skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the more valid form of this argument is "not the right tool for the job". Trying to be all encompassing is how we wound up with XML.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Startupfood
TheFamilly chanel,
Oussama ammar!
My English wasn't good enough to understand any of those when I became interested in the topics they cover.

I pay for NYT and some stories are amazing. I finish maybe 5% of the ones I start reading and I probably attempt less than 5% of what they publish.

But, let's see. NYT headline right now: "Terror attack kills 4 in Heart of London". WSJ: "UK parliament attacker leaves 4 dead, 40 injured". The Economist: "A Brazilian meat scandal damages the country's two global producers"

Meh, sensationalism. How is any of this pertinent to me as a 29 year old engineer in SF? Other than making me afraid of my own shadow and riling up negative emotions.

Maybe the problem is that I am fundamentally just not interested in news. That seems increasingly likely. My fav NYT stories, for instance, are the researched not-news article. The Avalanche was one of the best things I ever read.
Ask HN: How to monetize written content?
After Medium Memberships came out, I started thinking about a few other ways to monetize written media. What do you all think?

1. Allow readers to pay authors directly

At the bottom of each article, readers can donate/pay the author to support their content writing. Two benefits here - content writers are incentivized to create great content frequently, and readers get more content. This creates a direct connection between content authors & readers, and builds on top of the network of freelance writing that already exists out there. The publisher, like Medium, would incur revenue via service fees. This currently exists on Medium for publishers, but it should exist for all authors.

2. Sell consulting services via expertise gathered from the content and content authors

The most valuable data in media companies like the NY Times isn't the articles, but the authors themselves. Many niche journalists have extraordinary expertise and connections in certain industries - such as food, fashion, and so forth. Leveraging their expertise and building a consulting business on top of it would be mutually beneficial. The content naturally promotes the consulting business, and the consulting business validates the content. This is similar to what Priceonomics does.
To me, that white-print-on-pale-yellow-background theme is unreadable.
I'm amazed at the sheer amount of dairy that Americans eat.

I'm from the largest dairy exporting country in the world, and I consume about 1/4 the amount of dairy as an average American.
quite a bit more verbose than "nnoremap ; :".
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I generally agree with what you are saying. My problem was that when you said "nobody" I thought you meant people in general, not just the researchers in the field.

Furthermore, you seemed to be saying that articles like this shouldn't be published because people already know these facts. But I say they are good to publish because they help correct the views of the general public. Would you agree?
Is it possible to get the date fields working in Firefox also? Right now it doesn't let you enter the dates, keeps resetting them. Probably because of input type=date in the form that's not supported.
Major upvote, its nice to have a useable DB you can hack on i.e Peloton (http://pelotondb.io) and a course that backs it.

I just spent 3 hrs browsing through the listed papers on the course site.

Looking forward to being a commiter...
That was a conservative estimate.
I don't agree with Fox news but they are generally a legitimate news source and really shouldn't be compared to stuff like terrorist propaganda.
Because parallelization is so difficult, yes.
>half a music degree

>just spend a couple evenings doing project Euler problems

Don't try to pass it off as though your unbridled talent didn't land you those roles. A near-infinite amount of people cannot do what you did due to lack of pure talent. Don't use survivorship bias.
You do not need to incorporate or form an LLC to establish a business account. A sole proprietorship is just doing business as yourself. It's particularly easy if you have your own name in the business name. No paperwork/DBA publishing required for the bank.

(For that matter, you don't even need a business account... Just an account that is dedicated to your business transactions.)
They're just extensions in the same way that GCC has its own extensions for C and C++.

J++ was created to counter shortcomings in the design of early Java language versions that Sun was not keen to re-integrate back into the Java language. That itself isn't bad (as other JVM-compatible languages exist, like Scala and Groovy) except that J++ then needed Microsoft's own Java VM with its own platform-specific runtime extensions - and that's what the Sun lawsuit was about. I agree it was badly handled by Microsoft, and in the end Microsoft just ditched Java and reinvented J++ as C# and the .NET Framework - which is where we are today.

As for JScript: before JavaScript was standardised there were extensions being added by everyone (Netscape had their own, as did Microsoft). I think Microsoft extended JScript in a very conservative way: the main change is the addition of the `new ActiveXObject` wrapper for COM objects which made AJAX possible, and also made JScript useful for automating Windows (and server-side JavaScript with ASP/JScript predates Node.js by 13 years!) - to my knowledge JScript itself didn't add any syntactical changes and provided you didn't use ActiveXObject your code would run without issue in other JavaScript engines. Note that this isn't the same thing as DOM extensions in Internet Explorer, of which there were many.

I think it's worth pointing out that when IE6 was released in 2001 it was by-far, the most W3C-compliant web-browser in existence: for CSS2.1, Netscape's then compliance level was abyssal, and even beating out Opera at the time too.
> You always think you would stop after the first 10m

There's No Desire To Retire If You Love Your Work, or something like that.
Could someone remind me how many hours of video are uploaded to Youtube per hour on average ?
Then I guess I don't understand the relevancy to YouTube. Are you saying that the only way to properly advertise going forward is to private groups and not open content?
> I'm amazed at the sheer amount of dairy that Americans eat.

I suspect that dairy figure is disproportionately milk, which in turn is almost entirely water.
Nice setup but I think "TMux" is spelled "tmux".
C++ programmers using a lot templates have a lot in common with Haskell programmers. Often I will write static methods like..

template<typename Scalar, typename Functor>
auto
DoSomething(Scalar value, std::size_t k) -> decltype(Functor(Scalar(0))
{
...
Functor(value / Scalar(k));
...
}

Even though it will probably only be used once. Simply because I don't know what types I am going to need yet... but I know it might need a few operators `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`. Once I figure that out, the code is ready to go and is as fast as anything hand written.

If somebody could ever write a great 'Haskell for C++ MetaProgrammers' book describing how you are supposed to understand binary layout, IO, and wtf those hundreds of operators mean... you would probably have a bunch of programmers saying "Oh, I guess I know Haskell".

It's also no surprise that a bunch of the STL algorithms structures were easily made parallel in C++17. A lot of developers using the STL correctly could basically change a few lines of code and switch their program from sequential to parallel.
How to use Upwork to get your MVP built
Awesome release!

What do people use to keep up to date with all the non-stop Gitlab releases? I used to use sandstorm but their port is very outdated by now (same goes for bitnami). I switched to cloudron and it has served me well but I am always on the look out for other solutions. On a side note, if you use the omnibus packages, are you a full time (or even part-time) sysadmin?
Our recruiting team is sourcing only female engineers.

This is a definition of "diversity" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
Sure, and AlphaGo is an impressive feat, but it's still just a board game, which is a far cry from the unbounded nature of programming and trying to figure out what a customer wants. Go has well defined rules and a limited space. This is not true of software development in general. It's an entirely different kind of problem.
Exactly. Incorporation -- literally, the creation of a body -- results in an entity recognized by the law.

It can be sued, taxed, bankrupted, etc. separately from the people who own it. Could such a thing happen to a machine? Maybe. But it's really no different than a corporation.
Pudi – A Color Matching Game (iOS)
Could be because your page takes too long to load..I couldnt see it for 40 secs so closed the browser..hn might have tried to access and timed out
So the response becomes "so what?". Oh no, proprietary videos will move to proprietary apps, and free videos would remain in the browser. People aren't going to stop using browsers for everything else just because they watch youtube vids on the youtube app. Browsers just aren't going to suffer if proprietary videos move elsewhere - it doesn't matter whether Netflix caves or not. It's not like the rest of the world-wide-web that doesn't rely on DRM'd electronic files is going to follow suit and leave the browser.
"Maximimizing publication count" seems to be the accepted ground truth, but I'm still somewhat surprised researchers don't write for a larger audience because one would think that expanding your audience beyond your sub-field will have a higher chance of garnering citations.

Maybe the "lottery" citation factor isn't worth the extra effort required to normalize in-field shibboleths. Then again, if maximizing citations truly is the overriding publication incentive, I wonder why low h-index researchers don't pursue this route and 'upgrade' their existing papers for a wider audience wherever possible.
The advertisements on IG are pretty good. I find that I want to buy about 40% of the products they advertise to me. That's as good as I've seen in 20 years of web browsing.
The future for Microsoft seems very bright. As the article mentions a reputation is hard to clean after it's been tarnished. I however, feel that Microsoft is making a big turn around with its recent open sourcing of .net core, and relationship building with the likes of Netflix and the Linux foundation[0]. Hopefully they can keep the ball rolling and change the publics opinion.

[0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/microsoft-fort...
> Sidebar: A note on frames per second. The European PAL C64 updated at 50fps, whereas the US NTSC systems updated at 60fps

This is because alternating current is 50Hz in PAL countries (eg Europe), and 60Hz in NTSC countries (eg America). Analogue TVs vertical refresh rate was synced to the AC frequency for a bunch of practical reasons, which meant gaming consoles had to send signals to the television at either 50Hz or 60Hz.

Result? Many PAL console games actually ran at 5/6ths of NTSC speed. Most notoriously, Sonic the Hedgehog, whose agility was more sluggish (and soundtrack less vivacious) for a large fraction of the world. More information in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSIhf8q9Ao
Not to mention it's something that when making custom components etc., you will be able to do if so desired. A good component structure and composition enables you to handle Android versus iOS, but still have a large amount of sharing available.

I consider this similar to the Xamarin structure of Apps where you have Android and iOS projects, and then a shared common library.
"In October, the Federal Communications Commission — then under former Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler — began mandating that ISPs obtain consumers’ permission before turning over their private data to third parties, like advertisers."

This is a flat lie. That rule change has never taken effect and, even if left alone, could not have taken effect any earlier than next October. (IIRC, that's in Section 310.)
Software craftsman, really?
Consciousness and body image
And here I was thinking that coffee is a solved problem with starbucks :-) I wish you had a one-off offer so that I can first taste the coffee before I subscribe.
>... arachnids consume between 400m and 800m tonnes of animal prey every year. ...

>Somewhere between 400m and 500m tonnes is also the total mass of human beings now alive on Earth.

I'm unreasonably amused that the (sub)title "Arachnids eat as much animal food as all humans" can be read with multiple interpretations.
Just use Bootstrap :)
> AppleScript, Automator, System Services, Apple Events

It was a mercy killing. AppleScript and Automator had become too complicated and obscure to be worthwhile anymore.
Surprised nobody has mentioned the halting problem [1] yet, which logically proves programming can never be automated.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/HVeO7ek.png (CH 8, Algorithms - Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos H. Papadimitriou, and Umesh V. Vazirani)
It's a bit dishonest that first they said they are going to develop tools for ads. They tried that and failed. Now they try to spin this as if they are on a mission to rescue the world from ads. Very dishonest.
Do you have uBlock origin installed?
It just moves the failure points around. One day you can't get email content from anyone at Gmail, but everything else is okay.
Thanks for popping in here to clarify this personally, thanks very much for the imminent Linux-specific fix, and thanks for the clarification that this was an oversight :)

I'm curious about the "less efficient technique" you referred to. Insight into the technical context around the goal being achieved may be very interesting to other Web developers looking to make their JavaScript applications more efficient and responsive.

A lot of people are also likely to be very interested to learn what solution you use to fix this for Linux as well.

--

As an aside, link prefetching caught my eye - it's an interesting mechanism that works via <link> or <meta> tag, or via HTTP headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefe...
True, but automation on the Mac is still a lot easier just because of the system design. In about sixteen years of using OS X (er, "macOS"), I've only used AppleScript for automation when forced, usually by programs like BBEdit that came of age in AppleScript's glory days. In most cases, writing a shell (or Python or Ruby or...) script is just easier. To be fair, AppleScript can be really powerful, but it's just not a very good language.

Also, it's worth noting that Workflow is, in a lot of ways, inspired by Automator on the Mac. At this point it's better than Automator is, albeit with all the caveats forced on it by the aforementioned differences in system design, but it wouldn't require an awful lot of effort to bring Automator up to par.
No, meant goldrush, not sure why I typed goldfish..
English is so ambiguous and so large that it would probably be best to reduce it to a strict, unambiguous vocabulary.
How is that much of an advance over what we currently do? If Excel isn't rendering data science jobs obsolete, then being able to tell the computer you need some sales figures isn't going to either.

To get rid of data science jobs, you would need the computer to be able to translate from business speak to generating code for all the things data scientists actually do, which probably involves something more than Excel. For starters, that would be cleaning and wrangling data into a format that a tool like Excel could be meaningfully used on.
blogspam of

http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/campus-news/2017+alcohol-and-e...

Study and commentary PDFs available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uxux59x1z92ulo6/AABEMAENBxEZdI0sQ...
(I don't know enough about the team they disbanded - just my thoughts here)

Could this be a sign that the team was not up to scratch and this acquisition is to replace them?
"I have $20M in US currency that needs to be moved out of the country as quickly as possible. If you have a US-based bank account that can do wire transfers I'll give you 4% in exchange for this transaction. The money came from my relative, a rich noble who unfortunately does not have any heirs in the US but decided to spend his later years in Florida and keep all of his money in a local bank so he could look after it personally."

"I am currently working overseas in Nigeria and would greatly appreciate any help. This has been a big point of pain in our family."
If the demand for art were infinite, it's a mathematical fact that the price would also be infinite, regardless of the quantity supplied.

In fact the price for most art is very low, below the cost of materials, or free. This implies that demand for art is very, very finite.

Andy Warhol's whole point was that the art that sells for real money has nothing to do with art. It's a sale of association with social status, and the physical art itself is superfluous.
"300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute."
so, 18,000 video hours per hour
https://fortunelords.com/youtube-statistics/
Yeah I am excited by what might come from this.
Wal-Mart's new patent solves the biggest problem with product reviews
The last time I checked, the naive Lisp will be shorter than the typical C++, but usually much slower. Sometimes you can annotate your code to death for performance, resulting in something longer than the C++ with more parens, but you still can't trust the compiler to get it right. Fortunately, thanks to DEFMACRO, Lisp lets you write your own optimizing compiler, so as long as your implementation supports your full instruction set, you can do that and achieve better-than-C performance by generating Fortran IV's ugly cousin.
This website is horrible on mobile.
Compared to what it can replace DGX-1 is not overpriced in any way.

Feel free to invest your time and money into building and debugging issues on your own system. Companies which pay big $$$ to their data scientists have different incentives than regular users - you do not want to waste time of your expensive staff on chasing hardware/software issues.
Blogspam of this article (with the original author credit stripped out... along with, oddly, the names of the study authors):

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/03/406111/surprising-new-role-...
But music you buy on iTunes is DRM-free. That's a significant step away from DRM.
Google released Trusted Contacts [0] a while ago that essentially works like how the OP wants. You can one-time request a contact's location and (unless they block it) it will share it after a timeout. It also allows temporary sharing and has last-known location for if your battery dies.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Awesome. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Is there any evidence youtube is blocking ads on videos from LGBT people?
Thats weird. The blog is hosted on blogger.com run by google.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

I get load time of 5 seconds. But yes, the first error I got from HN was timeout and then it started complaining about too many submissions and then bam! spam!
The halting problem doesn't prove that at all. It just shows that there exist programs who's output can't be predicted except by running them (potentially forever). It obviously doesn't prove that all programs have that property. I mean, we write programs which provide useful output then halt every day.

And if humans can write code, a sufficiently advanced AI will be able to write code too.
As opposed to trying to ban all diesel taxis immediately and not having the law passed due to opposition? You have to start somewhere.
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http://news.nus.edu.sg/press-releases/tea-protects-elderly-c...
But even on Star Trek the crew is often portrayed as writing some form of code. I don't know how accurate that would be once you can have computers that do such a fantastic job of extrapolating simple requests into extremely realistic world settings, but then again, stuff seems to go wrong often enough on the holodeck, or with the transporter, or some spatial anomaly requiring tweaking of the deflector dish, so maybe you still need programmers in the 24th century.

I do like how just telling the holodeck computer to make an opponent challenging for Data in the Sherlock setting was enough to grant sentience to the Moriarty character. That's pretty impressive.
> Just imagine trying to describe how to draw that table to a human artist. It would take forever, with a ridiculous amount of iteration.

Right, that's more what I was picturing: in reality, interacting with this kind of software would be like interacting with a sketch artist. It would be a very exhaustive (and exhausting) process.

(Though, it'd essentially be the same effect you get by outsourcing piece-work to a service like Mechanical Turk—just with instantaneous response-time.)

> If you want to program like this, you would have to get VERY good at describing the thing in an unambiguous way

Today, the intelligence/intuition/common sense of the programmer "allows" the client to avoid ever having to develop the skill of requirements analysis for themselves. Thus, even though it doesn't take any special aptitude to learn this skill, it's currently rare.

On the other hand, the naivety and short iteration time of an interactive constraint programming system would, I think, make it likely that anyone who used it would quickly/easily develop the ability to do requirements analysis. Perhaps not without being "lead by the hand" in a person-machine conversation, but certainly with it. (Much like how people who have only ever used CAD software can't necessarily do mechanical drawing by hand.)
Anybody start a tech company on less than $100?
I would love to hear from people who have started tech companies for less than $100.00

We need some inspiring stories.
> all that would mean is that premium content would not be available in browsers

I doubt that. All browsers boycotting DRM freaks would cause more rational heads in the media industry to push against those who insist on DRM, and it could become the tipping point in ridding video of this disease.

They themselves admit, they don't mind it, but don't want to be first to disrupt the status quo. So cowardice of browser makers only advanced the problem. But I agree that Firefox alone couldn't change things. This had to be a combined effort. But others simply either have no guts to stand against DRM, or are themselves dirty with it.
> I might have fallen into nihilism...

You have fallen into nihilism.

"What does it matter? Republican? Democrat? The Earth will be consumed by the sun in a few billion years anyway."

Thank you Marvin.
I've had Workflow on my phone for years but have never found any reason to use it. Things that I wanted to do were just out of reach. Someone else mentioned in here changing wifi networks... but also things like: enabling/disabling bluetooth, scheduling mute and dnd, scheduling a text message, scripting auto replies to texts based on received texts etc...

Hopefully this changes all of that!!
More people already watch movies on internet-connected set top boxes like Apple TVs and PS4s, or i-devices, than computers.

At worst Netflix could have resorted to desktop apps for their movies. DRM doesn't need to be on the web.
External servers and API offered by some other company cannot be considered the same as actual tools. They are not guaranteed to exist tomorrow. A hammer that you own, or a compiler in your computer are real tools.
Never Put Two Spaces After a Period
More like "It was either support EME or become the browser where you can't use any useless service like Netflix."
As long as torrents exist Netflix is useless.
That depends entirely on the company or organisation. Perhaps you can find a not-for-profit that works with recovering addicts? While it may not be monetisable from a sales perspective, it may still have value and draw funding from other sources.