skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently discovered jetphotos.com and I have to wonder if airports doing things like this help that and similar sites due to convenient positioning, or if it makes all the photos 'the same' and thus quickly loses most of it's usefulness?

Not a plane spotter myself... My 18-55mm Nikon lense can barely see straight.
Have you been in the last ten years?

Perhaps it's just because I've grown up in the UK, surrounded by gothic and medievel buildings etc so a lot of Paris is just more of the same, but for me my weekend trip to Paris about 10 years ago ranks at the bottom of all my holidays. I found Berlin far more interesting and exciting than Paris. There are some lovely bits of Paris, but huge swathes of it are traffic stuffed concrete ovens during the summer. The Arc de Triomphe is surrounded by a 6 lane roundabout, which is fun to watch for a bit, but rather detracts from the ambiance of the site.
I’ve never understood getting so passionate about IDEs or editors. I use VScode at the moment. I’d be just as happy using any other number of editors. If I wanted to switch to sublime or webstorm or anything else, it wouldn’t take me very long at all to get it up and running and get back to work. They all do the job I need them for perfectly well.
Wouldn't it be the same as a police officer having a board of wanted people on his desk and (mistakenly) thought a person in a mall to be one of those? He'd check their papers (sorry, I'm European) due to his hunch and decide?

I believe there is no better way to identify wanted criminals at scale, do we want to comb the streets with policemen and "harass" 10x more people in hoes of finding them?

It's not a death penalty to be checked and bothering additional 3200 people in the whole country is a ok tradeoff to find wanted person in my opinion.

It feels like you want to cripple the way police looks for criminals because they don't act very kind towards suspects. Maybe police is the problem and not surveillance?
No: I understand it as "by its definition as corporation" (i.e. Boeing might make a lot more money if they just turned into a collection of car factories, for example -just for example-) but then it would not be Boeing.
"Postpaid to Paradise" aka "Postmarked for Paradise" aka "The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado", a short story by Robert Arthur.
Once in a rare while we come upon such a lavishly adjective-laden expression of literary peacockery wrapped in the unassuming guise of a common news item.

I'm not up to the task of measuring the ratio of adjectives to words in this article, but I'm certain it is significantly higher than most content we see these days. I think there was a point in the article beyond the author's literary exercise, but after wading through a few paragraphs the drag was so high I became stuck.
s/suck/sick
One datapoint to the contrary - I had an excellent experience with their support. Shortly after I bought my original OP-1 (the $800 version), I managed to brick it during a firmware update (my computer died while loading the new FW IIRC). They're a Swedish company but had an "authorized repair" guy based in the states, so I just dropped it in the mail and had it back in about a week.

Can't remember if they covered shipping, but they were super communicative through the whole process.

This was a few years ago, so maybe that's changed!
"(initially i tried methylphenidate (ritalin) but it was a little too "up and down" for me, it seemed to tail off before my next dose was due but i then switched to lisdexamphetamine (Elvanse/Vyvanse) which has proven incredibly effective)"

As an example of how Your Mileage May Vary, methylphenidate works well for me, but Vyvanse made my porn viewing skyrocket.
The Python docs are, on the contrary, quite good when compared to the GNU man pages. There is an advantage of the context: the GNU *nix tools have to reflect how the things grew, totally independently, accidentaly and ad-hoc. Python is much narrower topic and the development mostly had some concept of the "overall goal."
I don't dare ask why you can't just change the A/C!
I run community sites for which I am paid donations to cover running costs including writing code, bug fixes, servers, etc.

Today I take donations via PayPal, but the catch with this is that it's hard to provide visibility to donors of how healthy this is (WRT to costs), and whilst I considered Patreon that seemed to be very focused on creative deliverables to donors of a non-code/service nature.

I am trying Browser Attention Tokens, but these feel to be detached from the delivery of code, and still don't provide enough visibility to the donors of the overall health of the projects.

This though... this could be good. If Github sponsorship were attached to projects and people donated to a given org or repo, and then that were visible "this repo receives $500 per month" it would encourage code contribution whilst providing visibility over the health of a project.

I know my donors would appreciate the visibility (as would I, I manually create periodic reports on income and costs - at least this solves the income side).

The only question I have is how easy it would be for those who don't use Github to subscribe to a recurring donation?

Edit: Signed up for the waitlist, received a link to https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-sponsors which appears to clarify that you'd be sponsoring a developer not a repo/org... which means popularity/celebrity is everything. Oh well.
If Python 2.8 had come out and failed to run almost all code written for Python 2.7 then that probably would have been truly disastrous for the language.
Supercalc got me starting my career as a software developer.
Sad that the truth is always downvoted. HN has a lot of Microsoft shills.

People will wake up when Nadella has moved all jobs to India.
A Good Start in React Native
ITT: any comment criticising Paris getting downvoted.
The Ideological War of Comparable Powers in a Small World by Ray Dalio
I disagree. Before the acquisition, the work on GitHub was to make GitHub sustainable in it's own right.

Now, with Microsoft owning it, they have given up on that idea since Microsoft mainly get their profits elsewhere.

Instead, GitHub have now become a loss-leader for Microsoft, where every feature is meant to either lock in open developers in a closed source platform, or attract more open source developers to use their platform.

I did like the way of old GitHub more, even though they were slower at releasing stuff.
Instead of enabling one-time donations, I see some value in sponsorships with a predetermined EOL: Instead of donating $10 one-time, get a 10-month sponsorship for $1 each and at the end of those 10 months, decide whether you want to continue supporting the developer. Github could charge you the $10 (or the interest-adjusted equivalent) up-front to decrease the transaction costs too.

This decreases the variation in the developer's income and lets them plan for the future accordingly, which is always a good thing.
There really isn't a lot of point trying to understand an emotional argument as a logical argument. It isn't.
Your (USA) police forces are crooked. They swat people on a first signal they've received.

Instead they should attempt to verify first and try to approach people in civilised manner, not shoot their pets...
And yet the open alternatives don’t seem to have amounted to anyone making a living from open source. Centralizing it offers a nicer UX - it’s not just about feature parity.
I support one project on Open Collective [1] on a monthly basis. They do take a cut from the money I donate to cover the credit card fees and their operational costs. GitHub Support does not take any fees and even matches donations... wow!

While this news sounds amazing on the surface, I am also concerned it might have negative effects on the OSS ecosystem overall. Let's see how this pans out!

[1] https://opencollective.com/
It's a bit mind blowing to think that Patreon is 300 employees. What are they all doing?
How to Improve Your Logic Building Skills in Computer Programming
What are actual symptoms of ADHD/ADD? How do you know you have ADHD?

I am asking because I read recently ADHD is very difficult to detect.
They used many of the headstones to pave parts of the walkways Buena Vista Park and some other areas of SF.
Well, essentially everyone in the world comes from an unbroken line of people who had children, stretching back untold generations.

So it's really the ultimate in traditional family values. More traditional than Shakespeare, the scientific method, religion and apple pie all put together.
What info can possibly prevent this fraud though? Even the real large projects could ask friends and family to donate 5k that they gift back later. It's so easy/undetectable to do it's just leaving free money on the table.
Have you looked at other alternatives like OpenCollective or LiberaPay?

Basically identical to what GitHub is now introducing, but with the nice feature of being open platforms and not seen as loss-leaders for their owner.
I was really expecting GitLab to double down on features like this to attract floss community, but this coming from now Microsoft's GitHub is trully surprising. I hope GitHub is working on some more social features as I feel like bringing back my project to GitHub more and more these days.

That being I think it's a great idea as we had many of bounty/subscription tools but they always fail to get adopted and in general lack proper integrations with projects itself.
Bounty integration in issue tracker has been on my wishlist forever now, can we get that going next?
Yeah, in the absence of information or understanding, a lot of people like to imagine the worst. I guess that's a good defensive instinct.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19971131
A/C only has two settings: off and too cold. Some people like too cold though. And a nice vest fixes the problem. I don't actually mind the ambient temperature being low as long as I can keep warm.
If they offered both (monthly and one-time payments) then the solution would be to allow the project to allow only one or the other or both or neither. So you could select that you'd only receive monthly payments and people wouldn't be able to send you one-time payments.
> Of couse, not being a Parisian I might have just missed all the hidden parks

Probably not that much, you can pick it up through google maps: Paris has large parks & forests outside the city (boulogne, vincennes, meudon, …) but only a few very small parks within city limits (the largest green space is the Père-Lachaise cemetery), nothing like Regent's or Hyde's.

It's really flagrant using the satellite view at about the same zoom level (using the scale), it's as if london had no major park closer to city center than Hampstead (though both boulogne and vincennes are quite a bit larger than Hampstead, they're on the same scale as Richmond Park).
What part of that statement do you take issue with?

Was Poroshenko not a chocolate oligarch? Was he not installed by the West after a coup? Are the Right sector not Nazi thugs?
But the VOC was always a corporation chartered under Dutch law which was run by Dutch civilians. It had its own navy and army but at the top it was never sovereign and never aspired to be. It acted as a sovereign but never in or indeed near the Netherlands.
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> Suggesting that more poor children than wealthy children will impoverish society in more than just a statistical sense implies there's something immeasurably special about the people who become wealthy and famous, as if the mere act of breeding with them will produce superior humans.

Every trait we've managed to come up with an objective measure for is heritable, to a lesser or greater (but usually greater) extent. "Of course intelligence isn't heritable" - but somehow score on every test we can think of for it is. Same for creativity. Same for personality traits.

Children largely resemble their genetic parents; we don't have to like it but it's still reality. If the people who contribute the most to society, who help out their fellow humans the most (and I'm not saying that's the rich - but it is largely, as grandparent said, the successful), have fewer children than those who don't, we should be worried.
This is The New Yorker. It's not news, it's social commentary.
The F-22 just lands at a random airport??
Homograph Goes Phishing – An Old New Way for Perfect Email Phishing Attacks
> The Segway was the Apple Newton of it's time - the right idea but too early for all the pieces to be in place.

Not that great an idea though, because of its width low on the ground it's quite hostile to sharing space with others, much more so than a bike or a scooter.
My personal reason is the much higher environmental cost of that option.
Awesome! How did you find out about this project? I've been looking to work on a project like this and didn't find them.
So, for me that indicates that the problem is not that there is any service for making payments, but rather that open source developers who lives on donations, needs to be paid more by more people.

It would be cool if GitHub integrated with existing platforms and helped that to happen. Instead, they signal nothing about this problem and shipped yet-another platform.

They could have easily have contributed to solving the problem for real, but instead go their own way.
I'm not sure anyone is proposing that laws are _entirely_ useless. But it a tech is powerful enough, any abuse at all has potential for widespread negative effects. In the US, we've already seen post-9/11 how laws are side-stepped, trampled or quietly ignored even by well-meaning actors. Plus, getting laws in place is _hard_. Much of the public doesn't care enough to make noise about this kind of tech until it has already been abused (and sometimes not even then). None of this is meant as an argument against your position per se; just counter-point.
As a rule, for any given topic, experts on the topic propose to add this topic to the curriculum. While this topic would indeed be useful, many other topics that are also not in the curriculum would be equally useful.

Does your lab work well with 2-3 people being able to set up the data processing for the rest of the team?

Learning the unix commandline is considerable effort and requires regular practice. Instead of learning bash, biologists could spend their time reading relevant papers in their specialization or brush up on statistics.
You need to check the hands.

Korea is the country that breaks hand scanners. By that I means the sort of biometric measurement devices used for secure entry to doors. Korean hands are pretty much identical.
Curious about the side effects of this.

Imagine you had an open source project that was just something on the side or you worked on in a different life. And then you see pull requests for updates and decide to fix a bug here or there. And then maybe it prompts you to recommit to it.

If that were to apply to even a tiny percentage across all of Github could have major implications for open source as a whole.
I've been traveling full-time for a year and living out of basically one big rolling-suitcase. Every time I'm back in the states, I convince myself to put the OP-1 in storage - it's just taking up weight, I could just as well use Ableton, etc...

...but I can never bring myself to leave it. I don't use it a ton, but when I do I get sucked into it for 4+ hours. I especially love to use it on long international flights (I read someplace this was one of the design goals), and my tape tracks are crammed with loops from the last 5 years - it's unexpectedly nostalgic to listen back.

I originally bought it because of that strange impulse you mentioned, at a time when I really shouldn't have been buying expensive synth-toys - but I'm so, so glad that I did. Totally encourage you to pick one up if you ever get the opportunity!
Magic bullet theory I guess.
AdMob just got blocked in China
You can pass N2 in one year of full time study (if you apply yourself). The multiple years tend to be when people are trying to pass it doing part time study.
> Take a look over some of the modules they're deprecating, like smtpd. What kind of standard library requires an SMTP daemon built in?

Just because it's not widely used doesn't mean it cannot be included in the stdlib. For instance, where I work, we have a MTA test framework that makes extensive use of smtpd to receive messages processed by our configured MTA which we then write to disk and subsequently make assertions on the message (e.g., contains certain headers, has certain recipients, etc.).

Having various protocols (client and server) in the stdlib is not a bad thing and, personally, I think it's very useful for testing purposes.
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While seemingly good news and will definitely have positive side effects to open source projects, I cannot stop myself from questioning if this is just good old Microsoft using one of its edges over Gitlab (money) to come on top.

After all, this is the embrace, extend, and extinguish company.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see a similar feature implemented by Gitlab, even without the matching donations.
Sentiance // Data Engineer
So your argument is that because GitHub no longer has a profit motive and they're now releasing features at a much faster pace, that the acquisition has somehow gone bad?
Here is a function for mac os that outputs a pdf of a man page

function pman() {
man -t ${1} | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
}
Pegatron Reportedly to Start Assembling MacBooks, iPads in Indonesia in June
Bit of a tip for anyone thinking of visiting Paris who is sad they won't get to go in Notre Dame, head up the hill from Montmartre to the Basillica Sacré-Cœur. While it's not as old or as well known, it was far more interesting to me. However that might just be because I've been to endless cathedrals/abbeys in the UK and so ND was just more of the same.

Sacré-Cœur is well worth the walk, and benefits from being up the hill, away from the traffic, and surrounded by greenery. Montmartre is definitely one of the nicer parts of Paris. I could have happily skipped most of the rest of the city, but MM was worth a wonder round.
> Now, with Microsoft owning it, they have given up on that idea since Microsoft mainly get their profits elsewhere.

Is that really an issue?

How much did has Google's non-monetization of Chrome hurt the product vs helped it?
Ask HN: Is there any money in app development for small businesses anymore?
As your last paragraph shows, the Electoral College does not ensure minority representation of the states (or ”tyranny of the majority of states”) because if enough people moved to Texas it would decide everything.

As is right now, about 22% of the population controls half the EC votes. And the senate already ensure representation of all states, so pwople in smaller states have many times more power than fellow citizens in larger states in all parts of the government except the House.
From GH’s perspective, why would they create a dependency on an open service (that could disappear at any moment) when they could roll their own? Especially with all the trust issues that come around payments.

Are there any guarantees that Liberapay could even handle an integration at GH scale without it falling over? They opened 900 accounts last month.

GitHub’s promise is something akin to ‘it just works’ - which means that they take care of this stuff rather than give you yet another tool to integrate with.

GH can’t win in this scenario with some people. GH invest in Liberapay, give it a coat of paint, these same people will then complain that Liberapay has ‘sold out’ / gone ‘too enterprise’ (see Chef, Docker) (or the Microsoft variant - Oh noes, MSFT is working with open source tech it must be EEE) and demand that GH integrate with the next half-baked service with a Bootstrap website.
Show HN: A new library for writing native macOS CLI apps
Sentiance // Mobile React Native Engineer
It's funny how Go limitations made me go back to using GOTO statement to deal with errors in an http handler.
Ask HN: Digital Amnesia?
Do you sometimes like 80% of everything you see online just disappears?
Importing a bunch of young people works for one generation. But those young people grow old (and assimilate into a culture with a low birth rate), and what do you do then - import ever more young people to take care of the previous generation of immigrants? That doesn't seem sustainable.
> It is clear that browsers are doing everything they can to prevent user abuse.

If that was true in general, my browser would block all cookies and all content from third party domains by default. It would systematically misreport Referer and User-Agent. It would disable APIs typically used for fingerprinting. It would disable all redirect-through-advertiser links. All managed by a simple and unintrusive whitelist (per first party, per third party or temporarily for a whole browser session or for a site session) so that you can opt in to these things where there is a legitimate use.

It isn't because it has a much greater interest in browsing being a seamless experience and the web being a powerful application platform, and actual privacy measures are buried in some configuration menu or in third party plugins so that whiny power users can enjoy privacy while the unwashed masses go about their browsing as though the web standards aren't completely messed up from a privacy perspective.

> This provides a mechanism to do the required attribution without also tracking or compromising a user’s privacy. Without that, there isn’t a way for the current ad model to work.

Is that a good or bad thing?
It kind of reminds me of the Russian case a few years ago (e.g. https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8...) where a witness detained for questioning somehow managed to hang himself in an isolation cell - despite being an amputee with no arms.

There used to be a saying "only in Russia..." but it's apparently not valid anymore.
Gitlab Repository Mirroring
Robotaxis could also lock the doors and drive straight to the police station.
This is absolutely a thing. I've ignored something until heroku let me know it's on such an old platform version, it'll keep running but not restart. So I've given it an update recently.
If it's simple, then what's the point in removing it? Dealing with standard application level protocols like SMTP, NNTP, FTP, IMAP, POP, and HTTP shouldn't require installing third party packages.
Smart contracts are orders of magnitude HARDER to write, due to the fact that you have to get them exactly right in every respect, since no interpretation of the intent of the contract can happen, it will just execute as literally written.

And we know very well that writing bug-free code, on the first try, is a ridiculous pipe dream.

Ethereum and its countless hacks and failed contracts has been a very real demonstration of the problem, especially for those who lost large sums of money due to a small mistake in a smart contract.
>However, every time I see someone trot out the word "concensus", as though that's relevant to good science, I grind my teeth.

Me too. Because it's spelled 'consensus'.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub
happens for me too
The latest Last Week Tonight where they highlight sometimes there is a coziness of coroners/medical examiners with police really makes this look even worse.
Wolfram wants more developers to use its programming language
I live right next to Bruntingthorpe in the UK, which was a WWII and cold war airbase. They have shows there a few times per year where they fire up the old jets and blast them up and down the runway. Very cool.

Anyway, until recently the last airworthy Vulcan bomber would fly very low over our house when these shows were taking place. Ridiculously loud thing and absolutely awe-inspiring. Sadly it's not flying anymore due to lack of spares and too many accumulated hours on the airframe.
I wonder that too. Liberapay is just as capable open platform being run by like 10 people, right?