skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I understand these folks are few amongst many, but boy, when you don't hear from the many, only from the few, it makes you think whether this was a mistake.

Regardless, I've removed all mentions of open source from my product (but kept the license unchanged), just so I won't have to deal with this again.
> Also kind of kills your credibility in the future. Walking away over toxicity is fine, doing it like this? Not so great.

Credibility, yeah. Sure, this guy gave away his work for seven years but can we trust him to work for free in the future?
Realise that Thanksgiving as we have mythologized it today is entirely synthetic. There are only one or two sentences about it on the Pilgrim history, and those are sparse on facts.

The traditional menu is one that happened to be served one year at Harvard. For some reason lost to history, it became the de facto traditional menu.
Gradient Descent Optimisation Algorithms
Most people will buy based off of cost and weight rather than sound. In round numbers, no one knows what 70dB means relative to 64dB. But everyone knows what $30 or 3 extra pounds means. (Except for the majority of the world which doesn’t used $ or pounds of course), and bonus addendum, 70dB sounds about 50% louder than 64dB.
To add further confusion to the mix, we reserve cookies for a specific type of biscuit in Britain. They're only the slightly chewy, rather than crisp crunchy biscuits. :)
It seems like the owner was trying to find someone for over a year and nothing panned out:

https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881
Thanks! (actual Roku TV software engineer)
Thrilling. I prefer this to the final footage, and I have no problem with CG effects in general.
Libgen seems to have plenty of mirrors - if there's one good thing about high profile shutdowns like library.nu or what.cd it's that it tends to distribute these libraries out across more surface and make them harder to kill
They seem to be speaking without any knowledge of the matter. Australian indigenous people are some of the most traumatised people in the world. Addictions to many substances other than alcohol are rife, and begin at a very early age, and it's clear to any observer that multi-generational trauma and consequent poverty and despair are a primary cause.
`nnn` needs ncurses. AFAIK, it's not available on Windows yet. I use it daily on Linux subsystem for Windows and it supports Cygwin.
akiselev says>"it would have been the end of MAD and would have forced the Soviet Union into all out war ..."

I don't buy that extrapolation at all because:

- We'll never see the "end of MAD" - there's too much uncertainty around large-scale nuclear weapons and

- no one, including the Soviet Union, is in a rush to end the world.
The lard from traditional "lard" hogs that most of those old recipes were written towards is not the same chemical composition of lard rendered from today's meat hogs. Not a knock against your recommendation of bacon grease...lard hog lard was healthier and had a lower melting point.
You're comparing a social credit system to a financial credit system. Your hospital doesn't care who your friends are.
Very cool!

I did have a go at copying the Doctor Who tunnel effect:

http://roy.red/slitscan-.html
True... this would be a major barrier in convincing tech teams to take it seriously. Still, there’s a potential of this being used (recruiters may not care), and they could make it a T.O.S violation to do that...
Hmm, possible. I couldn’t login until I clicked through to read the marketing about Features on this particular instance (not browse anything else - maybe I was a target of A/B testing).
An aside...they quote Sarah Simmons in the article. She’s a restauranteur in my city (Columbia, S.C.) and has done amazing things for the city’s food scene in the last couple years.
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
Thanks. Never knew that was how it was achieved. Simple when you know how. :)

That vimeo link was infuriating to watch though with a fade/slide/inset effect every second or two. Like a bad powerpoint he wants to use every different effect in the software!
MI Fallout was one of the most remarkable movies I've ever seen just for this fact. Might be my favorite film this year.
> Pretty sure the gp meant the 20th

This is correct. Sorry.
He doesn’t owe them his presence, and they don’t owe him the right to operate in their country. If he doesn’t want to deal with the UK government, he could pull out of the country.
Carbon taxes generally don’t need to be huge to achieve their goals, so anyone without proof they’re clean can be taxed as though they’re filthy.
InSight Diary: The silence of space
> we’re robbed of our moral authority to condemn human rights violations

I think you've hit the nail on the head by describing it as a form of moral authority. American exceptionalism is a religion, and the idea that America's actions are morally justifiable no matter what their humanitarian cost is one of the fundamental tenets of the religion.

To be clear, American exceptionalism is among the most destructive and horrible religious regimes ever to exist, and has caused untold suffering all over the modern world. Keep in mind we live in 2018 when most disease and scarcity that once prevented human populations from flourishing have been eradicated.

Yet America is engaged in countless wars abroad and coerces its allies to collaborate in the enactment of inhumane sanctions aimed at all sorts of populations of innocents all around the world. Their crime? Not giving up their lives to overthrow whatever dictator has taken power.

Meanwhile we sit back and watch it all on CNN or Fox and praise the bold, morally principled actions of our political leaders whose moralizing led to the sanctions, bombs, drones, etc.

It is absolutely unconscionable for Americans or American leaders to attempt to use some sort of moral superiority as a justification for committing these kinds of acts. Why is this story being promulgated about China in spite of being oversold? Because some American leaders want to threaten China militarily and want to disturb the peace that has been achieved over the past decades.

One reason American Exceptionalism may not seem to you like a religion is because it is so unbelievably widespread. Politicians are expected to pepper their remarks with platitudes about the moral righteousness of our wars and our policies. It's all complete nonsense.

We act in the service of powerful interest groups, aligning with whatever dictators suit us at the moment, and never will our political leaders discuss any sort of definition of national interest. They prefer to talk in religion-esque language with platitudes about how brave our soldiers are and how virtuous our motives.

But in fact, a simple clear articulation of what they claim US national interest to be would be more than enough. If it's in the US national interest to somehow engage in conflict with China, then claim it outright, don't spend years trying to paint China as totalitarian or ultra authoritarian. It's not true nor is it remotely relevant.

The real cost of American exceptionalist dogma is that so many of us never think deeply about why we are supporting various wars or sanctions or dictators. We just assume that of course the US would never do anything untoward while our leaders exploit that naivete to the fullest.

So please spare us the platitudes about WW2, the so-called greatest generation and all that nonsense. War is ugly and we most certainly did not enter WW2 for humanitarian reasons.
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Receiving the Qubes Master Key from Joanna Rutkowska
Don't feel horrible.

Just because you wrote some open source at some time doesn't mean you have to open source everything you ever write.

No one can demand what you do with your free time, if they could it wouldn't be "free time".
Thanks for the explanation. Follow up question : how did you implement the signed cookies part?
When everything else fails amateur radio will still be there–and thriving (2016)
King Arthur is what my wife, mom and grandmother use. (We're in Houston area)
Ask HN: What do you look for in a software engineering candidate?
Hi HN,

I am at my wits end trying to find a job and considering giving up. I graduated 11 months ago from a leading university, an active contributor and open source maintainer on Github (with libraries of my own) and have written apps that is live on the App Store.

Been doing over 20 algorithm challenges a day (10 on leetcode, 10 on HackerRank) and I still keep getting no response or an immediate rejection from companies big and small.

Went through one company which lead me on with first a phone interview then a hacker rank challenge then a take home project then a onsite interview with a whiteboard programming challenge and a final interview. I never heard back from them, only to find out later on that I had been rejected without them telling me!

For me this has happened so many times that this was the last straw for me after 30+ interviews from several companies I applied for. It's getting to the point that I'am seriously considering ending my job search and I am tired of it all.

For those who are employers, founders or engineers:

what do you look for in a software engineering candidate? (CV, interview or overall)

what skills are you looking for the most?

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.
Yes, Sydney here, I've had a few good aboriginal friends in my suburb over the years, who are homeless most of the time. Long story short: It's such a different world. How they survive I have no idea. One is alcoholic, and often talks about wanting to go back to jail - at least there's food, shelter and a bed there. I can't imagine being forcibly deprived of my culture, family, language, land - like many/most of their families, then treated as failed humans. A neverending nightmare.

One of them is always introducing the (mostly white) locals to each other in the street, (she knows everyone) and we joke she's doing Aboriginal reconciliation... For a while I was always poor, and she noticed and started giving me food or cigarettes every time she saw me.
Hmmm... let me put it another way... When people are talking about monads, they are talking about what I was describing. :-) They use monads for what you are describing, but they also use them for many other things. The disconnect which created the conflict in the conversation was that you were using the term in a non-standard way. A person can use a word to mean anything they want, but they can't reasonably complain when other people don't understand what they are talking about.

Again, in hopes that it will be helpful to you (though I realise I'm really pushing my luck) when I discussed the issue about needing to be right, I'm referring to this kind of reply. I will try to be as modest as I can by saying that "it takes one to know one" ;-) And even my reply here is probably one bridge too far. I should probably simply understand that you are fixed to your point of view and leave it at that.

However, my goal in responding to your comments was to help you see the disconnect and to help you understand why people found your replies combative. There are definitely ways to portray your arguments such that you are in the right, but these strategies will not help you communicate with others. Western styles of communication often praise debate and the winning of arguments, but gloss over the loss of value when we look past each other.

Anyway, like I said, I've almost certainly gone too far and I don't wish to antagonise you further. You are clearly a very smart person and I think you will eventually figure it out with or without my help. If anything I've said helps you get there faster, then I'll be extremely happy. If not, then I'll apologise for any stress I may have added.

Edit: I would be remiss if I didn't point out that there are some ADTs which can not be monads. The exploration of that is extremely interesting. Since you clearly know Haskell, I recommend http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/ In challenge 1, the initial implementation of the Rand type can not be a monad. Why not? It's really interesting.
There can't be "no landlords". Someone owns the land, even if its the State.

Beware of that solution: you have a chance to fight a landlord, you have no chance to fight the state-landlord.
Do you have any references that you can share?
ftfy:

TLDR: you must use a soft wheat flour such as
White Lily, Martha White, or Southern Biscuit. Here's a URL where they make/show biscuits made with all 3 brands:

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/best-biscuit-flour/

TLDRSQUARED: Order of best taste: Southern Biscuit flour, Martha White flour, and White Lily flour (last).
Ballerina dances with police NYC
Your analysis misses out on the most important part: volume. Mortgages increase prices but also sales. IF you eliminated mortgages, you would have less home-owners.
Ha, you definitely have some years on me, but I can appreciate that perspective :)
Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer
I think its a fine way to save money, but that is basically choosing to be homeless and live like a pauper.

When you have 200k+ salaries and you find it appealing to live like a minimum-wage worker with no family, it should raise a red flag.
How a Hacker Convinced Motorola to Send Him Source Code
Your argument is totally circular and basically prejudiced or idiotic

"Addiction is not caused by trauma because aborigines suffer from addiction. Aborigines are not traumatized because its genetic. Its genetic because trauma could not have caused addiction"
I feel like - you had one job? Try harder? I don't know. I understand your annoyance completely.
> I lack the free time at this point in my life to continue to maintain and develop a project of this scale, and the codebase has languished for a little while already.

> I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain.

> The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS and refuse to understand it is very much a concern, and I'm simply not interested in shrugging that off anymore.

Not familiar with this project but would like to thank the author as well as all the other amazing open source contributors in the world for doing something that made/makes the world a better place.

I dream of a day when we have a solution to these problems. Where an engineer can get paid as much as they would at a job to fix those issues people raise. A platform that also allowed creators to block people who are clueless and unkind.

Some day we as a community will figure it out.
> I can't file an EEOC complaint because I wasn't discriminated against.

That's not quite true. I'd talk to a California employment law attorney, or a public interest law firm that might be interested in these facts.

> People working here seem morally fine with this sort of discrimination.

This is the bigger problem, but the nondiscrimination laws were passed precisely because some people felt morally fine with race discrimination.
Pi Zero W, I was able to follow these instructions and get AP mode and receiver (client mode) running in parallel a while back. The instructions dont seem specific to hardware:

https://blog.thewalr.us/2017/09/26/raspberry-pi-zero-w-simul...
But there’s also extremely constrained supply. Look at Mountain View CA from 2000 to 2010. The city blocked new housing religiously for a decade while welcoming tens of thousands of new jobs. Now traffic is insane, housing prices are insane. Tell me simple supply and demand is not at play here.
If we add jobs we gotta add housing. It’s baffling that we’d try to do anything different.
And yet every city in the Bay Area is happy to welcome new jobs and blocks new housing at every turn. There’s a muddy field right next to google campus. Been vacant for at least a decade. Zoned for hotel. Nobody wants or needs a hotel there. High density housing yes. Hotel no.
I’m not interested in any conversation about the housing crisis that ignores this simple idea.
Add a job? Permit a housing unit. Do that for a decade and then we can talk about the other factors.
Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests
What you saw probably was the collection created by Nicky Case. Check his own explanations though https://ncase.me/ and then also check http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations (and other explanations by Bret Victor)
I believe it was.
What Is CBD? What Is THC?
I don't think the issue is having a social life, though. It's more that a lot of those interactions are very superficial and often center around one thing. In general, people aren't making very meaningful, long-lasting connections with those people. At least, that's been the experience at the few meetups I went to. Now, I've gotten lucky with a boardgame group which has some great people that I now hang out with outside of the group (after a few months of going), but in general most of the interactions from there just feel so light. Which is fine, if that's what you're looking for (and it often is; I just wanna play games, not necessarily make great friends, though I'm glad I did with this group), but I feel that being lonely often makes people want more.

I do wonder if you being married has anything to do with how you perceieve that? I'd expect that it does, since you two have each other for companionship.
How are you defining "white"? That line serves a number of Greek/Turkish areas (through Harringey in particular). Enfield proper is indeed quite a white area, though I don't think anyone would see it as an aspirational leafy suburb.
Twitter is a completely shit medium for in depth article like this.
Progress launch timelapse seen from space
The only issue with that is when everyone else is still hooked to the reasons for loneliness (culture, phones, etc; there's a lot of them). It's gotten to the point where there's almost nobody for you to interact with anymore, and I fear it's just going to get worse as younger and younger kids get phones and grow up with phones and not having to interact socially.
Nice, your version of the time tunnel looks awesome!
Many posts here are missing the point, the raison d'etre of leaf-blowers: the individual with a leaf blower has usually been hired by someone to do a job (e.g., mow the lawn, clean up the leaves and grass). The whine of the leaf blower is verification that he is doing that job. It is thus mandatory that he spend a certain amount of time running the leaf blower in order to justify his work time; silence would mean a job not done.

The next-door condominium, which has a front yard of about 200 square feet, employs a small army of about 10 leaf blowers to clean the front yard every Tuesday morning at 6:30 AM. Of course, winter or summer, rain or shine, the leaf blowers fire up and are whining, raising dust and dirt levels, blowing waste everywhere, coating our newly-washed cars in our parking lot and in general polluting the environment. My only consolation is that those workers will eventually die of lung cancer.

And the reason for too many leaf-blowers in use in urban areas? The "Agency problem"! Usually there is a management company maintaining the grounds (rather than the owners who would be cost conscious). The management company funnels money to whom it wishes. Its easy to keep your cousins employed when each one owns a leaf blower. Need to help a friend? Hand him a leaf blower.
This argument always trots out Mississippi's declaration. Show me evidence from the CSA leadership as a whole, and I'd let the point stand without contention.
Does anyone know of an alternative to this library?
The attempted CPR scene is still one of the most surprising things I’ve seen in a movie.
How different neuronal circuits contribute to learning
>It's also possible that sometime in the next decade, all the nations of the world join some kind of super Paris agreement, but I'm not hopeful.

It is to late for any meaningful change of heart to revert things. There is no option of everyone realizing it was a mistake and fixing it in ten or twenty years. We are currently at the possibility of mitigating the continuously worsening effects of climate change and we are not even able to not increase the degree of our negative impact every year. Instead we are still showing growth in the area.
Parity License 5.0.0
Related, from Lyndon Johnson: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
I have quite a few friends who have written technical books, universally they say that the money isn't worth the huge amount of time it takes. So you either do it for the prestige, or because you want to share your knowledge.

There's something to be said about low five figures being meaningfully different from zero, but we already have plenty of people sharing knowledge for free, so I'm still pretty convinced this doesn't matter.

IMO books need to become more collaborative affairs, rather than spewing out ever more of them. We already have a lot of books that overlap in completely unclear ways, and what we actually need is a way to integrate this knowledge.
I think the correct way to view this is as a courtesy notice that "Hey, that thing you might have used for free is being discontinued." That's it.

There is zero reason to expect FOSS developers to be schooled in good PR or something. He may think that spelling out his logic for his decision is useful information to other people. He may even be right about such an assumption.

I would not infer that he is intentionally being petty, kvetching per se, etc. It might be accurate, but who cares? He published a courtesy notice. He could have shut it down with zero announcement.

I am reminded of this comment I made 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824166
Simple answer: You want to do business in any country, you abide by their laws within their jurisdiction. Don't like it? Pull out. Simples.

Don't you think the U.S. would not have done the same (probably would've done much sooner) if a company was repeatedly turning up its nose and thumbing it?
There are far more consumers of technical writings due to the accessibility today. Had you been in the 90's you most likely would never afford to publish on the scale possible with online sales today.
You write as if he's obligated to continue to work for free...
BCH 'hash wars' shows how centralized crypto really is
> I don't get why [...] I find it hard to imagine [...]

Perhaps consider that your failure to understand how this person feels the way they do is just that: your failure.

It makes sense to me, though. I've burnt out before, and I know what that feels like. Open-source work can feel entirely thankless, and rarely pays the bills. It's very easy to get sucked into working hard to serve others while getting little in return.

He spent 7 years giving people a free gift. People should be grateful. But instead, as you so clearly demonstrate, people can easily be clueless and entitled, demanding more work and criticizing people they have no standing to criticize.

If you really think somebody should maintain this library, it's right there. Fork it and show us how a project really should be run. And if you won't, maybe reflect on why you think he's obligated to labor for free to live up to your standards when you won't live up to your own.
Backup beepers aren't even effective: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/01/the-truth-about-ba...

The cynic in me thinks it was regulatory capture. Manufacturers of the beepers lobbied to make them required. Like scaffolding in New York. No proof though.
The creator made their work available for free. Sorry you don’t enjoy that they decided to stop doing that, for this project, in a way you don’t find agreeable.