skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider archiving them as djvu (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/). One bit per pixel djvu files at 150PPI will likely become 2-5KB pages instead.

Djvu also supports a text layer just like PDF.

Note that 150PPI is barely better than FAX, so your documents will likely look 'faxed' if you ever have to output hardcopies for some reason.
Which GOP presidential candidate would commit the most war crimes once elected?
Ask HN: Should I gauge interest in my app or go straight to release?
Hi everyone,

I've been developing a small web app as a personal project and I got a fully functional prototype.

It got potential, and I've been thinking about releasing a fully polished version as a proper service. That would involve getting a decent hosting plan, run testing, implement a subscription model to monetize the project.

My dilemma is: should I instead lightheartedly deploy this first version to gather interest and receive feedback, and then progress to a more adult version of it and redirect users?

People who have shipped several web apps and potentially met modest usage in a few of them, what's your opinion?
I use a bit less of the Hadleyverse than my colleagues like. But ggplot2 has a number of advantages over base graphics (even if you were to figure out base graphics). One being the plot is a structure or value (returned by plot construction) and not a bunch of side effects happening in a viewport. This orientation is much more compatible with functional programming (the author hints at this with the "compatible with piping" point).
It was mentioned during the press conference today that gravitational waves are not affected by interstellar/intergalactic dust the same way light is. In theory, once our detectors are good enough we should be able to use gravitational wave astronomy to peer all the way back to the big bang!
Just watched a piece on it on local TV. The inventor says the machine uses 44 horse power 1.5L engine, a Japanese one. Which is interesting because it it's on par with regular consumer ATVs. Wheel are very light, 800 liters each, hence it's floating capabilities.

In Russia, these are called "шишкотряс" - cone shakers.
Hand-crafted small garage ATVs.
It's not that surprising... it's not that HN is like this, but this story wakes up people that have those opinions.
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Here's my re-statement of this confusion, isn't everything we can experience embedded in time-space, including the LIGO experiment itself? So how is there any relative shift allowed to be detected when everything we know is fundamentally intrinsic to time-space? That is, I too would appreciate having this mis-conceptualizing, of mine, cleared away.
> Sotomayer, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan

One of these things is not like the others. Did Alito take the same position as the others listed here?
Possibly simpler than it looks.

410Mpc = 410 megaparsecs, which is about 1.3 billion light years

62M⊙ = 62 x the mass of the sun

The values have 90% error bars:

62+4−4M⊙ = 62 +/-4 solar masses

As the comments below say, the abstract says that three whole solar masses were converted to gravity waves when the black holes merged.

I'm not sure what the state of research into black hole mergers is, but the science that explains that number is going to be really interesting.
There's a long history of screw-drive vehicles like that. They work well on snow and mud, and work badly on roads. Useful for special purposes only.
Yes, the police doesn't need a warrant to tail you, question any one you speak too, or even use public systems to gain information on you, heck they technically don't even need in some cases a warrant to say get your phone records or any other record from any other person or company (they do need consent which is more often than not the actual reason behind a warrant being filed in the first place as it solves that issue).

They may not however tamper with your personal property.

If you do not own the car and say it's a company car the police might also not need a warrant to put a GPS tracker on it if they get consent from your employer, this might also cover rental cars (not sure about leases).
Significant amounts of passive observation without some explanation (such as the paparazzi following a celebrity) would qualify. It wouldn't be criminal (initially), but it would be enough to get legal intervention to be made to stop, especially if it had been documented to have been occurring for weeks.
Great product! Quick question: any plans to implement two way syncing between systems? At the moment you can only create new "items" via a trigger or action; being able to sync would be a very powerful feature and would result in a huge increase in usage from our customers.
Vital steps for delivering a successful software project
Attaching something to the car quite literally violates "the right of the people to be secure... in their effects."

The Constitution however says nothing about "in their movements" or "in the light they reflect."
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re pagination/infinite scroll: I had the same problem, it was fucking unbearable to check out peoples' earlier stuff. Luckily, Soundcloud has a very decent public API, which you can use to roll your own narrow client, for whatever you're looking for with the features you want: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api

----

Here, start from my own (extremely crude, for personal use, not for public consumption) "Soundcloud User Unpaginator":

Source: https://github.com/gadtfly/Soundcloud-User-Unpaginator/

Running: https://soundcloud-user-unpaginator.herokuapp.com/ (warning: heavy, totally synchronous, server-side blocking, on Heroku free tier)

Could be easily modified to download instead of list, if you want an archive.
Ha! We should form a club.

> Seems to me like, this type of behavior stems from the childhood (up until college) where being a relatively smart person allows one to keep afloat (and even shine sometimes) without spending much effort.

> Put simply, you are now doing 5/10 effort for 8/10 results while it used to be 1-2/10 effort for the same result.

Oof, yeah. It wasn't until years later that I realized my primary and secondary school experiences had led me to categorize having to study to understand something both as a kind of failure and as something akin to cheating, of all things. It's not a way of thinking I'd settled on consciously and not something I'd have framed in those terms until I spent some time reflecting on my thoughts, but sure enough, that was what my stupid, stupid mind had been doing. Totally bizarre.

> This, combined with the fact that your pride now firmly lies in your level of intelligence, makes self-improvement really hard. How? First, you don't wanna do the easy stuff, because, well it's not worth your intelligence; so you dream of doing the hard stuff. Reading complicated books, learning a new language what have you. Then, you start unconsciously delaying doing/learning the hard stuff. You only do those if it's part of your job so you have to. You delay it, I think, because the fact that you may not accomplish those deeds in the short amount of time you think you should, proving yourself that you're not as smart as you think you are. That, is like the ghost at the end of the dark hallway. You don't even wanna risk getting into that state of mind.

I get that. I also have to watch myself very carefully or I'll end up making lists and ranking things and researching and never actually do the activity those actions are supposed in service of.

> "I just don't have the time" or "I really haven't spent much effort on this" is a much better excuse for you than "I'm just not smart enough. Need to work harder/longer on this".

Bingo.

> Don't know if that's the case for you, but it feels like it is for me. I'm trying to let myself go to fix this basically. It's okay to not be brilliant. It's okay to fail, make mistakes, suck at certain things while being just okay at other things. There is no implicit need to be excellent at everything you do. More importantly, "too proud to be dumb" is a bad mindset to be in. Even if you are as smart as you think you are, you are not fully utilizing your capacity by restricting yourself due to a fear of slightest failure/mistake.

My approach to fighting this lately has been to deliberately seek things I know I'm awful at and work on them at least until I see improvement. Pick up a new instrument, write a program unlike anything I'm familiar with, take dancing lessons (coming up this Summer!). Eventual mastery isn't the point—just improvement. I know you're supposed to specialize in this modern economy of ours and just keep improving skills you're already good at, but I need this kind of thing, I think. It's like failure therapy.
perhaps one reason people don't marry up or down often is that they do not tend to frequently interact. In a professional environment how often do you meet up with people not as the same or nearly the same level as you? Do many workers fraternize with their bosses when many are just more likely to complain upper management doesn't understand?

I would put most marry up/down on those who have frequent non professional outside activities. Whether its religious, a particular hobby, or simply a circle of friends whose careers all diverged.
Because it's cheap, easy to work with, and tends to deform under stress instead of breaking.

These were old pipes - they pre-date this problem by decades.
CBS chairman says streaming talks with Apple for rumored TV service have stopped
This comment is making the page formatting gross. Those special characters with the strike-throughs make the entire page over-wide, thus requiring horizontal scrolling to read comments.
The New Zealand Government did. There was a Hackathon last weekend around a bunch of problems that various government departments wanted to have solved.

The people at the hackathon have has a week since to get their teams together and pitches for the next stage.

The pitches are to the government department CEs, so people just under the ministers.

If the pitch is accepted, then we get 3 months (paid) to be put though a Tech Accelerator (run by CreativeHQ) in Wellington and get the application in a state to be used. During which time the teams will form companies, get advice for how to run things, and have the government departments domain experts on hand to answer any questions we need and get feedback from them.

At the end we get to demo our solutions to the departments. If they like them, then they will licence the results, and we have a bunch of new tech companies in New Zealand, with an existing cash flow.

Seriously, this is it done right. Small companies / groups of developers (and designers, etc) get chances at solving problems which would normally go to the big guys in the industry.

My team is presenting their pitch (Machine learning to help route problem tickets in various call centres) just after lunch today - I'm nervous as all hell :)

--- Blair
I read the parent comment as suggesting that Pandora's accumulated data on music preferences could help improve movie recommendations.

That's probably not relevant to notion of a business deal though.
First post is from June of '98 (it was broken up into a series of Usenet posts)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/RQgq-USI...
What's his snapchat name? Don't see it mentioned and failed to find it after spending 20 seconds of googling.

Edit: Found it - it's justinkan (Guess I coulda guessed that)
Not OP, but perhaps he means a publically prolific persona who is immediately identifiable with the company. Someone akin to Evan Spiegal and Snapchat, Jack Dorsey and Square/Twitter, etc.

I'm not inclined to agree, but I'm just trying to elaborate.
Which is point #3 that Correia predicted would be used to attack Cole: "This is all a publicity stunt to sell more books." Correia is not necessarily condemning that, of course, but he did also warn Cole that, as a result, he is likely to be slandered by the CHORFs [1] with every vile accusation imaginable. I'll let you decide if higher book sales is sufficient compensation for having your name dragged through the mud like that.

[1] "Cliquish, Holier-than-thou, Obnoxious, Reactionary, Fanatics." A coinage by Brad Torgersen. See e.g. https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/chorf-its-a-...
Chicago, as an example, does have cameras on streets in certain areas. Evidence gathered by these is considered admissible without a prior warrant, and no one in the state really debates that, ACLU included (http://www.aclu-il.org/chicago-sun-times-aclu-raises-red-fla...).

There are a lot of stronger counter arguments against this approach that don't have to do with warrants. Cameras don't stop crime, they can only document it and possibly alert to something happening. It is better to just make arguments about the practice of mass surveillance and police priorities than to hope court rulings will knock out cameras placed on public land as unconstitutional.
If there is no central server like github. What do you map origin to?
:-) I like the mushy parts bit. Thanks for the chuckle.
Yes, but they capitalize only on submission - when you edit, you can override it.
I paid for pandora for a period. But now it wants to play the same songs all the time.

Moved to spotify. I can listen to an available playlist or to every album from an artist one at a time or make my own playlist and store it for offline use. Seems more natural and wide open.

I had (and still do in the vehicle) XM radio, which basically solves your use case. Radio with no adverts. Some stations do have hosts, but it's not a talk show.
Sometimes I like to pretend I live in a country where those with money and influence don't receive preferential treatment from the state. I know why it happens. I know it will continue to happen. The same thing happens on the country-scale with multi-nationals picking the most favorable nation to be taxed in. But I don't want my government to enable the game by playing it.

Pardon me while I wait for Tesla's windfall to trickle-down and lift all my boats.
i usually dislike bots like those but gordontheturtle is very helpful i must say.
My main gripe with Github isn't so much Issues, it's that repos can't be grouped (the closest would be creating a different account per group of repos, but then each repo has a separated Issues and Wiki) unlike at Codebase.

And even more importantly, the pricing per repo instead of storage size makes modular projects too expensive.

Which is too bad because other than those two points, I used to be very happy hosting at Github :/
> Wframeshen wind pushes up against the side of a building, the structure will have a tendency to bend. In order to resist this bending, the building must have a certain rigidity or it would flop over like an Italian soccer player.

Randomly... shots fired
+whatever is a valid email address, and just because Gmail automatically creates a "tagable" feature with it, doesn't mean Joe Blow can't have joe+blow@example.com be a REAL address that if you strip +blow from, it'll still be delivered to him.
eh i wasnt expecting to be right. Although i would say they usually use heavy duty coax at 50ohm - i believe - not sure though
thanks but I'd like google to do it. literally you/they just need to associate the string "myrealemailthatIwanttoseeeverythingat+spammymarker" with the string "cactusalligatorfortnight" so I can give out the later and it will act as the former does right now, with the relationship between the two strings being a secret. That's Google's job, not mine.

but if you think security by obscurity is enough that I should use a solution that instantly stops working once lots of people use it, then more power to you. I'm not going to do that.

also I use gmail because I don't run my own mailserver. I'm not about to start coding.
Explosives Worker -> Librarians

I guess opposites do attract.
Meta Hypes the Reveal of Its ‘Futuristic’ Next-Gen Augmented Reality Glasses
I add this to my list of epic non-sequiturs. While it is not necessarily wrong completely, it is not correct for all the cases. It takes a long time to understand how it's ok to do without the latest version of the software. It takes long time to understand that old is not a synonyme for obsolete. And to have this understandings one needs experience, and for experience you need time, which cannot be substituted. There are some things that one only learns by rediscovering them, and this is one of them: who settles is happy.
I want to know about management, which is one of the singular reasons I will never work for an Asian company. I worked for a Japanese company and the amount of negative reinforcement and risk averse behavior was maddening. It destroys the environment that gives birth to new ideas.
I think it's funny to notice how people are saying "If you want to get married to a (some profession) then you should work as a (other profession)." We shouldn't think that the correlation implies a cause. This data doesn't track what people's professions were before they were married, or how the professions change over time.

It would be interesting to see how people changed their profession as a result of getting married. For example, when people get married they're probably less likely to have jobs that require a lot of travel.
No it doesn't, it can however be used to file a harassment or abuse of power law suit against the officers / police department / DA.

The police doesn't need a warrant for most things they due in their line of duty, most warrants are requested to compel instead of risking seeking consent not because the law mandates judicial approval.
Back in the day, Pandora showed you the attributes that they had tagged each song with (stuff like "down-tempo funky grooves", "offbeat emphasis", "prominent female vocalist"). I always wished there was some way to create a station based on an intersection of attributes, rather than a union, when you add multiple seeds to a station.
That's hilariously spot on for me. I'm a tech guy and my wife is a elementary teacher.
It's not underground - it's raised up about a meter off the ground.
I've been know to freeze up on occasion, especially in front of a camera. Yikes!

I've found practice does help. I scribble down a bunch of notes on what I might say, then record myself with my webcam reading the notes. Surprisingly I'm nervous even doing this exercise. Then I watch the payback and repeat until I'm somewhat comfortable.
Is a passerby or member of the general public allowed to attach a camera to a utility pole? Last I checked, even putting flyers on utility poles in most municipalities is technically not allowed, even though they usually let you get away with it.

That to me would be a pretty clear line between a passerby and law enforcement in this case.
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Eh? I just mean sikulix would be your driver -- your business logic. So you setup a webcam to record your LCD screen. The webcam feed is displayed on a desktop (OS) and a custom sikulix screen interprets whats on the webcam window and sends commands to your bot or device.
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Easy on the ablism there "balls187".
i can understand the need for the large towers to TX AM band signals but grounding a directly fed antenna like that would kill the PA. You'd really screw up the SWR.
Right after buying Rdio? Grr.
Thanks! Added.
Show HN: HPMoR – Templates to make your own hard copies
I don't know why you said that. Gmail addresses can't have +'s in them

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

everything I wrote applies only and specifically to gmail. it would be trivial to strip the +'s from every gmail address to get right into the person's main inbox.

If I don't trust a person to stop spamming me or sell my email address then I'm not going to trust a person not to do that.
Check the comic posted by AdrianN, it explains what you're missing. Basically light takes longer to travel stretched space (but matter does not, as you correctly said).
I think the overall meaning is that saying "Good news for guys then", while not a false statement, isn't a complete one either. "Good news for guys and lesbians" would be more accurate. "Good news for folks in the market for women" even more so.

I don't think she's in any way suggesting you're wrong, (and neither am I) she just wants you to remember that she exists as well and benefits from this too. I can't speak for her but I also see it as a slightly humorous addendum to your point.
I really like all plotting systems in R. First, I used base graphics for a few years—and loved it. You learn your way around par(), commit esoteric argument names to memory (oma, mar, mgp, mfrow, etc). It feels powerful — you're just drawing on a screen; its history traces to the original pen plotters. Second, I learned lattice. You can't help but fall in love with lattice after a year or two with creating panel plots in base graphics. The biggest learning curve with lattice is panel functions, but once you learn to throw a browser() in a panel function for stack variable introspection, you can do anything. Somewhere on a dusty bookshelf is a well-worn lattice book I splurged on while taking an R course at UCD.

I like this article, because I think for production graphics, the author has a point. If you're placing lines, points, and labels on a screen — you can create anything. You can draw polygons and arcs. It's like drawing with raw SVG. But I'd have a hard time thinking of an exploratory data analysis situations I wouldn't reach for ggplot2 first. Since it looks at dataframe column types (integers, factors, numerics), it automatically matches these two the appropriate type of color gradient. Coloring a scatter plot by a potential confounder is one additional argument to aes(), e.g. aes(x, y, color=other_col). More than once during EDA I've done this and seen some horrifying pattern in data that shouldn't be there. That's a powerful tool for one extra function argument — the cost of checking for a confounder with color (or shape) is essentially near zero.

I'd make the case that this is a more costly operation in base graphics, and is thus much less likely to be done. You may already have your plots in a for loop to create panels, then you have a few extra lines for adjusting margins and axes (rather than facet_wrap(~col)). It took a lot of code to set that up — there's already a lot of cruft when you just need to do a quick inspection. Then you need to create a vector of appropriate size of colors, and then map this to data. Sure it's easy-ish, but it takes at least double the time as color=some_col. In EDA visualization, I want every single barrier to checking a confounder to be as small as possible—which is what ggplot2 does.

That said, I really liked this article because I do agree that going from EDA visualization to production is a hassle. Just after reading this, I remade some production ggplots with base graphics and love the simple aesthetic — which to mirror in ggplot takes a lot of hassle.

What I really long for is a lower-level data to visualization mapping (like d3) in R. d3 is a pain to learn, but it's really the only data abstraction (even though it is a low-level abstraction) that is seemingly limitless in what it does and can do. I always hope for a general data-join grammar like d3's to be the norm, built on top of base plotting (analogously: svg elements), and then have abstractions like ggplot for tabular data built on top of that.