skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> think this objectively makes it harder for projects in the same field to compete, even if just a tiny bit.

I think this is true in theoretical sense, but not in any practical sense. Just as it's true that you breathing reduces amount of breathable oxygen around, but that's not a ground for me to sue you for air pollution and depriving me of vital oxygen ;) There are things so tiny as to consider them as if they weren't is to seriously distort the matter, and I think it's one of such things.

To make it substantial, one needs to point out that a) there are viable competitors b) they are influenced by things like bandwidth costs and c) this difference is causing real and noticeable preference shift.

I can believe it's true for mobile music streaming services, but I don't see it being true for Wikipedia.

There's one more point - the argument against NN goes "it'd kill Wikipedia Zero". I don't think saying "well, so what, but it'd help Spotify" really a strong counter to it - if I had to choose between living without Wikipedia and living without Spotify, I'd choose Wikipedia without even pausing to think for a second. So NN proponents have to offer better answer than that, if they mean to go the utilitarian road.
Title: "Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format."

Subtitle: "The Universal Playlist Format"

Analysis: https://xkcd.com/927/
This makes me so remarkably sad. There are so many people from my younger years online this cuts me off from. People whose names I never knew.

They haven't been online in years, but the potential was still there that maybe one day they'd pop on. Alas, no more.
> I also wish I could easily see different sources of the same information to compare the perspective.

That's a really good idea. Maybe we can all collab and make this.
It was comparison posted at HN -- exceptions were more efficient in case of deep stack unwinding, when compared to testing return codes. But of course, they are not totally free. RTTI memory footprint is negligible in practice; I work on a huge application, having thousands of classes. Nobody cares about the size of RTTI structures, it was never a problem. (Lack of standard API for RTTI is a pain in the neck -- GCC has nice non-standard solution, but MSVC has nothing.) I agree with you that overusing RTTI, like dynamic_cast, might be a sign of design flaw.

Speaking of printf, I meant its counterpart, like boost::format; it accepts format strings but is safe. It can throw an exception in case of an error, and a programmer can react accordingly.

I hate C++ streams, they're slow and cumbersome, one of the worst solution ever. I think lack of format string is their main problem.
To the unjustly downvoted: Consider the possibilities of writing in esoteric rather than exoteric style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
This seems like a great idea, although I think the more appropriate name would have been 'Serials' over Series.

One of the things that I love the most right now are auto-updating blog posts covering news events, similar to the NYT or NPR coverage of a developing story. If this feature enables that for more people then that will be a good thing for news, or developing content.

I could see this being used as a means for telling live novellas in the mystery, crime, or thriller style to great effect as well.
> I do agree on disliking motion controls for a console like this, but motion controls do have their place in VR, so maybe Nintendo has some future plans in that space...

I could see them doing something like the Samsung Gear VR for the Switch.
I am not a doctor. Here are some thoughts (addressed to both you and the GP):

I have a hietal hernia[0] that causes reflux and dyspepsia (trouble swallowing) and mimics these heart symptoms: shortness of breath, arrhythmia, chest pain, and tachycardia. A ketogenic diet helps, as does an OTC PPI[1] (e.g. Prilosec, Nexium). You might consider getting scoped to see if you have one as well (or just take a PPI for two weeks and see if it helps).

I've had arrhythmia since I was a teenager. Some of it is sinus (i.e. pressure on my vascular system caused by breathing) and some of it is not[2]. I've found that taking a daily multivitamin helps considerably, as does a diet rich in magnesium and potassium (occasionally supplemented), so I must have some deficiencies. I can't take too much pseudoephedrine (and try to avoid it completely after a particularly scary episode). Regular exercise helps as well. If I start to freak out about a particularly bad spell of arrhythmia and/or palpitations, I tell myself to eat an apple or a banana and go for a walk.

Alcohol and caffeine wreak havoc on all of the above, so I can't drink like I did in my 20s, and I try to limit myself to one pot of coffee per day. ;-)

> "your EKG is normal and you're fat"

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that...

If you have bacterial endocarditis[3], that could explain why a low-carb diet is helpful: lower blood sugar -> less fuel for bacteria -> reduced heart valve inflammation. Maybe.

I have something else going on right now that I don't understand: waking up at night with back pain under my right shoulder blade, anxiety, and arrhythmia. I went to the hospital after the third incident and the EKG, blood work, chest X-ray, CT scan, etc. didn't reveal anything. I suspect it's stress-related and either an ulcer or bacterial endocarditis, so I need to get those looked at by specialists. I also had a clot in my leg last year for which I needed six months of blood thinners, so I wonder if that's related...

Getting old sucks.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus_hernia

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-pump_inhibitor

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_ventricular_contract...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infective_endocarditis
Web Application Description Language
I feel like there is a logical connection between you getting sick and working on an OpenPGP implementation, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what that connection is.
That's exactly how it would be used. Game programming involves a pretty enormous amount of geometry and vector arithmetic, so it's a domain where being able to write s*(u+v) is an advantage over scaleVec(s, addVec(u, v)). Same logic applies to matrices, as you described.

Personally, I think there are more important advantages of C++ over C, and operator overloading can get ugly FAST if you're not careful.
Next iteration in the Unikernel work
Twitter was a private company at some point right? This is something that should have been fixed years ago.
Engineers turn objects into FM stations
I just wanted to point out that it is in the province of Quebec but pretty far from the bigger cities like Montréal or Quebec City (about 8 hour drive from Montréal).
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How so? How will my music player know that "Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery" from Google Music is actually thegallery.mp3 on my local drive?
> Most founders' instincts seem to be to give too much equity to investors and not enough to employees.

Is this wrong? Investors don't receive anything for their capital but equity. Employees receive income, benefits, etc. that have to be factored into the equation.
I feel that to be true too. It's more that different languages correlate with a different context more than the language itself leads to a different understanding of things.

It's the old mistake of taking correlation for causation.
A health problem that you are aware of. You're supposed to see a doctor periodically because they might catch health problems that haven't yet advanced to the point that you know they're happening.
Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant?
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S3 is the reference here, not Cloudflare.
The word for independence ("neatkarība") in Latvian is a calque from the German Abhängigkeit ‎("dependence")[1]. Thus, "atkarāties" and "karāties" ("to hang"). Thus, the English expression "it hangs in the balance". On balance, most of the things you've said about the Latvian language in this thread hang by a thread, and that thread is close to tear.

Please check your sources and brush up on whatever rudimentary Latvian skills you still posses. You will certainly not master the language by defaulting to what is, in essence, chauvinism. Rest assured, we can read between the lines of what you're implying ["Russian language superior! We have big words, words for everything! The best words!], but it's just not gonna fly here.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atkar%C4%ABba
Repurposing a statically-typed JIT is limiting. This is why PyPy, v8, LuaJIT and HHVM all have written custom JITs specifically for the languages.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d1fc/e50f5476088671adc3910d...
Hopefully they rushed and used an outdated version of Webkit ;)
> Either that or they can use it to start competing services or as blackmail to get web services to pay them.

Who is being blackmailed here? Can you point out somebody who is really hurt by this arrangement, not in theoretical conspiracy scenario but in real world?
Ponder this – IBM Research monthly puzzles
As far as I understand residence, being a RN means working like a dog for essentially no pay - in any country, be it Sweeden, Canada, the United States, or China.

Pointing at a RN to make an economic point is like pointing at the Wall Street interns pulling 130 hour weeks for lunch money as an example of how the poor financial industry is overworked, and underpaid.
Tim Berners-Lee Supports DRM in Browsers
Session cookies can be reset much more easily than asking a user to reset their password. Session cookies also aren't used on multiple sites. It's still a big deal, but leaking a session cookie is much less dangerous than leaking a password.
So I wouldn't buy a Nintendo console as my first console. But I have a PS4 that covers me for most of my gaming (and Netflixing needs) and the Wii U was a great addition to get access to all of Nintendo's stuff. So I'm excited to swap out the Wii U for a Switch -- although there's no rush for me.

One thing that has changed my opinion a bit about Nintendo's products, though: Having a kid. Suddenly it's very clear what it means for Nintendo to make a family console as a product subtly different from a gamer's console or a more adult console, which is what I would consider my PS4 to be.
Mathematic conjectures disproven by extremely large counterexamples
> but are you really being dissuaded from purchasing a Switch based on its lack of web browser and Netflix -- two things that run on half a dozen or more devices that the typical HN reader probably already owns?

It's competing against those devices though. And not just for sales, but pocket/bag space. If I'm bringing a Switch somewhere, I don't really want to carry an iPad with me too if I want to watch something on Netflix.
No idea which of us is more typical, but my doctor is awesome. Preventative care is deductible-waived, so there's really no good reason other than laziness for me not to get a regular annual physical.
If you are middle-aged (or older): to get a checkup
Annual physical exam (AKA annual wellness visit, annual preventive exam, periodic health exam, and routine checkup) - http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/annual-physical-examinati...

Last I knew though they weren't evidence based.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170301173905/https://www.mirbsd...
Regular preventive checkups are (or should be?) a thing.

Quite a few deadly things need to be caught before they become obvious problems. As a crude example, prostate cancer is one of diseases causing death for men; and has the "nice" property that if it's detected early in a screening then it's (usually) treatable with minor side effects, but by the time it causes symptoms serious enough to seek a fix for the symptoms, it generally has grown enough to be lethal.
I don't think the two are different goals. I would very much like standardization around the MBID and AcoustID fingerprint, and my playlist format is just a playlist that uses that. There's no way to use those with a PLS file, for example, even if they were standard and ubiquitous.
The hardcore NN tent, at least on HN, isn't particularly hardcore, and especially not about NN. They are more hardcore (and, for that matter, more reasonable) about wanting to cripple (or in some cases "regulate") big communications providers who use their monopolies in the long-distance bus topology space to push their own media agenda. And NN happens to be a politically viable tool for that.

But if you put it to a vote, a more anarchic internet (characterized by, inter alia, 1. wholly distributed naming and cert mechanisms, 2. final-mile mesh networking, 3. few or no blanket bans on low-power radio transmission, 4. the removal of politically-enshrined content bias from the application layer (ie, copyright law and software patents)) will, I think, win such a poll. The overwhelming majority here prefer that vision as a long-term plan, compared to barely-leashed telecoms restrained by a wink-wink-nudge-nudge "net neutrality."

And so, the solution referred here, since it is pragmatic and reasonable, meets a sort of "for now" test of decency, whilst not being inconsistent with a soft, "best we can do" system of net neutrality for Comcast and Time Warner.
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Unfortunately carrying multiple people also has anti utility or we'd all be driving in minibuses or public transport.
Ask HN: Tools for turning DB records into graphs
I (like most developers) have plenty of relations stored in RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) across many projects.

Are there any open source projects we can use to graph relations (often foreign keys) to see clusters, flows, networks, and relationships from these databases we already have?

- Most connected users

- Most referenced issue cluster

- Most common time-of-day for X

- Number of relationships

I (like most people) would prefer not to have to create a schema and import all the data. It would be nice if the tool could read directly (or semi-directly) from an SQL database.
Good. Why is Snapchat doing political activism?
For me, it goes YAML, S-expressions and JSON, in order of prettiness.
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Gmail Attachments already count toward your drive space.

So, it is a what move to fill it up with mails.
It's not popular these days to claim that there are differences between men and women.
I mean maybe she just found you really appealing.
> School is already useless

I realize there are people who feel that way. I'm not one of them. There are a lot of things I synthesized from school. For me, practicing learning a bunch of different things was useful in itself.

Some people learn better in school, and some find ways to do it on their own.

> There have been studies done on unschooled kids - that get minimal formal education and are allowed to spend their time however they want. And they do only sightly worse than schooled kids

There is a big difference between having a few unschooled kids and changing the whole system to be unschooled.

If unschooled is going to be the way of the future, do it at local levels and let it grow with its success. We need not defund public education to achieve an idealized educational system that isn't going to work for everyone.
As someone who plays things at 4k on my 1070 at home, let me add that things still look freaking amazing at 4k, even without Ultra settings. You can usually turn off antialiasing (sweet), and there are some effects that you probably might not notice (or care about) compared to speed.

The best part is, in two years (or four) when you buy a better card, all the titles that are currently new will tend to look about as good as 2-year-old titles look now. ;)
I generally agree with the statement, but just throwing other tools around - not necessarily just for open source development.

JIRA isn't much worse than GitLab EE license wise - both will give you their full source under a license that you can't do much with it. The only difference is that part of GitLab is available under a better license, but it's not the version you're running if you run EE.
Why You Should Upgrade to Docker 1.13
I've checked with my doctor and she told me to keep a pain diary. No real science was given me in three visits I had before giving up. It has progressed so I cannot sleep on my left side anymore.

Hooray NHS free "healthcare"...
This is cool! Is similar data available for other legal states? Are you working on implementing similar services for those states?
profits falling != impossible to do

There's no reason they couldn't still send targeted ads based on other user info.

This is a choice gmail has to make between doing the right thing, and doing the profitable thing.
You know, I could see ol' Zuck sitting there in his Herman-Miller Aeron chair looking at the internal numbers of FB 'users' and seeing the number be ~15 billion accounts that their in-house 'bot filters still think are 'real' people. He says to himself: 'You know, maybe I could tell the UN that there really are 15 billion people out there and they are all on FB. Ha, I mean, a lot of people really might believe me.' He looks out the window, sighs, and puts out an email via Thunderbird to the marketing team leads that says to keep the number at 2 billion.
Visual Studio Code 1.10
There will still be that asymmetry. My comment was specifically with regards to "the everyday man" who is not a savvy investor, does not have access to all the tools and data, etc. Wallstreet will keep doing its thing just fine even if more Mainstreet investors jump on indexes.
I've started tweaking monitor setting, thinking there must be something wrong with it...
You could combine both solutions and process a playlist file to put copies in a directory whenever you need to actually use the playlist.
How to obtain financial freedom
A severe overreaction is going on.
In the final calculation, employees are the ones who are toiling day-in and day-out for the company's well being – in a real way, the company's future depends on them more than the investors. It can be more valuable to have them invested long-term in the company's success, point for point, than an investor.

Another way to think about it is like this: if an investor told you tomorrow they'd no longer contribute to the company, versus your first engineer, which would be more damaging? The investor's money is already in the bank, whereas the engineer will cost time and money to replace, as well as disrupting the ongoing development.
How do you feel about this data being recorded and available, considering existing Federal Laws supersede state and local laws, making everyone on here an admitted criminal, if the Federal Government chooses to enforce already existing laws?
End to End Testing in Aurelia with Protractor
Immigrant detained after giving press conference
Why is PyPy funding so low? Do no companies use it?
No, It's Not Time to Treat Amazon as a Monopoly
These are one time fixed costs.
Preventive maintenance.
Social media sites really need to face the decision of whether they're "common carriers" or are liable for consequences of discrimination against common/normal views.
Interesting timing given that the Federal government has recently shared that they will "step up marijuana law enforcement". I wonder if some Fed might buy a subscription for the purposes of initial planning.
Thanks for the headsup — I'll let them know.

Edit: Bowers says that he's fixed it now.