skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That marketing is generally provided by publisher

Publisher marketing is minimal to none these days. Also, due to cluelessness, the marketing you do get is often not very useful.

I was just at a book marketing seminar yesterday and the speaker mentioned that her publisher did Facebook ads for her...which were known to be ineffective for her genre and demographic, but required by the publisher's guidelines.

So the author had to pick up the slack and take matters into her own hands (and pockets).
You might not want to do that.

Ad clicks cost, sometimes. But sometimes they send a positive quality signal resulting in reduced costs to run that ad in the future.

(Or then again you might. Because you'll screw up their A/B testing stats. Or you might not. Because if they have half a brain they'll be running conversion testing anyway and they'll easily spot a high-CTR, low-CVR ad. Or...)
I've had an easier time getting C#/.net work than anything else around Chicago, although I do get pinged for my iOS experience periodically. Lots of .NET jobs around here.
My parents were more enlightened. I had very lax curfew standards - if I was out until 2am, it was because I was playing Dungeons and Dragons with the other nerds. If my brother was out past 11pm, it was because he was up to no good. :-)

To a person the group I played D&D with ultimately ended up in professional jobs. With a sample size of 20+ over the years, we all finished college. At least half got graduate degrees. A couple have made major impacts on science and technology.

There was one friend whose parents went a little overboard with the moral panic. Despite that, he came out ok too. :-)

One year at GenCon (even better than "at Band Camp") a cop at my table mentioned that criminal behavior for games was almost unmeasurable compared to the general population.
Why labor of love?
At least in the specific case of Herodotus, in his Histories, he has several theories about Greek customs borrowed from other cultures. He also has a relatively open mind about different cultures having customs that are better. For example, he talks at one point how he thinks the Persians (who were often enemies with different city states) have a good custom of raising young children (males) separate from the parents until a certain age so if they should die it is less of a hardship.
You would still need to force the users through each page.

Fast-reading bad actor accounts can be flagged as abusers through pattern recognition. Since a subscription is necessary, creating numerous accounts to game the system becomes expensive fast.
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LACKII's mission is to save startups time and money so that they can get back to changing the world. LACKII provides on-demand personal assistants and semi-skilled workers to startups working in co-working spaces. Co-working spaces contract with LACKII to have teams of Lackiis stationed at the co-working space. These Lackiis are available on-demand as an amenity for the member startups, or available to the startups for a slight increase in the membership fee (totally up to the co-working space).
Which is why it's autotagging has tons of options, including "off" and "only change your database and leave my files alone!": https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.17/guides/tagger.html
He gave you a really good reason: knocking out most severe, low-level errors in high-usage, critical services. You'll put work in for the risky ones. Why not the low-risk alternatives...
Is machine learning the next commodity?
I built a very similar project for classical music using Theano and MusicXML for a Sound Capstone Project at UW.

Blogpost + music:
https://medium.com/@granttimmerman/algo-rhythm-music-composi...

GitHub: https://github.com/grant/algo-rhythm
I said it was well intentioned not that it was right.

Since you asked, I believe in compensating ability via markets while providing basic income to all parties. Instead of trying to apply some kind of centralized reverse meritocracy to social support systems, or worse, via tax rebates and business development programs.
My 1st-gen Kindle has the "Whispersync" 3G built-in and it still works fine (which was surprising last time I fired it up).
It's relevant - maybe it's not all true, or recycled fact, so the repute of vice is relevant.
> This would be viable if it were clear, codified, and widely accepted. It's not universally accepted.

Given the number of people directly disagreeing with you here, I think you need to reevaluate your premise.
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That may not make the scam totally impractical to all but the most dedicated hackers, but it does increase the scam costs substantially. Maybe enough to remove the low-hanging-fruit from the scammers and have them target elsewhere.

So, I don't think "that wouldn't change anything".
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Self-Driving Car Completes 1,200-Mile Roadtrip Across China
In practice, other British rail companies only seem to make improvements if the government pays for them most of the time too. There's very little actual private-sector investment in the railways; it basically just seems to be a license to print money.
Great idea but you should tone down the difficulty at the start!

Also consider using a smoothed out mouse movement input.

square_x = lerp(square_x,mouse_x,Time.delta * 2.0);

square_y = lerp(square_y,mouse_y,Time.delta * 2.0);

Keyboard isn't as responsive as needed for this kind of agility!
React Native uses a site called ProductPains for people to report the issues that they run into and upvote them, it can give you a good idea of what the problems are: https://productpains.com/product/react-native?tab=top

In my eyes, the biggest pain points right now are: list views and complex gestures. List views don't recycle native views so memory usage can be very high (but there are some people working on solving this), and complex gestures just aren't really supported -- and by that I mean something like multi-touch to drag multiple slides in Keynote and a bunch of the crazy stuff that the Apple Maps app does (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYPqb83C7k for more info on this). Also potentially of interest, see these slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fr46d25zfm6oaqu/philly.key?dl=0 (warning: requires Keynote and 1.2gb because lots of video!)
Seems like a publicity stunt to me. The way he answered the question cannot be impromptu.
Games. Good texture synthesis can augment or replace the texture creation process in games which often rely on hand-painting and manual seam-removal in Photoshop[0][1].

[0] https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter
[1] http://quixel.se/
of course no one makes bipolar computers .... understanding FETs without understanding the quantum stuff is pretty easy
In the decade I worked at an (smaller, regional) ISP, there were a number of times that I know of that Cisco provided a custom firmware to us get around a bug we found that prevented regular configuraitons from working as expected. Considering the scale of Cisco, and that we were small enough at the time to need less than five people in network operations, I find that terrifying. They weren't security issues, but it does point towards their code base being too complex for them to adequately manage.
We hire devs in Toronto and area. I barely finished high school but have a lot of marketable experience, but that is by far the exception. Lots of local talent, from U of T and Waterloo in particular. We are the most educated city in the most educated country in the world and in my experience, recruiters and HR people won't even talk further if you don't have an undergrad. Finance (and any other more corporate culture like services, audit, consulting) even more so. The start-ups and hard tech companies less so, but there seems to be enough qualified people to fill these needs at the time being. Mostly 6-12 month contracts although we do 4 sometimes. We mostly hire new grads though, for some reason.
This is very interesting. My son like most kids in his age range is a minecraft junkie. He blew through a series of Minecraft diaries - very short pages, very simple reading, but it entertained him. He read more than 20 of them in a week before I went and got Kindle Unlimited, and blew threw another 20 of them once I did.

It was obvious to me that the books were spam of sorts - but I figured it was to make money on $2-$4 purchases. It wasn't just one author, there was a series of similar book series.

Now I have an understanding of what's taking place. They are targeting kids like my son who can churn through pages like it's his job because it basically is. I'd rather him be reading ANYTHING than nothing. Once you develop a love for it, it turns into a lifelong joy instead of a punishment that you have to suffer through during school.

I really don't like how kids are targeted as revenue streams these days. I feel like there needs to be an awareness campaign targeting soccer moms so they are made aware of all the channels that are aggressively focused on making money off of elementary-school aged children. (endless youtube channels, video games, addictive mobile games, web games, etc.)

There is a giant hole in the marketplace for engaging and fun educational experiences that can be had for an annual subscription that doesn't try to monetize kids throughout the day. There are a lot of "free" educational options that don't have the quality or engagement that kids want. There are a handful of quality ones, but there really needs to be a market-leading presence that small/startup businesses can emulate and aspire to. The money is there in the market but nobody is attacking it properly.
Isn't the Rust approach the Ruby, Python, or C++ approach?: give pthreads, rely on the community to produce a fragmented, incompatible ecosystem.
This sounds as bad as investment banks. Why are schools so behind the times? Accounting firms and Advertising agencies are cleaning up. Why are universities staying with the banks?

Is tenure part of the problem? That it's so hard to fire people for bad behavior?

Or is it that academic prestige is "Winner takes all" so schools choose to protect those who give them their reputation?
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AI hedge fund, Numerai raises $1.5m from cofounder of Renaissance Technologies
Finished already? I have a JVM that waits to be converted, so I can be sure that no C++ pollutes my Java code. Kidding aside, I'm still curious if Rust/Go (or whatever) will be serious contenders to develop current c++ codebases further, e.g. the old code stays c++ but new code will be written in something else.
I can understand why there hasn't been much movement in the SMTP world. SMTP is pretty hard to get right, as is maybe hinted at by the many RFCs. You really don't want to be making any mistakes because it's a somewhat unforgiving protocol... unless you send an error code.
How many of us got one of those Radio Shack 150-in-1 electronics kits as a kid? (https://www.google.com/search?q=radio+shack+electronics+kits...)

It came with a book of projects (e.g. 150 projects and hence the toy's name) and each page had a listing showing the wires you attach from one coiled spring to another. Hook up different components of the board to make an AM radio receiver, or a "lie detector", or tone generator.

Here's the crazy thing. I ran across an old one 20 years later as an adult and the toy's brilliant idea finally dawned on me: it allows small children to play with electronics without getting burned by a hot 700 degree soldering iron! Instead, the child's fingers push the springs apart and he inserts the pre-stripped wires to connect it to another spring. It was even genius that all the wires it came with were pre-stripped so that even wire cutters weren't necessary. Everything was also low voltage (9v & 1.5v batteries) so you didn't have to worry about a naked power supply plugged into the wall electrocuting the kid. (E.g. https://youtu.be/9RMKrpzoMkE?t=2m52s)

My kit had diodes on it but unlike the author, the toy didn't teach me about them. Perhaps for others, the Radio Shack kit was a gateway drug to an electronics career.
In my experience (as a man) all you have to do is treat people with respect and you'll be fine.

There are occasionally times when I enter a room where a woman was alone and I can see that my mere presence is making her very uncomfortable and she feels that she can't say/do anything. At those times I quickly excuse myself with a quick "Hello, goodbye" or something.

This really doesn't seem like such a tricky issue if you're just respectful and conscious of the discomfort of others.
I've played around with them a little, but part of my issue is that our real-time data acquisition (in a neurophysiology lab) uses matlab/simulink so I'd need to create some middleware serializer to go from matlab data structures into dataframes. Not too difficult but there's a lot of momentum behind the matlab tooling unfortunately.
I just upvoted it because I thought it was a worthwhile interview. I hadn't heard about the book before, and must have missed the previous articles on HN.
What has that got to do with not supporting CSS?
> Why is it considered hard to get into those journals

Journals only publish so many papers in a given time. Its not just a matter of submitting a good enough paper.

Dunno why this is the case for journals but when it comes to conferences (where lots of CS research is published) there are obvious time limits regarding the number of presentations that can be accepted.

> why do people give them prestige and won't give a new startup journal prestige?

For historical reasons and perverse incentives, sadly. Young researchers cannot afford to publish on new startup journals because advancing your carrer depends on publishing in prestigeous journals (universities evaluate researchers based on the prestige of where they publish). Meanwhile, tenured professors are under less pressure when it comes to career advancement but they also need to publish on prestigeous journals to secure grant money to fund their labs and to accomodate for their younger co-authors (who are still trying to advance their carrers).

It also doesn't help when the "journal prestige categorization" is defined by the government, as happens in my country[1]. Not only are our journal ratings always outdated (punishing startup journals and conferences) but they also emphasize publishing in journals over publishing in conferences (which is terrible for CS research in particular)

[1] http://qualis.capes.gov.br/
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Plenty of people! See: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

This isn't even a comprehensive list as it doesn't include apps like TaskRabbit Tasker App (http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2016/03/24/react-native-andr...) which aren't public-facing.
Not the diode here; in the 1960s electronics became interesting and available as there was so much junk. I mean, people used to litter everywhere and there was random junk piles (and landfills) within minutes in any direction filled with TV and radio chassis, waiting to be hauled home with my minibike, spending hours retrieving valuable components as there were no retail electronics supply houses within a hundred miles and no one taught me mail order (RS Electronics - you suck, charging a 13 yo who walked miles and his whole weeks earnings the commercial MSRP for a single bridge rectifier). Each component was carefully removed, curated, and possibly fitted into some circuit from the few electronics books available to me. I cannot imagine how much lead exposure I had. My 15th birthday was a trip to a distant town and $100 to spend at this place called Radio Shack (and a bike), where I discovered all this other stuff and Forrest Mims. Theory had to wait until I went to HS and College in a larger city, but my seventh grade spanish teacher gave me his GI bill oscilloscope because I could identify transistors and current flow through them (Thank You prof Ludwig) and that kept me busy until then. Looking back, where there was a will there was a way.
I agree with you that this is a very strong sentiment. People don't want everything to change all the time underneath them, especially not the UI.

But freezing everything for years puts too many people in a situation where they just have to upgrade for one reason or another. It's not always their choice and it's rarely a desire for change that makes them do it.
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I also really liked "History of the Plague in London" (http://www.amazon.com/History-Plague-London-Daniel-Defoe-ebo...)
I assure you it felt very strange and unusual to me as well. I was being told all this by someone who had gone to Yale for her PhD (in theology, but still) and who beforehand I was on good terms with, as far as student-administrator relationships go. That's probably when I realized most credentials were bullshit.
It's okay for words to have wide and general meaning. Assault can mean flicking someone with your middle finger. It can mean saying something threatening. Sexual assault is a kind of assault. Barfights and brutally beating someone all count.

Similarly with sexual harassment. It doesn't mean exactly what you have in your head at this particular moment and nothing else no matter what anyone else says. Look it up if you care to and you'll find its definition is quite broad, especially the way it's used in general conversation. Nobody is suggesting locking people up in jail for saying bad words -- it's an absurd strawman, though it's quite an effective way to derail the conversation and avoid having a real discussion.

The article is about the climate of abuse and sexual harassment of women in astrophysics departments. Groping, specific comments, threats, general comments. Everything from flirtation to repeated unwanted advances to actual assault. That is what we are discussing, so when someone says women should go to the police to report the crimes described in the article you need to assume they are talking about the crimes described in the article.
Please provide examples where homogeneity on both the gender and race axis occurs so frequently this could be considered a reasonable event?

I never made such a claim. I'm not sure what you're going on about, as I essentially agreed with you a few comments ago. Reread. Check yourself, specifically the conclusions you are jumping to.
Portugal had a peaceful military coup in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
I think it goes back to the fact that a few loud and vocal people(groups) can distort the perception of average or commonplace. Despite it being an inaccurate representation of the whole.
This reminds me of being forced to do math by hand in school, instead of using a calculator. Mostly this just left me with contempt for the teachers.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11521079.

This submission was posted earlier; that one got more of a discussion and we eventually changed its url to the primary source. We do want to make the duplicate detector better at giving credit to the first submitter of a story, but in the meantime any individual case is a bit of a toss-up.
React Native Hyperlink
If everything's a link, then you hardly need special notation to call out the links from the non-links. It's not a conscious effort to make links more identifiable; it just didn't occur to the creator that you can do something with links other than underline them.
Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M for cognitive video game intervention
What I find is that when I get together with family or long time friends, it's the reminiscing about the past highlights which serves as a refresh of the collective memory and serves as touchstones to also renew interpersonal connections. As a kid I wondered why adults retold the same stories over and over again, as an adult I see that it's a way to save the most important highlights (and maybe add new ones over time).
Whats interesting is it looks like they were bound and killed somewhere else, then dragged into a shallow trench.
Or maybe even not a particular time and date, but "maybe sometime next week?" or "I'd love to, but I'll have to take a rain check". Those are both "yes in principle"; anything less than those is "no".
Thanks, bookmarked and will be sending this around!
Authors can be wrong in interpreting the available (or lack of available) information. According to Ole Benedictow, there is little or no surviving records of plague in Sweden, but I would be curious to know why Larsson and Marklunds interpret that as that there was little plague there?

Ole Benedictow's chapter on Sweden (mainly discussing the lack of evidence, except for church donations)
https://books.google.no/books?id=ZtjwPOB7aMkC&pg=PA170&dq=%2...

Stockholm in 1710-1711 had no problem in being rather brutally infected, with at its peak 1500 burials per week.

The Last plague in the Baltic Region from Frandsen:
https://books.google.no/books?id=F3bNWrVRMb8C&pg=PA65&dq=%22...
Have no excuses
A <Hyperlink /> component for react-native that makes urls, fuzzy links, emails etc clickable
Intel finally added cache partitioning in Broadwell, which lets you restrict parts of the cache to certain cores. Combining that with pinning tasks to cores can help with cache thrashing.
I thought we resolved this with hackernews.el - why would you read hackernews with anything but Emacs?

IT MAKES NO SENSE>
Periodic table of DevOps tools
It's not just VAT, many countries have additional taxes on cars. Extreme example: Denmark, where the tax on a car purchase is something like 180%. So basically, you have to import the car if you buy it in another country, which may mean quite a big cheque to your country's tax office. In the end, the system of taxes and various other obstacles is such that it's mostly not worth the trouble to buy a car in another country and import it home.
A Note on Space-Filling Visualizations and Space-Filling Curves
> If they were designed to be beautiful as well as
> functional, they might well see a bump in transactions.

More people would visit, or people would just buy more when they were already visiting?

I find it amusing that some of the most popular sites are considered bad designs by people who think they have all the answers to web site design (at least, they're getting involved in this season's look), whereas the sites which apparently demonstrate good design are ugly, less pleasant to navigate, and harder to extract information from.
I would say its relation to vendor management is shaky at best. I am also curious what you think they should be doing better--I certainly do not waste my time shopping elsewhere on the internet. There is no reason in most cases: it is easier to wait for sales than it is to bargain hunt because everyone else is just as bad as amazon.
For people who read this and are curious for more perspective on React Native and Titanium, there's a nice discussion here on the React Native Community Facebook Group with a developer who used to work at Appcelerator and now runs an agency where they use React Native exclusively: https://www.facebook.com/groups/react.native.community/perma...
You can use dtruss, you just can't use it on certain binaries. A friend said that you can disable certain parts of SIP to enable functionality like this but I haven't tried myself.

Looks like this is the command:

csrutil enable --without dtrace
The repo maintainers are going to be on the hook to rebuild every dependency every time any package in the dependency chain changes. That sounds like a nightmare versus the current scenario where only one package gets revved when a library has a bug.
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