skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because being a non native English speaker I had to read instructions and had to swipe left and right at least ten times on my phone (and for what? For a game which IMO is nothing new...).

Also being the page just a half dozen of divs making it responsive would have been totally trivial, so why not bother?
They are probably doing the credit checks themselves, by aggregating a bunch of public and or private data and doing the analysis on their own.
Note that if you use RHEL7/CentOS7, that CURL itself might be the bottleneck (or versions of curl around 7.29)

They basically decided to make the polling in CURL a blocking delay, simply waiting 150ms between attempts for things like fetching DNS, if it misses the first window, it waits another 150ms, etc.

So a 1ms DNS request from the local dns resolver might take 300ms+

https://ckon.wordpress.com/curl-broken-centos7-rhel7

The most easy way you can solve this is by using the binary-compatible RPMs of CURL from fedora 19 which were further patched by Redhat.

Otherwise you officially have to wait for RHEL 7.2 / CentOS 7.2 at the end of this year:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130239

Improved wait times in libcurl
Libcurl used an unnecessarily long blocking delay for actions with no active file descriptors,
even for short operations. This meant that some actions
(such as resolving a hostname using /etc/hosts) took an artificially long time to complete.
The blocking code in libcurl has now been modified so that the initial delay is short,
and gradually increases until an event returns. Fast libcurl operations now complete more quickly.
It's a technology that you need to be rather firm in to use it. There are many tools, but often they are a little "hacky" to non programmers. That's why it gets more and more replaced by the FB chats, Whatsapps, Skypes, and Snapchats of this world. The same goes for email. Email will die a slow death. Maybe even your children can still build a career out of email know-how. But it's more and more replaced by other technologies. Just look at China were people all didn't know the internet in its youth. The first contact to internet most of the Mainland Chinese had was with mobile solutions like QQ (their ICQ copycat). For them email is like a harder way to do the same thing that you could do just as well with Wechat/QQ. So even the most serious of corps in China have Wechat/QQ support and phone, but they might not even have an email support. This will come to us, too. Just slower because people know email already.
I just use these http://i.imgur.com/sghAbky.jpg (MS Ergo 4000) everywhere, they are sufficiently well built for the price point that I have one at home, one at the office and a spare in the closet in case either breaks.

with the wrist lift on the front they allow an entirely natural posture which I've found a big benefit, especially as I have a back condition so a relaxed neutral position is a big win.

It's a shame they seem to be replacing them in favour of a moderner version with chiclet style keys.
Well, nowadays klarna is offering more payment options other than invoice, and that's (one) way to build clients' database. If for example, you used credit card, perhaps you'll be eligible for invoice the next time you pay.
I wonder how much of this is simply a function of the massive overpopulation of graduate programs and the growing need to fill out CVs with publications? I know that this has been happening for years in the form of obscure journals that no one reads or cares about.
There is some interesting research made into this:

Dietrich, A (2004) The cognitive neuroscience of creativity [1]
Dietrich, A (2004) Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the experience of flow [2]

Both of these papers are easy to read.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03196731#page-1
[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810004000583
And all this is still cheaper than buying magnets!
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Particularly since it's not dead print, you can have hovertext or a link to the expanded text without it taking up more space.
GitTip is now Gratipay, correct?
Before YouTube and online classes, there were the Great Courses
A mere 70 years ago Jews were being chased through Europe and killed like dogs. My only point was that there are bigger problems than racism. The roots may be from Jim Crow and such but the lack of progress is disheartening and seemingly intractable.
> Also before WWII, anti-semitism was much more widespread in the US than after it.

Exactly. And this is what Hollywood has been rewriting the whole time in WW2 movies, to make the US seem like the good guys against the Evil Himself, while the reality at the time was way more nuanced.

On top of that, the horror of the concentration camps was not well known to the public during the war, and was mostly a post-war phenomenon (with many folks not believing such stories at first, until the evidence became overwhelming).
Exactly. And this is somehow acceptable, or even "industry standard" today.
I think it's pretty clear from context that the author is referring to junk scholarship, or something pretty close to it.

If a book really is written and then forgotten by the world, it was never a serious part of the discussion. And a discussion, however small, is what academia is.
There's no need to fly. Use Interlibrary Loan to get a copy of the book.

It's weird but true that it's often cheaper for me to make an ILL request through my local library than it is to get a copy from the publisher. The only difference is that ILL request may take a week or three to fulfill.
Here's a start: https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls
The whole point of the AGPL is to ensure that derivative works give users the exact same rights that they were intended to have. It doesn't make the code less usable unless you'd like to make a proprietary derived work.
Europeans have a cartoon understanding of the US, which is why they actually worry that they will be carjacked when they visit.
There is no nuance in gas chambers.
> The alternative to these $150 books is not $7.50 books. It is "no book."

I disagree. One alternative, for instance, is online publication of a .pdf. These are available to anyone, regardless of location, time zone, or ability to pay.
Just carefully back up you claims and nobody on HN will harm you. Being offended by mainstream media and believing you alone know the truth while all other follow the government like sheep is usually the narrative of actual racists.
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It's a sort of plastic plunger. You load the caged magnet into the plunger and stick it in the back of the cows mouth. Press the plunger and the cow swallows it.

Kind of like giving your pet a tablet, but bigger.
There is technically a pretty significant difference between

+
function add(x, y) { return x + y; }

in general in strict, effectful languages. The transformation is called "eta expansion" (technically, I performed two eta expansions and an un-currying) and we really would like it to be valid—it implies conceptual freedom to introduce and eliminate abstractions, but it rarely is. The issue being that it introduces thunks where computation or effects can hide.
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kde-open exists, too ;)
Gallery as an API
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Perhaps the author of an editorial in a British newspaper is aware of the draconian libel laws in the UK, and doesn't want to name names to avoid a likely lawsuit?
That game is horribly inaccurate. I downloaded it just now and on my first run it said I typed 185 words per minute average. That is over three words per second and I was typing nowhere close to that. More like 30 WPM while on a real keyboard I max out at 160 WPM with an average of 142.
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Fortunately this is knowable because sticking magnets in cows is something that we've done for many, many years. So we know what it costs and how effective it is.

Whereas a robot to solve the problem doesn't yet exist. And the important bit here is to realize what the word "solve" means here.

I'm not saying a workable solution will never exist, but in order to be as effective it would need to be orders of magnitude better at its job than a roomba is at its job. And what the roomba does isn't very hard to begin with. You would have to cover a very large area of sometimes pretty rough terrain every N days, and you would need to have a very high success rate at both detection and removal for the solution to be able to compete with the established practices.

To understand the problem I can only recommend spending some time on a farm where they keep grazing cattle.
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I also got one for a small fortune, $500 (at the time I was a student) of ebay.

I tried to use it but it felt unnatural, especially since I have small hands it required some effort to my fingers to hit the north switch. I kept it as it looks very cool but I guess I'll probably sell it since I have no use for it.
The disk image is available via their website but requires your VIN number. I poked around a past update and it appeared to just be a *nix disk image.

Wasn't sure if it was signed or if there was much security or not so I wasn't brave enough to change anything for fear of borking my car.

But I would have loved to figure out how to enable the nav system that's already built into my car but disabled (Jeep charges $XXXX for the privilege)
Interesting. This seems like more of a support structure for direct democracy then a final solution.
Well, there was a price-fixing cartel that was investigated in 2002 and punished in 2003-5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing .
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No problem! You had a great idea and I'll look forward to see it completed, I'll help as much as I can.
I love how the cartoon at the top of the page shows two "indie-developer" looking characters in all their idiosyncratic glory, but then lower on the page the user profile photo is of some corporate tool looking guy. It's kinda like the the joke that is "tipping culture". One supposes it is to show sincere gratitude and be merit based, but almost inevitably it ends up being like any other economic exchange, just providing cover for employers who are unwilling to provide a fair wage to their employees. GitHub is already populated with code generated on the unacknowledged narrative of "free ($) OSS". This seems to provide some whitewash.
Reddit Gold isn't really the same; the recipient doesn't really get anything other than warm fuzzies out of it. It's more a way to support Reddit itself financially while dispensing a few of the said fuzzies on the side.

I've had minor contact with a BTC-based tipping system on Reddit, and to be honest it both annoyed me and creeped me out. I forget the name of it, but there was a period where it kept spamming me with "FooUser has tipped you $UTTERLY_DERISORY_AMOUNT, go to $SUSPICIOUS_THIRD_PARTY_SITE and connect up your identities on umpty-zillion different sites to claim it" notifications. I'm not sure who was supposed to benefit in this scenario, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't me.
Better would be to have the car perform the validation. I'd be shocked if this didn't actually happen.
I'm gathering feedback for new project. I was so disapponted by current state of APIs for accessing Dropbox, Flickr and others that I decided to roll an aggregator.

You can't expose Dropbox/Flickr gallery on your static website, as you'd have to expose your private API key.

UPSTA would do that for you and just provide publicly consumable endpoint.

Would you consider paying for this service ?
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In the US, there is an organization called Big Brother / Big Sister. Basically, it enables an adult to make a difference in a child's life. Typically, the child does not have a father, and the Big Brother/Sister will spend a few hours a week with the child.

A friend of mine was a Big Sister to a girl. When the friend moved out of the city to the burbs (got mugged one too many times), they had the little sister (the girl) help them move.

The girl was shocked to find out that you could own a home. She thought that the gov't just provided that sort of thing. You see, she exists in this subculture that not only has lost the skills needed for success, but who are punished by the gov't programs that support them if they attempt to follow more successful life strategies.

If you are on assistance and get married, you lose it. If you get a job, your assistance is reduced. And so on.
I don't think it can work. Tipping systems require someone to think about whether they want to tip.

The alternative is what I call "microsubscription": a middleman takes a single fixed subscription, then distributes on behalf of users. Examples include Amazon Underground, Apple Music, Spotify, Netflix, Google Contributor and so on.

Where these fall down is that they're walled or semi-walled gardens. They don't really work on the open web, users have to be funnelled through some central pipeline for reliable tracking of usage.

Which is understandable: open web schemes up until now have had the problem of fraud. Manageable but potentially fatally expensive and offputting.

I'm interested in this problem space for two reasons. First, advertising sucks. It distorts the vision that the early internet held out. We got linkbait and exploitatively addictive web design instead.

Second, I solved the problem of reliably tracking visits to websites on the open web (patent granted in Australia, pending in the USA). As a side effect, the same protocol can be used in apps, games, API calls -- anything that has a network request-response system with some kind of command channel (especially headers). Plus it can seamlessly integrate with paywalls.

Of the microsubscription providers already in service, the one I worry about most is Blendle, because it presents no upfront mental barrier to consumption. On the other hand, it's another walled garden. We'll see.
What about the patents? I'm sure you couldn't just copy it and there's somebody out there that Datahand owes money that will want a piece.
I was obviously not talking about that part. And as I mentioned the reality of gas chambers was not widely known during the war.
I can confirm this is how it is done. (I've done it a few times myself)

The one I used looks a bit like this one:

http://www.kruuse.com/en/ecom/Hest_produktionsdyr/Vommagnete...
About 2004, I reached a stall state. I did some serious wilderness time and it took about six years to settle down into a new zone.

This was the trigger for me: (1) I had a development career where I tried to build every application centred around databases; (2) I now had enough experience under my belt to join the dots on where this ended up, and to see that this was futile. But I wasn't able to see past my everything-is-a-hammer.

There is a technique I took a lot of value from in moving on, and I still use it most days. It is this: think hard, ten times, about a problem that is tickling you. I went through a notation phase, but now I just type out my stream of conscious into a text document.

In the past, I would have spent a year building the first thing that came into my house. Now I can consider a large number of ideas, and have context for judging them to be good or bad ideas. The first thing I invest development energy in is significantly better than it would otherwise have been.

It's cool too in that you don't need to be at your desk to do it. You can be in a restaurant, or sitting on the beach, or on the bus, or on an exercise bike. My favourite spot at the moment is lying on a couch. The good thing about doing it away from your desk is it takes away the pressure to rush through the uncertainty.

"choreographing 3 enterprise systems to work together"

How do you think about message-passing between them? Why do you do it that way? Think ten times about different approaches you could use. You could use the exercise to force you to question your passive assumptions. You may find that you are scared by uncertainty. Your subsconscious could choose to fix on something familiar, than to admit that it does not know. All the more reason to do this away from your desk. Take a walk.

Feel free to ping me via my account email if you want to discuss your situation in more detail.
Same thing for shells (bash, zsh, fish): https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
Look at IPython and DrRacket to see why inline images can be useful in REPLs. With DrRacket you can not only view, but also create and combine images one step at the time, always seeing the latest form of it. And then you naturally end up with a script for doing the transformations needed to get your desired result.

In short: the time savings introduced by shortening the feedback loop tend to add up. There is a reason why Web developers now use auto-reloading solutions, despite the fact that it saves "just one keystroke" (F5 in this case).
I'd like to try one of these: http://keyboard.io.

Fairly expensive though, so I'd want to try one before parting with cash.
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HN discussion of The Guardian's anonymous, fact-free editorial can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176642
I wonder if safety is also a factor seeing that liquid nitrogen to gas expansion ratio is 1:696 and liquid hydrogen is a whopping 1:851.
Somebody has to actually pay for journalism.
Some of the debris is intentional, like barb wire which those magnets accumulate a fair amount of.
Many many thanks, from the description, it sounds exactly like the book I was looking for.
For scale: http://media-channel.nationalgeographic.com/media/uploads/ph...
The alternative is absolutely not "no book". Academic books can do extremely well as ebooks.

I'm cofounder of Leanpub, and some of our bestselling books (https://leanpub.com/bookstore/earnings_in_last_7_days/all/al...) are academic books about data science written by professors. This includes our #1 book this week (https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience).

These books have free minimum prices, $15 or so suggested prices, and do very well for their authors -- both by royalties earned and by number of copies sold.

The key point here is that if you're typically earning $10 or more in royalties (yes, royalties) per paid book sale, then a few thousand book sales can add up to being meaningful, fast. And yes, this can even happen with academic books that have a free minimum price...
It really is simpler, easier and cheaper to give the cows these magnet boluses.

- The magnets cost less than a dollar each once you're buying a couple of hundred. You can outfit a herd of probably 4-500 animals for the replacement cost of one cow.

- It takes less than a minute to administer each one

- I have never seen one passed into dung or regurgitated into the feed/bedding areas

A drone could perhaps scout a field, but it's challenging terrain:
- You are looking for metal from the size of a paperclip up to the size of a large pack of gum across hundreds of acres of land

- You are searching in tangled grass (or other forage crop)

- How will the drone collect the items? Do you want a farm worker to come and collect each piece? They can be very hard to see.

As someone who has experience in this area (and likes his fancy tech) I honestly believe that the current tiered state is quite effective:

1. Metal detectors in foraging machinery. This stops and reverses the field machinery whenever it picks up something. You hop out of the tractor and fetch out the offending article. This gets the larger items

2. Magnets in feeder machines. This is one hell of a magnet that sits somewhere in the machine used to dispense feed. It picks up smaller items that may have bypasses the field kit. It once took me 5 minutes to get a screwdriver unstuck when installing one of these.

3. Magnets in cows. The items from the linked article.

EDIT: The ones I have seen are caged magnets which trap any metal inside a plastic cage, further removing pointed bits. Image search for "bovine caged magnet" shows different types.
You can get virtually all safety features from today in a car a decade old, it just cost more then and was optional so you have to look for the options.
I think I read a few days ago when lithium is added to graphene it does something like that, only discovered recently.

I don't think graphene was superconductive until this lithium method was discovered or maybe this allows it to be super conductive a a higher temperature.
My last car the power steering pump was out half the time and I could still drive everywhere - it just gave my arms a bit of a workout at low speeds.
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The Ergo 4000 is the keyboard that made me rage quit Microsoft keyboards. As far as I'm concerned it's the inflection point of the race to the bottom in the MS keyboard group. Bad key travel, bad decisions about keyboard layout, generally crappy build quality.

MS keyboards are frustrating. Their latest attempt at an ergo had a lot of promise, but they nerfed the function and escape keys to the point of unusabiity. (I know that F-keys are awful, but all of the software I use is addicted to them, so...)

I would pay quite a bit of money for a keyboard that didn't suck.

I just want a vanilla split keyboard with decent key travel. And it looks like I'm going to have to start building keyboards myself to get one.
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It is pretty cool but not really serverless, you are still handling http requests via Amazon API gateway and in general you are relying and paying for quite a lot of Amazon services.
Not sure how much better this approach is to serving image magic via PHP for example, it would be good to see some numbers.
I think most Europeans know, that most places in the US are safe.

For me the difference is, that I live in the most dangerous city in Germany (statistic inflated due to giant airport) and would still walk through every street here at any time. I do not think that I would do the same in some parts of LA. So maybe my understanding of LA is a bit cartoonish - and granted you do not walk in LA anyway.
It sounds like what they are referring to is a course reader published by their own university.
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The crazy thing is that FB and Google used XMPP (Google still may, but had disabled their servers from accepting outside traffic) earlier.

I used to have Pidgin running hooked up to Facebook so i could say a bit in touch with family.

But with the economic downturn everyone has gone back to building silos, in an attempt at maintaining profits/growth...
Tipping is the wrong model... would you tip an oncologist who gave you a second opinion for free? Nope. You would just be very grateful.
Indeed, incorporating new evidence into existing beliefs, albeit without involving statistics, was described by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century.

I don't know the exact history, but I suspect that people were doing quantitative science before we developed a good grasp of statistics.

Also, both Kuhn and Popper endeavored to describe science as it was already being done.
"Europeans have a cartoon understanding of the US"

Unfortunately that appears to work both ways.