skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working as a dev for a company In the industry I fully agree. This has been an issue forever, companies use high-risk billers like Epoch and pay higher fees due to the huge amount of fraud involved and the lack of competition. Also, there was a case a few years ago when ING decided to close down a company's bank account just for being in the adult business. I wonder what's so shady about just a very big entertainment industry like this one.
>I agree with the parent post: now is the time. Open source projects should to stop supporting py2 in their new major release and cleanup their codebase from the hacks made to support both languages.

The danger with this for Python is that it can give the impetus (is that the word?) and motivation for people with py2 legacy projects (which is the majority of people) to say "fuck this" and go try another language that doesn't pull this shit on them. Go, JS with Node, Ruby, whatever...

If they're not gonna get compatibility anyway, they might jump ship altogether. At least for green-field projects...
I do standups twice a week. Though it is a violation of true agile principles, it's pretty tolerable.
Wrt. Honnold's amygdala - it isn't clear that his amygdala doens't work - at least looking at the brain scans of Honnold and of a control climber's one can see that the control's brain has the signal going all the way from the visual cortex (back of the neck) to the amygdala, while Honnold's brain doesn't seem to conduct that signal to the amygdala. According to the article both climbers were _looking_ at the same arousing images. One can wonder - how about scary sounds or touches - would Honnold's amygdala receive such signal from the corresponding parts of the brain processing such sensory input? Or alternatively - if we instead of getting rid of amygdala just block or attenuate the signal pathways to it?
In science, you never trust your own eyes. By using machines to do the observing we can see all kinds of things, such as X-rays and neutrinos. Those devices can pick up patterns of radiation are the hallmarks of matter/anti-matter collisions.

We see those signs now, faintly. It can be tracked down to various processes, such as when cosmic rays strike the atmosphere of Earth. But, even though it is seen out in the cosmos, effects are far too small. We would expect that if galaxy-sized clumps of anti-matter existed, the anti-matter hydrogen would be aglow with anti-matter radiation as it collided with hydrogen from near by matter galaxies.

We can observe back to almost the beginning of time by looking into the distance. Even there, we don't see the imbalance. This suggests that something happened right at the beginning.
Only a few species of hydrozoan from genus Turritopsis. They are able to just revert between polyp and jellyfish so technically never die, but is a little like a species of embrio growing inside the body so could be said also that they clone itselves and their clon takes the place. In that sense much more vegetables are inmortal, with a little help from humans. We can trace easily some cultivars to several thousand years and a few historically relevant specimens to 2000 years ago or so. I'm talking of a single individual, not of the species.
Conlanging Documentary Film
To me, free will is the lack of external forces controlling my decisions and actions. That is, I can decide things for myself, even if those decisions are a deterministic product of my current state.

How are you defining it such that it must be non-deterministic and distinct from randomness? I don't really understand what that means. Assuming there's a single shared reality, what's the source of the non-determinism? Even if you say that's the free will itself, you'd be asserting that our "wills" are somehow capable of randomness.
I'm assuming you don't have experience with this sort of computer integration. It's just using web portals to give problems with varied values (so students don't all have the same answers) and grading. It changes little about the problems, except in that the websites can be extremely frustrating when the right answer is 0.2 and 1/5 is wrong (without asking for a decimal.) You're still solving manually, but the grading is automated.

I also tend to think you should know the underlying math before you apply it on a computer. It seems like you're just learning which buttons to click on the program without that underlying comprehension. I can't imagine trying to understand calculus without being grounded in algebra first.

Then again, maybe what I've described is just a learning weakness in me.
Inline Styles are bad (or not)
Ask HN: Your optimal way to start Computer Science?
what better place to ask this question than HN?
If you could do it all over again, how would you it?
Imagine yourself in your early teen years, fully capable of self-teaching and already with a solid foundation of maths and sciences, yet you never really got into much computers technology (have not done any programming).
But now you want to get into it, you have the time and want to make it a learning experience with the future in mind, rather than an immediate goal of being able to program on a language or two ASAP.
At the same time you'd want it to have it moderately exciting, practical, that you can start using somehow computers in projects that a child is more interested, like robotics rather than pure software.
How would you do it? What resources you'd use? Would you start with a functional language when you'll start applying the concepts you learn or not?
This is not a hypothetical question, somebody needs your advise.
Transitioning to a new language through the "wrap and extend" strategy is wise. Nice to see a tool popup around it.

One thing that stood out to me was the reference to HTTPoison. It is remarkable how ubiquitous HTTPoison became, despite how little it offers over Hackney. Slightly more familiar syntax, a convenient 'use' macro and a prominent place in the "Programming Elixir" book took it a long way. An important element of being a fluid Elixir developer is becoming comfortable with the Erlang ecosystem (and the often difficult to read documentation). I have the feeling that the prevalence of HTTPoison in current libraries will look like the proliferation of "acts_as" gems from the olden days of Rails.
Ads, including native, require clear verbiage. Ad blockers will always be able to target that verbiage.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/nat...
That reminded me of an old Alistair McNeil novel set in another geographic area where a natural catastrophy can be expected at some point in time[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_California
Most of the pages and accounts I refer to are not bots, but businesses with obvious names and content, or are run by real people who are from lower wage countries, and not sophisticated at all.
No, for the most part they cannot. That's why it is so exceptional when there is an academic that has a solid grasp of the subject and can make that intelligible to the general public.
The road to Internet connectivity for the nation's poor originates in Detroit. I know that I've posted this before so forgive me.

https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/digitalstewards

A group of volunteers in Detroit are the pioneers in setting up mesh networks to provide connectivity to the poor. The recipe is to get some benefactors to sponsor one or two fiber connections, campaign with local businesses to open their connectivity and build a mesh network throughout the neighborhood.

I've met these people and have come away impressed and a little in awe of what they've done on - little or no money. They've also got some mean technical chops and have setup networks in other cities around the world like Brooklyn, Washington D.C. and India.
I'm expecting genuine diamond iPhone and Watch "glass" within a few years.
Wise. I tried to force the traverse (different face, similar situation) and fell 30 feet. It's only by God's grace that I'm still alive, and not in a wheelchair.

And that was pretty much the end of my free soloing career, too...
Microsoft Research Explores Secure Cloud Data Exchanges
I'm happy with the results, but this is an 80/20 thing. I'm going for minimum time and money, and maximum adherence to the routine. This means do it at home, 30 sec-1 min rest between sets or superset, 8-10 reps per set since I'm not going for pure strength. I'd consider getting a small bench. They're under $50 for a small unobtrusive one on Amazon. I do 3x a week alternating routines:

A) Goblet Squats 3x8-10, Dumbbell Bench Press 3x8-10, Dumbbell Rows 3x8-10 each arm, Situps, 3 sets

B) Dumbbell Reverse Lunge 3x8-10, Dumbbell Press 3x8-10, Dumbbell Bicep Curls 3x8-10, Hanging Leg Raise, 3 Sets.

At 50 lbs, the Goblet Squat won't do much, so I would substitute something like a Bulgarian Split Squat. You'll be upgrading your powerblocks in no time...
I'd wager it's unhealthy as a sport, but that health maintenance involves much more reasonable weight goals.
Part 1 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049559
Secure Data Exchange: A Marketplace in the Cloud [pdf]
Antimatter has positive mass. Negative mass is a hypothetical construct that does not appear to exist.
I guess I stand corrected on some points, but Wikipedia seems a lot less certain than you regarding anti-gravity.

> Antihydrogen atoms should be attracted to other matter
> or antimatter gravitationally with a force of the same
> magnitude that ordinary hydrogen atoms experience.
> This would not be true if antimatter has negative
> gravitational mass, which is considered highly unlikely,
> though not yet empirically disproven (see gravitational
> interaction of antimatter).

I'm not sure what the exact meaning of "highly unlikely" is in this context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen#Characteristics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_a...
You pay a percentage of most costs until you hit the deductible. After that you're covered 100% until some much higher limit.

Or copays. I pay $20 to see my general practitioner, $30 for specialists, insurance covers whatever else is left to cover. If I have a surgery (happened two years ago) then I hit my deductible and my medical is mostly free the rest of the year (some things I still had to pay a portion of).
>That's what someone would do when holding a gun trying to aim backwards at the cop.

I note my fingers are spread out (show all 10 digits), I wouldn't recommend doing it with anything in your hand: cell phones, wallet or even ID. Anyway ask a cop about it...it has always been acknowledged and appreciated in my experience.
Mondo 2000 – Issue 1
Another vote for 5 x 5. The app is a little in-app spammy, but the free features more than make up for it. There are even linked youtube videos for each exercise.
Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1
Can you point me in the direction of the empirical evidence from which you conclude this?
looks great but "everything" is crossed out on your site
Are you sure they want robotics rather than pure software? For the longest time I was really put off of programming because of all the libraries and magic going on and people trying to show me the "cool stuff." It was cool stuff but I could never really get into it because I never felt I had a good feel of what was going on and there were so many components involved. I think if I was introduced to competitive programming earlier I would have loved it. Nothing messy to think about but the problems themselves and some kids might be motivated by the competition or puzzleness of it.
wow. i can actually assemble a set of real gemstones to play splendor [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/148228/splendor] with.
افلام سكس عربي نيك عربي ساخن سكس نار
I'm not necessarily a DN. I did travel with my family for 2 years by sea. We've covered over 8000 miles and now we're back on land. We saved enough to where we didn't need to work. And it was a good thing. Not being tied to anyone else's schedule meant we could stay or go when we were ready.

Europe and North Africa have very good internet. But internet in North Africa is heavily censored so just be smart about it. As we moved further down the Atlantic it got less reliable. And once we got to the Caribbean it was hit or miss. But by then we were seasoned sailors and were far less about the DN life.

By the end of May I tied up our boat and settled into south Florida. I will say the one downside about DN living is that when you are ready to settle in permanently employers assume your just doing this temporarily. I had to really press HR to get that feedback. Now I bring my apartment lease agreement to job interviews.
For 2 reasons :

1. Every mechanical lock can be opened using a tool called ITL2000. It is a robotic arm that tests all the combos of the mechanical lock.

2. The maintenance of codes in a bank using mechanical locks is very complicated and costly. When the person in a branch who knows the combo takes holidays a locksmith has to go to the branch to change the combination, for example. In an electronic lock (SG-6121) there are the master code and 9 codes, one of them opens the lock without waiting for the delay.
I have no idea how that happened.

Should have been L-1, L-2, L-3, and L-4. Presumably an L-5 given I started off talking about 5-point scales.

Log10 might be a bit much. Log2 or log-e might well be more appropriate, or other scaling factors.

Memo to self: no HN commenting when brainfarting.
I got mine yesterday. Replaced the preinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 LTs with Arch Linux and I was shocked how well everything worked. So far I haven't found a single thing that doesn't work and having installed Linux on a lot of laptops in the past that's truly not something I would expect. Apart from the icons in the Gnome app tray I haven't seen any issues with HiDPI either.
> In this case, it's almost ridiculous that live data (and examples of such) aren't front and center.

The liveliness of the data doesn't have much to do with the library itself. The question you should ask yourself is "how do you update data within a chart?"
Out of interest, why did you decide to build this as an app rather than a (mobile-friendly) website? I would expect the latter to be quicker to build and easier to distribute.
I think it was WinRAR-style shareware, where you were supposed to pay after a certain number of days but it wasn't enforced.
Facebook only auth === immediate uninstall.
The experiments to settle this are still being designed. But one of the most recent found no evidence for negative gravity up to a non-definitive but suggestive level of accuracy:

http://alpha.web.cern.ch/node/248
My father was an organic chemist with a Ph.D. from Yale. After earning his degree, he moved to Delaware to work for DuPont, along with thousands of other scientists. He was paid very well in comparison to the average blue collar or even white collar worker in the same city, so I think his Ph.D. paid off handsomely.

My parents didn't wait to start a family, purchase property, and start building personal wealth. They got involved in community affairs and local politics. They put down roots and had a balanced life.

In contrast, many Bay Area tech workers are living like extended adolescents, living in rental housing and working on a "corporate campus" for a company that is essentially in loco parentis. Typically they are not engaged in local community affairs or politics. Is this not somewhat like college?
I think it means that the theorized nature of antimatter in the dominant model has positive mass, other elements of that theory have proven out well, but we generate antimatter in the quantities we'd need to do good tests of gravitational interaction, so we haven't empirically verified its gravitational interaction.
Why am I not surprised? I wonder if there's a way to put a spotlight on that practice? Medium post?
This notion of equality would make pattern matching on empty lists or objects impossible in languages such as Erlang or Haskell. Perhaps it makes sense with the knowledge that each array is a different object, but it is highly counterintuitive.
I followed with rapt attention the first free-climb of the Dawn Wall[1] but free soloing is orders of magnitude more incredible and he makes it look so easy. Amazingly talented guy.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/sports/el-capitans-dawn-wa...
I was just trying to illustrate how the logic of AND differs from what was shown above, not give a useful example.

A more practical example might be something like

/(10|22)(.*crab.*&.*apple.*)90/

in order to only match strings where the content between the numeric codes matches both "crab" and "apple" in any order.

To be clear, I don't know that it's useful enough to warrant inclusion in a regex engine. I'm just trying to provide a useful illustration.
>The position of the key moves

This has been true for function keys over several generations of Mac laptops/keyboards. Rarely they were kept in the same exact position for more than 2 years or so. So nothing new about the strip in this regard (if anything, it might give people the ability to have them where they are used to).

>and requires that the functionality of the keys be completely configurable - something I personally find unlikely given the current trend of Apple products.

That's kind of the whole point of having soft keys though. And I don't see this trend of Apple removing Mac OS configurability really, except if we talk about things like adding security sandboxes and checks (which is done for a reason: security).

>And they frequently have very specific form factors to match their controls. Very few are flat slates with graphics on them

Some though are basically just that. The lemur was just a touch screen for example and there are other strip like models of the same thing. Others are just sets of unmarked keys, for you to decide what each does, etc, but all identical otherwise (for which an OLED strip would be an improvement). Those things are popular in the electronic music production world (which I participate in). As are mere overlay stickers for the keyboard.

>I'm not asking for an alienware gaming laptop, just a laptop fit for a developer.

Developers usually have meagre CPU needs -- especially the majority which are people like web developers (and most C developers I know too). Heck, Linus Torvalds made do with the old MB Air (with Linux) and now a Chromebook, again hardly the most capable box.

The only exception would be for running multiple VMs, but while there might be legitimate reasons for running > 1 VM or needing more CPU power in general than what a quad i7 (as in in the MBPr 15") offers -- but I doubt those reasons are there for a large market.

>all I want to do is develop software while using collaboration tools and not have to worry about my battery when I'm off power

While larger battery life is always good, is there a large enough market of people who develop all day unplugged and need more than 5-6 hours of battery (which MBPs can do)? Enough to justify making a bulkier case for a bigger battery?

>I'm not asking for the removal of a touchpad, just the addition of a touch screen.

My argument wasn't addressing the removal of the touchpad, but the utility of having a touch-screen in the first place. If it's of marginal utility (without, as I wrote, a detachable screen), why have it?
Looks like it actually uses d3 ;)
This is so true. You have to remember that finances were really tight at this time. The University budget was getting cut left and right throughout the history of Gopher's evolution. At one point there were plans to outsource everyone to the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

Of course in hindsight obtaining grants or forming a partnership with a non-profit org or an academic department might have been a better choice, especially for all the professional services requests.

edit: Also you have to remember that computing was a LOT more expensive then. I have old quotes for SparcStations and RS/6000s that were in the $20-40k range, even with an educational discount.. The Mac IIci's were not cheap either ~$5k when loaded up with RAM.
I think it makes a difference if you have an explainable excuse to do so - it makes it a lukewarm email instead of a cold one. "You posted your email on a hacker news job thread" or "You interviewed a friend of mine who suggested this" or "I met you at a tech conference and got a business card" or whatever.
Christa Quarles of OpenTable: The Advantage of ‘Early, Often, Ugly’
The link points to a page that only contains the text "return true to win" in large type on a white background. As with most modern art, I don't get it.
I just watched (mostly) the CppCon talk you posted elsewhere. The coroutine approach is really interesting, but I'm confused as to how it's different. According to a source I found[1], the way coroutines are implemented is that a new stack is created on the heap and it moves back and forth between that. Isn't that the same case here? Is the compiler level implementation(as opposed to boost, as in the linked reference) different in some way?

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/121757/how-do-you-impleme...
You're rebutting someone that merely said that the industry is "far from a small market" which was in response to someone claiming it was a "tiny" market. Pointing to one of the largest companies operating a web business is not really a rebuttal. That just says they are far from being the biggest.

I wouldn't call a $5b market a "tiny, niche market" like the GP post stated.
What I've been told about #censusfail
Would love to see a more in depth callout to the firearm and firearm related services sector in this. This is considered a high risk area for seemingly entirely political reasons, and any body in the industry is constantly afraid of being shut off at a whim for even tangentially related services.
https://www.coursera.org/about/terms/honorcode

I will not make solutions to homework, quizzes, exams, projects, and other assignments available to anyone else (except to the extent an assignment explicitly permits sharing solutions). This includes both solutions written by me, as well as any solutions provided by the course staff or others.
How to stay motivated in a long startup journey?
Yep. Besides the legalese they must include (https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/nat...), they will never win because users control the client/browser. Facebook's efforts to block ads will always be futile.

They could block ad blocking users completely, but that would be too much negative PR and hurt their already peaking MAUs.
That's what Diamond Foundry, the SF startup, is doing. They have a good story: "We produce gem quality diamonds above the ground in America — in harmony with nature and humanity. A carefully chosen earth diamond is at the origin of each of our diamonds. In the perfectly nurturing environment inside our foundry, diamond crystals want to continue to grow."

The CEO was the founder of Nanosolar, which printed solar cells and went bust because, although the process worked, it wasn't cheaper. The investors in Diamond Foundry are the usual suspects - Zynga's founder, Sun Microsystem's founder, Facebook's co-founder, a former eBay CEO, etc. They even have an actor, for coolness. An endorsement by Leonardo DiCaprio: “I’m proud to invest in Diamond Foundry Inc.– reducing the human and environmental toll of the diamond industry by sustainably cultivating diamonds without the destructive use of mining.” It's a classic startup story.

They claim to be "0.001% Rare"; this reflects their market share, like a microbrewery. Their big problem seems to be distribution. Only five small jewelers handle their product. De Beers punishes jewelers who do things they don't like by excluding them from "sights" where jewelers can buy diamonds at wholesale prices. This makes it hard for competitors to get access to retail outlets.