skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just thinking how safe of an optimization pipelining actually is. Let's say a browser has to issue 2 HTTP requests and decides to write them to a single connection using pipelining. Now the server decides that the first one requires a large response (file download) or even an infinite response (server-side streaming) -> The second response is stuck in that case. And the browser might not even be able to safely repeat it on another connection if it doesn't know that it causes idempotent behavior. Or is pipelining only allowed for GET requests?
Does a turker make at least minimum wage? (8,50€/h here in Germany)
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We do use Java 8 a lot in the back but I promise there is no JEE in sight. The front end role will come with a lot of autonomy for the successful candidate to choose the tools/frameworks used.

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I agree, but the distinction is really murky.

Consider the sensationalist headline "Trump Facing Impeachment for Muslim Ban".

Okay, a lot of people (including politicians) are saying "yeah we should maybe impeach that guy", and a lot of Muslims are affected by the order. But there's no impeachment trial and it's not a direct ban on all Muslims.

I don't think it's appropriate to shift all the blame to the publishers but, when people just read the title, nod approvingly, and close their browser, it's the same effect.
I agree with both comments up the tree.

I use LO daily under Linux to produce handouts, simple screen based materials and spreadsheet models for teaching. My colleagues are blissfully ignorant of the fact that the materials they sometimes use where not produced in MS Office on Windows.

I would really like a stable interface for creating interactive materials, but I'd settle for being able to export a full range of hyperlinked objects in Impress as a pdf file so that the hyperlinks work. That would get me 95% of where I would like to be.
I'm not sure what they are going for with this statement. I really wonder who is the audience. I just don't know what good they were hoping to achieve. I'm not being cynical, I just don't understand.

Reaction wise this is basically signaling to most conservatives that Reuters hasn't been doing their job. Its a positive reinforcement that they didn't properly investigate or cover the scandals. I imagine #3 (Give up on hand-outs and worry less about official access) is going to generate most of the commentaries about what has been reported with the prior administration.

"Get out into the country..." was supposed to be your job. Maybe if they had done it properly a lot of surprising things wouldn't have been surprises.
While I may not agree with your position, I appreciate your perspective. Thank you for sharing.
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What you're saying is that Apple is inconsistent in enforcing its officially stated policy. That may be true, but does not change what the official policy is and that they can enforce it any time they want to.
Oh I donno most of the energy going into stovetop ends up as air currents rising to the ceiling and the insulation is pretty good in my sealed oven. Also its very cheap to heat air (compared to water or iron) so it doesn't take much energy to heat that enclosed well insulated oven. I have the EE gear to do it and I'm almost tempted to figure out which takes more KWh, in my infinite spare time.

I season my CI to 400 and as you raise the temp more smokes off so I'd have seasoning problems taking CI to red heat. CI is cheap, cheaper than disposable teflon pans, so owning an unseasoned (probably rusty) one for 1500F steaks and one with glassy seasoning for my wife to cook her eggs is totally realistic. I have SS for high heat.

If you ever need help cleaning stainless, the powder helps. The thing with scotchbright pads is endless news released explaining that after the first use they have more bacteria than a truck stop bathroom...

Teflon is super expensive in the sense of my not being rich enough to shop at walmart. I've been cooking a long time and after throwing out 10 to 20 formerly non-stick pans I bought lifetime SS and CI. So lemme get this straight, I've been buying $50 non-stick pans roughly every year for 20 years thats $1000 of pans sitting in landfills, yet I can buy stainless alclad for only $150 that will last my descendants until at least the year 5000 if not longer? Sign me up! I'm too poor to buy $50 pans I can only afford the $150 pans.
> Bottom line, relax and focus on good faith.

That is quite possibly the WORST legal advice that I've ever heard with regards to contract law (and you're in very tough competition here)
Afaik they get paid per HIT so it all depends on how effective they are.
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Hey, I really enjoyed your pitch on Shark Tank! I'm glad to see your company is doing well.
Why on earth would I want to pay each month for software?

I'd rather just pay one cost and use the product.
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> If you don't get a job straight out of college, you're effectively a second-class citizen. There is no second chance, there is no plan B.

How is this any different here in the 'States? If I'm still looking for work after I graduate, any interviews will have an unanswerable question: "why haven't you done anything since (graduation date here)?"
I like what you guys have been doing so far! Keep it coming.
These points are true in my experience (EDIT: 1.5 startup time sounds like too much) and they are enough to debunk the claim "The JVM is not that heavy". I hadn't ever heard anybody considering disk consumption or installation time before, when making that claim.

To add,

4. Garbage collection and lack of value typed records. As far as I know there is currently no way around going full SOA (structures of arrays (of primitive types)) for large data collections.

Object overhead (memory usage) and GC overhead are the reason why only SOA will work (and it's a pain because the language doesn't make it convenient) if you have like >10^7 objects. (That's my personal experience from a 2-month project, and I normally don't use Java).
> Why isn't "&" (ligature of "et") not in the same row as "e"? "$" ("dollar") is in the same row as "d".

It matches old mechanical typewriters. I have one with the shift-characters over the numbers being exactly what was 16 characters (one bit flip) away in the table.
In short, not often. It's likely that Master workers usually do, but because they are good rather than required to by policy.

For now, non US-based people can't sign up for AMT as workers (I think they made this change 2 years ago).
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Sorry, but if I had data so sensitive that even my business partners cannot see it, I wouldn't certainly input this data into a closed source application provided by an anonymous third-party. This is data security 101.
Darn. I was really interested in this company and their work.
Bernie supporter here, so obvious bias, but the way they (CNN, Fox, etc.) talked down to Sanders in the primaries was disgusting, so I have to agree there. However, the trump administration wasn't attacking Fox news which I think we can all agree from an objective standpoint is several times worse than CNN in their distortion of the truth.
Decentralizing won't help much.

The who really knows what is fake news? And what about the filter bubbles that keep the full picture hidden from you?
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> So where can writing code be used to increase leverage when it comes to pushing back against a potentially dangerous government, within legal bounds obviously.

Make services and products that help people. Seriously, that's it. Anything else could possibly be illegal or harm your fellow Americans.
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i think most people wouldn't say the jvm is heavy compared to ruby or python runtimes, but rather golang , rust or swift. Aka : 1 file copy deployment, almost no boot time and 0 memory bloat.

the first time i ran a server in go and realized it took a few kilobytes in ram when nothing happened, i was quite in shock.
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> I didn't mean to suggest the candidate should launch into a tirade or anything, just that the indignation would ideally be evident yet subtle.

I don't think that subtle indignation is a healthy response. If you're so bothered by this question, I think you should say so. A direct, honest response is far more mature way to handle it than acting annoyed by the question. I could respect a candidate telling me directly that the question is insulting. It would be harder to respect a candidate who responds to the question with snark or sarcasm or an eye roll or any other indication of "subtle indignation".

> The flip side of this is that candidates who find nothing wrong with the question are far more likely to not mete out such critiques. The last thing you want is your organization rotting from within because nobody's speaking their mind.

I don't follow this connection at all. I don't think that being annoyed by this question is very related to giving blunt feedback.
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Russia and Britain had lots of standing factories at the end of WWII.

Russia's military production had been moved away from the west of the country before Russia got there.

Britain wasn't bombed heavily. The Luftwaffe didn't have the capacity.
Or send a coredump :)
Oh, I don't doubt he's very smart. But there are both laws and traditions in place to prevent the kind of subservient lapdog press he wants to have. And he lacks the cajones to just toss the First Amendment out the window on a broad scale (yet).

Reuters' point was that even without the First Amendment and other protections afforded journalists in America, they're capable of publishing important, relevant news anyway. So that's not just a statement of intent. It's deliberately poking at Bannon's bluster. We are not afraid of you. He's trying to intimidate the press, and Reuters, at least, is having none of that.

So Bannon is smart. So what? That won't keep Reuters from doing their jobs.

edit: I should probably add here that I think assuming one's political opponents are stupid is a pet peeve of mine. Of course Bannon is very smart, or he wouldn't be where he is today.
Is it remote?
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> I doubt that would happen in practice though,

Having to worry about it is horrible enough, since this will actually keep many developers from pursuing their passions in their free time.
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AI is the reason we have fake news.
I use the same technique. It has been working very well for me so far. I'm not rich, but lets say I will never have to worry about money again for the rest of my life, and neither will my descendants for the next 6 generations.
For US-based people, I suggest using Mechanical Turk as a worker before creating HITs as a Requester. See https://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/ for decent examples.

It makes me sad that so much of the work available on Mechanical Turk is poorly designed, and that workers have little recourse to bad Requesters.
Another talk about using checklists from StrangeLoop 2016:

"Building Secure Cultures" by Leigh Honeywell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvVZU4IPKc

(checklist part starting from about 16:00)
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Homosexuality in other members of the YC community doesn't affect you. Their private actions don't affect their peers at all, and the fact of their attraction to the same sex doesn't preclude anyone else from participating in YC.

If you think homosexuality is wrong but you keep that to yourself and don't let it influence your business decisions, your private beliefs will also have no effect on other YC founders, and you'll be welcome in the community.

If a gay man said "I believe heterosexuality is wrong and I reserve the right to not do business with heterosexuals to keep my conscience free" they wouldn't be included because that's blatantly discriminatory.

A gay man saying "I don't want to work with people who believe my sexuality is wrong and reserve the right not to do business with me because of it" that's just a rational choice to avoid people who want to punish them for something that only matters to them and their partners.

Mutual tolerance isn't a hard concept. Tolerating others' intolerance of you is not part of it.
I think we are turning *term into a thing. The more we talk about it, and try to combat it, the more it's roots grows and settle in.

This is not a new thing, and we used to simply ignore it. Now we made it a thing.
Can't stump the trump
Russia and China absolutely kick our butts in all these education categories, yet each in its own way is halfway down the road to a being a benighted, ignorant post-modern totalitarian state. Making us better at reading graphs and interpreting data about climate change is a nice goal, but the great strength of the United States is being an open, liberal republic with institutions (like the press) that people trust, not an illiberal democracy as Russia and others are trying to promote with their cunning use of the Internet and social media. That is exactly what is under attack. We need to make some tools that build our muscles to discover, consume and evaluate views that are different than ours, not just map reduce all the news articles.
The median is worse than the mean in a skewed distribution if you want to take the skew into account. In fact one of the strengths of the mean is that it is sensitive to changes in the entire sample, rather than only part of it. To repeat my previous example, if the lowest 20% of household incomes drop because of changes to the tax code, that's something I'd generally want reflected in my "household income" statistic. We can't get too hung up on the semantics of central tendency here--there are many good ways to measure center, and it's clear that all of these statistics actually measure very different things even though they're all grouped into the same category of statistic.

When people say the median is "better" than the mean, they often can't explain exactly why (other than to cite skew, which I've addressed). It's really just a gut feeling based on how they felt when they first learned that the median was "more realistic" for some specific set of data that was skewed. They never thought through exactly why or when you'd want to disregard the skew in the first place. I would be insane to argue that the median is never the right statistic to use; my point is merely that it shouldn't be given preference over the mean, and that people need to think about what they're actually trying to show.

The mean is not only useful for the normal distribution, and since the article specifically avoids jumping into inference territory talking about specific distributions at all is kind of putting the cart before the horse. The "disproportionate fame" of the mean is inherited from its extreme importance throughout all of statistical inference. It's true that if you ignore inference, the mean isn't particularly important as a descriptive statistic, but my argument is that it's certainly no worse than the median.
It's consistent with what people are posting and the directions given. From the very top:

> Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Reminds me of when I was outright sued over a YouTube video on my channel - twice.

It doesn't matter how many "thousands of successful milestones and payments without issues with the terms," there is a vital flaw (in their favor) with said contract.

Contracts are easily done on a case-by-case basis, and dubious clauses are routinely renegotiated.

All of this is irrelevant however when even the lawyers won't answer a simple contract law question. I won both of the suits mentioned above by proving their position to be indefensible.

Which I believe you have done. Keep your integrity, your current and future clients will recognize it.
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> A significant portion of the electorate has been drinking from the well and cannot be reached.

How is that any different than people in the Bible Belt who believe the earth was made in 7 days ? Or elderly people who become vulnerable and fall prey to exploitation (because they believe phone scams, or sob stories from strangers, etc) ? (Edit: or young people who think they're going to grow up and be an astronaut or NBA star). There will always be a sizable proportion of the population who believes wacky stories.

I know you weren't implying this, but NYT and WaPo's hands aren't clean either. I really didn't appreciate how they pushed the "Russia HACKED the election" narrative. That's predatory on the same level: take advantage of the nebulous word "hacking" and misapply it to something that doesn't even rely on computers, do some hand-waiving, and voila, there's some "fake news" to dish up to the masses [which is ironic when your other stories are about the spread of "fake news"].
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Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.
Hi HN,

For the last few weeks I've been trying to come up with ideas for income generating side projects ($500-1K range). Things I've considered:

- SaaS, physical products, etc. related to activities or hobbies I personally enjoy.

- Online drop-shipping store (selling products from e.g. AliExpress) catering specific niches.

- Review websites for specific niches, monetization via Amazon Affiliate links.

I used the AdWords Keyword Planner tool to research different niches, see how many monthly searches they have on average, and how much the suggested bid is.

I tried pretty much every niche I could possibly think of, no matter how small or ridiculous. What I found is all those niches are already quite saturated. Same story for stuff related to my personal interests.

Now I'm stuck and out of ideas.

Perhaps you guys could help me come up with new ideas. Are there any niches you're personally interested in that you feel are underserved or could use some competition? Any products or services you wish existed?

Thanks!
Just don't bring up Iraq WMDs. That was different, because, ummm... [mumbling]