skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some reporters can break stories too, and the same newspaper can have cronies too.

There is a good email in wikileaks where Jake Tapper is pushing back against a slanderous story published against him. Made me respect him for that. There is also another one, where a buzzfeed reporter is introducing a collegue cordially and professionally.
So... sounds like the word is being used properly.
Dark ages? Ancient civilization collapses?
There's interesting projects on Upwork. You just have to know how to search for them, "Other - Software" is one.
Same approach, just done ten years ago:

http://colin.mollenhour.com/2010/06/30/the-right-way-to-opti...

This has stats, again for whatever version Apache was up to decade ago (there was a while between releases).

> For my benchmark I ran “ab” (apache bench) since it is quick and easy but admittedly not the best for benchmarking overall site performance. In this case apache bench is going to under state the value of this tweak since one page load in a browser will result in repeated hits on the webserver, all of which will be affected by this optimization. So, I benchmarked on /errors/503.php so that the database is not factored but PHP code is still run. Specifically, I used $ ab -n 1000 -c 20 .../errors/503.php.

> Before: ~3000 requests per second (3018 max)

> After: ~4600 requests per second (5030 max)

> That’s a pretty nice improvement. Unfortunately it is only substantial with fast requests such as the error pages and static files but it should definitely reduce disk contention on a busy server and increase scalability, but probably not do a whole lot for user-experience on a low-contention server.
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No news agency anywhere merits trust. Many merit attention nonetheless; a thoughtful reader armed with knowledge of a given agency's bias and style can still derive useful information from its work, and every blue moon or so one finds a story that's actually true at face value. (Never count on it, though.)

Keeping up with current events has always been a full-contact sport, never more so than today. Whether you feel it a sport worth playing is your own lookout.

(And a US presidential election is maybe not the best introduction to this perspective, unless you value full immersion, because it's the one time when absolutely everyone is guaranteed to be lying just as hard as they can - and all in the most meritorious of causes, of course.)
A big part of the US political discourse for the last 5 or so years has been that the voters no longer have any say. The machinery of so-called "Big Defence" trundles on forever, immune from the politicians who might want to cut spending due to the attack ads they would surely face about "jeopardizing national security".
I know. And then came the malware.
I'm very sure that as soon as you make any useful prediction from your favorite interpretation you'll get a Nobel prize (and then it would be a real discovery in physics and not a philosophic talk) but nobody produced anything from these interpretations up to now, except maybe getting paid for doing a non-physics work. To me it sounds only like a philosophy question when you write "what does quantum collapse really mean in physical terms" and that "really" exposes it. To compare, there's no "real meaning" in the existence of atoms, electrons and them making molecules, but we still know it makes calculations of chemical reactions obvious. What does it "really" mean? It doesn't matter, they exist, and behave as they behave. What does it "really mean" that the electrons exist can be pushed through the conductors? It doesn't matter if you formulate the question like that, but without them existing, I wouldn't be typing this on the computer, I wouldn't even be sitting on my chair etc. Even more profound, without the electromagnetic force existing there would be no stars and no galaxies. We know that because physics. You can talk about the "meaning of it" but you won't make any discovery unless you actually do some physics.
One day....when I have enough to live comfortably, I want to get into gaming (Youtube and Twitch or whatever is the main medium for games then).

I LOVE gaming (and transferring my skills learnt from programming & the startup world to the gaming/streaming world).

Apart from that...I've wanted to try and be an investor/trader but I don't know if it's really something I'd get into given the commitment & resources they require.
I've done a similar thing. There are annoyances with both XVFB and Firefox instances clobbering each other though. For XVFB, each instance needs a globally unique display number. For Firefox, you need the "-new-instance" or "-no-remote" option, along with a unique profile (e.g. in a temp dir).
Ask HN: Would you add a Workshop/Class mode to your web API?
Hi, an Ask to web APIs maintainers!

I teach young interaction designers how to build things using web APIs. Many others also try to use web APIs to teach kids or adults.

It's now a lot harder than a few years ago.

That's because there's very few unauthenticated endpoints left[1], and when authenticated there's no API mode suitable for teaching the API to a class or workshop group.

I totally understand the need for control and limitations in web APIs.

I'm just asking: would you, web APIs maintainers, be open to have a workshop mode to help teach your APIs without compromising security and ressources ?

As an example:
Instagram was easy to use in a learning environment, one of the nicest API to teach a workshop: rich data, accessible, easily working client side in the browser and… cool for students ;-)

With recent restrictions to public content in sandbox mode, it's now very hard:

- Sandbox mode is inadequate for a class (very restricted in term of public content, 10 users). It's restricted in a way that students can't build engaging demos. For example, most of my students don't publish images they have empty accounts, and the sandbox restrict data to their own accounts.

- The Instagram App submission process doesn't account for workshops and learning environnement. (Which makes sense!)

There's similar issues with most APIs. (I use to use Twitter, but it became cumbersome for javascript client-side workshops)

Proposal:
It would be great to have an intermediary Workshop mode in web APIs, suitable for teaching and using the API in a workshop context.

As a starting point, it could

- allow access to public content, because it's the easiest way for students to dive in an API.

- use an expiring shared token as auth (given by the teacher) so students don't have to authenticate for most contents.

Would you pledge to implement such a workshop mode? :-)

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/05/easy-apis-without-authentication/
How can you possibly know that? There are many 40-year olds that are perfectly healthy and have no children and so on.

Just like there are many 20-something that have children and a full schedule and maybe even health issues.
I can't imagine myself wanting to leave. We are defining the worlde for everyone else. The amount of power over the course of human affairs is staggering when you think about it. A fullstack can be toiling away on some CSS layout problem today and come up with a better design of some widget or other which leads to a breakthrough in UI/UX approach. Several months later nobody is using webpages in the same way. A novice can innovate things that an old hand would not think of and turn the whole world on it's side. The reach and breadth of computing makes it too exciting to forgo.
Same for me. Switching is the best way to get a raise, and I like the change. And I'm always at my best when I'm fresh at a new job.
> an Asperger profession

could you, please, elaborate on this meme?

And that pyramid, well, it definitely is the way how a corporate and enterprise Java software has been and still being made. Java itself is an ecosystem for creating coding factories - to parallelize the process of coding (one cannot honestly call this programming) among teams of easily replaceable, uniform (in terms of abilities) cheap workers. Every manager will tell about this ideal.

For programming look at PAIP or the lisp code supplement to AIMA - this is programming. Take a look at Plan9 - this is programming. People who have created Erlang were engaged in programming. Code that runs Google's AI is programming. This is an art, same as writing poetry, composition of music, writing symphonies or complex novels.

But there are very few slots available, because demand for programming is very low - it is still difficult and very expensive. Conveyor belt coding, on the other hand, is indeed fits the Kay's pyramid metaphor. And the result of such process is crap - everyone have seen "enterprise code" made by such sweat shops..

The crucial difference between an art and merely piling up more crap is that art means an attempts to approach an ideal, an optimum, perfection - it is, ideally, a reduction process with eventually converges to the closest possible approximation to an ideal. Something like this:

[] ++ ys = ys
(x:xs) ++ ys = x : xs ++ ys

While in the in the second case is just a process of production. Not in the sense of Japanese perfection of every move and detail, but in the sense a hipster produces yet another narcissistic blog post.

BTW, Asperger is this. And it is not that bad.)
Dunno. The facts on the ground are that Choi's father became an ordained priest in '75 (reportedly he paid handsomely for his ordainment and didn't actually complete theological studies) and set up his own Christian-Shamanistic church. Commentors describe him as having been mostly interested in political gain and using his cult as a means to do so. It's unclear in what capacity his daughter has actually continued to do so. One of Korean's Shaman associations has publically distanced itself from both of them this week, effectively calling them self-appointed charlatans.

Basically, cults do exist in Korea, and cults and political leadership have been involved with each other. Whether there's a grand conspiracy I can't say.

I'm no fan of religion myself, but in fairness it's important to note that "Shaman" & co are sort of a trigger word for a Western audience, invoking images of the barbarians at the gates - that's our Christian cultural-historic bias at work (I'm originally from Germany). This conflict actually plays out in Korea as well, owing to a large percentage of Christians among the population (how that came to be is in itself a fascinating topic). But really it's just a tree of folk religions. The problem here is how easily it's invoked by cult schemes, I guess.
There is PDF file. You can read and check if it's new or not.
Tesla Acquires German Firm to Create ‘Tesla Advanced Automation Germany’
Here is a recent discussion of such an event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12767821
Too true, unless people take action to improve the environment around them, this planet will continue to degrade in health, and in the treatment of the people on it. We need to stop dumping crap into the ocean, air & environment in general, and treat the humans that are here on Earth better, not as worthless cogs in an earth destroying machine.

None of this is impossible, its just the will to stand up and fight for a better world has been suppressed, you won't see hundreds of thousands of people organizing to fight for a better future like with Silent Spring, Cesar Chavez or MLK today, that is the major issue blocking forward progress. If we can get people out in the streets, marching to fix our world, we can accomplish so many great things. Short of that, business & governments will keep things as close to the status quo as possible, and we'll watch our world continue to degrade.
That explains it, in the UK I thought it was branded as a "netflix original" which surprised me because as I said, it didn't feel like one. I could be wrong and perhaps it was just in the same list but styled as "netflix exclusive".

I'll be sure to check more closely next time I'm logged on.
What are you talking about? I have zero pain points with the thing.
OK, thanks. It was a few years since I touched the Mac package managers.

(I ought to ask or go read up on why it is like this, but I'll let it wait a year to when I research the next machine anyway.)

(Edit: Weird to not allow root? Oh, next year. :-) )
First order of Action when setting up new Mac install chrome and homebrew :), Fantastic tool keep up the great work.
as fastly goes, so goes github
Scientific method say that if observation contradicts your theory, then your theory is wrong.
They stopped doing the age related holiday amount thing at German universities about 4-5 years ago (I'm not sure if everywhere but at least where I'm at). Their argument for stopping was, as you said, that it discriminates by age, which they deemed unacceptable.

Now, everyone gets the same amount of holidays, i.e. younger employees get as much as the older ones, not the other way around.
They can try and justify it, but as it turns out I can't pay the rent with "greater freedom".
Sounds to me like the president has a multitude of skeletons in her closet, through which she's being blackmailed. Or perhaps she's just a puppet, under someone else's control all along.

Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I'm not too surprised to hear stories like this. Our political process is just so dysfunctional, that I don't think it's possible for a normal, worthy leader to actually win the election. The only way to get to the top is to sell out your integrity in one way or another.

We wonder why our leaders are so morally bankrupt, when really, our process is explicitly designed to weed out anyone who isn't.
Few days back, I made something like this that could show both subreddits and HN posts and submitted here [1]. Didn't got much attention....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382072
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I'm not sure it's an unsolvable problem, given enough data. Sure, a lot of people would recommend me Venture Bros (including my wife) since I enjoy both Archer and Bob's Burgers. But I have tried multiple times to get into it without success. Maybe it's just that those two data points aren't enough to pin down what it is I like about those shows that Venture Bros don't give me (at least in the first few episodes).

But you are right, I've scrobbled 100s of thousands of songs to last.fm, and those recommendations hit at best 50% of the time. I'm hoping machine learning could help here, as I'd always like a good recommendation, seeing as I seem to be picky.
The last 4 digits of his SSN. The last 4 are often used as a default password for financial accounts and to verify identity over the phone. Along with the date of birth (dob). It's a bad idea that it's used so much for security, but it is. It's a good thing for scammers to have and asking for it and the dob in this context is a huge red flag.
The DF-21 "Sunburn"[1] anti-ship ballistic missile:

carr[ies] a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one strike.

Additionally, Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

[2] http://www.usni.org/news-and-features/chinese-kill-weapon
I bet the OP can make loads more money in VFX than going back and doing some junior programming role, hence I'm with him.
Here's our motivation: https://blog.cloudflare.com/evenly-distributed-future/
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I actually thought about going into the alps mountains shepherding cows on a Alm. Its peacefull and less lonly then programming.
Sure. They'll be reliable any day now.
Not a native speaker either so I may be wrong in this assessment, but a physio is someone who also gives therapeutic massages when needed. Hence, rubbing shoulders.
I'm not really on top of the whole Megalian thing (and not familiar with the case you mentioned). While it's true that the gender conflict in Korea is trending tenser in general (it was interesting to watch how the Gangnam Station murder results in lots of semi-related venting), I think Megalian is about as fringe as /r/redpill or something. It's not something average Koreans are aware of or that comes up during normal conversation.
Once you are big enough to be able to negotiate prices that are nowhere near the published prices for AWS, it clearly can start becoming cost-competitive...
“We thought it was important that Tesla become, in part, a German company,” Musk said

I like the sentiment, but why? Because of some mythical German qualities? Because proximity to other big carmakers is important for some reason? Something else?
That's probably what romans would have said though :)

Thing is, not only this is stating the obvious, this is also true outside of america.
When you're desperate is when you're most vulnerable. Unfortunately there are people/organizations that operate by taking advantage of this.
Yes. My goal is to reach $10 million net worth (so I am no longer dependant on income to survive - yes, I can live more cheaply, but my favorite cities happen to be the most expensive).

Then, I would retire from the industry and focus on doing computer generated art and sculpture.

That would let me stay in software, but let me be creative (I don't want 'creatives' to design thing, as if they were a different species - I'm creative myself!). No scrums (aka micromanagement), no testing, no bureaucratic processes or anything like that - I would just spend all my time creating.
Yes there is a Tableau Cloud – costs extra though! ;)
If you look at humanity as a whole, spreading out to other planets is clearly a step on the evolutionary ladder.

Colonizing antarctica would not ensure humanity's survival if there is a global extinction event.

A Mars colony would be very small at first. To be self sustaining you would need a good size. Elon Musk estimates you'll need around 1 million people. Even with a lot of spaceships capable of carrying 100 people each going every 26 months (when the distance between the planets is small) it'll take decades.

Why do you think the West will be ok in the long run? What happens to the rest of the world? Will they just sit there and wait to die?
Or worse, you die early.
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It's also not very good.
I'm not even sure why people report ONLY accuracy as an evaluation metric. It means nothing - appropriately weighted F scores, precision, recall give more insight into the system.
The US is actually very strict with a variety of penalties for companies that violate the law regarding overtime. The amount of overtime pay and the hours at which it starts are clearly defined.

There are, however, some exemptions for some occupations. Computer professionals, farmers workers, artists, professions (i.e. doctors and lawyers) and managers are all exempt.

It's debatable which professions should remain on this list but the law is reasonably strict with respect to over time pay.
LOL...touche!
Thank you for comment!
Earth is not just threatened by human caused problems. There could also be some other catastrophic event such as supervolcanoes, meteorites, killer virus. We may not have enough time to "fix" it.
A second outpost drastically increases our chances of survival.
Suicide is a big taboo in the 'western' christian society, but there are (and have been) lots of cultures were suicide is looked at differently - as something honorable, good, etc.

Even our culture has different interpretations for it - eg suicide vs sacrifice.

We morally condemn the former but elate the latter, even though the outcome is the same - a person dies.

Metaphysically, the meaning of suicide is given by the perceived meaning of death and the [lack of] belief in some sort of afterlife.

Is it a sin or not ? If there's an afterlife, will you be punished for committing suicide? What about the loved ones ? They will judge..

But for example, if you knew that this life is actually a realistic VR simulation that you've entered into, then suicide would be perceived as a sort of 'ESC' key - a way out of the simulation. Like exiting a game.

If a person's circumstance in life is such that the person is bound to suffer until death (eg. disease, mutilation or loss of everyone), then suicide might be looked at as a sort of release - a good thing..
There's the whole controversy regarding assisted suicide..

Then there's the sacrifice - going into battle screaming is a form of attempted suicide combined with attempted murder. At the end of the day, the battlefield participants are eventually split into killers and those who committed suicide. From this perspective, going to war is collective [attempted] suicide.

War is a form of temporarily suspending the moral rules we obey by (do not kill others or self) and people gladly participate in both killing others and themselves.

I guess my point is that tfa is looking at a very narrow spectrum of 'suicidal people' - suicide is a lot more prevalent than that and it's practiced not just by people with mental illness..
This could replace tools like Geckoboard and Tableau, which when I used last (a year ago) were a pain to configure and manage. If Google makes it easy to bring data in this could be a really nice solution to the existing reporting solutions that are poor in quality or convoluted to use.
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Yes, and they leak info to advertisers, as I point out here [1].

And I know it is against the rules to complain about this, but somehow that link got downvoted for mysterious reasons. I think I'm raising a valid point here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12899160
I left programming to get into application security, and I love it. There is still some programming and a lot of reading code, but it's a million times more enjoyable than writing endless REST APIs for me.
You have it right.

Others have pointed to you that to dance you only need to be able to move, to that I agree. But between dancing and have a profession out of dancing there's a big difference.

There are lots of reason why now I can't base my income in dancing, I'm telling them as to give a data point as to why it's not allways as easy as "if you want you can".

First: I don't live alone anymore. Married with some obligations. My income needs have grown, even though there are two sources of income.

Second: Physical activities require discipline, that I lack, and time, which is now spent on my "new" job, my partner and housework.

Third: There are several possible incomes for dancing. None of them make the cut as a great source of income.
* Payed exhibition dancing is usually done by younger and more talented people, also it's inconsistent income. Done a bit, enough not to find it feasible.
* Competitions don't pay that much, lots of politics in there.
* Teaching (which is what I love) doesn't pay much unless you have a name, with low salary you'd need lots of classes, but names teachers get most of them.
* Staff work pays less than teaching, necessary for the school to function, but boring.

Fourth: compatible schedules. Being with someone that lives in "the real world" means that working 15 to 23/24 is not seeing them (staff+classes+parties). That and money where the primary causes for my change of career. Priorities matter.

Fifth: People tend to prefer tall, fit, young, handsome male dancers and short, fit, young, beatiful female dancers. Each point where you diverge it's a handicap, I have several.

So yes, I could have kept on my dream job, but I would have to leave behind too many things that I need, like my SO, and would have to go back to living with flatmates. All that, in my early 40's, is not what I want of my life.

"Never stop dreaming!", "if you believe you can do it" are nice phrases to throw at people, but you can cause them to lose their grounding in reality, where sometimes dreams have to be crushed for the greatest good.