skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you very much, and congratulations on raising great kids. I'm really looking forward to the time ahead, the first few years are really fun - this is the time when you as a parent (or uncle/aunt) are a superhero to the child, you can do no wrong.
I suppose this means dropping it altogether (like from Chrome) can't be too far away.

My only regret with that would be that we use flash as a way to allow one-button copy to the clipboard (using this http://zeroclipboard.org/).

We had tried non-flash solutions, but none of them worked.

This sounds like it might work https://clipboardjs.com/, so I guess I'll be adding a backlog item to look at it.
Most of the time when people have negative response to something they refrain from leaving an internet comment, thats why everyone loves internet comments /s
Almost. Compressing all of the files into one archive often results in a smaller file overall. This might work a little differently with brotli, which uses a precomputed dictionary.

The advantage of keeping the files separate is that it allows for procedural rendering. Multiplexing gives this a boost by allowing your client to fetch a lot of files at the same time.
I think there's a lot of confusion in terminology here.

"html5 ad" may mean "videos in formats supported by html5 video tag"

"video ads built in flash" may mean ".flv in our own player", but also "we're going to unpack your .swf and strip anything apart from <run from frame 0>"

Also "From January 2nd next year, Flash ads won't run" does match up with "Google says that Flash video ads aren't included in the cull "at this time.""

The article is pretty confusing though...
...as long as they continue to count the time
approximately at the same speed.

But according to the people Julia talked to, this assumption is also unreliable. Is that just a risk you feel you have to take?
I don't know that I agree, but I think if all the exposition in this thread between the two of us were captured in your original comment, I wouldn't have been so moved to reply to it.
According to the witness, he was carrying during the sale. The testimony may not be reliable, but that's another discussion.
And plenty of people were better doctors than doctors were.

Theodore Dalrymple had a column proving that Shakespeare did _not_ have a formal medical education, because he described symptoms correctly. (He contrasted this with a book by a practicing doctor from the time, who described patients purely in terms of the four humors -- creating fanciful descriptions unrecognizable to a modern practitioner.)

Come to think of it, there was also a book published a few years ago about US president James Garfield's death in the late 19th century. He didn't die of being shot in the back; he died of receiving the best medical care in the world.
Good, and good riddance. The less Flash on the Internet, the better.
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Great library, specially useful for doing streaming visualizations. I gave a talk last year at PyData Singapore about it, slides are available here - http://asankhaya.github.io/professional.html#PyDataSG
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Now you're talking about changing the current regulatory regime, not about getting rid of it--you're talking about diploma mills being able to give M.D. degrees that get recognized by things like state doctor accreditation boards. I agree that would be worse than what we have now, but it's hardly an absence of regulation; it's just making the regulations stupider than they already are.

A true absence of regulation would mean that individual people would have to make their own judgments about who was reliable, in health care and everything else. Sure, anyone could call themselves a "doctor", but that term would mean nothing by itself; it certainly wouldn't confer any special privileges on the person using it. If you wanted to know if a "doctor" was qualfied, you would look at his actual qualifications: where he got his degree, if he has one (and was it a diploma mill or a real school), where did he do his internship and residency, what sorts of cases has he worked on, what is his success rate in treating various conditions, etc. (Many people already look at these things even in our current regulatory regime, as evidenced by the number of websites whose business model is to provide such information.)

Would some people make bad decisions in such a regime? Of course. But people make bad decisions now. The question is which regime do you think produces worse decisions: a regime where everyone knows they are individually responsible for making good decisions, not just about what health care to get but about who to get it from, or the regime we have now, where people are encouraged to just accept particular credentials (M.D. degree, "board certified", on the list of preferred providers for their health insurance) as sufficient and not look any further.
> It's an odd choice (to me) to use a context bound Builder as opposed to an AST Builder you just pass to connection.execute or something.

But that's what RethinkDB's query builder is. You construct a free-standing AST, let's call it x, then call x.run(conn) or (IIRC) conn.run(x) to run it.

Edit: > You can syntax check ... O/R Mappers ...

It's not a dichotomy between SQL and O/R mappers here, and sorry if you weren't trying to imply that. An SQL query building API can easily be understood by developers that know SQL (correct me if I'm wrong), you don't need to syntax check it, and it survives refactorings just as well. And it's hard not to need to dynamically construct queries anyway.
Let's say I buy into the theory that QE indeed caused significant inflation, but in equity assets and specifically housing, rather than in consumer goods and services where people were watching for it. Now rates are near zero, equities and housing are still relatively high (but not in orbit given their yield relative to bonds paying nothing). Consumer goods and services and commodities remain cheap. Given this macroeconomic picture and the Fed's toolkit, what happens next?
LIGO gravitational wave annoncement
I'll stick with Neko Atsume.
Since I have never really liked Matplotlib I would really like to learn Bokeh, but unfortunately its inability to export its visualizations in SVG or similar formats makes it kind of useless for me as a scientist wanting to publish my results.
Bam New Stock App for Tracking High and Low Breakouts
9-year-old visited Amazon’s drone facility, delivered package to Jeff Bezos
He didn't compare the publisher to nazis. He talked about one of the essential components that allowed the nazis to have power in germany.

The nazis existed. They were real.

I don't like the modern fad of holocaust revisionism that says "anyone who talks about the nazis is ipso facto unable to make an argument (because the nazis were not real and there is not possibility that there could be a valid comparison between the conditions that allowed them to exist and conditions in current society-- because the nazis weren't real.)"
Yes, but you know snapchat pictures aren't really deleted right? 'Temporary pictures' is a proposition that doesn't actually exist in the digital realm, and certainly not when a VC-backed company is proposing it.
I provide logging as a service advice for quantities of Scotch, if you are so inclined. I'm @gmail on my username and in East Bay.
I'd worry that if flags were weakened too much, then the front page would start having false stories on it. The ratio of flags to views is likely to be much more informative than the ratio of upvotes to views, especially if weighted by some metric of account trust.
Twitter requires custom creatives - this is a huge cost. Every TV network can run standard 30s slot.

Average American spends 4h on TV every single day. Twitter has nothing on that.
I've never installed Flash since it was an ad on (or maybe I just disable it, I can't remember). It's ONLY used for ads these days. I avoid the few video sites that use it.
Oh God. A publisher didn't like his work of fiction and perhaps acted unprofessionally and he cries about free speech and concentration camps, all in the same long winded paragraph. Cry me a river.

Free speech protects you from censorship from the government, not from a private company that doesn't like your book and so chooses not to invest their money and time in publishing it. Free speech does not mean other people have to listen to you, take you seriously, or do what you want them to.

Free speech means you can throw your little tantrum in public and the government cannot tell you to shut the fuck up. Rightly so, that is left to society in general to do.
My use of language was perfectly precise. I never said any of the things attributed to me, you don't get to blame me because of your lack of reading comprehension.

The first industrial revolution in the UK began in the mid 18th century. The 1820s is towards the end of the first industrial revolution - you are thinking of the second industrial revolution.

Do you think that Britain managed to dominate india in the 18th century despite having - supposedly - no advantages whatsoever? In fact the very reason Britain was able to do this was because it had already leapt ahead.

Now, once again, nobody denies that Britain did many bad things to India. I merely take issue with (probable hindu nationalist's) bizarre a-historical notions that India was a giant of the world in the 18th century and that if only Evil Britain hadn't somehow cheated its way into colonising it then it would naturally have kept pace with developments in Europe, and that therefore the entire developmental disparity between them can be 100% blamed on Britain.

That's total nonsense. My comment was intended to point out that while yes of course Britain's colonisation of India wasn't necessarily "a good thing" it isn't to say that if it hadn't happened India would have been filled with steam engines and trains in 1850.

You can't have a counterfactual to say that India would have been a shangri la without Britain's colonisation. It may have been worse or better than now, we will never know, but it would certainly not have "kept up" with the revolutions sweeping Europe and it is deeply disingenuous to claim that.
Today's Internet Is Optimized for Noise
Well it seems I was wrong, I just saw an article with a [flagged] indication.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076832
Crony capitalism describes any situation where success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials.

Over the last decade, top financial firms have succeeded due to central bank policies that the firms themselves have been part of shaping. For example estimates are that "too big to fail" banks make an extra $34 billion per year off of the implicit guarantee from the federal government.

Moving on, McKinsey studied the effects of the US government policy of quantitative easing. See http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/qe_and_ult... for the full study. The bottom line is that it is estimated to have directly enriched private companies to the tune of $460 billion dollars (about a third of which went to banks), and cost American households $360 billion. That's a pretty large and direct transfer of wealth!

This study examines how much room Europe has to pursue similar policies. JP Morgan is effectively telling the central banks, "Here is how much money we think you could afford to give us." But doing so in a sufficiently opaque way that it isn't obvious that that is what they said.
You're the same kind of people that would tell Zuckerberg "Why do you want teenagers? What are you going to do, advertise to them? They have no money"

Don't be ridiculous.
You are right; the largest gains in global economic output where made after the industrial revolution. http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/quantifyin...
But you can't ignore British policies that decimated India's manufacturing capability before that. Like what's been written below..
I use this all the time! Thanks for your work op
This is a really important point that a lot of people seem to have missed. A common assumption that stems from monotonously increasing clocks is that: all computers can guarantee the causality of their own internal events. Which is a critical assumption for a wide variety of distributed algorithms.
I was really hoping she would just let the Harry Potter series die to make way for something new. The ending of the last book was perfect. It didn't leave me wondering what happened next, instead more of a "Well, that was nice." sort of feeling.

Of course, I'm probably going to end up buying the new one anyway. If it must exist, I may as well finish the series again.
Yes. I always compare the size of the challenge with my own capabilities. This is one of the methods that lead me to take action or not.
It's called a "pussy pass"
The Second Coming of Neuromorphic Computing
Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people
Haha. I like your style.
Don't Blame Scrum
In fairness, this paper is looking for integer solutions instead of SiRev's real ones.
Deep Learning Makes Driverless Cars Better at Spotting Pedestrians
There's some confusion in this sub-thread. I was originally replying to the comment:

> Since the anti-gun lobby cannot outlaw them completely they tack on automatic sentence multipliers for any crime where a gun is found even if the gun was not directly used.

which is about carrying a gun while committing a crime.

In general, I don't think you should get a harsher sentence for having a gun at home, away from the crime scene. However it's a grey area when you're running a continuous illegal operation using your home as a base.
I didn't know snapchat had scores and that the experience around it was so... gamefied. It was a fun article to read.
It's worth noting that the number of pull requests by women is far, far smaller than that by men. So either there are far less women active on github, or women are more careful when submitting pull requests.

The reasons for being more careful could be all over the place, ranging from actually being better programmers to being more likely to receive criticism for a bad pull request.

In an industry that's somewhat hostile to women, it wouldn't be surprising that only the most competent women stick around, whereas less competent men stick around more than less competent women, dragging average competency of men in the industry down, even if the total number of competent men might be higher than the total number of competent women.
That and it is reactionary to the social media that sticks around. Teens can be goofy and in the moment but it doesn't get back to parents or others... for the most part.
Instead of thinking about the illness being in your head, why not think of the decision being in your body?
I use that feature a lot, surely they can't all be Flash based.
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And especially when "everyone" is predicting a collapse. That makes me more confident than anything that everything will be okay.
I prefer to look at the monitor at the words I'm typing, then looking at the keyboard while I'm typing. I think that for people who aren't strong touch-typers, they may not realize what the advantages are. When I'm thinking of something and trying to type it out, there's no cognitive overhead, so I can use 100% of my brain power for whatever I'm thinking about. When I've thought of something I want to type, I can type it out really quickly before I lose the thought, and can quickly get it all typed out and go back to thinking.

fwiw, I made 5 typos in this comment.
Amazon now offers Elasticsearch as a service; it was a great help for us quickly setting up ELK to test.
We're working on the 'winning' part with http://ramses.tech :)

The projects you listed above are just spec formats that describe APIs. In the case of RAML there are companies out there including MuleSoft that are building generators and other kinds of services around it. I believe the same goes for Swagger and the others.
The part I love about microservices, and something that I think doesn't get enough attention, is that is strongly enforces separation of concerns across micro-projects. API boundaries are very clear and very rigid, it takes very little effort or oversight to prevent leaking across them. Essentially, you are moving some of the software 'best-practices' up a level form modules to applications themselves. This means that you don't need to spend a lot of effort writing great, best-practices following, future-proof, software upfront for fear of collecting horrible technical debt down the road. Got a service that was rushed out the door and isn't maintainable anymore? Rewrite it! 2 weeks later you have erased a bunch of technical debt and since you kept the same API(s) in place, you have not affected the rest of the services that make up your application.

And that is the other thing that I think microservices are great at: They are pragmatically easier to change. Delving into a huge, old, debt-riddled monolithic codebase to make changes is hard and scary, and developers are less likely to want to make changes to monoliths because of that. Microservices are easy to understand because they are small, discrete systems with well understood interface contracts. Making changes to them without breaking the entire app is not scary because it is easier to throughly understand the implications of what is being changed.
Which ad blocker do you use on mobile?
One would like to think licensing is about ensuring quality, but if one actually takes a look at the reality, one realizes that licensing is about restricting the field and paying to play, and almost never about ensuring quality.

Even professional licenses are like this, unless you are a complete idiot it's not the knowledge that's the problem (e.g. passing the exam, if there is one), it's paying for the requirements (e.g. the degree and/or the continuing license fee) or fitting the requirements (e.g. being a foreign worker).
Doesn't seem like it would be very difficult to parse a zip file from a typed array (fetched with binary Xhr) and pull out images files, video files, etc. This has probably already been done but I can't find a project presently.
Compared to facebook they go away and it's more a "Probably" goes away.

I'm sure there will be a few snapchat users that will get screwed by this but at least the majority of the use will vanish before these kids are old enough for jobs and the shit they did on snapchat doesn't show up in a background check.
So British industrialists climbed up the value ladder, as you do when you're trying to create wealth. They did the same thing with porcelain, once they figured out the process.

Right around 1830 was when the American Southern cotton plantation system took off, and more or less completely displaced Indian cotton on the world market[1] because it was cheap, cotton gins were efficient, and it was a whole lot closer to ship it from Mobile or Charleston to Birmingham, than to go all the way down around the Cape and back.

Opium became a huge export for India because it was the only thing other than bullion the Brits (and Americans, and Dutch, and Portuguese) could hit on to trade profitably in the China market. Then, later, that cash crop was undercut by cheaper product produced in Turkey, and by Chinese domestic production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin#Effects_in_the_Unit...
Eliminating large JVM GC pauses caused by background io traffic
Could laser-powered superconductors spark a technological revolution?
> shallow lifestyle void of any meaning

Sounds to me like they're communicating with other humans.
This is really neat. There's, I don't know if it's a niggle or a bug or an interface issue, but well, let's call it a usability bug.

If your copy to curl request in chrome accepts gzip and/or deflate, then your tool will add an "Accept-Encoding" Header. So far so good.

In go 1.5.1 at least, from my cursory testing, the runtime will not auto-decompress a bytestream if you've manually specified an accepted encoding.

On the other hand, if you leave it off, it will offer gzip to a server and auto uncompress on receipt.

I'm still not sure this is a bug, but I definitely commented out my accept encoding line in my sample code because I don't want to manually decompress every response.

At any rate, thank you for making this; I'm using it with a slack integration right now.
I would suggest you talk to mothers too, not just fathers. They might have insights that are important for you too :-)
World's Negative-Yielding Bond Pile Tops $7 Trillion: Chart
if you look at the comments, it turns out that the brain wasn't "revived", but instead was sliced and the researchers noticed that, upon inspection under an electron microscope, the connections were preserved.

but you know, that makes a terrible headline.
The thing is that a lot of economists have a vested interest in markets going up and bubbles inflating, because their jobs at financial institutions depend on that, so when things start going bad they just block their ears, pretend everything is alright and hope that the markets don't suffer from too much panic.
Ghostery on Firefox.
How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble
>It is a big reason why React Native is such a huge success so far. You don't need an IDE...

Sorry if this a stupid question, but is this true if one is also targeting electron for the 'big 3' desktops for the HN crowd (rather than just mobile OSs)?

Edit: Clarifications made.
Yes.

No, I'm trying to get intel on my bosses, and in the company future course of action.

I don't like to quit things.
> When did this happen?

Some of the screenshots have dates in them

>Did you do this or you just had screens lying around?

:)

>Can you recommend any cloud provider that is half sane?

Cloud providers suck. But I suppose google, softlayer and rackspace might suck a little less. But why not run on metal? It's cheaper and more secure.
An ads business is based on impressions. Growing users is one way of increasing impressions in which you can sell to advertisers.
You're confusing what money represents with what it is. Money represents an obligation for society to provide you with something of value. Money itself is simply a measure of accounting. Gold isn't money, and many things would work exactly the same if people agreed to pretend that gold was moved from one vault to another instead of actually physically moving gold around.
Call the libraries with Rpy2, or build models using a DAG of functions and distributions with pymc 3
Flash used to be the only thing that worked, cross-browser.

Chrome, I know for sure, changed their minds several times on whether they would allow it...security model thing, you could make it work only by tweaking some internal chrome setting.

The sales pitch at https://clipboardjs.com/ makes it sound like perhaps things have changed enough that a reasonable cross-browser solution is possible now.
Ask HN: Entity Framework 7 guide
Hello all, I am doing a side project to learn web development back to front end. I am using ASP .Net WebApi and Entity Framework with Visual Studio 2015. In VS2015 I noticed there are some new class libraries which build NuGet packages and are meant for the new cross platform Asp .Net, I ran into issues with the new EF and am not sure what all has changed since the last version. Any recommendations for getting started with the new project structure and EF7? Thanks :)
If anyone opened the console and noticed the socket timing out earlier - That was because I upgraded to a bigger 4-CPU core Amazon instance and in the process, I accidentally installed a newer version of the SC server (which caused a protocol mismatch with the client version). The load per CPU was around 3% on each core at its peak of 250 concurrent users.

There were occasional spikes to 6% CPU use per core when people started spamming :p
Wall Street isn't so hung up on user growth. The article is on techcrunch. OK it is an issue but there are lots of others. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/twitter-us...