skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can it interop with other applications? eg. can output be piped from another program?

Will it still be around to use if the company goes bankrupt?

Can settings be backed up at all?

Can I even restore settings from a backup?

Can I easily share these settings?

Is there a way to carry it on a thumb drive so that in the event I find myself without internet for a first install/use - I can still use it?

How much control do I have over any data used/stored by the application?
What really is a startup's culture?
I'd suggest trying to get some kind of endorsement / verification from a government entity or something like a law firm, or any other entity that will boost your credibility. Then display such endorsement on the first screen the user sees when accessing your app.

I think people are scared that your app is not legitimate and the information they share could be used to harm them.
Key quote:

> Altogether, the company had raised about $40 million in outside funding
>> "If this experiment is successful, I'm open to online office hours in the future."

Agree that in person is better for a number of reasons, but is there any reason not to allow the slots to be filled by online/voice meeting if you can't fill the slots with in person meetings?
I am not sure I would want to get in your lift after a meal or with anyone who had eaten recently.
Parent commenter here.

I agree with the above comment, and have personally had the US border guards give me hell for both of the above because I enter from Canada (where I live).
In the real world, network links go down all the time, even if just for three seconds.

As for etiquette... I politely explained how I see things different from you and provided a couple of links for reference. You immediately called me "condescending", "incredibly insulting", and "pedantic".

If you want a pleasant conversation, that's not the way to do it...
A fund could simply pick a tradable benchmark like the S&P 500 and short it against its stock picks. Then the investor would pay only on the difference. There's plenty of long-short funds that are essentially flat the market.

Depends on what you're after. You might be touting your ability to guess the market as a whole, in which case absolute return would be a reasonable target. Or you claim to be able to beat the market, in which such a scheme makes sense.
>> Wrong; iOS 10 support does extend back to the iPhone 4S. Just Google it for 10 seconds and you will see that.

You misunderstood my point. The last available operating system update on any 4S or earlier tends to be unusable because of performance issues. That's because each successive update adds bloat. I have a clean iPad 1, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S - all with the last available OS updates. They're barely usable as phones unless you have a lot of patience.

>> Further, this proves my argument, not yours. Even if you were right and the iPhone 5 was the earliest model now supported, that device is more than FOUR YEARS OLD. There are zero Android phones from 2012 which can run the latest Android version. In fact, I'm not sure that there are even any 2014 devices that can fully update right now.

Once again, you misunderstood my point. My mention of the iPhone 5 is as a placeholder for when the iPhone CPUs hit a maturity point in terms of performance where they would probably still be usable on the final version of the operating system that it will support.

>> Apple wins here, and it's not close.

Nobody's referring to this as contest, but ok, you can have that point if you want.
You're just listing improvements to standards of living (that not all poor benefit from even today). Ancient kings still controlled land, armies, and food (they probably ate first in times of scarcity). They didn't have modern conveniences but they were still wealthier that today's poor. They also had power and most likely answered to no one.
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'300 customers' means 300 people paid money for the service. If people are not paying money, then they are not customers. Requiring people to pay money is a good way to filter out people who are unlikely to trust your process and ultimately, if the goal is to have a business, then getting people to pay is a necessary step toward validation. Charging people is also a reality check on the product creating value. If it doesn't seem reasonable to charge for it then it might not be a good product.

If people are not completing the process, then the product might not meet the market. In that case it's not a matter of increasing conversions, it's a matter of creating a better product.

Good luck.
For antennas, you could do worse than picking up a copy of John Kraus' "Antennas" - he starts off with the basic principles and builds on them as he introduces new concepts. Uses enough math to let you understand what is going on without getting carried away with too many nasty integrals. His writeup on an idea for a gravitational transmitter/receiver system towards the end of the book is worth the money alone. :-)

For a cookbook showing you a lot of how without bothering too much about the why, Karl Rothammel's Antennenbuch (in German) can't be beat, IMHO.
Ask HN: A dead simple, domain based, black-list-only adblocker?
I am looking for an adblocker, that works entirely by black listing, blocking nothing by default. If I visit a site and the ads are annoying, I can then click a single, quickly reachable button and all ads are blocked for that domain from there on out (until I may or may not click that button again at a later day).

I don't mind some setup, if it then works without any major flaws. I understand that some ads might sometimes leak through the cracks, as with any other adblocker. That's fine. However every time I google thistopic and hackled with possible solutions I ended up somewhat unhappy with the convenience or some other part of the experience and wind up not doing it.

Any tested and working solutions would be very much appreciated. I am using chrome for windows.
Exactly. One model I like is e^x represents 100% interest, perfectly compounded for x units of time. a^b is really just e^[ln(a) * b]. Then you can think about "ln(a) * b" being the interest earned scaled by time.
> It's not /only/ the US that's doing this sort of thing, it's just that the US is now doing it too.

No. Not even China or North Korea is doing this.

Most countries do hold high some principles like constitutional values or civilian rights. Only the US does not.

> I am fortunate to be traveling on a US passport...

Why is this fortunate? You are labelled part of a dark society with no constitutional protections for civilians, military order and generally an outlaw who likes to bully all others.
This is not fortunate, esp. if you want to establish trade relationships with people from civilized countries.
I think it is largely the second, after all many of the different nations did have prolonged contact with America or the 13 colonies and have descendants around right now who can tell us stuff.
In regards to Africa, let's face it, most of us (and I include myself here) are pretty bad with history. I would have a hard time writing more then a cursory paragraph about the 30 years war for instance even though it is an important part of European history and I can't really tell you anything about the Taiping Rebellion except that the guy on one side thoght he was Jesus' brother even though it happened at the same time as the civil war and killed many many more people.

With Native American history though it is the history of where I live. I have spent my whole life living in areas that were previously controlled by the Anishinaabe people but never learned anything about them in class. To me that would be like a German student knowing as little as me about the 30 years war or a Chinese student who can't tell you the basics of the Taiping rebellion.
The Club 3D USB-C to HDMI 2.0 is perfect. I use it at the office to drive a LG 65" 4K screen at 60HZ for presentations from my MBP 2016: http://amzn.to/2hkM3hK
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Also relevant: Boltzmann Brains

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

A Boltzmann Brain is (very roughly) a "brain", i.e. self-aware entity, that appears spontaneously in the middle of the universe due to random quantum fluctuations. In an infinitely old and infinitely large universe this should actually be a common occurrence. So why are we not Boltzmann Brains ourselves? Why are we all here observing the universe clustered together on this one planet a mere 15 billion years since it came into being? Why is there so much structure?
An escalator shredding someone is not a structural failure. Anyway, it wasn't meant all that seriously - just that a quip about failure modes has failed to consider the failure modes.
Ok, I hear you. I agree somewhat, but not totally :) To me, the most important aspect of programming is to retain full control. I for instance want to be able to register my HTTP endpoints based on some data read from a file. I want to be able to start my app in server mode and run requests against it in any way I want during testing. What many of these frameworks do is to remove this power.

Bytecode modification is not too bad IMO, as long as it's within reason. I use a notnull annotation weaver to add notnull assertions. Not Lombok, that's too much for me as well. Should be another language really, like Kotlin.

Metaprogramming does have utility. But it has a tendency to go overboard. I actually find Jersey to be a good example of a nice and clean API for defining resources. I recently tried to integrate it into a small app where we do all the wiring manually for clarity. The problem is that it's hard to stay in programmatic control. You define a resource. You realize you need a Service in your resource. You realize that the only way of getting it into your object is to inject it with the JAX-RS annotations. And so suddenly your service has to be a JAX-RS @Singleton service. You have to make your whole app JAX-RS compatible. The framework takes control. This is really bad IMO. A library which requires control over your program.

This is not an intrinsic problem of metaprogramming, but IMO it's a big problem of Java as it stands today. We need to give up on frameworks, make sure that all libraries are combinable and that they don't take control of your app. Doing so would make everything a lot better.

I wish I could just do:

new Jersey(config).addRoutesIn(new HelloWorldResource(new MyBackendService(dbDriver))).addSerializer(new JsonSerializer()).start();

This would then utilize some reflection when routing requests, but not take over my entire app.

Regarding the libraries, my point was not that you get conflicting classes (DLL hell sort of thing), but that we're building multiple products which want to take over the world. JUnit wants to be in control, and so does Spring. So when you try to combine them, you end up with a problem. Can you start Spring programmatically from a JUnit test? Well, not really. You can, but it's very involved. So they want to provide you with a Spring-JUnit integration. This is a really bad idea, since every linear combination of libs has to get an integration, like the link I included in my post. If all these libraries just tried to stay out of the way of the programmer and just provide a programmatic API, there would be no need for such integrations.
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Can you please explain or provide a link? This sounds fascinating.
My two reasons: 1) I don't have an office near where I live, so I plan to have the meetings at a local cafe (not ideal for online/phone meetings). 2) If this works well I'm totally open to online in the future.
It should be noted that libel laws are still in effect. That means that companies can and will pressure authors to remove reviews through extortion - i.e. threat of a libel suit. Even if the threat is baseless, most people will remove reviews just to avoid a legal headache.

Believe me, I was threatened more than once, but I was way too busy to deal with a lawsuit. But, it still pisses me off.

As an aside, it's kind of f'd up that a company can even sue for libel. These were original common laws - i.e. person vs. person. Now, companies are 'people'. I am not a lawyer, so I don't understand the nuance. (which, btw, is also messed up: it's barely possible for non-specialists to understand the laws to which they're held accountable.) Rant Over.
Sounds like a great idea and wish you the best of luck. I'd love to hear your thoughts after the sessions. The restriction on "no pitches" makes sense in that context since it's a pay-it-forward/advice style forum.

How do you think a similar experiment could be conducted that tries to solve one of the main problems a founder has with raising capital: getting a warm intro? Advice on a pitch is only helpful if there's someone to listen to the pitch! Something like office hours as "open auditions" for pitches?
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But List comprehensions, and now generators, are what python, "Pythonic". I'm a relative novice with python, but they are straightforward to understand, and are fairly consistently used by practitioners of the language.

But, I agree with you regarding creeping complexity in general - @wrappers/decorators confused me for the longest time, and I often wonder how someone not familiar with the language is supposed to understand what they are doing.
Well, money itself really doesn't put you ahead. You can be a rich guy who owns a bunch of real estate and nobody would notice. Buy the Miss USA pageant and all of a sudden lots of beautiful girls really want to get to know you. If you're not that rich, settle for being the money guy of a popular nightclub.
Here's a link to the blog post announcing the update.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/

I find it amusing the stark difference; going from light hearted doodles and stickers on images to a censoring workaround
Not quite one button, you have remember what field to aim for in the detailed menu for the one click, but uBlock can do this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-tu...
Apple's stuff is actually really nice. Sadly Apple specific, obviously :(
To give a simpler summary: nature rules by natural selection. But, once natural selection has created minds, these minds should be governed by a different set of rules: one that requires us to protect weak or marginalized people.

A related argument is this one: the laws of physics cannot, in a sense, be the source of the laws of morality. This is because the laws of physics are (by nature) inviolable -- you can never really "disobey" them. But moral laws are (by nature) able to be broken.

Edit: Aristotle disagreed with this latter argument: he thought that final causes were both causes of physical events and the source of moral rules. But this conception of physics has been (almost entirely) displaced by the modern scientific method.
Sure, social position is influence. In my experience, people have been more impressed by social position than wealth.
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Pentadactyl is also going to break then, for the same reason. That's why I've been moving from Firefox to Pale Moon, where Pentadactyl continues to work. I expect Vimperator will continue to work on Pale Moon too.
I'm an introvert. I'm also a remote worker, and I no longer attend church. I was very involved in the church when I was growing up, so I'm well aware that my life is now lacking something, in terms of connection and a sense of community.

I've recently been searching for some alternatives. There's Unitarian Universalists [1], who welcomes people from any faith, including atheists and agnostics. You can discuss any religion openly, and they have regular services on Sunday where you can socialize, enjoy some music, and listen to a speaker.

There's also the Rotary Club [2], where people regularly meet for meals, and work to help their community. Then there's the Freemasons, but I don't think that's for me.

I might like to organize a secular humanist "church" or club with regular meetings and meals. I think it would be nice to have discussions about philosophy and science, maybe watch some documentaries and talks together, and have a book club.

Another random thought on the topic of isolation: St. John's runs a "caring caller" [3] service in New Zealand, where people can volunteer to call elderly people on the phone, and just have conversations with them. If I'm ever back in New Zealand, I think I would like to get involved with that.

Also in New Zealand: The High Street Cohousing project [4] in Dunedin. I think it's a fantastic idea. I love the idea of a shared community space, and the sustainability. I'm seriously thinking about getting involved, or maybe I can buy one of the houses in the future.

I enjoy living in Chiang Mai, and it's not too hard to meet people here. There are plenty of meetups and groups to join. I meet a lot of digital nomads who come and go, but my wife and I have a small group of friends that are living here long term. There's also a Rotary Club here that we have been thinking about joining.

My wife and I have also been rewatching Gilmore Girls. We agree that it would be really nice to live somewhere like their fictional town of Stars Hollow, in Connecticut. The main reason is to be part of a close-knit community, but also because that area has distinct seasons (especially fall and winter), beautiful architecture, history, and close proximity to New York. I ended up reading quite a lot of articles and blog posts from people who want the same thing, and have visited similar towns in Connecticut. One blog post was a bit depressing [5]. They are saying that this town could never exist, because of big-box stores like Walmart who are killing many small businesses.

YC has a plan to build a new city, so I hope they are thinking about these things. I think the issues of community and isolation might be more important than anything else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism

[2] https://www.rotary.org/en

[3] http://www.stjohn.org.nz/What-we-do/Community-programmes/Car...

[4] http://highstreetcohousing.nz/

[5] https://thecompletistblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/stars-hol...
Salient passage:

"Answers began coming with the very first publications out of Yalow and Berson’s laboratory and were swiftly confirmed. As it turns out, virtually all hormones work to mobilise fatty acids from fat cells so that they can then be used for fuel. The one dominant exception to this fuel-mobilisation signalling is insulin, which partitions how we use the fuels we consume: in particular, it directs fat cells to store fat, while facilitating the uptake and oxidation of glucose (blood sugar) by muscle and organ cells. In other words, when insulin is secreted – primarily in response to the carbohydrates in our diet – it directs our cells to burn carbohydrate as fuel and store fat. And so, the one biological factor necessary to mobilise fat from storage and have it used for fuel, as Yalow and Berson suggested in 1965, is ‘the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency’. Put simply, when insulin levels in circulation are elevated, we store fat and use glucose for fuel; as insulin levels drop, fat is mobilized and we burn it instead."

"Yalow and Berson themselves described insulin as a ‘lipogenic’, or fat-forming hormone. This lipogenic signal must be turned off, or at least muted significantly, for the fat cells to release their stored fat and for the body to metabolise it for energy. While obesity researchers like to say that the sine qua non of a weight reduction diet is calorie-restriction, this alternative, biologically-based hypothesis would say that the sine qua non is lowering insulin. The more we consume carbohydrates, though, and particularly sugar, the higher insulin our levels will be."
We haven't reached that stage yet, fortunately; though at some point someone will want to do a big multi-year aggregation report across all indexes and still expect it to take not more than a few seconds.

My ideal solution would be one that rotated the dataset into historical rollups on a daily basis, so that we only stored the raw data for today, and gradually merged earlier entries at lower granularities. However, I haven't thought much about how to do that with Elasticsearch. I can see a way of doing it by embedding the value in the field label, and using the field value as a count, but Elasticsearch really doesn't like lots of unique fields; you shouldn't be using more than a few hundred at most in a single installation (across all indexes).
Has anyone in this forum that runs a company or a team implemented these principals or a variant of them? I'd love to hear how it faired. I've worked at several companies that preach transparency, but always fail to follow through once political obfuscation seeps through.
That's an incentive of any business owner that loses money. It's the duty of investors to review the managers reputation and not give money to known "fraudsters" (unless they can negotiate an incentive structure to prevent such problems).
But for new projects, where you can chose the version of Python you want, there is no requirement for "backwards compatibility" - it's not as though Python 3.6 isn't available for every platform that 3.5 was on.
Here is the same article from another source that I found by searching the article title on Google:

https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science...
Thank you for your feedback. We work very hard not to bombard the community with messages and actively work to balance our marketing, information, education and operational emails.

The 5 emails per seven day limit is not something we expect to ever utilize but allows for flexibility in our communication strategy.
It's OK, Google would survive just fine... The real worry is the people who need secure communications and their survival.
I teach undergrads and some, maybe even many, are "into" famous Youtubers, and many will apparently just... watch YouTube videos. As a sort of primary activity.

To me this seems bizarre, or maybe friends around my age are doing this and not talking about it—but lots of people around my age use a lot of Facebook, which I also find to be a waste of time and counter-stimulating.
This is a good reminder that there's research to be done in classical physics and engineering, not just fundamental particle stuff.

Even though we know (or think we know) how things like force, pressure, tension, etc work at this scale, there's still explanation to do.
Love your comment. Always enjoy contrarian views. I think it won't hurt to read Tolle but I've just ordered based on your suggestion:

The Enchiridion, Meditations, Society of Mind, Golden Braid. Left out Thoreau because that seems like a natural survivalist and it had 4/5 reviews on Amazon.

The only way I'll read books is if there's a monetary sunk cost. If I pirate ebooks, unless it's super essential, won't get around to reading it.
That was the original implementation, AFAICT from reading the ticketing. FORMAT_VALUE was introduced to fix a slight inconsistency where someone might monkey with str.format(). While doing so, it was mentioned that there was a slight performance improvement to fewer lookups. See here for more info: https://bugs.python.org/issue25483
USB-C was on the horizon, but it was still years away when Lightning came out. I really think that Lightning forced the USB-IF's hand a bit and made sure that USB-C was a reality. Without a working example of how a reversible connection worked in the field, the USB-IF might still be waiting to push out USB-C.
Would your opinion change if, in addition to the positive witness id of the perpetrators based on already knowing them, you also had conclusive proof that the sperm cells which were found on the bed sheets of the victim matched one of the two men, each of which were giving alibis to one another saying they were together at the time of the rape?
I still find it a convenient way to follow interesting people - including Paul Graham...