skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why an SRE? Did you mean to choose a job title that has an implied stability/reliability focus rather than a general software developer?

Counter point: If an indie game dev makes a non-aaa game that enthralls people, would that not be a contender for a game-of-the-whatever award?
Well it's a weird sort of problem because lots of knowledge is highly paradigmatic. In that within a certain paradigm it's true, outside of it is untrue or labelled as irrelevant. Like look at the paradigm of social justice, or conservative, or liberalism, communism, christian conservatives, ufo believers, russian nationalists, etc. Within each of these frames there are things that are true, which are absolutely false or at least somewhat false outside of them. The point here is that there was a paradigm that supported the status quo and generally worked that is now being challenged by fragmented paradigms that were before essentially censored or at least relegated as the political fringe which are now going more mainstream who are trying to assert dominance or at least relevance of their paradigm through what is termed fake news. This is bad news for those who run these systems because it means their power to control thoughts and force decisions, whether right or wrong, good or bad is diminished. Will it stay that or will they be able to reclaim their position? Remains to be seen. Also these fringe paradigms are being manipulated for power gains by players that before had no such ability such as Russia or China. Before such ability was only in the hands of the "good" guys.
In your example of child labor, it's arguably better for everyone if Virginia can produce cheaper goods. (Please don't think I'm in any way arguing for child labor.)

So is it arguably better for everyone or should there be protections for the children (who are presumably part of "everyone")?

I think if you immediately include a disclaimer about the children you probably don't believe there is much of an argument to be made.
And they have a chargeback process that works and protects the cardholder. And they won't be gone in five years.
Again, no Linux version.
Climeworks-Capturing CO2 from Air
I think we have to wait on that. Maybe both bitcoin and ethereum are still a bit on the wrong track, and better use cases will show up later on.
I don't use Swift or C++ much, but I have several years of experience in both Ruby and Python. The changes in Python might be a bit bigger, but the changes in Python 3 and Ruby 1.9 seem of roughly the same magnitude to me. Text encoding is now a problem you need to think about, some methods were removed, other methods were added, the output of some methods changed (e.g. the output of Array.to_s, the result of indexing a string), a few syntactic constructs changed (e.g. character literals used to return numbers, now return strings), and all C-based libraries broke in Ruby 1.9. In both cases, more than 99% of your code will probably be the same (unless your program is mostly print statements, I guess). What's more, Python took more pains than Ruby to ease the upgrade process, with stuff like __future__ imports, 2to3, and the six library. IIRC the Ruby team just changed stuff and said, "OK, update your code accordingly and we promise not to do this to you again for a long time."

It seems to me like the primary difference that made the Python upgrade worse is that the authors of the big libraries in Ruby were enthusiastic about moving to Ruby 1.9, so that it was possible to start porting most Ruby apps very soon after 1.9 released, while a few big Python library authors dragged their feet on even getting started. This was a very real problem, but it was essentially a cultural problem of the library landscape being very different, not a matter of the language itself being drastically different.
An extrasolar (if not extra-galactic) planet is a subplot in Becky Chambers' kickstarted[1] _The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet_[2], too.

1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beckychambers/the-long-...

2: http://www.tor.com/2015/08/14/excerpts-the-long-way-to-a-sma...
No I was not thank you for sharing :).
Python 3.0 was released on 2008-12-03.

It actually become usable somewhere around 3.2/3.3, released in 2011/2012.
I don't understand what's wrong about using this information against crime? It has such a low value when stolen (unless I'm missing something?) that I don't even have problem with doing it to every citizen.

When I was an expat in Brazil, the first thing Policia Federal did was to take my fingerprints - no problem with that. I imagine the same happens with immigrants in US and other countries.

Also I can imagine how difficult registering people who run from was is, surely there are cases with no documents, documents lost, abusive gangs registering people several times and claiming "borrowed cousins" as children they get more money for etc.
PDF export: can it create automatically cropped PDFs, e.g. for inclusion as bare figures in LaTeX?

Can it render PNGs at high qualities?
Tried all of these - as well as space :(
Frankly, though, I'd prefer no one ever used the "conventional language of probability", because it leads to precisely these miscommunications.

If the question had been phrased "Out of two-children families that have at least one boy born on Tuesday, what proportion have a girl? [on natural assumptions about lack of biases or correlations concerning the distribution of children's genders and days]", would you agree that the answer was 14/27?

That was the question the author intended to ask. The dispute may simply be as to whether the question which the author did ask is equivalent to the above; if that is indeed our only disagreement, we can still investigate that dispute further, if you like. But let's first see if the dispute is linguistic or mathematical.
4chan used to be anti-mainstream. During the bush years it was fairly liberal, and with Obama it became extremely conservative. Trump was seemingly able to break this trend by embracing them and their practices ("meme magic").
MapBox – Designing Moonlight: A New Custom Map
> diddled random neighbours ever-so-slightly closer to each other over a few million iterations

Isn't that gravitation?
actually they still could use google docs, as it keeps revision history for every document automatically.
Seems like a "Classpass-for-journalism" model to me. It's getting the content providers to agree that's the hard part.
The "Turbo Pascal Compiler Internals", is also a nice source for it, for an alternative view not C based.

Beware that the content is not related to the original Turbo Pascal.

http://turbopascal.org/linker

Or Oberon's dynamic linker based on strong typed packages, chapter 6 on http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Syste...
> because their proponents think:

Come on, you can't generalize things like that on a group such as cryptocurrency users. I think this generalization tells more about you than cryptocurrency proponents.
French-British action plan on internet security
Progressive web sites: a future that’s native to the web
That might actually be a good name for a rap group. Or maybe punk...

But: Nondeterministic Turing Machine? What? How can it be nondeterministic, and still be a Turing Machine? Aren't they pretty much deterministic by definition?
Yeah, this joke sums up just about every arbitrage situation I think I've found. I think, naw, it must be an illusion, because the market is so efficient...

Means I end up paralysed around starting new endeavours.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14550285.
Wish there was a way to ask people for clarification.

> https://www.demandrush.com/problems/fantasy-scifi-subscripti...

> I'd love a Netflix-style platform, website or app that, where I'd have a selection of high quality books to choose from.

Amazon has a 'unlimited book rental' subscription model (I know not all books are in there).

"What systems has this person already looked at, and why were they rejected?"

That probably needs to be a base question.
I'd assume because she was an SRE at Uber.
ISIS drones attacking US troops and disrupting airstrikes in Raqqa, officials say
There is an answer here: move slowly. Add a little bit of dense housing and show home owners that the price of their housing isn't affected. Continue to do so over many years to allow people who spent a lot of $$$ to get into the housing market to get out w/o losing a lot of investment. Rapid change is the big enemy and what people fear here -- and why liberals end up voting against very progressive policies...
Replay attacks are a big issue with 0-RTT.

Until they get resolved it is best to not support it as TLSv1.3 loses some of its security guarantees.
> You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to.

The games industry gladly takes advantage of this.
it's impossible for insurance to be anything other than a premium you pay on top of your healthcare costs.

And yet each year there are millions of people that receive medical services in excess of their insurance payments (including premiums, copays, etc).
I should have clarified that I eat the bones for their calcium content. Blended in a Vitamix, they are turned into unidentifiable particles. You are free to add other binders, of course.
I assume you've tried Inkscape?
Plain creepy. Also, does it produce a lot of traffic?
Reinforcement Learning: Going from AB Testing to AI
This argument sums up my recent thoughts on blockchains. Proofs of their trustlessness and eventual consistency rely on explicit assumptions (no cartels with >50% computation power, bounds on network partitions), but the underlying unstated assumption is that there is consensus about the protocol and its rules to begin with. We've seen this assumption break down with the block size debate and the DAO fork.

However, I don't think that this completely rules out their usefulness. Blockchains are more like "consensus abstractions" - if you have the underlying consensus (achieved through a governance model that can engender it), then it allows for uses like smart contracts that can efficiently work on top of it. The "trustless" property is also maintained - for example, even if a cryptocurrency is designed, issued and governed by a central bank, the fact that the network is decentralized and its integrity can be independently verified (even if it is centrally secured) still has some social benefit.
Something like a billboard is pure externality. It exists solely to influence the behaviour of a third party not involved in the transaction.

A TV or web ad isn't pure externality -- viewers benefit by getting the content for free or reduced cost. I suspect the billboard effect dominates, though. I'm sure some smart economist could figure out a way to measure that.
> But having to convert to pay taxes and debts is huge pain point for trying to conduct all your business in a foreign currency. It also adds transaction costs.

To some extent yes, but for any more serious business this really isn't a problem at all. I've been running a business that makes income in bitcoin only for 5 years now, and converting for taxes and accounting is quite trivial actually. Hardly any work is spent on those problems. You know, that kind of stuff is very trivial to automatize using those computers, unlike many other problems.
The Linux version (or, rather, "a Linux version") of the Drive app, first announced five years ago, has been Google's internal Duke Nukem Forever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3z0yft/why_does_goog...
but LaTeX can crop PDF images anyway
Not if you structure them properly.
Me too. The nutella jar is such an awkward and messy shape to get nutella out off, especially as it gets emptier and emptier. I would prefer it in a regular wide-mouth jar if that were available.

Even better, give me nutella in caulk gun form. No wastage, accuracy in application to your toast and you just need to wipe the nozzle to keep it clean. No knife or spoon to clean either. There are tons of condiments I would prefer in caulk gun form. For jams and jellies, there would be no excess air that result in spoilage from when bacteria and fungi get in the jar. Thicker jams with fruit chunks can just use a larger nozzle.
tl;dr:

- Name your app after a "well-known startup with the same name" which also owns the matching .com domain.

- Notice your users aren't able to find your product.

- Buy a .com domain for a fancy new name for $10,000 and rebrand your product.

- Next time just follow pg's advice from the beginning: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
TL'DR - some Uranium deposits have unnaturally low concentrations of Uranium U-235. There is proof in the footprint of the occurrence of fission products that this must be due to natural fission having taken place way in the past.
Email as Product Interface
Yes, PDF (and PNG) export are automatically cropped by default. You can export an arbitrary region of the drawing as well. You can also just export the objects that are currently selected, which is convenient for doing repeated exports of different pieces of your diagram.

The resolution of the output image in the case of PNG is something you can specify, so you can make it as large as you want.

edit: "render" -> "export"
Who said anything about senior devs?

If you're really hung up on whether 3 is the right number, I think you've entirely missed the point of my post. Adobe has far more people working on photoshop.
"zero tolerance"
People are passive consumers of media and are easily manipulated when given a story that jives with some general belief that they have. A great example of this effect is the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings.

Question 1:
Alex Jones, a talk show host who has a growing niche following, including the current President, pushed a narrative that despite the dead kids, identified shooter, etc this massacre of young children was a "false flag" hoax.

Details: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/13/here-exactly-wh...

Question 2:

According to a Newsmax poll, 24% of people surveyed believed that Sandy Hook was or may have possibly been a hoax. http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/752850?section=Poli...

Question 3:

This kind of malicious misinformation makes the weak minded dangerous and can influence policy.

Case in point: Parent of murdered Sandy Hook kindergartner threatened by nutjob from Florida. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/tampa-area-resident-ind...

Case in point: Gun advocacy groups get the benefit of angry anti-gun control people mobilized to push for concealed carry and even mandatory arming of school officials.

Other examples abound. The Gulf of Tonkin incident is a great example at the nation state level.

There's always a reason. In the case of Gulf of Tonkin, LBJ wanted to escalate the Vietnam Conflict. The the case of Alex Jones, he wants to undermine your faith in society to make you buy his vitamins. In the case of the "pizza gate" faux scandal, parties unknown wanted Clinton voters to stay home or vote Trump.
> They think in their head

I'm left wondering why this would be a problem.
Only insofar as a lot of 'news' reporting is really opinion in disguise. The who/what/when/where of the story shouldn't be changing and only the fact that so many organizations fail to link to, e.g., official court rulings when they discuss a decision, or to full video of political proceedings they quote from, allows for that kind of variance.

Think of Groklaw vs. normal legal coverage for example. One gave you every court document & context. The other brings on some random expert to give a few words and then starts printing reactions of random people on Twitter or whatever.
Couldn't you use pandoc to convert Word doc to a git friendlier format for comparison?
5MB pdf file. Just had to see if there was any more context to this:

>News management and opinion manipulation by itself is not necessary(sic) “evil”.

It's either evil every time or none of the time.
>Not only are they in the top 1000 websites in the world, but they have set a new traffic record every day of 2017, without exception.

For a "revolutionary" "disruptive" technology to have, after 8 years and tons of coverage and touting, its "top exchange" merely hit the top 1000 is not exactly something to write home about. There are sites even in the Top 200 - 500 that are totally irrelevant (the "power law" distribution of visitors falls quickly after the top 10-20 websites).

Now, take away developing world etc safe-keeping and money laundering motives, and add in some heightened regulations from national governments (when/if it gets to a size worthy to regulate properly), and adoption will get close to zero.
I don't. I think paying for firefighters should be voluntary. Either I pay for it individually, or as part of my neighborhood, or at some other level that's much closer to me.

If I don't want to protect against my house burning down, why should I pay for it? And before you go and say, "because your neighbor's house could burn down too", they could choose to pay for firefighters and have them come out to douse my house in defense of their own.
I agree that a stacked bar graph would be nice, since the focus is on the per-species total across all 8 tooth types.

Could you explain why a line graph is bad for a discrete but ordered variable,
like [Molars - Premolars - Canines - Incisors]?
5 years plus and counting. They just don't care.
PS CS6 runs well in WINE.
For a refresher on current UK legislation on security, and the regulation plans pledged by the Conservatives in their election manifesto, read here:

https://www.dontvoteconservativeuk.com/#security

In case you're wondering, yes, the site above has a highly partisan aim (I wrote it), but the information in the section linked above is factual. You can make up your own mind whether such regulation is either proportionate, needed, or effective.
Actually the person above specifically suggested it could also be mandatory, as this were an equally palatable option.

So it was mostly that suggestion that I was responding to. As to the negative tradeoffs in that option -- I think they're pretty obvious.

(Hint: we'd have to in effect force members of certain religious to at least formally disavow that aspect of their religion, for one).

As to opt-out, while of course different, it's still in the same (troublesome) territory as the 'mandatory' option -- definitely a major insult to people with strong personal or religious convictions about the issue. At the end of the day, it's inseparable from the idea that your body is, on a certain level, state property.

Which, aside from being repugnant to many people, is also in conflict with the emerging social consensus that, by and large, one's dominion over one's physical body is absolute and inviolable† -- which just so happens to form the legal and philosophical bedrock behind the idea that one should be free to choose to terminate a pregnancy; as well as (in the case of terminal illness, at least), the manner and timing one's own death; and of course, the manner in which one's body is disposed;

The same should naturally hold for the disposition of one's organs after death. We would never think of passing a law making, say, chemical dissolution the default disposal method for your body after death, unless you "opt-out" and choose some other method -- even though this is touted to have many environmental benefits. Nor would we think to propose that, by default, your body be served up for whatever experimental purposes the local university might have in mind (unless you "opt-out", that is). It'd just be way to repugnant to many people, and open up too many cans of worms ethically and legally.

So the organ donation issue is basically right in the same territory.

† Aside from proscriptions against controlled substances, of course. But that's just one of the many schizophrenic negative tradeoffs of that particular policy.
> In fact there are a lot more angles to information than a False/True boolean

There are lots of colors between "red" and "blue". The neural excitations and/or wavelengths of light we associate with those words may even vary from person to person [1]. Yet the terms are still helpful.

Demarcating continuous variables, even if the specific delineations are somewhat arbitrary, can be helpful.

[1] http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb05/hues.aspx
Please stop creating throwaways to violate the guidelines with. We ban the main account if this continues.

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Boss threatened staff with redundancy if they voted Labour
I would buy your software if it has template library comparable to Visio or at least Dia. Template library is the thing which defines productivity.
More like they pick it up and it turns out to be a 20 peso bill, because they've never seen pesos before and don't understand it's value.
You should really mention that your android version doesnt exist yet. There is not even an ETA available, just an email signup for 'updates'.
Not at all.

The customer benefit is that because the business is run more efficiently things can be priced cheaper. This gets passed down to the consumer and producer.

It's far more than escrow. It's a distributed business where many of the functions of the business are automated all enforced on the same blockchain.

Could be crazy - I'm not pitching this! I'm sure many people have better grasps of the potential and imaginations. But you clearly don't see how a company can be run more efficiently (but massive margins) with a distributed, partially anonymous structure where obligations and payments are guaranteed through the shared system.
Seems like they need debounce? Most JS utility libraries (lodash, etc) have a debounce function...
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I was about to say that that's not totally inappropriate for a chat service originally designed for gaming.

Then I remembered I was thinking of Discord, which to me is better than Slack at most of the things I use Slack for. So...yeah, that's a weird decision for Slack.
the built-in 3-way merge tool will do that... just set it up to be called from your favourite VCS.
I think the Russia angle is more from a generation perspective - obviously it's not just Russians reading them, that defeats the point, but someone has to write it and get the ball rolling on sharing them
I cannot imagine any cases where a general python 2 answer isn't applicable to python 3, with at most a minor change.

In my experience, the most you are doing is shifting around imports (urllib, for instance), declaring classes slightly differently, handling string encoding differently, or printing, format-ing, and raising exceptions slightly differently (and in a more sensible syntax for all, imo).

On the contrary, there are new modules that you are missing out on and you will regularly run into "it's in the stdlib" answers that are not applicable to you.
"hex" and "base64" are still available via the codecs module:

>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.encode(b'eggs', 'hex')
b'65676773'
>>> codecs.encode(b'eggs', 'base64')
b'ZWdncw==\n'
So, you see, I know a bit about writing efficient code. I have held a firm belief, and still do, that if you're doing heavy lifting in CPython, you're doing it wrong, and better parallelism will not significantly help you.
thus, python did jump the shark.

The biggest thing that python _needs_ is proper multithreading.

The rest is nice noise.
Apparently several other messaging apps behave similarly, from the replies in that tweet there were mentions of Facebook Messenger[0] and Telegram[1].

[0]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCRsz7mXUAAEbKK.jpg
[1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCSyWs0XcAAQb2N.jpg
Pardon me for being a pedant, but what is the meaning of the word "instantly" in the headline? As in very easy to get started? I was sort of hoping Vexilo had invented a brain-PC interface.