skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished "Clearing the Air" by Tim Smedley (https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/s...) which was shortlisted for the Royal Society's prize for science books.

The first half of the book covers some of the chemistry of air pollution along with a review of the impact that this can have on health (particularly scary is the discovery that PM0.1 can be found in the blood and may be attributed to cardiovascular disease). Later chapters then talk about how air pollution has been addressed in different places and finally there is some guidance on what you can do reduce your exposure.

I discovered this book from one of the episodes of Inside Science featuring the shortlisted books: it's still up if you want to listen yourself: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008jf1
Google clamps down on free storage
I think the real question is whether the failure rate of companies using Haskell is higher than those of companies using mainstream languages.
Reddit is certainly gamed. Not on everything, not as widespread as SEO, but I've definitely seen it before.
I've heard varying degrees of feedback on Thoma Bravo - but I'm curious what the general consensus is? It appears, from the outside, that they allow their investment targets to remain autonomous - but I'm curious how hands off (or on) they are.
If the majority of that is in loans against the stock he will be in trouble if (when) the stock doesn't realize the liquidity and price he needs to pay off those loans, right?
From what I've read I would say so, it's super easy with their e-citizenship.
A majority of that 700M was a line of credit tied to his shares of the company. Good chance he will face a margin call on that (since the shares are now worth a lot less) and either have to come up with the cash (maybe why he wants this 200M to leave) or pledge more shares to make up the difference in value.
The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate.

See also: "New Forest", England, 1079.
I think it's more the bot upvoting comments that happen to be favorable to your product than actually leaving fake comments.
It should be noted that this project is funded by the European union. You can find all funding details, reports and publications at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219608/factsheet/en (the project started in January 2019, so there are not much reports yet).

It is amazing that they work so closely together with Firefox, so the project result will be really of a use for not only European citizens but people on all the world.
> So, in summary, I guess I'm saying we feel "just like everyone else" because despite the fact we earn a lot of money

Do you think you'd still feel the same if you were making 1/3 of what you make now? So $130k. Do you think you'd be under the same level of stress?
According to them, and the case they got to the Supreme Court, the difference between the owners and the org itself is nearly non-existent.
Why not FreedomForHawaii? FreedomForPalestine?

Or do you only care about freedom when it furthers western dominance and colonialist interests?
Key part:

> We’ll continue to maintain separate brands, develop new products for each brand, and enhance our existing offerings. As a Mailgun customer, you aren’t likely to notice any change, except for new features and functionality coming your way soon.
Checks have lived on beyond their useful life, unfortunately. I think the only reason they still exist is the arthritic ACH system and the desire by some receipients to avoid credit card processing fees.

Still, while checks may still be a thing they're pretty rare and rarely required. Mobile and contactless payment is pretty common (outside the food service industry, but I blame the food service industry for that).
Uber didn't exist 10 years ago, and taxis are still around so clearly Uber hasn't _completely_ wiped them out in that period.

I'm mostly an Uber user now, but even I still end up in a taxi on (very rare) occasions at home and more often when travelling and unable to use Uber or another ridesharing app for some reason.

There's also a decent population of older people who don't use rideshare apps and depend on the taxi system (I write from the perspective of an Australian, not a Londoner, but I'm guessing it may be similar there).
I seriously don’t understand why this post has been modded down, currently at -1. Seems inline with the rest of the anti-pollution sentiment on this thread.

Here’s info on ULEZ Phase 2 Expansion, which I really want to see implemented :
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/ultra-low-e...
This can happen for many reasons. People just want to get whatever it is working. There is probably a lot of time delivery pressure and something like IAM is complicated.

IMO, the first step to fixing the problem is give DevOps the proper amount of time to design the required permissions. It sounds easy from the outside, but again IAM can be very complex.

Additionally, DevOps must think security first. That means a newly deployed service has zero access and goes from there. Developers are going to be annoyed, but DevOps needs work with them and vice versa.
Could you say when this Priceline thing happened?
> SoftBank will pay Neumann $1 billion for his shares, a $185 million consulting fee and will offer him $500 million in credit to help repay his loans to JPMorgan, according to the report.

This is from the article and provides the breakdown. It does look like there are discrepancies in the article, though. Guess this is what happens when you rush to publish or don't have good editing.
The Power and the Gory (1990)
> And even if they do you still could be on the wrong chain because of network problems etc. If you only see one chain you don't even know if there is another chain.

this is the key thing you don't understand, i don't even need to respond to the rest of your message because of it.

with PoW even if i see only one chain i can absolutely objectively detect if something cheesy is going on by observing the difficulty of that chain. no network connectivity required. no comparison with other potential chains required. until you understand how is that different from PoS there's no point in discussing benefits and tradeoffs between these systems.
I have not used directly but this does look like a very impressive project.
Given that Park Lane seems populated exclusively by empty investment houses any life would be good :-)
Ghost is still a thing?
But we are talking about spectrum folks who love computers here. Sounds like management still does not trust them with core functions.
This is even more surprising. Thank you for correcting my assumption, this is fascinating.
> That ignored, of course, the possibility that a central location could take the orders and communicate them to the individual stores (which is how it worked for phone ordering at one point, maybe even today)

Wait, really? I worked in several pizza restaurants around the early 2000s and we always took the phone calls directly. It was very common to get questions about stuff like directions and opening hours, or weird special requests, which I can't imagine working very well with a remote call center setup. I don't want to doubt your claim, I'm just surprised to hear it.
> need to know if objectively one programming language is better

Better for what, for whom? Every programming problem is basically a unique problem of its own -- else the solution would already exist as source-code. There's no need to re-program the wheel.

Therefore the generic question of "what programming language is objectively better" does not make much sense, unless we qualify the question with: better for what, better for whom.
I think it was a fundamental realization of the mid-nineteenth century, but we didn't use terms like "fuck you money" in polite society back then. :)
Thanks for the details! I didn't think about latency time for the device to process the sound, but that makes sense.
This is an outrage when the employees are likely to get nothing for their options of common stock: https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-employee-equity-ipo-b...
This thread is why Hacker News is one of the best sites online today.
There's a spec from ARM for that: https://github.com/ARM-software/ebbr

It's meant for embedded devices, but there's no reason it wouldn't fit on phones. Now, with u-boot going in roughly the same direction, and with incoming phones focusing on liberty, it might actually be possible.
Yeah, he's a loser and a fraud, but there's an even bigger loser and a fraud that's even more desperate to save face...
Reading their about page [1], I'm not convinced they're making a conscious decision to call it open source instead of free software. I don't think the general public (which this is aimed at, it seems) differentiates the two either.

[1] http://www.facesofopensource.com/about/
I just wanna try using Reason.
I enlisted over a decade ago, when I was in my twenties.
Mmm, it's interesting. There's really two options here:

Option A: Son is right, and the market is wrong. WeWork is a ~$50b company, and after a bit of hardball SoftBank will own 70% of it for a very affordable $15b (or whatever it is). And once the market catches on, WeWork's valuation will quintuple overnight, netting the Vision Fund a nice profit and Son the right to be very, very smug.

Option B: The market is right, and Son is wrong. WeWork is a ~$10b company, which through a fit of almost comic mismanagement Son has managed to pay ~$15b for (and still owns only a bare majority). With a lot of work (and thanks to getting rid of Neumann), it might one day be worth enough SoftBank/the Vision fund is (barely) not below water, but even that's iffy.

I'm no expert, and while on paper option B does look pretty compelling, let's say maybe option A is right after all. In which case...

...given that Son is just a uniquely talented visionary, and saw potential that nobody else (and especially not other potential investors) saw, uh...why in the hell did he keep investing at higher and higher valuations? Like, if the market is just dumb and can't see that WeWork is worth $50b, not $10b, then....why invest at a $50b valuation? Unless it was just a glorified pump-and-dump all along (ie, Son never thought it was worth $50b, but he thought other people could be fooled into thinking it), in which case, why invest now? Does he think he's going to get a second bite at the apple? It's really hard to imagine us all being here in 18-36 months going "wow, WeWork sure has turned things around, I think their IPO will price at $60b!" Right? Isn't the WeWork hype irrevocably gone?

This whole thing is so odd. Is it really as simple as "we're just piling billions of dollars up and setting them on fire because we love expensive bonfires"? Is that it?
Hah that's a tall order in 2020. Most of them can only watch videos and ask others.
Uber was very cheap at the beginning compared with cabs, but it has normalised and indeed can be pretty expensive.
Good ol' "temporary permanent" solution.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/778275
Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old).

I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy:

- The new membership system is effectively just an email database with JWT based authentication. Two cool things about this: You can import any CSV of emails and that's now a user database of people who can log in, and 2: not storing passwords at all is pretty great.

- New billing features are a deep integration w/ Stripe Billing API, which works with your API keys, not via Stripe Connect, so there's no middleman. Ghost can't add any fees on transactions, and volume doesn't flow through our Stripe account in any way - so it remains completely decentralised without a bottleneck. The significant part of that is: If Ghost the company were to ever go away, your site/billing/everything would keep working as normal. Doesn't depend on us.

- All our APIs and Webhooks have been continually improved to the point where Ghost is now the most popular (at least by Github stars, the fruit of life) open source headless CMS out there. Also a new Github Action for CI/CD of Ghost themes makes that whole process a lot less painful

"What's the point of this, why not just use [x]"
Because [x] is some combination of: closed source, centralised, written in decade old procedural PHP, or has some sort of UI which no non-developer wants to go anywhere near. We try to sit at the juncture of these things with a decentralised product, easy to run with a managed service, built with tech developers don't hate, and a UI that people who create content really love.

Also: Something about Postgres

On a serious note, thanks for all the support. Ghost launched on HN and it was that initial boost that got everything started. I'll be hanging out in the comments here throughout the day.
I am in favor of replacing the automatic red light ticket fine with a Pizza-for-the-Not-Engineer-Guy payment. Would be interested in the dude's paypal or other info too.
How many iDRACs around the world are accessible with "calvin"?
Then we will see a shitload of articles popping up "10 reasons why Monolithic software development was the right way" and "How we reduced cost by merging all our micro services back to a monolith!!!11!!".
Hey, pleased you enjoyed it. We should cover the cloud bills by the end of November. I think they call it "Default Alive"
I was in college at the time but I distinctly remember buying a few shares of Amazon for around $9 each with my remaining savings. I sold them 10 years after graduating which in retrospect was too soon.
The "i" in my comment doesn't refer to me specifically, it is like the "royal you" but for a single person (not sure if there is a name for it).
This is an inconvenient truth.
I believe it's a joke referencing the default password for mssql for many years of sa/null. Eventually the install started forcing the user to change it to something, but for a time there were many mssql databases out there with a default password of null.
The reason most the web has been neutered is why Hacker News is so great.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032259
2005, Everquest adds /pizza to begin the pizza ordering process from in-game http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7020132/ns/technology_and_science-...
This is quite strong policy. Usually in most sinister incompetent companies, the user name is "admin" and the password is "password".

On a serious note: there should be a mandated, periodic, third-party security audit by neutral parties for all entities which deal with user data beyond a certain specified level of sensitivity. It should not be left to their discretion when to run such an audit from their end. Whether an entity similar to SEC for the stock exchange is desirable can be debated, but the current laissez faire approach to data will lead to even more such disasters.
I had a pretty intense honeymoon with Estonia, even had a relatively popular blog on e-residency, have visited Estonia twice (great experience btw)..

And, after four years, I have reopened my company in UK and trying to liquidate my Estonian one (today I have received a denial letter which says that only Estonian citizen can close my company)..

In short: Vague frequently changing rules, introduction of strange complex regulations over time (e.g. contact person, management board member tax which is kinda avoidable or not at the same time - "Schrodinger tax").. Expensive business services and accountants (yes, US and UK are cheaper!), volatile tax rules interpretations.. Lack of googlable good information overall, and local accountants are not that hi level pros in nomadic IT matters at all. Also totally non-cooperative Estonian banks.

Upon all of that, UK manages doing everything without fragile e-card, which, honestly, adds more anxiety over access loss instead of benefits. Has TONS AND TONS of proper official information with tutorials. Generations of good accountants and stable business and tax regulations.
I did once. Went less than two miles, and ended up £20 worse off. The other time I tried to use it I got yelled at for getting in it without telling him where I wanted to go.

I do use uber or other private hire in London on occasion - when shifting lots of stuff around, but Black Cabs?
Very cool concept!
> And no, you aren’t coerced to work for any employer. You freely accept employment conditions in exchange for the agreed upon wage

Do you actually believe this? You can be honest; it's not like you're among friends here.
I bet they drop "gun" from the name
Presumably about $370 million.
There’s no whataboutism at play here. You’re the one who drew this comparison; the poster you’re replying to is simply explaining why it’s an unintelligent comparison. That aside, what was it about a team of 0 Iraqis crashing a plane in New York that “forced” the US to “show some power”?
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What passwords you used?
> I wonder if apple regret making these machines.

If your old products are still running fine that's only good publicity and generates word-of-mouth credibility.
Interesting, sounds like a lot of tech is packed into these tiny devices!
> It’s obviously not all faces, and it doesn’t even claim to be just the top faces - it’s ‘notable and unsung’.

It's a documentation of the people behind the development and advancement of the open source revolution. Sure, that doesn't claim that nobody else plays a role, but it has a hint of that.

> More practically, it’s probably who made themselves available to be photographed and who would he photographer could get in touch with.

Sounds plausible, yeah. The wording makes it sound like more though, but that's probably marketing, because "portraits of some people in the open source movement that I know/was able to meet" sounds less impressive and authoritative than Faces Of Open Source.
For a second, that "raised 5 mil" line really made me doubt everything I've learned from you guys until I actually read through the post. Congratulations!
They are typically moving between 0 and 1 passenger around -- worse than cars.
In my experience, Ghost has been the no-nonsense blog CMS that has been stable and just worked with very little maintenance.

I like that they are now moving towards static site JAMStack approach, driven by APIs rather than the current SSR model.
This lets anybody to customise their themes with the language / framework of choice and generating static builds that can be cached for improved loading times.
How many people do you actually recognize?

Personally, only Limor Fried. It's weird, but also interesting, that tech is so faceless.
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College Athletes
He went further and said that several years before that, when there had been a recession, everyone at HP -- all the way up and down the ladder -- worked 9 days out of 10, and took a 10% salary cut, in order to ensure that there wouldn't be any layoffs.

I have a good friend who has helmed several very successful software companies. His philosophy is quite different: it is unfair to ask employees to work take a pay cut (and work more hours) when they could find another job that would potentially pay them more money.

I'm not posting this to argue with the HP philosophy, but rather to point out that there are other ways for management to care about their employees.

For the record, I stuck with my current employer through some hard times (forced furlough was the worst of it) because I appreciated what the leadership was doing, and believed in the goals of the organization.
Odd, ESR was there when I looked.
I wasn't in the valley at the time but was part of a startup that lost our angel funding before it happened because the angel's funds were overcommitted already in failing startups.

My view has always been that during the dot com boom, companies were so short staffed that they would basically take anyone on, regardless of their technical skill, with the hopes of training them up to learn programming. Janitor, receptionist, your weird cousin Eddie who ate glue - all of them could get a tech job if they really wanted one.

When the bubble burst, lots of people lost jobs. Both skilled people and unskilled. This was a huge darwin moment for people who'd worked at startups. Lots of people went back to whatever they were doing pre-bubble. The better people typically found work, even if it took a little while to do so.

In my view, it really did serve as a healthy shake-out of talent in the long run. This very well may happen again soon...
Semi-related: If you are in the market for an email provider for transactional emails, I encourage you to use Postmark. It's a developer focused company with a simple pricing model and great documentation, and their IPs tend to have great reputation scores. I don't work for them, but I switched from one of these two and am very happy I did.
And you are talking software, which is known for being quite dynamic.

You'd be surprised how much "inertia" there is in other sectors, some stuff keeps happening even when alternatives are not just better, but also cheaper.
The downvotes are telling. Is this 4chan or some jordan peterson fan club now?
According to TFA, compliance with ULEZ standards increased from 39% of all vehicles in February 2017 to 61% in March and 77% in September. That means that a lot of those vehicles are no longer circulating in central London. And of the non-compliant vehicles, only 38% were exempt. That is 9% of all vehicles.
That would be an interesting question to answer. I know of a few rapidly growing companies using Haskell that compete directly with non-Haskell companies. We'll have to see how things play out over the next few years but that might provide some data points.
Commercial vehicles have to be euro-6, otherwise its £100 to enter the ULEZ.
No doubt. Just wanted to share my experience, and the potential risks of starting a large project (or acquiring one) in a language most 'coders' aren't familiar with :o
This is not going to work.
> Well, you assume that revenue represents value.

That's the standard capitalist assumption. Gotta make a billion dollars no matter who dies.

> Maybe they are making the world worse on net.

Maybe? Have you been paying attention at all?

> In which case, should the workers or investors be liable?

The investors and the management should be liable, under the "command responsibility" doctrine. If you give orders whose implementation makes the world suck more than it already does, then you should indeed be held liable for your orders.

Criminally liable.

> I generally feel like it's a nice and fundamental feature of society that they aren't.

I think that one of the reasons our society is broken is that the people in charge can get away with leaving working-class schmucks like me to hold the bag and take the fall whenever shit goes wrong.
Mailmail or Gunjet?
> Also: Something about Postgres

Is Ghost bringing back support for Postgres? :)
Yeah, all of that is true. I was mostly replying to the "far below in any other standard" (emphasis mine) part of the parent comment.
Yep these days because of being "Politically correct" all you need is to be born with the right set of genitalia and preferably represent a minority/oppressed ethnic group and you can use these as tools to promote/advance your career rather than having to rely on the actual content/output of your work. Bonus points if you are also either disabled or part of the LGBT community.
And another company acquired coming from efounders, a startup studio specialized in SaaS.

I think efounders track record is really interesting, out of 19 companies, 4 acquisition and 3 other project that seems to work very well (AirCall, Front and Spendesk).

All their companies are here for the curious: https://www.efounders.com/companies