skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I fell in love in their Discover Weekly algorithm. If you in previous week listened music from artists which tracks haven't been listed in any user-made playlist nor played magical 10,000 times and there is a problem with getting a vinyl / CD you wouldn't expect any songs from such artists but in Discover Weekly you may found similar tracks - they match same genre, they are also from the same decade, they are not covers and they are unique - not only per week, but I haven't heard them in my whole life. If Spotify is going to close, please share access to it, because it is amazing.
Amazon Knows Your New Bank Card Number Before You Do
It seems impossible to find what spectrum they have actually sold here, just meaningless bandwidth numbers (I'm happy to sell you 1 GHz of spectrum any time, I'll tell you the carrier).

Apparently it is UHF channel 30-51, or 566-692 MHz.
Kanye can mention prenup all he wants.

Nobody enters prenuptial agreements for various difficult reasons, not because they don't hear it in rap music.
Ask HN: Glusterfs or ceph on Digitalocean block storage?
I'm curious to hear of experiences running distributed filesystems like glusterfs or ceph (others too?) on Digitalocean's block storage.

I've got a side project that will be continuously adding many 50kb to 20mb files, so easy expansion is necessary.

Any "at-scale" (ie. production, under real load) performance reports/benchmarks appreciated.

Reliability, recovery from node failure, etc comments welcome.
Huh? Top universities have severe grade inflation, which is close to what is described here. And grads of these universities still rule the world. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-...
>That's mainly an Apple problem though.

And Google's/Spotify's problem is that they do not have any good or even decent phones.
Does it still replace your local music files with inferior copies from the cloud?
I own plenty of vinyl, two Technics SL1200's and a mixer and I think it's a huge waste of resources. What I need is to just get lossless music effortlessly and with the right mastering. For new stuff it's pretty easy because you only have one option (or then some mega rare double vinyl versions, I'm looking at you Björk!). But for these old rock albums... In the 2000's their record labels wanted people to buy them again and so we got these super bad remastered versions, which are the ones you find from Spotify.

Yes, now I need to get CD's to have the best mastering, rip them to flac and opus and put the CD's to a box collecting dust. Or in some cases I need to buy the vinyl, record it to flac and opus and maybe play the vinyl a couple of times more when I do a house party.

Waste of resources...
What happens to signals that are technically within the spectrum, but are being transmitted in a "directed-beam" between two locations?
Reading that list one thing kept popping into my head.... design patterns.
I loved the music discovery aspect of Spotify but bad software pushed me away.

Even to me it sounds counterintuitive. Finding new music I love should have been worth more to me than a player with a lot of features. But my instinct was to let foobar2000 pull me back. Something about sophisticated control of playback and playlists turns out to be really important too. But power users are the minority, I'm sure.
New in Helpmonks: New dashboard – Email collaboration platform
I read it, but I still don't comprehend why anyone would stress the difference between

To prove ¬ϕ, assume ϕ and derive absurdity.

and

To prove ϕ, assume ¬ϕ and derive absurdity.

It just seems exactly the same, given that ¬¬ϕ = ϕ.

"Yes indeed, but the cancellation of double negation is precisely the reasoning principle we are trying to get."

You have to go to a very very deep level of maths if this is what you want to get.
High-speed rail taking shape even as opponents seek to kill it
> Modern contemporary electronic music, which is usually available vinyl only.

Oh, the irony.
>very very deep level

It's not a deep level at all.
The book was written in the mid-50s, back in the days of the Bretton Woods system, and barely a decade after WW2.
I understand and I agree with your point, however to me Gmail and google drive both fall into one bucket, Google's cloud offering. If any thing I would assume Drive is safer since it isnt forced to interact with an old unsecure protocol. They have full control of how it's implemented.
I actually used to have Google Play Music All Access, but the bugs would just drive me insane. I think the worst one was where it would play the censored version of a song, no matter if you chose the edited or explicit version. The only way to fix it was to delete your locally downloaded music, which I keep 60gb of my favorite tracks on my phone. I finally jumped to Spotify premium and I've haven't experienced any bugs. Plus, Spotify premium is half the price because I get a student discount. I think the only thing I miss is no ads on YouTube videos.
Value is closer to revenue than profit, IMO. Profit is an internal accounting issue.

If you give me two $10 bills in exchange for a single $20 bill, it's clear that the value of what you gave me was $20, but unless you are counterfeiting or laundering money, I presume your profit was $0.

Conversely, if you save the seeds from tomatoes, grow them in your yard, and sell me $20 of tomatoes, same $20 of value, and presumably close to $20 in profit.
Strategies for Communicating with Non-Technical Coworkers
Not really. It tends to lead to a situation where in a particular area you can only use the spectrum that is owned by a service you subscribe to. So if you are on Big Bobs Phonz when it is busy (or you would just like more bandwidth) you can't pay to use Medium Sally's Wavz spectrum without a separate subscription. In rural areas things can get fairly weird, where every major company has to provide coverage (and redundant equipment) to ensure any sort of continuity of service.

So the problems are non-optimal spectrum utilization and pointlessly redundant cell sites.

You could extend the idea of municipal owned last mile broadband to wireless as it is more or less the same problem. But then there would be no point in having spectrum auctions. Governments have gotten used to the money they get for awarding spectrum monopolies so I don't see the municipal wireless idea going anywhere anytime soon.
Author never commits with his real email except for the initial commit (which points to https://github.com/andychu) and the project is owned by organization.

I wonder if it is possible to run anonymous projects by creating organization and committing as "Anonymous <anonymous@example.com>". Of course you should just create another account using Tor in this case, but just from a theoretical point of view, can an outsider (not working at github) find out who the author is?
Trader Joe's has terrible produce and meat with a short shelf life. Too many times I've bought rice and boxed pasta that contain dead bugs that float to the top when boiling.
+1 for pointing out "keep your private videos private/safe, from third-parties " would be a better marketing angle
Maybe because GNU/Linux users are allergic to money for desktop software.
While HN is discussing XNU sycalls, anyone know why the most fundamental of syscalls, execve, according to NeXT/Apple's post-UNIX wisdom needs to have an extra "char *apple[]" argument vector?

Not to imply that it is "hidden" but I am curious if any HN users know about this and understand its purpose?
While line/column works nicely if no modification was done on the AST, it works pretty bad with modification.

Furthermore, you can't do cosmetic (e.g., indentation) changes on the AST that will reflect back on the source code (preserving user, i.e., non-modified, style decisions).

The Microsoft example (thinking of Roslyn) offers a great lossless syntax tree written with immutable data structures.
Yes they did, and APFS volumes created with the WWDC seed are no longer compatible with the latest release.
Easily "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution" by Simon Schama
> Have you tried some more affordable "normal" supermarkets like Key Foods

I think this is what the parent is saying: that, for the price, these places have inconsistent quality and selection. This has been my experience as well. And if you live in the outer boroughs, depending on the neighborhood, these stores can be outright disgusting.

But I'm also not originally from NYC and when I go back home to visit, I'm reminded how ubiquitous cheap and high quality grocery shopping is for pretty much the rest of the country.

OP, if really high quality produce at a surprisingly reasonable price in Manhattan, you might be surprised at what Eataly has to offer. For me Fresh Direct and Food Kick are where I go for consistency.
Finding content in HTML
Uber, Tinder, and other apps I use require Google Play Services in their latest version. They simply refuse to work without it and there is no web alternative. It's either downgrade to a bug-prone version or use Google Play Services. There is really no privacy on a fully functional Android Phone that isn't just email and phone services - though I guess if you're using Uber and Tinder there is no privacy one way or the other.
And the 5 GHz ISM (wifi) band is being infiltrated by LTE-U from telcos. This is despite the fact that it causes loss of 80%+ of channel capacity when sharing with wifi. The telcos are doing everything they can to wipe out public wireless connectivity.
This seems quite similar to LabView. So I imagine it'll have similar pros and cons: LabView is great for putting together quick prototypes for e.g data collection or visualization, but it quickly becomes unmanageable as the complexity increases; you need to 'tidy up' the placement of the various operators or it ends up being a rat's nest.
This question has been around since I connected to the internet. The response has always been to use a reasonably decent OS.
Would you respond the same way to someone whose spouse emptied out their bank accounts and ran off?
If you write a paper that contains mathematical proofs, it is extremely unlikely that this distinction will play any role whatsoever.
A plastic bottle of water with a single asparagus in it labeled "asparagus water" for $4.99. That's why Whole Foods is struggling. People are sick of being screwed with by a corporation.
That's completely true, on my previous phone (Nexus 4), as soon as I used Android Stock, without Google Play Services, my battery life increased by around 30%!
The experiment should be to see how many logical fallacies you can find in this very silly response.

zero sum thinking is just the first.
If only that sort of righteousness paid the rent.
"unsafe" in Rust isn't abuse. It's explicit syntax with compile time effects specifically for the purpose of facilitating unsafe constructs, like direct memory buffer manipulation, required for low level programming.

I've never tried the Python or Java equivalents and frankly don't know enough about them to even know whether your comment is accurate or not.
Hell, why even bother criminalizing murder or theft when murder and theft have happened in every culture in the history of time? It's only human nature, after all.
Why Our Kids Can’t Daydream in Class
Another side of the coin is at $100/week that's $5k a year. What if you 'worked on your career' and got a $5k raise? Do that once and that $5k will be there every year from that point on.
To my mind it's a bit different in that this guy is saying the software can't actually guarantee what it's supposed to, and not that it could be accomplished with more trouble.
Totally irrelevant. The response to Dropbox you describe was "meh, easily done with existing tools". The analog hole response is "no app can provide what users would assume this app provides"

I think the comparison to Snapchat is more relevant: Snapchat is expected to provide only temporary access, but cannot guarantee that. This did not impede snapchat's growth, and might not really be an issue for rumuki; however, the use context is different so the comparison is not very informative.
Genuine question, what user tracking is there that isn't opt out?
> I feel like WF is trying to tell me that those guys are not working here, they are just super cool and they are helping the distribution of organic food which is good for my health and important for the well being of the world.

> The two options available are looking like a monster to the people in line behind

Sure or maybe you are paranoid.
Don't you think that's rather creepy?
Python Implementation of Yamaha Extended Control API Specification
This is exactly what was said about IBM as IBM was being left behind by low cost replacements and competitors. Both IBM and Oracle have many of the same characteristics in terms of being aggressive with customers and influential in the C-suite. But that was not enough.
> I don't like putting databases in the cloud, but there you pay closer to actual usage instead of 24x7 at max capacity.

Bad news again - with Amazon RDS and Azure SQL DB, you pay a fee based on instance size, and you can't scale up/down instantly with demand. (You can scale automatically, but it takes quite a bit of work - you don't "pay actual usage."
It was never just about you, it's about you and others. If your only contribution is along the lines of "doesn't look like something I have a use for", perhaps it's best to leave the discussion to people that would use it and/or try to learn a bit behind why those preferences exist.
The sad thing is, it didn't used to be this way. The first versions of Spotify (beta) were really performant. In fact, the same developer that wrote Open Transport Tycoon had a large part to play in the first Spotify desktop app. It was slick, simple and easy to use.

Now though... There's bloat every where, bugs everywhere, zero user feedback has been incorporated into the product. There are bugs that have been open for _years_ that still haven't been addressed.

From what I hear of the company culture, it's not surprising. International parties, organizational bloat, defunct acquisitions. What started as a really nice piece of tech quickly devolved into a hedonistic wannabe mainstream media company, and it shows.
Baloney. This was started during the Obama era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_...
I disagree. Cashiers are no more intelligent at whole foods as they are at a Safeway. They barely talk or acknowledge your presence. Major stores are clean and neat. That's SOP. $100 back in cash? Why is that important? I give them points for letting me use Apple Pay but beyond that Whole Foods "experiance" is no different than a Kroger, Wegmans, or Sprouts. Maybe you're living in a really run down area where Whole Foods is the only well managed place.
A lot of the issues you describe seem to come from remotely working in countries throughout SE Asia. What if one were to travel the US as a US citizen? Issues like unreliable internet connection, workplace issues, food poisoning, visas/paperwork, and language barrier would be greatly minimized. Traveling Europe with an EU citizenship would be a similar experience, though you may run into some language barriers. You also have a general idea of what the weather will be like in any of these places.

Overspending on the other hand is definitely something that would be an issue while remotely working anywhere, but if you stay disciplined enough I think you'd be able to manage.
I don't know. Working at McDonalds hardly qualifies one for understanding current scientific hypotheses, debating and testing them. Sure, there are lots of jobs in science other than theoretical, but it might be very tough, unrewarding and thus frustrating to spend a life chasing things without ever fully grasping their complexities.
Like so many projects on the internet: Lots of big words and ideas, but no content. Show us some actual tech and code and I might throw my money your way. Or better: Release your code under an open license and I might even throw my time your way!
My wife has this happen to her frequently. I bought a friend a bottle of Woodford Reserve (Bourbon) for his birthday and it appeared within a few days for her after discussing it on the way to the party (she doesn't even drink). Additionally, we have talked about "blue Gatorade" in the car only to have Cool Blue Gatorade show up within a few days. The one that really freaked me out was the "Thunderstorm" color paint that we saw a commercial for and briefly discussed. None of these things were actively searched on her device and were only talked about in private. I would believe some of the explanations here but the wide spread of items makes me think that Facebook and Instagram are passively listening to our conversations. These three items all appeared within the same month and within 72 hours of talking about them in person. I don't believe it could be a coincendence at this point.
Looks interesting. I would like a more detailed look at the visual language being used here. How is logic projected out into the physical world, is it simply making variables into nodes?
there was a candidate that wanted to address the "crippling amounts of debt" issue, but that movement was cut off at the knees.
Possibly. Depends on the quality of the reviewer and the complexity of the code (as a whole). On average Rust programmers aren't necessarily better than programmers using any other language. If history is a guide then if Rust takes off there will be plenty of terrible, buggy, unsafe and very thoroughly reviewed Rust code out there used in popular, widely used applications or services.

I find the notion that "explicit unsafe makes bugs less likely" to be suspect. It seems reasonable, almost tautological at first glance. But theory and practice are different animals.
Isn't that a kind of a narrow observation? I don't think the main objection to it that he came up with it, surely? Indeed that post didn't criticize the idea just because it came from him, it claimed that the idea was bad much like all the other things he believes. I think you misread that post completely.
The article describes something more akin to communism than socialism. Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive . The (fictitious) professor's class room already ran much like the United States does before the (fictitious) experiment, that is, everyone is guaranteed at least the same lesson (socialism) and what you do with that lesson to benefit yourself is up to you (capitalism).

In reality and to follow the articles misguided analogy, most top universities curve (inflate) student grades much like the United States' overly capitalist system has established what is akin to corporate well-fair. In fact the U.S has gotten to the point where the only entities with rights are businesses and the wealthy - if you want rights and well-fair in the U.S. start a business its the only way. This is evidenced by the fact that only 2% of civilian legal issues in the U.S. ever see trial or legal mediation while the majority of all business legal situation get the full attention of the judiciary system.

More social programs in the U.S. in the U.S. apply to businesses not people.
Speaking from my own experience back in the day.

Demoscene conflates with gaming culture, no one is religious over APIs, rather over computer systems, e.g. Atari vs Amiga.

What matters is becoming the master, able to show that demo that everyone though impossible, streching that specific OS/machine to the max, on the big screen.

Sharing code, talking about hippie ideals of having APIs that would make all hardware systems look the same, without that special touch what means to own an e.g. Amiga, are not well received.

For GNU/Linux users there aren't special computers, with its differentiating architecture and special features that make them unique, a special flavour, all look like an UNIX clone.

So one gets two communities talking past each other.
Agreed completely. Farm local. Shop local.
Ask HN: Is there a good Node.js equivalent of ipython?
When working with Python and JavaScript I spend most of my time in an interactive prompt: ipython for Python and the Chrome DevTools for JavaScript.

What's the best interactive REPL for working with Node.js? My ideal solution would look like ipython on the command-line - I like the option of running via SSH so browser or GUI environments aren't ideal, but I'd like to know the best options there as well.
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
Russia in general has very lax attitudes towards copyright and did not even join the Berne Convention until 1995.
"Pretty simplistic because obviously this is an extreme case to average all scores."

It's simplistic because it assumes all that motivates people are scores and counters. In other words money.

Psychology shows that isn't the case. The very existence of open source software shows that isn't the case. I'm not sat here with an Elm program because I'm looking to get an A. I'm enjoying the act of creation.
One shouldn't take the rule of the excluded middle for granted. That is not applicable in many theories.
Very promising, the site doesn't talk about Unity 3D, did you consider building a plugin for it?
I like their food/produce and generally consider it a good value. Their wine selection/prices are surprisingly weak though.

The only thing I hate them for is selling/promoting snake oil. My guess is a lot of the hate towards Whole Foods is their clientele being perceived as snobby/out of touch/"richer than I am".
Great explanation, thank you. From the links you provided (all very good), I started browsing and ended up with the book "Orbital Mechanics: Theory and Applications" by Tom Logsdon [1], which appears quite good.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Orbital-Mechanics-Applications-Tom-Lo...
When I tried Uber (a few months ago) without Play Services, it was working, but without the location feature. So, if you typed an address, it was working as expected.
its like speeding.. it's fine so long as nobodies watching.

If your low power and nobodies inbetween or in the overspill region then keep calm and carry on, if not reconsider getting licensed modems
Uhm, does dd contain all the logic to work with that or is that literally just O_DIRECT |ed into the flags?
It would be really visionary to take a big chunk of spectrum like this and set it aside as a next gen unlicensed band: http://www.comlab.hut.fi/studies/4210/papers/8_2.pdf.
I tried to use a Cyanogenmod phone over the summer without google play services (I couldn't get it to install).

I used the Amazon android store, which has many of the same applications as the play store. However, most apps I installed crashed on first launch due to (I assumed) lack of play services.

It was a very crappy experience which lasted only about a week before I switched back to a handset where the gapps flash worked correctly.
It wouldn't be an error, it would just be an artifact of that Universe.
Around 2050, when major climate crises and extinctions will be coming to a peak and affecting economies, food supplies, and other human necessities, I'll be about 60 years old.
There is a Node.js kernel available for the Jupyter frontend!
https://github.com/notablemind/jupyter-nodejs

Edit : for command line like app there seems to be https://github.com/princejwesley/Mancy
Guess you can submit anything and seven people have upvoted, quite likely of a certain political persuasion. It didn't really seem significant enough to even bother flagging though I guess you could.
Show HN: AirText – What Google Should Have Built for Android
After working over 1.5 years on this, finally launched the first public beta of AirText - it syncs android sms & mms to macOS. https://www.airtextapp.com
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There's redbaron, which provides a full syntax tree, and is designed for making such changes: https://github.com/PyCQA/redbaron