skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t decide on a name before you see your baby’s face and first indications of temperaments. You will be stuck with the name if you picked a wrong name. My strategy was to pick 3-4 potential name but don’t get too hung up on any of them. With my second, none of the names matched him. We started searching for a new one. I am glad we did.
Yeah wow!

This¹ website says a Fuji apple, my favourite, my dogs also love them too, contains 16.6g of carbs of which 12.7g are simple sugars, whereas Coca Cola contains 10.6g of sugar per 100ml.

Amazing!

Rather than quote nutrition difference between the two I'll just give a subjective opinion: when I eat an apple I just generally feel ok, nothing different really. Coca Cola makes me feel ill, it upsets my digestive system and makes my nerves feel a bit jangle.

I don't think I'm alone.
So I am using the word "center" instead of "moderate" intentionally, because the latter might not exist--at least not in the way the common use of the word "moderate" suggests. There is some research (will dig up and edit this post if I can find it) that demonstrates how most moderates do not exist in the way we imagine. The study I am thinking of explains how surveys often use naive averaging on a single axis for policy preferences, and wind up labeling people with a mixture of extreme views as moderate. Meanwhile, those individuals are anything but moderate on any single, specific issue.

Instead of "moderate", what makes someone "centrist" to me is when someone is the opposite of "dogmatic", when someone has an ability to look at the other side and see how a logical path can be walked to reach another conclusion (than their own). Even if that person does not agree with the specific conclusion, they can follow the "stack trace". And what this understanding gives them, what this ability to reason about the other side gives them, is the necessary preconditions for compromise.

That is center to me: ability to compromise. Opinions are not center. People are center, or centrist, if they possess the disposition and non-dogmatic stance necessary for compromise. Barring revolutionary upheaval, every opinion needs to be implemented in policy eventually, and policy details involve compromise more often than not.

Maybe I am splitting linguistic hairs, but that is how I hear the word "center": a place where people with a level of understanding can come together and compromise. Compromise, famously, being an arrangement where neither side fully gets what they want.

EDIT: Found the paper, and if you want a TL;DR look at Table 1: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685...
A tale of five squirrels: vets untangle 'Gordian Knot' of rodents
If someone from the Economist tech team happens to read this: i had to click away 4 different nag pop-ups before i was able to even read the articles headline. Cookie consent (thanks EU), some user experience survey, a newsletter sign up, and a overlay ad for your paid subscription service. Stop this bullshit, it is unacceptable.
> While I certainly blame the attacker for the actions they took, my root cause analysis places the blame squarely upon law enforcement for creating an exploitable vulnerability. The militarization of police combined with nonexistent authentication creates a great environment for SWATting.

People (like Lopp, according to his own tweet embedded in the article) own guns in the US and this is legal. Occasionally guns get used in some kind of hostage taking, robbery, murder, etc. I really don't think the blame lies with the police because they have to be equipped to handle those types of situations and that they (quite rightly) should assume every incident is real until proven otherwise.
> Simply walk in the direction which narrowed down your possible location the most.

You don't know which direction you're facing initially.
I wouldn't put Papers Please in the same category since everything you do is on a very tight time deadline and the whole thing gets really stressful in the later levels. So it's not simply about carefully checking papers, it's about carefully checking papers as quickly as you possibly can while under the constant fear of screwing up, missing some tiny detail, being docked pay and not having enough money to both feed your kids and buy medicin for your sick mother.

Personally I love the game.
Does it block reads until sealing is complete? How many nodes in the nodeset have to respond before sealing is complete? [NodeSet] - [ReplicationFactor] + 1?
Yeah, I guess. Me, I just have a military-issue machete. It isn't pretty, but it's tough, and holds a good edge. All I've killed with it are weed trees, though ;)
An Old Approach to China
Reeder is free since v4 will launch later this year. It works fine on Mac and iOS. You can use local RSS or things like Feedly. I just use local RSS. No syncing between Mac and iOS btw.

http://reederapp.com

edit: There is also the news that NetNewsWire is back to its original developer and will be released later this year: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Here in the UK most of the bookshops that just sold books have gone. Now most bookshops are essentially cafes that also sell books.

There are a few exceptions - in London there are some niche booksellers, and most university cities have a bookshop that stocks textbooks, but it's generally true.
Two minute papers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg) is a great place to keep up to date about mostly computer science related research. It's getting some traction these days you should check it out.
Perhaps your ad blocking extension is not correctly configured? I didn't see any of that, but I've enabled additional lists (they come by default with uBlock Origin, just not enabled; you merely have to mark a few checkboxes.)
How to be* a compiler – make a compiler with JavaScript (2016)
> Maybe RSS could have been extended somehow so that friends subscribed to the same channel could syndicate their thoughts about an article to each other.

@dang Congratulations, you just invented OStatus. :-)

OStatus is a combination of Atom+ActivityStreams+Salmon+WebFinger+WebSub for exactly this purpose. It was created in 2009 and was even partially used by Google Buzz. I could post something on identi.ca and see it pop up in my timeline on Google Buzz. But as you indicate regarding RSS, Google didn't know how to monetize it, and they soon killed Google Buzz in favor of the closed Google+, years before they killed Google Reader.

When Mastodon arrived in 2016 it used OStatus as its primary protocol until the new ActivityPub was recommended by the W3C as a replacement. OStatus is still supported by Mastodon as a secondary protocol, and part of the Fediverse still runs on pure OStatus.

Diaspora was inspired by OStatus, but removes the WebSub part in favor of going full Salmon, and does a few of the details differently.
Yep, before "values" it was "diversity and inclusion"
... before D&I, it was "affirmative action"

There is nothing more de-motivating than being forced to hire applicants because they're from a "disadvantaged background" or due to unique sexual fetish characteristics.

I've joined many early stage startups over the years. The first few years of any business is paradise and there is certainly no better feeling than when all employees onboarded are truly aligned, dedicated, and oriented towards making the business a success. Kiss the culture goodbye once HR starts setting doctrines for ethnic quotas and begins to impose their own corrupt views of how company cultures should be. And where does it begin, in the creation of "values". Their values.
How to implement a programming language (tutorial for beginners)
Yes, in my opinion they are two different things: following your passions is almost always good, but expecting that to also guarantee you a job can be, many times, naive.

I think the key point is understanding that difference, and being able to decide for yourself how the two should intersect in your life. And that always needs to be done realistically.

I will also say that I personally dislike the idea of having a job related to my passions. They are my passions and in many cases taking a job related to them can condition the way I have to approach them. This tends to happen more with "creative" passions, but you know. Always working, not always for money.
> I do think feel strong about Bezos plans, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim Amazon is a public good.

Totally.

Yes, in the past Amazon has as some point contributed to the lowering of prices, by challenging the dominant players in retail markets.

But now, Amazon is the dominant player in the retail market, and Amazon seems to exploit this to the greatest extent possible.

Here's an excellent quote from recent thread [1] about one of Amazon's practices:

"Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17959085
The Weather Channel’s viral demo shows ‘worst-case scenario’ of storm surge
IATA calls for strengthening of Indian aviation to handle trebling of passengers
Because if you send it up to the client it's very easy to accidentally get it converted unless you constantly guard against it.
Why do you need to visit the DMV all the time? Do you have to renew your drivers license in person every x years?

I'm from Norway, and the only time I've had to visit our DMV was when I took the driving test to get my license.
She'll get some strange looks if she ever travels to Latvia.
In theory that would help, but Facebook appears to use all kinds of "clever" (dirty) tricks to stay running to slurp all that beautiful metadata up.

I've had "background updates" disabled every since the option became available in iOS, and location updates only when i use the app, and yet somehow Facebook manages to stay running in the background for 3x longer than it's been on screen.

We're talking 10 minutes on screen and 30-40 minutes of background activity. I realize some of it is notifications etc, which would trigger background activity, but that can hardly explain all of it.

After watching Facebook eat 30% of my battery every day, i finally uninstalled it and use the mobile interface. Besides making by battery last a whole day longer between charges, it also has the added benefit of not receiving notifications, meaning less stuff to disturb me.
From a Producer to a Consumer
It's so funny. Anybody still using == with js?
Does anyone know about hydrogen-powered drones? Something worth considering? https://danieldonatelli.wixsite.com/hydrogen-generator/hydro...
NDJSON: Newline delimited JSON
somehow everytime i see a question with linked list I'm conditioned to look for in-place solution. Something like

list = getOddsToTheFront(list)
list = sortOdds(list)
list = sortEvens(list)

implementation of helper methods left as an exercise for the reader
These articles are almost always based off the wonderfully misleading U-3 statistic instead of the U-6.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-...

The U-6 unemployment rate is nearly double that of the U-3 and is currently at 7.4 percent

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

There haven't been any major gains to wages since the 80's except for high wage workers, who have seen a nearly 35% increase.

Page 4 for table.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf

If the unemployment rate is so low why have we seen so little gain to our wages in the past 40 years?

The issues are greater than just faffing about with the unemployment rate but learning to spot this sort of trickery and call it out is important.

Here is a great article on Forbes that goes into some of the reasons why this is the case.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/07/18/wh...
To save interested hackers the time: not a single configure script, makefile or specfile is in working condition.
Test your hypothesis. By that argument tax collection agencies in all comparable states should behave similarly.

Just below the article someone comments that the Australian tax office has excellent support. Several European ones I have been in touch with have been very helpful as well (UK, Germany).

One thing that does differentiate the US from those places is the existence of a strong political force hostile to the idea of federal government ("drown it in the bath tub").

So the hypothesis that this is a home made political problem rather than an inevitable structural outcome of incentives fits the data better.
I've worked with people who are extremely exacting in their standards and absolutely reject any half-arsed attempts. But they have been a joy to work with because the sweep you up in your respect for quality and help you become better. Think of the strict teachers at school, who nonetheless everyone really liked.

I think Linus has done great things and I would like to shake him by the hand for taking this no-nonsense approach with himself. I have no doubt that he will retain his commitment to technical excellence.
How Ball, Gate, Globe, Solenoid, Butterfly, Check and Relief Valves Work?
What about WindowMaker?
> The Federal Reserve has been raising its benchmark interest rate since December 2015, and will probably do so again this month, from a range of 1.75-2% to 2-2.25%.

> This is the central banker’s version of twiddling the bath taps, but on a national scale. It requires a delicate touch. Too much cold water, in the form of higher rates, will choke off demand and hence jobs. Too much hot, and rising inflation will eat away at people’s spending power. The aim is to find the perfect temperature, where employment is as high as it can be while inflation stays subdued.

> It is as if the rate-setters must adjust the flow of hot and cold water not only without knowing what temperature is most comfortable, but also without knowing how hot the bath is to begin with—or when they will be getting in.

Reading this, you'd swear we were living in a communist society where academics and policy makers are smart enough to centrally plan the economy and to guess what the price of the most important thing in our civilization should be - money.
>>At some point it is successful enough that it can survive having people whose only goal is to direct a large amount of money into their pockets.

This is true about any large people structure operation. In fact I would say this is true in any case where your boss has a boss.

>>If you happen to be the hapless person who is innocently trying to make the company successful

You are either going to be a Jeff Dean. Very likely you won't be.

In the other case this is the equivalent of painting a huge X and walking into an arena full of political snipers. The first thing they will do is eliminate you at all costs, to prevent competition from emerging.

I've been purposefully losing 'Hackday' and 'Innovation Challenges' at work. Those have little to do with innovation and mostly exercises to prepare purge lists.
Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice
Those thing are not mutually exclusive. You can be both Charismatic and Rude.

Many people are happily following Linus' directions. Sometime he enforces those directions rudely, which drives some people away. It also prevents crappy patches from stubborn contributors from going through.
> With the EU parliament's recent voting in favour of requiring consent/royalties for "rich linking" (eg. previewing content without sending the user to the original site), I can see a renaissance for RSS as an accepted and practical means for federated personal news aggregation.

That's funny, I see the same legislation as the death of all unauthorized RSS aggregation. The "link tax" provision isn't about links, it's about excerpts of content.
Thank you! :-) Eloquently put.
I’m no academic but I’ve read a few papers specifically because I wanted to implement what they talk about. None have been useful for this purpose. I don’t know how you can possibly replicate them if there is insufficient detail on the “apparatus”.
If I'm reading http://wardsattic.com/joomla/Download/BellmanForestProblem.p... correctly, the ratio you're looking for is ≈ 2.0471.
They released Facebook Lite for this reason I believe it's like 10 MB. Tried it but could not keep using it because it has no Authentication Code Generator... Which seems like a pretty big oversight if you ask me, but who cares I'd much rather watch Facebook slowly fade away in the meantime.
"Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly."

Which is an interesting assumption, but certainly not a correct one. They have lost a lot of my business in recent years due to frequent poor quality control and customer service issues.
I live in Steven's home town of Chichester and just realised from the article photo that he's the same chap that can often be seen riding around town on his trusty penny farthing in his tweed plus fours and pipe, doffing his cap and saying 'good day' to all that stop to watch. Fantastic to see how easily he mounts/dismounts the farthing!
JavaScript Equality Table Game
Well, even though he made more than 1000x than most people, Bezos is probably not 10x smarter by any reasonable metric, and certainly doesn't work 10x more than the rest of us. It's clearly a choice we all made as a society that allows him to have all this money. The question is: would we have an Amazon without people who are driven by money? Of course we can never know, but if we look at the past, where a large amount of technological progress was driven by monks, it seems the answer is affirmative. Also the amount of work done in OSS by volunteers points in this direction. So the "charade" is something that we created, ultimately. The conclusion is that perhaps we could scale down a little on the capitalism, and let society take care of causes that currently need the help of philanthropists.
Let's see it in another way. You aren't permitted to run MacOS (or what's called today) on HW of your choice but only to HW chose for you by Apple. If you try the Hackintosh route, you'll probably find enough little issues like your girlfriend's laptop and you'll next update will always be a leap of faith...

There is a bunch of HW vendors that sell devices with Linux support, like Dell and System76 (the only two that I recall at the moment), I'm happy with a Dell XPS running Debian Stretch.
Both my wife and I have quite odd names which were made fun of when we were in school and are almost impossible to pronounce or spell correctly in English so we gave our daughter a really simple 'boring' name that will work in just about any language or country and no one will ever spell incorrectly.

I wonder if our daughter is going to rebel against having such a 'boring' name by giving her kids a really odd name that is hard to pronounce and spell and start the cycle again.
> Money supply is not the same thing as inflation!

Understood; I wasn't trying to say anything about spending power. I like to talk about inflation of money supplies since it sheds light on raw monetary policy. CPI metrics are more meaningful for some purposes, like retirement planning, but it didn't seem useful to me in this context.

> Apple etc are not going to get on board with a system that doesn't support refunds by design

You could be right. At least Apple/Google haven't banned crypto wallets from their app stores, so I think there's a chance. And there's talk about some phone vendors potentially shipping crypto wallets [1].

[1] https://insights.samsung.com/2018/07/02/why-smartphones-have...
You mean how Amazon is being sued for hundreds of millions in the EU for dodging taxes?

And the US is probably the worst example in the western world on how taxation should work.

Case in point is this ridiculous idea that what Bezos is doing here should be applauded and not fixed for being broken.
Show HN: My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source
Hi guys, I've created an open source web builder framework (https://grapesjs.com) years ago, which I'm still maintaining, and now I'm excited to publish a side project based on it, Grapedrop (https://grapedrop.com). It's a simple web page builder which allows you to design and publish your web pages very quickly. The project is still in beta with a lot of stuff to improve but I'd really like to share it and hear what people think about it and maybe also get some constructive feedback.
> Seeing some early coworkers who play their cards right get fast tracked in their career and go into management shortly after graduation, and feeling like a loser for remaining an IC / little person. The worst one is realizing you worked somewhere for the equity, only to discover that you are X years behind in your professional development because you spent most of your time hustling and rushing your work.

You must take it as a lesson and don't do same mistakes twice.
> Micro USB -> {Wireless,Lightning}

Or Micro-USB -> USB-C for that matter. Lightning and USB-C stand on equal ground relative to the Micro-USB "standard-ness" regarding charging, as in, in spite of USB-C being a standard, both represent a departure from the previous port.

I think this debate is quite theoretical though: the goal of the EU regulation was to prevent the 1:1 mapping between phone and charger, which produced enormous waste. Whether it's µUSB, USB-C, or Lightning, all of them separate cables from bricks, and make cables and chargers reusable across whole ranges of past, existing, and future phones. At the end of it, there's no practical need for one port to rule them all, waste is already greatly reduced and convenience is vastly increased, further gains would be quite marginal.
Thanks for the bug report! I was testing Jekyll and then Hugo as static site generators after moving from Ghost, and there might be a few issues in translation.
Mojolicious 8.0 released: Perl real-time web framework
That is another reason why I wanted to give my daughter a boring 'normal' name. I wanted he name to be as much of a blank slate as possible that people would draw as few conclusions from as possible.
The state of news sites is well known to everyone on HN. It's not nice to have this same comment pop up every time instead of discussing the article.

There are article outlining services and add-ons you can use. I really don't mean to offend, I just think it would be better for HN if this wasn't one of the first comments on every thread.
I'm aware there are people who feel that way. I think the difference is that, where applicable, I will also deal with the emotional piece and make sure they understand I mean X, but not Y in cases where bluntly stating X is typically presumed to also mean Y where X is something factual and Y is something ugly and judgemental.

My oldest son wasn't planned. I spent a lot of time thinking on how to talk to him about that and realized that most people equate unplanned with unwanted. So I figured out how to make it clear that he was unplanned while making it equally clear he was absolutely wanted and loved. It's never been an issue.
This is a terrible idea. A rectangle by definition has width and height independent of each other. A square does not fit that description and thus is not a rectangle.

Even if you did something like implementing the square's size as an average of the underlying rectangle's width and height, which would apparently support both classes correctly, you will get in trouble with the semantics or with other, less "fakeable" properties of these objects.
It’s time to convert to carry-on: LuggageHero ranks airlines by space allowance
You’d be less of a jerk, probably. You’d have to ask my wife that.

Could you ask her and write what she says? Tell her HN wants to know. :-)