skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a service similar to this in 2011 after I moved back from Australia to UK. Australian banks charge a monthly fee if you don't deposit your salary into the account so after a few months I realized my now-defunct Australian current account was very close to $0 (I had left a few dollars in there when I left). I emailed them and asked them to close the account to which they replied I needed to send a snail-mail letter - I used a service like this (with scanned signature no-less) to do so because it was easier than sending my own international letter to them. I got an email back saying they needed me to send a real letter with a real signature. I replied saying they could keep my account open but I wouldn't be paying for any fees, the reply was swift "Your account is now closed".
I call them things that are not used in silicon solar panels.

Also, indium is not a rare earth element.
Heck I’m wearing flannel right now

Here, have an eye roll ;-)

and get off the lawn i don’t have because the Boomers are hogging all the housing...
Ask HN: People who created programming language, how it went?
Exactly, that is the whole point, that’s why it’s cheaper for the companies.
One of the ways to get your self moving can be to identifying/finding similar ppl which share comment interest with you and run your idea/project with them. That way you will be pushing each other and getting further way more then if try to it all the way by yourself.
I'm firm believer that in the end if you want to get things out, you need to find the fight enthusiasts and share your idea with them :)
From mix of recycled and new trees. Trees which are farmed in the U.S. and sustainably managed. And trees which, by the way, absorb carbon.
In other words: HBO is leaving potential income behind by not having their service available worldwide. Netflix, in contrast, did a really aggressive expansion worldwide a while ago, making their service available all over the world. They're still expanding, while also producing their own content - which they don't need to have expensive licensing fees for when they want to publish it internationally. They only need to deal with local laws.
https://lob.com probably has what you're looking for. I've used their service for awhile and it's amazing.
Almost never a good idea to leap the chain of command. It's universally hated and OP hasn't even gone to his own manager yet.
You can still buy the games outright, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon.
> more beautiful people trying to convince others they need to buy products to become that beautiful.

Pretty much, but you can score lots of swag and make a living for a little while. A friend of mine was an "influencer," and it sort of blew my mind how much money and free stuff companies would throw at her. Of course every other aspect of it was utterly toxic, from the need to constantly pose for and post suitable photos, to the relentless positivity in the comments, to the nasty feedback from people who were jealous or judgmental. It's basically just being a small-time celebrity: fun for a little while, but don't try to make a career out of it.
Yes. BSD-derived licenses do not stop someone from distributing a proprietary version, while the GPL does (although you can still charge for your version even with the GPL, you just have to distribute your source with the package and make it available under the GPL).
I want my disposable straws, cups, plates, and utensils. Please stop telling me how to live.
One thing I find fascinating, and have not seen discussed, is what will happen to all this data in, say, a couple hundred years.

We have tons of diaries from people in 18th and 19th centuries, and they provide a uniquely intimate glimpse of life in the past.

If there's any upside to our lives being recorded in such great detail, it's that it will be a treasure trove for our descendants long after we're gone.
"It’s hard not to believe that gated superblock developments, which nauseatingly often include daycare centers, cram schools and other amenities for residents’ children within the superblock gates."

I feel like I'm missing something here. Why is it even objectionable, let alone "nauseating", for these amenities to be available within the superblocks?
Here: --> Get bored -->

What exactly happens here?

You say bored, do you loose interest in the subject? Or are the next tasks perceived as too boring? What exactly becomes boring? Or maybe it doesn't become boring, but something else becomes more interesting? Or does it feel boring because you run out of energy?
You don't need a CS degree to enjoy this stuff or learn more! I do not have a CS degree, or any degree at all. It took me a few years before I built up the courage to write an interpreter or compiler but I was compelled by peers who had built their own (and didn't attend college either).

There are numerous bloggers who dig deeper into the implementation of things and explain them. You just have to start asking "how do I build X from scratch".
I think what people mean here is "cheapest".

This was the inevitable outcome of trying to move to a pick and choose your channel model. Instead of 1000 channels for $80/month you get 10. Folks are moving back to piracy again just because they don't want to pay the prices it costs to subscribe to 6 services @ $8-15/month is all.
Yes, I know phaser. But I don't like Javascript and also prefer to use my own custom stuff (especially for simple things) instead of Frameworks. (No offense, just my personal preference).
I never even heard of Savannah. And after seeing the website i am glad they will be on github soon.
Fantastic description of a helicopter flying job. The standby experience is no different from any other commercial (unscheduled) flying job but I am sure the competition is more intense. It has always been a mystery to me how helicopter pilots come into existence at all: it takes at least $30,000 in expenses (more if you are starting from scratch) to get the first useful rating (commercial) and then (I judge from my experience) no one would hire you since you do not have enough hours, no matter how dangerous the job might be. Instruction is one way but even then no one would even talk to you before you have at least 300 hours. Some tour pilots I know fly for $8 an hour to get the 1000 hours required for any real commercial job (like flying for an oil company and such). The author owns her helicopter so that is a bit different but now you have the associated risk and pressure to pay for your investment. My fixed wing ratings paid for themselves relatively quickly but I am still trying to get a helicopter job to pay for the rotorwing part. This article gave me some good ideas ...
Define substantial. Domestic PV installations reliably produce a significant percentage of domestic consumption - even in countries like Germany and the UK, which aren't known for bright sun.

Countries that do have bright sun typically skip straight to passive solar water heating systems, which can do an excellent job of eliminating water heating costs.
if you think politics are bad now, just imagine what they'd be like if you only had to pander to the interests of a few coastal metros and maybe also chicago & dallas. the interests of rural voters would lose out every time. just look at france to see how this can play out. ime things like water rights and public land mean nothing to urbanites but they impact us immensely.
How to share documents and news tips with Washington Post jounralists
> Except in most of these cases the allegations aren't false, and harm was done. The harm isn't being done to the abusive men, but to the vulnerable women.

There was not only no evidence of any crime committed by the accused, there was evidence of the accusers lying.

A jury, after being presented evidence by both sides, first found the accused not guilty.

Later, a different jury, after being presented evidence by two sides, found the accusers guilty of lying.

What makes you so confident that, after reading an article that is objectively one-sided, you have a better grasp of the situation than the jurors in question?

This absolutely boggles my mind.

Maybe they all have been found not guilty by another jury by now and I just glossed over that fact?
The piracy part is that despite it not being available, you still feel entitled to it and go around the availability to get it.

I mean piracy is not that big a crime especially if there's no legal alternative (and the legal / convenient alternatives to piracy have been the biggest deterrent), but if you replace "media" with idk, "consumer electronics" it becomes a different matter. I know, physical goods vs virtual ones is a big difference, but is it, from a legal standpoint?
I’ve heard that GitHub makes that intentionally hard. Have you seen a repository that comes from Google Code? All the issues are always messed up that way.
The number of hard line FOSS folks is really quite small.

Personally I would be hard pressed to bother contributing to a project not on GitHub at this point. There is a certain workflow and interaction model that GitHub projects use that non-GitHub ones do not and it is simply not worth the time investment to learn those other projects. Not only that but it allows me to easily point at my work and go "I did that" when talking with folks.
I'm not sure if I got you right -- a comic convention wouldn't be called with the make-believe word. That would be intentionally belittling if adults (or teenagers, for that matter) are attending. It's used only for small children's plays.
Why type-first development matters
>It's not anyone's god-given right to be able to get every media ever released

Or maybe it is? Different people have different views on what counts as rights and I've yet to hear of a case of God clarifying which group of people is right. Some people believe it is their God given right to keep others from modifying their own equipment in certain patterns by sharing information. Others disagree.

Consider libraries. If I built a file sharing system that allowed only one person to watch the movie at a time, but allowed as many people as wanted to watch it if they were willing to wait their turn, how is this any different than what a library does? Yet that would also be considered a form of piracy. Is running a library not a God given right.
The helicopter is a 250 horsepower, 33 foot fan.
Founders are frequently short-sighted
Assuming the hard drives survive and someone can read them. The advantage of paper is that you just have to understand the language. Digital archives require a lot of technology to read, even before you get to the point of understanding the language.
Live broadcast time lag a betting loophole?
Hello everyone,
I’m currently writing from an East European country, the story goes that some team formed by a couple of young guys from my town are making lots of money with betting on football games, having some kind of special antenna that delivers the live broadcast in time from different soccer games and they have a 30 sec lag(loop hole) to make the corect bets. Can someone help me out here , and tell me what kind of device I would need for such operations and how does this actually work?
Thank’s!
> mentally disabled chimp

I don't know what your work situation is, but when you start referring to coworkers with language like this, it immediately makes me wonder if the issue is with you, not the person you are referring to.

If your code reviews feature this kind of vitriol, I'd probably avoid them, too.
When I was a junior I was working with a bunch of other juniors and the solution was to shout, scream, and throw things.

Now I'm older and the solution is to empathise and work out any differences calmly.

Both solutions have their pros and cons. Take your pick :)
> Which is probably closer to the norm. I rarely use torrents, not out of any great moral imperative, but because it's a pain, involves sketchy web sites, etc.

A lot of that difficulty is an up front cost. Once people get annoyed with streaming options enough to start pirating, getting them to switch back to paid options is going to be even harder.
"Most of the AAA games"? There's quite a few AAA games that, if bought / launched from Steam, will open up their own Steam-like application (notably, Ubisoft games).
> it really is quite simple to set up

I haven’t tried but I think it’s only simple is you’re willing to manually renew every 90 days. I’m not willing to.

Automatic renewals are only simple for popular environments like LAMP, my web server runs Windows server with IIS and old school asp.net. I can run arbitrary native code on that server, but I don’t have GUI access to that machine.

But even if it would be super-easy and automated for 100% web servers, that’s still introducing a dependency to a third-party service, for no value for audience of my web site.
Just shutting up a web browser that I don’t even use myself is not a good reason, IMO.
Rationale for an “Astroelectricity” Program
For those who aren't initiated in the world of T1D there is some amazing research coming out of the Faustman lab (MGH). There is both a promising cure (BCG vaccine), but also research which indicates that islet cells _do_ regenerate for decades after diagnoses. Islet cells are the part of the pancreas that generates insulin - needed to store/save sugar. That means, that the pancreas is constantly trying to repair the damage from the immune system.

Let that sink in.

Many diabetics suffer from 'random' lows or highs that can't be explained. Not because they aren't doing the right things - because they are - but more likely because their body is bringing islet cells online, producing extra insulin, then the immune system promptly kills them and knocks off the extra production. It's a war within the body!

This is why Loop is sooo amazing and needed. You need a closed loop system that monitors and calibrates to these kinds of bio and environmental changes. Unexpected sprint for two blocks to get to class in time? no problem. Unexpected insulin production in the blood stream? no problem. This project is truly hero work.

As a spouse to a T1D, life is sometimes scary. I, like many partners always have a backup plan in the back of our minds for that that fateful day of an extreme low will not be caught in time. It's scary.

I for one, look forward to life with a bionic partner.
A lot of helicopter pilots come into existence through the military.
And if it is a popular series that the rest of those around you are pirating, there is a significant cost to not watching it, at least compared to the cost of pirating it.
> Anyone else feel that they've gone past the point of caring about what Facebook does anymore?

From a developer perspective, I care about what Facebook is doing with their Occulus products. Rift-S and Quest are definitely something I'm looking for.
It's not nonsense, it's facts and reality.

https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-uk-vs-world-content

Canada and the US have 10-11% more content than UK. The disparity was much greater before most content providers left Netflix and before the advent of Netflix's original programming.

It was and still is even worse for other countries (I live in Sweden, it has 30% less content than the UK)
Missed opportunity for title alliteration: Hubble Hobbles Hubble Constant.
>I don't care what studio makes funny_show (either when deciding what to subscribe to, or when trying to figure out what app to launch to watch it), I just want to watch it.

There's a joke that this is exactly what cable TV was.

Back then: "This is ridiculous! I'm paying for all these channels when I only watch two or three of them. I should be able to pay for just the ones I use."

Now: "This is ridiculous! Every time I find something I want to watch, I have to subscribe to a new service!"
You might be a bozo. He might be a bozo. You both might be bozos. Or maybe you are both pretty good and both just bad communicators.

This should be a checklist of possibilities to consider anytime there is office conflict.
They give up their autonomy in moderation - Github will now have the power to say "you are not allowed to contribute to Apache projects". This will lead to

a) Github will have leverage over the project.

b) They make themselves vulnerable to the outrage du jour. If an outrage mob forms against someone in the Apache Project, Github may kick them off their platform - they are known to have done so in the past. Apache will then have to decide what to do. The path of least resistance will be to just let them go.

People who anticipate such a course of events will have to live in constant fear of all their effort coming to waste and their community being pulled from them by an outsider. And people who anticipate such fear may never join in the first place.
Even for internal apps, it might pay to think about accessibility... e.g. imagine someone who got hired to use the "internal app" was a Marine vet who lost vision to an IED or something... if your company is following the law, you have to provide the same opportunity for him to work there and use that "internal" app as everyone else. Maybe there's some reason why that would never be the case, but devs tend to think of the issue of accessibility much too narrowly.
Sites like Tumblr do it and are fine, and they allow custom HTML and JS also. Cookies are HTTP only and inaccessible with JavaScript. And framing is blocked.
Thanks for that. I confess I got a bit lazy about checking which string was at issue--I'll try to do an update when I get home, if I can make time.
Well... It reads like you are talking about side projects? The big question is: Are you happy with what you are doing when you are doing it? Do you expect yourself to produce sth. at the end of this cycle? Or are you putting yourself under pressure, because "others succeed, and so I have, too"?

Sometimes, it helps to free your mind and your thoughts just by doing something completely unrelated to your daily routine (read: daily job). If you are at the 25-50% stage, personally I don't think there is something bad at just dropping it, and look for new challenges. At the end, it's your free time, and it's completely yours to decide what you are doing with it.

Maybe, at some point in time, there will be "this one thing" which you will stick to, because it makes your heart feel happy in the long term. And if not, that's totally fine, as long as you had fun on the journey. Just don't put the "I have to do finish it!" pressure on you - as you already noticed, you don't work like that.

Oth, if you are unhappy: Think about smaller scale projects. Obviously, you cannot stay focused for a long time. So, you might want to pick smaller projects. Don't talk yourself little. Find something you can finish in, let's say, two months or something. A project that better suits a smaller attention span.
Actually, this one isn't all that hard to figure out. Probably wondering "why" this is the assumption the senior dev is having. The senior dev obviously believes you have been hired to help offload or relieve some of the work going around. What I have seen in this industry over the last 20 years or so is that this may or may not be true. Upper management needs to clear this up- for the senior dev. As for the other issue "can't understand simple logic" consider this is a personality trait for some developers and not a judgement call. There are some developers which require 100% of the information just to get started and they still will act naive because that is who they are. My advice is to not try and change personality traits or spend a lot of time teaching a lesson here because that could take years. Yes, you read that right YEARS and still not get the result desired. The last one "he acts like I don't know anything" probably is more likely "he cannot figure out how to delegate the work". Again, another upper-management thing and not your problem at all. So- either talk to him or "the group" but roles need to be clearly defined. Once this happens you will be onto the next set of hurdles- good luck!
I'm part of those who don't really value "fighting for freedom via using IRC" so I use Slack & Discord. I have no stakes in saving IRC.

Also, building and maintaining a free IRCCloud clone is worth much more of 5$/month of my time.

And seriously, it's not that hard. I know people who master the ins and out of much more complex server stacks as a hobby. A nice example is the implementation of World of Warcraft private servers. IRC is nowhere near as complex as that. I do concede that it's a long-term effort though. It's certainly not just a "weekend project".

Still as far as "saving things" go, this one is easy enough that a single person could build the tech on his free time and then you just need (a) patron(s) to pay for the infrastructure bill.
> SSL is useless for static content

This is just... false. Without SSL, static content can be MITM'd just like anything else. Don't believe me? Connect to the WiFi in any Starbucks and visit http://example.com. That redirect to the Starbucks WiFi login page certainly isn't being served from example.com...

Please stop spreading misinformation about SSL.
That's understandable, but I guess I was thinking more of a cup of coffee.
Exactly. The content is going to get pirated within hours of release, so I'm not sure why they even bother.

Instead they encumber the content with drm locking me I to their platform that hopefully stays around. I actively avoid anything but subscription or short term rental options for exactly this reason.
> whilst reducing the amount of content available.

This is the part that bothers me the most. I've been a subscriber to Netflix since 2008 and I'm getting pretty close to cancelling the streaming service.

I subscribe to the "standard" plan which is about to go up to $12.99 next month (from $10.99). Realistically the +$2/month isn't going to break me but it's the lack of content that will.

Almost every time I want to go watch something on Netflix, it's like "oh yeah, I remember watching Contact a few years ago on instant watch, let's do it up!... Oh wait, it's been removed". Then I'll think about 5 other movies I want to watch which I know I've watched in the past and they are gone too. Before you know it, I've spent 15 minutes trying to find something to watch where I end up just turning it off and doing something else.

It feels like you have to watch what Netflix is adding / removing every month instead of being able to select what you want to watch. To make matters worse I have an older smart DVD player and the Netflix UI doesn't show titles that are going to be removed if you have them added to your watch list (it only shows either or, and the watch list text always wins), which makes it a huge pain to tell if a title is about to expire since I have to use a third party website which breaks me from the watching / browsing experience.

I'll probably cancel in a few months and just stick with the 1 DVD out at a time plan which has nearly every movie. Sure the DVD plan is horrible for watching shows because of how long it would take to finish them due to shipping logistics but I watch more movies than shows.
> provide a uniquely intimate glimpse of life in the past.

This highlights the biggest difference. Many of the diaries of olden days were written as relatively accurate depictions of actual events. Facebook "diaries" however are the exact opposite. They describe the life that person wished they had.

While you may be able to extract useful information about society overall from this data 100 years from now, it will certainly not say much about an individual's life and those intimate glimpses you would expect.
My fixed wing ratings paid for themselves relatively quickly …

You must have gone a path other than immediately to CFI after you got your commercial fixed — or your idea of relatively quickly is a little more patient than mine.