skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has almost none of my contacts on them. Pretty useless as a messenger as such.
Sure, but...McAfee.
If you're living on a dollar a day, you probably don't have access to youtube, a working stove/microwave, or cooking utensils.

Also, if all you have is a couple dollars, you probably can't even buy the ingredients. It's always cheaper in bulk, at membership stores like Costco that you can't afford.
If this can replace my MIPS helmet I'll be really happy. The rubber in the MIPS keeps pulling out my hair...
> why hasn't someone outdone Dropbox with a $5/a month offering?

Because Dropbox and Wufoo have huge barriers to entry that new competitors must overcome in order to succeed.

Dropbox is a collaboration tool. The benefit to users of a collaboration tool is generally described as the square of the number of users. Even if you have a bigger constant multiplier out front, that n^2 factor is a barrier to entry you will have a very hard time overcoming as a competitor of Dropbox. Electron as a service has no such n^2 multiplier, so it's competitors will be able to threaten them long after launch.

Wufoo lacks the n^2 in number of users multiplier that Dropbox has but it still has a multiplier that is at least linear, maybe higher, in the number of 3rd party integrations of their product (if the typical Wufoo user wants to integrate it with one app or technology, it's linear, if the typical Wufoo user wants to integrate with two or three other apps or technologies it's n^2 or n^3 in number of integrations, my guess is the actual number is something like n^1.5). Wufoo is big enough that there are many thousands of products and blog posts that integrate with it, making one click integration possible in many cases and "follow this step by step tutorial" integrations possible in countless others. Any new competitor will have a very hard time unseating Wufoo because of the difficulty in overcoming these network effects. Again, Electron as a service has no such network effects, at least as marketed today.

When people talk about "barriers to entry," network effects like these (having to do with either number of users or number of integrations) are generally the main things they are talking about.
The author doesn't seem to have any real understanding of the various sorts of chemicals people use on their lawn.
My understanding is that Oracle's behavior existed prior to the standard. That is, Oracle came first, then the standard was written years later. Oracle hasn't changed to match the standard because of issues with backwards compliance.
The Brazil CC is amazing, and also includes the "happy" version the studios forced to exist, so you can compare.
Ask HN: What was the best paper you read in your life?
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For the record, I'm not condoning using a phone while driving. I was only addressing the point of people not being able to navigate without modern navigation.
So, how do you fight off scurvy? What does 12 cents worth of veg look like? That's, what, an 1/8th of an orange a day?
Besides signal, there is also

1. Threema. Swiss based but not Open Source AFAI

2. Frozen Chat. Android client based on Jabber XMMP/OTR
We've been living in this world since Metallica vs. Napster.
Isn't a better comparison the situation with telephony in the old days, where a monopoly situation was ended, and competition was enforced?
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The Metacritic scores for the Fisher King and 12 Monkeys is still well under the user reviews.
>> excesses of American exceptionalism

Who does the labor to maintain and sustain Guantanamo? Not Americans, foreign contract labor working below American minimum wage. They may stay there for 3 years to try to save $300 to go back home and start a business or for much longer to earn an American green card. Somehow, their subservient role often translates into providing undocumented personal services for their American bosses. With the American interrogators living a class-privileged life, the base is what America itself is becoming, an experiment to observe the grievously absurd manifestations of an irrational social structure.
Not to mention having the cashflow to afford bulk food purchases in the first place to save money in the longer term.
CO2 capture in the vein of www.climeworks.com might be the solution, but it would need the political will to tax the humankind. There is no way we will ever find a commercial use for the captured CO2.

In the meantime, those of us with the means to do so can buy cheap arable land (of the low yield potential, remote and so on) and plant a native forest there. If you're in the EU, the cost of doing so might be way less than you imagine, thanks to the Union heavily subsidizing forestation. My first order approximation is that fully offsetting the estimated emissions of my family would delay getting that damned flat downpayment by two or three years. Which I'm seriously considering.
"I'm tasked to listen to what the experts are saying and ask questions until a solution presents itself."

This may be a role if 1) you actually listen very carefully and 2)things are not already on fire. There is a time for this but there are also times when you just have to let the experts do their thing.

One thing that always bugs me that consultants and advisers often show up during crisis and suck up a lot of energy that could be used for solving the problem. But as soon as the crisis is over and there is time to discuss ways to prevent future problems all the execs and consultants suddenly disappear.
While 39% of the population of France is not religious, 51% of the population is Catholic (2016). Even as an atheist French-Canadian I am hurt by the loss of this monument. I can't even begin to imagine how it feels to religious Parisians.

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Edit: Someone on Reddit wrote a very interesting comment about its historical significance:

"Napoleon's coronation is incredibly recent in terms of Notre Dame's age. The amount of time between then and now represents less than 25% of the cathedral's existence.

It was built in 1163, one year after Genghis Khan's birth (or at least our best guess of his birth). Notre Dame predated Marco Polo and the founding of the Ottoman Empire by more than a century. It predates the creation of Islam. At the time of its construction, the best estimates for the global population are ~300 million (less than the current population of the United States). The cathedral was almost 200 years old when the Black Death destroyed a third of the world's population. The USA is currently younger than Notre Dame was when the Forbidden City was constructed in Beijing. It was 3 centuries old when Machu Picchu was built and Leonardo Da Vinci was born. It was over 400 years old when Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built. It predated the original King James Version of the Bible by 450 years."

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Among other relics, a piece of the Crown of Thorns was inside the Cathedral. I don't have a hard time picturing someone braving a blaze to save that.
I like Keybase.io - it seems better than Signal and is nice to use.
Will they take down this post too?
A lot of companies have satellite offices in smaller cities with lower CoL. But they still want to be in urban centers with lots of people and next to strong CS colleges.
I wonder if the Photosynth models of Notre Dame still exist, or if they could be of any help in rebuilding.
Naw. You're underhyping it.

Creating this artificial ceiling in the low 6 figures is awful, regardless of how badly people making less than that are getting screwed. As far as I'm concerned, they're as hopeless as a bucket of crabs and we shouldn't use them as a bar or relative bar for anything.

Do I-bankers look at they're comp and say "yeah that's pretty good. I'm ok getting screwed out of any more"?

I think we should always be advocating for our group as hard as we can.
To be fair he was talking about usability and not encryption/privacy features. I agree mostly though, even capable developers don't have time. Feature requests make software better. If you want people to use your app, you should build for the user. It seems they want people to actually use it and didn't open source just to share knowledge of the code. They probably open sourced it to inspire trust.
thats his entire point
I use it nearly every day since nearly two years and I have had not many problems. The voice calls are actually higher quality than via Skype (when calling the same person at roughly the same time).
Isn't signal peer to peer? How can there be an authoritative 3rd party, unless they get rid of all the advantages of using p2p?

I don't know anything about signal, I just assumed it was exclusively p2p based on 30 seconds of googling. But assuming it is all p2p, my above statement should be correct.
My point was that depending on local housing market conditions a smart stock/bond market investor can beat yoy rent increases and with enough capital actually cover their rent. Your statement of averages doesn't seem related to parents point, and does not contradict my point.

In terms of your first statement, it seems true. However, I also think it's true that most people are unreasonably scared of the stock market while being unreasonably comfortable with investing 500% of their life savings into one property. And I think that for many people owning a house is similar to having a child, is not up for debate. You can't tell them they can't afford it. They will go deep into debt because they want to experience that aspect of life. Unlike, say, buying S&P 500 which is usually done purely for investing reasons.

> buying is under most normal circumstances returned, usually at a profit, sometimes at a small loss, and almost never a complete loss comparable to rent.

I would like to see numbers to back it up. It's very easy to lose track of how much money you spent on your house that you wouldn't have spent if you were renting: buying fees, longer commute, repairs, bigger-than-otherwise utility bills, property tax, mortgage interest, PMI, possible HOA fees, etc. It's also easy to lose track of how much money you didn't make on the market by not investing. This is obviously cherry picking (even though this very often happens when people discuss their housing returns) but over the last 10 years S&P 500 nearly 4x-ed.

In terms of housing vs stock market as an investment, check out this calculator [1]. You might not be able to get a good mortgage for the duration of your home ownership. The housing growth rate can stall relative to market based on local conditions. Property taxes and home-ownership fees can add up. The cost of buying and selling your home can be high. There are many variables that can tilt things one way or another. And lastly, housing is a market just like the stock market and they are interconnected.

I just don't believe in free money. I believe in the 'efficient-enough market hypothesis.' For a given amount of risk you should expect the same return. If you are looking at an unreasonably good investment you are likely just underestimating the risk. Gains are made via relative price differences. The better an investment seems the more pressure there is to buy it thus raising its absolute price thus reducing growth opportunities for subsequent buyers. When does the buying pressure stop? It stops when the investment doesn't seem better than others. Thus the markets settle on maximum uncertainty. To me housing is an investment, one of many. It's not automatically the best one in all circumstances.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
The Civil War
And yet, kids still drink and smoke. Yes, age restrictions are foolish and invalid, century of public policy notwithstanding. Not every policy that has existed should continue to exist.
Well, he is the president.
Rlwrap: A Readline Wrapper
Not sure if this other scandal has a name yet, but it's basically a combined diesel+petrolgate, and certainly involves more than just VW: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/05/bmw-daimler...

"Between 2006 and 2014, the commission suspects that the “circle of five” carmakers ... colluded to limit, delay or avoid the introduction of selective catalytic reduction systems (SCRs) and “Otto” particle filters."
Have you tried cold-brewed coffee? Water can be added as needed to reduce bitterness without affecting the flavor too hard. But you may want to ask yourself if the problem is bitterness, or that you just don't actually like the flavor of coffee.
Not sure why you were downvoted.

Protonmail stores all your emails encrypted, with the encryption dependent on your password, so something like this couldn't happen there.
You are widely assuming that because a pie was split to 10 people instead of one, there are more money buying houses. That's plain wrong. There is still a single pie. Houses were bought just the same, but by one person instead of 10. I don't know how much more first home purchases facilitate this when there are 10 people instead of one, but I doubt it had any impact since those folks are buying more than one house themselves anyway.

In the end, the only thing that prevents housing prices/bubbles, is denser desirable residential areas.

There might be other factors, but one is definitely NOT money distribution schemes from the top 1% to the top 10%.
This article just shows how bad food knowledge really is. It borders on dangerous.

Hunger is good. The fat gluttonous lifestyle choice of never being hungry is a disgrace. And thinking kids getting hungry is a direct issue is part of the problem.

But malnutrition in young children (0-2) is the worlds leading leading issue, it's bigger than global warming and all the other first world issues.

But it's also is possibly a large issue in the first world. It could be for instance what the Flynn Effect is. But the FUD in things like this article makes it unlikely we will be able to solve it.
The BBC said they were pulling water directly from the river, fyi.
Yes. Potentially far, far worse. And people have absolutely died from using fire retardant delivered from air tankers.

These planes have to fly extremely close to the ground to deliver their payload (which is spread over an area far too large to be effective in this case anyway btw) and too often the plane can lose control, whether from sudden unweighting or the turbulence from the fire and crash. This can kill everyone on board and usually starts a new fire to boot.
The company already severed ties with Rogowsky. His last hosting appearance was three weeks ago.
Short of a very precise aerial tanker mission (and how long would it take to spin that up or get lucky with an aircraft in training nearby, fill up and then vector it), no way to put it out. It might've been feasible as there are very few tall buildings or structures in Paris and it's in the middle of the river with nothing much on either side.

People also should know that simultaneous fires on multiple floors of multi-story buildings typically aren't possible to fight either, reducing possible efforts to containment and damage mitigation.
> A 500 billion dollar corporation will always be able to beat nonprofits on usability.

You'd think. And this is often true, but not always. I am frequently surprised by how bad applications from major companies can be when it comes to usability.
Seems like Keybase's key model would work well here: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
There was nothing disrespectful about Trump's tweet. I find it strange that you can't use his name, as if it's somehow shameful. That's disrespect to me.
They aren't. She thinks they must have installed something in the computer.

To be clear, I didn't mean to imply she's wrong. She may have good reason to believe that, but I haven't inquired further, just offered to teach her to install Linux.
What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us
As I mentioned in the cousin comment, I think the pyramids came in 2nd or tied, depending on how you count "standing." Their exposed stone is wearing much faster than the St. Louis Arch pillars sheathed in stainless steel, while they are also being buried by the desert. On the other hand, there's a lot of the Great Pyramid. At some point, however, the Pyramid is going to look like a big pile, while the pillars are still going to look like pillars. This article predates the fall of the World Trade Center, so my memory of it might not be 100%.

EDIT: I couldn't find the Sci-Am article, but it's interesting that the timeline of the Life After People television show, the middle of the St. Louis Arch is supposed to fall after 250 years, which matches the prediction of the earlier Sci-Am article. However, in the same timeline:

2000 Years: As it was after the ice age, Phoenix again becomes a vast savanna. Dolphins still remember their encounters with humans. Because it is basically held together by gravity, the medieval Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris may still stand and be recognizable.
After my divorce I quit my job, moved to Thailand and have been unemployed for 18 months. I dont have anything like that sort of money in the bank and I dumped most of my possessions before I left, but I was overpaid before I left and had money from the house sale and company shares. Ive got enough cash to last a few years.

Im working on a business that may some day earn some serious cash, but for now, money is not important. Being free of possessions (aka shit) is the best feeling. Very liberating.

Ive met a beautiful Thai lady and we are very happy. I spend time in Thailand and New Zealand, have travelled to europe and all over asia.

Couldnt be happier.
André Finot, the spokesperson of Notre-Dame de Paris, announced soon after the fire was known that the roof's wood frame was doomed. This frame was in two parts: one side from oak beams of the 13th century, the other half from the 19th. Of course, the spire was in later part, since it was built by Viollet-Le-Duc.

To prevent fire, there was no electricity wires in attic, because the oak beams were extremely dry.
One person doesn't need 10 houses.
you're right. But there's MANY other companies making similar profits.. yet not of them pay anything similar?

I think you guys can't separate your dislike for these companies, with an actual, thoughtful analysis.

Most oil companies make similar profits.. yet the average oil engineer makes 80-100k. With a lot more risk, and in similar high demand as a software engineer.
Most languages that aim to be minimal bake in a minimal syntax, but without implicit parameter passing, composability is not going to be extensible.
We've asked you several times not to post unsubstantive flamebait like this, so we've banned the account.
Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission Set to Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9
I have the opposite opinion (I also own a linnstrument).

I come from a piano background, and as someone that kind of struggles to improvise in keys with more accidentals I was attracted to the idea of an isomorphic layout.

After playing a lot with the isomorphic layout I've come to a conclusion that it comes at a cost (it has its advantages and disadvantages compared to the traditional piano layout)

To be isomorphic the layout has to have multiple representations of a single note, with this comes the fact that you don't really have to learn one shape for every chord, you have to learn multiple ones if you play complex polyphonic music and want comfortable fingerings (the linnstrument also has this problem that you can't play 4 notes in a square which comes at the most unexpected times specially between the two hands).

So the comparison would be to learn every key thoroughly vs learning every (useful) alternative for every chord.

In my opinion there's nothing intuitive about the y axis having a greater intervalic distance than the x axis, specifically I would have this problem when going down in a melody to the previous "string" the distance to that note is way different than it would be on the same string.

To be fair I think the only intuitive layout is a linear one (like a single string, or the haken continuum)

If anything, having played with an isomorphic instrument has encouraged me to learn the piano layout more deeply.

Having said that, the linnstrument itself is a decent product all and all (although I have some beefs with it but I don't want to turn this comment into a review) and it makes sense that you like the layout having more experience with stringed instrumments, but I would say that's familiarity not intuitiveness.
> CONCLUSIONS:
The preponderance of evidence indicates there is an inverse relationship between the MLDA[minimum legal drinking age] and two outcome measures: alcohol consumption and traffic crashes. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12022726
- ability to add custom emoticons to your library, and ability to share them
IMO, there ought to be a law that makes it easier to pierce the corporate veil in these sorts of cases.
Nasa’s Landmark Twins Study Reveals Resilience of Human Body in Space
wow this is great! it uses the scroll wheel and mouse location. I had no idea the latter was possible - very inspiring
> estimated $3 billion in lost wages. Before the case went to trial, the companies settled for a total of $435 million

So you get busted doing something illegal and walk away with a 2.5Billion in your pocket and 0 jail time. How do you expect execs to not do this all the time?
Nationalism is like rooting for your home team.

Patriotism is like caring for your family.
>inverse relationship to usability and security

Not necessarily. You can easily have all kinds of shitty usability without it having anything to do with security.
Does anyone understand if this is fully compatible with Kdb+?
been learning q & it would be nice to add vanilla K7 to the list
Indeed, several movie villains were infamously modeled after his mannerisms -- including Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Michaels#In_popular_cult...
Another (minor) nit, in my experience you have always needed to be a dual tech income to afford a house in the cities near the bay. My wife and I bought our first house in 1984 for $153,000 and it required us to both be working well paid tech jobs. You can also buy a house usually if you have a lucky equity break and can use that to pay big chunk down so the mortgage is affordable on a single income but as far as I can tell buying a house on a single engineer's income, that is near the center of activity, hasn't been true since the early 70's or so.
Eigenharp is fascinating but very expensive. Artiphon is also very interesting.
You're trolling here whether you intend to or not. Please try to comment more substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is it possible that the stone parts of the structure will be more resilient than the (apparently) wooden roof, and might survive if the fire is put out quickly enough?
One of last year's winner:

> Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post

> For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.
How about we compare to engineering wages in other companies with similar profits? Pretty much any other large engineering company. Or how about the oil industry? where profits are higher, the risk to life way higher, yet engineers make 80-100k?

What you have in these companies are single large shareholders vs institutional or family shareholders. That's what you're ultimately uncomfortable with. One person having so much net work.
There's nothing that the folks who are willing to pay for home theater audio gear love more than adding an acoustical noise source.
We actually had elected officials chanting “USA! USA!” at the last State of the Union Address.

Very fine people on all sides of course.
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Ecuador Arrests Digital Privacy Activist and Programmer Ola Bini