skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm left wing, to me smoking is bad, there is just no fucking excuse. People can smoke, but it's a luxury and it comes with a price.

What happens to heroin addicts when the regular dealer go to prison ? They stop using.

It's a shitty situation in every way. There is just no way you can defend a lower tax on cigaret, except maybe if you're anti government. People will choose to buy food and rent before buying cigarets. At least it will reduce their smoking habits.

It's not just about funding government, it's also about discouraging people from buying cigarets. I honestly don't see any other way. Prohibiting would not work, it's a matter of game theory and a fine balance between smuggling cigarets and people buying them.

And honestly the cigaret tax paid is nothing compared to other taxes.
I think the issue is permissions. Since the browser is creating and writing to files. I was having this problem and changing the permissions on the target directory to 777 fixed the problem.
"Looks like the current Australian and Canadian governments (Harper) want to fall into the extraction-economy trap and giving incentive to clever people to move elsewhere."

People will move away from Australia because there they would have to pay for their solar systems out of their own pockets?
Yes it seems you are correct about the polls, and I agree the position of the Liberals is only going to weaken along with the economy.
The communication channel does get slower. The good news is that applications are often I/O bound: lots of comms can happen between such activity if designed for that. One trick used in the 90's was to modify a processor to greatly reduce both context switching and message passing overhead. A similar thing could be done today.

Of course, if one can modify a CPU, I'd modify it to eliminate the need for message-passing microkernels. :)
Neutron electric dipole moment
Actually Saudi Arabia is planning to install huge amount of solar. Mainly because they want to sell more of the black stuff abroad rather than use it internally.
Because we don't always source a shell script, you may need to source functions for certain functionality to work.
We realize, we're just doing something different than you are.
I think the team rolling in the money while delivering nothing was probably their end game. HURD's end game was delivering something that worked. In that case, the DNF team owns. :P
Not so sure about the "still". There was a fork and a change of developers somewhere along those 10 years.
Its a command line shell for the nineties, not from the nineties.
How long will renewables need subsidies? Does anyone have a study that projects this?
Open source is about whatever the developers want it to be about. They can be building it for themselves, for users, or for some weighted combination of both.
Start your Scala Restfull Api with asynchronous back end and swagger in minutes
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Users flagged them. User flags cause a post to rank lower; also, when enough users flag a post, the software kills it. We review those and usually unkill the ones that have an ongoing discussion (so discussion can continue), but don't usually override the rank penalty. That's what we've done with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872149.

Please don't make posts to HN about HN post rankings. It's off topic, and the HN guidelines ask you not to do it, but rather to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. We can't always answer right away, but we do answer, and if something needs to happen we'll usually take care of it sooner. For example, we got an email about the same post last night and although I haven't had time yet to answer the email, I did unkill the post right away. User flags ended up killing it again (I made a mistake and didn't turn that off), but that's atypical.
Unless the inventor got his inspiration for the technique from the movie, the phrase, "Inspired by Terminator 2" just becomes an outright falsehood and click-bait. Has our society become so pop-culture driven that even news outlets like the Washington Post has to do this?
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I've been trying to do this for a long time, but I have to admit something rather peculiar about my frustrating attempts to do so.

I started a company with my brother in 2010. It involves websites, and it takes up about 10-20 hours of our time per year. It costs us about $150/mo to run and earns us anywhere from $1000-$2400/mo (probably $1,600/mo average). It's earned around the same income for about 3 years, and before that it earned $400-$800/mo for most of time during the first 2 years.

We could continue working hard to increase the amount our business earns, perhaps until it reaches $8,000-$10,000/mo (very realistic, but would require about 2 man months or so each), but for some reason neither of us are ever excited to work on it. In his spare time, he's busy doing his stuff (completely unrelated work), and I'm busy working on the next big thing (creating an SaaS, or at least trying to determine one to work on). It's really stupid, because we have this boring thing that earns us huge returns on our time invested, and currently pays us nearly $1,000/mo each for doing basically nothing, but we somehow find every excuse to work on something more exciting with little monetary returns, or perhaps simply scratching our own itches.

I think the lesson you can take from this (which I clearly haven't learned) is that you shouldn't seek to "create a SaaS", necessarily. Instead, figure out the path of lease resistance to the dollars you want, and don't worry about the "passive" nature of it. You can automate things later, in theory. Worry first about finding easy money. It really is out there.

I know that money isn't everything, but it is pretty important. If you have passive income coming in, you can work on all the fun and world changing projects (or charity, etc.) you want, and all without worrying about going broke.
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Talk to a lawyer, but in the US it depends on the state you live in. In CA I believe you own things done on your own time and equipment. (In WA, not so much).
Subsidising the research of solar panels sounds like it might be a good idea, but subsidising the installation of solar panels... I don't see the use in that. Could you explain why you think subsidising the installation of solar panels is a good thing?
That is a very strange comment to make if you mean the Irish kind.
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> filled with progressive, intelligent people.

How did that government get elected then?
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Yes and without going that far in time XAML, WPF or silverlight
Another one is Poll Bludger which also has running analysis:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/
A password manager really needs to be a high-availability service -- it should work even (especially) when AWS is down. Since our service (intentionally) does not cache secret data on the client, running a proxy is not substantially easier than running our service. Plus we'd have to write this proxy :)
Both London and Hong Kong have many curb signs everywhere warning tourists to look right for cars.
The code is open sourced as GPL3, you should be able to run your own server pretty easily. Please let us know if you have issues.

https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro
You want $CDPATH for that in Bash.
Would you draw the line at selling drugs to some junkies?
GPUs have already transitioned away from VLIW to scalar architectures. At least on the desktop front. They may still exist in mobile GPUs.
I live in an urban area, I would be more correct to say I am surrounded by progressive, intelligent people.

Australia is more conservative that either New Zealand or Britain, and the previous Labour government (and current opposition) are categorically hopeless.
Fair use would seem to apply under most interpretations regardless (excerpts and quotations for the purposes of illustration are generally held to be covered), but you really can't say that for sure until the courts decide. There's nothing you can do to keep a rights holder from dragging you through court.
Sod 'em. Downvotes don't make you wrong, just in a minority.

Anyway, this HN set-up has more rules than you can shake a stick at. You're better off elsewhere.

"Community" my ass
Why not sell it to someone who wants to invest the time and sees the potential?
There's traveling abroad and then there's travelling to SE Asia (Bali). Which is just another place to get drunk. If you're in America or Europe the cost of travel prohibits most drunk idiots getting there.

On another note, the current government has taken every opportunity to move away from innovation. Just a few things they have done is deny climate change, abandoning the national broadband network and allow a giant coal mine to be dug in the middle of prime farming land. Meta Data retention, Citizen stripping legislation (its a privilege not a right!); and more.

The next election can not come fast enough for us. But the real cost is the damage this general trend does for research. Scientists don't look at Australia for opportunity anymore, they just leave.
> I think part of my problem was the barrier to contribution was really low

Interesting. I was just the other day wondering if a github mirror of the OpenBSD ports tree existed. In my searching, I found this thread[1] in which Ted Unangst sort of alluded to the same idea:

github is all about social coding and they have a point. But many
of the things they enable are considered antisocial in the OpenBSD
development process.

[1] http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/OpenBSD-on-GitHub-...
I'm not overly concerned with subsidising residential solar, however I think subsidising research and innovation in solar, wind, and other alternate energy systems is worthwhile and funds like this are one way of stimulating a market.

Also, you changed your question as I answered it.
Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 might have left the solar system but we don't know where they are...
I've also used Mitro ever since I first saw it, and I'm really sad to see it go (had plans to implement the server in python, but at the risk of overseing a security flaw I opted not to)

Lately I've been looking at pass[0], do any of you have experience running this (with git)?

[0] http://www.passwordstore.org/
Dynamic form placeholders. Thoughts?
I don't find this kind of comment very helpful. You can't be slightly more charitable to the positions of a government a majority of your fellow citizens voted for? You don't have to agree with them, but you can attempt to understand why they might hold those views without needing to be racist or stupid.

I'm not keen on many of the positions of President Obama, Harry Reid or Rand Paul, but I wouldn't describe them as "mouth breathers" on HN.
In both NC and WI where I work it's true that you own your side projects given the caveats above. I assumed it was most states so I'm surprised to see WA is different.
List comprehensions are more direct, support more than just a function call, and in py3 map returns an iterable instead of a list (granted, easily solvable by list(map()) but it's an extra concern)

List comprehensions are the very recommended strategy for constructing python lists, not to mention they're simply a fantastic language feature. Very direct, readable, and hard to get wrong.

Python loses out a lot on it's functional sorts of functions (filter, map) because you can't use method chaining on a list for them, imo
The conversation thread with youtube is also interesting: https://t.co/CNZQIz78hU.
If you read the article, this is a profitable investment, not a subsidy.
You decouple power supply from concentrated sources, this reduces the need for centralised base load power generation.

There are also gains in the community by establishing buy in from home owners, The concepts of sustainability are easier to grasp if its on your roof and you get a return on your investment.

And why not spend the tax money on this!
My main gripe with 'BASH scripts' is that in most cases they could simply be 'Shell scripts' and in most cases they call and require Bash for no reason at all ;)
Something like this has existed for Polymer.js for a while now called Polymer Designer - https://polymer-designer.appspot.com/

I think as web components start to become standardized we'll see more and more of these types of tools that make it easy to click interface elements together using a GUI.
It's more acceptable for women to wear sandals to work than men
This business isn't the kind of company a VC would invest in, which means it's also not the kind of company that somebody would see and think, "We could blow this thing sky high!" (unless $8-10k/mo is sky high). It does have great potential, but there is no chance of it growing exponentially (like a social network or other highly successful SaaS). Because of this, I couldn't imagine getting more than 3 years revenue for it, and it's such a consistent income earner that it's not something I would want to sell for less than (perhaps) 8 years revenue.
The "extraction-economy trap" comment reminded me of Jared Diamond's book Collapse. It has a chapter titled "Mining Australia", which starts like this:

> Mining in the literal sense -- i.e. the mining of coal, iron, and so on -- is a key to Australia's economy today, providing the largest share of its export earnings. In a metaphorical sense, however, mining is also key to Australia's environmental history and to its current predicament. That's because the essence of mining is to exploit resources that do not renew with time, and hence to deplete those resources. Since gold in the ground doesn't breed more gold and one thus has no need to take account of gold renewal rates, miners extract gold from a gold lode as rapidly as is economically feasible, until the lode is exhausted. Mining minerals may thus be contrasted with exploiting renewable resources -- such as forests, fish, and topsoil -- that do regenerate themselves by biological reproduction or by soil formation. Renewable resources can be exploited indefinitely, provided that one removes them at a rate less than the rate at which they regenerate. If however one exploits forests, fish, or topsoil at rates exceeding their renewal rates, they too will eventually be depleted to extinction, like the gold in a gold mine.

> Australia has been and still is "mining" its renewable resources as if they were mined minerals. That is, they are being overexploited at rates faster than their renewal rates, with the result that they are declining. At present rates, Australia's forests and fisheries will disappear long before its coal and iron reserves, which is ironic in view of the fact that the former are renewable but the latter aren't.

> While many other countries today besides Australia are mining their environments, Australia is an especially suitable choice for this final case study of past and present societies, for several reasons. It is a First World country, unlike Rwanda, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and China, but like the countries in which most of the likely readers of this book live. Among First World countries, its population and economy are much smaller and less complex than those of the U.S., Europe, or Japan, so that the Australian situation is more easily grasped.

(i've typed this out manually from my copy of the book, any stupid typos are my fault, etc)
Why you can't choose a username when signing up via Facebook/Google+ and why when you change your username, your profile URL does not update accordingly?!
> Oh, you mean scientists can still do things like that, and that cat GIFs don't prevent it? Shut your mouth!

If, as you indicate yourself, the Internet could still be used for science whether or not it also delivers videos of cats, then why would scientists have fooled themselves into thinking the Internet must be 'highbrow'?

Did they use a 'highbrow' telephone system before that? Did they use 'highbrow paper' while the hoi polloi read their garbage dailies? No, the Internet is a tool just as paper and telecommunications were.

What people do with that tool is up to them, but the tool itself won't raise the nature of discourse just by being, anymore than a really nice socket wrench will magically make the beams and struts of a building stronger.

I'm glad the title was revised again because the previous version was practically a contradiction in terms.
I still have hope in this company.

That's good I suppose. But I've heard from people in Schaumburg that there are more layoffs coming. I know a guy who took a severance package, rather than wait it out.

Just saying... at least get your resume ready, and work out now who you'll want to use for references.

The Chicago area used to be a tech hub, especially with regards to telecom. It is shocking how much has changed in the last 15 years.
Honestly, had I been interviewing at Amazon, I'd have hired you. But I'm not. :).

But you may have caught a lucky break in not being hired (see comments on work culture).
It's a pretty sad situation here in Australia.

The government is completely backwards but brilliant at demonising and wedging the main opposition party on a range of issues: national security, energy policy, human rights, immigration, law (ably assisted by the dominant Murdoch papers). So what is happening is the opposition party is capitulating on pretty much everything hoping that they will survive until the next election (which polls indicate they will win).
Agreed! Downvoting ruins everything. Not sure what HN gains from it other than leaving a bitter taste in the mouth after somebody dares to post unpopular opinions!
Australian's hey. I'm one, and Australian politics reminds me of all those things P.J. O'Rourke wrote.

"In the 2,500-year history of democracy since ancient Athens, a few politicians have arisen who more or less could be trusted with great powers, up to a point, briefly, in times of dire crisis, sort of."

Another of my favourites: "
Individual politicians can’t save us either. Democracy means electing people. Politicians are the people who get elected. I’ve spent some time with politicians. I like politicians. I’m friends with politicians from both sides of the aisle. Politicians are fine until they stick their noses into things they don’t understand, such as most things. Then politicians turn into rachet-jawed purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind. They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the doors of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy-coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people’s money. They are lapdogs of demagoguery returning to the vomit of collectivism. They are pig herders tending that sow who eats her young, the welfare state. They are muck-dwelling bottom feeders growing fat on the worries and disappointments of the electorate. They are the ditch carp in the great river of democracy. And that’s what one of their friends says."

"The American political system is like a gigantic Mexican Christmas fiesta. Each political party is a huge piñata - a papier-mâché donkey, for example. The donkey is filled with full employment, low interest rates, affordable housing, comprehensive medical benefits, a balanced budget and other goodies. The American voter is blindfolded and given a stick. The voter then swings the stick wildly in every direction, trying to hit a political candidate on the head and knock some send into the silly bastard."

I think Australia has managed to get by as well as it has in spite of it's more recent politicians not because of them, along with some favourable economic circumstances, which the current set of silly bastards appears to be doing their utmost undo. I'm not so concerned though because not only are politicians generally incompetent they're also mostly impotent and economics tends to exhibit some cyclical behaviour regardless of what this weeks politicians are up to.
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Seems like Timor-Leste (East Timor) may have changed over more times than any other country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

East Timor had traffic on the left until 1928, when it changed to the right at the same time as its colonial power, Portugal. During Japanese occupation during World War II driving on the left was imposed, and when the Portuguese returned it changed back to the right. Under Indonesian rule, East Timor changed back to driving on the left in 1976, and continued the practice under UN administration from 1999 and since independence in 2002.
Subsidising renewable energy is one thing, but this idea of decentralised energy production is just plain stupid. We should spend more money on research, i.a. on fusion power, and a lot less on subsidies.
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Fool I am, I'm doing this on hard mode, by starting a year after our first child arrived.

It's hard work, and not earning me any money so far because I'm still working on the MVP, but I hope to get there sooner or later. Most of the work so far is the odd hour here and there in the evening, and a few hours a week during my commute.

I am however greatly reassured by a colleague who is doing the same thing with an iOS app which is bringing in a reasonable amount of money - he works on it during his lunch break most days.
About 1: all of your experiences still hold today. A friend of mine started a file hosting business on the side when he was still in elementary school. Much like yours, it quickly became popular in one small community, and then spread out of that. Today, 8 or so years later, he has quit to work full time on it and he works on it... a lot.

"Easily scalable" only works to a point, then it quickly becomes expensive unless you create a solution tailored specifically for your problems, at which point you're negating the "easily" part again.
I'm not a citizen of Australia, they didn't win a majority they won a plurality, and regardless I don't feel any compunction when describing Abbott as a mouth breather.

As I explained clearly in my comment, I have never experienced anything like the paucity of talent in Australian politics. I'm capable of disagreeing with the government of the day while respecting the intelligence or talent at play.

I'm perfectly comfortable with my description of Abbott and I stand by it.
UReddit does, but may not be a great example because I received permission to use the logo in a private conversantion with hueypriest years ago (as long as I didn't try to monetize the project).
asking the same question twice is not necessarily a mistake, specially if they it has been reformulated.
The majority of the population did not vote for the complete undermining of the clean energy sector in Australia. We were promised a moderate, consultative government with "no surprises" as Tony Abbott once put it. A country with such a rich history of scientific innovation deserves so much better.
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Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?
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Why? SourceForge reputation is essentially lost. And acquisition costs are high, so its likely out of crowdfunding range.

Yet, cloning its content would be a better idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9789960
Open source is about the idea that information should be free -- That wondrous things can be built when we are free to build upon the work of others.

Users are people who benefit from the fact that we've generously offered the results of our work without expectation of pay.

It has been my experience that those customers/clients who pay the most are the least demanding. Which is the primary reason that I generally only work on proprietary systems now.

Because as renumeration approaches zero, hassle approaches infinity.
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I am Australian. I think our current government is utterly lamentable, but that we get the government we deserve, and it reflects poorly upon us.

If we want a better government we need to do something about it.