skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sovereign nation once again

As a Canadian (and I imagine citizen of pretty much any non-european commonwealth country) I had to chuckle a bit. After being treated like a resource-extraction milking machine historically and then maintaining this pseudo-ceremonial allegiance to a royal head of state it seems funny for someone from the mothership to bemoan a loss of sovereignty and self-determination.

No ill-will intended, just struck me as humorous in what is in all other regards a very humorless situation...
I thought the American people didn't care about transparency, suddenly using the crutch they rejected to beat the people who gave it to them gives them a sense of satisfaction they may be left blissfully ignorant. Not just assange, but snowden, and manning.
Disapproving so strongly and seeing others disapprove so strongly has made me, personally, more patriotic and appreciative for the country than I used to be.
Show HN posts are often great AMAs on HN. Maybe push a Show HN post with your landing page?
In warm, wet climates, it appears to work pretty well to make buildings out of bamboo, if you leave it looking like bamboo instead of turning it into lumber. For example: https://qz.com/367284/spectacular-bamboo-architecture/
And you don't understand the purpose of JWTs.

No one needed to mention anything about stateless authentication because enabling stateless authentication is the purpose of JWTs [1].

Yes, just store a signed cookie with a random token for the session and use stateful authentication. That fits most people's needs better than stateless. (Even signing is more or less optional in many common cases. If the cookie is only a sufficiently long random token for the session key, then I don't really care if a user changes it, they'll only log themselves out.)

[1] - https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/the-purpose-of-jwt-statel...
To most people it is a tax, because you're paying it but not getting any benefits from it (yet). This applies generally to any form of public spending that only benefits some smaller segment of the population.

The same for Medicare; everyone pays the payroll tax but most don't get to use it. We'd have more personal sense of investment in our social programs if they helped people more widely, e.g. everyone of every age can use the healthcare they're being taxed for in countries that have nationalized it.
Or people seeking asylum. But yes, the Venn diagram of people who answered "yes" in this poll and those who would qualify for asylum is probably small.
"modest uptick" != 0

Not negligible, not imperceptible ... modest.
I'm reading this because I'm about to move back to systems programming after a 6 year journey into Javascript Nodejs full-stack developement.

Don't underestimate the pile of garbage JS indeed is! Yes, you can install a package with ease, you'll have to do that with about 100 packages that keep changing all the time with all kinds of breaking changes (not talking about their 1000's of dependencies). I'm also sick and tired of the hipster JS community where every piece of shit can become a hype. With JS you'll be forced to work with things you hate. Almost all codebases I have to work with are horrendous piles of rubbish that often need to be completely rewritten from scratch. Almost everything you write doesn't last. You've spent a year learning Backbone? Just throw it away, now it's Angular you can start all over again. One year later? Stop doing Angular, it's React now, just start all over again! Hey, now we have some hipsters promoting Vue, they say it's the holy grail, just start all over again, it's fun! Flux stores? Fluxxor, Alt, Redux, Redux with Saga's, or just go with Thunk? It doesn't matter that much, it only lasts for 1 or 2 years! I'm completely sick and tired of it, including the fact that I'm only working on stupid e-commerce websites..

Talking about make files, a magnitude easier than trying to setup babel and webpack for a medium sized SSR SPA. I recently had to upgrade from babel 6 to 7, what a fuckin pain that was, so many changes, the deployment server refused to boot etc, etc..

Mind your step going into JS!
Switzerland is trying to renegotiate the full freedom of movement that they have accepted previously and while this negotiation stalls, the old rules stay in place.

There’s no reason the UK cannot negotiate their levels of access to the EU market like the Swiss or the Norwegians do, but the EU won’t grant full access without full freedom of movement. In fact, all of this is what’s happening now. How strong the UK negotiation position is can currently be observed.
If you have a soft spot for bootstrapped, profitable companies with a meaningful product, and you want to use your frontend development skills for good, you’ll like this.

About us:

Drops’ goal is to turn language learning into a delightful game while ensuring effective learning. We teach 31 languages, was featured by both the App Store and Play Store multiple times - and received the “Best of 2018” title this year! - and the company is still run by the founders. We are a small, super-capable remote team mainly spread across Europe. We’re working synchronously, so time zones matter for us. We communicate via Slack, Github and have releases multiple times a week. We want to be the #1 app for vocabulary learning and we are getting there quickly with our current user base of 9 million, a monthly active of >1,000,000 and an average store rating of 4.7. You can find us here: https://languagedrops.com

About you:

You’ll be responsible for establishing Drops on the web, from a technical perspective. This means a lot of ownership, which we cultivate by having a flat structure.

You’re a no-nonsense person, who is comfortable taking on and managing multiple different projects at the same time, who has been working in working at a product company and has extensive front-end development experience.

You have been working with React for years, have deep knowledge of everything that’s happening in the browser and looking for challenges in growing a product from tens of thousands to millions of visitors per month.

You strongly prefer static typing over dynamic languages, and use every opportunity to transform code that doesn’t use types into code that does. You generally prefer to use a minimal set of simple tools to a diverse range of complex ones.

We’ve built our mobile app with react-native, so we can easily port it to the web and start sharing most of our code - and the challenges that this brings are of your interest.

You like to have a variety of projects - at this job, you’ll be developing a complex web app, a static site generator (gatsby), and even sometimes helping out on our marketing website, that’s being re-built with webflow.

We want everyone to see the big picture: this means you already pushed your boundaries outside of “being a developer” and are knowledgeable about web product growth frameworks, SEO, best practices regarding retention and monetization.

We’re building a small, but super capable team. You’re naturally more interested in the fate of the product & driven to grow professionally, than in managing people.

We value clear and honest communication and transparency, it’s the linchpin of our culture and current success and freedom. You will be involved in both high and low level decision making and will be available during European working hours (9AM - 6PM GMT).

We are looking for a missionary rather than a mercenary.

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If their one shot release isn't good enough, they deserve all the flak they are getting. I do have empathy with them getting frustrated, but the root cause is their approach.
are hundreds/thousands of people trying to cross in to Canada everyday? Easy when its only a few people, harder when its not.
So.. if a MD has made a determination upon reviewing medical records submitted, that makes them a "patient", no?

So if they made a bad determination, I see no reason why the doctors can't be sued directly. Surely Social Security knows who reviewed it, so the records can be produced by FOIA.

Sure, these docs made .5M$ . But when these things are brought to light, have a way to make them much more painful and costly. Fraud by "rich people" usually isn't looked highly upon at jury trials.
Learn by Doing [Volume 36]: How do you feel about C++?
Introducing Databricks Runtime 5.1 for Machine Learning
much of the defense spending is hidden in other areas: like Dept of energy, dept of veteran affairs, homeland security, etc. So it's a lot bigger than it looks.
There's probably room for more than one person in building a new language/platform.
We'll fix that font, thanks!

In most cases, organic architecture would include microservice-based applications. At a very high level, organic architecture is a style that IT adopts when the multitude of business needs make the organization itself "organic". An outward sign of this transformation is the emergence of parallel teams and independent release cycles. When this happens, applications take on the role of digital capabilities that can be recombined to support new products and services and the difference between an "application" and a "service" fades away. So, in the IT environment you describe, microservice-based applications would be part of the organic architecture.

The key issue in composing capabilities in such a way is the emergence of complex behaviors. For instance, composed fan-out patterns tend to be non-linear, large-scale and highly dynamic. To fully realize the potential of organic architecture, you'll need a way to control these behaviors. This is what we do.
I don't feel bad (much) for those who voted for Brexit - all they had to do was spend 15 mins googling and thinking. Even if they didn't understand the full impact of leaving the EU, it was plain then (and now) to see it is such a bad idea from any angle. I do feel bad for those who voted to stay - they're gonna suffer now, despite voting responsibly and sensibly.

I don't know how to take this - one way to look at it is democracy won and people spoke, the other way to look at it is we can't always expect the masses to make rational/sensible decisions.
That makes it sound like a marketing / consumer optics problem then, not an engineering one.

When I was a kid my dad drove and older classic car daily, and for any trip longer than ~300 miles he would just get a rental and put the miles on that.

If people could get accustomed to that workflow, I think the need for 500 miles+ electric range is almost non-existent.

Daily drive the electric car, and spend ~$150 for a gas rental car once or twice a year for the big trip to visit the in-laws.
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Right, our government is now setup to allow minority rule unfortunately. I can't foresee us moving forward when states beyond the coasts are insistent on moving backwards to a mythical idealized time.

My main reason for wanting to leave right now is the state of healthcare. I already have one "preexisting condition" out of my hands, it's called sleep apnea. I'm in shape, it's just a matter of my anatomy. My costs are relatively affordable (aside from never bothering with another sleep study since that's seen as not covered), a couple hundred dollars a year. Maybe a large purchase of a new machine every 5 to 10 years.

But I realize that even though I'm saving large chunks of money thanks to America paying more, I'm one terrible illness away from having it wiped out. I'm not a gambler by nature, so it doesn't really appeal to me. Pay me less, give me subsidized healthcare, real time off, etc. Basically, treat me more humanely.

I could care less about money I may lose due to tragedy at any moment. Especially when that crazy inner state minority will simple lambast me for not planning appropriately for my illness regardless of how much of my savings I pour into it (why didn't you save a million dollars for your ongoing cancer treatment you bum?).
> You support Ubuntu (in either its flatpak runtime or the Steam runtime) and you let everyone else figure it out on their own.

And isn't that already how it is? Pretty sure Steam only supports Ubuntu LTS, steam on every other OS else is an unsupported hack.
I have worked on Mozilla's JS team since 2010. I think our team culture is acceptable.

Glossing over details, Mozilla Corp seems to have two cultures: one for engineering and team management, and another for mid-to-upper-level management. When these two groups interact, it tends to produce unhappiness. Over the years, that has been the source of most griping I've heard from coworkers, particularly when they need upper management's approval.

Different parts of the company are pretty isolated from each other, and there's no real standardization, so experiences across the company likely differ from mine. The personal experience would depend a lot on who your manager is and how strongly they're able to advocate on your behalf, particularly when it comes to things like expanding your role and getting paid for that.
No, the UK is not planning or attempting to stay in the single market. That is not government policy, it is not the basis of the withdrawal agreement, and it is not even the policy of the opposition.
Nationalizing it is the single biggest possible step towards getting costs under control.
Americans can't declare themselves as non-residents that don't need to pay tax? Canadians who work abroad can do that. And then if they ever move back home, they just have to declare residency again. It's a bit of a process to do both, of course, but it's definitely there. Without this, Canadians who work abroad also get taxed on their global income. Just if you're lucky to work in a country with which Canada has a tax treaty, you don't get double-taxed. You just pay for taxes for the difference on what you would need to have paid in Canada for the same income level if your current country has a lower tax rate.
Does anyone have a source for this news beyond the TNW article that's being shared everywhere? I couldn't find any official announcement from GitHub.
1000 gets you down to 3% margin of sampling error.

Asking the question in different ways can affect the results a lot more.
The important thing in deciding between two alternatives is figuring out which you will regret least. Then constantly reminding yourself that there's a good reason you chose the grass on this side.
What part of the states do you live in?

Lumber in the three states in my area is harvested in a completely unsustainable manner. Loggers will purchase the rights to log from farmers, and clear-cut every single piece of whatever is popular at the moment (black walnut right now, Ash and Maple in the 90's). No plan to replant, other than if nature itself makes a recovery.
Absolutely, and that's one of the rationales for incentive changes enacted under ACA. Before ACA, health systems were incentivized fee-for-service, not outcomes based. Under ACA we shifted to try to offer Americans options for preventative care, to avoid the extreme costs of emergency services. According to the same site[1] cost growth has come down as more people take advantage of their coverage.

1. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

Things like cost controls and universal coverage are synergistic. People with coverage will seek earlier, cheaper remedies over waiting to the last minute expensive emergency care.

Republicans and conservative Democrats have allied to sabotage the ability for universal service to control cost. From the abandonment of the Public Option in the ACA marketplace, to disallowing Medicare Part D from negotiating with drug manufacturers for lower prices. We've been effectively hamstrung, but that means there's plenty of low-hanging fruit.
Private repos with maximum of 3 collaborators are now allowed.
Haskell vs. Python – What You Need to Know
They're sort of close, status wise, at least at the chain I worked for, but a driver has more requirements (I started as a cook at 15 and so legally could not drive a car) and pays better (tips are substantial, cooks are un-tipped.)
Probably true, but this Presidency and the corruption of the majority party is unprecedented.
Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D

Thank you Github / Microsoft!

> Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow. When that happens, we’ll update this post with a link to the official announcement.

Also... kinda unfair to others.
If you're using smart pointers enough to be bothered by verbosity I think it's somewhat likely you're overusing heap allocation and / or not making enough use of standard containers. Explicitly dealing with heap allocation via smart pointers should be a tool you only reach for occasionally in most code. Heap memory management should usually be wrapped in another library class, either a standard container or a custom type and most non library code should generally be using stack allocation.
But why make it confidential? That is one thing I don't understand. Why didn't they just publish this list on their website and sent a link? Maybe it's just a stupid idea on someones part...
> Someone has made a bunch of decisions for you that down the road you have no idea whether or not it will actually be good for you

Opinionated also means that these decisions will be the same in other places/projects I may join. In the medium and long term, that advantage may easily offset the value of custom decisions.
Which is probably way at the back of the developer's minds: the main audience of Linux is happy to compile from source (either themselves or via a downloaded package).
So very true. One time my car was damaged while parked outside my home, the culprit did a lot of damage and just drove away. Although the repairs were covered by insurance I still had to find £250 for the excess before I could get the car back. It wiped me out and set me on a spiral of debt and depression.

If the same thing happened today I could just shrug it off and carry on regardless.

I am not rich now but I have spare cash and this makes an immeasurable positive difference in ways one cannot conceive without the benefit of an alternative experience.
"Necessary but not sufficient" is the phrase, I believe.
It's very easy to get a visa in Europe. Only $300k for an investment visa in Hungary.
This is not about the current leadership in U.S but if I had to boil it down to one thing for me that really bothers me is the healthcare situation in this country. I've never seen healthcare system that is so difficult to navigate and so ridiculously expensive.
Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?
I’m specifically talking about an abstracted language that compiles down to nucleic acids. I know projects like Cello exist to generate plasmids and genetic circuits, but do we need ML? Do we know any determiistic rules?
> Even WikiLeaks didn’t answer its tip line repeatedly. The media has failed.

Direct quote from the Panama Papers source[0], after which Wikileaks "slammed" the source for not releasing the full leak. That was such an obvious defamation attempt that Wikileaks disgusts me ever since.

That wasn't the only defamation attempt around Panama Papers that Wikileaks attempted. Check out this[1] investigative gem, in which they've used a secret technique called "scrolling to the bottom to see the donors". I worked at that organization at the time and specifically remember myself thinking "Fuck you Julian, we're supposed to be on the same side." Edited to add: Of course, Russian media picked up on that tweet immediately[2].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/may/06/panama-papers-s...

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/717458064324964352

[2] https://www.rt.com/news/338683-wikileaks-usaid-putin-attack/
What country exactly? I heard Japan has free speech.
Gotta source on that? /s
A lot of people in developed nations dont find the US an attractive destination, based on things that wouldnt define their user experience at all (human rights, south side chicago violence)

The most closest analogy would be how Americans dont find China to be an attractive destination, for reasons they would never experience (human rights, poverty) or would most likely benefit from (credit scores)
Why do team-builders suck? And what to do about it
Sure, theNextWeb had a "scheduling error", and this has nothing to do with being the first to put this news out.
I left, in my early 20s, mostly as a way to expand my horizons and escape the suffocating conservative religious environment I grew up in.

I recently came back to get a career in IT going, but will be moving again soon.
This would be the return on investment aspect of my comment. We spend massively more per capita on healthcare and yet not everyone is covered and it isn’t free at point of contact. It’s easy to design an inefficient system when the goal is not actually caring about the people.
People contently use this false dichotomy around military spending to avoid acknowledging that we spend just as much or more on health care and other social services per capita as the other western nations. How we spend that money is just horribly inefficient!

We can have both the most advanced military and a solid social system if we can figure out how to get our social spending return on investment close to other western nation. Universal Health care would be a big step. Other stuff to look at is collapsing the number of social services agencies down to a more reasonable numbers, not removing the benefits. Actually auditing our system to figure out what is and what is not working rather then allocating money based on political appearances.
As long as "over time" isn't too short of a time, the MIT has it covered. Their design makes it easy to crack open the reactor and replace the inner wall, which will be 3D-printed. They plan to do it annually.
>But I doubt it'd make sense to use bamboo to build my house in snowy Norway, rather than locally sourced lumber.

Based on other comments a bamboo house (baring some kind of treatment and/or constant maintenance) may not last long in your climate due to differences/fluctuations in humidity/temperature.
If they published it on their own website do you think we'd be looking at it now?

I think that's just a ruse to get more publicity, and it has worked.
Macro stats about install/uninstall rates of mobile apps are meaningless distractions when you're building a startup. Focus on what your audience needs and build that, whether it's a mobile app or a website.

I built a funny videos android app and website, android users discovered the app more easily and were more engaged with the app because they wanted to share videos from my app to whatsapp.

My more recent app is a web app because my audience are people doing work on their computer.

Audience guides the approach.
It's not clear where the emphasis on taxation is coming from. It's not in the underlying article and the polling shows only two wealth categories.

Based on the data it's age that determines whether or not to leave the US, which makes sense since there'd be shallower roots to leave behind.
Unlikely, the long scale form has been obsolete in Britain for decades.

I've heard people say things like "thousand million", but I've never heard "milliard", and never heard "billion" to mean 10¹².
How can the US tax foreign income? Presumably they would have no idea about your earnings abroad.
Israel's Navy is a joke. They have nothing of any relevance except a handful of subs that might be capable of launching nuclear missiles. They have no destroyers, no cruisers, and most importantly, no aircraft carriers.