skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alexa is 0% without internet. Even timers/alarms won't go off.
You could perhaps write a feature-bare clone. Here's some basic features:

- search (the various search pages)
- trending
- channels
- subscription
- video uploads
- history
- comments
- likes
- upload
- video editing (most of this is in browser, but still)
- livestream
- video analytics
- payment and ad management
- video comment review and moderation
- translation
- captioning
- video replication, multiscaling, caching, and resolution management based on network speed
- video recommendation
- cards, overlays, annotations, etc.
- music and sound effect search
- antispam
- dmca and copyright tooling

And that was 5 minutes of poking around.
I'm working on a similar system. Would you like to test it? https://twitter.com/ldenoue/status/785142066665971713
I've read a lot of British murder mysteries, so I'm an expert on how British law enforcement works:

The official police are always bumbling morons and most crimes are solved by a quirky amateur with a personal connection to the case.

Why don't you guys just hire better police? Maybe Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Miss Marple should be running Scotland Yard.
The interpreter could still use that stuff.

One advantage of an interpreter in general is that one important use case for Python is interactive scripting, as data scientists do.
Video games are a gateway to deep abstraction and a strong imagination, as well as preparing the brain for math and logical problem solving. Einstein loved to use games and puzzles to demonstrate mathematical theorems.
Nope. See gurkendoktor's reply to me above. I agree with his/her reasoning.
You do have some say in that as a shareholder -- most companies are goverend by shareholder vote. However, as a startup employee, your total number of shares is insignificant compared to the number of shares held by the founders and the investors.
No, it isn't. There's a difference between McCarthy's "Maxwell's equations of software" and the full-blown Common Lisp standard, which was designed by and aimed at industry.
That's a false dichotomy. Just because something doesn't end the way you would prefer doesn't mean that it ends fruitlessly. It is possible to enjoy and gain from the work even if the project or company isn't ultimately a success. Most of the projects that I've worked on never went anywhere, but that doesn't mean I didn't still enjoy myself or learn something valuable.

In '99 I left a relatively standard and easy 9 to 5 type job at Intel to join a startup. My assumption was that the startup would fail, because that's generally what startups do, but it gave me the opportunity to work on systems that I found interesting (specifically Linux, which was still kind of fringe back then) and learn from very smart co-workers. I spent more time at work, but I did so because I was enjoying myself and learning a lot. Personally, I'd much rather spend 12 hours doing something I love than 8 hours doing something I hate.

Just because you are aiming for the stars doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the journey. For me, it's more fun to fail at something audacious then succeed at something mundane. Of course others are free to feel differently, and I would never claim that this is the right decision for everyone.
This was a bad industry in which to pilot this. There are obviously hard time requirements in terms of when such a facility has to be staffed. Obviously, cutting everone's hours means that other people will have to be hired to pick up the slack. It's hard to believe that no one saw this coming. I'd be more interested in seeing the impact of a 6-hour working day on a business that doesn't function in this way.
This has been a known issue for a long time and while I hadn't seen ransomware before these open databases have been attacked previously:

https://blog.shodan.io/its-the-data-stupid/

Note that MongoDB listens on localhost unless changed by the user or the developer is using an insecure image.
While my folder could use a bit of a spring cleaning, I do. It's been damn useful the last 7-8 years.
Implementation of HR Software
A lot of non-tech-savvy people use it for pirating stuff. I've seen some people coordinate larger files across it. But for the most part, I haven't seen it out in the wild for a few. That might be because it's use is low, OR that it's so well integrated as people's workflow, it sort has just sunk into the background.
I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative. It's just Blogger 2.0, in a prettier outfit. It's just a whole bunch of networked blogs, started by a really popular Silicon Valley dude.

And now they've realized that ads slapped onto content isn't sustainable. Gee whiz, welcome to the wonderful world of content publishing, that all other newspapers and magazines have been made painfully aware of in recent times.

It sucks that a bunch of people lost their jobs today, but really, to think that Medium was doing literally one single thing in an innovative way was just plain naive.
Incorrect. Interest expense is a line item that is deducted from the company's tax burden. It's the same with a rental regardless if everything is being covered.
I've seen that before. It's a pathetic attempt to force viral sharing. I never participate on principle.
Well, driverless cars will have to deal with unauthorized humans doing all sorts of weird stuff in traffic.

I think this is a smaller problem.
Would it not be under the authority of a privately owned building to regulate their own Wi-Fi or radio signals?

For example, a movie theatre, airport or hospital could all have good reasons to block radio signals.
That's really interesting to hear and makes me want to visit, because that was my reaction when seeing the Grand Canyon the first time. My brain took a little bit to accept what it was seeing.
From looking in the code, this is my favorite part so far: https://github.com/google/grumpy/blob/75a35b4b30afb049b9cfff... making python threads as lightweight as goroutines must be a breeze!
BuzzFeed is an interesting reference because they've switched to an emphasis on video content (higher engagement + more ad opportunities) as a hedge against the declining publishing industry.

If Medium allows native video publishing, that would certainly be a curveball.
Every single day.
>I much prefer this outlook to both "life-objective point of view" you mentioned and the IMO nihilistic "enjoy every moment", "focus on family and relationships" lifestyle.

This seems self-contradictory. If all the world's problems were solved, what would you do? That's what's properly valuable. If you don't do some of that before you die, how did you live a good life? You have to mix instrumental tasks and actually good things to do.
AWS Lambda for the Impatient Part 1 (of 3)
That whole "don't go to that section if you don't like it" works just fine if those things stay in their section. The problem is that they weren't staying in their section. Fat People Hate was known for going into other subreddits and shitposting all the time. The Donald famously abused the rules to get their crap spamming /r/all constantly.

So tell me again how "don't go to those subreddits" is the solution?
Good for you. The fact that so many don't have that experience means it's still a problem.
I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with your point. A professional programmer should not value things being easy to use? What kind of fake machismo bullshit is that? I should want to take the hard way every time I do something?
I pay $100/year for Pro. Cheaper and easier to have 1TB of remote storage than SD cards, USB sticks, etc, and no excessive bandwidth charges such that AWS has.

EDIT: I don't care if my files are encrypted.

EDIT 2: Dropbox sync is rock solid. Every experience with the Google Drive sync client has been trash. I can (and do) pay for convenience.
"You should probably be willing to move."

Willing and able are two different things. Sadly, all the amazing technology hasn't really changed the need in a lot of people's minds to be physically close. We'll see if VR succeeds where phones, e-mail, chat, and video conferencing have failed.
Alternately, a lot of us are tired of having the same discussions over and over again, with people who don't seem to be discussing in good faith.

I, for one, approach every discussion online with cautious open-mindedness. My time is limited. It doesn't take much for me to want to direct my energies elsewhere.

You can call it virtue-signalling, you can say that asking questions is forbidden, I can say that I'm under no obligation to talk to you or anyone.

And I've learned, through my own experience, that there's a familiar form of discussion that I am not interested in having; the person I responded to hit that form and showed me my energy is better spent elsewhere.

You can talk to them all you want. It's a big internet. I don't have to, and I won't.
No. the most trivial search strategy just tokenizes the input and looks up those token in the index. A poorly formed sentence, is not a detriment to finding out the intend, as long as key words are there. It doesn't require complex NLP to achieve this end result.
Cones of Dunshire? :)
Then why did you write: "Except for the numerous cases it does", when you understood that I was making a normative statement, rather than a positive one?

The role of government is not to avoid unnecessary pain. Government is a collectively formed institution given a set of powers to provide goods we cannot provide for ourselves individually. There is no objective reason why people, acting through their government, have a right to violate the rights of others, when clearly people have no such right when acting in the individual capacity. They do not have a right to make racist motives or hiring practices illegal, because it hurts their feelings.
> Having armed police raid their house because someone has made a bogus 911 call.

This seems to be mostly an american problem, not an online problem. Which means maybe it's not something that should be fixed by online communities but by the nation.
Since we also talking about Python. If you ever used AsyncIO you will see that programming in it is a bit different than you usually write code without it.

Before you can call any coroutine you first need to start an event loop and schedule something in it. This essentially enables the language to schedule another async function each time you use await.

Since Go by default always is async, before your main function is called, it sets up the even loop and then calls your main, which technically is also a coroutine. Your code appears to be sequential, but it is not executed that way.
Any reason that you use it over Google Drive?
In my experience, GIMP-hating seems to have a similar lack of specificity to Linux-hating in general. I generally suspect that people underestimate how much Photoshop has them trained.
>>The start of mass production is a huge milestone in Tesla’s quest to electrify transportation, and it brings to America a manufacturing industry—battery cells—that’s long been dominated by China, Japan, and South Korea.

Anybody wants to guess how long before Trump claims credit for this?
Programmatically creating language bindings for APIs (WinRT/C++)
There is a fair chance that the exponent will be of tractable magnitude for certain practically interesting classes of problems.
Ev Williams: Renewing Medium’s focus
Yes, the ranking system you refer to is the one based on total wins over a player career and doesn't consider loses like ELO or other rating systems do.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?NihonKiInNewPromotionSystem

Fernando Aguilar, a 6 dan amateur from Argentina (http://senseis.xmp.net/?FernandoAguilar) defeated 2 Nihon Kiin 9 professional dans (Hasegawa Sunao and Yo Kagen), which is unexpected given the substantial rank difference.
I think this confuses symptoms and causes of moderate wealth.

When you're moderately wealthy, you can churn cards without the temptation to use them for things that you really can't afford. If you and your family are living month-to-month, it is nearly impossible to restrain yourself when you see how much credit is available.

Similarly, if you're from a large, close family where everyone lives month-to-month, you might be perceived as greedy if you start to accumulate wealth instead of sharing with your family. For some reason it is more forgivable to imperil yourself by borrowing money to buy an expensive car than it is to let money pile up in your savings account.

If you're from a family where there is a culture of long-term financial thinking, this stuff is pretty easy. If you aren't, it isn't. It is partly that you haven't learned habits of financial planning, but also that there are cultural forces that prevent it.
To me it looks like Google essentially is moving everything to Go, and this project is to help with it.

They port their python libraries so they can reference them from their Go code, and then module by module will rewrite it in pure Go.
The anxiety of algorithms
"I've decided to just settle for a regular five-figures job"
Stuff HN says...
Chinese Space Station (3D model)
You've posted plenty of unsubstantive comments to HN. We eventually ban accounts that do that, so please only post civilly and substantively from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13316569 and marked it off-topic.
Huh. I have a very high degree of confidence that I used to do exactly that, though it's been a few months since I did so. I just tried now, and it doesn't work, just like you said.

I wonder if they changed something, or my memory has tricked me. (The weird thing is not only that I remember doing it that way, but I have no memories of having any troubles with it, and this is certainly what I would do on my first try)
I regularly use 5 computers spread across 3 locations, as well as 3 mobile devices. Dropbox is quite handy to sync files across all of them.
"Wouldn't surprise me if they don't even 'drive' in any sense while off-screen, just increment some abstract position relative to the track length. But I don't know this for a fact." This seems unlikely, especially given how item pickup zones operate. Since an item box disappears for a short period of time after someone drives over it, it's imperative that the position of the CPU player who drove over it, and the one that comes after that (and inherently gets no item) is represented accurately. Even off-screen, AI continues to collect and utilize items.

Then again, maybe this is just done by cheating simply with an RNG.
Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space for a couple of bucks a month, but I just don't need 1TB for $10 a month. So instead I use Google and wait in vain for a native Linux client that's probably never coming.
This made be wary of Julia: http://danluu.com/julialang/
> games played by KGS 6 to 9 dan human players

I'm confused. I thought 9-dan players were considered pro? That's the highest ranking you can get, right?
I think you're seeing the whole page... it's a cropped screenshot.
(Mudd alumni, class of 2011)

One big thing is splitting the intro CS course into different sections based in previous experience. Folks with a ton of experience end up one section, and those who are new to the subject in another.

The two sections cover the same material, but with different lecture styles, and people don't end up discouraged because their labmates cruise through exercises that they find challenging.

This isn't explicitly gendered, but pre-college exposure to CS and programming could well be correlated with gender...

The course website is here, and shows the Gold / Black sections: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CS5
I think this also shouldn't conflate IC and OOC behavior. Some are just jerks in OOC fashion, and that's not OK. If IC behavior dictates certain actions story wise, it can be different.

Mixing up IC and OOC behaviors is the first major mistake that should be corrected by any roleplayer.
Especially now that video is eating up bigger and bigger chunks of the content market everyday.
If you're not making five figures in the US, you're unbelievably poor.
Thanks for taking time to answer my questions.

> Kernel code is mapped read only

What part of the system makes sure that read-only kernel code stays read-only? Is it hardware or the hypervisor?

Another question. Is there any chance that you missed something and there's a way to get privilleged access without actually modifying your uid, bumping your capabilities or modifying kernel code?
Here, I'll give you a counterexample:

We're on Python 3 for all new stuff, and are migrating the old whenever we can.
Hm well when I typed it to Google: http://imgur.com/sPNB3O2

And when I said it, Google heard "how many inches per second is Sarah parcak fortnight"

Regardless, why do these anecdotes have to do with the article's argument that "Amazon is building the operating system of the home — its name is Alexa"?
A config in my mind gets me to a state of being. Plugins let me extend that state, but may not make it into a "config". A config can contain a plugin (which may have its own config!).

It's silly semantics all the way down!

None of this stuff is rigidly defined because it's pointless to do so, generally.
What principle insists that 50/50 is the correct ratio? How can anyone know that?
BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes
In the case of one taylor swift concert last year, it was also fireworks night. The streets were packed before she ended. Stars can do what they want. Most leave asap, but i have heard of some overnighting at tge venue, or traveling to the next show with the crew. Helicopters are also an option, ussualy after the parking lot empties.
That FC article skims past, but doesn't quite touch on a very important point that's very central to the article:

> Silicon Valley companies are going after the same small pool of nonwhite, nonmale candidates

There's a limited pool of female software engineers and of non-white-or-asian software engineers. Universities are only graduating so many women, somewhere around the rate that Pinterest is hiring (~20%), if you hire more than this, you're just making sure that other companies can only have less than 20% women.

The change needs to start at the bottom, there need to be more women doing software engineering at university. You can't just hire all of the existing pool of female software engineers, or black software engineers, and then call yourself diverse, and shame on all the companies that now have only 5% female engineers.
Slack invests in 11 bot startups to seed its platform
An almost acceptable pivot, if it wasn't for the sealioning accusation in the parent.
I think just a mangling. In context it may simply be as close as a drunk can get.
Submit this to Amazon and they will fix it.

I try and get it to play Kiss FM UK and says a strange word and then dies. Raised it to Amazon and they are looking into it.
She is easily classified as non-private.
you'll notice that i'm actually agreeing with you. what's fun for you may or may not be real 'work' in the vernacular sense. hiking is definitely work - even in the strict physical sense of the word. but what about something else, like carpentry or metalworking? these are definitely work, but also definitely hobbies for some people.

ycombinator is a venture capital firm and pretty much all they put out has to do with work and money and making lots of it. i was responding to the op who seemed upset that he's reading about work on a site about work... which is bizarre.
Amazon’s Phone Failure
I think their main innovation was [HUGE IMAGE AT TOP OF ARTICLE].
Well then adjust it to having enough evidence to mark it as cleared.

If you can't accept that police will often know who committed a murder without having sufficient evidence, you're denying the messiness of the real world.
/me reads the word "focus" in the title.
Then reads this in the text: "It is too soon to say exactly what this will look like."
I thought the content would have more "focus"...
I was thinking about the same idea but for coming up with more interesting political candidates. The current candidate pipeline is stagnant. Could this be repurposed as a competition + publicizing platform for political candidates. From local to National level. The biggest hindrance is validating up/down votes in my use case.
Free Course Alert – Angular JavaScript Essentials
The success of Medium back in 2013 was the first thing that drove me to recreational data analysis, because I was confused myself.

However, in 2016-2017, Medium is the best answer to the questions "How do I quickly write a pretty blog post?" and "How do I get people to read my thoughts?"

Tumblr fading out of public consciousness made room for Medium too.
I stand by the sealioning accusation. I calls 'em as I sees 'em. I think the poster was sealioning, and I'm not going to engage with someone beyond that.

You want to? Go for it. I am not, nor is anyone else, obligated to.
On literally my first page, I find this gem:
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/696801456e6e4dfc95e059a2ab68699a

Electronic Office

BBC One London, 24 February 1985 9.35

3: Wiring up the Organisation A microcomputer on its own can perform many useful tasks in the office but as soon as an organisation starts linking computers together into a network, its whole style of working may change dramatically, with a consequent challenge to management.
In the third of six programmes Ian McNaught-Davis continues his examination of the office technology of today and tomorrow.
Weather works fine in the UK.
In the same light that minors can't consent to legal procedures, a citizen cannot 'give up' public goods.

Wireless spectrum is one of those things.
> the right thing ... will likely take a long time and you’ll face a lot of criticism.

Is this true, empirically, for the most successful companies? Of the "Frightful 5" (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft), only Microsoft seems to have had an extended period of only modest success before rocketing into the stratosphere. The others did so in just a couple of years.
Thanks zalmoxis for a great extension!

Just switched our devtooling over to it (from shipping devtools in our bundles) and it's both easier to setup (no need to worry about shipping extra code in prod) and handle multiple stores.

Really excited for persisting state in the extension and Immutable import/export!
They could go with "Know nothing".

(Or "Jon Snow", for short, if they can get away with it without being sued - "Jon S. crypto, we dont know nuthing" ;-)
A huge confounding factor: newer Py3 codebases are more likely to be built with newer pipeline tooling like devpi (to cache PyPI downloads), wheel (to cache locally-built packages), and Docker (which caches all the things).

Our legacy Python 2 build pipelines that we're actively moving off of hit PyPI far more often than our Py3 processes.