skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue we won't lose anything. IMDB message boards aren't exactly a trustworthy source of information.
Clickbait: it's not like Google is removing their launcher from the Store, it's just Google Now Launcher being superseded by the Pixel Launcher.
Interesting. Do you know anything about agent modelling? Any ideas how if/it ties to it?
Are you trying to do mathematica notebooks for the shell? There's no easy way to do this, you have to run each command into a separate pseudo-tty. You can only do this with a combination of a special terminal emulator and a special shell that only runs inside the special terminal emulator.
You can't do this and then just use bash.
Just yesterday it was decided to fund a new subway line by dramatically increasing the congestion pricing. Hopefully that will decrease traffic further. With the public transportation system in Stockholm most people really have no business driving through town.
Translation:

"We thought we would get a community of fans for free. We didn't realize that maintaining a community requires active engagement, setting rules for behavior and enforcing them. We really didn't think anyone would bother being a troll. This is all too expensive to do properly."
1) Infused ketamine as a treatment for major depression and suicidal thinking

2) More understanding of the "bio psycho social" model of mental illness, with better coordination across different agencies to prevent suicide.
"By having a bunch of smart and creative people working on new projects, simultaneously, bashing their brains together — and not having to worry about the rent — startup accelerators give entrepreneurs a sense of shared purpose and community that has proven, like the Chelsea, wildly successful. [...] Despite their obsession with wealth, most startup accelerators don’t even come close to matching the economic impact of the Chelsea Hotel — much less its cultural impact."
Ask HN: ASUS Tinker Board withdrawn?
Hi all, so I was looking for details of price for the recently soft released ASUS Tinker Board (a more powerful competitor to the Raspberry Pi). Previously it was selling on Farnell/CPC [0] and there were details on ASUS's website (specs, specs sheets, FAQs etc) and it is all gone.

Anyone have any insights?

[0] http://cpc.farnell.com/asus/90mb0qy1-m0eay0/tinker-board-2gb-1-8ghz-4k-gb/dp/SC14363

p.s. it must have happened recently (the last few hours / days) as Google hasn't caught up to the change yet.
Oh, I know it would be a serious undertaking (I'd probably try hacking it into fish, because I've looked into it's code-base). I was just wondering if it's hypothetically possible, and why no-one has done it :)
Start with this one:
http://jstherightway.org/
To me as a web developer, the most exciting new development is react native (not react itself) - it's redefining the border between web and native apps in a way that cordova and xamarin never did.
How do they enforce it?
I mean if the warden picks a sequence randomly.
I have a vague understanding of the Axiom of Choice, but I've always had trouble with some of the analogies people use to explain it.

Two things that have bugged me for a while:

- why is it usually talked about only in the context of infinite sets? Is there a general trick to building a choice function if all you have are finite sets?

- There's a saying like "you can choose from an infinite set of shoes, but not from an infinite set of socks without AC". Why exactly?
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I found these message boards useful in the past. For example when searching for movies based on parts of a movie script, more if these were obscure mpvies. I don't care about closing the message boards but the data should be archived.
How will this affect devices that came with the Now launcher? Will they still receive updates or automatically be replaced with the pixel launcher?

Remember the crazy mess Google created when they decided to drop the sms app in favor of hangout? At some point it seemed like 1B+ people couldn't send/receive text messages and the Google exec's didn't even knew or cared.
Probably that Arm-js emulator you mention is faster: Unicorn is based on QEMU, which internally does the translation by translating the guest machine code to an IR. After optimizing it, this IR usually gets compiled back to the host machine code, but thanks to the TCI [1] the IR can be directly interpreted anywhere without the need of a compiler backend. All these steps incur on an additional overhead that wouldn't be there if one interpreted ARM code directly.

[1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/TCI
It is incredulous they are calling two weeks notice "ample time" for people to organise alternative contacts with friends they may only know via a handle and manually archive their years of messages. I expected better from IMDb.
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Container orchestrators becoming mainstream is something I'm very excited about. Tools like DC/OS, Nomad, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm Mode, Triton, Rancher make it so much easier to have fast development cycles. Last week I went from idea, to concept, to deployed in production in a single day. And it is automatically kept available, restarted if it fails, traffic is routed correctly, other services can discover it, the underlying infrastructure can be changed without anyone ever noticing it.

This also brings me to Traefik, one of the coolest projects I have come across in the last months.

Traefik + DC/OS + CI/CD is what allows developers to create value for the business in hours and not in days or weeks.
IMDb's message boards have terrible UX and are mostly devoid of good content. That said, I wonder how loyal posters on the boards will take this. I can't imagine how frustrated I'd be with a site if they suddenly decided to delete 10 or 20 years of my commenting history. E.g. what if HN or Reddit decided to delete comments and just kept story links?
The size of embedded electronics we have now. Makes me very excited about the near future. As a hobby I am excited by the advances in programming language development; most seemingly tiny and incremental but a lot of long term research is getting working implementations and that is brilliant. Another hobby is the robust push for timer perfect emulators of more and more older systems. But more than anything VR excites me; it is not 'my field' per se (I plod around clumsily with little demos) but it will be in the future. And it will never end.

Edit: there is a lot to be excited about these days
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I was answering the second question, not whether free loading is an actual problem. The answer to that is of course up to the original author, who is entitled to use any license they like.

Regarding your "peek and return" scenario, GPL actually lets you do that, and I wouldn't consider you an actual "user".
This seems incredibly cynical in light of the current breakthroughs in machine learning, and probabilistic modelling. It really feels to me as though the AI revolution isn't something to dream about anymore, because we're living in it.

I find it difficult to deny the achievement of tangible progress that is implied by, for example, the self-driving car.
also rumors said it will return with integrated google assistant so it's rather good news?
It's an honor to even be compared to Tensorflow :)

Keep in mind that we all have day jobs and that appleseed is developed by a handful of volunteers in their free time. That probably explains, at least partly, why our progress is "slow".
Feynman actually has a good piece on "science" like this.
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One of the proposals was to look at energy use. Which is sorta absurd for "green" Vancouver to encourage cheats to waste energy on things to make the empty home look active. Not sure if that is what actually got implemented though.
To some extent, I agree with you! appleseed is surely no exception. We're just trying our best to make it suck as little as possible :)
So you want Vancouver to be a Prince Edward Island!
Not really my main field, but in web technology it seems that severless architectures such as Amazon Lambda will be a pretty big game changer in the near future:

Lambdas are lightweight function calls that can be spawned on demand in sub-millisecond time and don't need a server that's constantly running. They can replace most server code in many settings, e.g. when building REST APIs that are backed by cloud services such as Amazon DynamoDB.

I've heard many impressive things about this way of designing your architecture, and it seems to be able to dramatically reduce cost in some cases, sometimes by more than 10 times.

The drawback is that currently there is a lot of vendor lock-in, as Amazon is (to my knowledge) the only cloud service that offers lambda functions with a really tight and well-working integration with their other services (this is important because on their own lambdas are not very useful).
Canada didn't have Jim Crow laws, wrong country.
Ok. Not sure I buy that (eg right now, we have no reason to believe that the lifetime of the universe is finite), but that's not what I was getting at:

My point is that at worst, the incompleteness theorems only imply that we won't be able to write down all the rules that govern the universe.
From the Hacker News Guidelines[0]:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Go 1 compatibility keeps us from changing any of the types in the APIs mentioned above.

But apparently allows them to change the semantics of those types. I am somewhat dubious about this. The point of the substantial appendix is to demonstrate that the change in semantics is safe in existing code, but it only looks at a subset of existing code. It's still possible that someone out there has made assumptions which will now be invalid, and their code will be broken by this change.
To be fair, IMDB have been at this game for a long time, they're not a random startup pivoting after 6 months. They've probably learnt those lessons a long time ago, I guess something has changed of late whereby keeping the forums stopped being worth the effort.
According to Wikipedia, it seems that ASCII was first used by AT&T's TWX teleprinter network, that previously used another encoding, ITA2.

The keyword is "evolved into" as a long chain of changes, from Morse code, Murray code, a plethora of other variants of encodings and transmission methods, eventually standardised into ASCII on top of a modem in 1963.
In the Bitcoin space, I'm most excited about the Lightning Network [0][1] and MimbleWimble [2][3], which are in my view the two most groundbreaking technologies that really push the limits of what blockchains are capable of.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Lightning_Network

[1] https://lightning.network/

[2] https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimbl...

[3] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/mimblewimble-how-a-stri...
No they mean increase. Rents are high and it is causing problems for retail workers who have to commute 2h to get to work because of living costs in the city.
Neither is HN for that matter, would you be as indifferent if HN decided to delete all comments?
One limitation of appleseed today is that our physically-based sun model is a purely directional light, not a far away disk with a finite radius. This explains the hard shadows on some of the scenes.
From the Hacker News Guidelines[0]:

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Archive Team link: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movi...
Not sure where you are from, many (I am from NL and not many believers in the first category anymore; I live in the south of Spain and there not many either, but from what I read in the US there are plenty left, to my dismay but who cares about that) are still deceiving themselves with theology. But yeah mean that both are beliefs and there it does not matter? Or?
Perl in general. Lots of innovation going on.
Sad. Usually when I have some question after having watched a movie, I can find the answer on the forum. But it seems all good movies have been made anyway. Maybe the era of movies are over.
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Keep in mind if you get capital gains you pay tax twice to both governments. You make it sound like it is a huge deal but factor in the increased accounting costs and in most cases the advantage isn't that great at all.
> the font or the colors used, the shape of a comment box, or the placement of certain components around the design which appear in the design file, but which are not the design itself

Sounds a lot like a description of a template to me
That was a terrible default setting, but you've always been able to change it, or at least you have been since I started using it in 2003-ish. You're right, though, it was an extremely poorly-designed bit of forum software with some baffling choices.
The classroom is lit by a physical sun+sky combination. A limitation of our current implementation of physical sun is that the sun is a directional light instead of being a far away disk of finite radius. This is why we don't have soft shadows in this scene.
Perhaps I'm oldfashioned but all the discussions that happen on the "social web" are very scattered, volatile and basically instantly forgotten. So I don't really find that a good argument to delete these archives. That they're overal low-quality discussions, that's true, though.

I guess it has more to do with "Focus", and that comes before "Nostalgia".
I think web assembly is the piece most likely to change front end development in a meaningful way. A little hard to see now, as the WASM component has no direct access to the DOM, no GC, and no polymorphic inline cache. So, dynamic languages are hard to do with WASM. Once those gaps are closed, however, it should be interesting to see if javascript remains the lingua franca or not.
You say "you" multiple times, but I did not implement this other emulator: I simply found it yesterday while evaluating options for emulating armv7 on top of JavaScriptCore.

On the other side: this CPU emulator is written using high-level JavaScript, and I think some of its control flow is implemented using exception handling, whereas compiling Unicorn to asm.js will get reconstituted in modern broswers back to reasonable native code (and qemu is designed to be fast). I don't think it is clear cut which is faster.

(I would do a benchmark, but for my use case I actually am working with interpreted JS, which is massively different, and I had already evaluated that Unicorn.js wasn't flexible enough for my intent, so it is more of a curiosity than a question I would spend time to answer myself.)
I recommend that too. I only used the npm ecosystem for a short time, and still had dozens of silent breakages from libraries which were expected to update in a backward compatible fashion. And even if a dependency itself is pinned to an exact version, it might be that the transitive dependency of this thing changes and breaks. npm shrinkwrap and yarn are supposed to fix that.
Sounds great! If you do so, please be sure to record it for posterity.
Messages are a tiny fraction of the content on their site.
> I used to think, for example, that the dirac delta function was mathematical fiction - a mathematical "hack".

Can you expand on this? The Dirac delta function is not a function from R to R for example.
Sounds like in many applications of machine learning (I'm thinking mainly of the swathes that name-drop it on a landing page, and probably usually mean 'linear regression') this could replace the brunt of the work.

e.g. store customer orders in the DB, and query `P(c buys x | c bought y)` in order to make recommendations - where `c buys x` is unknown, but `c bought y` occurred, and we know about 'other cs' x and y.

Is that sort of how it works?
> it's just Google Now Launcher being superseded by the Pixel Launcher.

Any links for this? The Pixel Launcher is definitely not available on non-Pixel phones yet.
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Nassim Taleb reader/Twitter follower? In my (limited and mostly anecdotal) experience this sort of categorical seems to lead to more, perhaps different kinds of superstition. People read "The Black Swan" and start talking like statistics, probabilities etc. were suddenly completely meaningless. Humans seem to always have to live in extremes.. ;)
Six months ago people knew this was coming. If they bought at that time they were just ignoring the writing on the wall because they wanted to play real estate casino. No sympathy for sad house flippers, sorry!
It's a pity, the boards of not popular movies sometimes had very interesting discussions. I got in the habit always check the message boards after watching a movie.

I've never really posted though, just been a lurker. I hope the Internet Archive archives this in some form.
That's what raid5/raidz basically is.
Web Analytics I feel is years behind data science - but tools like http://snowplowanalytics.com/ are becoming much more widespread and are taking market share away from Google and Adobe which is good for everyone. Free GA is still the best tool for small sites.
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And my message in this thread was an exercise in adopting a viewpoint, to see how it feels. I've found it sometimes useful to go to the far end of something to shift my default position.

I think there is some effortful thing in the mind that sometimes needs to be engaged to accomplish something, but perhaps that effort is expended at a different level. Maybe it's constantly bringing a goal to mind, to support one decision making process. Maybe it's breaking a habit by avoiding what triggers it, or creating a new habit. Generally, expending conscious effort to change the tracks of the unconscious train, not by steering it.

It's too facile to call it willpower though; I think it needs to be more strategic than that, and I think the baggage of the word is unhelpful.
I agree on kube + rancher + deis + traefik etc..
Can you elaborate on why and how you use DC/OS though?
For many people, line numbers are the first thing they set up - I never understood that. I customize vim quite heavily, and have tried showing line numbers, but all they do is take up 4-5 characters of precious window width! I can see the current line in bottom right, and when I want to go to a line, I use `45gg`.

TL;DR people are different.
The massive leverage is precisely why I would never buy a house on a mortgage. With the 10x+ leverage most mortgages give you these days, it's absolutely terrifying how quickly you can accumulate losses of multiple times your principal. Definitely not what I'm looking for in a long term investment.
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Up-voted for dragging Lamb into an HN thread. ;)

Somehow appropriate for a decade old article about 90's vintage desktop MP3 software.

Now go and try to locate rips of episodes of AMP from MTV and complete your electronica collection.
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Ok, that's fair
Unfortunate, but not too surprising.

I recall occasionally finding some interesting trivia on movies or actors/actresses that I would not have searched out on my own. Some very interesting stories on meeting a star in real life, or having grown up with them when they were a child provided a bit of depth that more cut and dry places like Wikipedia don't include, and places like the tabloids wouldn't find interesting enough to print.

Unfortunately these interesting comments are also hidden in the midst of users asking "who else think X actor looks like Y actor?" and the plethora of happy birthday threads.

I do wonder how many actors actually visit their IMDB comments section.

As far as there only being one post per comment, that can easily be changed by clicking on the "flat" view instead of the "thread" view. I agree that it may not be the best default, but it's at least available.
The agent modelling that I'm aware of is in simulation. I have a feeling that there would be a lot of interesting duality between the fields of agent based simulation and monte-carlo based probabilistic modelling, but I don't know enough about the former to say off hand.
The younger generation or even people newer at the internet never learned how valuable those boards where. IMDb failed with the newer generation and that's why they are shuting them down (the fact that they have to spend resources to keep them up doesn't help either). The comments here (up until now at least) are a representation of their failure as everyone states that nothing of value was lost and most didn't bother with IMDb's boards ever (Hacker News' biggest audience IS that younger generation).
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I yet have to run into a issue where i even want a large file in git.
The manning cable leaks showed that Norway is under America's thumb.
Amazon, the owner of IMDB, does not understand the value of community, apparently seeing it as a cost instead of as an opportunity. So instead of taking advantage of the knowledge and interest of 250 million users, they have given that community to Facebook. Instead, they should have given better tools to their users by making IMDB into a social network for movies. What a waste.
Maybe not, but the state of their desktop app definitely indicates something is wrong inside the company.
Not exactly rich countries.

Let's face it, capital coming into the country to buy property is a Good Thing from an economic perspective. You "just" have to make sure this capital rewards low-income people as much as property owners. This tax is one way to do that, which I think is very good.
I'd like to start a Reddit community around interactive explanations like this – wanna join? https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/
I don't know. The reason I haven't done it is because it's too much work, there is no pleasant way to do GUI programming and I don't have a clear design for how the UI.
Worded properly, that would actually be a rather good answer to the hypothetical interview question.
As an Android developer, I'm most excited about instant apps. If it works as marketed, you won't have to hold on to the apps which you use maybe once or twice a week. Instead, you'll be able to download the required feature/activity/view or whatever else on the fly.

I'm not sure I did justice to instant apps, because there's a language barrier playing in. But here's an example: I use the Amazon app maybe once every 2 weeks, and yet it's one of the apps consuming most amount of memory on my phone due to background services. After Amazon integrates instant apps, I'll be able to delete the app, and just google search for the product through my phone. The Google search will then download the required page as an app, giving me the experience of an app, whilst not even having it on the phone.
It's a good idea, but will not pass. It would probally have a better chance of getting thorough the committee if they catered to the rich. And the last thing we need is more catering to the wealthy.

Just got a nice ticket for being at the beach late at night.

These parks have become so regulated, and fee happy; I just don't find it as enjoyable anymore. Yea--I still go, but we need to take back all our parks, including county parks. Why am I paying $7.00 to go to a park that was suspose to be paid with taxes?

And don't tell me Rangers, and staff need more money. I spent a summer working in a state park. We got paid to sit.