skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Jobs like this are about the input of a story, not the output.

> Metadata isn't unimportant, but it's not more important than the story itself.

I see redefining what a modern reader should expect of serious journalism as a forcing function that would prompt the writer/editor to provide that data. It would affect how they report and provide better input.
Looks like another poster mentions "https://meet.jit.si". Ran a 10-second test, and it looks like it can successfully display my face. Haven't tried it for actual communication.
This one is not a "terrible headline". The author is emphasizing what matters to him about a profound, life-altering experience. We're supposed to overwrite that because internet readers (all of us) are addicted to instant gratification? Nope, that's not how HN works. We want reflective responses, not reflexive ones, those take a bit longer and that's good. If the difference between 1 second and 10 seconds is critical to you (I don't mean you personally, of course, but any reader), HN may not be the website you're looking for. Making a little effort, poking around a little, figuring things out: those are some of the qualities we want to engage here.

I could go on about this for hours. Of all the things that make HN different and matter most, this is the one I'm surest of. However, after yesterday I think a better use of resources would be to go back to working on making HN faster. There the difference between 1 and 10 seconds really does matter.
Maybe if we were smarter we'd see that they might in fact have a lot to lose.
> I have used 4k for games for years and have never had trouble getting 60fps in every game.

Try Battlefield 1, or some other last-gen game (I believe Rise Of The Tomb Rider is also in this category). You won't get 4k60 on that one without a Titan X or a 1080 Ti.

That is, with the image quality settings maxed out, of course.
Show HN: Synthesis – Machine learning for research
Well then Mozilla better would spend their resources more wisely and refrain from political influenced decisions, e.g. Thunderbird, FirefoxOS, Brendan Eich. Mozilla/Firefox lost much respect from me (not that they will or should care;)
Ask HN: How to get an invite for Scout.ai?
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It's essentially google-docs style collaboration (multiple users in a single doc), but doesn't require a dedicated server and has to get around using all the diff/match/patch magic you can apply when working mainly with text (since Sketch uses lots of binary files).

What's particularly cool is making an existing app collaborative by simply creating a plugin and leveraging realtime syncing services. Curious how many other apps could use this same approach. :)
Ask HN: What blue-collar job resembles computer programming?
I'm guessing electricians are the most similar. I suppose parenting is pretty similar too. What do you think?
Sorry, but I fail to see the relevance.
Repo with writeup at https://github.com/superMDguy/Synthesis. It currently takes about 2 minutes to create a synthesis, so don't worry if it seems 'stuck'.
Developers have the same identity no matter who they work for.

It makes sense to separate access ("this person has access to Example Corp's repos only as long as they work for Example Corp") from identity ("this person owns this account").

Introducing single-sign-on as one way to simplify login, and potentially as a second-factor for gaining access to repositories run by the business, makes sense. Making developers create entirely separate accounts doesn't.
20 years ago, sites got "slashdotted" left, right and centre. Cloudflare and friends put an end to that, forever. Sites went offline for days if not weeks because of hardware failure -- some never came back because they didn't back up correctly. S3 went offline for five hours, but didn't lose a single bit of data.

You're looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses. We learn all the time, and we will probably also learn to build some resilience into our systems against these issues. But as someone who's been through a thing or two (see above) on the Internet of yesterday, I like the one we have today.
We are using Apache NiFi[1] to handle a lot of our ETL use cases.

We have HTTP endpoints set up to receive data from our ERP's accounting system to send data to Concur and to update customers' Lawson punchout ordering systems with shipment information. The 'E' is an HTTP post with an XML payload. The 'T' consists of using the payload to query other databases to build the 'L' payload, and the 'L' is an HTTP post to the consumer's endpoints.

Further, we have NiFi handling HL7 messages inside hospitals. The 'T' is the real winner, here. NiFi has built in transformer for HL7 messages which makes them a breeze with which to work.

EDIT: I wanted to add that we've also used the EventHub processor to connect NiFi to Azure's services as well, and it has been rock solid for us.

NiFi's data provenance, flowfile/attribute system, back pressure settings, auto-queueing, retrying capabilities all make it very reliable and robust.

1. https://nifi.apache.org/
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6487/pwvault.pdf
I would really just love to be able to group my repositories. Either logically in folders, or in another structure that cleans everything up. Tags help, but it is not enough.

I am happy that they continue to add features like this, but I feel like some of the more common wishlist items are not being addressed.
AOL Instant Messenger still exists???
I wish. Too bad there isn't any meaningful competition in the ISP space for most people.
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Actually lots of them do, because they see it as a way to remove "entitlements". Delete food stamps, delete welfare, delete all aspects of the social safety net, and implement a simple UBI. It's the same regressive strategy as "do your taxes on a postcard". Treat every equally, not equitably.
I really enjoy programming, so I don't think I will regret getting some experience. I got injured during workout recently as well and I'm not able to do physical work, play most games or workout, so just not to waste time I'd love to get the internship.
On this topic you can now run WRF in Docker [1] [2], something that I have successfully done in the past on my MacBook Pro. I was even able to generate NCL [3] images from the output. However, I don't think you can truly take advantage of HPC capability via the Docker route if you have access to a supercomputer. Nevertheless, this makes the lives of graduate students the world over much easier since installing WRF is no easy task.

[1] https://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/ncar-docker-wrf

[2] https://github.com/NCAR/container-wrf

[3] https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
Sorry about that — I think I posted it a few minutes before the hiring thread went up (or at least, a couple hours before I noticed it).

I wasn't really expecting this listing to reach the front page — but I can understand that it did.

There's been so much energy / handwringing / chatter in recent months about our increasingly post-factual era, governments' relationships with journalism, and possible technical remedies, that I thought this new team (which has some very sharp people on it) might strike a chord here.
Aviation is all over this. Most airports have an Internet-connected weather station reporting wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and even dewpoint (which is a measurable quantity). This raw data is fairly high quality, publicly available in a standard format, and fed into weather processing systems. Another data source that comes from aviation is airplanes. Especially airliners, because the airline companies really want to avoid areas of strong turbulence. So they mandate their pilots to make pilot reports of wind speed, temperature, turbulence, to air traffic controllers who in turn make it available to weather forecasters (it is a data point, again standard format and reasonably well trained reporters makes for overall pretty good quality data.)

There's a huge community already feeding data into weather underground. I am not sure if NOAA uses weather underground data, but I suspect they do not because the quality of the data is not very reliable (station mount, model, terrain in the immediate vicinity of the station, etc.)

Weather balloons and satellites fill in most of the rest of the data sources.

All weather models are 3D. Terrain is a major factor in weather. The weather forecast is usually pretty good in the time window of the next 24 hours around very specific places, such as the TAF report for major airports, which covers the 2 miles around the airport, and resolving weather to within a 2 hour time frame. Of course, you likely won't be windsurfing there, and I suspect you want a higher resolution weather, such as to within 1/4 mile, with 30 minutes event bracket, and 7 days out. Wouldn't we all!
Have you considered Google Summer of Code?? They start accepting student applications on March 20th.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
Well, won't that require a different identity? My personal email account is funny-nickname@gmail but my work email is my-real-name@work. Github used to allow/encourage multiple identities but then changed it because it was super confusing and hard to manage. Maybe they've fixed that now. :/
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I used to work in Wellington -- pretty fun city, pretty slow internet. Furniture (and shoes for some reason) are hella expensive. If you move there from the states load up a shipping pod ahead of time.
If "engage" means "HA HA U SUK TRUMP UR AZZ MAKE ME A SANDWICH" then maybe Twitter isn't a good place for them.
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The US manufactures more than it ever did, page 2 of this pdf shows it quite clearly: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42135.pdf

The US is more than double Germany.
You're probably surprised only because you didn't know that at some point Google was one of the largest Tandberg customers on the planet, if not the largest. Then it all makes sense.
> Should I create artificial challenge and try to get into MIT/Stanford for masters?

Yes, this is your best approach. Getting a Masters from MIT or Stanford will be the only way for you to find further satisfaction in your career. Good luck!
It's actually just two commands:

1. hive
2. INSERT INTO parquet_table SELECT * FROM csv_table;
I never really thought about it but grouping by tags would be a good thing. Once you get over 10-15 repos it gets much harder to find stuff.
At a high level [for Airflow specifically] the scheduler or workflow engine cares most about the tasks and their dependencies, and is somewhat agnostic about the units of work it triggers.

It's possible to use a feature called XCom as a message bus between tasks, but would typically direct people in the direction of having stateless, idempotent, "contained" units of work and avoid cross task communication as much as possible.
https://airflow.incubator.apache.org/concepts.html#xcoms

For your case [which I have little input on] I think singleton DAGs described in another post on this page may work.
I live in Minnesota now. My wife was born and raised here but has spent a couple of winters in Christchurch. She has always maintained that a winter in Christchurch is worse in some ways that one in Minnesota because of how damp the cold is.

Of course winter is a shorter duration in Christchurch!
Because the market wills so. (Actually, you're at the mercy of your employer.)

Also high competition for perceivably cheap candidates.
It seems to me like the point of this post was to clarify whether the vulnerability was being actively exploited prior to the announcement, and I think it does that well.

Just think of how easy it would have been to exploit this bug: buy a load of random domains, host some plausible looking but malformed content on it then setup a few thousand bots to hit those sites and harvest the responses. Keep that plugging away for a few months and you'd easily collect a lot of supposed-to-be-private info.

That would have been an order of magnitude worse than having to sift through caches for scraps. Not to say that what's happened is 'good', but it could have been a whole lot worse.
they only sampled a few thousand leaked responses out of over a million. The margin of error is 2.5% on conclusions because they didn't use enough data, not even close.
And this is why I changed the key I use for cookies on the application I had that was behind Cloudflare. This triggered all users to be logged out and invalidated any session cookie out there.

So, yes, responsible websites can mitigate session cookies being leaked.

That said, I am not impressed by Cloudflare's transparency which in this case consists of downplaying things, blaming Google and Taviso and not really taking responsibility.
Sorry to hear about your injury, bud!! I'm curious though, is there any chance sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day could hurt your recovery? If so, honestly, it's way better to waste time for a summer than risk developing a chronic injury.
You kid, but as much as I like Wikimedia (and as much as I would like to access Wikipedia free of mobile data charges), I think this objectively makes it harder for projects in the same field to compete, even if just a tiny bit.

I like to think I'm a net neutrality supporter, but when my mobile plan included unlimited data for the carrier's own music streaming service, I started using it and the unlimited data came in really handy. I used other streaming services much less because of that; Spotify, for example, didn't stand a chance of seeing my money.

I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too...
Actually it's rather easy for doctors with french diploma - just an exam to pass indeed. Rather easy process compared to other countries we considered (Canada, Australia)
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> Wikimedia recognizes the user is on that operator's network and serves a banner on the top of the page indicating free data courtesy of their mobile operator, which reinforces a positive brand experience for the operator.

I would like to know just how different Wikipedia Zero is. Can people still make accounts and contribute articles with this service?
The calm of despotism vs. the tempestuous sea of liberty.
It's not you. They simply don't fucking work anymore. I'd pay for this as a browser plugin because clearly Google at some point stopped testing to actually see if recaptcha actually works. It doesn't, though it used to. Sites that use recaptcha are broken and if I do contact them for other reasons, I make sure to let them know that the site is inaccessible to a large part of their audience. Ironically, that includes part of Google itself ...
Probably comparable. I'm in Minnesota though where the cost of living is low but IT wages are relatively high.
It totally will! A text version of that site will probably wind up voted to the top of the hiring thread. :)
Yes. NOAA MOS does just this.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/products.php
An 18th Century Tax on Old Maids and Their Cats
What is the porn color? I don't understand the reference. What makes it "the porn color"?

Aren't links blue (#0000ff) by default?
youre forgetting about the dmca.. github will terminate your account if you get a few dmca notices.
Show HN: A Mac app that checks your Chrome history for Cloudbleed
wealth is earned, not distributed.
My family once had a '92 F250 that had dual gas tanks. They appeared factory installed. I remember plenty of larger pickups had them.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I think there needs to be a greater global redistribution effort, but we should start with a more politically tenable one based on nation states.

Also, I have a hunch (but no data) to suggest that a national one may be more economically viable since you redistribute money inside your own economy which boosts demand and increases your tax base.
I believe this allows them to be more profitable than Xbox/Playstation where they try to squeeze in the best hardware. I also think it aligns well with the younger target audience. The graphics restrictions has also given us some of the more interesting graphics styles in modern Nintendo games.
> The same will likely happen at twitter.

It took them years to let users upload images (when there was a clear demand and parasite services grew out of this) and there's obvious spam accounts that could've shadow banned with very simple heuristics.

So I don't think this is going to happen.
Thanks for replying!

So what happens to a player session when an edge server dies?

Do you have a way to rehydrate the session on a different server?
Uh, nice, thanks. (I should probably have googled that)
[auhtor] Oh cool, I didn't know you guys released your solution yet, I remember demoing Airflow to you guys early on. Looks like it turned out great, congrats on the release!
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The same way that you can use continuous Fourier transforms to model the discrete one. Or, for that matter, the way we use digital simulations to model all sorts of things.
I just created a project using CC4.0 last weekend and I noticed that GitHub didn't have it in the list of suggested license you can choose. When I added it manually, GitHub did recognize it which I thought was awkward. It seems like GitHub is already trying to steer users away from creating the types of repositories they don't want to support in the TOS.
I know, it's a travesty that we allow Iraqis to access Wikipedia for free. We are literally ending wiki competition. Simply awful. Iraqis must demand net neutrality and stop accessing Wikipedia for free!
That's not how colorblindness works. Green things aren't invisible to colorblind people. They just can't discriminate some colors from others as well. I would guess that this color is more different from the body text in some color channel that's extra useful for contrast for colorblind people.
You have a really poor attitude. I think you will never have big money. You will never have job satisfaction. You will never be successful.

Good luck! Thank you for your comment. This thread has created valuable discussion.