skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you live but the USFS has guides on the native species of plants that live in various parts of the US.

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/public...

https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/CNAP/RevegetationGuide.pdf

Edit: fixed the links
Same with Python, same with Ruby, same with Node, etc. Shipping up-to-date coreutils wouldn’t save you from any of these.
"Some observers may want to blame President Trump for the spike, but it is much more likely that longstanding tax issues are the real culprits." he claimed, completely sans evidence or even a coherent argument
Only after Seattle voters rejected his much better Seattle Commons plan though (http://www.historylink.org/File/8252). Shame really.
Very interested to start messing around with this.

Regardless of whether it ends up being something I start using, I'm very glad to see people working in this direction. Thanks a ton for sharing.

One question - since this is Electron, it's based off Chrome's engine, right? Does that mean when you talk about adding 3rd party extensions you're including Chrome extensions in that? Having a hackable browser that I can directly mess with gets rid of the need for me to have a lot of extensions -- but there are a still a few (uMatrix, uBlock Origin) that would be a huge benefit. Even when I'm just downloading a document for offline access, I still don't really want to have a bunch of trackers in the stuff I access.
I love writing code. Ive gone out of my way to study health of eyes and tendons so I can code as long as possible. I never want to be the manager.
The study you linked does not support your claims.

Also, professional athletes do both high rep and low rep weight training. The high rep build the strength but the low rep build the endurance to use the strength.
Dedicated server software and lanning.
Perhaps you are unaware of how bad Google has been at this as well: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...

There is a huge portion of Google's revenue that comes from malicious, fraudulent ads, and they have very little financial reason to prevent themselves from making boatloads of money. They only locked down rehab ads once The Verge called them out on it.

Please read this whole expose, then decide if Google is really going to improve things in your country.
Chrome Bookmarks Manager. Since its removal I haven't been able to find a good alternative for saving bookmarks on Chrome.
It was also great if you were an academic and needed equipment for a cool research project.

"What kind of discount will we need to give you to make sure you're doing all this work on SPARC/Solaris equipment?"

"100%"

"Done!"

...and then they'd send you the servers you need, and perhaps one extra that ....accidentally...fell off the truck.
Yandex is one example: https://cloud.yandex.ru/docs/mdb/

Probably the big public cloud providers in China (Alibaba etc) as well.
There’s civil fraud and criminal fraud, just like there’s wrongful death (civil) and murder (criminal). The difference is that there’s no imprisonment or other societal penalties for being liable under civil law - only money is involved.
The license is clearly based on (A)GPL which is copyrighted by FSF, and has the following notice: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

Does that mean that MongoDB is now infringing on FSF copyright of the license text itself?
Status page updates: It’s all about timing
In order to achieve the NULL playlist you could have a playlist with one song which is silent.
> doesn't support most modern XMPP extensions

Hence the link for extras, but it is a valid issue.
Gajim is XMPP only, where Pidgin is multi-protocol, which is the main reason why I'm still using it.
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I have the same problem.

I think this is a function of trying to make searches more effective for unsophisticated users at the expense of users who know how to be more precise.

Similar to Apple and GNOME, it ends up penalizing the expert users to cater to non-expert users.

This is why you need to have the regular interface for people who shouldn't be expected to be experts, but have a separate interface for people who know what they are doing, because supporting both types of users is often mutually exclusive.
I live in one of the Sears catalog homes. Still haven't figured out exactly which one, as it has had some additions and changes made in the intervening years (its a 1927). Seems well enough built. Except for the electrical - knob and tube is a crazy way to do it.
I brought a premium account, even though I was a student at the time. They had some music tracks that I still haven't found anywhere else. Groveshark introduced me to filk making fun of Scifi I didn't know existed.

Paying for music isn't an issue, but it sucks when copyright is used to control music.

I have google music, and it is good, the music they have is generally of higher quality, but the selection does not compare.
Replace bible with quran, and savages with "savages from the US south" and you have an equally repugnant statement (with the same level of whatever accuracy exists there.)

Extremist fanaticism exists in all religions - and your garbage xenophobic bigotry doesn't belong on HN.
Come next March, I'm going to be missing Google Inbox. Completely changed how I use email for the better. I'm dreading going back to the tradition email workflow and hope to God that somebody builds something to replace Inbox in my life.

I also miss StumebleUpon from years ago. I don't even know if the site still exists, but for me it died when it forced me to pick interests. The great thing about that site was that it served me random things from outside of my bubble. I saw all sorts of fascinating stuff that I'd never have seen if I were trying to search for and curate content. I'm tired of algorithms trying to sell me a faster horse.
You have it backwards. Bodybuilding is mainly high-rep, often with isolating exercises for muscle hypertrophy. Obviously concessions are made to improve strength for size, but strength training is where you really see the focus on low-reps.
the Escape key, Apple
But you can still offer it as a service, just as long as you opensource your infrastructure. The only thing it prevents you is profiting from lock-in of your services without sharing those profits with MongoDB. Very much in the spirit of open source.
I have used Clojure on several customer projects and my own Cookingspace.com hobby project. I like Clojure except for the way recursion is handled. I have been using various Lisps since 1982 and Clojure’s support for recursion bugs me.
What I got out of it can be summarized pretty succinctly. Freelance programming is not the same thing as software solution consulting. If you want to do more consulting, don't write code for the same clients for whom you're designing high-level solutions.
People creating "computer music" are a mix of composers and producers, but not players which is a totally different piece of work. Apart from live DJs, but there's very few of them doing anything on stage that could be called "playing an instrument".
>Religion is a funny one in Silicon Valley because it's outright religious discrimination of Judeo-Christian traditions, while embracing Islam. It makes no rational sense at all for anyone with even the most superficial understanding of religion or history.

This is absolute nonsense. What you characterize as a wholesale embracing of a religion is actually the recognition that there is systematic discrimination against a religious minority in this country and an attempt to fix it. Islamic traditions are rejected just as much as Judeo-Christian ones.
Specific example: the very first one from the wiki page, namely the equivalence principle, together with (also in that very first example) the fact that particles that are their own antiparticles have been heavily tested to obey ordinary gravity. The whole notion that energy has mass and that antiparticles gain their mass/energy through the same mechanisms that ordinary matter does.

About the Standard Model: None of this has to do with the particularities of the Standard Model. Most quantum field theories have that structure.

Tensor interactions: We have two unrelated arguments for why gravity is a tensor field: one comes from quantum field theory where to have a similar attractive force you need it to be a tensor one; the other one comes from general relativity (the premise of the theory). This is again not a proof, but all of physics is built on such cute "coincidences". (Edit to add: point being, the coincidence is that attraction as we have it requires a tensor force, which happens to be the case for completely unrelated reasons)

Qualifications: Graduate student at the Yale Quantum Institute (through Yale's Physics Department). Hopefully I will be graduating this academic year :) (fingers crossed)
It functions as a good way to whet the appetite of the reader or student. SICP's meta-circular implementation occupies a kind of sweet spot, it imparts to students that only just grokked recursion to understand how the programming language itself is just a program they can understand and tinker with. The state machine implementation of the Scheme interpreter sort of breaks the meta-circularity to dismantle the tautologies.
Agreed, I loved it. I moved to Firefox with their Quantum release, and I barely even use bookmarks now because it's such a clunky UI for it.
I'd like to expand the course a bit and cover more testing topics, so if anyone has suggestions I'm all ears.

Ideally I'd love to hear about situations that were particularly hard to test and (if possible) solutions you used to address the problems.

Eg testing subprocesses is a tricky thing to do, but there are a few ways to write test cases that can be used as a mock subprocess and this has become a relatively useful technique for companies like Hashicorp.

I'm guessing other similar testing ideas exist, but aren't covered in the course and I'd love to research them more and add them.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro hands-on: a camera and spec monster
orbitz, those guys who made those weird drinks with floating things
The law doesn’t care about your subjective intent; it will be interpreted objectively, according to the facts and circumstances that can be observed externally of the interaction between you and the carrier. This is a basic tenet of contract law.
I apologize for the double reply. I am not familiar with how HN comments work, and it doesn't seem to let me edit my earlier comment.

TO your point: my example about justice in ancient Greece is clearly not a timeless moral lesson, since it doesn't make much sense today.
How the launch of four ‘rogue’ satellites made waves in the spaceflight industry
Ask someone over 50 who drives, do you remember bugs on your windshield? Having to run the wipers because it was that bad?

Ask them when they last remember that being an issue. I'm guessing some time in the 1980s.

There are kids who drive these days and never had bugs on their windshield. They don't realize it's not normal.
Hey Everyone! We built Personas as a side project from building Draftbit. We started down this path after looking around for a set of colorful avatar icons to use on a project, and couldn't find a set that didn't force us to make some unfortunate choices around gender, race, and age. So we built our own set, and here it is!

The site uses ReasonML to stack SVG's on top of each other, provide unique combinations of attributes. Our current set supports more than 2.5 billion possible permutations!

You can use Personas to create a new icon for slack, social media, product hunt, etc. Or use the (free) Sketch file to build a set for your products or apps, or dig into the source code on GitHub to help us improve and expand Personas for everyone. Cheers!
Tortuga Chain – A Fluent ORM for .NET
Don't forget Algol (1958). It had a profound influence on syntax and how programs are organized.
That's likely because banning consensual relationships is a incredibly poor attempt at fighting sexual harassment.
Some women, although the number is certainly an ongoing debate, make false rape accusations, yes. I'm not sure what you mean by "social justice groupings", but "sometimes people lie" still isn't mutually exclusive with "women, on the whole, are and historically have been a marginalized population". You keep on saying things like they're some sort of gotcha, but you never actually argue against the point you're trying to argue against; you just constantly bring up other points and try to act smug.
Had a wild thought for positioning, and we ahead with it
>If that were true bodybuilders would do great at marathons and triathlons.

It takes more than leg and back muscle to do great at marathons and triathlons. Aerobic development, VO2 max, lactate threshold are just as important. Further, you would want less weight (muscle mass) in the areas that are not required for your marathon. That's why many professional bikers and marathon runners intentionally neglect gaining upper body muscle.

Weight lifting won't train you to run a marathon, but it certainly isn't detrimental towards multi-hour hikes. Don't move the goal-posts on me :)
Excellent idea!

But, unfortunately, quite unlikely: it assumes extra thought must go into architecture and implementation. If you look around and see the current state of software industry, the rapid increase of entropy in software systems, the push of the market for cheaper, or completely free software, you'll find no pressure ever to deliver an "anti-feature delivery mechanism".

Plus, making a perfect product effectively puts you out of business. But ship a product that needs support, customization, training, consulting, periodic updates, maintenance - and you a rich man!
the wrong lessons were learned a decade ago
Ask HN: Do you ask for feedback on job interview?
Found this app on PH today(https://www.producthunt.com/posts/after-interview-2-0) and got curious how many people actually ask for feedback on job interviews. Do you?
> Are you advocating for general strikes here?

I'm saying a passive approach may give you a moral high but it doesn't actually do anything. Saying "Only someone else can fix this problem." is part of the problem, not the solution.
A note about diet:

There are some recent studies suggesting that globally, on average, the most environmentally friendly diets have some animal product component because of their ability to make use of landmass that we wouldn't be able to make use of directly. E.g., cattle can eat plants that grow in areas we can't grow human-friendly crops on.

I can't find citations to these studies offhand unfortunately. (this is an example but not what I had in mind: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5522483/) But what I remember is that globally, the most environmentally friendly diets had some small animal product component.

This also probably varies a lot by location too, so it probably is the case that for some people, the best diet might be vegan; for others it might involve more animal product.

Just pointing this out, because there are nonpolitical-psychological-sociological reasons for a "soft" approach on plant-based-diets.
More mentality than product, but I’m tired of companies not focusing on solving problems well and focusing more on generating a religion around their tech. I feel like prior to the iPod, things either worked well or didn’t. Now, you can put out the most half ass tech, generate a religion and have an “argument” against well matured tech and call for its death by fire. Looking at you NoSQL-anything.

Maybe it’s always been this way, I’m only 31. I just feel that making a real attempt at solving a problem is now a discontinued goal. It’s all about that religion. And you know what, tech geeks are extremely religious. At times, I feel there are fundamentalist terrorists that’d tell Apple and NoSQL folks to chill out and have a cup of tolerance.
Good luck using hard links on Windows without accidents.

Apart from sarcasm, SVN branches use suffer-on-merge: creating a branch means immediate technical debt of the most useless kind, which is more expensive than any inefficient file copying.

From the same manual:

"To perform a sync merge, first make sure your working copy of the branch is “clean”—that it has no local modifications reported by svn status."

"One special kind of flexibility is the ability to have a working copy containing files and directories with a mix of different working revision numbers. Subversion working copies do not always correspond to any single revision in the repository; they may contain files from several different revisions."
If you want to read SICP, it is available in HTML, EPUB here: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp also here: https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ebook/. Not available in EPUB on Amazon or Google.
It's not often I think "librarians are way out in front of this trend!"

We've been crazy about privacy and "digital ethics" (though I'm not sure we've ever used that phrase) forever, or at least as long as I've been a librarian.

Attorney General John Ashcroft actually picked a fight with the ALA years ago over this kind of thing because of the PATRIOT act.
Yeah, Altavista was the shizzle back in the day. I miss it, too.

IIRC, it didn't even have its own domain name for a long time, it was altavista.digital.com. There's another company I miss, having used Vaxen back in college.
Ask HN: Why do browsers not expose an Ads API?
The process of digital ads could be streamlined massively through a web ads API in the browsers, which could standardise some elements such as tracking. Why has this not happened?
Uber, Lyft cars clog SF streets, study says
Disclaimer: IANAL.

From MongoDB, Inc's POV, its fine to run MongoDB in-house for the purposes of supporting some user-facing application. Coinbase would be a good example, they make a consumer product that uses MongoDB as the storage backend.

What is definitely not allowed is selling fully hosted MongoDB instances. E.g. (https://cloud.yandex.ru/docs/mdb/). To do this you will need to open-source all the supporting infra/automation code which will be a deal breaker in many cases.

The real grey area is a service like Parse or Firebase that is built on Mongo but offers a Mongo-like DBaaS. Is it against the SSPL to build a service like that? Or is MongoDB, Inc trying to force everyone to use its MongoDB Stitch service [0]?

[0] - https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch
You should read the linked studies before posting, they answer all these questions.
After using the discounted small business version till this month I finally moved my backup to: restic [0] + B2.

It was really just a 30m job and I have a setup that backups 4 times a day and prunes etc twice a week. You might want to checkout their forum if you need any help. I had tried Borg and duplicity [1] too but found restic to be perfect for my need.

I also have Tarsnap[2] for the double backup of my most important data.

[0] http://restic.net https://github.com/restic/restic. This project also lists alternatives with supported feature list https://github.com/restic/others

[1] http://borgbackup.org, http://duplicity.nongnu.org

[2] https://www.tarsnap.com and has a simple but functional Qt GUI https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui
Milton Friedman on the rise of trustless ecash (1999)
Yeah we so often think things just scale without negative side effects. Internet started as web of academic/serious documents but the mainstream 'value' ended up in sucking attention for ads and shallow communications. I, too, did believe so much web 2.0 and ~real time json comments would make everything so much better .. but I don't believe so anymore. I think humans are 80% local and physical animals; we like having a bit of remote exchanges and seeing pictures, but it stop being deeply satisfying quickly. Especially when its devoid of human value (big companies don't make my heart sing with their new disruptive ideas anymore, to a point I have happy thoughts whenever I run into a single person passion driven ~crappy html4 website)
We had a follow-up course to SICP that started with the meta-circular interpreter, broke that one down even further and eventually moved completely to a C-implementation. Most insightful course I ever had. We got assignments such as: "add co-routines to the continuation-passing style meta-circular interpreter, and to the stack-based C interpreter."
I really like WTFPL as a permissive licence in these cases.

Small developers and companies without layers of lawyers will read the licence, see that it says "do what the ---- you want", and use your code accordingly.

Big companies with layers of lawyers will read the licence, blanch in terror, and either refuse to use the software, or contact you for alternative terms.

Case in point: Google forbids use of the WTFPL. https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#wtfp...
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When I go for a run I usually bring my phone with me and use it as a gps recorder, but I also use the watch as a backup. I haven't checked how accurate it is. It usually takes a minute to get a good gps signal, and sometimes there's a lot of noise at the beginning of the route. It vibrates at each km mark, which is nice.

I believe there are some online reviews with better info about the physical activity recording.
Most of the stories you mention in relation to the Iliad don't actually appear in the Iliad, you know.

Also, if anything can be described as "a collection of stories", it strikes me that Books 9-12 of the Odyssey (Odysseus' stories about the Cyclops, the Laestrygonians, the Lotus-Eaters, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun, etc.) fit the bill much better than anything in the Iliad.
I have the opposite issue: I love newsblur so much, because I can fast forward through RSS feeds and read them quickly, which means I don't have to keep going to the sites.
> Hint: it’s not due to the sensor package being used.

But it is. The package is pretty limited, and the firmware running it is full of hacks that compensate. Hiding the blind spot, saccade masking, not paying attention to stationary things...
Speaking as a lawyer:

There was no abuse, there was only mongo not being able to make money in all cases they wanted to.
That's what they see as abuse. It isn't.

While they complain of bad actors, bad actors always act bad.
This will not disincentivize them (they are also often in a lot of interesting jurisdictions that would make it hard anyway).

Instead, this is really about making it completely unpalatable for normal actors to not pay mongo in every single case.

Otherwise, one has to believe that mongo is going to go off and sue a bunch of people now, which would be a horribly stupid business model.
I might be reading this wrong, but doesn't this qualify as a "super viral" license in that any code that in any way is part of the stack for hosting Mongo as a Service must be open sourced as well? Granted, a company could buy a commercial license to avoid this but if (for the sake of example) Azure's Mongo hosting was using the open source license would this mean that EVERYTHING that goes into Azure, down to Windows "Redstone" source code, would need to be released?
This would have been a really good piece of work if an editor had trimmed out everything before "let’s examine its argument". Putting words into Larry Page's mouth is in lousy taste. It isn't satire and isn't a form that adds anything honest to the article.

But past that it was a pretty reasonable argument. Pruning out the par-for-the-course of accusations that Damore really meant something other than what he actually wrote it made for an interesting and constructive read.
I'm just here for the promised comment drama.
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