skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I've learned from making Youtube tutorials is that you need to have a deeper knowledge to actually teach something. The point at which I study a topic and have it "click in my head" comes way before I can actually manage to "explain it back clearly". As I'm writing the script for the tutorial I often realize there's a gap in my understanding that I have to go back and work on.

The old saying "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" applies here I think. :)
People who claim BTC is the next mainstream currency are delusional. Its an investment commodity right now, and its way too volatile, way too little regulated and capped too low to be a serious currency contender. Seriously, the real world does not work that way, and thats not necessarily a bad thing. This goes especially for the whole decentralized and uncontrolled/unregulated part - I see it as bad thing, a lot of the regulations are in place to avoid anarchy and protect the consumers (admittedly there are also regulations that totally screw the consumer in some cases).
Are you suggesting that when you look you can see every detail? Because that's not how the quantum bug works.
Just signed up. I really love this idea. Keep up the great work! UX is very good. Feels like Duolingo for programming languages.
Thanks! How many ideas do you have in ideas.txt. How often do you read them?
You mean the most controversial.
I found a fiver not to long ago...
It was a random attractive function that did not even apply an inverse square law.
That is entirely unrelated to a decentralized or centralized design. One could build a centralized CC network where we don't need to transmit credentials to third parties in order to make purchases.
While it's true that jQuery is unnecessary, why does it matter? For one this is just a simple example to show off something cool that's possible that many people wouldn't initially think would be, I highly doubt that this is meant to be used seriously but more importantly it re-writes the entire page once the passphrase is found which overrides the jquery dependency and all other dependencies.

Why do people like to complain so much?
Probably because there was a lot less Swift code than Python in the wild at the respective times each came out with the new version, so having everyone upgrade all the old, incompatible code was less daunting.
She should be recognized for the work she did, but awarding the pulitzer to this is a reach.

I see this as a media-train hop. If this same situation had happened in a multibillion-dollar financial company that didn't have as many subsequent PR issues, would we be praising her as high?

I'm not trying to take any thing away from her. I want Uber to crash and burn and be forgotten. I want her to receive as much as possible in terms of justice. What I DON'T want is for this to be spun into click-bait PR for the pulitzer, and tangentially - Uber. What about the millions of women who get harassed daily but work for less "important" companies? Shouldn't they be considered potential pulitzer winners for their blog posts and facebook statuses?

The only reason anybody cares is because Uber is A Big Name. This will not change her life for the better. Uber will continue doing as it has been doing. The issue will not be solved. But these articles will get clicked on.
excellent suggestion. OP, please include this feature.
Well, not all developers. The first thing I do on systemd Linux systems is install rsyslogd and runit. We run our own services under runit which is started by systemd (because that's what the distro ships with). Runit works flawlessly.
+1 any article about "fake news" that doesn't mention these multimillion dollar propaganda machines is itself fake news.
It looks to me that you are spreading unnecessary confusion. Let me give you two scenarios:

(1) I go to a marketplace and buy a service to plant a news story. Assume that the title of the story is "oceanplexian is part of DC pizza scandal". This story is posted on their affiliate websites, by bots on Twitter/Facebook, it is even reported on your local TV as "rumors emerge about oceanplexian (with a healthy dose of nuance, skepticism, logic)". This is certainly fake news, right? (I hope so!)

(2) In the second scenario, imagine if two of your coworkers contact a journalist with information that "oceanplexian is making bombs at home". Then the journalist finds out that you are buying fertilizers even though you live in a multi-story building. The police refuse to comment. Then a news story is published with the title of "suspicious behavior by oceanplexian". Later it turned out that you had joked to your friends about making bombs and the fertilizers were for your science experiments. So this was a false story, the people involved in spreading this story apologize and move on.

Also, the meaning of words depends on context and the context changes with time. There is a current meaning of fake news. And we can easily classify many fake news stories with 100% certainty as fake. I do not know how muddying the water with Iraq War, Y2K, etc. helps in the discussion about fake news in the current context.
They can't? How do they force everyone to pay state/local taxes? I doubt states would find it difficult to enforce participation.

On "unbridled state to state migration", I already covered that. Maryland would have to face the real cost of providing universal healthcare, and residents would have to decide whether it's still worth it to live there. Many sick people would decide that it's not, and choose to stay put in Virginia.

And if it truly wouldn't work, then it begs the question: Does it really work on the federal level? Why are costs skyrocketing and providers leaving exchanges?
Well yes that's true. But you don't have to agree with what the court ruled, I was not trying to argue against your point... but in the real world many things in the real world are not about interpreting an agreed upon authorities decisions otherwise you are in that paradigm. Like for instance in this case you are a person operating in the paradigm of the law.
Uber faces a fresh probe from U.S. regulators over its privacy practices
Yes, the Canary branch of Chrome uses a separate profile by default. Stable, Beta, and Dev all use the same default profile on Windows. You can run them with a command line option in the form --user-data-dir="C:\MyCustom\PathToMy\profile" to get them to use a specific profile, but they will still step on each other a bit in the registry within HKCU\Software\Google. The portable launchers for Google Chrome Portable's various channels will take care of any registry weirdness.
Don't like someone at work? Pretend to be them on LinkedIn and send someone nekked pictures. Problem Solved!
But if you're able to measure a problem, that means you've identified a violation of your zero tolerance policy. Which begs the question, why is your measurement more effective at finding the problem than the enforcers of the policy?

If you're not half-assing your zero tolerance policy, measuring it is immaterial. Find an offender, fire them. The number of firings in hindsight isn't a factor towards your future, since those people are gone. There's not a meaningful measurement that you can make, because after you fire someone, they don't impact your numbers anymore. You assume the problem is ongoing and will continue to be ongoing, you immediately and harshly deal with the problem when you encounter it, and you move on to finding more problems. There is no gray area.
I wonder if anyone has ever thought of a law that would allow for large corporations to repatriate some of their overseas dollars tax-free, or defer corporate taxes they'd otherwise have to pay, provided they went toward altruistic purposes, where one of those altruistic purposes could be contribution to broadly used open source libraries.

Obviously a lot more of the details would need to be worked out to try and minimize how much companies try and game that to simply fund their own research tax-free, but I wonder if the type of behavior you're looking for could be economically incentivized given the right corporate tax legal reforms.
Wired is a pop science magazine for teenagers.
The Sokal Affair was 20 years ago.
Plenty, outside of the usual suspect locations (SF, NY). A six figure salary for devs, senior or otherwise, is unusual outside those areas. It's not unheard of, but it's not typical, either.
Did you all know that chrome does this too? May sound obvious but I always had assumed that nothing is sent until you press enter for some reason (yeah I know, search prediction would be impossible without that). But one day I was type in a path on a test URL and noticing my server getting hit on - every single letter.
At Standard Chartered our in-house Haskell dialect did a tiny bit of that: it distinguishes between ReadIO and general IO. ReadIO is meant to be idempotent operations only.
The lines make it easier for the eye to track from one point to the next of the same series.

They also make it easy to visually compare different wear patterns for different species, especially as the teeth are sorted back-to-front. For instance, on the mandible chart, the lines make it very easy to see that the teal, red, and blue lines have similar patterns.
> Government statisticians take a very big effort to exclude a lion share of basic living necessities out of CPI calculation

No, they don't.

Now, policy makers and media often highlight, and some programs are based on, the “core” CPI which excludes food and energy [0], rather than the full CPI, but since the data is collected by sector anyway, it's virtually zero additional effort to calculate the core CPI in addition to the full CPI; they are just two different aggregates drawn from the same base data.

The full CPI doesn't exclude “a lion share of basic living necessities” (it excludes taxes unrelated to consumer goods purchases, and that's about it.) [1]

[0] in principal, because of high short-term volatility of those components.

[1] https://stats.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm#Question_13
The picture of the seed bags in the article is captioned
> The drone-dropped seeds wrapped in balls of manure and soil
which I imagine would mitigate against rodents etc.?
get a sense of people's motives and desires first. will they value friendship or $ when the time comes. Its strange that it is possible to have both, but the allure of more $ changes people.
'Banter' FFS. Sounds like a great place to work.
Because you might need to work with the team at some point to help each other solve a problem.
I've stopped reading Forbes articles because of it. I have no problem with sites monetizing their valuable content (I subscribe to the WSJ and FT because I generally value their product), but the in-your-face "you may not proceed" approach employed by Forbes really irks me for some reason.
When you say 'requirements' what exactly is he handing over? I've built out a front-end interactive prototype using just HTML, CSS and a little bit of javascript when facing this issue. This forces my end-user to have something to touch/feel before coding out the back-end. It saves me time and it also forces the end user to start to really think through how their idea will work in the real world.
I think part of the issue is people fail to carefully distinguish between physics and interpretations. Interpretations are actually more philosophy than physics. The physics can be experimentally demonstrated to be correct. The interpretations are essentially untestable.

A lot of people make statements which assume the truth of some particular interpretation of quantum physics, without realising that it is just one of many. Many advocates of "quantum mysticism" are adopting the von Neumann-Wigner interpretation ("consciousness causes collapse"), and they often misidentify that as "Copenhagen" even though it isn't. But on the other hand, many of their detractors are committing a similar error, and presuming Copenhagen or many worlds as if it was the actual physics as opposed to just one of many competing philosophical interpretations of it.
> They could proxy external link requests via whatsapp servers without breaking end to end encryption.

What good is E2E if you are going to send the plaintext home anyway? Doing these requests on the device is stupid, but proxying them through FB servers would border on malicious.
It also can't possibly be true. You don't have to be employed to be on linkedin, ergo it cannot be the extension of a workplace under all circumstances.
It's very unclear from the article. LinkedIn does have various services for companies but, in the context of this article, it's not at all obvious that this is something equivalent to a company's twitter handle.

While I certainly think of LinkedIn as largely a professional thing (and would never send these sorts of messages regardless), some of the discussion further down in the story seems off-base. At some level, I'm associated with my company in all non-anonymous or pseudonymous social media but beyond that level I'm not sure why LinkedIn would have some special status because LinkedIn likes to position itself for professional networking.
As I read the title my first thought was "Huh? htaccess?"
Author here. Philosophically, Syberia can be thought of as an extension of caret with hopefully clearer abstractions in large projects. In particular, all of the packages supported by caret can and will eventually be parametrized into the modeling engine.

This is the 0.6 release in which we make the scaffold available. Over time, we will fill in the pieces that are currently provided by other tools like caret or Bernd Bischl's mlr.
The ratio is way off from what you would use in Mayo ( Mayonnaise is 1 part water to 16 parts oil, cornell BBQ is 2 parts water to 1 part oil ), but its along the same lines, which is why you want to get a good emulsion. There is a slight variation called roadside chicken that doesn't use the egg to emulsify so for that I always use a blender or food processor to get as much of a mixture as I can.
crypto-js has PBKDF2 functionality. What part of it this did you find wrong? Preferably not a guess, but something more concrete that can be informative for other readers. For example, could you provide some insight on why the two libraries that you link to better for this use case?
I think giving the SRE title to a journalist who learnt to code and built something interesting is not the right analogy. It would be more like giving them the Turing award.
because my experiences with 'that' have been the worst of my life.
Good thing the paradox of tolerance has been solved for over a century! Now if only we could get the message out to people like you that seem to delight in ignoring centuries of philosophical discussion on this topic.
It's really about double jeopardy. For a second put yourself behind the veil of ignorance. You are prebirth, you have no control over any factor of your birth other than one. That factor is that you get to pick whether you are born into a country with universal healthcare or one with non-mandated insurance where companies are able to discriminate on pre-existing conditions. Anyone who is risk averse is going to pick the universal healthcare one, otherwise you are risking a life where you are both sick but also bankrupted by medical costs.

That some people in society look at the circumstances of their birth and post-hoc reason that they don't want universal healthcare because it wouldn't have benefitted them is not the point really.
The Bla Language (1995)
Just curious, if you've weeded them out at around 5 mins, why does it take 45-60 mins?

Also, could you possibly just do an initial phone/Skype interview to save time in that case?
As a counterexample, there's ROS (Robot Operating System, which is not an OS actually but a middleware plus a lot of libraries), and it still doesn't support Py3 officially. There is some support in fact, but you probably don't want to have even more potential problems with ROS for not that big of a benefit.
Having a high signal-to-noise ratio is (obviously) also critical to communicating successfully about code / technical issues. Talking for the sake of talking or waxing poetic about the understood 5% of the problem at the expense of the 95% remainder is a negative signal too.
The day trader who picked up the $20, ecstatic from his arbitrage win, puts down on the ground a $100 hoping for larger gains.
The Forbes article references the article with this useless link: http://www.linkedin.com/today/

Here is the correct link: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
State Drift Detection Using Terraform
Did you start out the conversation with genital photos? Because I keep hearing about guys who do that, and it's just never made sense to me...
I've read that it's not impossible. You can't make something work with 100% accuracy, but that is not needed for this purpose. If you're going to reply there are no genetic racial differences, then consider sickle cell anemia and differences in alcohol metabolism.
I can't speak for the site, but I think the idea is that you sort of get this continuous funding to keep working on and improving your solution. (Makes it kind of different from bug-bounty type approaches, which I like.)
Do you find the Dia templates usable? Every time I use it I end up banging my head against the wall trying to use their symbols until I just give up and make my own.
Trustless isn't the only option. https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...

The reason I believe in our model for consensus is that it more closely resembles trust in the real world. We're more explicit than meatspace, which could be a drawback, but I think it's a better model than trustless.

Disclosure: I work for stellar.org
I don't know if the following is what the GP meant, but:

I've often had the pain of dealing with people who try to do it all in their head. Sure, one or two are good enough where it's not a problem. The rest of them? They keep getting confused and making mistakes. For things that are not very complex. If they had only written it out or drawn on paper/board, they would not get confused.

It's most obvious when I try explaining some code's algorithm to them. They'll begin with understanding, and then 70% of the way through they'll keep getting confused because they couldn't hold it all in their head.

I've often had to tell these people "Don't try to do it in your head!"
So Canada is not a democracy because it bans False advertising and the UK is not a Democracy because it has strong Libel Laws?

Perhaps you are omitting some checks or balances. In both countries one group makes the laws and another interprets them. Both are the "government" and nominally the same group but are put in power different ways, held to different standards of accountability and often controlled by opposing political parties.
Wow... I am amazed that this is where you "immediately" thought to go...

My brain has been on a Tom Clancy "evil plot" kick.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14361500

Just remembered: A long time ago, I imagined a "magical realism/sci-fi" fantasy-textured story with a "race" analogous to the fae folk or the "Children of the Forest" from GoT, but instead of disappearing into hills, they disappeared into impassable hedges. These weren't impassable due to magic, however. Instead, the hedges were suffused with plants similar to Poison Oak, and the natives of the land had simply developed an immunity to it.
I don't think that's effective, I don't do it. Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam did some analysis which would suggest that dick pics are not effective, given that imagery of penises (and visual stimulus in general) is not a major factor in female arousal. From a personal "moral" perspective I don't see myself doing that.

Excellent question nonetheless. Nobody really seems to think much when they do things like this.

I think the reason men* send dick pics is because they (the men) are naturally aroused by imagery of penises, and think that women will be similarly aroused by it. It's probably a lot like a women giving complimenting a man on social stature, confidence, or competence, and maybe not understanding that he probably won't understand what she's getting at.

* Edit: referring to straight men in this case
> IDEs generate 90% of my Java code;

It's not generating code that is costly, but reading it. Understanding 100 lines of code is usually easier than understanding 1000 lines of code, understanding 1000 lines of code is usually easier than understanding 10000 lines of code etc.

So generally it pays of to keep codebase small and simple.
I specifically came to this story looking for The Wire reference. Loved that show.
It's a cute achievement, but the only reason Microsoft could set the Atari Ms Pac Man record is because no one else cared enough about that game to write an AI for it.
Must be incredibly frustrating for you. Forbes is a prestigious outlet, a place where you should be proud to publish your work... yet they go out of their way to make it a huge hassle to read it.

I wish you had other options. :(
Verizon is the same way. 5 characters.
Yes, I did know that. The difference is WhatsApp is selling encrypted-onboard privacy. Which is now, prima facie, a lie.

Facebook has literally told courts they can't decrypt WhatApp traffic. I wonder if that court case in Brazil is still pending.

By comparison, no one ever said "There's no way Google could read my search terms".

A more accurate comparison would be regarding Allo.
> If by happy accident or by masterplan design I don't think any other person could have done that.

Let me give you some insight that you might be unaware of. When the iPhone was announced, there were a few offices in Nokia where people were crying more than they would at their relatives' funerals. You know why? Because they had that exact technology and prototypes similar to the iPhone, except that the Nokia execs didn't believe something like that would succeed, for multiple (and seemingly valid) reasons. Since Apple didn't really have much to lose they launched the iPhone, a phone that despite being initially inferior to other phones (multiple reasons which I'm not going to get into) managed to get a huge market share eventually (never underestimate people's desire to show off fancy new trinkets; I think it's called fashion).

Anyway, arguably one of the biggest reasons for iPhone's success were the apps. Now, this isn't mentioned often because it risks spoiling a nice fantasy, but did you know that Jobs was actually against the concept of developer-written apps, as the ones that you find in the App Store? Yeah, there were some people who came up with the idea and had to work very hard to convince the "visionary" that this would be indeed a game-changer. He reluctantly had to concede, because in the end money is better than ego.

So yeah, judging by everything that I read, and by the fact that I don't go building shrines to any person associated to with a successful project, leads me to believe that the Jobs success story was a simple accident. Simple example - look at the huge market share that Mac's have. Oh wait, that's right; they don't. And not for lack of trying, also. Jobs lucked out with the iPhone, just as he lucked out when he bumped into Wozniak and managed to somehow be in charge without actually putting in too much work. Actually, dodging work without being caught was probably one of his most developed features (I know, fanboys will say it's a good thing; sure it's good, if you're a parasite feeding off other people's work).

I know a lot of Americans believe in the American dream and that if they work as hard and are brilliant as Steve Jobs, they too could be successful like him. Heh. Funny.
Fair enough, although it would be easy to have an alternative prelude with linear types that libraries could depend on. Just that the extra dependency would really suck.

Haven't sunk a lot of time into it yet to be honest, I think the biggest beneficiaries will be streaming libraries and non-gced data structures like long lived queues?
Author here ... Thanks for the catch. I just repaired the article link so that it works, too.