skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a programmer and in my opinion "active code", in this context, implies there is actual code expressly written to fulfill a task (i.e., to not allow homosexuals to match). While in this case, substantial parts are missing (e.g., everything that is required to allow the site to fulfill the needs of LGBT* users).

Should we call something that does not even exist "active"?

Edit: after thinking about it for a bit, I'm quite sure the site probably actually does have at least one clause written, somewhere, to make sure only men + women match. Simply removing them wouldn't result in good UX though :)
This is great job! Congrats !!!!
>A bigger concern to me is that people might interpret these findings as assigning fault to people who get cancer. You don’t want to get into situations where you feel as if people don’t deserve help because they didn’t try hard enough to stay healthy. Much of cancer is still out of people’s control.

Although only one paragraph, I'm glad the author addressed this.

All of these tips and lifestyle changes are great but this doesn't make those of us with loved ones with cancer feel any better. By all accounts she has done everything to qualify as "low risk," but still got cancer.

It's still an odds game. Better odds don't guarantee anything. It's unfair, frustrating, and infuriating.
Could it be that they have the resources to purchase necessary items because they opted not to purchase the several dozen unnecessary items that their non-minimalist peers had sprung for?

It's well established that poorer people not only have fewer resources, but are generally worse at allocating the resources they do have. This is attributed to a difference in perception of money (something to spend vs something to save).

It's not a difference between being able to purchase an item versus not being able to. It's a difference between being able to invest heavily in each item you own — certainly a privilege of the well off.

In any case, whether the loudest advocates of minimalism are annoying or not, our base level of consumption is far too high for a variety of reasons: environmental, economic, and yes, I think emotional.

There are immense resources poured into making people want/need/desire more "things," and if their ability to acquire "things" doesn't make that possible, there's an inherent damage to a person's psyche.
You forgot GopherJS.
And no one used it, you know what was before C ? You probably don't because no one used it also after that. Azureus was developed 13 years ago and that was the client that was used... I know because i remember it also. And then they (from bittorrent inc) changed their python version to C++ and called it uTorrent because python was too slow and no one wanted to use it...
I didn't realise spikes, etc. were used for this; I would imagine this just "shifts the problem" a few centimetres, requiring spikes to stop people urinating on the spikes.

I think the "splash-back" approach to stop urination is a much more interesting topic, compared to unimaginative spikes.
That might be your specific interests but I'd wager you didn't come from a family with anyone in jail, your parents sent you to school and stressed its importance, and were well read for their education level.

Of course outliers exist and some very successful people come from very dysfunctional families. But if you look at enough people, they come out in temperament and attitude very similar to their family. The really surprising thing is how often one family will produce two top level musicians or sports players.
It is beyond me to understand how the decision making and maintaining process worked in this case but it makes me wonder why there is no such thing as a TLD for private use. Analogue to private IP address space. Now that TLD can pop up arbitrarily it would be quite useful to have something like that. Maybe .local could already be used for that purpose?!
>>Where i'm from it's absolutely super easy to get a good apartment from the government, and i almost never see homeless, despite having lived in various cities with varying levels of affluence and density.

Genuinely curious. Can you provide the name of your country?
The lack of custom value types has ramifications not only for GC, but for cache behavior. Which is why there's serious work on custom value types for Java; it's the major feature planned for Java 10.

Of course, most of the old-gen GC work in G1 is also done in parallel with the application, too.
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LOL boy do I miss my bundler only days
Complaining that a solution is bad because it does not apply to the people who willfully oppose having their problem solved makes no sense. Of course it won't eliminate homelessness in people who WANT to be homeless, I'm not sure how you could solve that problem with all the resources in the world.

And as I said above, this doesn't solve the issue of mental illness but none of the current ones do either. I would argue the majority of homeless people are really just regular folks who have had a serious financial issue (the fastest route to the streets is the medical system) and giving them a leg up will not only get them off the street, but would likely get them productive again.

I'm not arguing that basic income is the silver bullet solution to our cities' problems. I'm arguing for what we spend on the patchwork crap system we have now, we could use much more effectively via basic income WHILE giving these people at least a passing sense of ownership of their own lives.
Or maybe all of this was being done for the first time, and we have the benefit of 50 years of hindsight.
Of course Java has all technical bullet points checked and may be superior GC from strictly that point of view. But Go has 2 things from users' perspective upfront which Java lacks.

1. It uses about an order of magnitude less memory than Java.

2. It openly proclaims <10ms STW pauses for GC.
I started my career on the phones, while six year seniority isn't actually that rare it would be very rare for that to be lowest seniority.

Additionally it felt like a twist, I was waiting for this to be a mid-manager issue, where the mid manager didn't have the power to give the permission, not that they just decided to deny the two hour gap themselves and wanted them to apologize and come back.
No, not simple. Analyzing an arbitrary lisp program to determine the lifetimes of all allocated structures reduces to the halting problem, so it's undecidable. You must either restrict the input program or tolerate some leaks.
I learned about the Académie Française in French class (1990 or so). I thought they were guarding against anglicisms creeping in through teen slang -- "c'est too much" and that.
unless you're thinking of something that I'm not thinking of? RPN only solves this when the operators are known and used exclusively in operator context and can be relied on as implied close-parens
You could, be it would be silly.

http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-594952-galleryV9-gbyt-59...
My 2cts, not trying to convince anyone :) Just giving perspective; might help some.

There are many ways to do this. The easiest I found is moving away from toxic environments which, for me (it's personal; other people have different experiences I guess), are cities. You can get everything 'same day', you see many people 'having things' and 'having better lives than you have' (perceived) around you. And a lot of people are showing off their things you don't have; sports cars, new boobs, latest smartphone and so on. And that, even if you don't do it consciously, builds on stress levels, on top of the stress that you 'have to do stuff' otherwise you cannot pay for your tiny, very expensive apartment. Most people I know (exclusively living in cities) don't even dare to invite people in their homes unless they have stuff to show off in there minuscule city dwellings of E800k.

In my village people are down to earth, no-one shows off, you get a villa + pool + huge garden for a fraction of what you had in the city and you can survive there for a very long time with very little money because it is much cheaper AND there is a barter economy as well (I fix old computers for people and get food for instance).

I would never go back. I think a lot of younger people (me in my younger years) think they cannot live without the 'liveliness' of the city while burning themselves out. Not sure about the numbers obviously but most my friends have since moved and everyone regrets not doing it earlier.

Edit: rereading I notice my negative tone about city dwellings; that's because I cannot imagine / phantom that anyone would want to live in a cramped apartment ever and definitely not for that price. While I did when I was in my 20s and I was convinced I would never leave. But I was wrong; in hindsight I was just scared. Once we did try (my wife being a HUGE ex-city living fan, far more than I was) we literally turned 180deg.
France, Germany are my main areas. It still sends me to wildly different locations each search.

One example near Paris: some tourism company were hijacking Maps results so when I went looking for a specific language school this other place was the first result.

Another example: I was in Cape Verde looking for the ships chandlery. The results returned were in Portugal. My second attempt gave me results in Brazil and Portugal.

I've since learned to sanity check the results first. This can be hard when you are driving in a different country and Maps wants you to board a ferry and drive through sub-Sahara Africa.
It does seem pretty silly when after a good look it turns out that they are really saying, "be happy with all the things you don't need to have because you're so rich you can get them at a moments notice any time you want."

It's all so much "I don't even own a television" for the modern ear.
Running my own instance is a bit heavy just to try the platform :). But thanks for the tips, I can create draft and delete them without trashing your instance.

The fact that it is open source is a major positive point. I suppose you have heard of SJS [1] which in a way is very close to what PubPub is, except I do not believe in SJS because of it being closed source: it is way too unsafe for a scientific community to take the risk of adopting such a media for a new journal or a conference as the platform is not open and there is a risk of Elsevier buying it to shut it down or closing it even more, for instance.

[1] http://sjscience.org/
The comment I replied to used the term "win-win" when I replied, but it has since been edited.
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Ah the self-hating French...

It's not any more common in France than it is elsewhere. If you've been to a major North American city, you'll see that the issue is sometimes way worse abroad, where the social net is literally nothing.

You make it sound like the metro in Paris is somewhat extremely homeless-unfriendly, it's not, I take it every single day and most of the seats are normal ones and lots of homeless people sleep and panhandle there in a form of general laissez-faire. I'm not saying France is treating its homeless people well, it's simply not true, but please don't make it look like to the outside world that we're inhumane or particularly harsh in our treatment of the less fortunate.
Ask HN: How to Handle One Machine Learning Model by User?
Hello fellow data people,
I am developing an application that I hope I could present you very soon based on Django.
I would like to be able to compute one Machine Learning (ML) model for each of my users to recommand him ways to optimize his publications and auto-tagging.

It seems obvious that the algorithm should adapt itself to each of the user (How ? Retraining ?) and how do you manage a pool of ML models (store where ? how to monitor ?)

I guess this kind of thing is very similar to recommender systems adapted to each users or to spam filters which learns your preferences and so on.

Thank you in advance for your answers,

Best regards from France,
Jonathan
>arbitrary lisp program

Well, Carp is a dialect of Lisp so it's free to impose whatever semantics it wants. It's not a dynamically-typed language (where it would indeed be impossible to statically manage memory).
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What's your location? I've found the same - I can stream HD on Youtube gaming without an issue but not anything better than Twitch Medium. Sometimes I need to downgrade to low or mobile quality to keep up. I figured it was because of my location (not EU or NA).
Oh, it looks like that specific problem has been fixed, assuming you were running into it on the beta-1 release from itch.io. Thanks anyway.
Seems like "I've raised X of Y and I thought we might make a good fit", would be a pretty good filter.
I guess the point I was trying to make wasn't to brag that it was so great and easy for me to do, it's to say that maybe we have culturally made it seem harder than it is. The more press it gets the more the belief is reinforced.

We have tobacco companies still cranking out the same garbage, almost with the attitude that they are forced to keep making this horrific product because people are hooked on it. They keep taking our money, apologetically, as they kill us.
That's packages only, and with ports you're on your own, right?
I started a curated-link daily news roundup a couple months ago and the plethora of #5 was perfect for what I'd named "breakfast reading". :)
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Very profound. Thank you for sharing.
I am curious as to what improvements the reviewers made to your papers? What areas did they improve?

In the case of the one paper of mine that was improved one of the reviewers noticed a connection between our data and a paper published 10 years before in a different field that made our work much more interesting. Of course after incorporating this the editor rejected the paper despite all three reviewers saying it should be published.

The editor of the next journal I sent the paper to was happy especially as the paper has since picked up over 1000 citations, but such is the vagaries of peer review.
I recently wrote an article discussing how increased fruits and vegetables can prevent mortality from cardiovascular diseases, yet not cancer.[1]

My conclusion was that cancer is best prevented by removing negatives from life, not necessarily adding positives. ie avoid anything from stress to pollution to sunburn to obviously smoking. Interestingly, organic food doesn't seem to matter in the cancer equation, given the data we have.

Yet there's one thing you can ADD to reduce cancer: exercise. Preferably moderately hard to strenuous.

[1] https://blog.priceplow.com/vegetables
Ask HN: Can you determine encryption pwd with an encrypted and unencrypted file?
I'm curious, have you tried viewing the streams or VODs through an alternate player?

I've found that I can almost always improve the smoothness of their content by using Livestreamer[0] to play it in VLC (or Kodi, more often)

[0]: http://docs.livestreamer.io
Reminds me of a charset detection bug in some versions of notepad [1]:

1. Open new file

2. Type "Bush hid the facts"

3. Save the file

4. Open the file

5. The content of the file have changed to "畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts
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How would that work? It's an internet connected service that devices from all over the internet are connecting to.

They could hardcode the servers IP, but then they can't ever move their infrastructure (horrible idea). So they do the reasonable thing and put the name in DNS. Where do you imagine the lookup for this .local name being directed, and how will it end up at TP-Link's current management server?
Only a tiny minority of Chinese characters are pictographic, and most characters have a phonetic element. You'll have a better chance guessing the pronunciation of a random Chinese character than guessing the meaning of a random Chinese character.
> 10. "The discount is small." - It's like 40-70%, he quotes 30% on GCE.

It's 26% if you don't pay upfront. So yes, less than 30% that google gives you.
It doesn't have anything to do with the topic. It's quality of their network or quality of yours that is the main reason here. Not software.
Mental illness is a huge component to this, I agree. I think it's pessimistic to say that a sizable portion of this group couldn't become employed in some way. First, not all of them are mentally ill to begin with. Second, a lot of mental illnesses are quite manageable with the right care. Care requires money, and money is acquired by working.

Further, no mental illness has ever been alleviated through boredom, malnutrition, lack of sleep, social exile, and maltreatment.

Also, not every job involves sitting at a computer ;)
That depends on the encryption method used. If it is any good, then no.
That's generally untrue. Winning endurance athletes are almost all in the normal BMI range. You'll only see "overweight" (by BMI) athletes in certain sports such as weightlifting and (American) football which require huge bursts of muscle power for only a few seconds at a time. Those are also the athletes who unfortunately tend to gain a lot of fat and have many health problems once they retire from competitive sports.
What about social circle? This is the biggest question I have when I think about moving to a small place. And when you say small, how small do you mean - and where? A village in, say India, is very different from a developed country. You'd be hard pressed finding running water and electricity in a lot of those places.
But advertising slows growth. Both because of focus and not as good of an experience.
Yes you can rename milestones.
I might switch to DDG or StartPage now.
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>A sample of size 1 doesn't have any valid information in it. It is an anecdote - and nothing more. To infer from that is BS imho.

But, if that sample set
had been pg or "similar", it would have been received differently.

An entire industry exists that seeks to impart "life wisdom" based on a sample set of one. I've long been over the "here's how I do it, so you should too" books/advice out there, irrespective of the source. But, most people gobble it up if the author is perceived to be successful.

However, when the author is "just some guy like everyone else" it tends to come off as preachy and of limited value.

But, let 'ol James strike it big, and his books on minimalism will sell out.
I am in Australia where the pool of potential grant reviewers is pretty small for most areas. When you have a grant success rate of 15% it is all too easy to nobble your competitors via the review process.
My view prior to the report and from what I've seen so far in the Bush-Blair correspondence is the exact opposite.

They and the intelligence services were so convinced about WMD that there was next to no questioning, at high levels, of the flimsy evidence for their continued existence. I believe that they thought they were justified and that finding WMDs would be vindication.

It doesn't seem reasonable that such astute political operators would make WMDs the centre of their justification if they didn't think that they existed. The failing was that this blinded them to the possibility that the Iraqi regime was bluffing.
Oh yeah, the word "scoop" is used to refer to a collector for asteroid mining, though the manual also refers to "fuel collectors" that are intended to be Bussard ramscoops.

The physics are non-relativistic; correct. I have a section in my dev notes labeled "crimes against science" where I list out all the places I can think of that the game diverges from realism, (and avoid adding to the list) but I hadn't considered that yet since all the interstellar travel in the game happens through artificial wormholes: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/blob/master/spoilers/... (edit: spoiler warning for the link)
Frankly, it's silly to think that cognitive load is directly proportional to number of words/characters.

For example, the latter relies on more implicit information (the order of the arguments), which can be harder to keep in mind than the keywords use by the former, particularly as you add more than two attributes. I'd say this version actually reduces the cognitive load, but it doesn't save as many words:

(sul
(stylesheet :href "chrome://global/skin" :type "text/css")
(window :id "findfile-window" :title "Find Files"
(button :id "find-button" :label "Find")
(button :id "cancel-button" :label "Cancel")))
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I guess you caught me here logically. Thanks for it.

But I guess with the adoption of the policy of taking such decisions by public referendums is a good way to counter this shortcoming.
Why? Did universe not exist before the first life appeared?
Because a lot of people use github issues and milestones as a way to gauge what is needed to be done for what release, and the ability to order by priority is a great option.

You may think it's trivial and doesn't deserve the front page, but many people do. Clearly.
Workgroup
WorkGroup is a messenger designed for work:
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- As you chat, you can assign action items, so nothing falls between the cracks,

- Then, use the Noise-Cancelling button to hide the chatter and focus on results.
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This way, everyone knows what was agreed, and can follow up.
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Simple.
..you could just ask them, rather than waiting for your ISP to tell you "to stop hacking" - hilar
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"You can easily delete specific items or entire topics. You can also change your settings and decide what data gets associated with your account."

I guess that's nice. I wonder if they'd still keep the original data points.
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Twitch has a fairly high number of outages, although not all affect video playback (eg API outages). Most recently the whole site was down for about an hour from EU due to a botched CDN setup. I have a status tracker that monitors from four locations, https://twitter.com/TwitchStatus
I made the assumption that the query for the domain is statically resolved by the local resolver of the device.

I also do not know anything about the configuration of these devices, i just assumed it is just a convenient way to access the local web interface for configuration of the device. If there really is a centralized service on the internet needed to configure the device it would be somewhat problematic to set these devices up or not?
Although I'm not OP, I use Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/) at work and I absolutely love it. It's much better than Github for our use case, as it has subtasks, task merging, priorities, Kanban workboards etc. Tasks can block another task (for instance, the "Implement OAuth2" task can block the "Build a private API" task). You can flag objects for later and set specific privacy rules for every task (for instance, you can hide a security bug from the public until it's fixed). It's all tightly integrated with other Phabricator apps, which is a plus. Also, it's open source.
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I love those things as well!

We've gone a bit overboard and have "smarty" boat the traditional sailors loathe. Solar and battery monitors are wired into a Raspberry Pi for logging and graphing. I'm currently using Signal-K [0] as an instruments data server.

You may be also interested in my friends project called Boat Remote [1]. They can control the electrics and display data on a Pebble watch.

[0]http://signalk.org
[1]http://www.codewithasmile.co.uk/boat/boat-remote/