skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for this. It would be cool to be able to save the queries and get them from an API request to feed into some other BI tool... it would almost act as a saved rdbms "views"
Companies that sell both the poison and antidote are not remembered fondly in history.
President Trump orders withdrawal from Paris Climate treaty
If it means good ads, without tracking, without popovers/unders, basically without all the bullshit that most ads do now, it'd be a good thing. Content creators need to eat too, you know.
How is that any different from lazy and bad workers today? Asking for references won't go away just because of UBI. Heck, there are lazy people who are already like this even without UBI.
Trump announces U.S. will exit Paris climate deal
Except that the download size for an application of the same complexity in JS and Wasm looks like it will be smaller in Wasm. There are plenty of demo games made in Wasm that play great already. Doing the same thing as those demos requires larger JS and is slower in JS.

This just expands on what can be done now. No one is claiming this will fix everything, it will just allow more than we have now and leverage many of the advantages of native development.

As for photo shop, why does a Wasm application need to be structured the same way as a desktop app? Desktop apps shipped all the the software in a single download because that download came from a disc or was expected to be used after being disconnected from the Internet. Why not download the functionality piecemeal? Download a small set of libraries that enable core functionality, then download modules as they are requested. When the user clicks a menu or button go get the code that makes the functionality behind that work. I am not saying break up every button, but if there is a new screen of group of functionality, make that a module then go get that.

In a video game it could be broken into levels or regions the in game map. In gaming paged loading is a solved problem, it seems like it could be applied here. The next level or nearby regions can be downloaded while the player explores this one.
Ask HN: Is an AI CS degree worth getting for an SWE with 10+ years experience?
(Note: I asked this yesterday and it got deleted for some reason, so I am trying again).

I have been an SWE for about 10 years, in my early 30s now. I make good money in this profession (in Europe). I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

I am wondering if now is a good time to get a master's degree in CS (focusing on AI). I have taken lots of AI courses on Coursera and can build neural nets to accomplish non-trivial problems, but my AI foundation is not great.

The reason I am conflicted about a degree is because I am not sure if my work post-degree would actually change or if it would truly open more doors for me. I even work at an AI-focused company, but the AI "thinking" work is always outsourced to researchers/Ph.Ds in the field.

My job as a software engineer is to be an executor/implementer of the models they come up with. If I had a solid grasp of AI, but remained a programmer, would my job prospects change? To be clear, I do not want to become a researcher -- I prefer the software side of things.

But I don't know what an SWE with a solid AI foundation even works on. How is the work different from that of an SWE without the AI foundation?
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AirBnB for laptops.
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe from scratch.
That is correct! Rather than try to distinguish the Series A startups that exit during Series A from Series A startups that are going to raise more money before exiting successfully, I just assumed that every company raised the average amount that a successful startup raises. That average isn't stage-specific either.

This was one of the places where the model could be a lot more accurate, but at the cost of much more complicated math.
there are lots of people operating entirely on cryptos around the world right now.
> Stripe isn't a payment processor; they are your financial back office as a platform.

Well, they're getting there; Metrics were the #1 missing piece from Stripe, so it's good to see this. Dealing with EU VAT is still a massive pain though.
US quits Paris climate pact
I found the logic somewhat appealing (if I understood it correctly): You should always pay as little tax as you can get away with, because the true dirtbags of the world certainly are. Since money is a form of power and power is relative, if you willingly pay more taxes than the dirtbags you are willingly handing over power from you to the dirtbags year after year. Eventually you will have contributed to a situation where only dirtbags have money/power and we will live in an equivalent of pre-revolution France.

Man, is this a tragedy of the commons, but I get the thought process.

EDIT: I see that my interpretation was wrong.
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Got word from a developer that the project is on hold. He claimed no residual vulnerabilities since it extracts to Node.js which is maintained. He said dome are using it in production. They still welcome contributors.

Yeah, it seems dead for now.
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Great question. Sigma is more than an rdbms, relational database. Sigma is an application where you can save and share reports with your team without the need to setup a dedicated ETL pipeline and engineering teams. We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself. Hope that helps!
I think the next move will be disabling other ad-blockers from the chrome plugin store with an excuse that it "will interfere with native chrome functionality"
Developers will abuse this ability and average iPhone will be filled with apps constantly uploading usage data and downloading meaningless updates, significantly reducing battery life and performance.

Apple should just have some kind of API for background uploads. I know, that API for background HTTP downloads exists.
Just about none of this is likely (except maybe the low power stuff) given qualcomm's track record.

Even smartphone OEMs hardly have any control over their kernel thanks to Qualcomm.
I know none of those by heart, and I don't ever plan to. How does memorizing bubble sort improve my ability to design or improve application-specific software that adds a new value to the world, unless that new value is specifically about sorting?
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Silly me, missed some of the copy as I pasted it across:

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Yes I would suggest the OS be on it as well
How do I export my bookmarks out of Delicious? Option to do that has been removed :(
In any business, there is a cost incurred in researching and justifying a purchase in the first place. This is a big reason why free tiers and free trials help onboarding.
A senior Netflix technical person told me once (and this was mostly before their original content) that "People come to Netflix streaming for the movies and they stay for the TV."

I agree that the non-original TV show content seems to have declined somewhat but the good original programming makes up for it.
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The things I'm not allowed to talk about at parties:

Religion, politics, JavaScript and now butterflies.
FYI the Maker link tells me I'm using an outdated browser and that I should download Google Chrome. I'm on a Windows phone, which I know is unusual but still, you guys could probably show me words and images ;) I love ifttt, it's what got me to open my eyes about programming and try stuff out before I knew a language. I will definitely check this out later!
I tried to write an extension that would hide all video/photo/link posts and only show pure text posts from my friends. It was really nice, although there wasn't much to the feed once all the garbage was hidden...
Anyone at Stripe know if they have at least some plan to handle EU VAT at some point? Currently for that you'll have to use 3rd parties like Octobat or Quaderno. Despite these products are nice, it really feels like something that should be built-in.
Agreed.

I've just inherited a legacy software system and I've been hunting down every podcast episode I can related to handling legacy projects holistically and there is a dearth of material.

Lots of the real world things I've learnt over the years I haven't even seen in books, at best books are incomplete and at worst hopelessly naive.

I've considered writing a book called "The hitchikers guide to software development: Surviving the bosses, the deadlines, the insane team members, this weeks buzzword management style - Towel is optional", I want material on programming in the real world not the idealised "and of course you should allocate time for <insert thing your boss will never understand the benefit off>".

Also on a similar related topic, why the hell are software visualisation systems so bloody useless, everything is optimised for creation not maintenance, I know my IDE has the data since it has internal state for things like autocompletion/jump to definition but when I do a "find usages" it gives me a table with each line and the filename...which is a pretty horrible way of visualising it, why can't I see a neat graph and re-orientate it around things like "find usages in this class and it's descendants" or "show me the class with the most usages of <foo>".

Even the best IDE's (I use intellij which is generally wonderful) still approach the problem from the wrong side sometimes, even the limited diagramming tools it has are very useful but you can't do much to interact with them.
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Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S
Voter-verified paper audit trail
Do you have any sources or evidence for your statement "predominant distributor of malicious ads"?

If true, that would be pretty radical - but I'm unsure if you're just being hyperbolic or just re-hashing something you read somewhere.

(Disclaimer: Work for Google, but not in ads).
Announcing TypeScript support in Electron
I'm more interested in the elusive-but-oh-so-important "Feels faster" metric, which is harder to capture in benchmarks.

To my taste, Chrome juuuust edges out at a cursory glance, but barely (though at this point, it's a little sticky for me because it has my Google account credentials, my bookmarks backed up to the cloud, etc., etc.). But it's definitely looking better than it did when last I tried that comparison.
Elon Musk leaving Trump's advisory council
There is a bit of irony here with how Gruber defends Apple but finds Facebook a threat.
It's not like they are out to harm fellow humans or society.

Right -- it's not that they're "out to" cause harm. They just don't give an F.

So in that sense, it 'antisocial' seems more apt.
Fly to Vancouver, bus/uber to Seattle, fly to US destination?
Rieni, what happened to perl11 and p2 on potion? It looked like a very interesting project.
Blog post at https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
This is Google we're talking about. "Without tracking" is definitely not part of the equation here. Tracking is their entire business model.
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> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

Wha... not sure if he's letting the success get to his head, or he is actually trying to ward off competitors. Real innovative people are motivated by challenges like this so he's gonna have to eat his hat for saying that.
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Stripe provides fraud protection? I thought they were just a (really awesome, developer-friendly) payment processor and you'd need to put something like Kount in front of them to do your own fraud protection.
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And indeed, he just announced to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. I was listening to this live. I am speechless. His speech is so much America vs The-Rest-of-the-world. He paints US so much as a victim, exploited by the others. What an egoism. It almost sounds like a declaration of a war. It's so backwards, it's like going to the Middle Age.

This man seems to be so dangerous. I hope the US people will wake up and see the damage this guy is doing to the whole world.

Sorry, for letting my air out. It's maybe not of much help, just my opinion, the opinion of a European, hoping to see people to come closer instead of separating from each other.
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It's like demanding that people encrypt their communications with ROT13. That request is fundamentally broken. A system that does not work, and can impossibly work, cannot be part of morality. Hence, it cannot be immoral to dodge such request. It is simple. The specs are f*cked. So, there is no point in implementing them, because you can see upfront that the program will not work anyway.
They already get most of their income through capital gains, so they dodge 30% on a tax that is about 30-40% percent to begin with. So, yeah, they pay about 25% tax on their earnings. Now how does that compare with most people's tax rate?
A friend of mine helped create Pilosa [0], a bitmap index. I've been meaning to read through that at some point.

[0] https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
Scheduled services and Charter services operate under entirely different regulations (in the US, anyway). Part 135 carriers don't have to force all the nonsense on their passengers that Part 121 carriers do.
They look bereft of "nature", like a spatchcocked chicken.

I'm no scholar of Japanese Art, but by removing that which nature puts into the thing, you remove the beauty of the thing.

Fortunately, we're bridging art and science here.
In fairness, I waited in vain for 8 years to see any significant portion of the Patriot Act rolled back.

The pendulum will inevitably swing again, as it does every 8 years or so. The Democrats will retake the White House after a term or two, and we will inevitably see another period of time in which they control both the executive and legislative branches simultaneously.

Even so, I would be stunned to see this future Democratic government roll back things like this that are happening now. Barring the occasional revolution or national collapse every century or two, consolidation of power and control only flows in one direction. The idea of this being partisan is illusory.
> How much should I worry about this as a developer?

It's hard to say without understanding the basis for the claims against the developers, which are separate from the case against the company and its officers. I can find both the complaints and settlement agreement for the action against the company [0], but not those against the developers.

[0] both the whistleblower and government complaints, and the final settlement
I agreement, are linked
from this article: https://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2017/05/31/ecw-ecl...
Yeah... Just an another example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr8pvSgqI8
https://www.w3.org/TR/web-packaging/
…I think he was joking that Pinboard is still around.
Get tough on crime! Put a few billionaires in prison and compliance will improve sharply.
These are ad standards agreed upon a consortium of companies.
Very few people have high paying SV jobs that allow for "F you money". UBI would give that opportunity to many more people.
I get excited whenever Stripe releases a new product because their demo pages are bar-none the best ever made. The attention to design is very, very nice.
Is this going to finally allow us to get the same stats that are shown in the Stripe dashboard (like "gross volume" for the month)? Stripe has had no way to get an aggregate of transactions in a timespan - if you wanted to get the "gross volume" or any other sum or count, you'd have to iterate through every payment. Not very convenient when you have tens of thousands of transactions and want to show an up-to-date revenue number on your company dashboard.
This is exactly what I do. I use Facebook for a few "Close friends" that are across the world and I still like to know what they're up to.

There's a few communities that I'm in that I wouldn't even know about, event-wise, if I wasn't on Facebook. I can't imagine missing those- I'm surprised others don't use Facebook more for events.

As others have mentioned, I also use News Feed Eradicator, so I don't even see anything on Facebook, unless it's one of my close friends. It's fantastic, and my time on the site is probably less than 2 minutes/day.