skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dearly hope that they restore advanced search options and access to all search-matches. It's currently a nightmarish Playskool version of yesterday's Google News, suitable for ages 6-12. I like to search for specific topics in time buckets, e.g. "wind power" in the past day or "spectroscopy" in the past week. Maybe even search between specific user-specified dates if I'm diving into the history of a complex topic. Now I can't specify the time range and can't see all matching results even for the search terms I turn into a dedicated section. It's as limited and frustrating as Google News on Android.

They've also hidden the snippet text that let me quickly judge whether or not I wanted to click through to a full article. Presumably that's to protect themselves against European copyright disputes, but it's a big step backward for users.

I'm trying Bing News for the first time today. It still has snippets and time ranges, but also lets me see only a small fraction of the stories that match my search criteria. Yahoo News apparently doesn't permit time based searches at all. What other products best fill this Google News-shaped void for news power-searchers?

EDIT: for now I can get the old, powerful Google News by initiating a regular Google search and then clicking over to the News tab. But I wouldn't count on this escape hatch remaining much longer :-(
I expose myself to the creative works of others. Reading, museums [art, history, armories, scientific//technological...], talking with or listening to others about their hobbies [building arcade machines, older cars...], going to conventions where I shall encounter cosplay [and I bring my camera and subsequently ask permission to click], and like this.

I myself create, be it a dribble-out or starburst of output depending on the tides. I went through a lamp phase two years ago; last year, I went through a clock phase; 3-4 years ago I went through a sculpture // 3D-scenery type phase. I tend to do this by coming across debris and considering how I can turn that into something I wouldn't want to throw away. Probably a hand-me-down from my Depression Era grandparents, but I'll take it.

I make effort to keep my imagination alive, even if on only life support. Many years ago I started writing short stories to put threads in my head out onto paper. I'm not very good, and my genres have shifted as they are want to do, but I do it. Certain circles think me a writer more than anything else, which I can't blame them for, but I know better yet still do it.

I've been in and out of photography over the decades [sweet jesus, I'm halfway through my life already], and am currently in and In Phase [in part thanks to my current job where by day I take pictures for money and by night I take pictures for myself]. I find myself in a place, oh hey this is a cool angle, click. I see something different or mundane, click. I turn to the right and see something cinematically cliche but pix or it didn't happen and it's lost like tears in rain, click. I then go to my extortion-priced URL and upload what's not the worst.

I explore. This might port into your "curiosity" angle, e.g. "I've not been down this side street" or "I've always wondered what this empty courtyard was about". "Say 'yes' to Life" as a certain recent sequel proclaimed. Repeat until dead.

I remind myself that I have no excuse to be bored. I then allow myself to be bored and do boring things.

You mention Risk. Sure, there can be risk. But how big does something have to be in order to register as Creative? The things I create, make, build, your thesaurus here... I die and nobody but the guy cleaning out the overpriced apartment will care. I was still creative, and it didn't matter to The World. You know what did matter? How my creativity rippled through the rest of my life -- e.g. into my work, my relationships, my enjoyment of life, and so forth.

TLDR: I keep the fire alive via various avenues I find fits my life and personality.
It may be (and I don't know) that a large group of people abstain from porn altogether.

So the preference of people who visit Porn Hub may be just that and it isn't accurate to extrapolate this to society at large.

The percentage of people liking "disgusting" porn for example may be higher among the group of people who habitually view porn. So I'm not sure it's fair to say that this desire translates into the general population.
What source do you have for "most porn is consumed as a substitute for sex with a partner?" That seems like a pretty big assertion and I'm inclined to disagree, but I'd like to hear your argument/reasoning/sources.
> These "rent-seeking" restrictions are a regressive tax transferring income from renters to wealthy landlords including Donald Trump.

Out of the millions of property owners in the US who benefit from artificially propped-up real estate prices, you chose to single out this individual why?
This has nothing to do with the travel ban, but it is about the author of curl. (Though referring to Daniel as a "Mozilla employee" is, I don't know, demeaning almost.)

https://daniel.haxx.se/
Politically, this might be a good idea.

Pragmatically, this has problems of its own. Most sufficiently large tech companies have a number of employees at any given time who may legally reside and work in the US, but cannot legally leave it and return. This is a common stage in the H1B -> Green Card transition process.
I think alcohol is a pretty horrible drug so I try to minimize my intake, but I know a fair few people who reach this without any behaviors that seem out of the ordinary. 6-8 drinks on a Friday night (this is about what I'd drink back when I used to go to bars), and then one or two drinks scattered across the rest of the evening: beer/wine with dinner or scorch afterwards or a mimosa or two with brunch. Especially when you take into account that a bottle of 6-8% beer is quite a bit more than a single standard drink.

That only involves "getting drunk" once a week, which I think a lot of people consider pretty moderate.
Originally CPLDs used arrays of PLDs/PLAs which use a wide network of programmable AND-OR gates to implement logic equations with relatively sparse routing resources between logic elements. FPGAs will use a more fine grained element for implementing logic (SRAM LUTs or small clusters of muxes) with denser routing resources.

That distinction is a bit blurred nowadays because Altera has "CPLD" products that are using conventional FPGA architecture equivalent to what was state of the art for FPGAs 25 years ago.
FWIW sticky headers are completely doable in pure HTML/CSS.

.header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
background: goldenrod;
}
Why not just air-drop a shipment of Soylent directly into my mouth? My smart-watch could vibrate when it's time to look directly upwards with my jaw agape.
Quite possible there's some Scandinavian criminal that happens to have the same name, for example.
Why would someone use ClojureScript instead of this? Unless they're a Clojure expert.
I'm 36 and learning how to be a real programmer. Was a Linux Admin, and an architect for my career. Did presales, and became an expert at a lot of different roles within the field.

Never was truly a developer, and decided I wanted to accept a job as one. I've programmed in the past, how hard can it be?

Wow, it's been enlightening. Really hard. I thought it would be straight forward since I've used scripted quite a bit in perl in my past, but being a developer is much more than writing a few scripts to automate a task.

I'm a few months in now, and I am still slower than all my colleagues by quite a bit, and the main language I'm working in has changed already, moved from Python to Go.

Even right now, I'm stuck on an issue around pointers and data structures that feels like it should be easy, and I'm just not getting it.

All you can do is keep confidence up, and keep at it. Immersing in it, and knowing that irrational levels of effort will lead to results.

I thought it would be easier though :)
He left apple. He didn't fit in. There's an interview about it on a podcast
I did preface it with "As I understand it." If you have a study or something that says otherwise, feel free to link it. That is my general impression as a human being who reads stuff online and talks to people and has had a sex life.

(Edit: And spent 3.5 years in therapy for childhood sexual abuse and read a TON of books and articles on the subject because of it and, thus, tends to attract weird conversations from all kinds of people of various genders, sexual orientations, etc.)
How much would these people lose out? Let's say they bought property there during a boom, and now face having to give it up at a huge discount (if they're even able to sell), before buying in a more expensive regional centre or big city.

With time, the situation only gets worse - their property price is driven down as the demand drops, they can't justify renovating, house falls into disrepair, etc.

If the settlements are disparate, rail links would be too expensive, and are there enough remote jobs that people in these situations could be trained for?
I've installed it recently but some sites are hard. For example, I'd block YouTube in the blink of an eye, but what if I really need to look up a video tutorial or something in the middle of a work session?
It lets you define types for more safely interacting with other Javascript code. It doesn't magically make browsers have consistent behavior.
It's related in that it's just another example of how restrictive we've become since 9/11. Not only was he rejected, but without any given reason. The secrecy itself is enough to question whether he would have been rejected if it were still the Obama administration.
Ask HN: Do you rent your modem from the ISP?
I do. I just never got around to getting a different one. Anyone else?
And mine!
What Project Kennedy tried to do and wasn't allowed to once the pitchforks came out, Material Design has successfully accomplished. I spent ten minutes trying to find the setting for a compact layout (like the Kennedy versions of Gmail and News eventually supported). Ugh.
I feel like we're in a similar position in Australia. Ruling party is over-reliant on coal when we are in a great position to go in harder on renewables, especially solar. Our solar-pickup is amazing, you see panels on so many houses, and we have loads of space and sunlight.
To be fair, "whatever the browser gives up" more than enough to reliably identify people.
Instead you get to pip install. But pip isn't installed. easy-install pip? What's easy-install - it's not there? (brew|yum|apt-get) disttools. Forget this... download get_pip.py, run python get_pip.py... Some error about libsodium now? Where do I get gcc for Windows 10 again?

Python's greatest weakness is its packaging and distribution, and this project makes no effort to make it simple.
Reminds me of a bookmark I made for work to override a JavaScript function that clears a form. So test input on our live site will stay in a form and we can stop typing it in over and over. the nice thing about the web is being able to manipulate the front.
I would like to highlight the quality of the satire in your comment.
Wonder if they manage to disable the UK's Trident Nuclear Submarine this time.

"Windows for Warship"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System

"Want to Nuke someone, please send Bitcoin to unlock the systems."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/27/hms_queen_elizabeth...
Is there a good idiots guide to understanding FPGAs and how to develop for them? I have a CS background (so I've read both Hennessy & Paterson books) but don't know FPGAs nor have an EE background.

Reading about FPGAs always confuses me, from the perspective of someone who thinks as a normal SW developer. Like where does the FPGA begin execution, etc...

TIA
I think this Ethereum mining craze is silly…so I’m going to try it out
That's interesting, I wish I ended the book with that type of optimism. It was a bit disheartening to hear about the many failed starts and the slow down of progress.

But that said it wasn't totally lacking optimism. It was more of the hard reality of how challenging the problem will be to solve.

I still follow the development of it and there is definitely incremental progress.

Thanks for think about MIT's work, that's interesting.
I'm 36 and already feel "old" and unfit to continue pursuing a career as a software developer, which I consider(ed?) my dream job. I began programming at ~20 yo but had to work in another barely related field (still in IT) because where I live it's more profitable as a lone ranger. It's difficult to find peers in my area.

I work as an independent consultant wearing many hats, doing all kind of weird network related jobs for small cable operators and small/medium businesses in a shitty country in south america. This includes devops tasks, planning data networks with structured cabling, fiber optics, setting up and maintaining servers, routers, switches and a bunch of appliances that I didn't even know they existed a few years ago (all that ugly shit in HFC networks). I hate my job and feel very unhappy and depressed. I'm on meds, many visits to psychiatrist lately.

All these years I kept learning all I can. I'm an avid *nix user, can program in a few languages and have read more about programming languages, libraries, frameworks, etc. that any other subject that I can think of. I dropped out of university only a few years from getting a degree but continued spending my free time learning about software development just because I like it. I enjoyed many detours with many technologies, loved learning Java, C++/Qt, Python, Go, Perl, etc. I spent too much time and money in books, online courses, software licenses, etc that I feel failed and guilty.
As student trying to make sense of job space and prospects, there's just too many statements that gets posted on the internet that seems to contradict each other.
Erm, it seems you haven't been paying attention. This is the second AV fiasco in the last two days.
Ok I upgraded toolbar from 1.7 to 1.8 and problem is gone :)

There are a number of toolbar bugs at https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar/issues/943 involving keywords "slow" and "hang", not sure which it was.

But the meta-issue is, the profiling tools I used were not super helpful in discovering what the issue was.
https://github.com/david-cako/flac-phobic

Biggest timesaver in the world for someone who listens to as much music as I do and doesn't want to deal with manually transcoding FLAC files.

iTunes and Apple Music will soon support FLAC natively, though -- previously it was out of necessity, space, and not wanting to use VLC and lose my main/single use of my Apple Watch. It's still about the latter two.

I recently also set it to output a manifest that I can feed into rsync on my work computer to pull my library from my backup server.
This is why I like the SIMT model used in CUDA and OpenCL. Just give me a unified programming model for both SIMD vectors and multicore. Let me program each ALU as a separate thread. This requires CPU makers to wake up and give us branching intrinsics that work like in GPGPU: Just let the branched out ALUs sleep / do no-ops. As far as I understand Intel has done that with AVX-512 for KNL. This should be advertised much more. IMO one of the biggest mistakes with KNC was to only push OpenMP and neglect OpenCL. The promise of getting good performance by just recompiling OpenMP multicore code to KNC was snake oil - you have to rewrite all the vectorization in order to even get close to GPUs of the same generation, let alone GPUs released in subsequent years when Intel's production pipeline was stalled.
What happens when your transit server's bandwidth bill gets out of hand because someone is transferring a few TB of data to their backup host? (see article a few days back about someone griping about their 13 TB backups on Backblaze if you aren't sure this is a real thing)
No. I've always owned.
Akamai: The state of online retail performance [pdf]
Well one answer would be for the government to give up its stranglehold on running schools and leave them to the private sector.
Not to be rude, but that sounds like a horrible introduction to a language for a beginner.

If you're intermediate and want to gain more insights sure. But if you don't even know the syntax it seems like an extremely inefficient way of learning any language.
I'm getting older and I have poor eyesight. The information density of the old design was a huge distraction for me, making it very difficult to actually read the news.

Whitespace can be incredibly helpful for readability.
> "Stephens-Davidowitz’s data suggests that there are more gay men in the closet than we think..."

> "...that a lot of straight women watch lesbian porn"

Why not a lot straight men that watch gay porn, and more lesbian woman in the closet than you would think?

Or just people who are hyper-sexual?

I'd be interested in understanding the methods used to determine the difference between homosexuality and hyper-sexuality, and simply curious.

But I feel that both of those original statements evoke certain stereotypes, which makes me wonder what biases were applied to the study.
> I bet you're a load of fun. Yes, we know that alcohol is generally not great, but that doesn't mean there's no value in quantifying what "not great means". What was the point of your comment exactly? You sound like a bitter old man who never got invited to parties.

so you attack the person when you have nothing to say, eh? and no, we don't know, hence the discussion. contribute or move along.
Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies and the New Decentralized Economy: Part 1
I think a service with a restricted, simple menu could hit the $6-8 pricepoint for regular pre-orders, and that would be enough to get many people over the line. If you further sold them a larger order giving enough for lunch the next day, you could get more value out of the delivery cost.
I really do dislike it when tools start "simplifying" at the expense of their most invested users. While that cohort isn't always the most vocal, they're generally the most stable userbase. It really doesn't feel like that additional risk of abandonment is accounted for in the multi-armed bandit testing.
very high medical costs are substantially reduced by giving them stable housing

Do you know of any study that documents such an effect?
Security updates for all active release lines, July 2017
The problem isn't the mistakes, the problem is the kafkaesque process. Decisions are made that affect an individual, but the individual has no chance to correct mistaken assumptions about them in the decision making process.
Introducing the Qubes Admin API
A lack of professionalism owns this. In other industries engineers can overrule management and have legal protection when doing so.
Are you talking about quality food or quality, personalised food? At a pricepoint, I think you could definitely manage the former. I think the latter is less common and is best left to premium services or home cooks more often than not.
Hadn't noticed up until now that getting near the plane engines during boarding isnt all that difficult.

Would this call for more regulations?
hard to give you one source, but /r/cooking, /r/mealprep led to some interesting discoveries.
On the mac, you can:

brew install magic-wormhole [1]

And that covers 90% of the people that care. Granted I think you're right that software packaging and distribution is still generally broken in 2017, but that's a problem across the board. It's a problem with java, node.js, python, etc.

[1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
I prefer uniformly spin-aligned electrons.
Even earlier: I implemented a Statistical Multiplexor - 8 async serial users muxed over a single 9600 Bd synchronous line - on a Z-80 with 4K RAM and 4K ROM. In 1977. Garunteed correct data delivery over lines as noisy as 1x10^3 BERT. A datacomms protocol that can do that is not a trivial beastie. The only technique that let me fit it in was state machine. It was the start of a very successful product line. I live by FSMs ever since. Software and FPGAs. And I agree about the OO cruft. I just use a function for each state and execute to completion. Perfect for event driven systems, which datacomms are a prime example. And very lightweight. In High level world, this needs a language with functions as first class objects. I have other useful representtions too. My favorite table based form is very handily implemented in Lua, should anyone be interested in seeing it.
This redesign has the look and feel of the Facebook feed plus Trending section on the upper-right hand side. With so many people consuming news from Facebook[1], this is not surprising at all. Maybe Google News is where the Google Plus feed will ultimately show up.

[1]: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/pew-report-44-percent-of-u-...
Depends on your background of course, but Learn You a Haskell for Great Good has been pretty influential as a first look at Haskell. Read it with a REPL open.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/
I don't think the logistics should be too hard, once you have some idea of how to do this in an ethical manner; start with a pilot program that addresses maybe 100 homeless individuals, see if it works, and if so, slowly increase the number of participants, while decreasing the scope of the current measures. In the end, even if providing services at another location is effective, you need to provide some services directly in the community anyway; and I don't think the proportion is predictable, you would need to try and see what works.
Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
You mean a tokamak?
Maybe 250 people perfectly memorized 1000 words each. Maybe your nephew is attempting to retell the story to a theater full of obsessive nerds who had also just seen the film and had each had a five minute slot assigned for memorization.
Stanford Code From Cars That Entered DARPA Grand Challenges
Not exactly what you requested, but a pertinent source: http://www.salon.com/2017/06/10/cuts-in-federal-housing-help...

I also know that health crises for homeless people tend to hard to resolve and cost a lot more than for people who are housed. Medical advice like "stay off your foot and soak it twice a day" simply cannot be complied with if you are homeless. The health issues of the homeless tend to compound and get incredibly expensive, in most cases.

Source: I have had a class on homelessness and public policy, I am homeless, I run a few websites pertinent to this problem space. (In essence, I am kind of a SME here.)
That domain name alone probably did it more than anything else.
Go read Tribes. The following is my advice, not from that book.

Same as with creating a community around anything.

1. Define a group of outsiders, explicitly (politics) or implicitly (privilege).

2. This scaffolding sets up the emotional payoff necessary to motivate people to be involved and belong. The nature of community is also the essence of how you create it. Tap into people's reward circuitry. Their tribalistic instincts. If you find such notions repellant, you could be in the wrong business.

3. Apply optimizations, such as letting people advertise recognition and status (reputation), develop mastery ("my skills are improving"), and act autonomously ("I got this").

4. Make a safe space for them to congregate. You need boarder control / bouncing / moderation. You can take an editorial stance yourself, or work with the community to develop it collaboratively.

5. Let them communicate.

Do you really want to do this? A community is like a ginormous multiheaded baby. It will suck you dry and lay waste too all your other plans. But maybe it will also be among the most beautiful and amazing things you've ever helped create. Your call, buster.
Good question. Finding ways to disincentivise defection would be key.

You might want to look up Mancur Olson's "Logic of Collective Action", which deals with this problem, generally.