skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I came up with over lunch. I'm going to try keeping all my dotfiles in one org file. I have an init hook that runs org-bable-tangle to re-export all the dotfiles after saving.

** Meta
If you place the following code into your emacs init when saving the
~/.dotfiles.org file the dotfiles will all be exported.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle yes
(defun dotfiles-hook ()
"If the current buffer is '~/.dotfiles.org' the code-blocks are
tangled."
(when (equal (buffer-file-name)
(expand-file-name (concat (getenv "HOME")
"/.dotfiles.org")))
(org-babel-tangle)))

(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'dotfiles-hook)
#+END_SRC

** bashrc
#+BEGIN_SRC conf :tangle ~/.bashrc
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
#+END_SRC

** tmux
#+BEGIN_SRC conf :tangle ~/.tmux.conf
unbind C-b
set -g prefix C-t
bind C-t send-prefix
#+END_SRC
This bill was extremely close to becoming law in 2013 before Snowden. The nice thing that happened in the meantime is we got a stronger law passed in California that applied to all digital service customer information and not just messages.

We think what the Intel Community wants in this bills is a PRISM like program for UK law enforcement and GCHQ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-b...
> use the components you want

That's what he did. Anybody is free to use it or not...

I'm starting to think a part of the javascript fatigue is caused by people complaining.
As a self taught programmer, I went from a beginner to an intermediate level by learning from websites and books.
My suggestion to beginners would be to read some stuff about the technology they want to use, then read and implement a few tutorials where they will make example apps, etc. This clarifies the terminology and makes it easier to describe the problem, read docs, etc. Because 99% of beginner problems have already been answered on StackOverflow.
I have had some bad experience with SO but it was mostly due to not searching properly. I definitely understand how beginners feel. But if someone kept asking me how to reverse an array in C++ repeatedly, even I would be pissed.
I dislike the "guilty of inflating prices" theme here. These stores are guilty of no crime. Prices fluctuate all the time, sometimes daily, sometimes hourly.

Bottom line, none of these products are essentials to life. The price is either worth it to you as a buyer, or not. Thinking you lost money because it's later available for less is the same sort of faulty logic used by people who think they are "saving" money by buying something on sale (when it's an item they wouldn't ordinarily buy). I had a friend who used to do that all the time. We'd be at a store, and he'd see something on sale that he had no intention of buying before he walked in. He'd buy it, and congratulate himself on "saving" money. I'd point out "no, you just spent $50 that you hadn't planned to spend." He just didn't see it that way.
Yep. TXT or TPM can cryptographically verify boot integrity but aren't magic pixie dust for passphrase recovery via hardware tampering. In the end your adversary can just put in a hardware keylogger between the laptop keyboard and the motherboard.
cd ~
git init

And add this to a .gitignore:

# Ignore everything
*

# Except the dotfiles I explicitely want to share
!.vimrc
!.tmux.conf
# ...
>Ever go to a gym and ask someone how to do a basic lift only to be scoffed at? Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for not understanding how to navigate through some strange process or not knowing how to speak their language well enough?

Ever asked a stranger out and been shot down harshly?

Part of the reason some people learn to respond this way is because there are so many people bothering them. One or two wouldn't be an issue. It may even be a small boost that they turn to you. But when it is person #6214, with the same problem, and the same solution, which is well documented for someone out there, it gets hard to keep responding kindly. In the same way that you aren't likely to be as nice saying no to the #6214 person interrupting you at a bar to ask you out.
The problem is often how the money has been made at first place. Bill Gates might be the biggest philanthropist in the world he didn't think about ethics that much when he ran Microsoft like the mob.
How so? The US and RU have a history of helping each other in situations like this.
Some markets (particularly raw materials, certain commodities and manufacturers that sell to monopsony buyers) are more fixprice than others, where firms sell at a stable markup cost and adjust output (i.e. by reducing employment or units) as production costs change.

While demand is always applicable, production costs often dominate in more vertically integrated firms and there are large lags in adjusting to signals.
the American political contributions system gives way to much power to corporations & needs to be fixed
> Assuming the "economy" pack is the only offer you visit a distinct store for and the good is perishable (so that stockpiling doesn't work), then it might be cheaper if you factor in the time you need to reach said store, shop there and get back home into the "cost".

I'm actually referring to same-store, same-time prices when neither the economy nor the smaller pack is specially discounted, so the travel, etc., cost is the same.

Stockpiling/perishability doesn't seem relevant in any way that favors economy packs -- an economy pack is either a larger single sealed pack (in which case, with most perishable goods -- which go bad faster once opened -- is strictly more problematic than stockpiling smaller packages with the same aggregate contents) or is itself an aggregate of smaller packages (in which case, its equivalent to stockpiling smaller packages.)

The only place I can see the convenience issue you raise being a factor is if one store only sells the economy pack and another store sells the smaller pack, and there is a convenience difference between the two stores. Then, there is a premium for the convenience of the store. But that kind of different-store scenario is not what I'm referring to.
There are other places like Powell's: Haslam's in St. Petersburg, FL - http://www.haslams.com/ and others.

Edit: Thanks for the location correction - I lived there for five years and should know better. ;)
Graphically configure the automation of your application's build and deployments
It starts out sounding interesting, but then when he starts talking about Linux and address mappings, it starts to sound like just another variant of a VM living within a server cluster.
I would say easily a third the time I need a paper, I'll have to get it through Libgen, and especially if a paper is new or published through Elsevier or Nature. (If you've read through my comments and noticed me posting Dropbox links to fulltext PDFs - Libgen in action.) It's also good for older papers pre-2000 where it's unlikely the author has put up a copy or someone else has hosted it, and finally, it's good for getting finalized copies of papers as published since preprints often change quite a bit (economics papers in particular seem to spend years hanging around going through many versions which can change conclusions dramatically).
Swift – Improve the metadata hashing function
Show HN: LINUX Unplugged, Fish, Fisherman and the Fishery
The paper isn't explicit about it, but I'm guessing "...among Ivy League college students" is an implicit part of the title.

Drawing from a population that has spent most of their lives competing and winning may skew the results somewhat, relative to other populations...
In all 50 states, people on bikes are required to follow the same laws as other drivers.

Yet, I have seen a bike riders pass several parked cars to flat out fly though mid cycle red lights. Drive down the center line passing slow cars on both sides. Do 20+MPH down a sidewalk past driveway exists with limited visibility etc etc.

That's way past 10%.

Bikes are required to take a full traffic lane and obey traffic laws, or use a bike lane. Anything else is both illegal and begging to be hit.

PS: I have personally seen 2 minor bike-car accidents both times the bike was breaking the law. [Car making right hand turn bike passed them on the right side, car pulling out bike hit them on sidewalk]. And a host of near misses where the bike was breaking the law every single time.
Actually, i do. Completely. I acknowledge practicing is important, but attempting to write code before having gone through a full book and having read some real world code is only going to be damaging for a new learner.

Plus, newbies who refuse to actually read a book front-to-end annoy the ever-living shit out of help channel people, because they end up asking all the stuff that the book would explain fo them, and the chat people end up being nothing but an interactive and abusive book.
Node.js Experience Report: Building a Custom Mobile Back End (with BlueOakJS)
>You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions

Yes, that was it. I asked two questions, and was banned for it.
Show HN: GraphQL Playground for Nodal and PostgreSQL – try it out
So, you want to build a database (Part 2)
They appear to have, in essence, two imaging modes. They are showing the higher-resolution-mode, with 100 meter pixels, which are made every 5 days. (They get global coverage every 5 days.) I'll bet there are very few clouds there, so almost all the images (~66 per year) will be OK.

It turns out (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1623/hysj.51.1.98) that the lake is fed by a river which is in turn fed by Lake Titicaca (made famous by Beavis and Butthead). Almost all rain there falls from December to March, so the first two images would be fairly "wet" while the last one (from January) might be rather "dry". Of course, in December 2015, the lake totally dried up.

Besides the climate sensitivity, they also have a water management problem, because the level in the downstream Popoo is controlled somewhat by releases from Titicaca.

One more thing: this set of visual images finds lake extent by measuring the retreat of the shoreline. Another approach is to use radar to find the elevation of water bodies, directly, to high accuracy. That should happen in a couple of years when SWOT launches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Water_Ocean_Topography...).
Can you explain what you mean by austerity and how it is responsible for new taxes?
BlocksCAD – Easy, Open-Source Solid CAD for Everyone
> The main valid complaints [...] the legitimate issues raised [...]

This is a really passive-aggressive weaselly phrasing. I’d recommend reconsidering this type of tone in public discussion responses.

Instead of suggesting that the other complaints were invalid or illegitimate, you could just not mention them at all, or at least use nicer language in brushing them aside. E.g. “... the main actionable complaints...” or “the main technical complaints ...”

* * *

> [...] I certainly don't think that this is a major complaint at this point. [...] it's hard to consider this unaddressed [...] fixed

After reading the original post and your responses, I think the responses come across as pretty smug and dismissive.

Third-party readers would probably be more optimistic if you just left it at “we’ve made a lot of improvement since then and we’re still working on it” or similar.
I agree, I'm also not at all a fan of in-browser apps. The benefits all seem to accrue on the maker's side: faster deployment & distribution, single codebase for multiple platforms, assurance of common versions across the user base, and not least easier and more complete monetization. The drawbacks are all for us users to suffer: idiosyncratic UX, unpredictable performance, poor interoperability with other apps, limited offline use, everything's gone if the company fails.
I'm assuming that scrapinghub.com is invested in web scraping, so it'd be wise not to flaunt the actually illegal act going on here, which is the violation of the CFAA and various intellectual property laws that scraping almost always constitutes under conventional interpretation.
The problem is, person #6214 doesn't know they're person #6214. If you're making yourself available for questions then you don't get to bitch about the questions you receive. It'd be like a person working an information booth getting angry at someone asking where the bathroom is.
> How I am supposed to know that without asking
> someone that already knows?

A good idea is to ask the answerer how he/she figured it out.

Usually when I run into compiler bugs, I look at the assembly output to make sure.

I don't know why you were messing with RDTSC, but usually when I need a high resolution timer I use clock_gettime() or gettimeofday(). The former doesn't work on OSX, but the latter does, and mach_absolute_time() or clock_get_system_nanotime() seem to work on OSX if you really need them.
Show HN: Taxaroo – professional tax preparation without leaving your house
Intel Transactional Synchronization Extension.

When it works, you get support for database-like transactions on RAM (only small transactions, it isn't black magic).

When it fails, you get all kinds of random crashes at random times.

Introduced in Haswell, turned out to be buggy and Intel famously disabled it with ucode update. Since then, they quietly disabled it also for several Broadwells and Skylakes which didn't fare much better than Haswell.

edit: it seems I misread parent's post as "what is TSX"
13F filings don't show any short positions or any private positions.

I"m guessing this is mostly what leads to this discrepancy. It's also a reason why the industry really hates 13F filings. They don't tell the whole story.

A fund could show they are long $1,000,000,000 of Microsoft but have in the money puts for the same delta value making them effectively flat Microsoft in the real world. But according to the 13F filing they are long.

Infact this is often one of the first mistakes people make when joining the industry. They see the 13F and figure that they now know what positions a hedge fund has, when in reality its more akin to saying you've see Facebook's source code by selecting show code from your web browser.

Those two things are related but very far apart.
Hey, HN! Long-time fan, infrequent contributor here.

My co-founder and I are excited to share with you our startup - Taxaroo. At the risk of sounding cheesy, think of Taxaroo as "Uber", but for tax preparation. Taxaroo is a marketplace that matches tax filers with professional tax preparers entirely online. We offer up-front, fixed-price quotes based on clients' unique tax situation, and match them with experienced tax preparers that are able to handle that specific scenario. Clients pay no additional fees to us - we only charge tax preparers a referral fee.

Beyond simply a marketplace, Taxaroo is also a convenient (and secure) platform for you, as a client, to exchange documents and basic personal information with your preparer (rather than emails, lugging stuff to someone's office, or [shudder] faxing docs). We also enable you to pay with a credit card and only be charged once you've approved your final tax return(s).

Though we've been working on this for nearly a year, we only recently opened up the platform for tax preparers and have already received a strong response and lots of enthusiasm. We have signed up professionals from across the U.S. with an average experience of over 17 years preparing taxes. We rigorously validate several levels of identification and credentials, and verify these with the IRS.

We'd love for you to check it out and let us know what you all think! If you're getting ready for tax season, we want to offer HN a 10% discount for the first 25 people using this promo link: https://taxaroo.com/getstarted/LOVE4HN.

Thanks,

Tim (Co-founder and CTO, Taxaroo)
Thanks so much for the tip. Are new and used volumes shelved together at Haslam's?
Gaming is a great way to blow off some steam!

For me personally the trick is to console game. I must prefer PC games, I prefer mice, I prefer RTS.. but I spend WAY too long on my computer. I physically cannot do it to "relax". So its off to the living room and play the PS4.
That's not really an answer. Repeating the mistakes of the past, especially with something as personal as social media, is a HUGE oversight that needs to be corrected post-haste.
> So, fuck him. This wasn't an accident, this was murder for profit.

Except for the profit part? It's not like he got the Airbus job because he killed some astronauts.
Didn't the British exile lots of prisoners to North America in the early settlements?

Maybe there's also a genetic connection? ;)

Just joking.

I think overall happiness of people is also really important. The more unhappy people are the more violent they get.

People in Skandinavia are generally quite happy folks: Easy access to education, internet, food, health care, low poverty etc...
Read it yourself, it's like 6 pages: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/699/...
Having to limit my shopping to just the categories you support is a deal-breaker. If I can't buy it on Amazon, I probably don't need it. You're basically just another online store with slightly better prices.

I also don't buy big-ticket items lightly. If saving hundreds is a possibility, then there are also way way more considerations, and I'll probably end up targeting a particular model of a particular brand, then I'll search for the best price. Your solution may work for that, but so does Google and just going to each retailer's website manually.

With big ticket purchases, convenience isn't really a factor in my purchase decision. To me your product is a solution in search of a problem. I hope I'm wrong.
and even after that $2k is gone every year, you're still not sure you can't be fined.

I've had to fix my taxes every year that i had paid Ernest & young to prepare them for me. had i trusted them blindly as most people do, I'd be subject to a couple $20k fines. of course, those depends on you being big/of interest enough to be bothered by the irs. but i like to have clean books and not count on luck.
Announcing KPCB Edge Office Hours 2.0
Strongly disagree that rules are stupid. Wrote about that here: https://medium.com/@Exolymph/power-is-necessary-5e35e6ac7817...
No they're not. As an example, bounces are commonly the last page where the user left without doing anything. How can you tell that from a simple server log line that says the page loaded? You cant see if they clicked on something or how long they read the page or what other actions they took.

Most sites today also go far beyond basic pageviews and track all kinds of events on the page like scrolling rates, reading time, what other headlines you clicked or hovered over, etc. This is not possible without JS tracking.
Because you theorized that the stores were a plot to get people to install the Amazon app. Which is absurd.

> "it makes me wonder if the real purpose behind these stores isn't simply to force people to install the app"
No, x |> f is equivalent to f(x) while (f ∘ g)(x) is equivalent to g(f(x)). Specifically, x |> f results in a value (of the type of the return value of f) while f ∘ g results always results in a function.
Oh please, get off your high horse. There is absolutely nothing more moral or better than the approach this is taking.
Do Black Holes Have No Hair? Stephen Hawking
> One of the most important skills anyone is going to learn in a technical position is finding answers to questions you have that have already been answered. The next important skill they have to learn is doing a little bit of your own research in understanding your problem.

Exactly. And as the article was trying to explain, this is a skill which needs to be learned like any other kinds of skill.

Shouting RTFM means you demand that skill from the poster or even insult them for not having it - what you're not doing is giving the poster any help or encouragement in developing the skill.

A better solution would be to link them to the relevant previous discussion or documentation page or telling them what to google. This way you can actually bring the poster forward without causing duplicate discussions.
Would the fact that he/she does not have the future text in his sample/population and that he uses this dataset as a sample of all the southparks to be ever written (in a prediction mode) make this make sense
Composer’s Sketchpad – Rethinking Musical Notation
Heh, maybe next time. I could tell ya about the viola C string I tried on my baritone fiddle - it really wasn't very usable.
Haslam's is wonderful; I grew up going there. But its across the Bay in St. Petersburg.
Interesting speculations, but that's not how these environmental monitoring satellites work. They are set up to get global coverage with this instrument every 5 days. The orbit is chosen so that this happens, to enable long-term time series of vegetation, land cover, etc., as you note.

It's a successor to other satellites like SPOT, and a competitor/complement to NASA satellites like MODIS.
Serialization Security Bugs Explained
Cool idea! I just submitted a question and I'm waiting for an answer :)

Just wanted to provide some feedback. On the screen that says "Thanks for texting Suto! You'll get a response shortly.", there is a section that says "Here are some other questions being answered now:"

It's blank!

That makes it seem like no one is using it, or something is broken. I really like the idea of having some examples, there, though. Maybe just switch to some good examples rather than a feed?
This is absolutely true and this study supports your perspective. Guilty is maybe too strong a word, but there is a hint of false advertising. The point of this study was to see how factual the "sales" were that are advertised on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Green Monday. We're at a point where people expect to spend their money that those specific days to capitalize on supposedly great deals. I found it interesting to tangibly demonstrate that not only are many of the deals negligible, but that many of the prices were inflated.
No, they are in different sections.
That is nothing more than an elitist argument that really has no place in this discussion. All you are doing with that argument is saying that you're somehow better than other people, and for that, you should be ashamed.