skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a bit of a language nerd myself so I'm inclined to agree with you from a technical perspective.

I just want to hammer in that last point you made about making it work the way he needs. I think this is often the most overlooked and undervalued thing in tech. Has been for a long time.

It's quite often people look at something like this or walk into a project at a new company with existing code and realize that sometimes the important thing is that it works well for what it's intended goal is not that it's written with the newest JavaScript Library or the newest implementation of Django (great stuff there btw not knocking Django).

Sometimes Perl is fine thank you. Still the best string processing language in the business In my not so humble opinion :)

I remember when CGI was all the rage and then poof everyone now thinks that it's gross. Anyone remember making money on custom joomla templates and plugins?

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> We know it because children who didn't get the vaccine
> show Autism symptoms around the same time.

That, my friend, is you making shit up. I know that you made it up, because such a study, comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated children has never been done, despite a huge number of people asking for it.
If you can frame vegetarianism in a way that someone eating meat causes another person direct harm, maybe you have a case.

Environmentally speaking there is more of a clear connection, though it is more of a sliding scale. Is someone smoking next door an imminent threat to my life? Not typically. Is someone experimenting with highly radioactive materials next door an imminent threat to my life? It could very well be.

There's often a lot of grey, but there are times when the threat is obvious. A deliberately unvaccinated child is a serious health risk to everyone they interact with. If there's enough of these children around the risk grows.

Vaccinated children are already rife with disease, they're more vulnerable than adults. Unvaccinated ones may as well be radioactive.

I don't know that hard liquor bans are something you could argue for. America tried that already and it didn't work out at all.
I have written a script in Python. This generates all html/css/images from a bunch of markdown files, and I host them on Heroku (which gives quite nice deployment procedure with minimal effort, and costs almost nothing - $7 per month).

And due to my strange requirements, I couldn't use the widely used static page generators. I have a blog about programming, and sometimes I have some source files, data files, some programs - all used in a blog post, which is stored in a markdown file. I wanted to keep them in the same directory as the text file. I also wanted to publish only part of those files. To get there I implemented a couple of things like custom markdown tags, which are converted to proper links to the image files etc. The result is quite nice, I can shuffle the old blog posts to other directories, and the generated output is still the same. I can keep the images, data files next to the blog post, and they don't interfere with each other.

Previously I had all my blogs on Wordpress. That was terrible. Endless upgrades which sometimes destroyed my blog design. Security holes. Endless tries of hacking the page, or guessing the password.

Now I have no password, no hacking attempts (there is nothing to hack, and if someone does - I will redeploy the files from my computer). All posts are in git versioned files. I can edit them locally in Vim. Deployment is as simple as `git push heroku master`.
It's one thing to talk about your plan, it's another thing to actually execute it. We've seen bloated startup after bloated startup, I think running a lean (and I mean lean, 3 employees is nuts to me) ship like this is very hard to do and also must be very tough being the sole programmer.
A curious line of thinking - where's the line get drawn (if anywhere) between requiring you to unlock your phone so they can search/image it, to requiring you to restore a wiped/factory reset phone you're carrying, to demanding you give up passwords to online services even if you do not have any devices capable of connecting to them with you?

Can I be compelled to produce a password to a Facebook account in my name if I do not have a phone/laptop with me? (Sadly, I suspect the answer for me as a non-US citizen is "Yes - you have no rights at a border and CBP can demand anything of you and deny you entry for any or no reason...)
Hybrid Logical Clocks
Parallel construction makes this unnecessary. There's no doubt in my mind that the NSA earns their budget.
Android JSON Tutorial
Cumulative Advantage!
There are three basic suites of tests:

- pg_regress, which is as you say a set of SQL scripts run on a running server with generated output compared to the expected output. There could be multiple expected outputs, see for example float tests.

- pg_isolation_test, which is a part you are misunderstanding. This facility has been introduced with SSI (serializable transactions) to test concurrency.

- TAP tests (author of the replication/backup/recovery part here), which has roughly three test suites:

-- src/bin/ to test all the in-core binaries

-- src/test/ssl to test SSL configurations. This has proved to be useful lately when moving all the SSL parameters to be reloadable.

-- src/test/recovery to test all the kind of replication scenarios.

There are as well modules in src/test/modules that use TAP tests to run regressions on pg_dump, commit timestamps and extension interactions.
If only Kepler had had this!!
Is the number really that high? Can one really generalize all VCs? Are we strictly talking VCs and not other types of startup investors?
to their defense pearl IS a write only language... /s
theres a mad dash for everyone in the world to come to american universities and suck every last drop of credibility from them. for a long time college has been getting worse. we went from college being a selective and prestigious club to what we have now: giant degree mills where actual learning is a fucking foot note. and college has become this way because everyone needs a college degree now because there are no jobs for the ordinary joe who doesnt have a degree or connections. so college has been on this slow decline and now we see a ton of asian students who are coming and getting degrees while they still have some value. so at the end of the day the whole thing just stinks. you walk around and look at all the amazing buildings and amenities that the school spent millions upon millions upon millions of fucking dollars on to attract the rich foreign students and out of state party students and the domestic rich students. meanwhile the quality of the education that students get has plummeted. students dont learn anything anymore. elon musk read his physics text book and showed up to exams. he was able to pass because he learned the material. maybe other people have has a different experience but that has not been possible at my school. i had a single professor who went against the current and taught for understanding and at the start of the class he practically got on his hands and knees and begged the students to read the book. being new, i didnt understand. but soon i realized that it was because students dont actually read the books! every other professor chooses some shit textbook thats filled with irrelevant material and you are forced to only read the equations and game the fucking system and get points. learning has been totally abandoned! and now i see swarms of asian students cheating on every exam and i look at the state of the college and it just depresses me. i was in an algorithms class and we had a quiz. times up, we are walking to the front to turn things in and there was an asian guy standing in front of the desk, looking at other peoples papers and copying the answers. completely brazen. and the nobody did anything. nobody gave a shit. and i go to a well known school. the state of affairs is not good.
OK, I'm going to play devil's advocate. That answer doesn't really seem all that good since it doesn't address the predictability at all.

To use the human lifespan argument, yes we can say the average lifespan for men is 75, but that's looking backwards. How good would we be at predicting future life expectancy? I'd say we're probably pretty bad at it.

Also, yes, we're trying to predict the average temperature of the earth with climate models. However, that average is determined by the climate in a number of different areas.

Someone please explain this to me.
How to use GraphQL in your iOS app
With all of this talk about docker, Kubernetes and the rest I feel peer pressured into ditching my monolithic heroku rails app and switching to the distributed services heaven that docker seems too advertise.

Can anybody that has made the switch give me a convincing argument about why I should switch to (or not)?
My feeling that docker is great if you are VP of Engineering at Netflix, but is probably not the best thing if you are starting a startup and just need to get things done.

Disclaimer: I'm not religious about this and I'm totally open to being convinced that I'm wrong.
Context is everything. Profanity and hyperbole are as far from the aloof and stuffy professional language one uses with unfamiliar people or those in higher positions. It's something that becomes appropriate in personally close and comfortable quarters, and it can be a signal of comradery.
So many people are all about survival of the fittest until they realize they're not the fittest.
I'm saying that the main rule for all blockchains (not only Ethereum) is that consensus is decided by the majority. This is their "constitution". The majority of the stakeholders in a blockchain can decide to change the consensus rules. In a traditional legal system majority is not required, laws can be changed by relativly few people.
Can we see? Sounds awesome
There is a big difference between having direct competitors that are VC backed versus using infrastructure that is VC backed.
Another result was that she (Mary Mallon) was imprisoned/quarantined for the remainder of her life (after being released from her first quarantine and being told not to work as a cook, changing her name, working as a cook, causing more outbreaks and deaths). 23 years...

She refused medical procedures that could have removed the infection (removal of gall bladder) and as such died in imprisonment/confinement.

I'm not suggesting we should lock up anti-vaxxers, but if there is an outbreak of polio then those people who refuse to be vaccinated put at risk those who cannot be vaccinated.
> If you encounter many skilled jerks, consider why that might be

Often that might be because the viewer is unaware of their own jerkness, and only sees others reciprocating.
Those are much easier because heartbeats are regular, breathing is regular, and you can image a bunch of breaths and heartbeats and synthesize a nice clean movie.

Motion in general is harder.
Yep, yep, my favorite part is using Dropbox to deploy code.
The problem is that the meaning of "civility" is mutable. Too often, "being civil" or "being nice" or "being respectful" ends up meaning going along with the flow and not challenging the group consensus.
> I wonder how Cliqz plans to make this a profitable venture (besides being another Mozilla charity case)?

Whether or not it's a convincing case, the article does address that:

> Cliqz has previously discussed its plans to monetize this pro-privacy approach and usage of its free, anti-tracking browser and search products via a companion Cliqz Offers app — that will be designed to broadcast all offers to all users so Cliqz does not need to track individuals’ browsing habits to power ad targeting. Rather tracking of browsing habits occurs locally, on a user’s device, allowing for the tech to display pertinent offers to users without Cliqz itself needing to be party to its users’ browsing behavior.
I appreciate the analysis but I don't think the title of this should be Getting Started with Deep Learning.

If you are actually looking to get started with deep learning, you should go elsewhere. This is a review of frameworks and tools people use for deep learning
This pub, this very pub we're sitting in. I built it, with my own hands! But do they call me the Pubmaker?

Naa!

See the wall over there, that protects our town? I built it, with my own hands! But do they call me the Wallmaker?

And the bridge, you know, that crosses our river, I built it, with my own hands! But do they call me the Bridgemaker?

But I tell ya, man! YOU F*CK ONE GOAT!

- the CFML guy
I can see how they would dominate music meta-distribution but it does not seem likely that they would get into anything further.
I'm not sure your problem is well defined enough. Do you want the ML to be able to select songs similar to those you've liked? Or would simply keeping track of the number of likes on each song suffice, such that songs with more likes have a higher probability of being played?
recursion limit of 0 on this stack!
Just a quick note, not to debate the whole premise of this post or it's parent - but I don't believe Magic Leap (or anyone else) has developed the ability to selectively block out light.

The most I've seen done in this space is using very very bulky electrochromatic glass of which the 'pixels' are ~32x the size of actual pixels on the AR display, and have extremely "fuzzy" borders
> beating VC-backed startups

Just to nitpick, CD Baby isn't really a VC-backed startup either, right? I've been under the impression Derek bootstrapped it to revenue quickly similarly.
I will look at Oz.
I think it's facinating that we are likely moving to cars with limited speed (driverless controls), and that we have tried banning booze.

At least banning alchohol as a constitutional ammendment was rather ineffective and led to some wild crime and an eventual repeal. On the face of it, though, it's an interesting social experiement whose outcome probably wasn't very obvious at the time. At least to the proponents.

The guns though? I'm not at all sure how America could even try banning that. Perhaps we just need to look to another country to see how that affected society. It also has that awkward bootstrapping problem: how do you take the guns from the people? They're by definition armed, after all...
I've since discovered the joys of git. Dunno what I was thinking with Dropbox. Did the job I spose.
> Rather than anti-tracking software, I believe even by your definition (meant to track ads' tracking behaviour) it would be considered tracker-tracking software.

Fair enough; I didn't mean to claim that the headline was objectively wrong, just that it risked being misleading. I am fine with software tracking lots of stuff online, as long as it doesn't expose my private data to someone else. (Whether Ghostery meets my personal bar I can't say; I found its UI on Firefox unpleasant, and switched to Privacy Badger.)
Very interesting, but how do you dinstinguish from abuse or pranks? It can't be hard to make or those needing recue may not have the resources.
Why not tweak out the "Our secret:" part of article to include the whole "capture a community" thing?

Or, fuck that, since this article is awesome self-admitted wantrepreneur wrapped marketing I'm just personally curious - how important was fandalism to (1) launch and (2) tipping yourself into current hockey stick mode?
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You (and the author) might get a lot out of reading Seeing Like a State.
I don't think that's really fair.

Marathon is still being developed as an open source Mesos framework. The _UI_ is going to stall out a bit, but it's just the UI.

Chronos is still being developed, but Mesosphere is taking Metronome and folding it into Marathon, making it more like Aurora. Moreover there's Singularity, PaaSTA, and a whole lot more:

http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/frameworks/

Yes, DC/OS is intended to be a (mostly) full stack, but even then, it's still just Mesos under the hood and you can run any Mesos framework on it. The open source edition of DC/OS is fairly full featured, while the enterprise version gives you better account security, networking and integrated secrets (vault) support.
I mentioned Utah because it's in the middle of the United States, rather than Sub-Saharan Africa. My coworker had all the benefits and access to modern medicine, and now he faces blindness.
> What is a "data bubble"?

A common result of moving instructions through early processors at too high a rate to maintain laminar flow. Early cryptographic algorithms in particular were severely limited by such considerations, until the advent of modern pipelining algorithms vastly reduced susceptibility to data cavitation.

As a point of historical interest, the "dataflow" paradigm in programming originated as an alternative approach to solving this problem, which attempted to avoid it entirely by having everything happen at once all over the place through magic. Between the misnomer and the heavy drain on the limited market for wizard labor, it's easy to see why the paradigm, though intriguing and not without useful lessons, failed to gain meaningful traction in the industry - perhaps ironically, there was just too much friction for it ever really to take off.
I've gotten so tired of the VC model. It produces nothing. Just company after company of the same rehashed ideas (or worse still, good ideas) that are doomed to failure because they can't eat the world.

I wouldn't work at a VC unless I had literally no other options, and if I ever start a business, I'm doing it the way the author here did: honest work for honest wage. Maybe I won't get any Ferrari's but at least I'll have my dignity.
As always, the quirky units Americans insist on using never cease to amaze.

Acre-feet. Of course.

The only thing missing here is nautical miles and football fields.
> How do you handle support?

2 full-time support reps (who are amazing), so we're not really one-man, anymore.

> How are you able to find infringing music?

Obviously I can't get into details (lest the baddies figure out how to get in). But we have about 40 different checks to make sure the artist is who they say they are (or manually verify if the check fails) and other things.
I think this is part of a trend that is occurring everywhere, not just the Valley: the gradual phasing-out of the public corporation [0][1]

Companies in every sector, not just technology, are switching to private financing. And why wouldn't they? There's less regulation, and less having to answer to Wall Street and the occasional corporate raider. Since there's more wealth accumulating at the top it's easier than ever to find wealthy individuals to finance you without having to tap the markets.

I don't think this is a positive development for society, but under the current circumstances it's probably an unavoidable one.

[0]: http://appcgg.co.uk/siteContent/downloads/Causes%20and%20Con...
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-24/where-hav...
>"A vaccine that is not 100% effective can still be the difference between "exponential growth" and "peters out quickly". I'm not trying to be rude, but that is kind of epidemiology 101 - meaning, take that as an indication that you are not fully informed on this topic."

And in epdiemiology 102, you learn a near-eradicating policy is one of the most dangerous things you can do:

>"Then, suddenly, a new epidemic appears as if from nowhere. This is an illustration of a phenomenon known as the ‘honeymoon period’. This is the period of very low incidence that immediately follows the introduction of a non-eradicating mass vaccination policy."

More in my earlier post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656252
> But IIRC, AWT was not native (in the sense of "calls native OS GUI components") but only tried to look native and failed horribly at achieving that.

A quick check of wikipedia backs my memory, the Java classes were just a thin wrapper around the native components. AWT was mostly bad because it was limited, it does not even have a Table.

> even the basic look because various UI components use wrong size, are placed slightly differently and so on.

The windows API does not come with a layout manager AFAIK. I vagualy remember setting every bit of relevant size/position data by hand last time I used it directly. Same could be done with AWT, so this is mostly likely caused by programmer lazyness.
That's only true with a restricted definition of stakeholders and majority (e.g., miners weighted by mining capacity in Bitcoin). It's not a majority of individuals in the community using the blockchain.

So I'm not sure that it's really all that distinct from legislative majorities in traditional legal system (and clearly less of a genuine majority than in legislative systems where the public retains, whether or not it chooses to frequently exercise them, powers of initiative and referendum.)
I have never tried Weave. But StrongSwan sets up host to host tunnel using Ikev2. So, it should probably work with weave. If you find problems, please let me know in github issues.
Gitlab+Jekyll+LetsEncrypt+domain name has been working out great for me. Every part is free except for the domain name. It's easy to use but requires some HTML and CSS learning if you want to stand out.
I was wondering where that was going but I think you pulled it out at the end there.
Indentation is a pretty good thing to practice for whiteboards. A lot of people have a tendency to waste more and more space on the left as they go. It's a pretty easy thing to fix, just do some questions and have someone there to correct you whenever you start doing it.

Even if you aren't using python, it will give you more room to work (the other part of this is divide the board before you start).
Churchill was wrong about many things. But we must credit him with one towering achievement. In May & June 1940 the whole of Europe lay at Hitler's feet. Many in Britain wanted to reach an accommodation with the Third Reich, fearing that fighting on would lose all [1]. Churchill refused to consider any compromise and insisted on a fight to the end. If Britain had acceeded to a Nazi dominated Europe in 1940, where would the world be now?

[1] Lukacs, Five days in London, May 1940
certainly they have educated despots, just as many foreign banks possible house deposited illicit funds from many US-born people. academia has no moral obligation to government and any suggestion i can think of that affirms that it should are irresponsible.
Distrokid has been out for a couple of years now and it's easy to see that it's pretty damn popular. Sure someone can get a team together and create the next Distrokid (I'm sure it's happening), but they'll be behind a couple of years. By that time, @Pud will have made his millions and onto the next...
For anyone curious about the history and rise of autism diagnoses (attributable entirely to redefinition from a narrow, "Rain man"-like condition to a broad spectrum of characteristics), this interview is the best resource I have encountered:

(67 minute podcast) http://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/01/12/podcast-269-forgott...
> But oh wait he launched DistroKid on the back of the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of registered musicians already using his other site - Fandalism - founded years before

I think it's valid to say that's how his product gained traction quickly, but I doubt that's why DistroKid is a successful company (guess, I'm not in the know).

Did I miss where that's against the rules of legitimacy? Or am I misunderstanding what you're implying?
If not Hitler than Hannibal Lecter

My point is that we're all jerks, one way or another, just don't really know it or admit to it, but we know that everyone has done something that warrants them being called a jerk by someone. No one lives a whole life without being called a jerk by someone. I once thought Mother Theresa was a jerk for being so nice. These labels are subjective and inflammatory. and don't help the situation.
I think I might add a no-op '--no-cthulhu' flag to my next project, just because I like the ring of it so much.