skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This seems pretty doable from a tech standpoint. Is funding really the only reason it's not being done?

It's not being done because this already exists.
It's called 4chan (though 8chan is a better fit; I don't recall if source code for it was ever made available).

Of course, 4chan depended on a single individual's pocketbook and liberal moderation policies, which has let it down in the past; having such a service be government-funded and shardable so that if one mod goes bad you still have a place to go would help.

But at its core, you'd still have 4/8chan, because that's what "public access" (and "free speech") means. And while it is very valuable, a lot of people just can't properly digest it.
>Kraft Heinz

Super off topic but why the heck is Heinz losing so much value?
This is what happens when decisions are made based on political/PR based reasoning, rather than logical reasoning.

It will appear good on its face to most people, but very specific edge cases will be catastrophically impacted with little fanfare.
People being unable to get to work, trucks being unable to deliver food to stores because gas is unavailable. (I don't foresee any scenario where we get to that point, but if it happened it would be a crisis.)

A 50% price increase would be bad for people who have to drive and are in a financially precarious situation, but it's not any more a catastrophe than all the other various things that affect people in financially precarious situations, which upper-middle-class people can shrug off as a mild annoyance.
When data contradicts security best practices [video]
Small nit: The article doesn’t specify that con, it quotes an HCL executive who was claiming it’s a con.

I mention this distinction because the claimed “con” is based on an implicit misrepresentation of what the USW is (it is not, counter to its common name, just a union that deals with steelworkers), and it’s important to attribute the misrepresentation to the party that was motivated to misrepresent things, and not the newspaper that merely quoted it.
Better pay

I loved working at my last job mostly why I even stayed so long. I asked to be paid fairly and nothing happened, after a few weeks of looking I was offered 10x as much. Still miss working there though.
Scuttlebutt is great, but "filtering out bad actors" is already possible on most of the popular social media platforms. Simply block or unfollow "bad actors" and it's all good.
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2016/07/16/public-transit... gives a good overview - though in a very different context. Note that of the 3 criteria for joining a union 1 and 2 do not apply to programmers and 3 is questionably.

Edit, the article doesn't say this, but others have suggested the people joining the union may not be programmers...
I've yet to use any software which supports flowed, as a sender or recipient. As a recipient I appreciate when flowed is done right and properly hardwraps lines as a fallback. Seems like a decent compromise.
Only 2 of those are valid. The battle against "hopefully" as a sentence adverb was lost decades ago, and there was never a strong argument against split infinitives.
Have they tried drones yet? There's probably a nice challenge in having to balance weapons weight + battery weight + battery capacity + maneuverability.
Ah - I missed that. Thanks for the clarification.
The recession shattered the company, but it somehow still functioned (this was 2012). The day to day job was a step back in terms of technology, tools, and methodology, and was not moving anywhere. Company got bought out by a huge corporation, and I couldn't see myself escaping the "hey this ticket is for your old company's app. it will keep you occupied until we have another one for it" loop, and never changing anything.
How does this makes sense? There's no kind of existing taxes or math to make losing money more profitable than making money.
Okay, Black Mirror. (mind you, I don't think the suspicion is unwarranted, especially when it comes to Facebook.) Optimistically though, targted TMS or some other brain affecting technology, could treat depression, ADHD, schizophrenia, anxiety, autism, or any other number of mental maladies. (To be clear, this is very much in the realm of science fiction, TMS is nowhere near this.)
>Trolls and abusive behaviors thrive on for-profit social platforms in part because at some level the platforms don’t mind this.

They'd thrive even more on a government-funded platform which is legally obligated not to censor their speech.
Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming (2016)
How to lose belly fat in 1 week
I find it disingenuous to say we need a public, free, and open place to exchange ideas in an article behind a company's paywall.
I wish I lived there! Was a really cool space.
Coast Guard captures 'narco sub' carrying $165M in cocaine
If you comment in this thread, please stick to the specifics of the article.

This thread got bogged down on its first go, but the article is interesting enough to deserve a second chance.
Fake Employment Site Created to Target Veterans with Malware
Controversial? Really? What's written there is basically what's required for interactive speed. What's described here is basically what's required for interaction to feel instantaneous. Why should we settle for anything but immediacy?

Sure, with all those laggy applications we have right now, we tend to become desensitised. That's not an excuse, though.

Also note that in some cases, we're not even close to acceptable latency. Finger tracking on touch screens for instance, require a one millisecond response time to feel perfect. Otherwise the objects we drag will lag behind our fingers.
The court is usurping the authority of parliament. Quite unfortunate.
I think Softbank could tank We stock by refusing to further finance them, and trying to sell them.

That would also hurt Softbank though, so the question becomes, what was so bad about Neumann staying on to warrant such a stick.
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>If those comments are consistently saying that opiods are necessary and good for pain management, an ethical journalist can't just ignore all those comments and harp on a few outliers.

They can. And they must.

Would you make this same argument when journalists cover fiance or war? In the case of the former, there is usually 'irrational exuberance' that emanates from financial professionals that inevitably leads to a crash. Journalist should just take that at face value when the finance industry says subprime derivatives are great?

How about the latter, war. Just because everyone is on-board, should journalists stop asking questions?

If all journalism is is a mouthpiece, why do we need it in the age of internet? I can go and read what the various agencies have to say without a middle-man.
yeah I'm not sure if it's really stage fright. I am familiar with stage fright and I hate giving presentations and similar things. At any rate I'm not saying it isn't the case that some of the people who are bad in the interview are actually bad, I just wonder how accurate the whole X% of applicants can't code really is.

At any rate I do pretty well for myself and while it was unpleasant, it is past, just - made me wonder.
80's PCs could populate a "screen" in that timeframe. Why do we accept less performance from modern computers?
Glad to hear it :D
But that doesn’t prevent small companies to just take the risk. And by doing so, they are as efficient as WeWork and compete on the same level. What counts is the product and that is the same from the small and big company.
Take a tour of the new IBM z15 system
(Dgraph author) Particularly embarrassing because I actually know the founders of Prisma ;-). Amazing folks!

They even included YugaByte, with only 2.8K GitHub stars. Dgraph crossed 11K GitHub stars and is in the top 10 Graph DBs on DB Engine now -- what would it take for us to be in the article, Søren?

Just joking. Nice article! Keep up the good work, guys!
HA lemon water?? snake oil https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzapn/lemon-water-will-n...
Until he dismisses it again. It means next to nothing other than one branch interfering in the operations of another. Brexit will happen whether you want it to our not.
Materials science so that they can be built from composites and weigh 1/10th of their current mass, and also take some hits.

Otherwise it requires ridiculous amounts of energy to get any kind of real velocity in the movements, and then the first impact would explode both robots.
'An app my cat could have written' -Larry Ellison
>We should just straight up ban sports, legacies, ect from admissions.

Government banning private institutions from doing things?

I'd prefer an alternate approach, in that government starts legitimizing other paths to education than the collage system. Its mildly absurd that the "keys to upper class society" are held by these private systems and this is reinforced via legislation.
There is "peak oil" as the basic geophysical concept, which is perfectly fine.

There is also "peak oil" as the prophecy of imminent collapse of industrial civilization, which was a much bigger thing a decade or so ago. It may still have some loyal believers.

I think that people unfortunately have the means to extract far more oil than we have the means to safely burn in Earth's atmosphere.
Him allowing a toxic culture in which shitty people were hired and allowed to behave poorly is very bad and likely helped push him out.

However, those allegations aren't against Neumann, so I personally don't think this quite qualifies as a #MeToo strike against him specifically, but maybe I'm applying that concept too stringently?
Over 11k words, this piece begins with an admonition to always keep growing and gaining new skills as a professional followed by explanations of cognitive theories and learning strategies that will make self-learning easier and more efficient.
I used split-screen and some of the other desktop-oriented features in iOS 12.x and they were OK but not great. I think iPadOS has really polished these. Split screen is a lot easier to use, as are copy/paste/undo.

Of course, the apps you use have to support these new features. There are some, like Kindle, that don't work well at all.
Please defined "well deserved".

Sounds nice.

Who decides?
Yeah, I've noticed this, too. It definitely optimizes for the initial "Oh wow" walk-in experience. But day-to-day could well be different. As one example, I'm drowning out their hip background music with my earphones and something that enables me to actually concentrate.
What has Mozilla ever killed? If you're about to say Internet Explorer--Google did that.
I'll take your correction. However it just reinforces the claims that this is a bad article: a good reporter should have dug into this question.
Congrats. You are an awesome team.
We are so far out over our skis in terms of the need for oil input to the agricultural sector that the overall economic system will not bat an eye at despoiling everything around it.
>In one culture the apex male attribute to reach the top of the social status ladder would be to go into the jungle and kill a lion with nothing but a spear. In an other it is to have the title of CEO and have a high number listed in a bank account.

These are very similar from a behavioral perspective because they both involve aggression and risk-seeking.
WeWork offers this if you sign up for an American Express Platinum Business card and take advantage of the free year of WeWork benefit. I can (and do!) book any WeWork in the world any day - all for $0.

Yes, that's right, the free AMEX WeWork plan is significantly better than any WeWork plan you can buy. That's start-up logic for you. I stopped paying WeWork after 1-2 years as a paying customer because their free plan was better.

I live in London and I can choose from any of 36 WeWork London locations for tomorrow along with anywhere else in the world. It's nice living off of VC money.
"If they don't want me to steal, they should have better locks." Would not be a good defense to allow theft.

That is not to say piracy is theft. Only that 'they should protect themselves better' is not a justification.
Can a Recipe Save Your Life?
> In 1927 in New Jersey, a man named Salvatore Merra was wrongly executed because of the want of a semicolon in a jury’s sentencing

Here are the actual words that led to his execution:

"In the Merra case the dissenting justices pointed out that the jury's verdict was originally recorded as follows:"

We find the defendant Salvatore Merra guilty of murder in the first degree and the defendant Salvatore Rannelli guilty of murder in the first degree, and recommend life imprisonment at hard labor.

"which was amended by the trial judge to read:"

We find Salvatore Merra guilty of murder in the first degree. We find Salvatore Rannelli guilty of murder in the first degree and recommend life imprisonment.[1][2]

It does seem like an injustice happened here. The jury's verdict as originally recorded is a little ambiguous, but to my mind, the recommendation of life imprisonment would seem to apply to both. Although this doesn't seem like a comma vs semicolon issue so much as a judge taking liberty to change the wording and not clarifying the intention with the jury. The straightforward thing to do during the appeal would've been to find the jurors and ask them what they meant; I guess that wasn't (legally) allowed.

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-p...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3586846/state-v-merra/ [from the Supreme Court of New Jersey]
One so far (a company called Pex, the founder's HN handle is doh). Always looking for more. :)

We've also done a decent number of investments through accelerators that were not YC. That's somewhere between cold inbound, cold outbound, and warm intro.
Thing is, the majority of iLok protected software has never been cracked, or if it has been cracked, only very old versions that aren't exactly relevant anymore.
We don't need another service provider. We need a protocol, a specification for completely decentralised, carry-with-us social networks.

A way that my device can securely communicate with my friends devices and say "Sup?". A way that we can share messages, photos, calendars, contacts, etc without some behemoth (or state) sticking its nose in the middle.

I've had this conversation here before and somebody mentions RSS but it's not enough on its own. It's certainly a basis for content exchange but nowhere near enough for the authentication, and authoring side of things.
It's been in the news for the last month. Admittedly I'm being a bit snarky here, but the NYT is firing a shot saying we need a platform that's administered responsibly (which we do) when they've proved they can't even use the ones we have responsibly.

Between the linked stories and the whole Sarah Jeong thing, the NYT doesn't have the gravitas to come out and ask for this right now. The Gray Lady is failing its mission (for more reasons than just this).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-tightens-up-on-...

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/339852/tweets...

https://nypost.com/2019/08/22/new-york-times-political-edito...
"So we’re selling the assets of the company to pay back the bank as much as possible, before we file the final bankruptcy paperwork."

I thought when bankruptcy is inevitable, you'd want to wait for the final judgment before liquidating.
Thankyou. I had forgotten that when I posted. The US is my main target market and it is the quiet time of year.
Python has been around since, what, 1994? C# goes back to '99 or '00 or something like that.

Nim goes back to maybe 2008 and only hit 1.0 today.
iBench – realtime search developers / No freelancers here
Disingenuous in what way? Do you think the editorial author doesn’t actually desire a public space?
The article "Postmodernism vs. Science" published in Scientific American provides contemporary context:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unfortunate-f...

Stanford Philosophy provides a more detailed description of its history:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/
I'm pro remain but let's keep a cool head.

Imports into the UK are under the control of the UK government. As such it's hard to imagine how and why food and medicine imports (or anything else deemed important) would be disrupted.
Smart retail. Understanding when someone views an item in store – buys online
I've been using the 13.1 beta on my iPad Air 2 for a couple days and it has been fine.
This is great. Thank you for so openly sharing your strategic thinking and lessons learned.

I follow about 100 projects in this space "github for data" and haven't yet seen a breakout hit. Yours looks like it has potential. I like the simplicity and the "objects by file extension". Lots of these sites I think get too complex too quick.

At the UH Cancer Center we routinely deal with datasets in the TB - PB range, and that type of size definitely makes this problem qualitatively different. Your splitting of the storage (S3) from the front end is the correct technical decision, IMO.

I've worked in this space for about 10 years. My open source project is called Ohayo, and I used to try and do both front end and backend, and then similarly decided to drop the data storage backend and instead focus on my strengths, which is front end exploratory data analysis.

I think adding a "quilt" keyword to Ohayo, and access to the Quilt datasets directly in Ohayo may be mutually beneficial. Ohayo is just a single dumb web app (no online storage, no tracking, full program source code are stored in the url) and pulls in data via HTTP. Here's an example program that shows the post history from the 2 quilt founders on hackernews: https://ohayo.computer?filename=hncomparison.flow&yi=~&xi=_&...

We use Vega for visualization. You could imagine allowing fast simple EDA on these Quilt data sets through simple Ohayo links. Ohayo version 14 is a substantial improvement and I hope to ship next week or two, and then would love to add Quilt to the picture.
Email the mods noting a deceptive headline in original at hn@ycombinator.com

I've just done this.
That's a pretty big omission. Part of why I stopped playing FPS games is specifically because voice chat is both A- Important to team coordination and B- Full of the worst examples of human speech you can encounter. Weird take on their part for sure.
Wouldn't he still be making money on the sale, unless the loans gain the same amount of interest as the amount the properties have appreciated by?
Ok so best of three then if the next one goes for Remain? Because voters change their minds don't they?
Is that true? The FCC "censors" plenty of speech on the public airways, is that unconstitutional?
CentOS is still the same CentOS. CentOS Stream is "RHEL-devel".
A comprehensive view from someone who was at the beginning till it all went downhill. A clear and well flowing narrative.
> There's clearly a ton of demand for what they provide.

There has always been, and will always be, demand for the ability to buy one dollar for 80 cents. This is not some newfangled business model. Amazingly, it keeps cropping up again and again.
Using Nerdwallet's COL calculator, 40k in Pittsburgh is roughly 78k in SF. The HUD defined the lower income limit in SF to be 82k.
In poorer countries there tend to be more female engineers because engineering is a good career for anyone (including women), and in poorer countries, having a good career is proportionally more important. The prevalence of female engineers in India is frequently used as support for the natural preference theory.
In lab animals!

Not necessarily applicable 1:1 in humans.
Will those journalist buddies ever know more than actual doctors?
If VSCode would grep my stack-traces for exceptions it could find in StackOverflow automatically, I would be so there for that.
No, because what the Remain side are trying to engineer in defiance of the public vote is BRINO.
I love that episode because I'm sure that's how it was in the Dot-Com Bubble. People basically taking everything they could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arENYYkYBts
B&R is cheap and smart vs. US military expenditure.
Forgot the * - by winning an electorate seat, you end up getting at least that seat, and any seats in parliament proportionate to your party vote, even if you would otherwise have been cut by the 5% threshold.
I think the argument here is that social media is harmful, with increasing evidence that in those that use it most, it promotes loneliness and depression rather than bringing people together.

That's before you consider the network effects of misinformation.
Two seconds is the time it takes in Formula 1 for mechanics to lift a car, change four tires, and put the car back in movement. It is difficult to believe that you cannot swap flop drives in less than that time.
Then we'll just need some sort of a language to explain to the model what we want the software to do....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_r6iojNnYg

It's been early on and recent as far as I know - if you watch the whole clip you'll see that, though they only show a second or two of the new clips. I would never teach kids to make fun of others. It's simply bad form.
Very true! I think all educational material should be openly accessible without login, and that enrollment should be something entirely separate and optional.
Hey there, I'm responsible for this omission! I've gotten quite a few comments internally and externally so I'll make sure to give Dgraph a mention when I incorporate some of the feedback I've received from this thread. Thanks for the heads up!
Serious question - why do you prefer DoH vs say, DNS over TLS? The former always seemed rather hacky to me.
Social media is a blight on human discourse. We need less of it, not more.
The superfluous perks are a red herring, they’re not why WeWork doesn’t work. Regus filed for bankruptcy after the dotcom collapse for similar reasons WeWork is struggling: taking a bunch of long term leases and re-leasing them out as short term leases to economically vulnerable businesses is a recipe for disaster.
Softbank probably made it clear to him that if there is any hope to salvage the IPO and have a chance at a lucrative exit, this is the only path forward.

That or they found his cereal box and threatened to call the cops.
I think that boils down to false equivalence. If the reporter had dug into rebutting claims in the quoted email from HCL’s management, a lot of people would accuse the article of having a pro-union bias however much it was just trying to provide a full explanation of the situation to readers.

Consequently most news organizations these days just publish two verbatim claims from opposing sides and make no attempt to actually sort out any underlying facts lest they be perceived as “biased”.
Stay the f away from USO, which was supposed to track the price of oil as an ETF, but is in fact kind of a scam.
Oh I would love to get the UH Cancer Center data into Quilt! Do you happen to have an S3 bucket with that data live? If the bucket is publicly permissioned it should "just work." We can talk about indexing the data for search. We are comfortable in the TB-PB range :)

I will look more closely at Ohayo.
Could you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting here? We're looking for thoughtful, substantive comments in HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Half the comments here seem to assume this manifesto is about web sites. Can I remind everyone that many applications run locally?
Got tired of building businesses for someone else and decided to finally go out on my own.
This is just outstanding, thank you kindly.
In fact, I was :) Check my bio.

But if the OP is really distraught about making money in tech, they will find their economics background of use.
Unrelevant, but still great:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Even Apple's $400 phone has been supported longer than the Nexus 4 was.
Try the Scuttlebutt protocol, it's a gossip network that does essentially just what you specified.