skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One need not be a billionaire to have no idea at all what is going on in other peoples lives. To live in a bubble is more the rule than the exception.

Although I suggest everyone delete facebook, let's be fair to Zuckerberg. If the people on facebook were better, facebook would be better. Much of the problems of facebook come from the problems of the people on it. Sadly facebook seems to amplify these problems by optimizing for time on site, making hidden decisions about what you see and what you don't, etc.

A billionaire trying to make the world a better place is usually better than those that could care less. I know that there's surely exceptions (perhaps putin, koch brothers, etc.) It's not the status of billionaire that's important per say, but the quality of their charitable endeavors.

"Connecting" the world is just a tactic, a means to an end, advocating for better ends is superior. Sometimes people take the power you give them and do worse. Technology on its own can be used for good and bad, you must advertise hard for the good if you want the good.

In the end, I think if the world deleted facebook, it would be far better off than any charitable deployment of funds the facebook founder could make.
> moderately-sized Rails app

How many models? How many gems that hook into the framework?

> Rails came about in a world of SQL embedded in html

Great point. Rails deserves tremendous credit for showing people the light in many ways.
No that's all wrong. Firing a missile from orbit has less surprise value than firing from a submarine because satellites can't hide. There's no difference in kinetic effects; a non-nuclear ballistic missile can hit just as hard at a lower cost (do the math). A kinetic projectile launched from a satellite is no harder to intercept than a ballistic missile in the terminal phase, and satellites themselves are highly vulnerable. A big chunk of mass landing near a target won't have much effect. And the projectiles couldn't be just rods. Due to the variability in rockets used for de-orbit burns as well as atmospheric conditions they would need fragile and sensitive guidance packages.
As a straight male, my answer is dead simple: female voices are attractive, pleasant, and comforting to me in large part because I experience romantic attraction exclusively towards women.

I can't speak for non-heterosexual men or for women on this question though.
Makes an interesting comparison to kakoune (http://kakoune.org/), at nearly every point the two projects took the opposite decisions.

I'm really not a fan of pip as a delivery mechanism though, if it isn't ready to be packaged properly then git clone and make instructions would be better.
>Whenever you are interested in monitoring an object or an event, start a new column in the table with a new name, with an object you plan to monitor

row?
Pretty changelog template
Not even close.

You can live in Vancouver and fully enjoy the city without ever having to speak a word of English.

The signage and announcements at YVR are in Chinese.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3304/4556712750_a4470bfb56_z.j...

Chinese grocery stores are common in the city and many suburbs. You can easily find mandarin speakers at most banks. Chinese signage and mandarin staff are common in malls, especially luxury goods.

And if you get permanent residence healthcare is free. Just don't declare your foreign income. Everyone's doing it.

http://vancouversun.com/life/richmond-3-why-does-upscale-nei...
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We can't know for sure, everyone agrees. But so what? It's still very interesting and potentially useful (or dangerous, depending on your point of view) to learn about correlations.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)

Something similar has already been used here since​ WW1.
(I am the author of the op-ed. A better version is at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ].)

The question as I understand it is is "if no other money comes in how long could Wikipedia operate?

If you assume (and I do) that the Wikimedia foundation (WMF) would keep on the spending path they are on, it would take a year plus or minus a few months to go completely broke. If they were to immediately respond with massive spending cuts they could last a lot longer.

The reason I don't believe that the WMF will react to a revenue decrease with spending cuts is because they really, really, believe that everything they are doing and everything they have planned is absolutely essential. Plus, it is human nature to say "this is temporary. The revenue will go back to increasing next year", all the while greatly expanding the fundraising appeals.
I do wonder how many of these newspaper article were a realistic report -

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=junk+pirates&s=20
British still seem to believe they are legit in the Islands. It is actually an occupation since 1833.
> TL;DR: our Sun's bumpy orbit through the spiral arms of out galaxy means periodic increases of comets and other bodies being jarred loose and later hitting Earth, resulting in mass extinctions.

Isn't only one of the mass extinctions (the dinosaur ending one) somewhat tightly linked to a comet impact? It seems as though it's finding a pattern that does no fit the data.
The meaning of life in a world without work
If you have a proper Vim installation in your shell environment, there should be a "vimtutor" command.
“Look Ma, No Gyros”: A Self-Balancing Mechanical Velociraptor
But will sats be refueled or will they simply have new service modules attached to them, bypassing all the tricky plumbing issues?
It is "Argentine" government, not "Argentinian"
Yes that's roughly the general idea. If you're interested in something named 'foo'(let's say an object), use store.observe('foo', some_object) to observe it, then define some actions on the name 'foo' wherever it's convenient. Next time you call the store.observe('foo', changed_object) somewhere, if the object is changed, the actions would be automatically triggered.
The ‘Right’ to Health Care
The Soviet Union spent 40+ years, and many pilots' lives, trying to devise a means of destroying CIA balloons operating at 30km altitude. SAMs, AAMs, artillery and even ramming all mostly failed.

Eventually by the late 1980s they developed the Myasishchev M-17 balloon interceptor aircraft, with a dorsal cannon-turret and able to loiter for hours at 22km. Still not quite sufficient.

Now increase the balloon altitude to 50km and they should be safe against any opposing force with early-2000s levels of military capability.
> Most users don't care about compatibility, as Apple's success has clearly shown

Apple is not exactly big in the same markets where MS is big, e.g. enterprise. So while I agree that "most" users don't care, the very few who do care might be important customers for MS.

EDIT: grammar
As a standalone microcontroller, I'd agree. But as an IP core integrated to some design it is still quite relevant.
The Islands were stolen, so anything British do there is open to International legal issues.
99.8% of residents voted to remain a UK Overseas Territory in 2013[0]. If that's an occupation then it has pretty overwhelming popular support.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_r...
Check out the "what's new" documents for the various Py3k versions. v3.6 had very nice additions.
One word: Miami.
I logged in to read your post, and I have to say it's very disappointing that they would remove it. I think you made some very interesting points that deserve response. You're absolutely right about no-platforming - why would they resort to silencing you if they actually had a real refutation?
>I always assumed that most stars kept approximately the same position relative to the rest of the galaxy.

That was the original assumption. However, basic [0] orbital mechanics says that objects with smaller orbits orbit faster. If this were applied to the galaxies spiral arms, then as they continue to orbit, the inside ones would orbit faster than the outside ones, and the galaxy would become increasingly spirally. By this point, the galaxy would be so tightly wound that we would not even be able to see the spiral any more.

A more modern hypothesis is that the arms are more like waves of high density. Individual stars move through the the arm.

Since this high density region exerts gravity, stars that are moving out of it are slowed down, and stars that are moving into it are sped up. The end result is that orbiting stars tend to spend a little bit more time in the arm region then they would under a pure orbit. In doing so, they contribute to the mass of the arm, causing other stars to also spend more time in the arm then they otherwise would. The end result is a stable wave as all the individual stars move into and out of it throughout their orbits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory

[0] As in, just applying Newtonian gravity.
As a non-astronomer, I hadn't thought of that but now that I read the abstract, it makes complete sense (assuming evidence supports the thesis)

- Might be related to why moon's surface is so scarred and yet in many centuries of recorded (astronomical) history (since the invention of telescope) we haven't seen any major lunar impact events.

- Also I was reading the other day how our solar system is going through a local "bubble" (region of unusually low interstellar density) but is heading towards a certain G-Cloud.

Mind blowing stuff. I guess once we have fixed the planetary mess (climate change) and biological-aging, we'd have a serious type-I [2] problem to worry about (and we can't even handle/track the inner solar system objects yet, NEO, asteroids, etc).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System#Galactic_context

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Baumol's argument is that services will become relatively more expensive than goods, because productivity increases come faster in goods than services.

This is obviously true, so yes, the article presents it as an accepted fact because it is. We have hard data for labour productivity by sector, manufacturing output, manufacturing employment, etc. We know the number of hours that goes into making a car versus giving a haircut, and how those numbers have changed over the past 40 years.

> Education costs have risen about 2.5x over the last 40 years, after adjusting for inflation. Has teacher pay risen 2.5x after adjusting for inflation?

No, which makes it clear that Baumol's cost disease is not the only driver behind education costs. :)
Depends on many things. What task are you trying to accomplish?
He was comparing that back then, they have 1 employee and now the foundation have 300-ish employees.
Yes, that's exactly the point/mechanism of the cost disease theory.
Open source implications
For system-related stuff, python 2 is already 'everywhere', as it's used all over the place for that kind of thing. Even some nodejs modules depend on python for their installation. But if you're going to be doing more than making a standalone script, python 3 should be your target: that's where the maintenance is going to live, and that is where any 'cool_new_module' gets targeted. If you're going to make something big, do it in an area that gets support.

I'm not a particularly advanced user of python (seriously, just ops scripts), but it looks like it's basically 'all sticks' to me. I've heard people grateful about better unicode handling, but not much more than that.
As for BS, currying favor, stepping on others, disgusting politics, ... it will be everywhere, doesn't matter tech or any other field, doesn't matter for-profit or non-profit organization, doesn't matter paid or volunteer positions, doesn't matter whether you are employee or business owner....

IMO, trying to run away to something else where none of these "faults" may exist is fool's gold. Learn to play it or ignore it or live with it, that is the only way to keep your physical and mental well being.
Ask HN: Is there any startup that help people to report scams?
Just curious since scamming online has become more or more everywhere
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I've always heard that argument in favor of decision trees or random forests, yet those decision trees had 400k nodes :). So no one ever really looked at them, but in theory you can could check the long node paths doing arbitrary splits on weird features :).

Apart from that, the strength of DNNs is exactly that complex decision making compared to, say, the simple algorithms physicians learn and manually apply for diagnosis. Those are obviously vastly underfitting in many cases.
This is a great comment, but I feel like you might have missed out on all of the fun of upgrading Rails 2 => 3, which was especially painful. Some large applications are still stuck on 2.x and pay third parties for support because the changes were so large. They were mostly for the better of course, but there's a good chance the parent comment experienced this pain, and this is what they're referencing.
Async IO is solving a different problem than you're complaining about. Python is effectively multicore in nearly every use case. The only trouble is there's no free lunch -- the multicore solution depends on which problem you're facing.

So, what's the issue you're facing?
What would the business model be? How could you make money by helping people report scams?
Interesting because alot of modern day pirates/hackers are exactly the same. Co-opting their identities from movies like "Hackers" and "Sneakers". If you read any of the interview sections of Phrack articles these movies and their aesthetics are all referenced heavily. I think it was ironic/toungue in cheek at first but then turned into something sincere as new generations looked up to the old without context.
The problems you mention are valid (bugs that result in accidents & closed source algorithms) but the example is unlikely. Surely, carmakers will not allow vehicles to respond to commands in such a literal way that would definitely result in an accident. For example, if the voice recognition hears "stop the car" the response will be to stop the car, but safely rather than immediately/unsafe. This goes for all other valid commands. The alternative to a safe execution will be a prompt requesting clarification because the command cannot be safely executed, cannot be understood, etc.
It is an interesting idea to store data on a private (also shareable) excel sheet instead of a database.
What needs to be fixed about biological aging exactly?
How to Rip Blu-Ray 3D to MP4 3D Video?
A related issue is the voice used in aircraft warning systems. Different aircraft use a male voice (Boeing, Airbus) or female voice (McDonnell Douglas). There's various contradictory research on whether a male or female voice is better. For a long discussion, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty
Mystery Science is fixing science education – hiring Head/VP of Engineering
Stupid design choices on Windows are always justified by "backwards compatibility". What I don't understand is why an app for DOS doesn't work on Windows 10. Or a lot of Windows XP software that doesn't work anymore. Heck, anyone remember of Windows Vista and all the mess with "Compatibility Mode" that never worked?
This is such a good point. Agree completely.
Note: it's been almost a month since v2 has been released
Ehh ... it needs to be eliminated? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension
> Gradient descent in itself doesn't take "unbiased" data and pollute it with "bias"

That's correct, but the decision to use gradient descent at all is a huge bias. The mean, median, and mode all describe a dataset's central tendency, but their values can be very different.
Right, density waves. But as rtkwe and the Wikipedia article note, there's also increased star formation in the higher-density arms. So more stuff hitting Earth also seems plausible.
I don't have an adblocker, exactly, but I use Firefox's tracking protection: no ads.
In theory you should get far better robustness by combined use of compression and FEC/ECC over storing content as-is. In practice this relies on the data being at least somewhat compressible, which might be an issue
I almost never compromise with my wife, and we're very happy. That seems shocking, I know, but here's why:

Compromise is born from an adversarial starting position. But my wife isn't my adversary. I love her, and I would die for (and nearly have), and so I (try to) give of myself freely and completely. If both people really care about each other more than themselves, happiness follows easily and​ naturally. The real questions are (1) what do I need to do to learn to love my spouse more than I love myself? and (2) where do I find a person who will reciprocate that kind of love? Experientially, I've found the answer to both questions is to have a deep commitment to God, who teaches and models this behavior to us.
Uninformed people.
The URL matching engine, mustermann, breaks a few things, and it's now a separate component. Also, it's now supporting rack 2, which required some changes.
I like MythTV: a client/server based TV-Recording application. Very good at planning recordings, avoiding conflicts etc. MythTv ss able to handle multiple sources (Cable, Satellit, IP-TV, DVB ... , to play DVD and much more.
The Great Common Task :)

> Fedorov stated that the struggle against death can become the most natural cause uniting all people of Earth, regardless of their nationality, race, citizenship or wealth (he called this the Common Cause).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov
The spiral arms are not fixed masses. If they were, they would quickly wind themselves up tighter and tighter, as the inner areas are orbiting faster than the outer parts. Within a short time the spiral arms would be dispersed.

Instead, you can think of the spiral arms as being like the highest-density part of a traffic jam. In a traffic jam, cars are slowing down and bunching onto the back of the queue, while other cars are finally trickling off the front of the queue and speeding back up. In this way the traffic jam itself stays in a stable position, while individual cars constantly move through it.

In other words, it isn't the same stars that make up the spiral arms over time. As stars orbit the galactic center, they move in and out of the spiral arms.
I know that the best way to learn is "see one, do one, teach one" but I wish you'd put more effort into learning the language before teaching it.

The python.org tutorial and FAQ have answers to these questions.

I think it's unethical to tell a student, "just because" instead of, "I don't know why."
My favourite read about piracy was "Pirates and Emperors" by Noam Chomsky. Piracy was sponsored by states who plundered and raided coasts, such as Sir Francis Drake, who was sponsored by the English government. Only it wasn't called piracy of "we" did it, only when other countries did. Kinda similar to today with international terrorism.
Los Angeles literally drank Owens Lake.
Google has been a big holdout within the community, and by continually releasing Python-based machine learning software without Python 3 support, they've helped slow its adoption in that field. Otherwise, most of the community has moved to Python 3.
Are you sick of living with jews in your society?
How would one make such a thing unspoofable, barring seperate hardware?
Woah, nearly $100 mn per year. Did they start paying all the "volunteers" who create all their content?
You're right to be skeptical.

I noted elsewhere in the thread that I plan to open access to that information when it makes sense. This is a weekend project and I really didn't expect this much attention this soon!

But you made me realize just how important this issue really is. So I just added a Transparency section (link on very bottom of main page) with the titles of all books currently in the system, along with a link to a public Google Form showing all suggestions and how they were handled. I was using Typeform before but results were private.

It's not as thorough as what you had in mind, but I'll put that in place over time.
Many R/Python libraries for statistical programming use C/C++/Fortran under the hood, for the stuff that needs to be fast.

I'd like to contribute to many of these packages, but have little interest in learning the languages. Rust could provide a good replacement (and one which is more productive for people used to higher-level languages). There hasn't been much uptake so far, but I'm hopeful.
> Rails went on to release subsequent versions, each of which advocated doing a near rewrite of working code and obsoleted/broke many of the libraries in the ecosystem.

As someone else said this isn't really correct. Since version 3 (released in 2010) the external API has been pretty much the same, bar a few minor breaking changes and new features.

The internal APIs however have changed a lot. The issue I've had with upgrading since then hasn't been Rails, but third party libraries (gems) I also used.

As it's not possible to make a method truly private in Ruby, they often hook into whatever they needed to work. They are then abandoned and aren't updated, and so if you are stuck relying on a certain library, you will have a hard time upgrading Rails.

I also had a few cases of incompatibilities with Ruby versions (before 2.0 it didn't use semver), but thankfully that seems to be over now.
A couple that are still going strong are LogbookHQ (www.logbookhq.com) and our flagship product, HR Partner - http://www.hrpartner.io

HR Partner is over 30,000 lines of Ruby/HAML code now, and nearing 100 tables. All work to date has been carried out by a single programmer (myself).

We started out with Datamapper as our ORM, but since that is a dead project now, we've transitioned all our new projects to Sequel, which once again, I found far more intuitive and approachable than ActiveRecord.

We use a stack of existing gems, even rails specific one, however there are quite a few that are now framework agnostic, or designed specifically for Sinatra. For example, we use padrino-warden (a Warden gem tailored for padrino) for all user authentication etc.
If they do, it's almost certainly never been put into orbit. The guys who track satellites as a hobby are good.
Interesting, I might give that a try.

Some Kindle highlights are publicly available on

https://kindle.amazon.com/

...but that site feels abandoned and is hit-or-miss for most books.
Time to import a spouse from one of those traditional cultures!

Its actually free if you use your reward points, don't be stingy those points are there for this specific reason!
We have seen the effect of foreign investment in Seattle real estate, but this has been happening a lot longer than the tax actions taken in Vancouver.
The default UK Siri voice is male. Considering that no one is alleging that the UK is less sexist or less interested in voices being pleasant, this is a good sanity check for any explanation on the gender of voices.
Ask HN: Does 'Sort on Popularity' work fine in HackerNews search?
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=statistics%20visual&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story

When I run this search, posts with most number of points aren't appearing at the top. Results seem to appear in some random-order which I couldn't make much sense of. Could someone help me out. Thank you!
Looks like its just plain Ruby --> https://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/

"Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through a converter (like Markdown) and our Liquid renderer, and spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable for serving with your favorite web server."
Linear Predictor of Marital Happiness (1976) [pdf]