skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 300,000 subscribers (25,000 per annum)

Crazy, unverified statistic I heard- around 20% of those users only use that subscription for access to their AOL instant messenger clone. All trades are on it, so you've got to be on it too. Walled garden to the extreme.
I see by the design that they're already planning for Br-re-entry.
Not necessarily. A lot of people died young, which lowered the average lifespan considerably, but once you got through your childhood and teens, your chances of living to an old age were reasonably high.
> I pay for Facebook. That makes me a customer.

How does one pay for Facebook? Is there a premium service I'm not aware of?
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I don't think it's related to your value, as much as the deep sense of the consequences of your action, and the fact that your lack of knowledge in a complex causal word can result in terrible suffering.

The way I manage to get over it was to realized everybody was like me, and If I accepted others could screw up on a catastrophic scale, then I could indulge me doing it.
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There are a variety of reasons why I think blogging is no longer as visible as it used to:

- People don't read long form as much as they used to. Especially considering the content that gets popular on the Internet are now images, videos, short messages, there is less of an audience for long form writing and content producers are more focused on the lowest common denominator.

- Hyperlinks used to be a valuable social currency, not as much anymore. People are more inclined to use search engines or social media to find content, which is kind of lame because recommendations via links from the authors themselves are much more relevant than algorithms.

- Social media and large corporations have made it much harder to get people to leave their platforms. Instead of being an entry point, they want to be the destination for content.

- There is simply too much garbage out there, and curation/aggregation for quality content is nearly non-existent unless you already know the right places to look. Otherwise you get fed the same garbage as everyone else, or trapped inside an algorithmic filter bubble.
How many other web frameworks with support for "automatic code splitting, routing, hot code reloading and universal (server-side and client-side) rendering" do you know?
When you see that the content holder make it harder and harder for Netflix to license their content, it makes senses to invest so much money on creating their own content.

It seems in the end, we're really returning to the cable era.

Be ready for packages giving you access to Netflix, Amazon, and channels...
How much of this book is "functional" aspect and how much is everything else? Going through the TOC, it looks like the book tries to start from 0.

Would you recommend any particular sections for someone who's looking to only understand the functional parts?
Who said that it was only meant for reimplementing simple HTML pages? It's a lightweight framework around React, and React was made for anything but for simple HTML pages.

Crazy to me how some people will never miss an occasion to bash experimentations.
A quick look suggests that one reason is that coins last a lot longer than paper currency.
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Ideally, AWS would have an option along the lines of
“keep warm” that you could toggle and agree to pay more
to have AWS keep an unused container running at all times.

They have those. They're called SERVERS.
I did it myselve ( asp.net mostly).

Jenkins with git ( gitlab) connected: alpha, beta and master branches seperately. It can execute batch, powershell, msbuild and .exe files in the user environment.

All packages contain nuget publishes to our own nuget server. The versioning is like ( for alpha, beta): {packagename} Version {MajorVersion}.{MinorVersion}{PatchVersion}-{PreReleaseString}{BuildNumber}

{PreReleaseString} is removed for the master ( production) builds.

All nuget packages are constantly build, including api nuget packages. Just make sure you change the MajorVersion,MinorVersion and PatchVersion when doing newer versions that change features/functionality accordingly. ( mostly isn't required because the incremented jenkins build number).

It supports parameters and a publish can choose to include / exclude : database migrations, nuget packages, api and web frontend ( normally, all of them are published/executed)

Alpha, beta and master is chosen because of the alphabeticle name. So the beta version appears on top of the alpha version.

I created a powershell script, that uses EF-Migrations for multiple databases depending on an auto-generated XML file ( with all connectionstrings in it). So it's server /database agnostic.

Powershell also sets the web applications offline/online accordingly. So the user receives a notification on the webfrontend ( we are back soon) and the api gives a 503.

The API libraries trigger an error on 503 and it's explained in the documentary for third parties ( One update a month with 30 minutes downtime in the morning from 06:30)

Tests happen after the "builds", if the tests fails, the build fails. But nothing has been changed ( database and published code).

If the migration scripts fail for a database, a "instable" build is given. Mostly these are manual fixes.

The offline html file gives an internal link to a Jenkins build monitor ( for duration estimation). You can see how long it will take till a "normal" finish of a build.
I used to have ~100 blogs I followed in Google Reader, then when Reader was killed I drifted away from many of them. I wonder how many authors lost large numbers of readers because of that sad event.
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Some of what logic programming represented became absorbed into "semantic web" technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL/OWL2), and went down with it, though I think actually OWL2 (description logic) isn't half bad and has lots of vertical use in eg. bibliography systems, taxonomic meta knowledge bases for medical and other research support systems, and backends for graph databases like OpenGraph. I remember RDF being used for metadata in Linux desktop search software, and folks hated it.

Prolog, OTOH, is as minimalistic and pragmatic as ever, with many implementations around, based on an ISO standard even. There's a slowly evolving initiative to come up with an extended standard library across Prolog implementations (eg. Prolog Commons). Though as you might know, Prolog doesn't solve hard problems in itself; rather, it gives you a Turing-complete language based on backtracking, negation-as-failure, closed-world reasoning, and extra-logical mechanisms as primitives to build more interesting reasoning or planning/optimization problems on.
In line... I wouldn't mind to open a exception to anyone who has written an OS in the basement to speak whatever they want without moderation... ;)
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Blind people need to be able to tell the difference.
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We used to have pound notes, and they're still technically in circulation in Scotland (although I've never seen one). According to wikipedia they were withdrawn because:

"Part of the reason for this change was that notes, on average, lasted only nine months in general circulation, while coins could last forty years or more. The government also believed that the growing vending industry would benefit from the introduction of a one pound coin."

Maybe the economics have changed with polymer notes. But the BoE inflation calculator tells me that the £1 notes withdrawn (in 1984 money) would be worth about £3 today. So maybe the fiver is next.

Then there's the lunatics that want to abolish physical money altogether...
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Sweden is also replacing the coins with new ones and a major advantage I keep hearing is that their weight is lighter, which reduce transportation costs and makes it easier for bank.

But I would guess from a public relation perspective, asking a whole population to replace their coins just to make it cheaper and easier for banks is a harder sell that arguing security.
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Would love to know what strategies others here on HN use to manage their codebase with multiple team members. For example if you have many pieces of an application being changed/updated how do you achieve a quick deploy schedule effectively with a limited amount of conflicts.
I wonder, is "social" not practically equivalent to "Facebook" these days and dwarfs all other (including search/newsletter)? Except for niche cases...
> but I have stopped doing that completely for no particular reason

Death of Google Reader and migration of corresponding contents to other medias (especially social media?)
The coin does appear to be a Reuleaux solid, which was a relief to me. British coins are some of the most common Reuleaux solids in the world.

The sides are not straight; they are curved outwards. The curve is defined by an arc of a circle whose center is the opposite corner on the coin.

It's a neat class of shapes! My dive into them came while researching the rotary Wankel engine (rotors are roughly Reuleaux triangles)
Their implementation appears to lose a lot of detail in many examples. This is especially true on human faces or pictures that include human faces. Can you reproduce an improvement there?
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> I've seen several times people having perfectly civil (albeit curt by Silicon Valley standards) debates finding themselves chastised by the moderation team.

Do you have any examples?
What might be fun to try is to use a Euro 5c coin in a machine that expects 20p sterling coins. Living on the border with Northern Ireland, we figured out when I was young that the sweet machines in Northern shopping centres could be conned like that.
Reality is nice. Being able to augment it in various ways would also be nice, and has a ton of applications across a ton of fields.

AR games and hollywood filters are the obvious go-tos, but I wouldn't be surprised to see seemingly random industries like therapy see benefits (a few applications that come to mind are brightening up the world to combat SAD, tinting views to ease aggression, or even Black Mirror-esque "blocking" of people who upset or anger you IRL if you want to trend towards dystopian tropes).

Personally, I just want to up the world's saturation to max and chill with rainbows and bright colors while I'm otherwise productive. Seems like having fun filters would (or could) make life mildly better for many people going about their usual day.
This is pretty nice and intuitive! What is odd is how you don't need spaces between string identifiers

intintint does the same as int int int, 3 integrals

del becomes a del symbol, delt becomes a del symbol plus a t, delta becomes a delta symbol

rhoint: will it become rh + oint (circular integral), or rho + int? It happens to become rho + int here, but does it specify that in its specification?

deltau: will it become del + tau, or delta + u? it happens to become delta + u here. Opposite of the rhoint case about where it chose to make both things a rendered symbol

So it's inconsistent parsing rules, simply requiring spaces between textual identifiers would make it more logical :)

Also, what is now => and lArr could make more sense as ==> and <==. Also sad that <- or <-- doesn't work for left arrow.
All sound like solutions to self-created problems.
Anyone care to rewrite these into c#? I am really surprised how fast these python scripts are and I would like to see comparison with equivalent tasks in c# where it stands..
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Love that coin
I thought this number seemed absolutely nuts to begin with, but actually, given their ~100 million subscribers, it's pretty much inline with what the BBC might spend in the same sort of set up.

As an observer, what still seems odd to me is the low number of shows or movies they are producing with that massive budget - last year "The Get Down" apparently cost $16 million per episode while the entire, huge hit, first season of "Stranger Things" cost $13 million.

I would have thought that would inspire them to look for more of these low budget, low risk, big payoff shows, especially when you run a subscription service - surely a series that people binge over 2 weeks, with the potential for more seasons to keep people subscribing is better for you than a one time film? Nope, $100 Million on a single film this year.
Why in the world everything needs to be made with react that makes it incompatible/hard to integrate with any other frameworks?
Churchill famously remarked the film Ms. Miniver was worth, "either five battleships or 50 destroyers". Hollywood has immense propaganda value and is very effective at exporting American culture.

It is independent though, which gives it some grounding.
>using map() has historically been about 10x slower than using a for loop.

Wow, really? Any idea why? Seems odd when map() imposes fewer guarantees and can be implemented, in the worst case, with a for() loop...
Maybe that is the "hidden feature" that they describe on the linked page.
Notes need to be replaced much more often than coins, making them significantly more expensive. There are actually people arguing for doing the exact opposite of what you suggest in the US - replacing all $1 notes with $1 coins to save money.
Good tip!
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When someone new starts to work at our team (We use NG2) we give them this screencast to watch. https://www.ng-book.com/2/

I think it's pretty good and up-to-date.
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My point, which I didn't state clearly, is that there are situations where this isn't really feasible; secured networks, servers not on the internet, etc.
What "culture" is this and Why would having our profession degraded and reduced in status help anyone except the employer.

Would you suggest a surgeon is just a tradesman after it just cutting meat so its totally like a butcher.
Modern vending machines are not so easily fooled.

But, the old UK 5 pence and German 1 mark coins had quite similar dimensions, and were made from the same material, so vending machines at that time were fooled by the 5p, which was worth much less than the mark. I understand that truckloads of coins were sent back to Britain as a result.
Like others have said, when Google Reader disappeared I stopped following RSS feeds directly, and moved to aggregators like HN and Reddit.
> So maybe the fiver is next.

Something like that is already being discussed on the continent.

The memorial 5€ coin recently (which is legal tender) wasn’t just that, but it was also a test if a 5€ coin would be accepted, and doable.
Pound Notes are way more expensive to produce than pound coins (given lifetime of note vs coin)
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Am I the only one who thinks it might have gotten harder simply because so many more people are producing content these days?

That's why other commenters say they get their traffic from r/programming or HN. You are a blog in a sea of blogs and other crap.
I learned by reading "Programming in Scala" by Martin Odersky who invented the language. https://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala_3ed
Yes, I think the only one who's publicly fighting that is the Austrian Max Schrems. Unfortunately the case is too big for one person. The only chance I see is to make people aware and let Facebook and other companies know that we HATE being treated like sales objects.
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I've done it both ways with Korean and Japanese coins because they look nearly identical, I assume due to the colonial past. The values differ by 10x.
>Personally, I just want to up the world's saturation to max and chill with rainbows and bright colors while I'm otherwise productive

That would mostly lead to overstimulation and desensitization. People get bored with everything they have immediate and easy access to.
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What other homebrewed OS projects exist?
> (Turkish government recently switched IDs to something like that).

That’s actually quite an old idea – most european countries’ IDs just have a normal smartcard in them, allowing normal signing and verification.
When you own pages you can use Facebook advertising system to #feature# your page on it.

Same way Google do with adword on their search page.
Anecdata, I know - but certainly even 5 years ago it was rare for me to spot a forgery in my change. Over the last few years I found more and more - so I'd think that the process and cost for creating fakes is dropping. Though since contactless payment has been around I can honestly say I've spent actual cash about 4 times this year so far, so my collection of 'interesting coins' has not been added to like it once was.
Really liked playing the beta (or was it alpha?) of this when it came out, but the pricing didn't really make sense for me.

Paying per compute time works for businesses looking for flexible cloud solutions, but as an individual this makes playing the game much less fun (because you're constantly paying attention to the cost).
I'm another wall talker. Having managed forums in the past, I don't want to have to manage comments ever again. I blog for myself when I want to scratch that itch. When others find it useful to them, that's awesome. I don't run analytics other than Cloudflare, so I can see that people are hitting the site, but not what they're hitting.
IMHO because react is designed this way. It makes it easy to add to existing content, it is not an "opinionated" framework. This is great for getting quick results, but not for compatibility, easy source code navigation, etc.

You can add these constraints later, but you will be on your own island. Maybe sometime a standard ("best current practices") emerges...
I've learned the hard way not to look up what I believe to be non-words in the urban dictionary.
programming itself is a problem.
There are tasks that can be completed quicker with web frameworks and tasks that can be completed quicker without them. They aren't a solution for every task.

I'm not sure why people struggle so much and fight abstractions so much but I guess that's a sign a techie is getting "old".
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Yes he knows; he's saying that the pun is a bit shit because only one of the two meanings is actually true.
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As a case study before introducing it into general circulation.

Developing a new coin for hundreds of millions of people in daily use is a big task, it’s easier to start with a subset of 80 million potential users to demonstrate feasibility, and test.
And Yogi Berra.
They assume their automated system can catch evil users in the act. It couldn't. It failed it's job and let the attacker do what they wanted while preventing the legitimate user from controlling their account.

So the automated system did more harm than good. It should either be overhauled or disabled.
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Not sure if this is flawed, but I want to attempt an analogy that felt right to me.. Let's say they figured out catching a thief cost £500 and it became public knowledge the police wouldn't investigate any theft under £500. The cost of transitioning to the £1 seems worth it to prevent further abuse.
True, at least without using any vendor-specific extensions (that may or may not help here; I haven't investigated). My point was that in CL, you get close-to-C++ performance levels by default, you can get even closer by optimizing specific areas in your code, and all of that while still writing in a very high-level language. Of course you won't beat memory-optimized C++ code in performance, but you're already close enough that you rarely need to.
While correct, I think GP is more interested in knowing if there're sufficient libraries available in Python so porting MATLAB code to Python is easy.

Looking at the source, almost everything in MATLAB can be ported though.
build a static html version, host it online, e.g. on your github account (with github pages).

I'm working on a couple of tools to make that whole process easier.

- ResumeExporter (https://github.com/programmercv/resume_exporter), a tool to extract your resume data from linkedin, stackoverflow, xing etc.

- A jekyll theme, to host your resume on github pages (https://github.com/programmercv/theme)

It's all very much still work in progress, so stay tuned :)
For what i know, that is already happening in NL with HBO Go. It disappeared from the market as separate, independent service and now only available via bundle package of one of NLs largest cable providers, Ziggo.
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Except that the butcher can't put what he's cut back together again.
> So you never know - but how would that work inside a metal coin?

That's a good point, I completely oversaw that.
Most people are actually okay with it as long as the intro is good!
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Ask HN: Devs in open space offices: How do you manage to focus?
Today, my team moved from a typical workplace to an open plan office style workplace. While the friction in firing up a talk with a colleague has definitely reduced, I find it very hard to focus with things constantly moving in my sight/viewport.

People who've managed to stay productive in such workspaces, can you toss me some advice?
I'd imagine the point is to prop up confidence in fiat money. Cash represents 3% of "money" so a small counterfeit issue with pound coins is a fraction of a %.

Meanwhile the entire currency is debased annually by failing to include land prices into the inflation calculations, despite most credit creation being against land.

This debases GBP for workers every year. Therefore propping up confidence is vital.
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Its a politically strategic time to reaffirm some kind of public 'pride' in the Pound. Its a symbol of nationalism.

(am brit)
Long shot, but if anyone from Netflix sees this, I'm looking for finishing funds to complete one of Sir Christopher Lee's last films, The Hunting of the Snark, based on the Lewis Carroll story and I would be happy to exclusively license it to Netflix.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1887901/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Not a fan of markdown myself at least for comment boxes. Everything that uses markdown as input (which seems to be hacker news comments too) ignores a single newline as a single newline, giving you different output than what you see in the box you type it in, which is very bad for intuitive web comment boxes.

Lots of people make that mistake, making a nice listing with newlines in between but them it becomes an ugly single line.

BBcode from forums in the past worked better for comments.
Of course, doing anything in moderation is obviously important.

As long as it were an optional thing (i.e. not forced on people like the traditional dystopian take), I don't see how letting people choose to change how they see the world would be a guaranteed negative outcome. Especially since that's pretty much literally the advice in every self-help book: look at things from a new perspective, get a new perspective on life, surround yourself with positive things, go where the scenery makes you most happy, be more cheerful, fake it 'til you make it, etc.

Obviously it could be abused by some (overstimulation/desensitization don't sound so bad compared to alternatives), but I imagine overall it'd be a net positive on the lives of more.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
Well people had been stating on this thread that if that was the hidden feature, it'd not be "hidden" for long as anyone can get and cut open a coin to see if there's anything like that inside.