skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Disease, starvation, predation, accidents -- you are aware that animals do in fact die outside of farms, yes?

> You are aware of the classification 'carnivore' yes?

Perhaps my first question wasn't clear enough - I'm talking about animals that proactively seek out their own death; not carnivores that kill over things - sorry for the confusion. The context was that for me, it's not okay to go killing animals because we fed them well / gave them some free space before we killed them. One of the reasons that it's not okay is that it's unnecessary because we have alternatives.

> What about agriculture? It destroys the environment, destroys animal habitats causing them sometimes to go extinct.

Yes, agriculture destroys land, trees, ecosystems. Are you suggesting that animal production is in some way less destructive? If I recall correctly something like a 1/3 of global crop production goes into animal feed.

> What about the worms in the soil getting chopped up by farm equipment? What about necessary pesticides that kill insect life?

Worms and pesticides are straw-man arguments, so I'll pass on getting bogged down on that tangent.

> It dumbfounds your family probably because they're more capable of critical thought than you are.

That's interesting - I never said I was an activist. I shared some points of view.
My family are very critical. They get all the benefits of sitting in a microcosm and ignoring the rest of the world. Ignorance truly is bliss for them.

> Like a lot of 'activists' I seriously doubt you do anything in your life that actually improves life on this plant for people or any living thing.

Nah, that's not true. I'm not overly keen to share specifics because I prefer some semblance of privacy here. I make choices in the small that, IMO, add up over time: No leather for the last 20 years (belts, shoes, car seats, jackets, etc). No silk. No meat, dairy, eggs, fish, insects etc. No international flights. Found the second-smallest small car that would fit a family of three. Commute to work on public transport. Buy local organic food that is freakishly expensive but IMO better for the environment. Provided a safe home for two rescue dogs (took them two years to feel safe and confident after their experiences).

> Veganism is about people searching for identity. It's a marginally difficult diet to follow and it gives you something to constantly complain about, thereby drawing attention to yourself.

Yes, it does seem to be that for many people I've met. It often seems to draw the type of person who likes to be on the outside, throwing stones. Now that it becoming more mainstream, this is thankfully less so. Some awesome people here on HN, too. Hi!

> If you want to actually change the world for the better go do it. It's hard. You probably don't have what it takes.

Here I am, talking to you, right?

> Stop pretending your soy latte makes one modicum of difference and stop whining about what others choose to eat.

Nah, it's too important to not discuss.

Question for you - you said it's hard changing that world? How do you know?
They were briefed after lionair
"iPhones and wage stagnation" versus "Communism and handouts" is a false dilemma.

EDIT: I'm also quite entertained (though not in a good way) that we're having this conversation on the internet, in which it's being claimed that the government "creates nothing".
This beta has nothing exciting and just shows that both iOS & Android copy the best ideas.
e.g.:
Sharing shortcuts - it looks very similar to iOS sharing sheet with AirDrop users around you.
That's death metal though. Other forms of extreme metal can have lyrics that, far from toying with splatter-gore themes for the shock value, express terminally anti-social politics.

I'm thinking of black. Sometimes I'm just happy that a few of the bands I listen to sing in Swedish or Norwegian etc that I don't understand, so that I can't tell what they're singing about. Although the imagery can often give a bit of a hint, rather.

To make it absolutely clear in case people don't know what I'm talking about: there is a clear trend of black bands that are downright neonazis. By no means all, or even I think a majority, but they are right there.
No but everyone is 99% sure it was related to killing Google+ which was announced not too long before and everyone who has used YouTube way back when knows they had to make a Google+ identity at one point to link em. HMMMMM....
I've used git when I've contributed to open source projects. It's an over-complicated mess of a system when you're just one or two devs. Regular backups and notes are more than sufficient and never require you to google how to unfuck your branch.
Facebook is a paid advertising platform. There are plenty of people not getting what they paid for as a result of an outage.
I have seen absolutely no evidence that “Captain Marvel” is a feminist film or that there are any more or less moral lessons in this Marvel movie than others. In fact, the backlash began before people had even seen the movie and able to make an informed judgement on the feminist or moral content of the film. The controversy has nothing to do with the actual content of the film. The article explains it seems to have started because Brie Larson publicly talked about discrimination and representation in the entertainment industry.
They are a major thing. There are a small number of law firms.... "heavily" invested in suing ADA non-compliant websites. The run it through a online tool and if there are a certain number of errors, an intern prints out a nasty gram demanding $xx,xxx or see them in court.

These guys recently went through all the art galleries in New York City... Alphabetically. [1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/arts/design/blind-lawsuit...
gRPC and Envoy are exactly the things we are exploring now, although copy/paste would never fly in our org.
10% of Those airlines fleets (Apr Canada too)

Flydubai is the biggest loser - over 20% of their fleet grounded.
Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database
Nonono, that method existed long before Git. Git reinvented the wheel, if they did a better job about it is not for me to judge :-)
Searching a whole folder in Sublime shows the code in context. VSCode just shows one line. Atom is more flexible in that you can choose how many lines either way of the searched pattern to show
1. It seems to be a common practice in the United States. There has been television ads for particular drugs. Usually anti psychotic or neurological issues..truly complex illnesses that need serious diagnosis..they are not ads for the flu or vaccinations or headaches..which is baffling enough..but I just saw in passing something flash on a television screen ..brought to you by ‘Lilly Diabetes’..it was jarring

2. I didn’t get the part about vaccination/SJWs. Can you elaborate?
The obvious question is "Why not a legal pad?" :-) but more seriously, having a notebook/lab book can be really helpful here. You can keep contemporaneous notes and refer back to what is going on easily. I'll often walk around and talk to engineers on the status of a project and then record in my notebook what is happening. Then on weekly basis review my notes and call out things for the next week to follow up on.
'This is exactly my point. Race means different things in different contexts. Colloquially, the word is used as you used it here. But it has other definitions, like the one I posted. All words are like this.'

You are being obtuse. There are not 'different' definitions of race. There is an overwhelming homogeneity in the dominant definitions of race, i.e. according to melanin. Race, on these terms, has been a major structuring force in modern social relations. If you invent a new definition of race and use it to justify what, with the normal definition of race, is racism, then you are either seriously confused and/or politically malicious.
I reached out to an old acquaintance that could be a great help to my company. I reached out over Facebook. Now that contact can not respond and may have not even seen my message. I have no other way of contacting this person. This affects my business.

I hate Facebook, but to deny its value is pretty naive.
I will definitely look at getting a Thinkpad next time.

I needed a laptop (I try to refresh every 4 years in time with Ubuntu LTS releases), and the Dell met my requirements at the time, so that was what I got.

I looked at getting an Macbook Pro, but I was worried about the keyboard issues (I do use the laptop keyboard), and I had read about Linux driver issues.
Software engineering is engineering. Engineering can be accurately described as a mix of art and science. That's why in the olden days, "engineering" wasn't used outside of railroads -- the term used instead was "useful arts".
Google’s Larry Page Leveled ‘Veiled Threat’ over Control of Company
Perl 6 actually normalizes to NFG (Normalization Form Grapheme) https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#NFG
You Have a Project in Product Design?
The Neanderthal Renaissance
My impression is that there was recently a "golden age" for art in the east bay which is now waning, in large part because it's not seen as an affordable destination for young artists.

During my pit-stop in SF last November, I made a point of attending the famous monthly underground art variety show (Tourettes without Regrets) in the east bay, because I happened to be there that day. I was shocked to see the audience and performers were much older demographically than I remembered when I lived in the area 5 years ago; most attendees seemed to be over 30 rather than under 30.

So, anecdotally, it seems to me that the artists who established there years ago may still be there, but the east bay's not attracting new artists as much as it once was.
> "We used 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams as a [comparison]," said Dr Sun.

Could it be that the listeners were simply tired of hearing an overplayed song (Happy) to the point that even death metal was refreshing?

An obscure song should be compared to another obscure song.
"Fehrm said Boeing must have added this system on the MAX because when the angle of attack is high this model is less stable compared to prior 737 variants. That’s because the MAX has bigger, heavier engines that are also cantilevered further forward on the wing to provide more ground clearance. That changes the center of gravity."

Fehrm, a former jet-fighter pilot and an aeronautical engineer: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-e...
Ask HN: Good Conferences/Events for Dabblers?
Seems like many conferences either focus on a specific language, framework, ecosystem, etc. or focus on higher-level software design principles.

But I'm looking for something that's more for dabblers -- seasoned developers who maybe want to get an intro to some new languages or technologies without feeling like they're attending a coding boot camp intended for absolute beginners.

Know anything that fits the bill?
Maybe he just said he wasn't the greatest developer and that the code wasn't well organized. That's called modesty and honesty.

In this era of self-promotion some people actually can't recognize those things.

But I think its very obvious that he is a good programmer. His work is literally legendary.
It was an odd thing to me but Chrome would not list DuckDuckGo until after you had visited DuckDuckGo.com manually. Once on DDG it became an option. That's been around for a while, as I've had DDG as my Chrome default for a couple years. I presume it's now an option even if you've never visited.
I feel like we're talking past each other here. There's no reason an MTA couldn't allow you to designate the senders you trust and send the rest to spam. You could do the same by integrating PGP. The key exchange problem is the same, but DMARC handles this by tying the key to the domain. So if the email comes from bank.com and bank.com is also where you do your online banking you can be reasonably confident your bank sent the message. If we used PGP to do this then your bank would have to publish their public key somewhere and you would have to manually check that it's valid (served over https? printed on a card handed to you by the bank manager?) and configure it into your email client. This is exactly the user experience nightmare that causes "no one signing their emails". Obviously this sort of verification is required if you want truly authenticated communications with individuals, many of whom may share a domain, but if you simply want to verify that the organization you're talking to is who they say they are then the domain name is a suitable proxy.
I am in New Zealand (we are far away from everything!) and I wanted something that at least had the potential to be supported locally.
This is super confusing. Questions:

1. What is your unique strength here?

2. Does user need to call in web API to use this? Can this whole thing work offline? If not, is web API part open sourced?

3. What are the techniques you are using to bring down power usage?

4. You keep mentioning AutoML but AutoML is only useful for training and generating model, not inference. For embedded software, the bottleneck is not training but inference. Also, you need to clearly mention what exact AutoML techniques are you referring to.

5. On one table you mention NVidia and CPU hardware having same GFLOPS. Very confusing.

Overall, I'd recommend more rigore and being crystal clear when you are using technical terminology.
I have to admit that after reading the tweet and thinking about the gravity of what happened, of the horrible end the innocent passengers went through, I choked up... It's just unimaginable.

I hope they find out the cause & make sure it never happens again.
This is nuanced enough it would need to be tested in court. I suspect we won't really be sure of the answer for at least another 20 years. Computers have existed for 80 years and we're still debating if APIs are copyrightable.
I, too, have been a long-time Sublime Text user. I really liked the add-on packages. The basic Package Control installs but does not show up in the menu like before. I have found ways to install a few key packages manually. It has been my favorite editor on Mac, Win, and Linux for a long time.

I do a lot of work in Rmarkdown and I like Sublime's spell checker best. I especially like the subl command line launcher on MacOS and Linux...
> That's almost a grand in 2017 dollars... plus whatever I earn from writing this story. (You are going to help me make this go viral, right? Send it right to the top of the trending list?)

I can't believe steemit is still a thing.
By studying and applying existing algorithms a lot, you start noticing patterns. CLRS goes into general concepts such as divide&conquer, dynamic programming etc.
Yes, and when uploading you are required to confirm you have the rights to do so with that photo. If we aren't going to be able to trust these type of self declarations we pretty much can't have websites where users upload photos anymore.
lynx still does that.
How so? Isn't the tipping point of an antitrust suit a lack of competition and/or a monopolized position? Apple doesn't have that. They can do whatever they want in the confines of their own store.
I used to be like that. One day I just sent the same message to all people I still contacted on messenger saying that I was getting rid of it in one week and listing 3 alternate services people could use to contact me. Didn't lose a single contact and never looked back.
Is the count not also significant? I don't know enough about the industry to know.

I mentioned it because when I first heard that there were so many other regulatory bodies grounding the fleet, I was surprised about the FAA. When it was pointed out that many of those regulatory bodies represent countries having a handful of these planes to begin with, I was still surprised, but it made a little more sense that the FAA might have more to lose if the decision proved rash.
Reminds me of this advice from Ira Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI

I often tell myself to 'mind the gap'
I've heard the term 'Distributed Monolith'
I am going to date myself as 'an old guy' here: I used to love building monolithic systems around Apache Tomcat. I would use background threads registered to a web app to perform background periodic processing and write the web interface using JSP (supports a fast edit/test loop). I would build an uber-JAR file that contained everything including a thin main method to start Tomcat with my app. Totally self contained (except for requiring a JDK or JRE install), easy on memory requirements, and very efficient. A bonus: if an app requires static files, they can be added to a JAR file and opened as resource streams so `everything` really is in one JAR file.

Contrast this to J2EE that I would only use reluctantly if a customer wanted to go that way.
TAANSTAFL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...
JavaScript is a relatively small and simple language with relatively constrained semantics that allow it to be implemented relatively simply.

Ruby and Python are the opposite of that. Ruby and Python are I'd say literally a thousand times more complicated to compile than JavaScript.
#333 is a great color for text on the web.
The Moral Center of Meritocracy Collapses
If the grandfather consents to it, then what is actually wrong with him taking up that offer?

Your thought experiment (or at least your "hope" re: the "correct" answer) presupposes that suicide is wrong. Personally, I believe the only one who is allowed to dictate whether I live or die is myself; if I want to die, and have good reason to want to die (financial security for my children and grandchildren would certainly be compelling!), then that's my right, and it ain't your place to deny me that right.
> Then EU will essentially become free of tracking networks. It might take a few years, but I think the intermediate annoyance is worth it.

I don't disagree with you but I think it is more likely that these companies will just not let EU peoples use their sites at all.

One BIG fine (and you know they're salivating at the prospect of getting multi-billions out of Google and/or FB) and doing business in the EU becomes too much of a gamble for a company to justify the risks.
Good devs get shit done. Feel however you want about the cleanliness of your code vs that of others, but Tarn created something that will be recognized for its significance to gaming culture for the foreseeable future.
IIRC, the instability is caused by the engine nacelles (the metal shroud around the turbofan), and therefore is present whether the engines are active or not.
I think there is a place for services right on the beginning if they are well defined pre existing services like an authentication or chat service. It is an easy way to add common functionalities and you don't have to maintain the service itself, just integrating it to the overall system. For the rest of the more domain specific stuff just build a monolith and extract services out of it when it feels right. They don't have to be "micro" though, just a service. It does require some discipline to keep modules as separated as possible so it will be easier to extract them a service later.
Literally any Cannibal Corpse song would have been better for this study than literally any Bloodbath song.
It changes a lot, since as an independent entity Apple Music (for example) is answerable to its own investors and board of directors, including having the pressure to be profitable. Right now Apple can subsidize them for as long as they force all competitors out.
Polyfilling a web app the right way
Congrats on the launch! You have a great start to a tough problem. I've been running a collaborative travel planning and booking platform for over two years – it's an exciting space and there's still a lot of opportunity in the multi-person planning space.

Some feedback on the product:

1. Collaborative features seem a little buggy. I registered and then shared the trip with myself in an incognito window. It was easy to trip up the document sync – try to make an edit in incognito and then make an edit to the same element in the registered window and the document gets out sync.

2. Input validation needed for links. I entered an incomplete link (google.com) and it treated it like a relative link, which broke the trip.

3. Is it possible to scope searches? I searched for hotels in a city and the initial results seemed centered on my destination but the rest of the list was from other cities or states.

4. Default map zoom is inconsistent. I started adding locations but all of the pins were on top of each other at the initial zoom level. Managing zoom level as the itinerary fills out will help keep the trip in perspective.

5. I could see edits made in different windows, but was unable to see who was online? Is that part of the UI and I missed it?

Some business feedback (for what it's worth) – figure out a monetization strategy fast. There are a lot of planners in the travel space but not a lot of booking solutions for groups. Affiliate links are okay but still leave a lot of money on the table. I'd be happy to talk about what has worked for us if you're interested – email is in profile. For those interested, my company launched https://www.lunamoons.com as a B2C collaborative planner but we recently pivoted to a full service platform (think squarespace for travel agents) which is live at https://www.trips.app. We tout our trips as google docs for itineraries, but maybe less doc like (i.e. https://sample.trips.app/sample-itinerary/rapid-flower-8635/...)
That depends on whether you prioritize the ability for developers to profit or the security of customers making the purchase. Apple is guaranteeing its users that purchases made within apps are secure and that only Apple has access to their payment info. In the alternate scenario, customers have no way of verifying the security or veracity of some random app developer collecting their payment info.
I think it depends a lot on the relationship between the people who work on some party of the distribution. The canonical people are paid and have their todo list, and they are paid to do that. So if they have a good contact to Debian, they try to get things done via Debian. Some even don't care at all. Some are even Debian developer and do all teir work in Ubuntu and just upload something to Debian at some point. Or they try to force their init system into Debian.... So there are a lot of positive things, but when I think about the biggest issues we had in Debian (or actually have), I consider Ubuntu as evil.
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
The only sublime issue I see is it isn't setting the closing script tag, all the rest is just color / themes.
> As someone who has done license clearance while employed by IBM I can assure you that their legal team is all about following the rules on this stuff.

As a few HNers are no doubt aware, IBM allegedly obtained explicit permission to use Douglas Crockford's software for Evil rather than Good, because it couldn't guarantee that its customers aren't doing Evil.
This is the essence of Google. They’re too big to fail so they can pretty much do whatever they want. Kill huge apps (Reader, Picasa), major paradigm shifts in UI, abandoning projects, fragmented efforts... how many messenger platforms do they have again?

Pretty much any other company would die from this kind of wheel spinning and frantic behavior, they’re fortunate to get away with it.
Even with your platform there will be calls and pain, maybe even lies during an outage. BC-Recordkeeping or not
Speaking as an Erlang developer I approve of this question.
Stop trying to find the right one, that’s basically the crux of my approach.

Let it evolve outside of all that.
Ah yes:

myproject.final.zip
myproject.production.zip
myproject.backup.zip
myproject.backup2.zip
myproject.shipped.zip