skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest this as a 30 day challenge. Remember doing it a while back. Found out that I had no idea what my colleagues were talking about when they started discussing some recent events. I was buzzled for a few seconds, feeling like I must have missed something important, but then I remembered that I'm doing this challenge. But it's interesting to observe how people start talking about recent news as if this was common knowledge.
I think its very common in most countries for public broadcasters to lean left, and there is nearly always the perception. In my experience this has always been true.

It might be because a right-wing government is more likely to make cuts in funding of a public broadcaster than the left. I have not thought the reason why it is in depth though. I wonder if you have an opinion?
>downloading an app.

I still need a browser, depending on what I use, still have to download it.
I agree to a certain extent on your point about puritans. However I know people that recognized they have a tendency to overdo news or social media as soon as they get a bit of it.

That might be partly due to the very nature of social media and news these days being made to be addictive eg. clickbait titles. Making people end up in a loop, without noticing and before they know it they've wasted hours on it or worse created a habit that is hard to control.

For which the only solution seems to be to go cold turkey in that case. As it seems much harder to reduce usage than to stop it entirely. So I guess it's a matter of what stage you identify yourself in, in this news and social media detox.
It's pretty powerful stuff, though I'm sort of leaning towards the idea of "how much is too much in the web browser?".

I've been playing with some Web Bluetooth enabled things lately, namely the "Puck.js"[1] piece of Espruino[2] hardware and it's Web Bluetooth browser-based IDE[3].

The browser-based controls for device discovery (in Chrome at-least) are quite nice/intuitive.

[1] http://www.puck-js.com/
[2] http://www.espruino.com/
[3] https://www.espruino.com/ide/
+1 for CSV export.
Not specifically Data Science but I've had individual success directly writing to people (in companies) who are working in the area.

If you are good at some domain and believe you can help someone in that domain, you can create and demonstrate your analyses with specific examples. In addition, building a decent blog with personal touch and experience can create "collateral" and it helps keep you make continuous progress in small steps without necessarily focusing on any specific topic.
I agree it is rather combative, however it's also true. To claim that X pattern is a reason to not use a library when said pattern is actually an anti-pattern you've used because of lack of understanding is going to garner these kinds of reactions.
At least this one has a section "security", WebUSB that was designed by Google employees didn't have that section.
Have you tried flonase?
https://github.com/simeji/jid/blob/97c7f902bc210d7b0ebd3eadd...
Political parties' opinion polling is probably the least reliable way of gauging this, since the Conservative party is at least notionally very pro-business, was divided on the issue of Brexit and its Leave faction made numerous claims that leaving would benefit trade with the wider world, and (outside Scotland) the major opposition parties have been in total disarray for the last couple of years for unrelated reasons.

More reliable indications would be that 48% of people voted Remain, and a non-trivial percentage of those that voted Leave did so because they believed claims that disengaging from the EU would allow the UK to pursue more free trade arrangements than before.
About le dessous des cartes, they're available with english subtitles. "Le dessous des cartes" has been translated as "Mapping the world."

Example:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/067846-003-A/mapping-the-world-i...

Search for "mapping the world" on the arte.tv main page.
My rule of thumb is: if you don't have a simple name for your interface and you're about to call it "<your-struct-name>Interface", then you shouldn't have an interface.
London is something of a special case, where (i) property is so expensive it simply isn't accessible to people on average salaries to buy and (ii) property investors are interested in the market for the capital gains rather than the rental income, and so owners aren't necessarily as aggressive at pushing for market rents as they could be. A poor outlook for property prices could potentially result in quite a few tenants finding their landlords squeezing them much harder in future.

More generally, whilst lower property prices are generally a good thing for the economy, a property price crash and the resulting economic instability is unequivocally a bad thing.
There is a link right in your comment, right click it to download the text file. There is usually a link to whatever file you want to download.
The Grand Tour declared most illegally downloaded TV show in history
Eichenwald's article is significantly rewritten from when it first came out, and you're probably not reading the version Greenwald was responding to:

First publication: Oct 10, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20161010235349/http://www.newswe...

Today: http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hil...

Differences start around paragraph 6.
I've only truly learned about people in other places by traveling. Anything else is mostly caricature.
I couldn't agree more with this statement. I contract for numerous banks and find myself dealing with many "senior developers" who clearly have no idea what they're doing. It seems to be more of an ego thing as opposed to a capability bettering. I even have a "senior developer" who currently sits right next to me who falls under this "problem group".
More on solving/bypassing captcha: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/may/21/ticket-touts-p...
Puck.js uses this for editing the code on the device through a Web-based IDE. I find it very cool.
Wait... firing up the wget now.
It's affecting the top end of the market, but there's still a huge disparity between supply/demand at the lower end of the market that won't go away unless demand subsides (everyone leaves post-Brexit) or much more cheaper accommodation is built.
Nexus 5X running rooted AOSP 7.1.1

/storage/emulated fuse
/dev/block/dm-0 /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic,data=ordered,inode_readahead_blks=8 (no nobarrier mount option)

In theory Google should be able to easily change the /data ext4 mount option, why didn't Google?
In general they do. The JVM and .NET CLR being the most prominent examples.
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of Akamai PoPs/edge locations?
I've been searching all over the internet, and I can't find a list of Akamai PoPs.

The closest thing is this: http://wwwnui.akamai.com/globe/, but it's not really a list.

Maybe they have too many to list?
If you buy two cruise tickets with your credit card and your partner dies halfway through the trip, you still owe your bank the cost of two cruise tickets. (That is, unless the right kind of coverage is included in your annual fee.)

The only thing that has changed between then and now is that you might be able to sue for damages if unsafe conditions on the ship can be shown to have caused your partner's untimely demise.
I am a developer and usually writes web scrapers or automation tools most of the time beside typical web development. A couple of things I did and worked for me.

- I offer them more than what they expect. At times scraping additional info which I think is useful but they did not realize I extract that too. Sometimes they ask for the script or data, one of them and I just offer them both and they appreciate it lot. Though that script is not helpful for them and they eventually come to me but it's just increase their trust.

- It sounds silly and dangerous but often I don't ask advanced payment from clients and prefer to show off some skills, mostly it was quite helpful and they worked me on other projects as well.
I don't use tarsnap, but I always thought it was a fantastically designed product.
Trump's position on climate change was discussed at length in the liberal news media and was cited by liberals as a reason to vote for their candidate. It was also reported that in the wake of their loss, a Hillary Clinton campaign staffer yelled at his co-workers during a post-election meeting that he was going to "die of climate change" [1] because of Trump's election, and this sentiment seems to be a widely held belief among liberals. So yes, it was made into a major campaign issue by the media despite an apparent lack of discussion about it during the debates.

Anyway my point was that opening a fund like this up for public participation would give those that so loudly claim to care deeply about this issue an opprtunity to actually do something other than protest or complain online about it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-democratic...
That's fine until you get an asshole supervisor that micromanages your work and never uses it as technically authoritative, even though it clearly is.
I like the 200 word thing. I'm gonna give that go. :)
Clojure: Becoming Omniscient with Sayid  [video]
Point #5 is spot on. "“Being concerned” makes us feel like we’re doing something when we’re not".
Just watching the news and feeling that I care so much actually makes us less likely to actually do something about it.
because 99% of the available work can be done by
inexperienced kids.

Now spend some time thinking about the qualifications necessary for commenting and where you stand in that field, and what's the difference between what you produced and what a Senior Commenter would produce.
My rates! Seriously. That's how high they are and that's where I want them.

But because I pick up the phone when they call and I seem trustworthy, they pay it. Also, I take my work very seriously, and they get what they pay for.

Contrary to what I read here, I put me first, my company second and the client third. I think that in consulting, this is the only way to stay sane and deliver on time and to spec.
Automation Can Actually Create More Jobs
For anyone using Ruby I'd recommend the (open-source) axlsx gem, I've had great results being able to treat Excel generation like I'm rendering a view.
Ndm: npm desktop manager
Allowing people to verify my message came from me without needing to setup PGP themselves. They can just use /verify and throw my message into it.
By using the signature consistently it raises red flags when a post of mine isn't signed or doesn't verify.

Of course - this assumes Keybase has not been compromised, but that isn't an attack vector I worry about.
How does knowing that a train derailed and 300 people died, or that someone got stabbed, change your behavior in any way, shape or form? This may seem callous, but in my country the average person watches 3h of TV every day. That's 3 hours they could spend on a side-job, on a hobby, improving professional skills, getting fit, spending more time with their kids. Who cares that someone got stabbed? Most people care to "improve the world" (however dyfunctionally and pathologically) when they can't even be bothered to take care of themselves (75% of people in US are overweight) or to be good parents (1/3 of families in UK don't eat together at the dinner table, or even have a dinner table).

Not following the news is a perfectly rational choice. You'll be less stressed, much happier, less distracted therefore have better self-knowledge and a better capacity to self-actualize, and you can spend more time with your kids (who really need it).

In life, there aren't the uninformed and the informed. There are the uninformed and the misinformed.
Obesity is a sign for everything related to (and around) obesity. There is plenty of other things that have no connection with obesity, like drugs, alcohol, or too much sun exposure. Aging brings everything to the surface. Obesity is just one specific area with a cluster of diseases.
It seems rather ironic to me that this theory, which uses as it's basis that some journalists mix up cause and effect, then turns around and in essence posits that because some articles have errors it means that all articles have the same category of error.

It's not at all evident to me that every article in a more reputable news source will make errors in every thing they report on.
Publishing my first book
I don't know if these things "blow them away" but I do think they are differentiators:

- I bring homemade cookies to our first meeting and if the client likes them, to subsequent meetings. The first time I did this for purely selfish reasons; I like cookies but I'll eat the whole batch myself unless I get someone else to "take a cholesterol bullet" for me.

- I'm extremely honest and forthcoming. I tell them that it may sound like I'm trying to talk them out of hiring me but what I'm actually trying to do is make sure we're a really good fit. I
tell them even the non-flattering data about my capablities
or lack thereof i.e. I've told more then one potential client "I can spell 'SQL'" when they tell me they'd like to incorporate a data base in the product they want me to make.
(But my wife is an expert and she'll help me out.) I tell them my estimates are usually off by a factor of 4X. You know what is worse than not getting a contract? Getting a contract where you can't make the client happy.

- I tell them that they can probably do the job without me - and I mean it. "Here's how I would do this. ... That part might be tricky, I can't remember off the top of my head but I'll look it up and send you some links on this.. Buy me lunch and you can pick my brains."

- Communicate even when there is no news or it's bad news. "I still haven't received your hardware but I wanted to call so you'd know before you left for the weekend. I'll call the vendor on Monday."
What about ongoing electricity costs? IIRC my graphics card chews up more power than my CPU.
That's one of the points of code reviews - as you get feedback on how you should improve tests in your commits, over time you learn what "well-tested" means.
Any data how this compares to other time series databases?
While I wouldn't choose NodeJS either[1], your claim that dynamic languages are unsuitable for large systems doesn't stand up to casual scrutiny - Mozilla, Bitly, Industrial Light and Magic, Disqus, Quora, and so on all use Python to build large-scale, robust systems, some for well over a decade.

If you don't mind my asking, where did you come up with the idea that dynamic languages are unsuitable in this way?

[1] My reasons are many and varied, but largely come down to a matter of personal taste and bias due to long-ago experiences that soured me on JS.
Show HN: Learning to code, my first CRUD web app
I'm no economist, but prices in the top end of the market come down, making it more affordable, wouldn't this ease demand at the lower end of the market (as more people will be able to afford the higher-end properties)?

I'm not convinced that Brexit will see the reduction in immigration that people seem to be hoping for; a "soft" Brexit is looking more and more likely.
Virtual underwater demo: Jelly fish
I know you are trolling but for the sake of educating both you and someone not acquainted with Gitlab, they offer:

* CI/CD
* Docker Registry
* Testing Pipeline
* Self hosting option
* I'm sure there's more

So I don't think you are being fair here.

PS: I'm not affiliated in any way with Gitlab, just an user
Ask HN: 10% WoW growth. Moving to the US. Who should we call?
We're based in Ireland and provide a 'white label' / custom branded online ordering system for restaurants.

Our growth rate has been around 10% week on week recently. Here is a graph showing weekly food sales and revenue in more detail: http://www.getflipdish.com/flipdish-images/sales-201612.jpg

We plan to raise a further round of funding and relocate to the US in 2017.

We would like feedback on which investors and VCs would be a good match for us, when we're doing about €60k - €100k/mth revenue. We're at €12k/mth now.

We will probably be too small at that point to talk to a lot of the big name VCs that we hear about over here, but aren't familiar with investors who seek to work with companies at this stage.

Any advice from our US HNers would be very welcome!

conor@getflipdish.com
Stratfor is the FT of geopolitics. Specialized press, much better than mainstream media with its mediocrity bias (sensationalism).
To me this is a bit like throwing out all the mirrors from your house because you don't like your new haircut. You can ignore all the news, but the world producing those news will still be out there, exactly the same (good/bad/evil) and you'll still have to live in it. Keeping your eyes shut can help your inner peace, but it will not stop outside problems from hitting you in the face just as hard as anyone else. Except that you will not see them coming...
Wired founder Kevin Kelly on letting go of AI anxiety
Considering only the viewpoints inside the scientific consensus is limited - anyone as you said that practises the scientific method, whether in a formal institution, or not, should be able to have their view point considered. We should also never forget that there are politics in science too, and what's accepted is not always what is correct.

Scientists are subject to the human condition, just like anyone else.

I agree there are many snakeoil salesman, or kooks around. But I don't agree that the mainstream has the most optimal advice. In my personal experience I have been much more successful, in all my pursuits (health, programming, movement) by not following main stream advice, but rather seeking the minority that makes sense to me. In the words of Mark Twain, "The majority is always wrong, and the minority is sometimes right". I think the secret is finding the minority that aren't kooks, or snakeoil salesman. They do exist. I have found a few of them. Take the Ray Peat example. He didn't even know he had forums of people discussing his ideas. He doesn't even actively promote himself, or his ideas at all. I respectfully disagree that main stream advice is the most pragmatic.

I don't think the scientific community embraces the holistic nature of the world enough, as we tend to be dominated by linear thinking. If what you said were true, then we wouldn't have fields like Systems Thinking. It's definitely a niche area in research.

I also disagree about your comments on different diets. I have personally seen people religiously follow different diets, and do very badly on some, and well on others. I also prefer not to make statements like "People are not unique snowflakes" since I don't think we know enough at this stage. We are only beginning to understand the role of organisms in our gut for example, on overall health. I think your arguments here are too simplistic, and do not give a complex system like a human body enough credit. You should know that any simple answers to complex questions tend to be wrong.

Scientific consensus tends to be attached to formal institutions, not so? Formal institutions are then an authoritarian source. It comes from a position of authority. What you're essentially saying is something Government decreed for example, is not authoritarian, became it was enacted by a group of people. Obviously not true. Private individuals are generally less authoritarian, but they no doubt can be too. In this case, I am not aware of Ray Peat at all expressing his opinions as fact, but rather as something to be considered and questioned, like anything else.
If you want simple named distributed pipes there is https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/pipecat . Which is basically cat over AMQP.
Im currently working on performance optimization. Often my job is days (even weeks) of running tests and reading metrics, followed by a 5 line change one day that significantly speeds things up. This is one reason why metrics cant hope to capture everything. Maybe its not all subjective but a lot of it is - especially for more senior people, its about how much contribution they have to the overall business goals rather than any data you might find in the codebase.

Ofcourse there are people who do this much better/faster than me, but the nature of the job still means the actual code output is pretty low.

I can imagine many other functions where code output is super high (adding lots of text of any kind - blogs, templates, new library/config) or super low. I don't think code output correlates well to productivity.
Reply to their emails in an timely manner.
Not a specific one, I meant more generally.
My point is that length alone isn't a reliable indicator for (journalistic) quality.

It is, to some extend. Long articles, with obvious effort for research etc., are more likely to be better than short pieces that for the most part are just commentary, on average at least.

But this is not a causational relationship. I've read long essays where you could easily tell the tremendous amount of work put into them, but then I did some research on my own and found out that the premisses are extremely dubious. And so the whole thing just collapses..
Author here. As explained in the intro, folks like antirez are considering moving back to Linux and in his linked HN comment he specifically talks about trying Linux on the MacBook he's currently using to see where he's headed. The article seeks to give these folks in particular a helping hand in understanding what works and what doesn't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12820490

That said, the kernel developers working on Mac hardware support aren't Apple haters. We're fans. I also don't share the "not for professionals" criticism that was widely directed at the new MacBook Pro fully: E.g. as stated in the article, the four Thunderbolt ports are interesting for HPC applications as you can build a portable compute cluster with up to five fully-meshed high-speed networked nodes. If that's not professional I don't know what is.
Related, a documentary film by John Pilger about the news we get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glnYs7Fz0SM

As for the "concern" topic. I believe it's an evidence that you have to do something about it. But first, one must seek out the truth just as Socrates advised us millennias ago. Living comfortably is just not possible in an unexamined life because we are by nature rational beings. You can probably ignore, as they say, ignorance is bliss, but only until it hits.
Ah yes, I remember and forgot that change. Stopped being an affiliate many years ago.
neither the word "IT salary(ies)"
The average London home now costs £526,000 - 16 times the average Londoner’s salary of £33,000 a year. Long term I have no future in London, despite living there almost all my life.
Source: https://www.housing.org.uk/resource-library/browse/home-trut...
That's not Google's actual stance. I went to a Digital News session held by the company last year wherein they had a "ad blocker" session - they basically said they're "just watching and waiting" for now but have "ideas" for fixing it in the future.
There is still enough work in the 1%, but you have to make yourself known.
We're not setting the bar here very high are we?
Yes, but remember that the distribution of wealth (and related things like housing stock/demand) are heavily skewed towards the bottom-end. More availability higher up will ease demand lower down, but proportionally much less.
DATEPART("weekday",...) is my best friend here.
Usually sales, etc. on mondays are similar to other mondays and so on...

Maybe I am overly used to this; but customers are astonished seeing that kind of stuff...
There it is, shoot yourself.
https://i.imgur.com/pC6EV0v.png
By that definition I should have been a senior dev when I was 22 in my first job
IMO this needs some citation. The ones I'm aware of are these big expensive spanish power plants. I think this is neither simple nor cost effective compared to batteries, plus the energy is AFAIK only stored short term.
So this exists… a web tool to fight the loneliness
Probably for hipsters only
Electron highway inside crystal
Bookmarked, especially for password section.