skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the repository hosts already mentioned, there were also some specialized services for open source for a particular type or class of use.

A good example was CurseForge.com. They provided free SVN, Git, and Mercurial hosting for add-ons for several popular games, along with per add-on issue tracking and discussion.

Add-on authors could host at other, general purpose, hosting sites, but there was an advantage to using CurseForge. Curse.com had an application called the Curse Client for end users. The Curse Client was an add-on manager. It integrated with CurseForge, allowing you to handle searching for, downloading, installing, and updating add-ons from CurseForge right in the Curse Client GUI.

Curse and CurseForge are still around, and support a variety of games. I'm not sure what the deal is with repository hosting there now. I saw some documentation that suggested you are supposed to use an external repository and provide a link to it as part of your CurseForge project settings, but I also see a lot of projects whose repository is on curseforge.com.
They were very very rich before colonization?

Africa's poverty is an African issue. In fact (and don't take this as a pro-colonization statement because I'm very anti-colonization) they were in many cases materially better off under foreign rule. Zimbabwe comes to mind.
Probably because when treating it as continuous they only look for linear regression.

When categorizing in buckets, they probably do an ANOVA. This technique posits that the average does vary per category exactly as measured, and asks the question: If I tell you the category, how much is the variance of your data reduced? If the variance falls a lot (relatively to what it was), it means there's a statistically significant effect between the category and your variable.

And, in their defense, they can't really go fishing for different continuous relationships once they have the data, as that'd reduce their statistical power.

Of interest too is the number of adjustable parameters of the model:

If instead of four age categories you use, say, four hundred, you end up splitting each doctor into one category. The predictive power of that model is greatest, with very good statistical significance, but you have achieved no insight at all.

Similarly when taking age as continuous; if instead of a straight line you fit a curve with four hundred free parameters, you overfit it to the point of destroying any insight.

So in that sense it's "unfair" that they used four age categories, vs two free parameters of a linear regression. And there would need to be some explanation as to the age ranges they used for each category.
There certainly is a ripeness factor when it comes to idea suitability and this can be a major or minor influence depending on the situation.

Sometimes ambition is great enough even when finances are inadequate, where just moving a little bit in the ultimate direction (like shipping hardware) is materially out of reach for such an extended period, startup and growth potential can never be realized without the most exceptional source of funds to provide leverage.

This pushes the time horizon further out as it would naturally take much longer to connect with such an elusive benefactor on terms that can truly maximize the performance of the combined resources.

So it seems like a good idea to have ideas that can stand the test of time, the more ambitious you are.

Great advice from pg about tactically limiting the depth to which your full ambition is displayed day-to-day so that rather than pie-in-the-sky being constantly pursued, stakeholder interactions can be punctuated by achievable milestones they can visualize being reached.

In a capitalist arrangement it can come back to the visionary exceptionalness of the capitalist as the limiting factor as to when or if you can bring your full potential squarely within sight.
yes, they were acquired in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbeBooks
They're adding a lot of value. Part of my novel-buying process on Amazon is checking the publisher, specifically because self-published books have such awful writing.
Scientists Sneak a Peek at How Ladybugs Fold Their Wings
We can't forget that the whole purpose of the internet is decentralization. Perhaps if authoritarian regimes are able to regulate it, that is a sign things have become too centralized.

The more chilling question is why is a Western democracy trying to copy the frameworks of China, the UAE, and other crumbling regimes? This feels like a shadow of the Cold War where certain people believed that the US would fail because capitalism was weaker than communism (parallels abound.)
The particle-wave duality thing ended like 40 years ago. Particles are just excitations of the associated field.
The place where old-fashioned malls are beating Amazon: Small-town America
> I guess depending on how game of thrones ends, it may be a high contender.

I don't think you can really compare the two. The wire was literary and so authentic, Game of Thrones cinematic and epic. They are the two best television shows made - but in different spaces.

Breaking bad was good but sat in the middle and not as good as either.

But usually the literary honest film holds up better over time than the epic special effects one.
Yes, I agree of course. Garbage-in-garbage-out has many manifestations.
The article doesn't say activities in Africa are new, but that they are significantly expanded. From the article:

> In 2006, just 1 percent of all U.S. commandos deployed overseas were in Africa. In 2010, it was 3 percent. By 2016, that number had jumped to more than 17 percent. In fact, according to data supplied by U.S. Special Operations Command, there are now more special operations personnel devoted to Africa than anywhere except the Middle East — 1,700 people spread out across 20 countries
Hey, Economist, Is Now a Good Time to Be Graduating from College?
I am not certain about the mechanics of it, but one of the most prominent theories right now is that dark matter is actually primordial black holes 1.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-sug...
In my opinion this is the greatest, television series of all time. The way every loose end is tied up and they show that really nothing has changed, the cycle just repeats itself... it's a master stroke. I moved to Baltimore years after the series ended, but it could still have been made here today. Just with smartphones and encryption. The players are stil the same and the city is pretty much unchanged in terms of the underlying issues.

And my apartment is across the street from stringers copy shop :)
Where have you worked during your 30 years of experience? Big/small companies? What sector?
If you assume a black hole, only certain masses and distances work, and they lens other objects.

Picture I had was, if you had multiple objects affected, you could map the distribution of the gravitational anomaly, but it's over my head in terms of what the math and the assumptions are.
Dark matter is at best a hypothesis. We can't find any. We can't make any. It's a hack to fix theory.
>When you're a refugee, immigration offices are now allowed and equipped to forensically examine your cell phone to determine "if you tell the truth", plus you have your fingerprints and biometric photos taken.

... What's wrong with inspecting their stories and taking biometrics? Just believing people that are obviously in their 20s claiming to be teens is one reason people are becoming anti immigration. Just cause someone shows up in the EU cause their country sucks doesn't mean they should just be let in without any scrutiny. ProTip: Most people in such countries would prefer to live in the EU/Canada/US.

Blindly believing and letting in anyone damages efforts to admit people who actually are at risk.

Coming in as a refugee is declaring your country of origin has totally failed and you're availing of the mercy of others, of which you might never be able to repay. Getting scanned to make sure you're not gaming the system seems like a trivial price to pay.
Ask HN: Does anyone else find Jira's interface frustrating?
Our company is making a push to use Jira for tracking all of our engineering efforts (bug fixes, features, epics, ...). I'm all for consolidation but I find myself having to click through multiple dialogs to do simple things (like opening a ticket, and starting progress). Because of this, and other quirks with the UI, I often track all my work in Trello and copy over my progress in batches to Jira.

I'm thinking about building a simple web client around Jira's API. I imagine other people's workflows are fairly different, so what I might build someone else might hate. Given that, would anyone else be interested in something like this? Or should I bother someone with Admin access to see if we can tweak the interface, if it's even possible?
I completely agree and have edited my comment to explicitly state that I do not support the Labour Party. I do however think that a Labour led coalition (the only other possibility?) would be the lesser of the two evils at the moment.
Let me start off by saying yes it's awful that Docker is inserted at the top of the chain. This is a legacy that we'll have to work around to make work with existing rules.

However, UFW is an awful iptables citizen as it assumes it is the sole owner of iptables.

In general Docker does try to be a good iptables citizen and generally assume that it's not the only thing doing iptables work. The existing behavior where docker sits above everything else in iptables is unfortunate but has been around since forever and is not easy to change without breaking lots of existing installations.

Please take a look at https://github.com/docker/libnetwork/pull/1675 as at least a partial solution to this.
Trump Signs Law to Refund Federal Employees for Uber Rides
Why can't pg same the same syntax? I'm sure it could detect if it's a table column or a document field - or am I missing something? Why not handle documents and columns the same, with documents a a kind of hierarchical columns.
If you're a plaintain farmer in Ethiopia and are already doing payments with your phone, blockchains are low on my list of missing links for participating in a well-diversified & feature-rich UK-based retirement plan software as a service.
Yes, lately I have bought books at Amazon that were not originals. Even now they sell print outs of ebook only books. Really annoying, takes more time now to make sure you get proper ones.
You can lump YouTube in there with the echo chamber accusations. At the borders of these networks there is a huge amount of debate going on. It's moving forward. People do get bored of the echo chamber though. It just takes a really long time because people let their identity get caught up in it (identity politics).

To answer your question: yes. I think this goes on far more often than it ever did before the internet and these social networks came into being. A lot of it is invisible though, because online​ identities don't carry that info around.
For source material that contains long runs of sequences (RLE), decompression is faster than memcpy.

This is not surprising given how RLE decompression works --- memcpy and regular LZ decompression requires copying data, i.e. a memory read followed by a memory write. RLE only requires a read of the value to be repeated, followed by multiple writes.

It is interesting to note that CPUs today are also often limited by memory bandwidth, just like the 8088/8086.
Humans have evolved for thousands of years to be social creatures, and to judge the merits of things that they may not understand by the characteristics of the person championing them. That's not modern mass culture, it's the way humans operate. I personally think it's also why many scientists fail to convince people versus (comparatively) charismatic novices.
Moon's benefit, that I can see, is Vue's syntax.
"Lower rate of complications" is much better than "ZERO rate of complications". When you had zero problems, you have no experience handling problems. When you had some problems, you know how to handle problems. When you had too many problems, you are careless.
Summary: the guys behind Twitter and Hot or Not created Medium to atone for their sins.
>We already know how to deal with negative externalities such as pollution. Evaluate how much it costs society and tax it accordingly.

I don't understand this, can it not be the case that the companies can 'afford' to keep polluting, even if paying the tax? Especially if pollution "cost on society" is relatively constant or not increasing according to profit. How is this cost on society determined, and what if I think that the cost is too high, even for taxation to deal with it?

This seems like a band aid on one of the problems inherent with the profit motive.
Yes and it puts it in a database updated regularly for fast access. I'm not sure why this isn't default on Windows. How often does one need to search for a random file in the OS?
In 1990 people thought the German unification would be a piece of cake. We're rich and we're sprinkle some market economy on the formerly communist part.

Turns out that even under perfect conditions developing a country that was held back just 40 years in its development is extremely difficult.

Africa was held back 1000x more, and in crucial moments in history (industrialization) at that. The situation of Japan is highly relevant as an example what can happen when you have continuity and a stable environment.
Whoo, boy, the astrophysics fanboys that come out of the woodwork to suppress the notion that the emperor has no clothes
Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World’s Largest Books
As a UK citizen, my impression is that the relationship is more adversarial in the US. But as far as the US side goes, all I have is what I see on the Internet.

Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the Wikipedia list of people killed by the police in the UK since the year 2000 fits on 1 screen on my (admittedly large) monitor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
Of course, the houses were cheap back then because it was a petty undesirable place to be.

Incremental change tends to be less noticeable if you see it every day, but as someone who visits Toronto just a handful of times per year it blows me away how much the city has changed in even just the last 10 years. Once old and run down neighbourhoods that I wouldn't ever want to live in are now highly desirable places to be. While I'm a bit too young to have much perspective on the situation 20-30 years ago, from what I've learned from those who lived in those neighbourhoods back then, it was even sadder and even scary to live there.

I am surprised they were only 1/4 of what they are now.
We're compelled to choose the option which requires the fewest assumptions. Dyson spheres involve a level of assumptions far beyond dark matter and dark energy. There would have to be Dyson spheres everywhere, that do not radiate heat, and that support some civilization that leaves very few traces.
When that 0.1% - or even 0.001% - are 5-60 second requests, you have a bomb waiting to go off. There really is a massive difference when you are operating at the scale of Google. If the median is 100ms, the maximum acceptable time - 100th percentile - is likely below 200ms. A three nines percentile that is 10x the median isn't a good thing at large scale. Perfect consistency is more important than statistics. A small scale service deployed on my-little-unused-tool.com that receives a few requests/minute is an entirely different ballgame.
> lowering our bar for hiring

Let me guess, Amazon?
I suspect that most people decide who to vote for based on money, trust on things like jobs, and fear of unemployment &c. I don't think internet policy comes into the decision really for people who don't follow these things and who are not technical.

UK: anyone got a good simple page I can point neighbours at about why this should be an election issue?
> I'm not sure about Brin and Page, ...

Larry Page was incredibly ambitious even while he was a PhD student. He naively intended to work on 3 projects. Luckily he listened to the good advice of his advisor, Terry Winograd, who asked him to narrow his focus down to the web.

The quote below is excerpted from his 2009 commencement address [1].

"I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name."

[1] http://googlepress.blogspot.com.ng/2009/05/larry-pages-unive...
I think The Wire was okay, and that Game of Thrones is really bad, so I'm just gonna weigh in and emphatically disagree with your assessment that "they are the two best television shows made".
2-3 double shot flat whites. Typically before 2pm - most of the time with MCT or Brain Octane oil and a bit of unsalted butter mixed into the milk while steaming it.

Another 2-3 cups of black tea. No alcohol.
News articles and talking with people from Africa.
> You'll want to look at Rust and Swift for that. ;)

Is Mozilla a "huge company"?
Show HN: Time-series data of mutual funds open sourced for First time in India
How about a 'Common'? My town has given to naming roadways like:

Winding Ridge Common

Maple Leaf Common

Etc.
I built and operated a mutual fund investing platform in India as a licensed distributor. I used this data to analyse and visualise mutual funds.

The finance industry wants 'exclusive access to data' to be a competitive advantage. I believe that, on the contrary, data should be universally accessible and differentiation in product or distribution could be the barriers. This is why I am open-sourcing all the data I collected.
> > How in the hell are the people of the UK supporting something like this?

> As a person from and living in the UK, I'm equally shocked and appalled as you. Everybody I know is baffled by and vehemently against these ridiculous proposals. Quite frankly I have no idea who is voting for the Conservatives

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374899

It is important for anyone who does not wish to be continue to be blindsided by what "appears" to be surprising to be aware of and correct their own biases.

The trends in UK policymaking (namely, the fact that they're continuing rather than having been ousted) suggests a pattern, and while comments like the above feed into the denial I cite in that comment [0], objective observations (one way or another) serve to clear the air - but only when they're objective. Comments like these - that're "I'm just as confused as you are" - just end up setting discussion back, as people end up being misinformed (as I feel I have been from them in the past, and continue to be unless I make a conscious effort to consider what by all accounts seems the more likely alternative). Hard census-like data would be better than anecdota for this reason, for instance.

Perhaps as you say your anecdotal evidence supports "Everybody [you] know" being 'baffled', but as you're chiming in as a UK citizen, please be aware of any other potential selection or location biases. You're in a better position than outsiders to gauge and figure out where your blind spots are, and it's seeming more to me that the news doesn't bear out the easy-to-jump-to-conclusion (especially in the net-biased echo chamber) of your countrymen at large sharing the same view.
A broken one for sale for $5 he knew how to fix. While unusual, you can easily find a 250GB SSD for 50 bucks or less on craigslist. Heck, you can easily find brand new 120GB SSDs for under 50 bucks.
Game of Thrones had the potential to be a contender, but the showrunners dumbed it down too much and massacred the plot.
the domains are different. is "cosmos" a separate thing?
The UK leadership seems determined to follow the path laid out by Orwell in "1984". They already have the camera system. Now comes the Ministry of Truth.

The US has its own problems, but they're different ones.
Was there any point to this comment other than letting us know what you don't like?
I live in London and am looking for anyone in the UK willing to take part in demonstrations (real and virtual) against these plans (and the UK gov's hostility towards the internet in general).

I've set up a quick a Facebook page[1] to organize things. Send me a message through there and I'll respond soon.

Thanks!

[1] https://www.facebook.com/Protest-against-Theresa-Mays-plan-t...
I honestly don't see much similarity
Microsoft’s Old Software Is Dangerous. Is There a Duty to Fix It?
> ... What's wrong with inspecting their stories and taking biometrics?

"inspecting their stories" in this case is violating their human right to privacy. Taking biometric photos is fine if used only (!) for checking of multiple applications, but not to submit them to the police databases - as this puts refugees under a general suspicion of being future criminals.

> Getting scanned to make sure you're not gaming the system seems like a trivial price to pay.

The issue is: it's easy to break the dam in regard to human rights for refugees following your line of thought. When measures like this are enacted for refugees, usually no one cares until politicians say "we already have this for refugees/homeless/jobless/other bottom group, so why not extend it to soccer fans/left wing people/the general population". And by the time the "expansion racket" has arrived at "the general population" there is no more real resistance.

This is why weakening of human rights is something that should result in jailtime for the politicians involved.
It's beyond even that. Corruption is the lubricant of bureaucracy. These countries are messed up. One way to "fight" corruption is to create lots of paperwork: after all, if everything's documented, then you can't get away with anything, right? Ignore the fact that most official papers end up rotting in a box in a warehouse.

Faced with these stupid requirements and tons of needed stamps and seals and signoffs, if you wanna get stuff done, you pay Vs letting the ineffective system slowly get to it. In one case, the customs officer worked overtime: after 5, he'd continue to process paperwork, correctly, legally, but extra money decided which pieces he'd work on. After anti corruption systems went into place, he can't do this anymore and just goes home at 5. No one wins.
There are ways to get the most "typical" (I think there is a better term for that) sample of a cluster, which should usually lie in the center of the cluster. AFAIK that's the traditional way to achieve what you are trying to do.
I think it's honest in the same sense as a poll with an inadvertently skewed sample. It's honest, but the scope of conclusions that can be justifiably drawn from it is limited.

Without the internet, opportunities to be simultaneously social and anonymous are few and far between. Situations where you're also unencumbered by hard-wired social instincts (e.g. being able to say something without any reflexive responses to body language or the sound of someone's voice) are practically non-existent.

Having the ability to socially express yourself with such a degree is good and bad, but it certainly isn't natural. One could say that this shows who we "really" are, but I don't know how anyone could argue that our social behavior while isolated from society is the truest definition of the character or the individual. Maybe you could, but absent a convincing argument I'm certainly not taking it as assumed.
It's actually disgusting to me the people like Theresa May can come to these conclusions and think "this seems like a good idea"
Sure, it may be an educated guess, but we have to try.

It's better than the alternative, which is to assume that any job that pays (and thus is from a company that earns profit) has equal impact or externalities with all other companies.

A lack of clarity shouldn't be an excuse for not trying.