skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand corrected, I did not realize this supported automatic backups. It still requires your laptop to be on the same LAN though. It'd be nice if one could host a simple https server somewhere and configure the iOS unit to sync over the internet.
You're implicitly assuming that Amazon does a bad job of implementing the front end. If the goal is to get even a tenth of FB users to be paying EC2 customers, they can probably spare a couple of UX developers to give it a easy-as-a-ios-app interface.
It could be pre-made and run on AWS automatically be default. More advanced users could tinker with it if they want. You would pay money for the costs of running it, plus an extra something.
Amazon's Bricks and Mortar
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You have to remember that most people there have started at the same place you're at right now. You even said it in your post.

>The hour was ~20 people who have been doing this for years...

That sounds like a goldmine of knowledge and experience to learn from. Find someone from that group who is willing to mentor you. Heck, the Leadership booklet has a checklist with one of the items being to mentor someone.

Talk to the people in the group about where you're coming from and what you'd like to come away with. I find that the people who are a part of Toastmasters are pretty supportive. Of course, groups can vary. But with a sample size of 20, you're bound to find someone.
There is one reason for this, and one reason alone.

Design before Engineering.
Thanks for the info. I was not familiar with Userfeeds, it looks interesting.

Work is currently offering to pay for any online/university courses I want to take in Machine Learning, which is interesting and probably profitable, but not really a huge interest for me.

Making the internet ( and the world ), more decentralised is basically my personal religion however, so trying to decide what I should do, and more info is always good, so thanks for the links!
Good list so far. Off the top of my head, the ability to send the exact email a customer would get to myself has proven useful.
You can side load apps to which you have the source code on iOS, for free.
That advertising company did create software that beat the best Go player in the world a decade earlier than estimates.

They also created the most power NN processing silicon that uses far less power than anyone else. A pod is doing 11.5 quadrillion FLOPs is pretty impressive. Just sayin.
> In order to support 32-bit apps the OS needs to include 32-bit versions of all the system frameworks. So dropping support for 32-bit apps means cutting the size of all the system frameworks in half.

Less than half as 32b code objects will be smaller than 64b ones, but even if it's half how much storage is that exactly? I mean I probably have games bigger than the frameworks on my device.

> As for speedup/memory gain, merely launching a 32-bit app will cause the OS to get a bit slower / use more memory until such time as the app is actually killed by the system.

Well yeah so it's just pay for what you use aka who gives a shit.

> And if you have any 32-bit apps that actually do background processing

Which is unlikely given the vast majority of applications being killed by this move are games.

I mean let's be honest for once, the gain from removing 32b frameworks is pretty much entirely on Apple's side, there's little gain to be found for end users when they're not just plain losing value in this move.
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CSV is a mess. A while back we switched to exporting XLSX using the xlsx module https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlsx
Cyclist shows his bike ride via AR on a coffee table
I agree. I moved to FastMail for stronger privacy behavior and good quality service. But it's not the level of like... ProtonMail. But I'm patronizing a great company with great customer service that treats me like an adult.

Note that while I'm happy to deal with smaller businesses, and happy to spend money on them, I am still pretty wary of advertising-based businesses. It is a slippery slope of doom, and I think it's ideal to try and stay off of it.
I think it's a perfect opportunity to combine a rooster and a doobie into a logo.
I don't know is there any benefit in using Retool, when compared to https://www.nubuilder.net
The reason for our privilege, I think, comes from the abysmal education the "regular user" is getting.

At school, pupils are taught Microsoft Word most often, and LibreOffice at best. They know nothing but WYSIWYG and separated applications that don't talk to each other (Microsoft Office can be scripted with VBA, but they don't know that).

The fundamentals of computing are not taught. File formats are not taught beyond "this app opens that format". Plain text is that ugly stuff you read with Notepad. The internet is accessed with a web browser. And so on.

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This needs to change. Computing education should be expanded, and other curriculum should be cut or adapted accordingly:

Data formats should be taught. HTML could serve as a first example: you can view it online, you can save the page and view it offline, you can view the source with ctrl+U, or even modify the source with Notepad (Kudos if your school uses a free operating system, but let's not require it right away).

Rudiments of programming should be taught. Something like Human Resource Machine (a coding game in pseudo-assembly) could serve as an introduction —or we could stop there, that game is pretty complete. Now that's quite a heavy topic (I expect Human Resource Machine alone would take a whole semester), so I propose we use the Math class for this, and cut on other math topics (I'm not sure which, though).

The internet and the web should be taught (and not just used). I believe the English class is most suited: the internet is mostly about reading and writing (YouTube notwithstanding). We should cut down on classical literature and literary analysis, and focus more on information processing (reading more or less reliable stuff and come up with reliable information), and public writing. If there's a class that ostensibly teaches citizenship, it should be used to teach public debate, which are arguably more important than the arcanes of your country's constitution.
These are hilarious.

I use audio software a lot, and it is amazing how something which seems quite simple in concept, such as a circular volume button, can be so differently implemented via UX.

Every time I see a knob style button on any of my audio plugins UI, I have to think:

* Will the point at which I touch/click on the knob set the knob value to that position, or will it simply be the starting anchor at which I start moving the knob?

* Does this knob work by sliding up/down or in a circular fashion? Or accept both ways?

* How far away, or close to the centre, is the active 'hot spot' that allow me to control this knob?

* Does the knob dynamically display the value as I spin it? If so, where does it show that value and am I inadvertently blocking the display with my finger/cursor?

* Does the knob have the concept of velocity, whereby I can quickly spin it to the approximate value I want, then make tiny incremental adjustments to get the sound 'just right'?

All these tend to break the "don't think, just do" concept of a skeuomorphic interface.
I'd vote for either publishing a video with subtitles after the conference, and/or a transcript of your talk. If you prepared your talk in advance, you could offer a transcript even before the presentation.

If you can get a live translation, that'll be best for non-native speakers, though that's a rare thing (I've only seen it on big TEDx conferences and on religious conventions, where people care very much for non-natives and deaf people to be able to receive the message). Of live subtitling I've never heard before.

Related, a good trick for some public talks - if you can, make handouts for everyone, that contain all the charts and pieces of code you'll be showing on your slides and discussing. It's very hard to make something complex fit on a slide in such a way it'll be visible for people in back rows (or people with bad sight). Paper handouts on the other hand have huge resolution and will be right in front of the person reading it; for a typical presentation, you should be able to easily fit all your charts and code examples on a single A4 page. It's a very cheap way to ensure even the finer points don't escape people just because they sit too far.
>TFW no microphone
They might be referring to the one-time-rumored acquisition by YouTube, before Amazon actually closed the deal.
Neither of those words are mentioned in the article, so... Huh?
I do wonder though if you could create a compelling product that would keep the customer from ever knowing they "own" a server. I've thought about a service where I effectively would run one big "load balancer" front end that would route a customer's traffic entirely to prefab cloud servers that I would spin up & configure via tools like Terraform and Ansible on the back end. I wanted to load those mainly with privacy tools--things like Pi-Hole, encrypted DNS, etc. I don't see why I couldn't say "hey in addition to this you get an app portal" that is effectively providing a standardized social media app. So for a regular price you get privacy, ad blocking, and a social media / cloud storage app that doesn't spy on you. It seems doable.
> I think Excel was finished circa 2000 and now they focus mainly on

Not breaking established behaviour?
I mean.. that's a command for sure.

This is where a good UI can obscure the underlying thing though. Google is trying to find intent via the text of speech and that's one way to go about it for sure. It's totally valid. It's more limited, but it'll work great if there is a command that it can match it to.

But there has to be an underlying single command that is "turn volume up"

With an intent based system you can chain complex intents together and the result is the behavior of those intents interaction.

It's... ugh, I'm explaining this poorly.

Think of intents as building blocks to create something from whereas commands are just specific things. I wish I could explain this better.
Till late 2016 Twitter played videos on max volume without any option to turn it down.
> Google doesn't scrape every 15 minutes.

Google has a variable timing crawler. Google News crawls in almost realtime, but all Google crawlers back off if the site responds slow.

Additionally, Google respects `/robots.txt` (which allows the site owner to define a crawl delay) and uses sitemaps for hints, so it doesn't have to re-crawl every single HTTP object "every 15 minutes".
Well what I'm saying is that companies should then offer 1TB of storage, not "unlimited" and then yank the rug out from underneath people that are actually using the "unlimited" storage they were advertised. The storage is not unlimited if any consumer can get to a point where they're using too much storage. The companies then call these people "abusive", but I personally don't think it makes it any less scummy of these companies if we can find some value of "unlimited" (like "practically unlimited") that sort of fits the story of them pulling out of their promise. It's the companies that are being abusive, not the consumer.
For what it's worth, this comment rings so familiar to me that I feel like I could've written it myself. I've read the normal speaking advice, am reasonably articulate, well-prepared, have good material (or which I like anyway), and am generally a decently well-adjusted human being, but I have a fairly severe physical reaction when it comes to public speaking. Every guide on the subject ever written talks about "everyone gets nervous" and to "imagine the room is full of friends"/"imagine everyone is naked"/"speak only to the back wall"/etc., but over the years I've realized that the type of nervous they're talking about and the type of nervous I'm talking about simply isn't on the same level.

A lot of people think that they get it, but I think that unless you have it, it's fairly difficult to understand. The result is a lot of very unhelpful advice online. Besides your comment, the only other place I've ever read similar stories are for comments for propanolol on various drug-related websites online, where many people seem to indicate that they experienced paralyzing fear from public speaking, and that in many cases propanolol seems to have help them overcome it.

I've never tried it, but I'd be curious to hear if anyone hear had anything to say about it one way or the other. I'm an IC and have been mostly avoiding public speaking lately, but am at a company right now that engages in frequent song and dance shows where people are highly encouraged to get up and give lightning talks and such for everyone else. I've managed to dodge it so far, but there's no question at all that poor speaking skills will be detrimental to my career over the long run and that I need to find a fix.
Love Chrome. Tried other options from time to time but always go back. I do run on a higher end machine. It is fast and just rock solid.
>Probably because of relaxed evolutionary pressures on both, where fitness began to be less relevant.

probably you don't understand evolution and natural selection.

>true homosexuality (no heterosexual coupling) would lead to lower fitness.

i can speculate the opposite - given that homosexuality seems to be highly correlated (i'm stereotyping here, yet lets suppose that it is statistically true for the sake of argument) with creativity and noncomformal thinking and behavior, we can see how in the today's society where those traits are more and more fetching a premium it may result in higher fitness.
Agreed about the disappointment in Google robotics. So in your opinion what will be the best available technology for robot actuators in 5-10 years?

I've recently become much more interested in robotics and I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach the field. I don't have much hardware experience so at the moment I'm thinking about training neural nets for robot control in simulation. I'm also looking for meetup groups or other ways to connect with like-minded people (in the SV area). Any advice for a dev/ML person looking to get into robotics?
Thanks. I'm not sure if that situation is a good one or a bad one, but it's good to know about.
Ok, I think we need to define what "central planning" means for people who are going to choose to participate in this discussion.

"Central planning" means "the government (or some other single entity, but usually the government) makes all of the decisions in the economy."

Corporations, despite being "centralized," and despite engaging in "planning," do not meet the definition of what we're talking about when we say "central planning." They emerge in a free market economy in order to reduce the transaction costs that would come with trying to coordinate mulitiple people as independent participants to do some specific activity. They do not exist to decide for the entire country exactly what everyone will be doing all the time to meet the entire nation's needs. That's a very big difference.
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Do you directly open the file? It used to ask during import.
I'm not great now, but used to be an absolutely dreadful public speaker. While I was in college I got a most of a year warning that I would have to give a technical presentation to an audience of a few hundred. At that point I could not do that. I told myself, "If you are going to stand in front of that many people and talk, you need practice". So for the next 8 months EVERY time a professor asked for a volunteer I said yes. No matter how ill prepared I was. Once I got myself into a real pickle. I volunteered to do a homework problem on the board for a homework I had not done yet on a subject I was weak in. It went ok. I had to ask the class for help, and announced what steps I thought I should do. After that I began to trust the advice that the audience wants you to succeed.

When it came time to giving the presentation I practiced a huge amount. Recorded it and watched it again and again. I also spent time thinking of every question that could be asked and prepared backup slides (with quick links) to visuals to support the top 10 questions I guessed might be asked. I got to use two of those visuals to answer questions.

Overall it was a great experience and I was able to place 4th at the national level of the competition.
Facebook has already added those rules. The discussion now is whether to force them to reveal what the rules are, and maybe dial them back a bit.
But neither do any of the places where government insurance prevails and costs are way lower.
This is pure rethoric on your side and not addressing actual stated question: how thigs would go better without subsidies. This is such a leaping sledge of hand at first, then a misleading argument (not that part of EU policy) and then difussing the argument into such generalities. You see a bad outcome and can't really tell if it would be better or worse without subsidies. You don't even bother arguing the point.

By the same token I could argue that all people die so medicines are suspicious or overusing vitamin C is the culprit. There is no concieveable argument except one demanding politicians be omniscient and rational policies blamed because every policy ultimately leads to death, as people die, thus markets should sort things out.
You can use them as block comments.

But they are actually just reader macros which return nothing. They skip over the enclosed content.
This is great. Thank you for sharing.

These days I am working on trying to understand the Fourier transform (1807). It is great fun. I finally understand the equation and how it works. Pure beauty. Now I am in the process to use it in practice. I am planning to write about it and perhaps write some visualizations to help others understand.

This post made me think about a crazy idea I had. I wanted to write periodic posts to talk about the work of all these great mathematicians. I also wanted to have a place where people could buy gear (t-shirts). The same way people is very proud of wearing a sports guy t-shirt (Lebron 23), I'd love to see people wearing t-shirts with mathematicians names (Fourier 10). It's crazy I know.
Shake your device as hard as loud you want the volume to be.
My point is that if you consider their total compensation LAUSD teachers make great money and it's still an abysmally bad school district. In other districts where teachers are worse paid there's always people saying that paying teachers more will fix things, when it clearly doesn't.
the former - just the facts on hypothesis, methods, yada yada. audience may be taking notes. so a concise well rehearsed presentation is optimal.
My favorite one was the last one:

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In case anyone is interested in even more of the technical specifics, the original design RFC might be interesting too: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
One of those is basically the same as tilt to scroll, something that actually exists. Why anybody in the history of ever thought it was a good idea I'll likely never understand, though.
It would definitely help. Use things like RSS feed features so that people can subscribe to updates from your personal site/blog.

DNS is (relatively/-ish) decentralized, and isn't AFAIK, heavily used for data collection. And you can't exactly show ads via DNS.
This already exists. It's called Content Security Policy. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
Cache coherence in Java 8
This sounds lovely. I don't have a shed or a garden, but I do have a balcony and a year-old avocado plant. I'll try it.
Speaker here. AMA.
The big other military advantage to roads is you may simply not have enough ships available to move the massive army you put together when you decide you've had just about enough of those pesky Gauls.
The agent should then ask for more information; not point me to a web search. In most cases, the authoritative answer is what I'm looking for and the question less likely to be this subjective.

The thing is Siri won't give me an answer either way.
If you like this, search for "worst phone number input", there's more in that genre :)
Author here.

Saying "why not simply observables" kinda glosses over a lot of details, but I'll try and answer as best as I can.

I've always found it a bit difficult to use Observables in application-style code, both in a conceptual sense (handling Redux actions as an observable stream) and in a practical sense (actually building and debugging streams and transformations over those streams). I do think they're excellent tools for dealing with cross-cutting concerns like logging, analytics, and debugging. But as I mentioned in the article, "business logic is inherently procedural, and expressing it as such makes our intent clearer." That's the major advantage, I think- being able to use simpler tools (e.g. loops and local variables) in a powerful new way.

And don't get me wrong, I'd love to learn RxJS properly one of these days. :) This article isn't about saying "well this approach is THE BEST APPROACH", it's more about saying "These tools turned out to be super helpful. Here's my thought process, maybe this approach will help you as well."
Here's a graphical comparison of downloads of popular json to csv conversion libraries -

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Someone please change the link to the appropriate reddit page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6evbfd/who...
After a while these start boiling down to "a difficult minigame where your score is also the volume setting".
You might want to read about urbit [https://www.urbit.org/]. I think it might be similar to your thinking.
For some reason I can't bring myself to consider a specific new attribute to be a "language-level feature", regardless of how much machinery it takes under the hood. To me, that's an API. :P
Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web
Also, what are your favorite books/resources about the history of Mathematics? Something with similar contents to this resource but perhaps connecting the different discoveries.
I don't mind ads, it's the tracking that I don't like.
I have a love hate relationship with oAuth, and I completely agree with you statement.
Ask HN: Advice for first-time angel investing
I'm seriously engaged with a founder and considering participate in his company's upcoming angel/seed round. Being really new to this (from an angel investor side), what advice would you give?
How does this affect YouTube, Twitch, Netflix?
How much do they pay you?
My biggest gripe with the "modern internet" is e-mail. MS and Google dominate the e-mail scene, and they are making it ever more unpleasant to run your own mailserver. They will frequently blackhole mails, without bounces, warnings or any recourse.

I'm not sure what can be done about that, but it's certainly becoming an up hill battle.