skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I made this! If anyone has any feedback/suggestions, that would be awesome! I'll be around to answer any questions.
Paying money to exercise vested options upon leaving a company is very standard.
I agree that the long term effects based on nuclear winter etc. are arguable. But the whole point was that an advanced technological society depends on the connections between people - and most people in the UK would have died in the initial attack or in the immediate aftermath due to simple things like starvation.

Edit: "the idea that a nuclear winter would send the UK back to the middle ages is ridiculous."

A early, probably 1960s, review by the UK government (who actually had plenty experience of the impact of bombing) concluded that the UK would cease to function as a society if we were attacked by three H-bombs - indeed our ambassador to Moscow apparently had a debate with a tipsy Khrushchev on the point....
Plenty of corporations have successfully managed open-source projects.
I think he is not complaining about the fact that currency need to be exchanged but at how big the spread is. I.e. they give him a quite poor exchange rate as a way of extracting a hidden fee.
I dont think that text means what you think it means =P

It is in a paragraph saying "different tools for different jobs"
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> I think it's a bit of a stretch to extend definition of coercion to such situations

That someone bears a non-consented cost as a result of a transaction is a not-uncommon definition of coercion in an economic context, and its the one mentioned upthread that, along with the rational actor model, suffices to make the statement under discussion true.

I would agree that this definition is broader than what coercion generally means in general conversation, but given that definition as was suggested upthread, the further requirement offered in response that the two primary participants in the transaction are alone in the universe is not necessary to make the statement true.

As I've said upthread, while those assumptions are sufficient to make the libertarian statement at issue true, they also don't represent real world transactions very well, because real actors don't adhere to the rational actor model even if it is a useful approximation with some predictive power over large aggregates in some common situations, and real transactions are very often not free of negative externalities which would constitute coercion which would invalidate the generality of the conclusion even if the rational actor model held.
Maybe they can use some of their millions to ship orders faster than, I don't know, 3-6 months? Get it in the Amazon supply chain and have next day delivery. I'm still waiting on a reorder from a month ago and haven't heard anything since I emailed customer support.
He doesn't actually believe what he's writing; he's attempting to equate racism and anti-immigration.

The more you point out the flaws in racism, the more he feels you are pointing out the flaws in anti-immigration.
Yeah I know the feeling, never enough time. Maintaining land+flock really seems to be a full time job.
But pigs are awesome, very intelligent as well. We have some kunekune pigs and while they don't prepare the land as described above, they do happily eat grass and various kinds of plants the entire day and usually drop their dung in a couple of confined places so it's relatively easy to collect and use elsewhere. But I admit the main reason we have them is they are super adorable, cute, friendly, funny, play well together with goats, loved by children, don't require much looking after, you name it. Highly recommened :P
Bitcoin mining will always be a race on who can spend the most energy.

No. It is a race on who can spend their energy the most efficiently. (in terms of hashes per kWh).

That's why old mining methods (CPU miner, GPU miner...) are obsoleted by new ones (ASICs).

You can pump a Gigawatt into an old GPU mining rig and it will only cost you a lot of money.

Pump the same Gigawatt into a modern ASIC rig and it might make you money.
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Lack of PATCH method out of the box. No easy way to provide error reporting to the user for some but not all requests. For example, when a user submits a form and it fails, show them a dialog, but when the app makes a background request to refresh some data, and it fails, don't bother the user about it.

It's not a huge problem, I just end up creating my own wrapper around it that provides all the necessary methods, but it could be built in.
So much cheese... but still impressive! I can't wait to see them get closer and closer to pro level.
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Watch the video in the link...

I see no rioting, just peaceful congregation.
A nice 'free' feature of my combinator library for writing anonymous function expressions in Python,[1] is that tail recursion can be turned into iteration. This is a 'tutorial' style article. Would welcome feedback.

[1] https://github.com/yawaramin/lambdak
> By making this free, Facebook could potentially drive a lot more users to its wider network

Who would use "Facebook for work" that isn't already using "Facebook"?
Bug Reports with JavaScript time machine
Guys, do we really need to be so politically correct? Do we need to state that it’s his (author’s) personal thought on the topic?
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> However, by their measure, the results that were prepared in LaTeX were inferior to the results created in in Word.

They didn't measure the quality of the typesetting in any fashion, though, which is what the GP's claim was about; they measured the rate of errors typists made under time pressure.

It's also unclear what LaTeX software they used, since the one I use has integrated spellcheck, etc.
I think it's reasonable to assume that either JavaScript is available or the user has made the conscious decision to turn off JS; if so, that user is probably savvy enough to realize the issue and decide whether to enable JS for the particular site.

Far less reasonable is faulting a JS framework for assuming it can use JS.

Still, I agree that if JS isn't essential to the functionality of the site, a non-JS fallback should be available.
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Ask HN: Feedback on diagram builder with novelty zoomable UI
This web app combines Sankey diagram with zoomable interface. The reason is that in order to display financial flows - like in the example - you need the ability to display very small and very large elements at the same time. My intention was to build on the familiarity of Google Map interface. How did I do? Do you know how to move around? Are you confused? Any feedback is utterly welcome.

blog.wikibudgets.org/2015/01/sankey-builder-launch.html
The article mentions just that:

"First and foremost, we will be significantly expanding our manufacturing and shipping capabilities. This process has already begun with two new manufacturers that will ramp up our production to more than fifty times its previous rate allowing us to vigorously tackle our order backlog while working toward imminent real-time shipping fulfillment."
In my experience creating a high-quality end result requires knowing about typography, whether you use LaTeX or Word. Things like improperly typeset ”quotes”, or typesetting functions like sin, cos, etc. as variables in math mode, are mistakes that arise because people don't know what they're doing. And that's true regardless of the tool.
It is extremely unlikely they could profit, because if they raise supply price would drop like a rock. I doubt there's much demand for Helium-3 predicated on prices lower by even two orders of magnitude to support a raise in supply, and that's probably being pretty generous in terms of how cheaply it could be supplied. Unless Helium-3 can actually be used to perform real fusion in the real world, in which case the seller would have an opportunity to capture the suddenly immensely greater value of Helium-3, there's no reason to go get until the fusion systems are running in the real world.
I could see FB creating a "whitelistable" domain where you can only access @Work stuff so that enterprises would be happier to use FB@Work. Something like work.facebook.com
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Maybe you can. I guess I should look into that. Perhaps Friendica as well.
All I know of Angular is the pain our JS devs have using it. If Angular 1.x was so great why is Google tossing it out and building essentially a new framework in Angular 2.0? That would seem an indication that it isn't very good.
I think they might want to sell access to users' private account data to their employers. This will give them an in.

They can pretend to sell collaboration tools while they sneak analytics with interesting stuff on the users' personal facebook usage (and maybe browsing habits) in along with it.

This won't come immediately, of course.
> First and foremost, we will be significantly expanding our manufacturing and shipping capabilities. This process has already begun with two new manufacturers that will ramp up our production to more than fifty times its previous rate allowing us to vigorously tackle our order backlog while working toward imminent real-time shipping fulfillment.
It is just so expensive to provide 99% uptime on your own servers. Who is going to go into the office at 2:00AM when an executive can't access his power point presentation?
Another important point is that I doubt that the LaTeX users were permitted to use personal libraries of macros and styles. Typing a manuscript in raw LaTeX is simply something most LaTeX users never do---I have a directory of style files containing macros for tasks I frequently do. For example, if I type "\rights" into one of my documents, it inserts a nicely formatted copyright notice, boxed and aligned with the Creative Commons symbol. It would take me a half-hour to recreate that in raw LaTeX. Such libraries of personal macros (or organizational ones - when I wrote my thesis, I used a style file from my University that made formatting overhead essentially nil) are the default behaviour for regular LaTeX users, which is not true of Word users. So, again, I think they're measuring the wrong thing because the LaTeX users are not doing their task the way a typical user would, but the Word users are.
i cannot agree more
So so misguided - what happens when your javascript request fails? Or a broken build throws a script error? Progressive enhancement makes sure your content is accessible no matter what the conditions.
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I coauthored a paper a few years ago on the intra-observer variability of measurements of brain tumors when using the bidimensional product. An increase of 25% in the BP is taken as an indicator of brain tumor progression. We found that the intra-observer variability is so high, you can get that 25% increase purely by chance. The first recommendation of the medical team, to wait and see, is understandable.
While I agree I believe that for now this is mostly the case for US-based companies.

Working in the finance sector, it's interesting to see a strong divide between US companies that are more than happy to have an external company hold all/most of their data in the cloud and European and Asian financial institutions who insist on hosting everything on site using their IT department, their software and hardware etc.
Frankly I would be excited to see a relief for our energy crisis fuel exploration of "the next frontier." It really is the future of humanity to perfect (or at least improve upon) space travel, even if only for industrial purposes, and having a (sort of) realistic goal that will return profits could very well be the spark we need to get support behind it from budget writers.
No HTML hyperlinks is an annoyance, especially since part of Angular is being in the DOM, but that is something that can be handled, the lazy method is to just not do it. I guess that is something I like in a framework or library, that the laziest method it promotes does the most work by default.
Slick interface, cool visual presentation, and awesome intentioned resource for people in need...but outside of seeing "MN" in the URL and clicking through the links, I wouldn't have known that this is limited to Minnesota/the Twin Cities metro area. I like the plain, straightforward and neutral approach to the listings, but perhaps a small logo (besides the iconography, e.g. the Y's distinctive logos) for each link would help to break things up. Overall, nice site. Thanks for sharing.
...which is why Google got into the game.
And here comes highly personalized B2B advertising. Smart move, if you ask me. Wonder why they limit themselves to relatively large sized companies.
Good point but checking kproxy proxy they are coming up 2nd ahead of godaddy for "domains". (Same with zend2.com proxy).
Soylent's website claims they've shipped "over 3 million meals" (1 million bags) since launch. From what I can tell, the first bag was shipped in May 2014.

That's roughly 111/k bags per month since launch. For the first nine months of a company, that's operationally extremely impressive.

The delays for new customers (3-6 months, yikes) seem ridiculous, but if you do the math, I'm surprised it isn't more.
Just a few points for me about Angular in my own experience. When I first started using it, it seemed rather straight forward and easy to use. I could use it in some of my projects, or build entire apps with it.

Then came the notice of the rewrite. At that point, I pretty much lost interest in it. I mean, if you're going to have a major rewrite and and not make any of it backwards compatible, what's to say you won't do it again in another few years? For me, this was a deal breaker. Why build apps now which be obsolete when 2.0 finally rolls around?

Also, I'm not sure why people think apps have some incredibly long life span. Almost every large enterprise app I've ever worked on only goes about a year, maybe two years before it gets a complete overhaul. Here's a good example:

Large Enterprise Healthcare App:

- First iteration which was the longest and went from 2005-2010. Built on Java and Tables in HTML. Brutal, but effective and easy for the Java guys to maintain.

- Second iteration was from 2010 - 2012. Built on Java and with mainly Javascript and the HTML is cleaned up and tables removed.

- Third iteration was from 2012-2013, Built on Spring MVC, HTML5 and CSS3 with lots of jQuery and Javascript for several interactive charts.

- Last iteration I was a part of was in late 2013 - October of 2014. Completely rebuilt with responsive design, built on Grails, with lots of CSS3, jQuery and some Ember and Backbone pieces.

Even when I left they were contemplating another total overhaul, possibly moving back to Spring, and doing more client side stuff with Angular or Backbone and possibly doing some NodeJs as well. The app basically went from 5 year re-design schedule, to essentially less than 14 months in between overhauls. I'm just chalking this up to a constant parade of contractors who come in and are using the latest and greatest stuff, and then push that for the app. When they leave, nobody has the ability to maintain it, so they just rinse and repeat with contractors and technology.

Either way, my point here is that apps seem to have shorter and shorter lifespans before being completely overhauled. It's like maintenance isn't even really a requirement anymore.
Yes it was a bit of a generalization, but i mean the practical use of the tool. The technology behind it is wonderful! For my specialty its relatively easy (bone being a rigid body). But this type of software already works quite well for lung, liver etc. With careful manual alignment it can work for soft tissue sarcoma (muscle) and other types of more movable tissue, providing a quick overview. Volume measurement is also an option. But as you say its always complimentary to standard workflow.
"generic disagreement with browser-side rendering" re-read the article. Author has no issue with Ember or Backbone.
Like already mentioned, sleep. In addition to that, most recently I found that listening to "Tibetan singing bowls" (random Spotify playlist I found) helps keep me in the zone.
Does it have thrusters that burn now and then to maintain its orbit?

AIUI, the Soyuzes (is that the right plural) that are attached as lifeboats/return craft, also are used to adjust ISS orbit. They've got engines, etc., so it's relatively easy to use them in this capacity.
Thanks for the link. That is a rather fun read. Is interesting to read someone that has "mostly given up on the standard C library." I think I understand and agree with the reasoning, to be honest, but is still far far from what is recommended in academia. Or industry, for that matter.

The COBOL and related code is an interesting data point. I would be interested to know just how bug free it all is, versus just used in ways that don't trigger bugs. Still, they definitely count as long running software, if not highly ported.
Hoping this includes eventual international shipping. I'm an Australian, been eager to give Soylent a whirl. I've ordered a batch from a 3rd party to see how I go with it, but would be nice to have access to the genuine article.
I don't make that many web apps, mostly websites for clients, and I worry over IE8/9 users more than I do about people who turn their javascript off. It's a non-issue for us. If they have javascript turned off at such an aggressive level then they are used to things being broken all over the place.
The supposed health benefits of organic is wa-wa nonsense. Multiple studies have showed no health benefits. And as slavik81 points out, "organic" farming is allowed to use pesticides, just not synthetic pesticides. But I'm unaware of the impact of the other provisions, such as buffer zones and crop rotations. Are you aware of any studies which look into their impact?
Amazon just "picks and packs" your product. They don't manufacture it for you. I'm sure 90% of Soylent's supply chain issues aren't in the shipping process but in raw material procurement and manufacture.
I've been working remotely for a big bank for the past 7 years. I don't go into an office and haven't seen my team in the past 4 years.

The last time people got together for a project kickoff a few years back they just sat around a conference table all on webex. I stayed home.

Unfortunately new management is taking away the remote option for new hires for the most part. Also some people based on where they live had to go back into the office.

For myself, I never felt a difference in work, other than I didn't have to have headphones on all the time to try and get any work done in a cube and no tie. I did find that it can lead you to feel 'alone' during the day when wife is at work and kids at school I guess. Though after getting a dog who wants to play and go out it's not as bad :-).

When I move on from this job, it will be VERY hard to not work at least some days remotely. There aren't a lot of jobs around here that offer that. That is a downside of doing this so long, it just becomes how you work and how your day is supposed to be. I've tuned my life around it.
V8 is just a JS engine, it is used in io.js, node.js, chrome, and chromium.
This is so true, I've tried Word/LaTeX collaboration twice, each time I spend more time cleaning up the conversion mess than writing the sodding paper; learn from my fail.
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Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site.

Sure, and that's a choice that every website owner has to make. Building a working no-JS app is non-trivial for all but the simplest things. Increasingly businesses I've worked with have found that "Doesn't allow Javascript" is shorthand for "Won't buy things online or share useful data due to security worries" so they're paying less and less attention to your needs. Things I build fall back to a simple no-JS version that prompts the user to phone orders or turn on JS. I would expect that to become the norm over the next 2 or 3 years.
$ cat /etc/hosts | grep google-analytics
0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com

Unfortunately, the problem is dynamic; any blacklist is always going to be outdated. A whitelist approach is the only blocking method that works. Javascript spyware has gotten a lot worse in the last ~year. A mainstream news site I happened to test recently wanted to issue HTTP requests to no less than 34 unique hosts, just to render a typical static news article. That wasn't the ads (adblock edge).
Excellent explanation! Specially the fact that within a mainframe you can create hundreds or even thousands of virtualized linux guests, which can be created or destroyed on demand. That makes for a much more compelling use case!
Oranges, were introduced into Portugal by the Moors (current day Moroccans and Algerians) when they invaded Iberian Peninsula. It spread from there to the rest of Europe.

Funny thing is that the Persians knew citrus fruits (originated in Central Asia) long before the Portuguese but they also call it portqale while the Portuguese name (laranja) comes from the sanskrit "nāraṅga" brought by the Persians themselves.

The reason is that the Portuguese discovered very soon that the citrus are very efficient to fight scurvy, caused by C vitamin deficiency, a disease that made impossible to travel long oceanic voyages. So during 15th and 16th century they established a lot of trading posts around the world where they could get a supply of fresh oranges.

Oranges were one of the secrets discovered by the Portuguese to enable long sailing ships. Like land and celestial maps and gun powder, they were one of the most essential technologies to enable mercantilism, European colonialism and globalization.
Ask HN: Learning UX – Books, Articles and Online Course Recommendations
Hello,

I am trying to collate some good resources to gain more traction in learning and understanding UX in the realms of Enterprise Software Development. Has anybody taken this path and would you like to share any links, articles, books and online courses that would provide a lot of insight?

Thanks.
> explaining that such masses were common among women, and suggested Scott have it checked again in a year.

I know this sounds insane, but menigiomas (which I'd guess is what the neurologist suspected it was) are almost always benign and shockingly common - many post-mortems find these guys just kind of hanging out in/around the brain. The corollary is that any kind of cranial surgery has enormous risks. Point being, if a doctor sees what appears to be a (surprisingly) common event on a chart, they're not going to necessarily recommend further action other than observation UNLESS there's a change to the patient (which, as kitbrennan pointed out, almost certainly accompanied the "get it checked again in a year").
OpenBSD/amd64 does have SMEP/SMAP support, this was committed by Jonathon Gray (jsg@) in 2012, using QEMU. It's still hard to come by in actual hardware.

http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=SMEP&committer=...

http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=SMAP&ommitter=j...