular weight until about 100 km up. The lower well-mixed portion is called the homosphere, and it is where these standard atmospheric composition values are measured. This near-uniform composition is also why, for instance, chlorofluorocarbons emitted at the surface reach the ozone layer and decompose it catalytically, even though their molecular weight is much greater than that of air.
I hear you! I'm in my late 30s and, although I don't have a family, I'm in a similar sounding situation myself. My first act sounds pretty similar to your own and, for one reason or another, in the last few years I've undergone a similar sounding shift.

Although it's all for the good, I've found the shifting identity tough (I've always had a very clear self identity). When talking to others, any description of myself or something in my life that I've come out with has been accurate but several years out of date.

Very recently (last month or two) I've started to notice a little bit of change around this. I suppose enough things have happened to this version of myself that I'm starting to build some identity around that, as well as just being more comfortable with the new situation in general. I have also been reading and thinking about a lot of Buddhist philosophy, which I think has helped give me some perspective.

I hope you're able to find whatever viewpoint you need to move through this situation. I'm sure that you will - life has such a broad and deep variety of experiences and there are many different avenues for adventure and reward.
The point being that CLU, Modula-3 and C++ had checked exceptions before Java was even a thing.

CLU never went beyond university projects, and Modula-3 research died after the labs went through several acquisitions, DEC => Compaq => HP.

As for C++, checked exceptions never gained much support, because their semantics are different from what Java adopted. Throwing an exception that isn't part of the list terminates the application and there were some other issues with them, so now as of C++17 they have been dropped from the standard after being deprecated in the previous ones.

In general there are two big communities in C++, the ones that turn everything on (RTTI, exceptions, STL, Boost...) and those that rather use C but get to use a C++ compiler instead.

So no we don't hate exceptions, it just depends on which side of the fence one is.
Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
> 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.

But you're not the person being asked - the courts in g3rv4's jurisdiction and in Slack's are the ones who would be asked, if it came to it. Have you read the relevant law (including case law) about copyright and "cybercrime" in these jurisdictions and concluded that, in fact, Slack does not have the power to restrict this? Have you read the Slack user agreement and concluded that the provisions in that user agreement are unenforceable?
Compared to a lot of other kids shows, I find that it's still fun to watch but it's also really relaxing. The music, the narration and the design have a calming feeling to them. Really a good show :)
IMO if you want to know what cyber war in the immediate future will look like read up on the Ukraine in recent years.

Trying to sow confusion via bank fraud, online harassment and propaganda like described in the article only works until people realize what's going on and make it known. It would certainly work well to some extent but once people realize what's going on it's all #fakenews. If you try to commit bank fraud en-mass banks will catch on and start ignoring you. If you try to slander leaders en-mass people catch on and start ignoring you.
> The FCC being able to pick which evidence to consider and which to ignore absolutely impacts residential broadband.

Not that I agree with what was chosen here, but if multiple pieces of evidence are reviewed and they conflict in their findings, they have to choose one in their ruling, right? Technically no matter the decision, they would technically be "ignoring" evidence because the outcome didn't agree with it, correct? It's not ignored, just not believed as much as other evidence from what I gather.
I like it, but my employer provides it for me.

If it is free, it is for me, and I will take three :)
Wait, does the iPhone actually ha e a manual that tells you those things? Android and Windows phone basically don't have manuals, so I assumed iPhones don't either.
Gradually the gap between big drones and small helicopters closes.
Brain fogginess, gas and bloating: a link between SIBO, probiotics and metabolic acidosis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41424-018-0030-7
Why is he stubborn? Isn't he just running his company his way?
One reason whites live at low altitude in mountainous South America is that they don't suffer so many difficulties carrying pregnancies to term. The natives are better adapted to local conditions.
No, it's not. It's Communism.

Granted, the difference isn't much in terms of human rights.

I don't have the reference handy, but I remember reading about a priest who had the dubious distinction of having survived both a Nazi concentration camp as well as a Communist concentration camp. In his opinion, the Communist camp was worse. In addition to the hard labor, other physical hardships, and the ever-present threat of death, the Communists added brainwashing. “At least the Germans didn't try turning you into a Nazi.”

Don't forget. Cuba and Vietnam have the same system in operation. Ask anyone in the exile communities in the United States.
IIRC the government injected a bunch of subsidized helium into the market recently. So it’s not really a free market.
Doesn't LSD last like 2x as long as MDMA?
Depends on how expensive it is to run the line for that 1/2 mile.
Keeping the amount of opened tabs in my browser below ten...
If you can live on 15% then you only need ~4x your salary in savings to retire.

See: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee... and https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

Insurance at it's core is amortization for individual risks you cannot bear the burden of, but as a group people could. Things like illness, accidents, disability etc. I recommend you get a fiduciary and explore insurance for the risks and annuities if you want to remove risk around your income too .

For most people the challenge is that they're running much higher than 15% of their pay. So it takes forever to get the equity required to no longer need an income stream (AKA job)
Building a Shake Shack crowd-counting app using CoreML
The problem with communism was a large country's economic system was too complex to manage. Centralized control simply wasn't possible.

China skirted that by pivoting to a market economy under political direction.

On the plus side, this affords them the power to directly deflate asset bubbles in a way democracies can't.

On the minus side, the lack of transparency and accountability increases inefficiency and hides issues.

It remains to be seen which of these will triumph. If the increased power offsets the inefficiencies, everything might stay fine. But if they fail to notice or act on a major issue... it's a pretty fragile system.
> If you and I believe that the scarcity of a resource will rise tomorrow

But I don't! If the resource is not to be used tomorrow, or any other day (that is, being conserved), then why should I believe it will be scarce?

The problem is that you simply cannot assign a finite price on something that you're never going to use.
The FCC IMO is no more political than its ever been.

What we're ascribing to politics (which it may very well be) is in my opinion better ascribed to regulatory capture - which is a problem many regulatory agencies have had over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Yup, Basically the only website I have JS enabled on is my Bank. All other stuff I have no need to enable it.
Yes, that's what I meant. Sure, a court can make an analogy but hey, they're a court. Random stranger on the internet is unlikely to provide you with a useful legal analogy. If anything, this seems like an intersection of topic and venue (legal stuff, forums for technically-minded people) that generates giant billowing clouds of useless analogies.
I also used the NIFC data. I mis-spoke on a couple of points.

First, I only used data from 1983 and later (not the 1960s as I said, and certainly not prior to the 1950s as you assert that some people do) because their footnote said that the sources for data prior to 1983 are not known or can't be confirmed.

Second, I graphed the data since 1983 and there was somewhat of a trend upwards (not no trend like I said). But it didn't look significant to me. Especially not in climate terms. And especially given that realiable data only covers 35 years. And especially given that the numbers swing wildly with how we manage fires. That is, a trend in either direction could easily be created by increasing or decreasing budgets to keep them from starting and/or fighting them, like the swings you reference prior to the 1950s.

But in any case, as I said, I not saying that wildland fires are not somehow affected by climate change. Only that people tend to accept narratives that are repeated over and over without critically questioning them.
Those sites must not have a lot of exposure to Asians --- where transliterated 2-letter surnames are very common.
Not 1994, but in 1997 we had the PalmPilot with a touch screen. Yes, with a stylus, but it existed. The iPhone would be different, but not magic.
Yeah, but it can't count to 16.
Only if you bring them near a flame.
OLED is dead on the laptop at CES 2018, but there’s still hope