skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> smart but artless

This depends entirely on what you're working on - programming is just a tool to make something after all. As an example, I'm a video game programmer who specializes in gameplay (characters, weapons, metagame, other mechanics), AI, and user experience. This means I'm also part game designer, so there is a ridiculous amount of creativity required for my role on a daily basis (which I absolutely adore). It's really nice not working to a hard spec, a lot of my job is trying different approaches and seeing what's fun.
and I bet they don't cost $800,000 each
We (at D4) have been offering something similar - QueryTree lets users connect a data source (MySQL, MS SQL, AWS or PostgreSQL) and then build powerful reports and visualisations with no technical knowledge required. We even suggest JOINs that make sense automatically. http://querytreeapp.com/

I'd be really interested in feedback from people who like/dislike the Google Data Studio product.
Why is your friend saying that? Is there any proof that Google is not taking those privacy options into consideration?
... For developers. It's always been more free for users.

That's the point of it.
I've been using passff[0] with a lot of success for an in-browser pass client with filling support and so on. Works really well.

My understanding is that Chrome makes it difficult to have this kind of thing due to it's sandbox. There was some talk of exposing pass over the network locally so there were no sandbox concerns.

[0] https://github.com/nwallace/passff
Google could have spread the Beta using an invitation-only scheme (Remember Gmail? That's how they controlled the load). Exclusive invitations are more inclusive than a US-centric approach. Customers get fed-up with US-centric approaches, which give us:

- Different content on Netflix (Many movies in US, less than 1/4 in Poland),

- Different treatment as civilians (See: NSA spying, Predators)

- Movies coming 6 months later in Europe.

I get it that US customers have more money, but if companies could use a specific criteria like "high-return customers" rather than a prejudice like "Only Silicon Valley customers will understand", that would be nice.
Aside from this specific event, do you have the feeling that we will be unable to stop catastrophic changes on earth due to pollution and resource exhaustion (overfishing etc)? Think about runaway greenhouse effects, floods, loss of biodiversity...

I think Elon Musk is right in his urgency regarding the Mars colonisation plans. Sure, you can always say "let's wait a couple of decades, with the new tech we'll have then it will be much easier and cheaper", but you could be mistaken. Technology and human civilization does not always move forward. We've been thrown back many times in the past and eventually there will be the day when we will not recover to previous levels: The beginning of the end. By then, we will no longer be able to tackle a huge challenge such as Mars colonization because we will be fighting for survival.
From the FAQ:

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
Whilst I can't speak to HoC, my understanding is that CGI is frequently used because it is cheaper than constructing large sets or shooting outdoor scenes, or is used to add small elements to a scene.

The BBC drama Poldark makes use of CGI to nail some of its historical elements, for example: https://www.latitude50.co.uk/journal/on-the-set-of-bbcs-pold...

Both Battlestart Galactica (the remake) and Firefly were fairly low-budget productions which made extensive use of CGI.
Anybody else seeing something similar to this? https://i.imgur.com/Dz1FLGQ.png. It's as if GitHub was embedded in an iframe on this repo's page.
Drive-db, Google Sheets as a database in the browser
A scrimmage in a Border Station-
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.

As Kipling put it the last time we were in that part of the world. The Western militarys spend the $80,000 because whilst the soldier firing it may not make $80,000 in a year the cost to recruit and train, as well as the future economic worth of the citizen, is far greater.
great quote.
Yup, I'm seeing the same thing. Weird.
C++: Wrapping Resource Handles in Smart Pointers
It's obviously not a headless browser but xvfb can be very useful depending on what exactly one is trying to test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
Gmail finally gets an update on iOS – 3 years later
D.T. is the embodiment of everything Singapore taught me to fear about democracy
If they just cover it in Elon Musk's roof tiles it'll pay for itself!
Velocity Conference San Jose 2017 Call for Speakers
While your point is valid, a little compassion for those who suffer under this pollution, which is caused by a lot harder problems than a few million motorcycles.
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I have also worked on a few interesting startups and projects.

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Secrets of the Emoji World, Now with Its Own Convention
I really wish we had a good set of scriptable browser engines (i.e. everything but the graphics part) for all browsers. That would make testing so much easier.

Even simple tasks like taking a screenshot of a given web page involves PhantomJS, which seems really heavy-handed.

Thanks for compiling this list but the issue I'm having with this is the lack of a rating system based on usage, Github stars, downloads, repo activity, project creation, corporate support, etc. to get a measure of how reliable those tools are.
Thanks for the comment! I will try to come up with a good design for next week!
This is a thing that I really liked about the movie Interstellar. They faced similar problems and painted a view on what it could look like.
Of course. Can you provide an explanation of double-slit experiment using Standard Model of QM?
An Exhibit of Art from Inside Prisons
That has really little to do with mathematics...
Think they're just looking at self reporting. Otherwise n=400 gonna be small.
Well ... I guess I feel a little bit better knowing that today in The US we'll elect a rationally corrupt president instead of an irrationally corrupt president.
UK halts Facebook's WhatsApp data dip
> Bosnia/Kosovo/Croatia/Serbia.

The wars are over for a long time, these aren't ceasfires.
I second the audiobook suggestion. It is really something that fills the gap between radio and television, and sometimes better since I fiddle with things as listening to television anyway.

If someone wants to try out audiobooks and doesn't mind older books that are in the public domain, there is this youtube with hours of listening: https://www.youtube.com/user/rt20bg/featured
I'm sorry but dancing is definitely not one of those professions where "if you believe you can do it".

Depending on the specific dancing style there are strict body types and features that you need to have, and not all of them can be acquired by training. So yeah, nature is not fair but feel-good comedies don't always apply to real life.
Democracy in Danger: How strong are the institutions of liberal societies?
I can call myself any of those things without getting into legal trouble. If the context is that I misrepresent myself to have credentials I do not, that could be a crime yes. But saying I'm a doctor, professor, or even judge doesn't automatically get me in trouble as it would in other countries.
I don't think that you're the only one.

I watched the first season (a few years ago) only and gave up. Watching adult actors play teenagers or listen to the same jokes again and again is really boring.

There are a lot of other series that deserve to be watched.
The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
Rolling Stone Defamation Case, Magazine and Reporter Ordered to Pay $3M
Homebrew is one of the great things I love about doing dev on a Mac. /micdrop
Yeah as the article mentions, the English press has only lightly touched on the story. There is a lot more to it.
I've never felt stigmatized because of my profession, or as though I have to "switch between two worlds". I suppose there's a point to be made that it's not easy to discuss with someone outside the field the difficulties of implementing algorithm X or integrating API Y with service Z, but I imagine the same must be broadly true of any highly technical field. Are biology and surgery and piloting "Asperger professions", too?

If anything, I've often found that the perspective and knowledge that come with my professional experience are socially valuable, rather than the converse. I get a fair bit of my social interaction over beer and cider at a nearby bar, and it's pretty common that, when a conversation gets around to professions, I find myself fielding questions on all manner of subjects from the plausibility of widespread voting machine fraud to the rise of the machines - I spent a good few minutes the other day allaying fears that turned out to go back to that Ars article with the picture of Arnold as the T-800 that turned up here a little while back. I suppose the possibility exists that I did so in a particularly Aspergery way.
that's a good idea - thanks for sharing.
For anyone wondering about this particular sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkFz1ZbXyU
I did something similar in plain C:

https://github.com/ademakov/MainMemory
>'How on earth is mutagenesis normal? How is nuking seeds causing massive amounts of mutations "normal"?'

Do you mean laboratory mutagenesis initiated by human action or other types? You know humans don't have to do mutagenesis to do farming?? It sounds like you're presenting a false dichotomy. It's not my field, can you explain why these are the only options?

>'There are no laws in physics which prevent the DNA from getting altered at exactly the same spots through deliberate random mutations than through GMO methods.' //

And a seed could spontaneously form from a confluence of cosmic rays. but it doesn't. Which is why I invoked the mathematical impossibility.

And just because mutagenesis can occur without human action doesn't mean we should run in slipshod. Stabbing can occur by accident, doesn't make purposeful stabbings a good idea.

Your car analogy needs a small adjustment, the mechanic thinks they know everything and has already written off several cars by modifying them; oh, and their alterations could spread to other cars, houses, tables, and make the entirety of manufactured products fail. But hey, nitroglycerine explodes well, let's try filling fuel tanks with that, and liquid oxygen in the air-conditioning.
Why Every Business Should Use “Irregular Thinking” to Find Breakthrough Ideas
How the 'Net works: an introduction to peering and transit (2008)
OK, and what do you propopse? Oh, wait, you're Bloomberg, you don't propose
anything constructive.
this "article" reads like it was written as propaganda by in-house HR to retain staff.
3% is basically a non-raise, it just keeps up with inflation. an extra 5% is alright, but is not adequate to retain talent who knows their worth.
i once received an annual raise was 2.5%. i pushed back a bit but not too hard, as i've done this enough times to know that it is never worth the amount of stress involved.
fast forward a few months, i'm walking out the door to a new gig with a signifigant increase (lets say 20%).
old mgmt didnt see it coming, despite the ample warning i gave them, and ample opportunities to correct the situation.
they never do, just accept it and move on
Seems like a great idea! Just yesterday I created hn-comments[1], a collection of great comments made on HN. Can I embed a single comment as well?
Edited for clarity.

[1] https://medium.com/hn-comments
Exactly. You could do me the minimal amount of work required to stay employed but then you can't expect a generous raise, unless you manage to play office politics very well AND the workplace is quite toxic to allow that.

Personally, I try to give a fair amount of effort to deliver more value than expected. It doesn't mean that I am working 60hrs/wk or anything like that, just trying to be creative and not asking anyone to hold my hand in my explorations.
What the Data Nerds Are Watching Out for on Election Night
Either clear cookies, install an extension that clears cookies, or open the "web" link in an incognito browser session and open the Google link from that.

At least one of those options should work, most likely all three will.
A Real Economic Meltdown: The End of Roman Britain
Working in the film industry and this is both true and untrue, depending on the situation. It's very hard to estimate. But yes CGI can make certain productions a lot cheaper, while a lot of films also have a ton of CGI work for superfluous reasons. Retouching the actor's faces for instace is more common than you would imagine, in the industry it's called "beauty work" and it's widespread.
Craft – A Plugin Suite for Sketch and Photoshop by InVision
Responsive Applications with Asynchronous Programming
What did (s)he do there? (Not a native speaker if that matters).
Here's a thing I made to script WebDriver from the terminal or shell scripts:

https://github.com/mbrock/wd
Actually, I think other than the obviously ethical issues surrounding anthropocene, Humanity can easily survive, as long as there is access to petroleum reserves to keep the logistical chain running - high CO2 levels though will probably make a good portion of S Asia uninhabitable.

Once that dies, the accumulated karma will come back with force (and for good ?). It's fashionable in certain circles to say US fracking can sustain the system, but I'd be very wary of such statements.
Brilliant assumption that I have the skills. Ok, I'll have a go...

http://imgur.com/tvXmCvr

What do you think ? :)
You can't work full-time under 16yo, so all jobs require age verification??
Worthwhile Testing: What to test in a React app (and why)
In the UK, only one big(-ish) ISP supports IPv6, and 2 significantly smaller ones. BT claim to be pushing it out next year, but they still have a large number of older consumer-end router/modem devices which can't be updated for it, so it'll take another half a decade for those devices to fail and be replaced. Once BT have pushed it out, many of the companies that depend on them for varying things should be able to build implementations fairly quickly.
Most of the tools listed use PhantomJS or QT core browser as the base. The problem is that PhantomJS doesn't support many new API-s or the rendering is different.

There is also headless chrome browser in development, not sure if there are any prebuilt binaries out there?
Anal leakage - thanks Olestra, didn't know that was even a thing.
Heh, probably not the best example of cheap TV. $3.8m wouldn't even pay for a single House of Cards episode.[1]

But it still works as a good example of the economics:
"With Netflix spending a reported $100 million to produce two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards, they need 520,834 people to sign up for a $7.99 subscription for two years to break even. ... That sounds daunting, but at the moment, Netflix has 33.3 million subscribers, so this is an increase of less than 10 percent on their current customer base."[2]

[1] http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/caa-agent-discloses-net...
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/econom...
https://comments.network/ allows Reddit comments as well, but I just titled it accordingly to this page (:
I think about leaving programming every day. I love programming, but I'm not sure I enjoy software development as a career.

I enjoy coding and understanding how computer systems work, but I don't care for the constant changes in tools and techniques in certain domains of development. I'd rather practise with and improve my existing knowledge of a subject, instead of constantly playing catch-up with someone else's tools and workflow. I also don't care about waterfall, agile, scrum, kanban, scrumban or any other development methodology that I've missed. I hate that my job has me chained to a desk (sitting or standing) instead of being able to use my body. All of this makes me think that real-world software development doesn't really suit me.

I'm about six weeks into a new job after leaving a company I worked at for just over five years. Amongst many other reasons for leaving, I thought that a new environment would change how I felt about continuing a career in software development, but I'm not sure that it has. I'm aware of how lucky programmers have it, but I can't help feeling like I just want something else. Grass is always greener, etc.

What are the career options that allow one to work mostly by oneself in one-to-two week stretches without having to play the development workflow game with the daily standups and so on?

Sadly I'm not sure what I'd do if not programming, but music is a big interest and I'd considered teaching music.

tl;dr Woe is me ;)
I think that we're pretty much fucked wrt climate change. It seems unrealistic to assume that we'll leave any profitable fossil fuel unburnt and I don't think that we'll scale up nuclear or renewables quickly enough. Overfishing is a similar topic where we'll keep fishing as long as people are buying fish, regardless of what it does to the oceans.

I think you are a little over-optimistic with the Mars colonization plans. A Mars colony would be dependent on Earth for material support for a very long time. Setting up the necessary infrastructure to produce all materials needed for the maintenance of the complex technology required by an extraterrestrial colony will need decades if not centuries. If civilization on Earth collapses before that, the Mars colony will die soon after.
The secret sauce to managing our backlog and TODO lists
The Artificial Pancreas Is Here – Autonomously Regulate Blood Sugar Levels
Except Google let's you control what ads you're targeted for: https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/ads/authenticated

In your hypothetical, Cat lovers who want to keep that information private can remove 'Pets & Animals - Pets - Cats' from their account targeting. Now they won't see the coffee pad ads.

And no, coffee pad advertisers can't target you based on your pornography viewing habits, HSV cream purchases, or any number of slippery slope examples.
I live in Korea. No particular authority, but if anyone has additional questions I can take a stab at answering.
I think machine learning people use a combination (specifically the harmonic mean) of both when evaluating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score
3 Reasons Data-Driven Organizations Win
They can be manipulated even with paper. Look at the absentee ballot scandal in Florida.. DNC operative filling out thousands of absentee ballots in secret rooms.
From what I read in the reviews, some physics background is needed to understand this book. Could you perhaps recommend some reads/lectures/moocs that would prepare a physics newbie to be able to read this and comprehend most, if not all, of it?
This is the way I am going.

I spent a long time trying to find an up to date javascript engine in a headless browser a while back before I gave up and just wrote a chrome extension, installed a copy of chromium, and ran the whole thing in xvfb with the extension added by command line.

In the end unless you are severely resource constrained,it is a very good option.
Can you explain how these are evidence against pilot wave theory? It's entirely compatible with Bell's inequality and indeed makes all the same predictions as other, more popular interpretations of QM, so it's not clear why these papers would be evidence against it.
My original plan out of school was to become a Japanese translator and I still enjoy Japanese-language stuff. But honestly I couldn't deal with the vicissitudes of being a freelance translator while at the same time never making much money. I enjoy this too and it's much more stable.
TalkTalkTalk: an easy to deploy straight-to-the-point web chat
On my Window phone, I have an app that can do navigation while offline... many companies, like Google, want everything to be server side because they want to learn more about you.
previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12886672

and relevant info on the cause of the smog. Its not industrial pollution, but agricultural burning that's happening in neighboring states - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unch...

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/amp/articles/2016-11-04/who...

As last time, here's the problem to solve : what is a cheap, recyclable way to plant seeds without burning (last harvest's) hay ? The current solution of using a "seeder" costs 1900$ that is unaffordable by farmers. This was posted in November 2015 - http://scroll.in/article/770176/why-we-should-be-alarmed-at-...
Ha, another one. I'd do the same! Except for the travel part, I'm too broke for that. Perfect for a samana, I guess.
The Jet Propelled Couch (1954)
Emotions You Don’t Feel
I'd love to take this test.

I don't really know the answer to if I am or not.

For instance, since everyone dies, I'd certainly like to die in a fantastic and wonderfully improbable way. Or if a doctor told me I was going to die soon, I'd accept it and start doing really irresponsible and dangerous things...

I wouldn't be like "oh dearest me, I must clasp on to life longer." Is that suicidal?
Unless you're severely handicapped, I don't understand why wouldn't you be able to dance whatever type of dance you want.

If you have all your limbs and can walk, you can perfectly dance whatever is that you want. If you're fat and can't dance no more that one minute without getting out of breath, get in shape and train endurance. As simple as that.

If you're 5.4" or less and feel intimidated dancing with a taller woman, find yourself a woman of your same height.

You shouldn't be cutting away wings and locking up birds in cages telling them they can't fly.

Mental handicap imposed by oneself -or others, which at the end of the day ends being oneself- is the worst of all.
Part 2: http://harpers.org/archive/1955/01/the-jet-propelled-couch-2...
i've tried some of these for a project ( i had to cough automate download of files from a site made in old asp.net and with a lot of new js on it), only awesomium was able to do the job, but, man, it was overwelming difficult! i had to inject fiddler as proxy to catch exactly what was happening, awesomium by itself just can't do it, we are very far from a real scriptable headless browser.
More networks coming soon so you can actually show the comments where the appropriate audience is. I spent the last couple of days improving this so adding a new source is easy, and right now all the HN specific code stands on 130 lines (I am using 2 different sources for HN) and Reddit-specific code stands on 32 lines.

I wouldn't expect someone adding comments to a recipes blog, so they could add the appropriate source for the comments. Someone suggested Designer News, so I'll make the integration after the Product Hunt one.
Out of habit, I tend to always use a not-logged in state for everything, and if I need a particular service (including Google), I do so in an Incognito window.

However, I don't use a VPN or spoof my User Agent. Google 100% knows who I am without using any fancy tricks. I've wondered -- wouldn't I be better off logging in everywhere, with my Google privacy settings flipped to maximum? While it's certainly possible for them to map my fingerprint back to my account(s) and opt-out preferences, I think that's a bit much to expect for them. I might be shooting myself in the foot by always being logged out!