skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss the mainframe and thin clients. I really do. I miss when IT workers were white collar workers, not the now-expected know everything from cabling to programming crap that has become the hallmark of current HR demands. It's one thing to be well rounded, but very, very few people know all of the "skills" expected these days. I know of very, very few people who are both competent systems administrators and yet stellar programmers.

I know my opinion on the above is largely in the minority of IT pros, but I really disdain how IT is shaping up. Nothing seems concrete like it used to. It's difficult to put what I mean into mere words, but those who have been in this industry across three decades like I have will understand, even if they don't necessarily agree. I miss when IT was "magic" to most people. I miss feeling like I was accomplishing something rather than putting out fires because the pointy heads are making yet another useless change because they saw it at some C-title conference. I miss the absolute rock-solid performance of mainframes. I miss being able to deploy a new diskless client in 30 seconds with NFS running on a Solaris E10K. I miss running FreeBSD on Netra 1Us that never went down. I miss never having to be around a Windows environment. IT is a mess. I loathe BYOD, BYOT. Just my opinion. Not bitter, just worried a bit.
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology: Audio Archive
This looks like a good balance of usability and functionality. The minimalist tutorial videos were helpful.

I have used inShort, iThoughts and MagicalPad for mindmap-like issue tracking on iOS. Glad to see that arbitrary cross-branch links are possible, to supplement the tree hierarchy.

Do you plan to support iOS9 multi-tasking, web hyperlinks and iOS deep-linking into other apps and their extensions?
Eric Ladizinsky on Quantum Status, Future at Royal Irish Academy
Yawn. Just more Millennial narcissism.
I know who wrote it... Hint: He was very active on HN on Feb/2015!
If you ever find yourself near Fall River, Massachusetts, you can tour or just walk around the battleship USS Massachusetts.

One of the (many) really cool things on the ship was that you can climb into the 14" gun turret and play with an actual mechanical computer for computing range & elevation.
I would like to second the suggestion for F#. It has a nice balance in that it straddles the line between being an OSS ecosystem and an enterprise ecosystem with paid libraries. FsLab and Deedle got mentioned already but the F# website has a lot of great resources too: http://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/index.html
Perhaps the problem the OP is referring to is code like

foreach($things as $thing) {
$thing->setValue('new value');
}

and then looping through 10000 rows to do that, instead of using an UPDATE query.

I think the best criticism of ActiveRecord (and ORM in general) is performance, but it's only relevant on medium-to-large websites. It is a fantastic design pattern for prototyping, and good enough for production on small-to-medium websites as long as there are caching layers above it.
Unless something has changed, that's the equivalent of keeping the files in RAM but it doesn't maintain state and routes, etc so it still has to reprocess.
Playing Poker with Elixir (pt 4)
Yeah. Definitely don't let me ruin it for you. The snotty examples were mine, not his. I'm the sanctimonious asshole.
Synthetic Meat May Be On The Market Sooner Than We Thought
Yep, I generally take it as a "I don't know what I'm talking about so I'll just post this blog post".

Every reddit post about PHP outside /r/php ends up with it as well.
Typical LAMP stack is being used & service hasn't been advertised yet.
This type of personalities are common in the tech world. Get used to it. Don't let it rock your boat. Do your job, do it the way your superiors want it done(no matter how you prefer to do it). If they want their eggs scrambbled, make them scrambbled, if they want them overeasy, make them overweasy. The customer is always right because they pay you to do it the way they want it. No need to bring your personal opinions into the work place. If it's too uncomfortable, like someone else said here, tough it out for a year then make a move.
Given how dependent php is on hosts to upgrade, and how slow php hosts traditionally move, it would seem that php would benefit from a 7-to-5 transpiler, similar to Babel for JS. Does anything like this exist already?
Personally, I think the pricing is way too high for what you're providing.

Also, to people who think that this very JS might get blocked by ad blockers: all of the tracking and reporting could be done (server-side) with Google Analytics nonetheless by making use of the appropriate APIs.
Leave. Explain the resume issue: "It was a toxic working environment".
Oh, sweet! I guess I'll have to alternate between Mozilla and EFF now. Thanks!
Regarding teaching land navigation by compass:

I teach light infantry tactics to new lieutenants for the US Army. There's a couple reasons to use old-school methods over relying on your GPS:

* Using a compass and a map gives you a much better feel for terrain. One of the common problems with lieutenants is a disregard for advantages and disadvantages of specific terrain. I feel that this is by far the most important point. Understanding and visualizing terrain from a map is a hugely valuable skill that impacts most points of an operation, specifically route planning, where to place your machine guns, and where to attack the objective from.

* GPS can be jammed. This point was driven home hard by the novel Ghost Fleet. Ghost Fleet is a white paper turned into a novel (because no one would read a whitepaper) on what a future war with China would look like. I'm pretty sure Ghost Fleet is also the impetus for the Naval Academy re-adding celestial navigation to their classwork.

* GPS doesn't always work, or takes a while to get enough satellites to get a fix. You know what really sucks: taking fire and not knowing where you are.

* Batteries are heavy. Yes, tech is improving and you typically only need AA batteries. But soldier weight for light infantry is and continues to be a challenge.
Yeah, how does this compare to OSv?
According to Google Maps, it's on the Pine Ridge Reservation. An outsider thinking he'd like to own a small town in the country might be in for a surprise. I went to high school on a different reservation in western South Dakota.

About the poverty: When I was in college in the mid-90s, I went on spring break work trips to the Rosebud reservation, and they cited a 90% adult male alcoholism rate.
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Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature.

Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today to ignore the tropes and heroes of this movement, which is what these anonymous authors have addressed head on.

Will kids in high school 30 years from now still be reading Salinger, Vonnegut, McCarthy, Orwell, Heller, Faulkner, Steinbeck and other classics? Or will there be some literary movement borne out of SV culture to supplement these classic texts?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism
How to build a better PhD
If you have a younger sibling, child, or just know some youngster consider passing this opportunity along. Also here is another program for young females: http://www.girlswhocode.com/applynow

I wish I had more information about such programs when I was in high school. Now that I have internal information from my company, I thought I share with the community.
If you like DF stories, check out Bravemule's Matul Remrit or Bronzemurder.
> One dot release and we're seeing a mountain of new features.

A "dot release" (who really cares about numbering schemes?) that took ten months and included a number of incremental and ultimately minor features--yes, they sound very cool, but having played it last night they don't change the way the game plays all that much. I like games like this quite a lot, but this is the same cheetodusting that makes people take Linux-on-the-desktop people with all the unseriousness they demand.
Correlations are never facts: they are interpretations of statistical measurements.
Challenges of Memory Management on Modern NUMA System
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I'm suggesting that instead of waiting for dramatic political and/or economic changes I will support every opportunity we get to move in the right direction, regardless of how small those changes are. The key in my opinion is building momentum. Research into clean technologies are likely to pay off eventually, even if the changes in the near term are negligible.

Remember that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. If you truly want your revolution, then lead the way by action. I'll continue supporting change in my own way.
Ryanair takes Google and competitor to court over misleading ads
> A request comes in, the PHP process loads up everything, executes the request and tears down...on every single request.

It's called the "shared nothing architecture", and its by design. Nothing is shared between requests, so why _not_ tear down?

That model actually has a lot of benefits for web applications (it scales very well), and I consider it one of PHP's strong points.
Along similar lines (but not anything "hidden") is the song (songs?) "Fingertips" on They Might Be Giants' "Apollo 18".

It's not that the song is hidden but it was another bit of fun to be had with the newly mainstream CD format in the early 90's.

When most people bought albums on vinyl and cassette, sequential listening was the norm. Sure, you could skip ahead by moving the needle on a turntable or FF/RW on a tape deck but mostly it was one track after another.

But since CD included such novel features as "shuffle" and custom track order, TMBG split "Fingertips" (a series of shorter 5-20sec songs and phrases) into 21 separate tracks.

The end result was that listening on shuffle led to these random little snippets popping up in weird places between the longer, "proper" songs on the album. Not the same gimmick as a hidden track but a fun bit of novelty nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmBs1OppXw
Staying there for a whole year will kill your soul

Anyway that's gonna happen as you grow up
You can make an image of icon you need and use it inside

div or class {
cursor : url('images/cursor.cur')
}
And publishers are surprised we use ad blockers...
This seemed familiar and indeed it is: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...

Not sure why JF is rehashing the topic now though...
This confirms for me a complaint I've always had about the Millennium Falcon. A ship equipped with hyperdrive would certainly have had targeting systems as good as a B-29. There would have been no need for the midships ladders to the gun stations.
> They were not following a racist law.

Prohibition is a racist law. It is designed to strengthen the institution of racism. It was openly created for this purpose. It seems that you are trying to act like this isn't the case.

> ignoring the perpetrators instead of the victims.

The perpetrators include not only those who participated in these acts in Alabama, but also those who conspired to pretextually pass these laws in the first place.

If you prosecute everyone who participated in this crime, which I hope will happen but almost surely will not, and secure a just verdict in every single case, which I hope will happen but almost surely will not, but you fail to repeal prohibition entirely, you won't have made much progress against racism.

They aren't two different things; prohibition (and its material form, the prison state) is the same thing as racism.
Can anyone explain the gradient merging example? If we sum an image in which luminosity is linearly rising from left to right with the image in which the luminosity is linearly rising from top to bottom, then the result should have constant luminosity across bottom left - top right diagonal. So we shouldn't see a circle effect in the top left corner, but rather a rotation of first gradient by +45 degrees. Or are the gradients not linear in luminosity? Or are you guys not seeing the circle effect? It does looks quite different on my other monitor, but I can still clearly see a circle instead of topleft-bottomright linear drop in luminosity on the left example.
You might consider trying out an app for sleeping. I use one called Sleep Cycle, but there are many like it. I give the app a 30 minute timeframe that I want to wake up within, then I leave my phone on my bed. As I sleep it monitors my movement. The app will sound a gentle alarm when it determines you are out of REM (happens multiple times over the course of your sleep).

I've found this app has improved my sleep quality dramatically and I never feel tired when I wake up because I'm not torn out of REM.
Typesetting automation
Time to Value Metric
What You Need to Know about BYOD Security
In the tweets?
An API to the APIs
The question is: what language should I use for HPC.

An answer is Python.

If you use C for HPC (the way you mean it) it will be slow as a dog. Because HPC is done with BLAS, LAPACK, etc. If you do HPC in C you are calling into BLAS and LAPACK. They are Fortran libraries. Anything else is dog slow in comparison (a slight stretch, but not by much).

So, the "real" answer is Fortran. But not a lot of people are sitting at their desk writing Fortran for scientific computing these days. They are writing Python, C, or C++ for the most part. All of which use libraries that call into the Fortran libraries.

That's all this article is saying, and we all understand it. No one is wringing their hands about what language the libraries are written in unless you are trying to write one of those libraries.

Working professionals use Python for scientific software because it excels at data munging, making reports, and very high speed computation. Everyone gets that you need to add some libraries beyond the libraries provided from the base install.
Java has no operator overloading. Many Java developers vehemently oppose addition of operator overloading into the language, as if it were the root of all evil. The lack of that feature results in convoluted function calls where a clear and concise math expression would suffice. Consequently, not many people choose Java for math tasks, and not many people write math libraries for Java.

That is just my guess.
Thank you for that. I just watched a few minutes, but already, watching a cam compute a reciprocal is by far the most interesting thing I've seen all week.

Analog computers were basically voodoo to me before this. Looking forward to watching the rest!
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Optimization Based Inverse Kinematics Solver
> Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it.

I think transmodernism is pretty clearly on track to win right now. Just look at the rapid increase in states legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational purposes.
Roomcarnage is the ongoing state of the art

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139393.0
So Guncho interfaces a mud server to inform7 runtimes? I used inform7's function dispatching as the basis for a python MUD engine, fun stuff - https://github.com/selfsame/mud.tilde.town
Wow. I'd definitely play it with that UI.

I often wonder why games almost never have swappable (or even just scriptable) UI-s that could allow player to use shorthands through UI drudgery.
That is an excellent question.
Show HN: GifBook: Create sequenced Gifs from video clips and subtitle files
I can't help but wonder if this will have the side-effect that vandalism will become a more subtle subversion of the pages (or maybe there's already a number of people who do just that and this will thin out the field to make them more obvious)
SingleHop AI Provides New Control Over Hybrid Server and Cloud Environments
I need alarm because I need to keep my sleep schedule in strict time frame.

I often wake up at 5:30 because I slept very well at night. But I stay in bed and waiting for alarm.

If I didn't sleep very well, I could wake up at 6:30, but my alarm triggers at 6:00 and I wake up at 6:01.

In the beginning of my experiments with sleep, I tried to use natural wake up. But my sleep schedule started floating a lot and sleep quality degraded when offset become big.

So I decided to keep strict sleep schedule. It's very balanced. If one night my sleep quality wasn't very good, then next night it's guaranteed that I have good sleep quality. But alarm clock guaranteed that I don't oversleep.

I found "sleep restriction" for the first time here (look at "case illustration" on page 3):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060715/pdf/nihm...

After I just read another articles which I found by keywords "sleep restriction".

It also contains very useful ideas about mindfulness meditation.

I wrote about it in another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564930
Given that pagefair does this for free and already has whitelisting agreements with adblock lists, I think your pricing is too high. The only differences I see at a glance are that you break it down into per-device stats and have a tabular view.

Does your javascript snippet support subresource integrity? That would be a key selling point as pagefair's CDN was hacked and their snippet replaced to do malware redirects against users. After that incident I'm keeping the number of scripts from "startups" to an absolute minimum.
We can deploy DNS like an app. If we want to add hostnames manually we do it in git and deploy the DNS "app" via hubot.
http://www.vetta.org/2008/05/scipy-the-embarrassing-way-to-c... ;)
Yes but the difference here is that you write in markdown, and it does the TeX-ing for you.
Sort of meshes with a typical college course. At MIT courses are measured in hours of work per week including lectures, recitations, readings and problem sets. A course is typically 9-15 hours with course total of 40-50 recommended per semester. That that would work out to 130 to 210 hours of work per course, roughly the hundred hour rule. I found I really didnt master a course until using the material in another course or future research or teaching the course as a TA.

P.S. The course hours is often a wildly inaccurate estimate. People might have a challenging lab course where put in twice the recommended hours. Or they let assignments pile up until the final weeks, working 100 hour weeks in December or May.
Is there anything about the false positive rate of this system?

Any binary 'good or bad' classifier should have at least a couple of stats attached to it to give an indication of how reliable the classifier is.

To complete the circle, it would be nice to know how it performs according to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
A cooler tool than a list of releases might suggest. Clicking on "Let's Get Started" gets me: https://taskwarrior.org/docs/start.html

It's too bad that it isn't the landing page.
Wanna get back to them and show them they ain't shit? Be profoundly, intolerably nice to them especially when they 'correct' you. "oh, I didn't know that! Thanks! Any books specifically you could recommend on (x subject in the news that's really their hot take)?"

Then, at month 10-11 of working there, begin looking for a new job immediately.
Absolutely and it is even easier if you use Ceemple for your IDE
Nice idea!

I have a work around for slow or sometimes unavailable SPARQL end points: I use a caching layer on my query clients. For the key I use the original SPARQL query and the key values are the results in either JSON form or language native form. Usually I use JSON stored in Postgres.

This makes unit tests possible and generally speeds up interactive development of systems where linked data sources are used.
I'm pretty sure many people would gladly take a ~$5k per month job doing something they love with no boss.
The cool thing about running a service center for your products is that you can learn all of their failure modes.
Thanks! Definitely plan on all of those at some point, but development has been slow since this is a weekends and evenings project and I'm currently swamped with the final stages of a house building project gone sideways... can't wait to get back to tinkering with it, especially since I've gotten tons of people telling me how useful it's become for them.
"Charity" being Zuck's control. I don't think it's a good thing, I think it's a fancy way to avoid taxes (victimizing american taxpayers) while maintaining control of your fortune. When he gives his money to a charity that isn't his other pocket, then it's charity.
The best buyer for Yahoo’s core internet business may be… Alibaba
Why is Tinder so irresistible to Indian women?
I'm pretty sure there are a wide number of people who know who SLJ is.
7 technologies Apple brought to the mainstream