skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered this since the days of Rdio(RIP) — is it possible that music services are weighting the probability of songs based on cost-to-them to play?

I play Spotify all day from my library (~10k songs) and it _seems_ like it will always choose a live version of a song (if available) over the album version and it will consistently play 1 specific song from an album every single time (seemingly ignoring the other 10). There's this one Elliott Smith song that will play every_single_time, despite having 5 albums in the library.

Totally agree with the article's comments about perceptions vs realities of "randomness", but it seems that there could be other "business" weightings at work.
Seeing how functions are objects in JavaScript and all...
Walmart to offer ship to store discounts
There's 'compliance security' and then there's 'street-smart security'. They are very different things.

Most organizations aim for compliance (it's cheap and easy). They base security on contracts, certs and insurance policies.

Street-smart security practitioners are appalled by this. And, management doesn't understand why the 'security people' aren't on-board with 'compliance'.

It's a lot like the old west with Cowboys and Indians. Two totally different world views.
> It's interesting that Asuras are demonkind in Hinduism

This particular notion might be difficult to relate to for those who are not familiar. The gods of hinduism do not occupy the position of infallibility, power and moral high ground that one may expect from a Abrahmic religion. Asuras are equal rivals, a bit unlucky at times. The gods' eternal and bitter contest with the Asuras for resources is filled with upmanship, deceit and all sorts of dirty tricks (played by both the parties), that would not only be considered immoral in the current context of but also the value system promoted by the Hindu philosphy. Somewhat similar to the Greek Titans.

The monotheism / polytheism line is also quite difficult to draw when it comes to Hinduism. It has flavors of both. Think of gods as very powerful daemon processes (some are shiny applications) but ultimately there is one kernel layer.

I really wish to visit Iran. It was out of question when I was a grad student in the US. Imight be a bit dicey evn now, and that is a crying shame.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-3

TL;DR : The Drupal leadership hasn't accused Larry of a code of conduct violation publicly or privately but they're happy to imply that a secret violation exists so they can cover up the fact that they ousted him because his lifestyle is icky and bad for PR.
Various implementations (or re-implementations) of tools I use to become productive comes to mind.

Some scripts that keeps my laptop clean/manageable.

For me these are "everyday life" as I spend so much time on my laptop.
One of the reasons for their success are the Open Movie and Open Game projects[0]. It forces them to actually accommodate the needs of working artists and designers in their tool. It also showcases the power of Blender and gets the attention of potential users. The production values are actually pretty good for the projects which get's peoples attention.

[0]: https://www.blender.org/features/projects/
If you can't gather the data, I'd suggest you shouldn't assert the conclusion. In this instance, is Uber a systemically bad company for sexual harassment? I haven't seen the data to suggest so. One woman reporting sexual harassment is bad, of course, but it isn't conclusive on the question of systemic sexual harassment.
Direct mail campaigns with a 2% response rate are considered wildly successful.

Similarly, Google Advertisers are paying exceptionally low CPM rates for inventory that would otherwise go unfilled.

Even a 1% click-through rate justifies the acquisition costs.
I find the sentiment behind this comment difficult to understand.
On one hand i think you're saying you don't believe in Zoroastrianism enough to call yourself a devout, but on the other you want a big resurgence of people that do?

What about Zoroastrianism makes you wish for a comeback?
> I think wishing to impose your personal religious beliefs on your constituents should disqualify you from holding public office.

Should officials be cajoling or forcing people to "convert" (not every religion has conversion as such)? Nope.

Can we divorce all laws from any metaphysical worldview? No. That's not possible. We presume certain things matter, like human lives, freedom of conscience, truth, the health of the planet, etc. Banning murder assumes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist and/or does not require human sacrifice to get into heaven. I can't come up with the right adjective, but that's imposing an (a)theological position on constituents. It's obviously the right position, too.

Point being, even the idea of "inalienable rights" is an (a)theological position. Some people think rights are given by God or the nature of humanity. Others think laws are given by the people and groups that can enforce them.

The goal isn't to have agnostic laws. That's literally impossible. The goal is to find a just baseline worldview we can all compromise on and have tolerant laws that follow from that.
It IS a ghost town.
Can't say I'm afraid, I personally ended up building everything on QuantConnect.
Go for PRK if you have low correction. I had -4.50 on both eyes and LASIK was kind of dicey. Just know that for a month or 1.5 months you're blind, guaranteed. Don't freak out like I did.

I also got weird stuff like my own blood plasma that has been centrifuged and filtered to put in my eye, as well as Mitomycin-C. Your doctor may offer those, and both of those seemed to have clinical trials to reduce the chance of hazing.

Just think whether or not glasses bother you so much that you need it though, I never really got bothered by glasses a lot, and laser ablated vision is a little wonky for me because my pupils dilate a lot and that causes lots of starbursting at low light which I think I didn't see with glasses.
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Show HN: Wander – travel search by budget
The strange thing is sometimes I learn things about my wife from the ads that are served. Creepy.
Well, more than other populations which, these days, isn't saying much.
Simul-post :-)

The problem is, you can't tell the difference between the person that did the time, studied, did labs, etc... And the one that downloaded a test answer brain dump and memorized the answers.

And even in the case of the former, you can't cram 20 years of knowledge and experience into a certification.

I have just an MCITP that I had to get as a job requirement. My employer paid for a 2-week bootcamp. I did very little studying and already knew 90% of what was covered.

I have about 10 people around me that have various combinations of certifications and degrees that all use me as a lifeline when they get stumped.
It doesn't seem like the certs themselves are causing more harm than good, it seems like the lack of evaluation employers do for potential employees is the real issue. Giving too much credence to essentially any degree is problematic, I don't think security certs are exceptional, in this case.
you can make payments in messenger too...

https://www.facebook.com/help/863171203733904/
> telling other people how the code works that you write and maintain for a living ... why would anybody do that?

Just so I know I'm understanding you correctly, are you saying that you refuse to tell your coworkers how code you write works?
I hit problems with the desktop environment on both 8->10 and 10->12, then gave up trying to upgrade Ubuntu in-place. Debian has been absolutely fine, though.
Fake Adobe Flash Player from Google Play Store Tries to Trick Users into Paying
"Boxes" have never been about value.
Oh, hell yes.

1. Make a sketch of your choice
2. Pick the first AutoDraw suggestion (or randomly one of the first N)
3. Feed that to google image search
4a. Google's best guess for this image is a prompt for the next human sketch. Repeat from 2.
OR
4b. Pick a sketch-like image from the results of 3 and reproduce on the AutoDraw canvas. Repeat from 2.

I got an amazing result on my first attempt at 1 - 3:

Autodraw (Cat > Raccoon): http://imgur.com/a/Fy00K

Google Images (Raccoon > "Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses"): http://imgur.com/a/F3z1T

It'd be hilarious to automate this, set it running, and just watch it go.
>"I'd love to see the companies be sued once they fail to deliver."

You've misinterpreted.
It's quite reasonable based on history to expect them not to deliver. It's also quite reasonable to feel good about justice when it is so short in delivery to bad actors these days.
Also, sadism by definition applies to living beings, not corporations.
In the long run every monopoly hurts badly. Puzzling that people think it's good for GPGU, with the x86 fiasco next door.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the pinebook?
Just received the email offer to buy one and I wanted to know what hacker news thought about it.
But they also do have more of a reputation on the line. Universities are expected to be dignified institutions, moreso than your average news org I would think.
Not that I'm aware of, although I've never looked. I was trying to respond to the question of what could indicate systemic sexual harassment problems.
When you are a startup, time to market is literally the only priority.
Speedo makes swim goggles with corrective lenses that are not prescription. Think "reading glasses" but available in much higher strengths. http://www.speedousa.com/vanquisher-optical-goggle-style-750...
Legally, the residents would need to hold recall elections and vote in new legislators. Realistically, people are going to need to wait until the next elections. America is a democratic republic in name only, the country has become an oligarchy which results in situations like this.
Random delay?
Obviously he's a FOSS extremist..
Still, that's a bit ambiguous. They should clarify that the initial evidence of his beliefs was not what got him in trouble, but the evidence that they're keeping confidential. Otherwise, it just seems like Garfield is being ousted for his for all we know harmless lifestyle choices.
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Doesn't really matter if it's better. TVs still use HDMI and most likely will for another 10+ yr. They're just reducing the functionality of the laptop.
Sure, but this needs to be accounted for and the regular workload for such seniors needs to be appropriately reduced.
> If everyone charged for their time creating content on the internet, you would buy the best quality content.

Interesting, the ones who tried to charge seem to be dying.
I actually looked into it a bit more. This may have been the fault of the default "workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": true, as quick open is literally the only file opening mechanism I use (I assume, if that's cmd+p). Weird default. I turned it to false, maybe that will fix the closing-files issue.

Now if only I can get it to stop automatically closing quotes during comments and ruining my english contractions:

// it' => // it''

Any way around that? :(
Our Computer Science courses are broken
I believe Dries's words in his apology post were sincere, so I do submit that as evidence but understand you may find him untrustworthy. However, the willingness of people who practice BDSM who actually work for him to speak out on that post provides even more compelling evidence that Dries isn't known for discriminating on that basis:

http://buytaert.net/comment/132641#comment-132641

If Preston and other BDSM practitioners like him are fired from Acquia or removed from the Drupal community, I'll eat whatever crow you care to dish up.
I've used Google+ as my primary social network for a long time, and in the last year, it's been drastically quieter. The whole "ghost town" thing used to be kinda a gag, now it's kinda for real.

Also, "all the devs" in Google+'s case, primarily means "all the Googlers" plus a variety of people who dev primarily on Google platforms and hence want to follow all those Googlers.
Honest question, its not illegal to run an unrestricted wifi access point, and you can't be held accountable for others using that ip for illegal means in court today. So how does this differ from running a TOR exit node?
It was stated in the article. Contact lenses can cause minor corneal abrasions which allow the bacterial infection to happen.

Presumably this means you should be extremely careful while showering if you scratch your cornea.
StreetScooter started as a research project at the RWTH Aachen University, spun out as a startup, and was later acquired by Deutsche Post[1]. Hoping Germany can produce more such startups!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
Even better political parties which are claiming about machines fallacy should show some better evidence than 'Only because of machines we lost' bullshit.
If AMD can write an abstraction layer similar to CuDNN, and write the initial integration to TensorFlow and Caffee I think they'd gain enough community support to finish out the rest.

80% of deep learning users use the TensorFlow, Caffe, or Torch frameworks.
Once you have trained your muscle memory on a given editor, switching becomes a very big deal.
Extreme pain in the eye that was just touched by an object. Pain that does not go away after a few minutes or an hour.
Agree on AAP. I was meaning to write they did not cry when they won in Delhi.

For Subramanyan Swamy, if I remember correctly, he did not stop at crying foul. he went to Supreme court and got the VVPAT installed. It is another matter if VVPAT makes it foolproof though, but definitely helps.

I am not supporting this party or that party - all I am saying is that - 1. EC cannot be blamed for partiality as it is made out by the opposition parties and media 2. This is more of a politically driven issue than a majorly technical exercise.
I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning. There are policies that could be economically beneficial that are socially deleterious and vice/versa. My point is that assessing policies through purely an economic lens is an incomplete view: the world is not an economic simulation.

Also consider that perhaps there are social policies that are economically detrimental but perhaps they are considered worth the cost. There are human costs that economic models may not consider.
I love this program. Thank you.

Any chance at a RasPi build? I happen to use these things professionally, and Sublime would complete the picture for me.

And yes, a license that costs more than the computer is fine.
Official press release from Red Hat is at [0].

[0]: https://www.ansible.com/press/advanced-network-automation-wi...
Link to the NPR site: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this (not a fan of iTunes for podcasts)
I work at my college newspaper. We get some money from the university but I can tell you without a doubt that we would be in far worse shape if we didn't have an ad sales team that sold our ad space directly.
Wow this is great. I've been working around the jvm to integrate sklearn and some spark jobs that produce Parquet. This is a huge relief
As I understood it, the driving evidence in this case (what's been publicized, at least) was roleplay on a private forum specifically for that purpose. Which wasn't clarified in the letter, but is a significant part of why people across the political spectrum are so upset about this one - it treats statements made in a fictional context as core beliefs.

(All made more complicated by the fact that Goreanism itself seems to operate on a bizarre multiple-levels-of-fiction basis, but still.)
I love WPF and really miss building apps using it with the MVVM pattern. I've even tried to find open source WPF apps to contribute to, but there's very few of them around it seems; everyone wants to build web UIs.

Anyway, here's a product I've come across a few times which might address some of the authors' concerns (was a paid product, but it recently went free): http://www.ammyui.com/
Ding ding ding. Got it in 1. My commute is actually pleasant (nice days I bike 50 minutes each way, bad days I train 35 minutes each way) but I'll still trade that time for other things a lot of the time.

If I had to drive to work I'd be even more into WFH.
Also, use a guard on angle grinders! And keep it in between you and the work! A man was killed by an exploding cutting disk at a company I used to work at. Shrapnel lodged in his chest, he took the guard off to get at something more easily.
That's exactly why a lot of bootcamps have come into existence, along with a guaranteed job in the industry at the end of it. Though many employers hire university grads as a sort of "signal" for people who can work hard, think critically, finish what they started etc.
And I'm not saying one is better then the other, just noticing this trend of bootcamps popping up everywhere to replace university CS/CE education.
http://imgur.com/a/pbAbh
I think working from home is superior (for tech/programming work). In terms of work, it's the best way to not only avoid distractions, but also lay out your time in a way that is conducive to completing a project in the way you intended, and to let your ideas be fully implemented. This means projects finish sooner, much sooner than in a 9-5 environment. I believe that, when you know that you cannot escape the office until 5, that introduces some intellectual laziness and willingness to just kill or dilate time. The office does offer some perks, but they are not related to work itself, they are all about socializing / banter / feeling of being part of a team. Working from home does mean that home becomes workplace , and vice versa, but that is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as work gets done faster. People used to work mostly from home until the industrial era.

Personally, I have gotten a second job in an office for the 'office experience', yet i often do even this work at home, because i work faster there.

I think some "work from home" problems are problems of perception. It's not very well accepted to say that you work from home yet[1], making you feel like the job is somehow inferior. Also, the location of your home matters, if you live in a mixed commercial/residential place, it doesn't feel wrong to be at home and work all morning.

Discipline can be an issue until you establish a work routine. Much like driving to the office primes you to get into work mode, a morning walk to the local bakery can prime you to begin working at home.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3lhfVpLL4
Proposition 8 passed. It was in line with the wishes of the majority of California voters.
> Nope. She didn't know there was a risk.

It isn't completely clear from the article (and maybe she can inform us, because I'd like to know), but it sounded like there was a warning included somewhere, it just wasn't in bolded 48pt red letters or something...?

I used to wear contacts for several years, but later switched back to contacts. I live in the United States, so I understand that may have bearing here, with our laws on medical information via the FDA and CDC informing things, which may be different from what the NHS did.

I do recall, though, when I got my contacts and my lens cleaning solution and other stuff, that there was a pamphlet included in the boxes of both the contacts and the lens solution, that unfolded into this large-ish document with fine print (you know what I mean - such documents are included with every single kind of prescription drug or device, and often with every kind of OTC drug as well - especially ones involving the eyes, or which were once Rx only) describing everything about the contacts, about the solution, about care and cleaning, about the molecular structure of the solution (seriously!), and...about potential problems of improper care and other issues which could arise.

I remember reading the whole thing, which I tend to do with all such pamphlets, because you never know what interesting and useful information you'll find (sometimes, you'll even find humor buried in them - almost like they don't expect anyone to read them, and so you hit on weird things many people never see). I recall reading about this particular issue, and so I paid special attention to dry my hands before handling the contacts, and flushing them well with the solution before I put them in. If I had any irritation at all before putting them in or afterward, I didn't wear them, and/or removed them - and put on a pair of glasses (which I had gotten with every new prescription as a backup).

Was this information written in bold on the outside of the box or whatnot? No. Should it have been? I don't know. Again, the fact that it was included at all may just be due to our laws here in the United States. Furthermore, I'm not even sure if it would matter if it were included in bold print on the outside (or if, over time, this woman's campaign won't suffer in the same manner); much like the various "Are you sure? (Y/N)?" dialog popups on software, or the various "may cause cancer" warning in bold print on cigarette packs, such warning may ultimately be ignored instead of followed or read. Then we're right back to where we were. People will even claim up and down that they weren't warned enough, too (and make post-hoc rationalizations when shown the evidence that the warnings were there).

There's not much we can do to fix this; this woman's campaign is laudable in trying to fix it, but I think that much like nobody reads those pamphlets except weirdos like me, many are going to ignore the message written in bold on the outside of the boxes - because reasons.
http://imgur.com/a/pbAbh

http://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2016/07/28/WindowServer-The-pr...
I'd like to congratulate the authors regarding the clever naming. I totally get the Eminem's reference.

Disclaimer: Posting this comment because my colleague pointed out that I could get some points.
Actually, WeChat had that feature way before Messenger did. Messenger basically copied that feature from WeChat.
That's a good point but it also shows how easy it would be to discredit a whole project or maintainer.
New Footage of United Passenger Dragged Off Plane
I disagree on three levels:

1) I don't think the premise is true, that everyone maximizes their bottom line figure.

2) Prisoner dilemma logic is suboptimal in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Alliances are a thing in ongoing relationships.

3) Even if I were trying to maximize my individual value, training would still benefit me. Programmers with strong mentoring and management skills are more valuable to the corporations than programmers with just technical skills. Mentoring increases my value as a force multiplier faster than it increases any individual mentee's value.
I was involved once in a criminal forensics case. The defense's "expert" witness was a one man computer shop. He had created his own "certifications" and listed them on his resumé as indications to the court of his suitability as a witness.

It was literally "person's-company-name Certified Forensic Examiner".

He had created about 6 certifications, all of which he held.

It's kinda funny, but also kinda scary that the court accepted this as proof of his qualifications. The prosecution never raised an objection to it either.
1) The title is misleading.

2) If someone using your TOR node posts a message threatening to kill someone, YOU will be SWAT-ed first and only then police will find out you run TOR exit-node and maybe you are not the one who posted it. You implicitly accept risks associated with your operation.