skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep thinking I'll learn Django, but I hate Django, why would I want to build a skill that I'm then forced to use, as well as proliferating the market for Django products?

I work on Flask stuff on purpose, because it means in the future I'll have more Flask work...

Flask is much more pythonic than django.

In fact, go look at Django's website/documentation, they don't have a hello world or a quickstart, they have like a 10-page tutorial to build some frankenstein nonsense, Flask's homepage has a 5 line application! That's how Python is supposed to be.

The more flask in the world, the better.

edit: now I've read some other people here saying Django gets easier after you use it, or it's gotten simpler... Flask is easy the first time you use it, and it's always been simple. Pythonic. End rant.
Per the wiki [1], Internet traffic is defined as: the amount of data sent and received by visitors of a particular web site.

The traffic between europe and the US is not solely dominated by the amount of data sent and received by visitors of a particular web site. It includes a lot of other background data such as backups between regions.

The analogy to economics would be the calculation of GDP in that you generally don't factor in B2B products/services when the end product/service is the consumer.

Obviously, this won't replace my "laptop -> router" communication nor "server -> server" communication but it's the consumer that matters.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic#Global_Intern...
Is anyone ignoring the existence of last.fm (with regards to music discovery only)?

To me it's has always been the best recommendation engine ever, hands down, compared to all others (Spotify, Deezer, ecc).

It works by tracking what users with similar tastes are actually listening to (they call this feature scrobbling) which allows them to provide further recommendations and let you adventure on unexplored territory.

Then on your profile you will have a YouTube player playing all those recommendations, or a custom tag, genre, and so on.

It also has a great community where you can see how much you are musically compatible with other users.
Point taken. I appreciate you being civil about it.
"Some have accused us of being pawns of the Russian government, but this misrepresents our principles and basic operations. ...We prefer not to know who our sources are; we do not want to.."

So they prefer to be unwitting pawns?

Transparency is great, freedom of information is great, but is there some point at which you have to step back and acknowledge that you're being used by a foreign power? Doesn't that undermine the good work that Wikileaks claims to be doing?

Again from the article: "The world is connected by largely unaccountable networks of power that span industries and countries, political parties, corporations and institutions; WikiLeaks shines a light on these by revealing not just individual incidents, but information about entire structures of power."

How does Wikileaks rationalize away the fact that one part of that 'unaccountable network' seems to be using them to exploit some other part?
MsgReader: python library for parsing of Outlook .msg files into useful formats
I agree in general that this sort of work has a long and storied history of being junk science (like phrenology), and one might even be tempted to describe this sort of work as irresponsible-

But I think we shouldn't get too prescriptive about what constitutes interesting and useful science. There may be very interesting relationships to uncover that we will otherwise miss. Previous research suggests that the correlation between attractiveness and 'averageness of features' is a strong one and one thesis is that this is because having features 'matching the template' is indicative of general fitness and resistance to disease.

Based on this research you might wonder about whether or not a person having perceived low fitness was a risk factor for criminality. Or perhaps the low fitness itself somehow causes criminality? Indeed there are many other interesting interpretations that we might miss out on if we judge all 'dangerous' work at face value. Perhaps we as a society are willing to give up on those ideas in our desire to avoid the atrocities of the past, but personally I am not. Onwards and upwards, they say.
I feel like I'm out of the loop. When was wikileaks compromised? I've passively followed their work over the years, but I've tried to tune out most of the internet the past couple months.
How does it seem obvious?
Show HN: NYTimesArchive – Python Wrapper for the New York Times Archive API
Wouldn't a better option be an error log? you reply to the client that "I can accept 398,500 of your 400,000 submitted records, attached are the records that do not conform to the expected template. Choose either to (1) submit only the validated records and discard the malformed ones or (2) reformat the malformed records and resubmit the entire batch"
The author needs to take responsibility for own actions. The phone stopped working correctly after the author damaged it.
Kind of an aside but,

If I understand correctly any WebView's contents is completely readable by the app it's embedded in. Which means you should arguably never trust any app that opens it's own WebView for view links. For example if you use the QR-Code Reader App it opens QR codes that leads to websites into it's own WebView rather than just forwarding the link to Safari. So, if the QR code is for anything that asks you to login the QR-Code Reader App could be reading your password.

In other words, WebViews are not adding security they're removing it

Otherwise, Apple can claim perf and security but that's arguably false. Chrome on desktop is faster and more secure than Safari by nearly every measure. There's no reason to believe the same wouldn't be true of a real Chrome (not embedded WebView) on iOS
How much better is Azure at cloud GPU compute? I remember they were first to roll out K80 instances, but Amazon followed suit shortly after, so it seems like it would be a wash. Is the interconnect story on Azure way better or something, or is this just fluff?
what is the significance of the insurance file hashes no longer matching the files?
Who will replace WikiLeaks? Any legitimate news organization that actually vets potentially harmful material before releasing it.
Any of us that could help you sure as shit wouldn't do so for free. What's the situation, exactly? How'd you fall into this?
Spotify really sucks for discovery! After 4 songs you will be listening to vague (not tailored) musical hits that seems to be recommended by someone discovering music for the first time. Pathetic!
The hardest part is that once your Twitter clone functions well enough to replace Twitter it will be banned just the same.
He _did_ say on the same continent. 150-200ms within Australia would be considered pretty slow.
governments can leak information with or without the help of wikileaks.

all wikileaks cares about is complete transparency and access to information.
It sounds like you have the Curse of Knowledge.

Take a look at this experiment, it shows that what is self-evident to you may not be as self-evident to others.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/83l/overcoming_the_curse_of_knowledg...

"In 1990, Elizabeth Newton did a fascinating psychology experiment: She paired participants into teams of two: one tapper and one listener. The tappers picked one of 25 well-known songs and would tap out the rhythm on a table. Their partner - the designated listener - was asked to guess the song. How do you think they did?

Not well. Of the 120 songs tapped out on the table, the listeners only guessed 3 of them correctly - a measly 2.5 percent. But get this: before the listeners gave their answer, the tappers were asked to predict how likely their partner was to get it right. Their guess? Tappers thought their partners would get the song 50 percent of the time. You know, only overconfident by a factor of 20. What made the tappers so far off?

They lost perspective because they were "cursed" with the additional knowledge of the song title.Chip and Dan Heath use the story in their book Made to Stick to introduce the term:

"The problem is that tappers have been given knowledge (the song title) that makes it impossible for them to imagine what it's like to lack that knowledge. When they're tapping, they can't imagine what it's like for the listeners to hear isolated taps rather than a song. This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us. And it becomes difficult or us to share our knowledge with others, because we can't readily re-create our listeners' state of mind.""
1491 is fantastic. Have you read the sequel, 1493? It's thoroughly enjoyable as well.
How is that different from last.fm ?
This should provide some context.
https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5cz1fz/wikileaks_la...
Isn't this sort of thing inevitable? I mean, the more technology advances the easier and cheaper it becomes to build terrorist devices or WMDs. Therefore society, in order to protect itself, has to be vigilant about how the relevant knowledge disseminates. An analogy might be an individual guarding against suicidal thoughts.

More interesting to me is how to create mechanisms to control who gets access to the data and under what circumstances. I think in the UK we have a pretty bad record of local councils and other busybodies using snooping powers not intended for them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wikileaks released information the timing of which was clearly meant to influence the US elections in a very particular way. Secondly, Assange issued statements clearly indicating his intentions to harm Clinton, not promote transparency. Why would the NYT publish this obvious garbage without counterpoint?
Wikileaks has released some important things, but they should be embarrassed that they thought the personal emails of Hillary's campaign staff saying sometimes silly things to each other was at all newsworthy. It was sensational, sure, but it revealed nothing important or even interesting. Anyone who spends a moment considering the question would expect campaign operatives to gripe about their opponents in over the top terms, to use unthoughtful language and spitball dumb ideas to their boss. Turns out the Clinton campaign did these things. The DNC emails showing that they preferred a solid Member of the Democratic Party win the nomination over someone who has not spent decades supporting the party should surprise and upset no one. And without the context of seeing Trump's campaign staff's emails or the RNC's emails in a similar perspective, the release of so much pointless but unflattering material related to Hillary and the Democrats does a major disservice to the public.
I'm a little surprised there aren't programs to plant trees in unused midwest prairie land. Once established, trees seem to do well there.
Phase 1 of Tesla/SpaceX merger.
20B bbl of oil found in Texas' Permian Basin
If you have not stumbled upon DYNAMO before it is quentesential forrester https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNAMO_(programming_language...
It seems as though he's alive and it would be quite a massive conspiracy if he turned out not to be:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/prosecutor-arrives-to-...
Can we get free clean drinking water first? That is more of a problem than free internet.
You have missed last.fm probably.
I'm not really sure what high and mighty role wikileaks can claim. Most major journalism outlets have ways for submitting information online anonymously. With their editorial standards they can avoid many of the (in some cases deadly) mistakes wikileaks has done by publishing blindly.
I strongly encourage using Julia for anyone applying mathematical optimization. It is (through JuMP[1], for example) one of the areas in which it really stands out.

[1] https://jump.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html
LOL, he was questioned just two days ago by Swedish lawyers:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/europe/julian-assange-question...
GUID's are not strings
You are saying we should ignore the abuses of our ruling power because some foreign ruling power is rumored to expose them?

I don't want to live in fascism just so the communists don't win, that doesn't seem like a worthwhile tradeoff.
That seems out of the blue, to me, though I don't follow it (my soul died long ago with seeing how bad this corruption is).

What indications are there you think he might have been murdered?
Edit: Got trolled I think.
And fair pricing?
I usually combine flask_restful, SQLalchemy and a SQLite database. Stupidly easy to build an API this way...
I think it's really hard to get chicken breast wrong when you brine it. Brining is really the key to tastiness. Saltiness = Tastiness
I assumed with the reference to starting freelancing (s)he referred to "time I normally would have spent at work but now cannot bill (i.e. 9-5 M-F) as opposed to "time that never used to be work (i.e. Sleeping, weekends etc)"

Otherwise the freelancing comment would have been superfluous

But you read it how you like.
+1. To expand on my own post above - one of the biggest things that scares me away from NoSQL solutions, apart from the fact that the schema is not 'set in stone' and can be changed anytime by anyone, is the relationship aspect.

Because we build business and ERP extensions most of the time, the requirement for multiple joins across sometimes up to 7 or 8 tables was what I found difficult to manage in NoSQL data stores. Foreign keys, LEFT OUTER JOIN, SELECT DISTINCT, GROUP BY etc. are all second nature to me in SQL, but totally Greek to me in NoSQL.
Define "fast". If you need it today, buy a "canned" twitter script. If it's ~1 month, hire a bunch of developers.

Don't expect it to be near as good as twitter with any "fast" turnaround.
Key phrase in the article: "up to 1Gbps per user". They aren't providing an SLA of guaranteed 1 Gbps, but a maximum possible 1 Gbps. They will oversubscribe just like all WAN's do because thats what makes the most economical sense. Now, I bet you will be able to pay for your guaranteed IOPS but everyone who's used EBS knows that costs money.
Really, it beats having to fab your own connectors. Making your own isn't a big deal for most projects, but with that number of boards, this is a smart choice.
obviously because faces physically change when you do crime. charles manson was a happy camper before he started a murderin. All in the upper lip curvature, because why would a criminal smile in a mugshot.
> “Once fully optimized through the Final Deployment, the system will be able to provide high bandwidth (up to 1Gbps per user), low-latency broadband services for consumers and businesses in the US and globally,” SpaceX told the FCC.

Maybe this will finally provide the competition US ISPs need, while going around their local monopolies. I hope 1Gbps is actually real, and you won't get more like 50-100Mbps.
Countries with stronger consumer protection laws should have much less of an issue with warranties. My father dropped his Nexus 5 about 11 months after he bought it and Google provided a replacement really promptly.
if Wikileaks lets itself be used to prefer political candidates then they are failing in this mission.
the real question is if it goes away if you're downvoted.
If you are in Mountain View CA on a Wednesday afternoon, at 2pm at the Computer History Museum they demo a RAMAC. Under control of a laptop, it seeks and reads data written when it was still in use, 40 years ago. About 30 feet away is a nice 360/30 installation with a 2311 disk drive (non-functional).

http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/
And two months ago, for NYTimes, WikiLeaks was evil [1]. Now the world "needs" it. This doesn't make much sense...

[1] http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp2hsr
Put three generations of your family in jail if they catch you?
Right, you usually have some idea of how Look up tables an n bit add operation, or an n bit multiplexer etc takes up. You also need to take into account how much memory and multipliers you need since FPGAs have multiplier and ram blocks built in.
If you plan to roll your own, check out the stream framework: https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework
Just like systemd, Wayland and the kernel right ?

Are you aware that Redhat actually employs most of the kernel devs ?

Ubuntu does not have the "people's stack" ... It's just another company building a stack that is not as good.
I'm not saying that at all.

What I'm saying is that WikiLeaks' guiding philosophy as espoused in this article seems almost willfully naive.
they do that a lot in their opinion pieces.
> I think you're overstating the effect of fringe communities on the internet.

Some believe that fringe information was a major factor in the U.S. Presidential election. A leader of a fringe community is the chief political advisor to the most powerful person in the world-elect.
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but unfortunately this is kind of the problem with the Google culture. Everything has to be done with automation and better tools because they simply do not have the ability to go through the massive amounts of customers that they have without them. Unfortunately, at some point you need a human on the other end that can make a decision, especially with refund/warranty cases.
In under 24 hours, two people will die unless we get drones out to Joshua Tree
I think this is exactly what has been getting the alt-right folks the reach & the engagement and getting them elected in several countries worldwide. It is that the rational thinking folks feel it is not worth their time to engage in such statements from the radical right and is best to ignore them.

We need to accept the fact that the mainstream media world over doesn't have the pulse of what the masses are thinking and feeling. The sooner we accept that the better it is for all involved in media based communication professions.
I disagree with you about the DNC emails, they go above and beyond preference into outright campaign strategy coordination and undermine the whole idea of the primary process. I think if they could have had and released the emails sooner the behavior could have been addressed and that would have been a service to Democrats and the public. It's awful medicine sure, but something has to wake the patient up.

I have not read the subsequent email leaks so I don't have an opinion on whether they were worth releasing or not. For what it is worth, I think their effect on the election was overblown and people who distrusted Hillary would have continued to do so in the absence of such weak evidence.
> combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the planet

it's hard to do as a tourist because the whole point of travelling is to momentarily disconnect from the existential demands of life, which drives national sentiment.

unless in your quest to live like a local, you also experience the angst of employment, family, social pressure and social standing, and where your place in the world is going to be.

that's just not going to happen.
Lots of private trackers already do this by essentially importing their metadata from websites like discogs. They import that data into their databases so that it's available, but then they end up expanding on it themselves for things that are being shared that aren't in those databases.
It sort of does, though. Let's say we train an ML implementation so that it can recognize things with wheels and seats as vehicles. Now we show it a hovercraft. What will it do? How about a helicopter? All the human brain needs is a single example of people getting in or on something, and it transporting them from point A to point B in order to infer that the thing is a vehicle of some sort. This is because we are able to infer purpose of an object even if we have never seen it before. ML is just statistics - it implies no meaning or comprehension whatsoever beyond "thing A is statistically most like thing B I have seen before". There's an important difference between recognition and understanding, and current ML techniques are solidly in the former camp.
How? In what way does preferentiality damage the transparency or validity of the information?
> I suspect this is just a phase. ... Internet culture is still very young

Maybe, but if so it's not like a phase of the moon, which changes on its own. This phase will only pass if we do something to make that happen.
Daemon and Freedom by Danial Suarez

Some amazing insights in AI, Augmented Reality, and a distributed manufacturing society.
For anyone who is not aware, Have I been pwned[0] is a great way to keep tabs on data breaches involving your data. You just give them your email and you'll be notified if it shows up in data dumps from any major breach.

[0] https://haveibeenpwned.com/
I would go so far to say (though I've met few people who grok this, as Windows filesystems is pretty rare as a specialty these days) that delete-and-recreate is a huge antipattern and recipe for failure on Windows.

The reason: Delete behavior.

In NT, when you delete a file and handles are open, the name sticks around until all handles are closed. Any attempt to re-open (including re-create) with the same name will fail with STATUS_DELETE_PENDING while this is the case.

Combine that with the fact that most operations in NT (including delete or rename) happen via opening handles to the file first and you have lots of chaos and race conditions.

So the delete + recreate pattern is very likely to bite you later as a "re-create fails randomly".
Well that's what the Confederacy was about.
Did you look at graph databases? Joins over 7 or 8 tables is common.
if hotels had to do this then our president elect would be out of business
And then you get to this convoluted certification and approval process that more or less guarantees that the startup is going to be dead before it starts selling anything.
Two suggestions that might be of help:

UberConference shows you the minutes each person spoke in a meeting. May be setup a dummy meeting with yourself, or with a friend who you normally connect well with, and measure the time spoken and consciously try to improve it? It removes the social anxiety part.

Another option is to use an app like Ummo, which measures how many words you speak. May be take a topic, and speak away?

1 - uberconference.com
2 - ummoapp.com
There was plenty of relevant info in those leaks, such as Obama's 2008 cabinet being chosen by a Citibank executive

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...
I recently registered butt.chat. $30.
I think you're interpreting it too charitably.

If you're Italian and send me a request, which I refuse on the sole basis that I hate Italians, no matter how politely, I am certainly acting with bias.
Same, I've always used last.fm for discovering quality music and after it came back to life (after a period in which it was not working) I kept using it as my main source.

I am surprised to see how no one is talking about it here.
I don't want to live in fascism

Right, I forgot exposing Hillary's emails prevented the rise of fascism.
It doesn't even need to be hacked. Sooner or later some politician will get that info on his/her opponent, it's inevitable. And, compared to your average person, a politician has a lot more at stake.
I learned recently that Will Wright was apparently influenced by Forrester and it lead to the creation of SimCity. Here a cool article about it. http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-ci...
I believe the meridian line in a church was a plot point in 'The Da Vinci Code' so I'm surprised they are not more common knowledge. Yep, described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Line Well, the actual meridian line refernced is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomon_of_Saint-Sulpice
This really sucks. Wow. Sadly I never got to participate in this community which I've heard so much about, as all Indians are banned from joining.
It's almost as though the Times publishes pieces by multiple contributors representing a diverse range of perspectives.