skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closing an API can be a hard business choice
Clarify language surrounding “representing” in the Contributor Covenant
Constantly impressed of what the imgix people are releasing. Everything from crazy rack builds to these slick API improvements.
An update to my involvement in this discussion: my request for explicit clarification of the term 'representing' was closed without useful comment, so I've opened a pull request to clarify the language in the charter itself.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748555
Oh well, you're not convinced. It is however the entire point of the OP.

We might consider similar acts like eco-tourism, or disaster tourism, and so on. Where one spends enormous effort and money to visit the less-fortunate and go through the motions of helping. Arguably, to feel better about oneself. In those cases its clearly pretty selfish, and clearly better to have simply donated the money to a real charity instead.
Well, to be fair, it is Mongo Scale.
It's a decision because different hospitals have different specialities. Trauma, stroke, cardiac, etc. The most appropriate facility is a combination of what the patient needs, what they want, and the logistics involved (travel time, relative busyness, etc).

I call the hospital because I want to make sure they got the transmission and are going to be ready for me when I get there. The transmission and the call are generally a couple minutes apart.

There are certainly _plenty_ of places where the workflow in the back of the rig could be improved, but this really isn't one of them.
So, that has fun (or not). Should be working fine again now. Really sorry about that, we're under heavy load but doing our best to keep things running.
I've learned that people have this addiction of being "good" (progressive they call it) to the point that they don't see themselves becoming assholes. They even become blind to other social issues.

There is a Harvey Dent quote about it.

"Fuck bigoted free speech, Raif Badawi and Charlie Hedbo had themselves to blame" from several well known "anti-racist", "feminist" progressives in Sweden.

As in everything else, Sweden is light years ahead in that area. Not always good to be ahead in everything, but at least people wake up to the lunacy faster. Swedish Democrats (Conservative) just became the third largest party because of "progressive" nut jobs occupying State TV and most news outlets.
tl;dr: I'm attempting to avoid chilling effects on personal speech as a result of adopting this covenant. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741551 for discussion on the sort of issues that can arise with vague wording of "representing the project or its community".
Is that like when Enron started being accused of inflated revenues and 'cooking the books' ... they also had to find a compromise and shred away the evidence! What type of non sensical argument is this?
The trouble is you'll never know what the actually numbers were until after the fact - the best you can do is make some educated investments at an 80/20 point. So either you learn yourself or you rely on consensus and authority, etc. You give to a middleman charity that has people who spend the time or do the work based on a theory of what should be done. You're relying on their expertise, and the expertise of those who say that, yes, you should put your money with charity A rather than charity B. But you'll never know if you could have got that 0.2% doing something else. Really, the best you should expect is that you can make a good enough choice to do good versus wasting your donation.

I started supporting SENS pretty early, so I had to actually go read the primary literature and take a few years to figure out that yes, I think that this is the best fulcrum to make progress in changing the research community, building the right tech, etc.

Nowadays, you can actually rely upon more distributed middle man expertise. E.g. that Peter Thiel invested millions in SENS, or that the SRF advisory board includes numerous researchers who are at the tops of their fields, names appearing in the media, all of whom endorse the SENS approach (http://sens.org/about/leadership/research-advisory-board), and so on and so forth.
Laugh because they think I'm joking, cause how could that possibly be relevant.
That's our view as well. We really believe that current technologies allow for us to move and do more stuff while on the run. Thanks for your visit!
Internet Hosting Company Shuts Down Voat.co Servers Over ‘Political Correctness’
I would never use your system. I expect a system to behave as advertised , not debug its internal state transitions
The issue is one of trademark dilution.

The relevant legislation is codified in 15 U.S. Code § 1125 (c), which states:

Subject to the principles of equity, the owner of a famous mark that is
distinctive, inherently or through acquired distinctiveness, shall be
entitled to an injunction against another person who, at any time after
the owner’s mark has become famous, commences use of a mark or trade name
in commerce that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or dilution by
tarnishment of the famous mark, regardless of the presence or absence of
actual or likely confusion, of competition, or of actual economic injury.

Note that it says "commences use of a mark or trade name in commerce" - use of the trademark in an article that cites it in a quote, or even uses it colloquially, is not going to apply.

The lawyer who sent the cease and desist letter fundamentally misunderstood the law, and frankly I'd be concerned they were giving me incorrect counsel. A lawyer who holds such a fundamental misunderstanding of trademark law is, in my mind, a material risk to any business who needs to protect their trademark, and I'd be getting rid of them as soon as possible. I'm not even talking about the PR blunder here: I'm talking about the fact that they are incompetent, and you never want incompetent legal advise.
I've opened a PR to clarify this: https://github.com/CoralineAda/contributor_covenant/pull/74
Its pretty clear that a person who would dedicate their young years to charity work, already have those qualities. I'm thinking she might have retains some fragments of that, as she worked at her real skills and donated significantly.
There's a website out there you can go look at, you know. With annual reports, links to published research papers, explanations of the research programs they conduct in collaboration with noted laboratories around the world, records from the scientific conferences held, news and press, and so on. It's no big secret - you don't have to ask me.

http://sens.org
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> People living longer = fewer births assuming stable population

That's a big assumption, and one that seems rather unlikely to hold or to suddenly change.

> You'd literally be trading a teenager's first crush for an 80-year old's third marriage.

If you're going to blatantly invoke imagery like that, then how about preserving the wisdom of experience? How much more might we advance the state of the art in every field if the experts in those fields are still around, healthy, and making new discoveries?

And there are plenty of 80-year-olds still enjoying their first marriage.

Youth is a wonder largely because of aging; eliminate aging and you get the pleasures of youth when you're a hundred.

Personally, I'm satisfied with "death is bad; stopping death would be good". Simplistic yet still incredibly true.
Two features to replace dragging:

1. Fade timeout on messages (10 to 20 seconds).

2. Clicking on a chat bubble needs to bring it to the front (change the z-index). Sometimes just want to read a specific message hidden behind another, and having to click to close gets tired fast. Extra bonus if future messages from the same person you've clicked on once always pop up on top of others in the area (or provide a little "pin" option in each chat bubble, but that will probably clutter too much).

And as a separate suggestion already mentioned by others:

3. The ability to toggle the enableHighAccuracy boolean. Exact street address is a little too creepy.
Show HN: Voice controlled app for listening to news while commuting
There are plenty of unskilled volunteers. The waste was a Stanford education, an enormous investment by our culture and by her family, to get her to the point where she ... drove a truck and handed out meals. That was arguably wasteful, self-indulgent and small-minded.
Compliance at speed
Chesterton reiterated similar ideas to this in several of his writings. I like this expanded metaphor, from the book Heretics:

'Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good—" At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.'
btw, I just changed the "e" folder to "examples" for readability.

That line should read "cd examples && make".
Still, the point is clear. This was a terrible waste of a Stanford education. Hundreds of thousands in public, private and family funds and now she's in a low-paying feel-good job that anybody could do.
There are truly a lot of reasons why exercise contributes to good mental health. One of them is that it helps produce the correct balance of hormones in your system, which in turn also impact the correct balance of neurotransmitters. It's very easy, especially for us coders, to forget that we're sitting all day. Sitting all day is far from natural and has a tremendous amount of health impact. Exercise is extremely beneficial.
I think he enjoys a challenge. Case in point, the last photo in this set:

http://projects.nytimes.com/interactive/sports/worldcup/spot...
Wow. This is next-level feedback.

I posted my MVP to show HN and got some sign-ups, but unfortunately limited feedback.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708353

Very, very valuable to see your thoughts on other projects!
Microsoft shipped Word without knowing an entire game was hidden in it. One bug slipping by is even easier. ;)
> Age-related disease is simply not an issue for the billions of young people suffering.

Cancer is closely related to the processes of aging, and aging research is highly likely to overlap with cancer prevention and treatment. (If only because the processes that cause cell aging and death are also the ones that prune potential cancer cells from the body.) So, aging research is also quite likely to help prevent childhood cancer or other early-onset cancers.

(That said, people always act shocked and appalled when cancer strikes those in their teens, 20s, and 30s, as though that's somehow worse than it hitting someone in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or older. I can't stand the phrase "before their time"; all deaths are too soon.)
Would you share one with mail@chrisvogt.me please? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
If you notice the outline of the ball has different size for each photo, this allows to identify a relative distance where the ball is compared to height of players
I think MicroPython would be the best fit for your requirements, both because of the REPL, which really simplifies programming, and because the simplicity of python(i heard of quite a few guys that couldn't manage c , but we're fine with python).

On the other hand, why not the arduino ? there's no build process , plenty of documentation and libraries, and a reasonable chance you'll find some design close to yours.
I'm guessing no one posted it because there was a whole section in the original article on GiveWell.
I'm just going to have to guess that you aren't very old. I'm only 47, but I have to tell you that at least for me life just keeps getting better every year. I wouldn't trade this year for another year of my teens. I wouldn't trade this year for 10 more years in my teens.

Gradually losing health is unfortunate. I have to watch what I eat and be careful with my lifestyle due to chronic illness. My vision has degraded pretty badly and I'm forced to use a really gigantic font when I'm programming (you don't want to know how much time I spend fiddling with my colours!). These things pale in comparison to simply knowing what makes me happy.

I've worked hard to learn to be happy. Again, at least for me, I don't think happiness is something that is given to you. It's something that you make yourself. I suppose some people have a talent for it, like everything else, but it's something that you can work on and get better at. Without trying to sound arrogant there is no way that a child can have the kind of happiness that I have every day, because they simply do not have the experience to do it. They have a tumble of conflicting emotions which they have no control over. You couldn't pay me to do that again.
Anecdotal, but we have seen a significant improvement in latency in our api response times after switching from Ruby 2.1 to 2.2. With 2.1 we could easily spot requests where the gc ran, but with 2.2 our requests are much more consistent.
I encouraged game developers in the past to use static analysis tools to help iron out more bugs. It's great to see Unreal Engine taking that step. A big name like this will hopefully inspire others to take the same step.
Bitcoin Block Size Debate: "Blockstream has a very serious conflict of interest"
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Bitcoin vs. Gold Overall Analysis
So, basically African-American owned beauty salons can't get credit even though they are clearly good for it since this business can happily carry out arbitrage against it.

Um, that's a pretty ringing indictment of capitalism, not an endorsement.
Are you using any specific criteria for which ones you review? Was there an initial post somewhere about your efforts here?

This is very cool to see. Thanks.
> This resonates with me. I remember reading of a Stanford graduate who was delivering meals to indigents in San Francisco and the Bay Area. I immediately thought: how selfish. To give up a possibly lucrative employment in finance, so she could personally experience charitable work, was a net loss to that organization. Why not work on Wall Street and donate 90% of her income instead?

I wouldn't go as far as "selfish"; it's suboptimal, but sometimes there's value in the experience for the person doing it. It depends on what you're seeking to get. I've seen it suggested to do some small fraction of direct charitable work for the experience, but then to do the most good, work and donate.

For my part, for instance, I donate a moderate amount to causes I find personally interesting (amateur space travel, Free Software projects, etc), but a much larger amount to projects with much larger potential impact to people's lives, such as SENS or (in the future) MIRI. The former I do because I find it fun and motivating; the latter I do because it's efficient and does more good.
Detroit's iconic Fisher Building up for auction
I just looked through Google Map's API licensing options. Obviously you may quickly max out your limit. It doesn't look like there's really an extended paid model to increase the limit by much? 100k requests is the only additional limit I see.

Does Google not offer much higher limits if you're willing to pay? I'd be curious to try a similar app, but it seems that popularity might kill one pretty quickly with such low API limits.
HeavyM: Ready-to-use projection mapping software
It's questionable that these comments were murder advocacy as opposed to political hyperbole.

But in any case, the slippery slope of interpretation would be a stifling of free-speech.
I noticed that while I was developing the script. I'm using annyang -- https://github.com/TalAter/annyang -- to interact with the web speech API, and it doesn't look like annyang is the one censoring the results, so it must be ... the API itself?
Well, depends on the question.

If it's a hard question, there are two options, if they know it already, great, I still would like to see it implemented.
If not then I would like to see how they ask me questions and respond to hints and I'll help them get to the solution. I don't expect them to do years of algorithmic research on the fly, no. Example will be

If it's an easier question, I do expect them to come up with a solution on their own even if they never heard of it. Example will be a 2 sum question. Or rotations a matrix (just examples, I'm not saying that this is what I ask)

Hope I clarified.
> Sending resumes will get you jobs, knowing people is not the only way.

Right now, yes. That was true in 1998, too. In 2001, if you didn't know someone you were welcome to wait in the unemployment line with everyone else. You don't need an account on some data-grubber, but I would suggest very strongly that you invest in some kind of professional network. That doesn't mean a web site, it means a group of people you've worked with who can vouch for your skills and would like to work with you again. There will come a time that you will be nowhere without it.
Protip: Refrain from pluralizing things with the letter Z if you would like to be taken seriously.
I'm sure it's an interesting book. My experience with logic programming, though, is that functional or high-level imperative programming are just easier to do real-world apps with. Anyone wanting to take a stab at logic programming might want to try Mercury [1], the most practical one. A common approach from AI days was implementing Prolog in a more complete language where you could use either depending on benefits. Allegro CL does this [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28programming_languag...

[2] http://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_prolog.lht...
Here is the key part of the response to Adam Back, founder of $20m funded BlockStream, who wrote a long post with lots of accusatory questions directed at Mike Hearn and by extension Gavin Andresen:

=== SNIP ===

- Did you accept payment from companies to lobby for 20MB blocks?

Oh please. Conspiracy theories, now, Adam? My position has been consistent
for years. I don't care whether the figure is 20 or something else (looks
like it'll be lucky 8 instead), but I have always been clear that the limit
must rise.

But for the avoidance of doubt: the answer is no.

Gavin is paid by MIT. The MIT deal gives Gavin complete independence.

I am currently self employed and most of income comes from a client that is
actually interested in Lighthouse. Luckily they have given me some leeway
to do general Bitcoin development as well, which this business falls under.
I would much rather be working on Lighthouse than this, and so would they.

But seeing as you've gone there - let me flip this around. Blockstream has
a very serious conflict of interest in this situation. I am by no means the
first to observe this. You are building two major products:

1. Sidechains, a very complex approach to avoid changing the Bitcoin
consensus rules to add new features.
2. Lightning, a so-called "layer two" system for transaction routing

No surprise, the position of Blockstream employees is that hard forks must
never happen and that everyone's ordinary transactions should go via some
new network that doesn't yet exist.

The problem is that rather than letting the market decide between ordinary
Bitcoin and Lightning, you are attempting to strangle the regular Bitcoin
protocol because you don't trust people to spontaneously realise that they
should be using your companies products.

I know that many of you guys had these views before joining Blockstream. I
am not saying you are being paid to have views you didn't previously have.
I realise that birds of a feather flock together.

Regardless, that conflict of interest DOES exist, whether you like it or
not, because if you succeed in running Bitcoin out of capacity your own
company stands to benefit from selling consulting and services around your
preferred solutions.

With respect to user rights: all the polling done so far suggests users who
are paying attention strongly support increasing the block size. For
example:

Q: "Should the bitcoin block size be raised in the next two years"
A: 92% yes

http://www.poll-maker.com/results329839xee274Cb0-12#tab-2
That is unbelievably messed up. The fear of swear words in american culture actually messing with APIs. I really hope this isn't what it looks like and someone is playing a prank somewhere.
Oh, great suggestion... and so obvious...
The Online Storage Gang (2006)
Red Hook Initiative Center did a wifi mesh network.

http://rhicenter.org/author/tony/

I like this kind of ideas.
There are +$5 billion invested in cancer research each year, this SENS charity has a budget of $4M a year. Basically $4M a year is not able to fund much at all.
We've been working hard on that one. One of our servers failed but it's behaving fine again. Really, really sorry about that, but take a look whenever you can!
I completely share the idea about reaching businesses early to generate traction, and I'm currently going that way with the B2B launch.

I'm looking to generate a few contracts before launching and run closed tests with these people in order to polish the product before making a public release of it.

I genuinely appreciate your comments, thanks!
There has been a lot of discussion over the past few months about this. The voting machines were created by a private company (MSA). The code was supposedly "open" but it was nowhere to be seen.

The machines basically print an electronic voting bill, that has an RFID chip which is reportedly vulnerable.
a2) Continue working the job for now, donate a substantial fraction of your income to charity, climb the ladder as rapidly as possible, and work to change the company in a direction you consider preferable if you think it's salvageable. (While there's a small set of jobs that are nearly irredeemable, such as the folks in a tobacco company or free-to-play gaming company researching how to make their product more addictive, there's a much larger set of jobs with a balance of questionable activities, with potentially some amount of influence over those activities.)

Interesting thought exercise: suppose you woke up tomorrow with the position (and requisite skills and connections) of running a company most people would consider irredeemable, such as a tobacco company. Could you, within a reasonable number of years, turn them into a well-respected company that's a net positive influence on society (and not just by dismantling them and donating the results)? I'd bet I could, within 8-10 years. (A bit less for a company for which the plan doesn't involve a few components of scientific research and advancement.)