skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surgery: https://xkcd.com/644/
Paul Krugman: The austerity delusion
also author of my favourite puzzle collection http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
That's just right. By signing up on a new website using facebook, I get all the downsides of facebook login (having to log into facebook, having them track me, giving the website a bunch of personal data), and I still have to do the manual registration form. There are no upsides for me (except maybe not having to manually type my email address).
Intime, a time travel machine for your memories
I'm pretty sure that would result in people coming sooner and leaving later, because they dont want to be seen as "that guy that abuses the system"

Same issue with unlimited vacation time.
US security forces can affect things for the average person, just not the same things that China can. Not credit scores at the moment (well not legally on a mass scale), but they can for example put you on a no fly list; or if you're a non US citizen and they didn't like your "facebook" score, in this hypothetical system - they could deny you entry to the US.

So yeah this is more than just monitoring, I just called it that to distinguish it from the large scale behaviour shaping China seems to be toying with. Even having such a system in place, however, makes people behave differently: google "panopticon".
I suspect no one Adobe tested that website at wider than what seems around 1280. I can see the left and right pages of the carousel, and I'm only at 1920x1080.
Well, Uber has issues here in The Netherlands as well. Here it's also illegal to run your own taxi company. It's a very regulated business.

I don't think legislators would have a problem with Uber per se, it's just that they cheerfully ignore the existing legislation (and pay the fines incurred by the drivers) and basically just try to force themselves onto the market. If they would take the time to get proper legislation passed it could end up fine.

But why would governments that explicitly forbid illegal taxi services start making an exception for Uber?
Everyone knows the GIL as Python's big problem; dependency management is Go's big problem -- it's an analogy, that's it, nothing more.
Short sighted for protecting the income of the vulnerable taxi drivers and small time taxi companies? Since the introduction in London, waves of Minicab offices have closed down. Hats off to them to resist this. Not everything in life is automation and money saving. I'm sure the Portuguese have a decent taxi service as is.
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Powerful, and incredibly easy to use video recorder
Why is uber a crappy company? And how have they been anticompetitive?
I'm not exactly a good data point because I hate buying things without a good reason and buy stuff as infrequently as possible. But I also keep good records of my purchases. On average every year despite being anti-consumerism* I will buy one set of rechargable batteries, one cable, one charger, one protective case, one adapter. (So far only one of my purchases have been from Basics.)

8 of 16 of the search results fit this (rather arbitrary) "once a year" description.

Anyway, on your own purchases. Stylus, case, cable, cable. Basics has only been around for six years. And you really need to count all of the non-Basics purchases, because that is what Amazon is trying to capture.

* I don't feel this way, but multiple people have told me the economy would collapse if everyone acted the way I do.
New Tor Browser 4.5 out with funky new features
Sites with static header bars like this one need to die. Vertical space is a horrible thing to steal, given that most of the world are using 16:9 monitors.

Even worse when they're applied in on mobiles / responsive-design.
I came back here to check on this comment (since it was an empty comment, that's why I prompted you with "why")

And in doing so I saw the rather nice (entirely unlike the passive aggressive nature of reddit) notice to read the approach to comments.

Two points I liked: Upvote what is substantial. Make substantial comments. What would have been better is "consider using the word 'because' in your comments", because people don't (see what I did there?)

But then I saw something I didn't like. The whole "what you would say face to face". You know why? Some idiot tried to use what I suspect is this very "rule" as a fallacy for a comment I made on reddit.

The people running this have some ideas, but they are half baked.
Hi HN,

There was a video recorded at this meetup, but I'm not in control of that.

In the mean time, the getting started document [1] is the contents of the "demo time" slide.

1. https://github.com/constabulary/gb/blob/master/getting-start...
https://www.keepassx.org/ but I'm unsure if it has any sort of a CLI. It was mentioned in the EFF's updated SSL article.
I think what you mean by "interactive CLI" is reading from stdin, which seams to be supported.
I get that at the moment some don't get privacy. I meant the "deserve it the least" part. It seems to contradict "It's not my opinion that certain people don't deserve privacy".

I don't think deserving privacy has a scale. I understand your "deserve least" as "I'd rather they didn't have privacy". Feel free to correct me.
>Second, Russia has a long tradition of creating a PR-pumped image of healthy, almost immortal leaders.

Well, North Korea probably yes. But I haven't noticed such tradition in Russia.
Verified Efficient Programs in ATS: Qsort
>a complete rejection of PHP in the near future is not planned to WordPress

It's just a side project, probably to get more people thinking what could be done in Wordpress. Maybe more people will do something to the core of Wordpress outside of extensions if it's in Javascript-ish.
gb doesn't mandate any particular DVCS or DVCS strategy -- I understand it's a deeply personal issue for most.

People are smart, if they like the tool, they'll figure out how to integrate it into whatever DVCS they use.
Apparently being better than the competition is anti-competitive.
looks like april fools, but nearly a month late. The mentioned php2node repo doesn't even exist.
http://www.whiskeystill.net/blogs/whiskey-still-co-blog/6180...
> You have to wonder at the mentality of someone who wouldn't be there for their kid.

I have three boys (5, 4, 1) and another baby on the way. I'll tell you: some of the crap these kids do is freaking boring. Seriously. The older two are in T-ball now, and the practices and games are just mind bogglingly uninteresting. I'm glad they're playing, and I'm glad they're learning important life skills like following directions, understanding rules, and especially some physical prowess, but four innings is just numbing, especially when I'm also chasing around/entertaining my toddler at the same time.

Help with homework? Sure. Answer questions, all day long? Hell yeah I'll do that. Teach the oldest to play "Tower of Guns" to introduce him to using the mouse and keyboard? Yup, happy to help. But T-ball practice? God, only if I must. Cub scout meetings don't sound any better.

But you know what? That's perfectly fine. That's why we have coaches. There are also a number of other dads who are interested in T-ball and help out at practices and games. Not every parent has to be interested in every thing their kid does all the time: it's actually healthy for kids to encounter adults in roles other than "parent" and "teacher".
Assuming this isn't a hoax - I have mixed feelings. I'm currently no fan of either the Wordpress or PHP ecosystems - or much of the javascript one.

Whether this will bring some well-needed streamlining into the multitude of options in the js world or not is hard to predict.

Whether the PHP/Wordpress community will tolerate the added complexity - or whether that complexity can be magic'ed away is also hard to predict.
(There is a distinction to be made between STM and HTM)
Every OS ever had a bootloader of some sort as far as I'm aware, in some cases you had to toggle them in through the front panel but I don't know of any OS that did not have a bootstrapping stage prepended.
The article doesn't seem to count app income at all, just revenue (not profit!) from initial sales of the devices.
Nice one. Works great. Wonder how long it will stay live though.
Is this a late April 1st joke? I don't see anything even suggesting this on wordpress.org
This is a ridiculous article.

How someone took out an ad for the 100th Anniversary for the Armenian Genocide.

Then the author pretend echo-chambers and idiotic rhetoric, that I am confident they buy into, doesn't exist online.

> and have gone to lengths to ensure its origins are untraceable

No, they have one of the many whois protection service upsells that you check a box or the box is even already checked for you. This is not great lengths, stop writing up every tiniest possible piece of garbage you find online as an ad-bait article.

Do people realize what this entire article, and the person who has submitted it, are doing?

Tweet -> article

Search term trending -> article

Don't understand the search term? -> article about the fact that it's trending

This is the lowest-common-denominator press.
The NodeMCU is an amazing piece of kit. I'd say it's the future for DIY "internet of things". I mean, a microcontroller with GPIO, spi, i2c etc. and built-in wifi hardware, running Lua, for $9. You can throw together "small screen showing live information from the internet" or "sensor uploading data to internet" for less than $20 total cost. The ecosystem is still very new, but it's growing really fast.
I was hoping for Node.js to become the new PHP (in a good way). Nice to see it happening.
> Here's a question. IF it's in the ISS's orbital plane and it finished its burn, so it basically had enough oomph to reach ISS with a little boost in altitude... doesn't this imply that it's travelling in a longer ellipse, with higher altitude apogee than ISS?

It won't have completely "finished its burn" until it's docked. But I don't think it would ever have a higher apogee than the ISS, because that's just a waste of fuel. If it's just short of docking then I'd expect it to be either in a same-shaped orbit slightly lower than the ISS (i.e. almost circular) ready for a Hohmann transfer, or in an ellipse whose apogee just touches the ISS' orbit ready for a circularization burn.

Even if the orbits do cross an accidental collision is extremely unlikely - the objects are very small compared to how fast they're travelling, their motion is predictable years ahead, and the Progress is at an altitude where its orbit will naturally decay in a few months if nothing is done.
I don't know anyone that has ever cliked an ad in the internet, anywhere. And yet multibillion bussines are sustained on top of that industry. Anecdotes can only take you so far.
Why should we save jobs which are less efficient than other alternatives? Should the government have saved jobs (kill innovation) when 97% of humanity were farmers?
Trying to downvote:

Set url to dir=dn - cannot make that vote. Lol.

dir=down - nothing appears to happen. Hrm.

Was it down was right, but ignored, and dn was not in the set, or dn was in the set, and errored because not allowed?
Study: Poverty equals pain, worry, sadness, stress, and anger
This is much due to the fact that in some european countries the government gives monopoly status to some business areas if they are willing to work how the government want them to work. This usually has a negative impact on the winnings of the local company.

For example taxis are supposed to work and be reachable all around the country with the same prices, not just in high volume areas. If there is a new company that steps on the prices of the high volume areas, the older local company won't be able to offer the service in low volume areas.

People get angry if they don't have good services in their living areas.
FYI this stupid post was why I decided not to keep reading hn.

If you can't write an API to let me punch this person remotely, at least let me downvote them.
Interesting. Looks like that it evolved from a text only video system, but using 2 bit shade per character and selectable palette per character. Indeed, very clever.
Show HN: CALX, a gestural RPN calculator for iOS
There is also the fact that for some careers there is no intermediate state between success and failure -- no "not being promoted", only continual success or a lack of a job (recruiting and finance spring to mind).

In those careers where there is in fact an intermediate state, it can feel as though it is very narrow and difficult to stay in.

While the parent getting more pay may not really be important to a child, their long-term job security could prove to be essential.
Looking at the rest of the site, it's full of clickbait garbage. I would definitely take this with a bit of salt, or perhaps as some kind of performance art.
I immediately judged your boss as a crappy person, which might or might not be true. May be the work environment made him like that. I can't say. But my first reaction was intense dislike for him.
Childs bullying causes worse long-term mental health problems than maltreatment
Better their ipad, than their airplanes ;) (Sorry for the reddit-like comment, couldn't resist!)
This is nonsense - there's nothing about a Node.js re-write in the 4.3 kickoff post: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/28/wordpress-4-3-kic...
It looks like not much has changed since 2012.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19648095
Valve CEO: 'Pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just 2 days'
We're not poor or anything, but I've never met a family that could choose to work less. It doesn't take 80 hours every week, but when they call you on Saturday (or even Sunday), there is no choice.

I live in Middle Europe.
it's a joke right ?
"Such an implant doesn’t get picked up at airports and so on, the amount of metal in it is far far less than wearing a watch or wedding ring."

why not use a device embedded in a watch or wedding ring instead of injecting yourself with a piece of tech that can be obsoleted with a patch? Security personnel won't suspect such things.
Yes, the last thing I would have expected was re-evaluating my own friendships for that influence on influence. Not long after becoming a father I terminated a number of friendships quite abruptly. All of a sudden what I had previously thought of as 'fun guys' seemed like a toxic influence on me.

The other aspect of parenthood is it brings your life design into sharp focus. Proximity to bars and restaurants and hip furnishings suddenly take a very distant back seat to access to quality neighbourhoods, schools and places to spend time with your kids. Old friends snigger that you don't go out anymore and figure your life must be so boring - sometimes they act sympathetically when you spend another Friday night in. They don't realise Friday nights in with a young family are great fun.
yeah, just registered, I hope you will start this service in germany too!
Using machine learning to teach humans how to classify images
This paper presents a twist on machine learning. Instead of humans teaching computers how to classify images, they use computers to automatically teach humans.
Thanks dysfunction, good tip. I haven't looked at Alfred in a long time. Out of interest, for you, what differentiates Alfred from Spotlight in Yosemite?
Having a quick look, Alfred having 1Password is excellent.
Spotlight though is great for an instant Calculator and Currency conversion. Does Alfred support these OOTB? It looks pretty flexible, could I write something to integrate these?

Do you have the powerpack? Is it useful?
I can see what the author is saying, but... It's not necessarily about everyone working 80 hour weeks. It's about a corporate culture of 80 hour weeks. Cheating, if you get the job done, and maintain the image, doesn't discourage that culture. Acknowledging that some people are working 40 hours does.

80 hour weeks are important. It gives 40 hours for work, and 40 hours for personal growth. The former is a short cycle, and the latter is a long cycle.

1. If you trim down the growth part, your employees won't be competitive in the long term. Growth compounds, and sometimes superlinearly. If you know more, you learn faster.

2. This may be less relevant to management consulting, but if you trim down the work part, product part falls apart. I've seen organizations killed when work-life balance management stepped in. You go from 20 employees at 80 hours per week to 80 employees at 40 hours per week. Knowledge becomes much more distributed. Communication channels grow. Hiring standards slip.

In addition, if it's an 80 hour week, it becomes your life. It may sound like just 80 hours, but it dominates your life. You think about it in the shower. You dream about it. When you spend time with family, you're distracted with work and want to go work.

In practice, if I can get the same quantity of output from 20 employees as from 80 or a hundred at a higher level of quality, I can pay those employees at least five times as much. Many high-performance organizations try to make this trade-off.

But when society demands work life balance of employees with salaries starting at $300k and going into millions -- that falls flat.

Part of the obscene salaries go into making sure kids and families are healthy, even with a parent out of the house.
I guess it would be easier to work with GEMA because the service is supposed to be for your own creations, instead of licensing popular music.
Can anybody here estimate the money lost due to late flights, crews, etc? I don't know where to start from but I'd love to compare it with the costs of keep using paper.
> ... the idea you need permission to leave at 5pm.

I hate this idea too. I'm lucky to be able to organize my work as I want to (working in academia). Asking a permission for such a thing sounds so wrong.

However, this freedom comes with a price. I earn much less than most of my friends with the same education level and I have to admit that I suffer (a little) to have a lesser social status and little recognition.

In the end, it's a matter of compromise.
Butts in seats they can see I think
> And really, was github the best target to go to for availability when it came to developer downtime on the edited XKCD? Github's downtime is pretty near 0. I think I remember roughly an hour of downtime in 2014 in the super early morning, and nothing before that until 2012 maybe.

There was something about 2 days of DDOS earlier this year, but again the specifics aren't important -- the important part is, if you are in charge of delivering a product written in Go, you're going to look like an ass if your build fails because some random part of the internet is having a bad day.
Since y'all killed his blog again:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wjD83Ex...
I'd like the estimate to include money and time lost by passengers, but that's probably hoping for too much.
It's also interesting to note how we can affect the length of our Telomeres via Telomerase and FOXO3 genes using micronutrients such as Vitamin D, magnesium as described here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNLNl7oJnM

This is being worked on by companies in the epigenetics and human life extension areas:

http://calicolabs.com (Google and Genentech)

http://genopharmix.com (Berkeley Lab)

http://sens.org (Aubrey De Grey & Peter Theil)
First step: Learn Haskell :D
Does Agda have any significant proof automation yet compared to say Coq? If not, how practical is it to use?
SV was built on providing things that go fast and go bang
Every small change in a molecule's structure can drastically change biological activity. And there is no way to predict what biological effects any change has in terms of side effects. You pretty much have to treat such a modified drug as an entirely new molecule.
Any idea why Railgun is only available on the $200+ plans? Wouldn't it save CF a bunch of origin server bandwidth if everyone was able to use it?
High Performance Web Programming with C++14
> How about an electric shopping cart, like a pallet truck, for taking your shopping home from your local store.

That requires a handicap-accessible city. There absolutely cannot be stairs between your front door and the aisles of the store (including bus rides). I'm sure some newer cities are like this, but older cities tend to grandfather in older buildings and public transit systems. I don't see this happening anytime soon.

Would love to be wrong, though.
First world problems much?
Home Exchange Website GuestToGuest Raises $4.5M
When I first saw the readme, I did a double-take at this:

xtype(5) === 'positive_integer'; // Value is number, positive and integer
xtype(5) === 'int+'; // 'int+' is same as 'positive_integer'

Unless there's some new ES6 magic I haven't heard about, Javascript does NOT permit operator overloading, so it should be impossible for an object to be === to more than one distinct string!

Looking more closely, the library seems to be quite useful, has a test suite, and the real syntax is xtype.is(5, 'int+'). But if that's the case, just say that! Don't pass off some nonworking pseudocode as real JS code in your readme! There's a saying "where there's smoke, there's fire," and if there's this egregious a deception in your documentation, it makes me hesitant to depend on the library!
> Based on the postcode they held on file, my phone number was obtained over 8 years ago!

I wonder how much of my personal information is floating around on the web... And how many different companies are holding on to it, waiting to cash in on it.
I had a set of major setbacks when I was 21. Job setbacks. Relationship setbacks. Housing setbacks. Everything went wrong, and at the time my parents were travelling remotely and for the first time I had to sort out my problems myself.

I look back with amazement on that period which defined who I am more than any other period. What I learnt always that I could get back on my feet, I could turn things around, and when I did, I no longer took things for granted, whether that was jobs, friendships, relationships and more.

I almost pity anyone who hasn't gone through a rough period as they haven't been able to test out who they really are.
HMU – Chat Freely
I find this kind of attitude so dismaying - I am an employer, and I find myself in the inverse situation - practically physically dragging staff away from their desks to ensure they spend time with their families, and live their lives - work is work, not life.
Many dutch newspapers (nrc,ad,trouw,etc) offer student discounts on their subscriptions. Do you guys have any plans for something similar?
I have twice taken pay cuts so that I could be there for my kids and have given up on businesses so I could be there for them. I have always been of the belief that nobody on their death bed ever says "I wish I had spent more time at work".
Because they don't "oblige themselves" to follow local regulation and are therefore able to offer services at lower rates, even at the expense of the occasional fine.
Would be amusing to program the RFID in someone's dog to open the front door though, necessitating picking up a German Shepard to hold it up to a reader. Better still make the dog a spare key and nobody would ever notice.
And the density has other impacts on life as well, of course. The density we talk about looks like this in some places:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/12/article-2085752-0F...

(Just googled a random picture, but you get the idea; Hong Kong density is rather extreme).
Continuous Integration and Deployment for iOS Projects
Which country?

The central Europe countries that I know (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc.) and western-Europe coutries (France, Great Britain, etc.), there is a choice and most don't work on Saturday or even Sunday (except for certain jobs like DevOps/Admins, restaurants/hotels, factory workers with shifts, etc.). But in some of these countries you also cannot go shopping during the night (shops are only opened from about 9 am to 7 pm) nor on Sunday. You are not allowed to work more than specific hours per week. And even doctors with shifts that last more than 8 hours have several scheduled sleep hours.