skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I don't think it will work in the US (at least not initially). Americans are accustomed to a certain level of service, in part because of cheap labor. I remember standing behind an American family at McDonald's and their order was just on another level, very specific. Nothing wrong with that, they are getting their money's worth, just different expectations.

We've had automated ordering at local chains in Sweden for 10 years, both in store and on your phone [0]. And more recently also at McDonald's. But you're expected to do a lot of things yourself here. This goes back at least to the '70s with the explicit idea to increase wages and production [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FyPqoT1yp4&t=60s
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehn%E2%80%93Meidner_model
That is good enough if you are going to be supervised by a senior developer that can mentor you, but is still not enough to be an autonomous developer.
That's very rare cases. Cinema is the most unhuman conveyor of entertainment content consumption. Modern movies are nice looking moving pictures generated based on big data and emotion exploitation.
In every McDonalds I've been they ask:

1. Would you like a menu? (+fries +juice)

2. Make it big menu for just $X ?

3. Would you like a pie for desert?

I also have acquaintances that worked there. From where I'm from, if you don't ask such questions and smile at the same time, you tend to get fired.
I would bet you 1000 USD that it would be eye-opening to buy a 64gb RAM, 8 core CPU server, put 4 SSDs in it in RAID10 config, and test your entire stack on just that box using Docker, KVM, whatever. Just running it beside your desk and having your other devs beat on it.

You might have to stub out some things using e.g. Cassandra or another open source alternative; just use a Docker or VM image without the production redundancy.

You did admit, that you have no idea how much performance is being dropped on the floor due to not using dedicated hardware. So why not test it?

My belief: you would find you are paying AWS far more than they are actually worth.
The No Starch shopping cart is having issues for me. I'll come back later in the day and try again. I got to "Review your order", then "You have no items in your shopping cart."
yeah...it's just that a lot of people already have at least a 5" smartphone and/or tablet (tablet sales have been shrinking due to this) so I don't know how much of the tablet aspect is appealing nowadays...3 years ago it would have been a bigger deal
Really? On the contrary, I see sentences all the time that are desperately in need of an Oxford comma. Example: "The three target demographic groups for the new product are fruit and vegetable lovers, vegan and paleo dieters, and reduced-meat health and fitness individuals." This sort of thing pops up in work documents frequently.

Any time you have categories that themselves include more than one item, an Oxford comma is really helpful.
Chess Knight Problem
As I posted in the dupe:

This saddens me.

>Users would rate documentaries with 5 stars, and silly movies with just 3 stars, but still watch silly movies more often than those high-rated documentaries

That's not incongruous to me. The stars are not about "enjoyment" factor, they are about perceived quality. I may have a go to cheap ice-cream and rate it 3-stars but rate a good affogato 5-stars and only have it once in a while.

They are diluting the meaning of quality and instead are opting for a saccharine "enjoyment" factor.
This binary choice does not sit well with me and I hope they abandon the idea soon.
Is it driven by limit orders then? I mean if people are buying and selling at the "market" price then it should stay sideways. If someone wants to sell to get cash and there are no market buys then the price just automatically drops to the closest limit buy order?
I'd be pretty happy if netflix managed to actually suggest things there's a vague chance I'll be interested in rather than whatever they recently released/bought and desperately want viewers for..
The sheer amount of misused punctuation in this comments section seems to indicate a systematic problem.
Final Fantasy XI isn't even that good.
Thumbs up or thumbs down is just as good of a signal for the users. Everybody has some innate star rating threshold where they won't watch a series or film. If it's below 3.5 stars I won't even give it a chance. Thumbs down accomplishes the same thing.

I'm going to rely on Netflix's recommendation engine to put things in front of me that I am going to enjoy.
Being a personal project, there's also a concern of losing control over one's art. Would Rembrandt invite a hundred paintbrushes upon his canvas?

Quoting a comment from a thread several months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11999393):

> Actually, he's done that in the past. He let some folks from the DF forums have part of the source code, specifically the part which uses OpenGL to draw the graphics. They were able to improve it so that it was much more efficient, and so that it could use TrueType fonts. The results were quite successful, in that the graphics now take up much less of the game's time, and TrueType fonts can make the game much more approachable.

> On the other hand, Tarn has said that he now no longer understands this part of the code. If he ever needs to modify it he'll either have to learn how it works from scratch, or farm the work out to the community again. Since he has no desire to become a project manager, he's unlikely to do the latter.
Yes, but the ratings aren't just for Netflix to use, they're also interesting information for users.

This move seems very inward-focused: Netflix is thinking about the information it wants to get from users, but I wonder if they surveyed people about how much they want to see percentage-likes instead of stars.
Nintendo refuses to take a loss, so they are extremely conservative with their inventory. I'm sure they have their reasons for doing this, but man I wonder if it's going to seriously hurt them long term.
No, but I do personally test the physical security measures of every car or computer I purchase and bring into my home.
"Tolerant" employees often don't have a choice if there is more demand than supply for jobs in a market. UBI removes some of the coercive power the employer has, since employees aren't forced to choose between their job and food/a place to live/etc.
I love the game. My only gripes are around the draw distance for things with logic -- animals, enemies -- seems to be pretty shallow. I understand why it is that way, but I find myself floating into an area only to find out that I should had prepared better for the situation. Also, I think that if you stop climbing up a wall and just rest, a little stamina should return. It is the reason why people take breaks. This would probably drastically change the game though.

I just beat the major test of strength, time to get one of these beasts.
> The person who owns a server can restrict access by adding a login form and creating user accounts.

Or, say, returning "403 Forbidden" or using a CAPTCHA?
Google won’t be able to resist listening in on your conversations
I don't mind weapon durability too much, it forces you to manage your weapons a bit instead of always using the strongest one you have. I do wish it'd auto-switch in the heat of battle.

For cooking, pick an ingredient and select Hold, select the others, then go stand in front of a pot over a lit fire (of which you encounter plenty). The game will tell you to press A to cook. To restore health, just put a bunch of mushrooms and meat in a pot. Some mushrooms, herbs, crabs, fish, etc. tell you that they'll make you faster/stronger/less cold/etc., just throw them in with the meat. For elixirs just mix butterflies, lizards, etc. with boko horn, tooth, etc. Also if you get hearty radishes, you can throw them in a pot without anything else and it's basically full restore + extra hearts. It's broken.
I'm cool with that, I'm just bothered by the constant blaming Netflix for something that is not of their creation. These problems will exist with any streaming service as long as people point their complaints to the wrong companies. People should complain to the content rights holders, not the streamers.

It's just as possible for the content owner to tell Amazon to stop selling their content if they wanted for some strange reason.
I think you will produce less waste by replacing a Nintendo console every ~5 years than by replacing a CPU/graphics card(maybe motherboard+ram) every ~5 years.

The switch is smaller than my current graphics card. The switch + ALL of its accessories is (rough estimate) slightly less material than what is inside my PC case. Certainly far less electronics. Most of the Switch accessories are just plastic.

edit: If the one metric you want to maximize (or minimize) is electronic waste, the ONLY device you should own is a high-end smartphone that you carefully maintain so that you can replace it only after at least triple its expected (2 year) lifetime.
My guess is the former based on https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl/blob/master/README.md
Nintendo should just cut the crap and market the switch as a portable. That seems to be driving demand. Any positive review or discussion I see about the switch (that isn't specifically about zelda) refers to using the device as a handheld.
I have had one experience with Upwork and it was as a freelancer. It was bad. I ended up not being able to do the work because of health issues but the guy wanted to skirt the upwork rules in order to not have to pay through there. It would've worked in my favor but it was just shady.
95 to 99% of people will use the FB app over the mobile site assuming they have access to the FB app.

This isn't really comparable to AOL at all is it? In this case some HNers are the odd ones out. And will be for some time at the very least.
The article asks:

> Does the law intend to exempt the distribution of the three categories that follow, or does it mean to exempt packing for the shipping or distribution of them?

I'd say it does both. It exempts workers who package for shipment AND workers who distribute.

Discuss... :-)
Sure, value for himself. Value as a business input to a currently non-existent SaaS app? Way less clear.
Aha, changing the URL to https://www.nostarch.com/Rust (https) worked for me.
Genetic algorithms for feature selection in Data Analytics
> you realize if you piss off anyone doing this, they can have you sent to jail right?

Are you talking about Aaron Swartz? There were complicating factors. Typically, no, scraping is not a criminal matter. If you need a lawyer, however, you should talk to one.

> Automated scraping is unlikely to qualify as fair use in court.

Scraping is not [usually] the problem. It is what you do with the scraped content that is the problem. Additionally, the nature of the scraped content itself is at issue: facts are not copyrightable, for instance, just particular expressions.

Fair use is a hugely, hugely complex topic. If you ever ask someone if something is fair use and they give you a straight "yes" or "no" answer - don't trust it unless they are also showing you a court decision that covers your exact scenario and is valid in your jurisdiction. Any good answer will include a healthy does of "it depends."

The only way to conclusively determine if something is fair use is going through the fair use "run-time" - which is a court decision on the topic. There is no other way - none - to determine if something is fair use and claims to the contrary are false. To be clear: fair use is a judicial determination and it is highly fact specific.

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer. If you need one, you should get one.
Tesla closes its capital raise with more proceeds than expected: $1.2B
I have always wanted to get ratings from a selected group of viewers who has similar tastes as me. For example, I like SciFi movies that involves planetary travel, ie Star Trek or similar style movies. If I can get ratings from folks with similar interests as well, then the rating system would make sense for me. Otherwise, it is still a hit and miss for me.
Interview: Recovering Healthcare.gov with Andy Slavitt
I used to work at a project where I suggested doing EXACTLY this, because the customers were pretty old-school Microsoft Office users and we had to store lots of documents and organize them.

The idea never caught on because the people didn't find it as a good solution. Happy to see that somebody, somewhere out there has built exactly this and is happy with the outcome ;)

Cheered me up a lot, thanks for sharing!
I'll admit that I have had Netflix recommend to me movies that it thought I would rate at one star, and I have watched that movie and then rated it one star. Not only did their current system predict that I would watch that movie, they predicted my relative opinion of the movie's quality. And yet I watched the movie, and thus felt like their recommendation system served its purpose. I have to say that going into it expecting a one-star rating allowed me to set expectations for the film.

If they remove the axis of quality and merely opt for "will you watch this: yes/no", it will make it harder to select "good popcorn trash" versus "high-quality, high-enjoyment" to fit my mood.
Should be "five star-rating"..."five-star rating" indicates they are replacing ratings of five stars :)
He fits and transforms Kmeans on the output of TfIdfVectorizer and not tSNE. tSNE is only used for 2D visualisation.

kmeans = kmeans_model.fit(vz)

kmeans_clusters = kmeans.predict(vz)
Thanks! Quokka founder here, I have made it.
org-mode is also worth looking into. You can execute code fragments and embed the results using Babel[1]. Makes it simple to use the output of e.g. gnuplot or matplotlib.

I am relatively new to org-mode (via Spacemacs). But I really like it, you can use it as a quick notebook to jot down things, run code, and export the result as PDF per LaTeX.

[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
You get better weapons, more hearts, more stamina, and the most import thing is that you actually get better at combat. It would be interesting to spend a substantial amount of time with the game, beat it, and then start from the beginning. You'd be able to do everything, no need to learn it all.

I want to watch one of these 1hour speed runs, but only after I complete the game. I can only image how good those guys must be
I'm just pointing out that such complaints are aimed at the wrong target, that's the way it shall be with any service as long as people don't complain to the companies that control the rights to such content.
Login to see the rest of the story :-/
sometimes a sticker price is not about being paid, but it's about clearing out you are rejecting an offer before even the negotiation becomes a waste of time
> It's why video compression is very different from image compression.

Is it? I was under the impression that I-Frames in current video compression formats are encoded rather similarily to current still image formats. (JPG's comparable lack of sophistication notwithstanding, but c'mon, it's old. :) )
The way the FAA tends to run things is rules are either written in blood or incident reports.
This is what I do, really. Regarding styling I have a small styling script that I put after each graph. This small script takes the active figure (gcf) whatever it is, and changes it to my liking. So if I want to change the graph styling at a later stage I modify this small script and then re-run the main file.

But everything in MATLAB, then I just symlink the pdf figures to the manuscript folder, so with an F5 in MATLAB and a build in Sublime I have the manuscript updated.
On Android, around 60% of devices support OpenGL ES 3.0 (https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#Op...). I assume they will all support WebGL 2 too.
I was so weirded out I totally forgot. How dumb of me. I'll just ascribe it to a glitch in the matrix.
Not true (in the U.S.). Just ask Aaron Swartz.

The fact that it does (or, at least, has been interpreted to) criminalize TOS violations is one of the must important flaws in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-cri...
This.

Also, non-programmers don't understand how much work goes into building applications.

Never go into sea with someone that doesn't has any experience and just an idea. You will hate it and waste a lot of time.
When I watch netflix, I use the stars as a measure of if I would enjoy something. I don't think most people use stars as a measure of "quality" because when they browse movies, they are looking for something they enjoy, not something that's high quality that they might not enjoy.
I support Netflix out of philosophy. I want to support media which is offered without restriction and most importantly without advertisement. Netflix goes out of its way to make sure it's as watchable as possible (sans being able to download their stuff without DRM, but I can't blame them for that, it's too risky for their business).

I have similar reasons to support HBO. However, I will not send money towards FOX/Comcast/Disney/Viacom because they still want to restrict their content and make it as hard as possible to watch it.

Of course, the danger is they could just start introducing advertising again by way of product placement in the story itself, but if it goes too far, I guess I'll cancel then.
the SM64 camera was absolutely groundbreaking in its day, but it really doesn't stack up against modern games. remember that part in wet-dry world where you have to walk across a narrow plank, and the only reason it's hard is because you're fighting the camera to walk in a straight line? that's a bit telling (and both Zelda games for the 64 had the same problem).

the GDC presentation by Journey's camera designer [1] makes a few very good points on this topic. modern 3D Mario games use hybrid camera systems that operate as fixed cameras most of the time, and it's a big improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7307qRmlMI
> They are diluting the meaning of quality and instead are opting for a saccharine "enjoyment" factor.

They are just trying to increase number of views for a poor quality library. This will mask how bad most of the content is and increase their numbers.
I do it often for my website. The unix command is sshfs remotehost:remote_dir local_dir.

How do you do it with windows 10 ?
It does mean that in Czech. Which is strange, because in Slovak it just means work.

I've translated a paragraph from wikipedia for you:

"Robota neboli poddanství je ve feudálním systému osobní služba sedláků a rolníků pro jejich pány. Robotník je pak výraz pro poddaného robotujícího pro svého pána, někdy též vyššího správního či soudního úředníka, drába apod."

"Robota is a feudal system of personal employment to the owners of estates and country houses. A robotník is a person who works for his/her lord."

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robota

Edit: I listened to the play by Karel and Josef Čápek, and it is most inanely stupid, sexist, pseudo-religious drivel I've come across in a long while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

Edit2: The verb robit means to make something and has nothing to do with slavery.
Need to check a plumbers license number? Use the government site. (wtf)
I actually tend to use curly braces as 'ambiguity braces', when a term is ambiguous. They've met with some amount of success.
Could be! But the fact it is ambiguous means that it's bad law and effectively that's what the decision was: it's a reasonable interpretation based on the language used so they win.
The raft paper states that its use of an explicit leader election was chosen for understandability, not performance. Leaderless systems can potentially improve performance, especially when replicas are far apart (so you don't have the extra network hop to the leader before you can get started). The main drawback IMHO to ePaxos (as a hopefully representative leaderless algorithm) is not performance but its complexity, since it intrudes into the application to track dependencies and conflicts between proposed commands.

If I squint at the scheme proposed here, it looks like ePaxos taken to the extreme of a single key/value per paxos group, so conflict tracking becomes trivial. It has demonstrated good performance in the case of uncontended writes; I'd be curious to see how it behaves under contention, or when a downed node rejoins the cluster.
Varnish Cache 5.1 repos now available
A good place to start:
https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-fundament...
Well, YouTube abandoned its 5 star rating system citing that almost everyone votes either 1 or 5 stars [1]. It might be that that Netflix is seeing a similar usage of their voting system, so it would make sense to instead implement a like/dislike vote.

It sucks for those of us who used the finer nuances of the old system. I for sure know that it'll give me quite some headaches when I have to rate a well thought out but flawed film.

[1] https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-r...
Maybe I'm just a shitty cyclist but I've wiped out way, way more times on a bike than in a car. You can crash without it being a "collision".
I believe you mean systemic.
If Rembrandt could duplicate his canvases for free why not?

Why can't official Dwarf fortress exist alongside clones? Didn't seem to hurt the Quake engine and Carmack's engines were every bit the craftmanship as DF. Today you can run Quake on anything, it's been modded for VR support, new effects, etc. DF? We'll be lucky if it doesn't die and people hack it anyway.

You gotta respect people's desire to control their baby, doesn't mean it's productive, though. He'd literally lose nothing other than some notion of control by releasing it out in the open. He might even be able to find a novel open source business model if he tried (though that's not his desire or goal).

The last part about understanding does make sense; though if development was out in the open he'd have no problems finding people to explain it.
I agree with you. And hat tip for the nice analogy.
Perhaps they should implement a system analogous to facebook's Reactions (e.g. "disliked", "thought provoking", "easy watching", etc) as a way to differentiate between cheap/easy and high quality releases.
Not in my case, but if you just say no, they think you don't have faith in their amazing idea. If they refuse to put their money where their mouth is, they realize they don't faith in their amazing idea.
"Most developers" isn't the same thing as "most developers at Google"
Invest in yourself [Selfism 3.0]
Was it true that Nintendo held back some of its production of earlier consoles to spike demand? I remember it specifically with the Wii[0], but I seem to recall that their production was always playing catch up. Do you think it's an industry tactic?

[0]http://www.cio.com/article/2434123/supply-chain-management/n...
> before you go full-hog on AWS, do some simple math first

I had a coworker who was turned off of AWS by clicking the "Dedicated IP" checkbox when deploying a CloudFlare distribution with SSL.

One month and $600[0] later he swears up and down that AWS is the devil.

You can spend an amazing amount of money on AWS by accident and/or without need. Hourly pricing is a huge footgun. Best to run everything through the "Simple" Monthly Calculator: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

0: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/