skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FFS, this article is nonsense. If you're not disciplined enough to properly read and review code whether it's colourful or not, syntax highlighting is the least of your worries.

Stop deflecting blame for being a poor coder
Jack Ma and Wang Jianlin.
A) Most children are happy.

B) 'The pain of being off drugs' - for opioids is a deeply physical thing as well. Once they are 'hardcore' it's no longer a matter of 'getting high' it's 'getting back to normal' - i.e. they need heroin to operate normally. The body adjusts to having opioids, and when it doesn't get them it 'feels' miserable. That's the trap, apparently.
I guess the Google Bot and Spammers around the globe appreciate the effort. :D
I propose that it should be outdated though. Does a lawyer have to be in the office at 8am to finish drafting that closing statement for his hearing next week? Does an accountant have to finish his client's tax assessment before 5pm?

I know lots of lawyers and accountants who do that stuff at all hours - exactly the same hours as I do my programming work.

20 years ago, I used to do the whole 'business lunch' thing with a lot of them too. Nowadays, it is usually a quick 'coffee catchup' at all sorts of hours - sometimes 9pm, which works better for us than the 12pm or 1pm lunch sessions used to.

Technology, plus the burdens of modern working life, means that 9-5 is really just a placeholder for "Oh, well those are the official times that denote when I will be available to do work stuff", but heck, that is really my "interruption time band" and my REAL work times are usually outside of that...
J.G. Ballard's Drowned World and Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zones.
Here's a different example: A new driver improves game performance for 99.9% of customers, and disables graphics output for 0.1% of customers. The bug could have been caught with a few days of automated testing in a test lab with lots of different cards and system configurations, but that's slow and costs a lot of money to maintain - chucking it over the wall to consumers is quicker and cheaper.

Seems to me getting the poorly tested drivers earlier isn't much of a deal for users. After all, just because I'm in the 99.9% this week, doesn't mean I will be next week.
Nobody thinks they aren't doing the spying. Canadians just trust that the spying is limited to the expected terrorism/cold war espionage/boarder security stuff, that they aren't letting the RCMP trawl the data to discover who is talking to whom. As recent news tells us, the RCMP have to resort to their own means for that.
Kinetic Sculptures (Art meets engineering)
He did this on his own accord, without petition from Google. Google has no obligation to pay him at all.

Well of course, but my reading of it is still that it's a damn shame he's getting nothing. Just because someone has no right to something doesn't necessarily mean they shouldn't get something.
Embrace the future :)
If you really want a small footprint app, you could build your own electron linked to your locally installed libchromium and locally installed node.js, then you can run the app against your local ffmpeg (from PATH, which is the default behaviour if the bundled ffmpeg is missing). Now it's only a few MB in size.
People use the term "military time" interchangeably with "24-hour clock" if that helps.
The issue with depression is I think this emotional signaling can be entirely miscalibrated, and sometimes, you do you have to figure out a way to override those signals.
2017 Ford Mustang GT
> With the rise of remote working, and other forms of communication tools, no one has to be constrained by those arbitrary work hours any more

No, that's completely untrue for the vast majority of workers.
But isn't he part of the problem then? He has a big mouth but just as entitled and 'elite' as everyone else, except he lacks all the good traits of a leader. Whenever something doesn't go his way he resorts to acting like a 5 yr old. He is a joker of a businessman let alone let him run a country?!
You're correct. We call the 24-hour clock "military time" and basically no one uses it casually.
just watched this earlier today on tv. u-ram has made incredibly beautiful living sculptures. his struggle to become an artist is very similar to ours as entrepreneurs.

the scarecrow [0] has became my favourite.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tju7-2qdoWU
It's not equivalent: it's designing a procedural system that produces certain outcomes. There's no reason to think those outcomes are inherently superior, but it's also unreasonable to think that it's equivalent to particular people doing the approval or rejection.

It's similar to a hiring process: which is better, having a known procedure and rubric for choosing which candidates to hire, or just allow a manager to go with their gut and choose their nephew? There's a sense in which they are the same--at some level, designing a system must still take into account human values and biases. But that's still a huge step forward from having people, even smart people, make gut decisions just based on what's in their head, even if that's still a decision driven by human values and biases.
I think it is too easy to put blame for society polarization on facebook and its algorithms.

Political discussion is a taboo for a long time. Now even universities are not safe place for discussion.

Discussion is a way to settle our differences in a civilized manner. And when you removed it, you get surprises like Trump or Brexit.
Other nearby buildings drove pilings to bedrock. Millennium Tower did not. The City of San Francisco would have had to approve of the construction and should have insisted that pilings be driven to bedrock.

It shows that people cannot trust builders or city engineering departments. The lesson is that if buying a newly constructed place, you should probably hire your own engineers to evaluate.
I think first, second, and third shift are pretty much just as rigid if not more so.
LOL - and our server logs certainly prove that too.

But just wait until the Google Bots become sentient - I am banking that we will be spared their wrath purely for breaking up the boring monotony of their crawling life!
If I want to talk to Uncle Steve, I don't really care what time it is either here or there, or what it signifies. All I care about is whether we can communicate synchronously at the time or not. If he doesn't want to be disturbed for whatever reason, he can mute/turn off his phone and I can send him an asynchronous message. Problem solved.
I think PC culture is maybe a problem here.

I worked in an F50 and for political reasons ... emotions are just not allowed.

I personally don't mind a little bit here and there. Someone gets angry, argues, whatever. It's life. As long as it's not personal.

I worked at startups and we used to debate, hardcore, all the time. No harm done. At the F50, it was too politically costly - everyone is trying to 'one up' one another, so it's about making as 'few social mistakes as possible' - and getting the occasional 'win' and making sure you kiss your boss's butt.

That's it.
One more thing:

> You are prepared to do it, good for you. But not every developer is like that.

They should. They work with those operating systems. They should know how
they work, not avoid learning anything by using Bundler or VirtualEnv. I've
seen too many so called "programmers" or "developers" who couldn't manage
their way out of a paper bag once they did something stupid to their OS, like
forcing installation of a broken RPM or accidentally setting 777 permissions
on /tmp.
I agree with this 100% when it comes to creating commits. It makes it easy to create sensible commits with only the changes relevant to the individual commit. You can see what's staged and tailor it quickly. I'm a heavy terminal users and I agree that in general committing from the CLI seems like using the wrong tool for the job.

That said, there's a lot you can't do easily or at all from the GUI. Rebases, surgically reverting a series of commits from a bad merge, re-writing branches, blame, bisect, reviewing the history of a single file, checkout of a specific version of a file from a previous revision; there are a lot of things that I can do easily from the CLI that I don't know how to do or don't care to do from a GUI.

Use the right tool for the job. The GUI is great for common tasks and the CLI is great when you need more power.
The conclusion that numerate people are coming to regarding algorithms for court sentencing is quite different from what you describe.

The conclusion there is simply a theorem: it's mathematically impossible to be both well calibrated (a black and white person receiving the same risk score have the same probability of committing crime) and also racially balanced (similar levels of false positives), except in trivial and unrealistic cases.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807v1.pdf

See also this WaPo article explaining in simpler terms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/1...

But the thing is, this theorem applies to any decision process - human or algorithm. You can't escape mathematical impossibility results just by using humans (e.g. NP Complete problems are still hard even if done by humans).

Human processes just add additional bias, e.g. the editorial slant that Vox wants Facebook to add, or the (alleged) bias that Facebook's human editors added before Facebook went all algorithmic.
That's a bug then: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues
Edit: could you check if ffmpeg was still running while it was spinning? Maybe we need to kill it if it takes too long.
nice! It's quite an achievement :)
Ask HN: Losing interest in life. What shall I do?
I currently work for a renowned tech company in US. I am male, 31. I make okay kind of money. Lately, I have been losing interest in everything. I work out 3 times a week. I don't have six pack abs but I would say I have healthy BMI. My weight is 149 lbs with height of 5'7".

At this point nothing excites me besides money.I iust changed job as well but I find that everything at new job is easy and at my previous job I was doing far difficult things.

I don't know if my lack of interest has to do anything with depression? I am scared to go to psychiatrist as it might create permanent medical record.

I admit that I am not best looking person out there. Throughout my 20s I have suffered due to baldness and lack of confidence. Since last one year, I have been shaving my head. It still bothers me that I never had a relationship. Now, at 31 I feeling what is point of marriage and all? I have asked so many women out only to face rejection. I am Indian and have tried arrange marriage route as well. But, only women who seem interested are 30+ or plus size women. Nothing wrong being plus size but my expectation from my future wife is just being in shape and educated enough. Besides that I don't think caste or religion matters.

I personally believe that apps like Tinder have put men at disadvantage. It has magnified hookup culture to the extreme so much that we can't imagine. Saying just "hi" to a women in coffee shop is now frowned upon.
Not sure if anyone shares same sentiment. But, I would love to hear from you if you have any advice for getting back on track.
Yes, it's arbitrary, but we're on a continuum somewhere between every couple feet the time changes a few minutes and no adjustment at all and it feels to me like we're close to a happy medium.
Gmail no longer allow new "send email as" address without SMTP setup. Google for Work accounts may still have this but limited to their domain only.

See the current procedures and limitations: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
> Venezuela problem is not socialism [...] Our all time problem was corruption ...

The first makes the second a lot worse.

Your problem is socialism. All of what is happening in and to Venezuela was predicted by people who simply observed the 20th century.
I believe Unsplash hand curate the images they add to their collection to ensure they are SFW and not in violation of any copyright. I believe they only add 10 or so images per week, so it could be manageable.
Censors opinions I don't like - Private company can do whatever it wants

Doesn't censor opinion I don't like - Harming our democracy.

Eg:

Trump is harming our democracy .

Wikileaks is harming our democracy.

FBI is harming our democracy.

Pepe the frog is harming our democracy.

Russia is harming our democracy.
Having all clocks of the world in sync will be a bless, but there remain a gap in time information, so people will add location offset by themselves (we mostly use time to describe life in our timezone) "yes it's 4 am, and i'm in paris". That location offset will be nothing but current timezones, with an inverted logic. I know we are all on different schedule and rythm, but 7am is a good time for breakfast, everywhere, 12h30 feels fine for lunch, kids go to bed by 8pm, and we should sleep at 2am. I guess timezone make life easier for 80% of the world ( i dont think it's 99% anymore)
Show HN: Chrome extension that replaces words into a different language
If you are moving very fast horizontally you slow in the upper atmosphere and your trajectory, in part, follows the curve of the earth. The net result is that you slow down through hundreds of kilometers of progressively thicker air. On the other hand, if you have no horizontal velocity you are falling like a rock into a much shorter slice of air. It gets much thicker very quickly. Either the capsule cannot survive the force of the thicker air, or it doesn't have enough time to slow down before hitting the ground.

Horizontal re-entry also allows the capsule to 'fly' by trading horizontal velocity for lift, keeping it in the upper atmosphere for longer. That isn't an option when falling strait down.
the 9-5 concept is not outdated for a vast majority of working humans on the planet. Lets not project our reality onto the rest of the world.

On the contrary, the 9-5 concept has never applied to the vast majority of working humans on the planet (agriculture, health, factories, sales, even most offices don't keep those hours). With growing communication across time zones, their difficulties have only recently become more obvious, previously this sort of communication was rare, now it is becoming commonplace.

The solution to not being sure if someone is working at a given hour is to schedule a call, preferably using a sane shared timekeeping standard which doesn't change hours at the whim of politicians.
> I never felt harmed by Microsoft

That's why justice, thankfully, isn't based on your own personal feelings. If you read the sentence, it's pretty strong.
> It might be remotely possible to put an entire nation on one time - i.e. put America on 'Mountain Time' - it might be possible to convince New Yorkers and Californians that they are getting up earlier/later etc.. But even that wouldn't be very useful in the end.

China does this, but I think for more or less the same political reasons they falsely claim that everyone in China speaks one identical language and everything else is a "dialect" of it.
Who would transparency in search algorithms benefit?
Facebook and companies like it will in the long run harm more than just democracy.
See https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-....
It's not about making something popular. It's about improving your own life. If you think someone's not telling you something because they're afraid you'll react emotionally, then by declaring your intention not to do so, you give them free reign to tell you things.

You don't need this to be popular. In fact, the lack of the idea's popularity may be advantageous. You get a chance to extract marginal information over what other people will get from the same person.

It's pretty much:

- What are you thinking about?

- I can't tell you. You'll laugh.

- I promise I won't.

- Okay, it's this thing.
It's not quite that simple. Timezones change (less often than postal codes, but across the world, it's still a bunch of maintenance changes). Getting rid of timezones would be simpler and reduce a monumental number of bugs (as well as code and potential problems). See the Russian changes!

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/
Consider a Monarchy, America
mobile wise when they started doing that i quit there was no point in using android. there is always sec testing but it is not as modular as it was. there is security and then there is economic security.
Static analysis is certainly difficult in Python, but you can still do a lot better than "missing docstring".
The Science Behind Ophiuchus, the Zodiac's New Constellation
My biggest problem from a couple years back was just one kid who's parents dropped like $600 on his deck and just played to be smug about his 30 damage turn 3 on friday nights. I've always loved trying to make competitive decks with as little money as possible though, maybe it's just me being silly.
Geforce experience is not available for linux.
for a lot of the client side apps I create, I want the response to trigger potentially multiple listeners that are used in a composed fashion. It's a lot less efficient to write 1:1 logic for each endpoint.
The algorithmic approach has the potential to offer greater transparency, but not if the algorithm isn't published.

This isn't really true. There's actually a mathematical discipline devoted to treating statistical algorithms as black boxes, and assessing their accuracy/generalizability based solely on test data/broad intrinsic properties of the algorithm (e.g. continuity parameters).

It's called "machine learning".

From what I can tell, the fundamental distinction between machine learning and statistics is that machine learning provides mathematical guarantees based solely on black box testing of algorithms and very broad properties of the distribution/algo. In contrast, statistics cares about the actual underlying process.
Those were just name changes, the rewrites were Netscape → Mozilla Suite → Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
Excuse me. Are you from the past?
Seconding the first bit of advice; I would go to sleep at 9 and sleep 'til 3 while my wife took care of night feedings, and then it would be my turn to start waking up to feed the kid until it was time for me to leave to go to work (~9ish.)

And, about the car seat issue: ours still starts fussing and flexing whenever we try to put her in the stroller, despite ... her always going in the stroller.
Sounds like a completely unworkable mess.
I'm guessing that nobody is really checking that. Imagine you are using an unsplash image on your website and it was "stolen" and copyrighted... (here in Germany) you will get in big trouble. Relying on unsplash can be a risky bet.
I think that the device's novelty made it worth studying how to replicate or detect it at large.
#11: Your user's browser has the final say in all matters of timing. Whatever you do, ultimately, if the browser decides that something has to be computed on your main JS thread while you are trying to hit frames and timings, you're screwed. Source: Making multiple HTML5 games with the intention of having them render at 60 fps and not missing a single frame.
My only disagreement is with:
>Human processes just add additional bias

Bias with respect to what? As you say, there is already bias baked into the data collection and the algorithmic choices.

The bias that human editors introduce is different, but not necessarily larger, however you even measure it. There are also myriad human choices behind the choice and deployment details of the algorithm.

An important plus for human editors is greater interpretability and greater transparency regarding the biases the system ends up showing.
In my experience, the stronger the opinion about the piece of advice, the less likely it is to be worthwhile.

With the obvious exception of actual medical advice, and how to let a baby sleep to minimize SIDS.
Well, I know exactly what goes in the Chrome extension (https://github.com/ericwoodruff/passwordhasherplus) or the android app (https://github.com/ginkel/hashit)

The point is that I do NOT want to store (even hashed) passwords with a third party in the hopes that they will be able to protect my passwords, when I can generate them on the spot from the device I'm using. But that's just me.

My post was just a comment on how people find third party password managers so secure. I can't be the only paranoid about this...
Go a step further and abandon their platform. Don't financially support their behavior. Convince your clients to do the same.
OK, sure, but so what? The fact that it takes effort to maintain doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
I first learned about this in the excellent and thought provoking book "Code Warriors" which covers all the ways that US intelligence efforts relied on code breaking after the end of WWII, but were often trumped by the Soviet's superior spy-craft.
I thought I was a heavy sleeper until I had a baby.
Always Great quality
for fellow web devs out there give http://unsplash.it a try for development easy, fast and beautiful placeholder images
I've never been to Delhi, I don't have plans to go, so I can't really explain why this makes me so angry. It's the tragedy of the commons, an entire city of people slowly killing each other.

What's going on over there? Can anyone who knows more about India explain why the people and the government would let things get like this? To pollute our own towns to the point of suffocation says something terrible about human nature.
The "gate-keeper" media gave us the Iraq war. Anyone who was skeptical at the time was dismissed as a loon or worse, censored via refusing to cover X's viewpoint. Vox's argument boils down to: FB regressed in area Y, therefore it's worse than the system that came before it. This is incredibly short-sighted thinking, to the point where it comes across as being deliberately so.

I'm not a fan of click-baity articles, but the chance for all voices to at least be heard trumps (no pun intended) relying on what we may dub the "media elite" for our news. Time and time again they've shown they aren't the objective neutral actors in ALL cases they claim to be. Of course the WSJ or NYT will have a better overall track record than say buzzfeed, but that doesn't mean there won't be cases in which the the aforementioned elite media organizations don't try to skew the conversation.

A good example of this is the ND pipeline. None of the established players are giving it the coverage it would seemingly deserve, without YouTube, and smaller outlets the majority of the country wouldn't know anything is happening.
And we're all too stupid to make up our own minds about what/who to believe. Thankfully, we have Vox to Voxplain it all for us ignorant masses.
Salt Lake City, UT has this same problem. We deal with winter 'inversions', where if it doesn't snow, we get really bad air.

http://www.ci.slc.ut.us/winter-inversions-what-are-they-and-...
Facebook isn't the problem. Advertising is. Vox can't tell you this without hurting themselves.

We fund content distribution (Facebook) and content creation (actual articles) based on how many people are looking at them, so journalists produce clickbait and Facebook gets you addicted to it. We can call it "maximizing daily active users" instead of addiction if you like, but it all sounds the same to me. If you're asking Facebook or journalists to make less money to create a better world, don't be surprised when they say no.

Instead, individuals must take on the responsibility to fund the production and distribution of content they find valuable. That won't eliminate bias, but it'll eliminate the very strong financial incentive embedded in capitalism to create a compelling alternate reality for each individual on the planet. It is tearing us apart. Start a recurring donation to a nonprofit news organization today, then turn on your ad blockers. Not just for intrusive ads. For everything.
I think the method you've chosen is typically referred to as the Ferber method