skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think shills are obvious, and I think the knee-jerk reaction to them is harmful. I don't mind reading shill posts when they're informational (heck, I read RT), but there is a real danger of discussion manipulation.

I routinely get accused of being a shill just for having a counter-group-think position on a topic Im read up on. It's meant to end discussion around a topic, like calling someine racist or sexist. At this point, I feel most of the people calling people shills are themselves shills trying to derail honest discussions. (There are definitely at least a few shills doing this on reddit.)

I agree with your first point though: all media is the same, in that you need a diverse stream and critical thinking.
Indeed.

The line is not clear though. Some people present a new services with show HN and are acclaimed, others are rejected as advertisers. HN like underdogs, innovators and good-doers, but is less laxed with big companies, status quo and money lovers. So if the later can disguise as the formers, they can game the system.
Thank you for the link. I learned from it.

I am the author of a widely-used LA text, and have considered adding interactive stuff. But there is a tradeoff. For one thing, it locks you to online, and despite the claims of our IT people, my correspondents (mostly self-learners) do not want online, they want print or PDF (as do I, since the appearance that LaTeX gives me is important to me).

For another, the tech has in the recent past changed so fast that maintaining the interactives would be a significant job. I don't mind learning JS to do something good but tying myself to many hours a year responding to bug reports from people on obscure platforms, or using IE6, is not a good use of my life energy.

Finally, I had a colleague, a complex analyst, try Visual Complex Analysis and he reported that students did not get it. He is very sober, very caring, very reliable. This starts to make sense of his report.
Just Intel underdelivering as always, nothing new.
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The Functional Pearls series, of which you are probably aware, seems to be full of idiomatic and brilliant Haskell techniques. It's not an application but it's a flowering of expression, of a sort...

https://wiki.haskell.org/Research_papers/Functional_pearls
I've been prescribed opioids twice in my life, once for wisdom teeth extraction and again for a broken ankle. In the first case I filled the prescription but ended up flushing the pills down the toilet without taking a single one, as the pain did not override my fear of developing dependency. I never even filled the prescription for the broken ankle, and also didn't need it.

These should be treated as treatments of last, not first resort. In both cases, marijuana would have been a more appropriate for pain relief anyway (though I did not use any).
I don't have a good solution to this, but that sounds like it risks the same sort of crypto downgrade vulnerabilities which TLS cipher negotiation enabled.
Where this piece loses me is when it starts advocating for a science based approach to setting standards for our lawns. I don't want to replace the suburban housewife lawn police with a new eco-centric version. Can't we just couch the argument in live and let live individual property rights? That way you can have your tall grass, they can have their trimmed shrubs, and we set out values at an individual and personal level rather than as a community.
Powerful languages do clever things under the hood so you don't have to(TM). All programmers use this same abstraction so there is no confusion.

Less powerful languages force the programmer to come up with their own clever abstractions so that if you have multiple programmers you'll end up with 20 different clever ways of doing the same thing.
That while a new keyboard technology like touch surfaces that allows people to have the APL glyphs at their disposal will help increase adoption a little, APL will always remain a niche language.

It's not the "being able to type in the glyphs" that hurts it, as much as the reading them -- and the understanding of its concepts.
There is actually a straightforward way to export data from your Spotify account, try this:

https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/get-current-us...
CMU 15-388/688: Practical Data Science
How to Generate Pixel Perfect Pdfs
I think Elon Musk has a bit of the reality distortion field around him like Jobs did. If you take a step back and look what he tries to achieve vs. what just about every other business (tech or not) does, it's a stark comparison.

Musk no longer represents himself and his companies, but he represents a future where we can do things we thought were just dreams (cheap space travel, electric cars that perform better than internal combustion types, ubiquitous solar power, etc). That's a lot of future from just one guy.
Half of what you're saying is definitely covered by my comment ("balkanized").

As for the other half, they're asking him to comment, so fully anonymous access simply doesn't work. The fact that Github is publicly viewable would also be part of what's nice about it, thought I obviously wasn't explicit about that.
I get why you're doing this, but it isn't helping anything.
30 Pratical Ways to Make the Law of Attraction Work for You
From Paul Graham, and one of the best essays on the subject ever written: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

When we switch to the point of view of a programmer using any of the languages higher up the power continuum, however, we find that he in turn looks down upon Blub. How can you get anything done in Blub? It doesn't even have y.

By induction, the only programmers in a position to see all the differences in power between the various languages are those who understand the most powerful one. (This is probably what Eric Raymond meant about Lisp making you a better programmer.) You can't trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs.
Reminds me of something from Woz about always doing backups.
I use smart phone apps from fdroid and noscript configured to deny js from telemetry sites.
Quote: "Mr Darkes says that doctors are now 80 per cent convinced he is cured of the condition, which has never before been reversed."

I suspect (and it can't be more than a suspicion) that many of those with diabetes diagnoses never take the risk of reevaluating their physical condition, but passively continue their medication -- and that seems wise and prudent.

Maybe a carefully designed study, an animal study at first, could reveal that what happened to this individual is on the roster of possibilities, that some people have the ability to reactivate their pancreases in the right circumstances.

It's already well-established that physically active people have a lower risk for diabetes, but once the condition is diagnosed, most people start an insulin regimen that never ends. This case suggests that a person's pancreas can be reactivated -- but for how many? And is the change permanent? These are unanswered questions.
+1 for Harry Lorayne. I learned how to memorize long lists, numbers, dates, as well as decks of cards (backward, forward, by card number or if given a card, I'd call it's number in the deck). Fun stuff, and quite useful too.
Ahhh good old 'set paste'. The setting that has turned away so many. When I watch a novice coworker struggle with vim, the breaking point usually comes when they try to paste directly into insert node. That may be the most valuable of all commands in this discussion.
Please read this article[1] about how exactly chroot jails function as a security measure.

If you have a process that's already not running as root, all a chroot jail does is decrease the attack surface a bit by giving that process a more limited view of the filesystem. As soon as you run something as root, or give that chroot process access to a vulnerable setuid-root binary, it can escape. An exploit anywhere in the kernel (not just in the implementation of chroot), could lead to the system being taken over.

Chroot jails are easy to reason about, but they don't really help you if you're, say, studying malware.

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1975883
I'll give you that the two branches may not necessarily be in the same state but I can guarantee you that, if they previously had in mind supporting both and are now down to only support one, it's a great relief in development efforts.

As to whether it's a good decision, it's a different and very hard to tell matter. I find it a little absurd though how much input people have into this. These decisions matter only in context; you need to be familiar with a lot of the technical background on the game itself and its ongoing development to really be informed on whether it is.

For context: I work with Blizzard games a ton. I'm extremely familiar with Blizzard, their teams, the work that goes on there; nature of my job. I also frequent the subreddits where armchair programmers and game designers think they can outsmart the devs by throwing random buzzwords in the comments. Everybody thinks they know better, thinks they know how to manage a community of millions to tens of millions, thinks they know how to ship AAA games, etc.

I see a very similar pattern on HN with CIG because CIG is (far) more transparent than your average studio. And I just wonder (this is a general statement, not only about your comment) why people adopt this "I know better" attitude when they clearly don't have al the variables and know it themselves.

I've seen this in every single thread about SC. People here see a kickstarter project taking a long time and start yelling their own startups' platitudes like "release early release often" that aren't applicable to game dev the same way. Every time I expect better and every time I'm disappointed

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This will come in handy for my LinAlg exam :3
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how go dependencies work.

Dependencies are simply package names. It just happens that names are actually meaningful and tell you where you, the developer can get the package. Using vendoring and/or Godep/glide, you then strictly version and manage your dependencies. `go build` doesn't just run `git clone` or something.
I've noticed some occurrences like this as well. For instance, the week before Bill Gates' recent AMA on Reddit, there were a a large number of frontpage posts about him from accounts with little to no karma.

It's probably not the primary factor in opinion on him being drastically reversed, and I doubt he has any personal involvement, but it's possibly one of the tools utilized by his PR team.
This type of regulation should be the province of HOAs, which have covenants that home owners agree to when buying their homes. It shouldn't be part of state law, and this one sounds particularly over-reaching. Basic property rights should dictate that "nuisance" be clearly defined in a very limited way.

And she has an entire acre, at least 4x larger than the typical lot size. At what size does her property become a "farm"?

I live in Arizona and have a lawn. It's expensive to upkeep and requires a ton of water. Many homes in my neighborhood have "natural" landscaping, basically rocks and cactus. I would too if I didn't have kids and a big dog. Natural is much more environmentally sound, and should be encouraged, not fined.
Actually, the bug was in the wmware tools, which may be available on your vm's handled by esxi.
Could you list a few?
John Searle: Our shared condition – consciousness(2013)
"Incidentally, people in cities try to push around rural folks all the time - forcing them to bake gay wedding pizzas, taking away their guns, etc"

Neither of these is true; the bakery in the gay wedding controversy is in a city. City folks are telling other city folks that you can't refuse to serve customers only because they are gay.

And no one is taking anyone's guns away.
Of course I build whole software for managing winery: everything from time tracking to profitability calculation. I am trying to sell it to other wineries, but not luck yet.

I am also building prediction model for my NIR spectrometer, using ML to predict various analytes in the wine spectra. This is ongoing research project, which might be commercialised someday.
You're not wrong, I shouldn't comment on hn in the morning haha.
Any high-profile users of this that I might have heard of? Because on first look, PostgREST looks kind of... amazing.
At first I read "A mutilated garter snake, a sliced frog and countless slashed grasshoppers. That was the scene of carnage" and laughed. "Carnage indeed. Grow up," I said out loud. If people wanted to live in the middle of a bunch of bats and snakes and shit, they'd go live in the middle of nowhere instead of next to other people.

But then I looked up Alexandria, Ohio.

"Alexandria is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 517 at the 2010 census"

517! Wow! And they don't even live _in_ Alexandria. They live outside it!

So these people did go live in the middle of nowhere, and whatever counts out there as the agency of local dominion has decided that plots of land in the middle of nowhere need to be free of animals. Wooo boy.
With Dashlane and LastPass, there's a "password changer" feature. You click on a button and it changes your password without having to login to the website. There are also alerts if a website had a data leak. iPassword does this also (Watchtower).
And do you think that having this ...more human approach..when selling/buying ads is obsolete?

I think that high-quality apps have a loyal and passionate audiences - a smaller one for sure - but advertisers can rest assured they have access to the best audience money can buy.

I've never thought in terms of Facebook or Google's scale and I actually want to take a more anti-Facebook/Google approach where the amount of user tracking is inexistent. Just track the ad performance and that's about it.
Should have sprung for that "pro" package...
No doubt reddit does have this problem in a big way, but the pattern you describe could also come from a true believer who spends a lot of their work day surfing reddit and trying to advance their cause.
Doesn't every semi-decent IDE have an option to reformat your code? What makes gofmt so special?
Well it doesn't "throw off" so much as provide capital that is available for the medium term; sooner or later the float is eaten into by paying out claims. So, by this standard any cash flow positive business will help in this regard. What sets insurance apart is that, all things being equal, insurance is very cash flow positive (quite frequently in terms of years). Obviously some insurance companies realise this and provide a discount on their premiums as they factor this forward liquidity into their pricing; Warren Buffet has said many times that he does everything he can not to follow such (excessive) discounting.
What were your results with this type of monetisation? Do you know any "success stories" of any kind?
> unbound by the practical trade-offs that are necessary to the art.

Like Duke Nukem Forever? They wanted to keep updating to the latest technology instead of shipping... and had the resources to do it.
True that..

What we find many a time, is that townships and cities have an extraordinary amount of power to cause problems for landowners. We all think only HoA's can do this... and that's blatantly not true.

What exactly is a nuisance? Right now in this case is an untended yard. It's also been "improper house paint color". Or too many vehicles. Or too much traffic. Or harkening to older worse times, "wrong skin color" (just noticed the photo... possible sigh).

But how much control should government have over private property? As long as I'm not doing anything illegal, they shouldn't have any holding on my affairs... But then that's the root of the issue, is with an Ohio law allowing control to townships with an undefined term "nuisance".
Haskell, if that's where the sneer is addressed to, absolutely gives you that.

It's just toy first-timer Haskell examples of quicksort (that still work, mind you) that don't.

But then again, take a language like C, and consider how many things (like proper error handling) are missing from 99% of the toy tutorial examples available.
That would be wonderful, but it falters on the idea that your tall grass attracts mice and snakes and suchlike which will then cause some sort of problem with my trimmed shrubs.

(I don't think that's how it actually works, but it's the sort of counter-claim you hear advanced. Don't ask me to defend it; I can play devil's advocate pretty well, but to do so I need to be able to see the devil's point of view, and in this case I can't - where I live, the claim's often made about rats, but my observation has been that Baltimore rats don't give a good goddamn whether a yard is mowed or not.)
> For most people here, $500 is crazy. People in rural America tend to be poor.

They had the $500, they just chose to spend it on the latest iPhone.
Ask HN: What social events do you recommend for those working from home?
I've been working from home for the last year. I've found that I have become significantly less social and I think it may be impacting my mental health.

What are some things you do to get out of the house and meet new people?
Eruptions on the sun trigger surprising phenomenon near Earth
A municipality's zoning laws (variations of residential, agricultural and commercial/industrial) usually preclude what you can do on that land. The restrictions could be further defined by ordinances and covenants recorded with the municipality. If neighbors are able to complain about her land usage, I would assume she is not zoned agricultural. Anecdotal Sources: I own a dozen or so acres on agricultural zoned land, surrounded by houses, which I keep as a meadow.

On an emotional level, I am repulsed by bleeding hearts who start an article with pathos for sliced sneks and grasshoppers.
Sounds like it's only an "absolute train wreck" if your workflow depends on editing PDFs with annotation layers in software that uses PDFKit.

My interaction with PDFs starts with viewing a linked one in Safari and ends with "save as PDF to web receipts folder" and for that kind of usage there are absolutely no problems. I always thought that for anything half-advanced with PDFs (like filling out forms) you'd want to install Acrobat Reader anyway...
Too little, about 1 hectare (2.5 acres) in the production. Buying more land is quite hard as there is not much of it for sale, but I am trying to accumulate it slowly.

I am also planting new vineyards, but it takes about 5 years (+ 3 years of prep work) to have any production.
I've had my house in Northern California for 8.5 years, and I've mowed the lawn perhaps five times, and I never water it. Normally I just let it do it's thing.

In the winter and spring it's full and green with beautiful white and yellow wildflowers, and in the summer and fall it's a nice desertscape with a few small shrubs.

With all the rains this year the green is lasting a lot longer than usual.
IBM, JP Morgan, et al. are developing private blockchains with the aim of cheap, semi-distributed consensus and uniformity. That is what it provides over an SQL database.

Take for instance the options contract market. Let's say you have a pool of 50 trusted brokerages and financial institutions that rapidly trade these contracts. The current solution is each entity has their own custom, internal tracking system along with either a centralized service that they all communicate with, or inter-party connections. In either case, this is fragile, highly expensive to build and maintain and is often slow.

The blockchain isn't a miracle technology like these articles portray it as, and IBM, JP Morgan, et al don't see it that way anyway. It is a convenience tool for a more robust ledger that will lower costs for trusted inter-party transactions.
Fully configurable mappings for Spring MVC
I made a budget app with some unique features (multiple users with synced budgets, no bullshit UI). I use AdMob and it brings me $10/month. That is not much at all. Not even enough to cover hosting and Apple publishing fees. I feel that it's too niche to be a subscription model, though I do sell the ad-free version for $10 one time. So my answer is "meh, make games with IAP is probably the only way to make non-coffee money".

Edit: not promoting, but I like it when people show links to what they monetize in these discussions so I am going to follow my own advice: https://family-fortune.ridgebit.com
The man who fell to Earth
This probably refers to Uber and Peter Thiel and companies associated to him?

If they're manipulating HN they're not very good at it. Lately I'm seeing smear pieces against them appear on the front page on almost a daily basis and the tone in these threads is overwhelmingly toxic rather than positive.
Having worked on college labs with Paul 100x is about right. We just kinda looked in wonder at his projects... and he sold us the parts for ours... A real serving individual actually.
I had to force myself to continue reading after the first line, it soiled the rest of the article for me.
> ... newspaper ... magazine ... book ... movie ...

Operating Systems are tools, not entertainment or informational media. Does your hammer have ads you "couldn't disable"?

> it had ads - couldn't disable

Scissors can be used to disable magazine ads.
They don't mention anything about memory fragmentation..
If your lawn is unkempt, it may become a breeding ground for vermin and make weed and invasive species control all the more difficult.

If I want to sell my house, the value is somewhat diminished by your presence. Ergo, peer pressure and government ordinance arise to settle the dispute.

Otoh, if you want to live somewhere without those things, get a home in the country where you can get more acres for your buck.

Normally, I would agree that individuals should be able to do as they please with their property; I'm typically a libertarian fellow. In this case, though, it's fairly obvious that "proper maintenance" is established to prevent harm to others, and that harm can be objectively measured.

With all of that said, I definitely wouldn't live anywhere with a housing association; there are limits to the above argument that I find they frequently cross.
I know a few who left IT for various reasons, usually burnout or being unfulfilled, sometimes money. They went into sales, management, investing, consulting, medicine, teaching, the most satisfied became public school teachers or are directly involved with patients.
But maybe a reason.
I find that I end up picking the excellent language engineering that is in Go almost any day over languages with many features that simply don't work well together.

Just the other day I was struggling with the hopeless nightmare of Java's lack of true first class functions (but still having some first class function like semantics) combined with embedded classes restrictions combined with generics thrown in for good measure (AsyncTask embedding in an activity and updating result in the activity).

Go features are clearly specified in a very readable and fairly concise spec and guide and its features fit seamlessly together virtually every time​
Everyone here pretty much has a professional stake in the topics discussed, and most people don't disclose that stake. People may be honest about their thinking but their analysis is certainly biased.