skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that could be a great direction I'm not so sure about its implementation. You'd have to create a new set of APIs accessible to another language to work with Android and then convince people to move codebases that have existed for years at this point to a new language.

Granted they can work to make bridges, support both, etc but if the ultimate goal is to transition it's going to take a very, very, very long time.

But I'd love to see what they would come up with for this hypothetical transition :)
Every person you meet is going to ask what you do, that's the moment to hand over your card.
Yes, I am a lawyer with mind dyslexia and I often got into trouble for missing stuff on my letters or rearranging the letters of things like the other parties names or case numbers etc. So I use the LaTeX letter document class and import the other parties information from an adr file. That way I only have to type the darn thing once. I think I can automate more stuff on documents where I often make errors but I'm just getting started with LaTeX. It's been a big stress reliever for me.
> Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor available online).

any particular reason why? i for one would love to see it.
> But I believe this is not an issue in modern browsers.

I think the last browser that saw widespread use in any market with that issue was NN4. In some markets, Opera [some version; 7?] with the same issue will have been a problem much later than NN4. Really, this is to say: this hasn't been a concern for well over a decade at this point even with fairly generous browser support matrices.
> What do (did) you get for either of those cards that's worth more than $450/year, that you can't get with a $0/year card?

I have a Barclays Aviator (old US Airways, now American Airlines) card, and although it has a $195/yr annual fee, I get $100 back for renewing my Global Entry card. This is in an addition to free checked baggage on American Airlines flights and group 1 boarding.

I usually fly enough that it pays for itself with the bag fees alone. The extra 1 year warranty on purchases has also saved me as well.
This is going to sound like an advertisement but I don't know a better way to state it.

Chase reserve is 300 back in "travel" expenses which include parking/tolls/flights/uber. Assuming you have any of those expenses, it's a 150 card. Redeeming points is 1.5x more value if done through the reserve, travel/restaurants give 3x points. If you spend 4k a year on restaurants/travel, you'll break even.

So why get it if I have to spend >4k to break even? Because there is (was?) a 100,000 point signup bonus worth 1000 dollars cash or 1500 dollars in flights/more if transferred for a ticket. I'll break even on the yearly fee just from flights that I'm taking so it's 1000 dollars for "free".

If you're a chase ultimate rewards user, you should have the csr for the 1.5x redemption. If you like free money, you should have the csr and meet the spending requirement for the bonus.

By fiddling with credit cards, I'll save over 3k this year while traveling. There are people who do far, far more.
I only read the headline, but this seems a very obvious part of empirical observation and learning that sits at the center of human existence. Perhaps with one layer of indirection, where you are observing a message/interpretation as opposed to direct physical events. (Or, you're observing those events but in concert with a in incorrect but repeated interpretation.)

Basically, we learn patterns real well. Doesn't matter the nature of the pattern, if we have no counter-example of significant or equivalent weight.
You said the only purpose of what Windows did was locking in people. I said it was to provide software that let people accomplish what they want while making profit sustained by lockin tricks. Are you saying Microsoft never intended people to use Windows API or software to accomplish their personal goals? That there is zero benefit to users of Windows in consumer or business space?
I would love to use this to design my lab badges as well :)
You can set up a web hook somewhere. https://www.webscript.io is "unlimited" for $5/mo, and AWS Lambda probably also works.
At the moment the code is pretty ugly and there's a bit of personal information (e.g. phone number) I don't want to post online. I might write a blog post on creating a custom CV, but that's for some time in the future ;) (not really sure when)
Ah, yes. Another example of 'progressive' historical erasure.

When will the book burning start?
The "Where This Is Headed" section sounds mostly like science fiction to me. But, hey, if someone does figure out how to give people the ability to photosynthesize from sunlight, sign me up ;)
and then we also must consider what kind of society are we if we look for and act on every opportunity to white wash our history?
SAP have their own tech in HANNA now of course

Edit: SAP have a DB called HANA, not HANNA as I incorrectly typed
That's close to my argument. There's kind of two conversations going on in these threads: UNIX portability and general portability. POSIX is fine on former but worse on latter since it wasnt designed for it (among other things).
For someone that has 0 background in Quantum Computing, what would be a good book to start learning more about the topic?
Nice, I've got the Maude translation of War and Peace. Search on Libgen, 99% of things are there.
Oh it is exploitation. It's not like there's a victim, though. The drivers likewise exploit Google's insufferable desire for street photography in exchange for cash.
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The TOR network is a network: you can access it using any web browser and the TOR client + a local web proxy. Use Chrome and configure it to use the local web proxy, now you're accessing TOR using Chrome.
There are several $0/year cards that give you back 2% on every purchase, so in comparison Saphire card gives you 2.5% on travel/restaurants and -0.5% on everything else.
A Practical Approach to Machine Learning Projects
I agree with you on that, but you dont messenger app to do that. Can easily do that from web or from m.facebook.com on firefox.
Maybe I'm an idiot
You simply can't find Postgres DBAs in VA, whereas you can't swing a cat and not hit an Oracle DBA with 10+ years of experience.
True. At the same time, don't forget that banks charge business a small fee to deposit cash into their bank account. For example: https://www.tdcanadatrust.com/products-services/small-busine...
Why did Oxford circulate a criminalised image of me – because I’m a black man?
PayPal froze my account (for concentrated buyer exposure). They asked me what I'm selling, I said I offer software services. They asked what is the product, what do I deliver, I said I deliver code. They asked for the service agreement, I said "well, you'd have to ask the buyer for that". They asked me to send them the last 4 invoices, so I did. Long story short, it was PITA to refund my bread.

Getting paid with STRIPE is better now. WHAT a damn hassle! I got the buyer on the phone with PayPal. PayPal said to me only thing I can do I is refund the last 4 invoices and get paid outside PayPapl. Buyer said there is NO issue at all we are very happy with seller services. They said to the buyer: "there's nothing you did or can do". PayPal told me "they'd hold my bread for 180 days", then for 90 days, OR I can refund the 4 invoices. Each time I called I spoke to someone different.

They said it was their system's fault, not mine or the buyer, the buyer made no claims at all.. Luckily, the buyer was cool enough to help me. I had to call PayPal each time to do a refund. Lift HOLD, refund, with them on the phone, repeat. What a damn HASSLE!

I set up Stripe the next day and it's all good to go now! Good luck with PayPal. They can hold your shit without informing you and you can't do jack shit. And I had people to pay! I am kinda pissed but happy I got all of my invoices paid. Does this mean I can't write a blog post about what happened to me? Maybe this type of shit is normal with PayPal.

- - -

If you'd like to write a blog post, feel free to reach out to me for editing help. Email in my profile.
But OpenJDK is GPL. If Google licensed their Android Java as GPL, I guess they'd be OK. However, Google's Java is NOT GPL.
This is getting more heated than I care for, so I'm going to bow out. As for your last sentence, just read the README for elmx:

> Non-recursive interpolation: currently Elm code interpolated between { and } is not recursive (i.e. is a regular grammar not a CFG). This means that you cannot include curly brackets inside curly brackets.

This is of course just a limitation of the implementation, not the idea.
Author bio: http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/board-of-trustee/john-ger...

John Gertz is the president and CEO of Zorro Productions, Inc., which he founded in 1977 ... He earned his M.A in psycholophysiology from Haifa University, and his B.A. in comparative mythology and religion at UCLA and Prescott College.

From the abstract: "Vastly increased SETI capabilities, Chinese involvement in the field, and an intensified effort by METI-ists to initiate radio transmissions to the stars are among reasons cited for urgency in addressing the question of appropriate regulations. Recommendations include regulations at the agency level and laws at the national level as well as international treaties and oversight."

I'm absolutely not a libertarian, but the only way I can parse this is as someone calling for the building of an international monopoly on talking to aliens (to his institute only) - with some surprising speech restrictions - because he's afraid they'll contact the Chinese first. This is IMHO even more left-field than the people worried about world-ending AI.
Please, PLEASE let this be expanded to telemarketers and email spammers, et. al.
The problem is the following: problems that Oracle products are solving are very hard.

On other hand, our SV startup culture is all about making some quick websites and get rich schemes.

So the conclusion is: Oracle is here to stay.
Vyatta's firewall distribution had some documentation which struck me as being remarkably well-written back in the day. Usage appeared to be well thought out. Don't know if their code is nice or whatever but if other aspects are any indication, I'd imagine it too is well done.
Nice. I actually put some thought into this lately. I would like to be able to redecorate my room digitally, preferably via some voice command. "Alexa, rearrange for Movie Night please."

The idea was to put every piece of furniture on little platforms that can be driven around. The costs are quite prohibitive, especially for couches and other furniture that have to carry quite a load, the Mecanum Wheels on Aliexpress that can carry >100kg are very expensive and too large for my taste. If anyone has a better idea how to actually make this happen, i'd love to hear some ideas.
As I said go Async, I think there's two conversations going on in these threads: POSIX for UNIX portability; general portability. POSIX succeeded on prior but not latter as it wasnt designed for it. Today, we have portability frameworks that can do more than POSIX on more OS's. They definitely win on general portability with them worth consideration for UNIX portability. That's my position.

Far as early days, you might be able to help me out on a point I have few sources on. One history of Xenix posted here claimed its influence and design choices had strong influence on adoption of features that latter led to POSIX. Source was biased so hard to assess. What's your take on Xenix's influence on adoption of standard or POSIX-like API's?
if you've pulled 300k in multiple jobs, why is money still an object for you? study Cs theory now! i know a few ex-quants who are self-funding their phds because they have wads of cash and their jobs were boring.
"quality news" is rarely consistent or reliable.

wsj in particular had some rather absurd hit pieces on bernie sanders.
> Until one day I made some anonymous corrections with proper sources properly cited. I would see my edits immediately undone.

I understand where you're coming from. I've edited for items such as the citation having nothing to do with the content, and seen it reversed and gone through the same thing. Sometimes something as simple as "show me where I can find this in your citation" brings more than civil discourse -- it brings obvious animosity and is countered with straw man attacks or other logical fallacies. I think people have psychological and emotional needs, and some have a need to feel important, dutiful and powerful. This is where they satisfy that need.

Another problem is I think people in authority--sometimes very smart people--draw conclusions that they haven't properly thought about.
I like this. So if the question was "how do you tell which sled dogs are really pulling", your answer would be: you can't, if you're standing on the sled. But if you're one of the dogs, it's a lot easier to tell.
Objects far apart from one another move at relatively greater speeds after accounting for the expansion of the universe simply because there's new space getting created in between. Nothing moves faster than light relative to its local surroundings.
I meant dark horse only in the sense of unlikely winner. Nothing derogatory was meant by my statement.
FWIW, I prefer to use it (LaTex with Beamer) to make technical presentations at conferences. This[1] was my most recent output.

Though, I spent way too much time than I care to admit making those, especially tweaking the TikZ 'diagrams' (first time I tried) that can be seen later in the slides. I find it quite convincing.

I'm pleased with the end result.

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
Alternative facts have always been appealing to those on the wrong side of right.
Im confused. You are upset about FB notifying people about a fact you personally decided to broadcast openly to the whole internet.
Idk about API-s, but tox.
This (and dendritic cell vaccines, and inactivated poliovirus, and...) all can be traced back to an observation that the only people with good outcomes from glioblastoma were those with listeriosis in the past.

Steve Forman at City of Hope has reported some excellent results using CAR-T cells in GBM (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1610497) and Linda Liau at UCLA has seen good results combining checkpoint inhibitors with dendritic cell vaccines (https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/87059).

The fundamental problem with aggressive brain cancers (the most commonly diagnosed kind in adults, unfortunately) is that "excellent" means "the patients survived an average of two years instead of one!"

It's nasty stuff. I work on acute leukemias, which aren't much better, but at least we see some durable cures now and then.
Surely there must be some significant differences? It's hard to believe they are all the same. Claiming they are all the same is a strategy of propagandists (I'm not saying you are one; I'm saying it's a dubious approach). 'It's all the same' is the opposite of truth and accuracy, which require discernment; it the justification of liars (again, not the parent).

Anyway, the parent's claim isn't my experience, but now we're just one person on the Internet disagreeing with another.
I like Seattle a lot, I lived there for 6 years; I've been gone for 3 years now, but it's still my favorite.

The tech scene is world class - headquarter for 2 of the top 4 largest tech companies (microsoft and amazon) and just about every large tech company has an office there; plenty of promising startups too.

Real estate is super reasonable; not just cheaper than SF, but even significantly cheaper than Toronto.

Food scene and bar scene and music are all really good.

Lots of great outdoorsy stuff to do nearby (cascade range, ocean, etc.). I've actually never lived anywhere where people are as active on average. Several of my former co-workers have summited mount rainier for example, other co-workers have been racers etc. And they're really just typical tech workers in Seattle. Three national parks are within driving distance, and besides those, gorgeous hikes start less than hour out of the city. You will fall in love with the outdoors there.

The weather is always mild, no extreme cold or heat. Yes, it's dark a lot, but everyone really appreciates the sun more and the city parks are great on the nice days.
Ask HN: Is the avg.song length(≈3min)related to the recording capacity of vinyl?
Nowadays I would guess an average popular song length is about 3 minutes long.

The question is:

- Is this somehow related due to the fact that the first vinyl/grammophone records had a limited capacity?

- Or is this somehow differently related, e.g. a singer's voice degrades if one sings longer than 3 minutes,or the attention span for a listener is degrading?
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>Ok. I'll bite. You're speaking from the perspective of someone locked into a way of doing work through the GUI, limiting your development experience to that of what the GUI developer (MS in this case) has provided you.

No, I'm speaking from the perspective of someone that has worked in the old days with Sun OS (pre-Solaris) workstations and HP-UX machines, has used (for years) actual VT102 terminals, started using Linux distros around '97 and has been using the CLI in various forms since the mid-eighties or so.

There's nothing limited about the GUI (in theory, and, for most things that matter, in practice too). For example a visual flow language (think Automator in OS X or Quartz Composer, etc) can achieve all the "configurable pipeline" stuff people like in the CLI in a more controlled and formal way.

I also dislike the "dynamic typing" (everything is text/bytes) in the CLI, and would prefer something like PowerShell to have been the norm (with the accompanying toolset). Also note that there's nothing about the GUI that prevents someone from typing some commands too -- and in fact that's part of how lots of GUIs work.

Also, I wouldn't point to "modern web development toolchains" as something to advertise CLIs -- what would that be, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack and the like? All crufty solutions to inadequacies in steering the underlying language properly.

Even in theory, CLIs are not inherently more powerful, it's the other way around (they lack a dimension that GUIs offer (graphics) -- GUIs on the other hand don't lack any dimension -- they can incorporate text commands and text fields and pipelines just fine.
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It looks like a fun project and it was awesome that you got on the cover of the magazine! However,
this was unexpected: "In my PiWars 1.0 robot I used the RPIO.PWM library to generate PWM pulses through software and the PI's DMA interface. This library has sadly been abandoned by the author - from what I have seen on the Github issue tracker a lot of work would be required to support the Pi2."

I understand the appeal of DRY* and OPC* but doing PWM on the Pi (1, 2, or 3) is pretty straightforward when you read the code. It does require that you learn how to actually program the Pi at a much deeper way than you can with sticking to other people's Python modules but isn't that the point? Learning how to do this stuff?

* DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), OPC (Other People's Code)
Yes.

For example, I wrote "iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift"[1][2] using LaTeX, and I think it came out rather well (Pearson has some pretty amazing LaTeX compositors that took my rough ramblings and turned them into something beautiful).

Quite a while ago, I also used TeX (not LaTeX, IIRC) as part of the typesetting backend of a database publishing tool for the international ISBN agency, to publish the PID (Publisher's International Directory). This was a challenging project. IIRC, each of the directories (there were several) was >1000 pages, 4 column text in about a 4 point font. Without chapter breaks. My colleagues tried FrameMaker first on a subset, they let it run overnight and by morning it had kernel-panicked the NeXTStation we were running it on. The box had run out of swap.

TeX was great, it just chugged away at around 1-4 pages per second and never missed a beat. Customer was very happy. The most difficult part was getting TeX not to try so hard to get a "good layout", which wasn't possible given the constraints and for these types of entries just made everything looks worse.

[1] https://www.pearsonhighered.com/program/Weiher-i-OS-and-mac-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
Don't forget Amazon Aurora, and Redshift. With the number of big name customers AWS, these products are the most scary to direct enterprise Oracle DB. Though the smaller and new tech giants of tomorrow will probably be running your Postgres and MySQLs as you mention
>Most Windows programmers I know have never really used an environment that doesn't punish you for using the command line. So what's your point?

That they don't miss it either, and that the "endless, tedious clickfests" are a myth of people who don't know the other side.
I bet Knuth wouldn't be happy to hear that LaTeX was used to design Business Cards
Not seeing the furniture-moving part there.

About 20 years ago, somebody built a pair of robots which could move furniture. They were little forklifts which could cooperate. With one at each end of a couch or large object, they could lift and move things much bigger than the robots. Good idea, but too expensive at the time to get out of the lab. Today, that could work.

It was done with six axes of force sensing on the forks, and minimal communication. Both ends would get into a balanced lift position and push a little bit towards the other end. Then, the master end would do most of the planning and control. The other end just followed by maintaining the force situation - balanced lift and a little push towards the master end.

This would be a nice project today. Maybe even useful. Think of the Kiva platform with a forklift attachment.
Oh, that's hilarious. Wow!
* PostgreSQL

* Varnish Cache

* qmail

* Mercury Programming Language
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No, but if it bothers you so much, you can always use email filters. I've told all my friends not to use Facebook if they want to message me. And the other people aren't urgent so if I see the message only next week, that's ok.
Guy whose suicide note was posted on HN appears to be OK
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The case will go forward with Facebook defending its text
messages on technical grounds; it argues that the texts
were not automated because Brickman and others who received
them had supplied Facebook with their phone numbers.

That sounds like a strange definition of "automated" and a very weak argument.
What about http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67746/combining-paths...?
Getting the GPU usage of Nvidia  cards with the Linux dstat tool
Oh don't worry, Oracle are one step ahead with JavaScript. They launched this Twitter account last week: https://twitter.com/javascript .. and for a week they posted loads of Java stuff on it and haven't failed to point out in replies that they own JavaScript's trademark. The picture of their headquarters is also a nice touch.
However it is still sugarcoating history, hiding the bad people, and making it seem like the good people were always appreciated.

Having a college named after you is much more likely to cause people to assume you were a great person unless they perform more detailed research.