skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It tells you to install their official app (which is by far the worst Reddit app I've found on Android) to continue.

Reddit's mobile website is also by far the worst website I've ever seen, bar none, for reactivity. Pressing the back button regularly takes 30 seconds to do anything, during which you get no status bar. If you mistake that lack of reaction for it not processing your request and hit back a second time, it'll go back two pages once the 30 seconds are up. Trying to go forward takes another 30 seconds. Opening multiple tabs does not work, they wait until you look at them, and /then/ start loading.

I have come to the conclusion that they have deliberately crippled their own mobile site to try to force people into the app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Pick up a microeconomics book and it will explain. In microeconomics market inefficiencies or market failures have 3 causes: 1) rent-seeking, 2) negative externalities, 3) information asymmetry.

As I explained somewhere else in this post, Economist David Ricardo first discussed this problem of rent-seeking about 200 years ago. In this case, the wealthy landlords work to pass laws that give them wealth paid for by society or in this case renters.

David Ricardo first discussed rent-seeking with the Corn Laws of Britain which had a tariff on all grains which increased the wealth of landowners at the cost of other members of society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo#Protectionism
Interesting. How does this compare to WebRTC based peer-to-peer file transfer like perhaps https://simplewebrtc.com/filetransfer as an example?
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> It's really not even a contest.

(1) It was a contest, the iphone won in some areas and (2) you missed the companion piece [1] comparing video where the iphone won fairly handily. (3) The pixel is one phone, you keep talking about "android phones", (4) you're back to claiming the iPhone is an also ran ("not even a contest"), make up your mind where you want to put your goalposts down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfptPhPCmAU

> If they did it would still have scored below the Android phones.

I guess if you believe hard enough you don't need actual facts. Here are the facts:

(1) Every year the best iPhone launches with a camera that is among if not the best in the world.

(2) Last year was no exception with many reviews saying essentially the same thing: best camera on a smartphone.

(3) Some android flagships have comparable cameras and these (a) usually launch a few months after the iphone, (b) sometimes beat the iphone camera in raw spec(s) but (c) despite spec advantage often aren't clearly better in still comparisons (CNET: On paper, ... camera hardware looks impressive... But when it comes to photography, the proof is in the pictures. That's something the iPhone 7 Plus proved in our tests against single-camera shooters like the Google Pixel and the Samsung Galaxy S8.) and (d) they tend to get wrecked in video comparisons.

Somehow you have spun that as "Android flagships have already had the better camera's for a couple of years" and that "it's not even a contest" both of which are simply nonsense.
This was a really cool article, and is also the reason why I set my Mapping applications to navigate me "north up" instead of "heading up." This way, I always have to keep my mind active and can see where I'm headed towards
The video is long, but worth it. The short version is that recent advances in high-temperature superconductors have realistically reduced the size needed for power-producing tokomaks, putting them within the realm of startups and universities, rather than in the realm of international cooperation and bureaucracy.
Agreed, but do you reckon its worth the effort to ask system programmers whether or not they'd be willing to accept UX contributions?
Show HN: K8Guard – An Auditing System for Kuberentes
I don't disagree, but I don't think Facebook is responsible for 'fake news' or even 'hate news'. As with any community there are actors within it which self select to group together and communicate. Now what it does do is allow what might be a dispersed group to become a 'local community' but Facebook's role in that is providing the access, not in influencing what those people do or say.

One need only step between rabidly conservative and rabidly liberal enclaves on Facebook to see different groups surrounding themselves with their own messaging.

To date I don't see Facebook exerting an editorial influence that is swaying meaningful sized groups. Sure there are groups that use Facebook to do that, but it isn't something you can buy or arrange for from the company.
I must say I dislike just as much the very similar trend with mobile apps to save a few lines of screen space, particularly with mobile web browsers.
TechCrunch called us - “WIX for a small business’s social presence”
A lot of those Farm 2 Table and local recipes/kits would still need staples that can be more cheaply provided on a national scale. One could foresee a large, national company owning many of these local "branches", with their own branding and identity, but taking advantage of the national supply chain for some things.
The sort of things which people get to call themselves "Python Full Stack Developer" or people whose primary job is to write Python code at some workplace. I just want to work in something where is Python is used and in great demand to get me a full time job. My latest depth into Python apart of learning the surface has been with Flask. Developed a CRUD using a tutorial and there is absolute so much to learn. But if I learn a lot about Flask, I won't be playing with Django which seems to have more demand. I also like to have Python projects on my Github but so far, I have no clue what to make on it and to publish. Just want to be able to develop anything by knowing the art!
Generally I told people that I had done a tiny bit of contract work (true) and had been working on my own project (somewhat true, although it never got past the conceptual stage). There were a couple other things, which I won't elaborate on for anonymity's sake, but they were not programming related at all. Even on the projects, interviewers never really dug deep into them.

I suppose sleep and videogames aren't great answers. Taking time off to travel or explore some other interest is almost certainly fine in SV.

Ultimately, I think most places are so hard up to find qualified candidates that as long as you pass the interview and don't come off as a total slacker, you're probably fine. But if you're career-minded and applying to a place that has their career tracks worked out (read, not most startups), you probably want to give that impression to your future engineering manager.
The issue is that special interests have a much more focused need for the laws (or may have more money for lobbying or "buying" politicians).

There are import tariffs on sugar that benefits sugar producers while "harming" society (and other countries that want to import sugar).
One of the best articles I've read in the past decade:

"If you can't choose wisely, choose randomly"

https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...
And people skilled at picking the skilled people and a willingness to actually do what the skilled people say... when those skilled people aren't necessarily the same as the managers shouting managementese...

And this also collides with the willingness to do anything to save a couple of dollars and once that dictate isn't flowing through every once of the company's blood, who knows what will happen.
Seems reasonable. All else being equal, your radar cross section is proportional to your actual cross section. Plus it's probably easy to spot a blimp with your eyes.
Get plenty of sleep. Eat well. Exercise. Don't read articles about creativity.
It's a cheap shot. It demonstrates a lack of integrity or character.
I highly recommend setting up a PiHole to block your ads at the DNS level.
Other industries (most anyway) don't whinge about a chronic skills shortage and rely on imported (and exported) labor as much as ours does.
The First Look at Google's Self-Driving Semi Trucks
It's not about money. Apple has $200B just sitting in a bank doing nothing. It's about supply and owning the entire market. What happens when the entire market stagnates because those devs are writing great stuff for Apple exclusively?

Apple also used to buy the entire world supply of sapphire for phones and the entire world supply of flash memory for music players. Literally, nobody else could compete, because Apple contracted it in bulk, first.

Those days seem long gone now. Today Apple takes 5 years to update their Pro desktop, while at the same time, making fun of people for using 5 year old computers.
Vancouver House for Sale in Bitcoin a Sign of Suspicious Activity
Speaking of anchors. HN behaves a bit oddly there when going back to a specific comment in a tree with folded branches. Also, the search page hijacks the up key to send me to the top of the page...
It is a regressive "tax" and it creates more greenhouse gas since people have to commute farther, and it contributes to income inequality. It enables special interests to take a share of wealth without creating it through innovation by created by others through innovation.

These four items are deemed by society as wrong or bad and therefore it "wrong" as you say.
Estimating the number of secondary Ebola cases –  PLOS
Wait, the hardness of information security comes because it has to be built-in everywhere since everything is connected and so everything is a potential attack surface.

It's not impossible but it requires a somewhat universal attitude change.
Because Matlab is expensive. Very expensive. Especially if you want to run it on servers or clusters, which is something people want to do. We're talking a single company paying millions of dollars per year for Matlab licenses, versus paying thousands for Octave (this does happen, and some companies do pay for Octave, but very few). My last job consisted in fixing Octave enough to be able to run some classifiers in servers, which would have been prohibitively expensive in Matlab and it would have also been much too expensive to rewrite in a different language. It was cheaper to pay me to fix Octave just enough for this code to run.

As to the "inferior" part, it really depends. Some people really like the Octave-exclusive features, but most are unaware they even exist.
Can you quote any part of the article relating to the second half of your post? Doesn't even have to be from the end.
Sounds like a useless government. I mean, if such a state can't kill or imprison people, how are they going to get other people to comply with their laws? And if they can, why would any other government cede the ability to do so themselves?
There is nothing wrong with seeking cost effective solutions to problems.

It is worth noting that many homeless people in SF did not become homeless in SF.

They became homeless elsewhere, then moved to SF because circumstances there favor homeless living.
You seriously see no problem with that?
Given that adults are legally required to wear helmets (CVC 21212) and GoBike seems to have no provision for loaning or renting any... what could go wrong?

Same with lights, for rides not within Sunup to Sundown (technically, there is 20 minutes leeway on either).

Years ago, I was actually pulled over by a Palo Alto cop around sundown, allegedly for lacking lights; fortunately, I knew the law and wasn't cited.
> you bootstrap like this

Ah, yes. oh come on please it's easy just /etc/init.apt-get/frob-set-conf --arc=0 - +/lib/syn.${SETDCONPATH}.so.4.2 even my grandma can do that
Why is that when you inform your customers in facebook, they block you.. but why facebook can inform 2 billion people without any blocking ?

Why is that suckerberg calls users fucking idiots, they only get more users ?

Why is that we support these multinational corporations, who cheat and lie as they please.. but we do not support local business owners?

Why is that facebook is doing psychology tests in they "platform" ?

Why these all corporations violate my privacy by spying and they all "google, facebook, twitter" are more or less CIA agents ?
I thought it was a library for doing nearest-neighbour search. Most neural network literature tends to use "ANN" (artificial neural network), not "NN", I think.
Partly it's more familiarity with Octave than ggplot, but partly also that the Octave syntax is just about the easiest there is out there. Type something, immediately see some graphs. Type some more, gradually modify that graph. The simplicity is a big selling point. Julia's syntax comes pretty close, but I'm not as familiar with it yet.

Remember that Matlab's and Octave's biggest audience consists of not-a-programmer programmers, that is, people who consider using Matlab or Octave as being something different than using a "real" programming language. I call them not-a-programmer because that's what I've often heard them call themselves, even as they write Matlab or Octave code.
HTC Vive President: 'VR Clearly Has a Marketing Problem'
The consensus among my University classmates was that moderate drinking was drinking until you are moderately drunk (say around 6 drinks). It seems like they were poorly informed.
> From my experience, despite auto-vectorization being better than 10 years ago, still is very far for optimizing code properly without lots of tuning

Why do you think this is? Does C being difficult to reason about contribute (e.g. statefulness and not knowing what can modify what)?

I've done some SIMD and other optimisations on Android in C for graphics related algorithms and small changes and hints can make a x10 or more difference so I understand your point.
I started a website, http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com, years ago. It now gets a few thousand visitors a day so usually I'm able to market my products there or whatever I have. I don't have success or fail numbers, but I've had plenty of repeat contributors, so something must be working.

As far as putting my own products on there, I did put a link up which is on every page of the website, and I do get clicks that lead to it. For my more prominent products, I tend to write an article about the product or find similar products and write comparisons. Pretty much rather than selling.. I'm just trying to "make known" that this product is here for you.
How to Get Fans by Enslaving Your Fans
Let's just say that it's at best a corner case in the the toolbox of approaches our brain has for tackling problems. Yes, it's something we make use of once in a while. But more like a "caught you in the hall, here's my idea" approach. Never in a "solve this now in 5 minutes or yer OUT!" sense.

The problem with the modern interview process is that not only elevates the later approach way out of proportion to its actual significance -- but basically makes in the centerpiece of your interactions with the company and potential team members, on that fateful day.
This is absolutely wonderful to hear. Constant harrasment by angry police officers (as I've seen in other locales) can be very damaging to the psyche if those who already have so much to deal with.
That is a good use case.
> I think this is meant to read "last Friday of the month", not "every fourth Friday", seeing as this is being promoted today.

I don't think it's necessary for them to announce a change in their practice on a specific day. They're moving from every 4th Friday to every Friday for open source.
You're saying that the homeless people that approach you for money represent all or most of the homeless people that exist, and that simply isn't true. There are some people that choose a panhandling lifestyle, but there are many more who end up homeless and are too sick or proud to do that.
As an ad buyer who has done so both at agencies and client-side, I'll say that this is true to an extent, but that maximizing lift isn't always the priority.

For example, I may be able to eek out a small incremental gain in performance on some tiny network or via a deeply-integrated direct buy, but how much time would that suck up? What would I need to do from a tracking perspective? How much would it cost to get all of the necessary creative? What about reporting? Does the data get pulled into my existing reporting automatically, or will I need to perpetually marry up some extra data set in Excel and dramatically increase reporting time? What about time for ongoing management that happens outside of my existing tools?

These are all important considerations. Actual channel performance is one of them, but far from the only or even the most important depending on circumstances.
It's not exactly uncommon for a production service to have problems and need to be fixed ASAP.

Yeah, but if so it's usually of the form of "oh shit, forgot to chmod this little bash wrapper".

To the extent that it's of the form of "Solve this cute little dynamic programming problem I heard about from some company where everyone is like, gosh, oh so smart! In like, the next 5 minutes, k?" -- well, basically never.
Generally no. Most jobs building Rails or React apps don't require those skills either.
I usually drink a bottle of beer with dinner and I don't think this makes me any kind of heavy drinker. I'm probably doing more subtle long-term damage to my body from drinking 4-5 large cups of tea every day.
DLA Piper Hit by Cyber Attack, Phones and Computers Down Across the Firm
Very impressive.

I was quick to look up how long The Spirit Of Butts' Farm [0] was in the sky for, only 36 hours.

In 5 days, assuming MIT's model held a similar speed, it could probably circumnavigate the globe.

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_...
Tip: grab a movie with slow-to-moderately paced dialogue and varied speaking styles like ghost in the shell innocence from 00:09:30 to 00:20:00 ish. read the subtitle first. Open the srt file and read it. Watch the episode with or without the subtitle so you know what's going on, and cuz the movie is beautiful. Next rip the mp3 or aac of that section of the movie with some added volume, i used 10db.

Now listen to this every night right before bed, and try to parrot off whatever they are saying verbatim. comprehension has no relevance. Just repeat it. Rewind if you want. Make a game out of it. 'Im gonna do my best to make this exact combination of noises with my mouth. dont try to do too much at once. 5-30minute spurts are a good range. It should not be the center of your day, at first, now matter how bad you want to learn. a good rule of thumb is u should spend about as much time as it takes for you to do your morning bathing and hygene ritual.

Add it to your music playlists so it catches you off guard. hunt down some more pieces of films you like and grab the audio of those. alternate between a few audios. adding them incrementally 1 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 10 20

If you find any good japanese audios, let me know!

Source: i work with language learning
Not sure how charging a transaction fee makes it a scam. That's what every company that provides a market platform does.

While it's entirely possible that the blockchain serves no functional purpose in this case that couldn't be done equally well with a web server, it's also possible that they've structured the company so that some parts are done automatically, by a smart contract on the blockchain, resulting in the company having less control than it would otherwise have.

Scepticism is a good thing. Making serious allegations based solely on speculation is not.
'''In general getting much above 10-15%abv requires specialty yeasts or concentration techniques, and getting much above 20% is going to require some sort of concentration.'''

https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/110/what-is-the-...
It's a lot more likely that the attackers make money via the markets than via a direct ransom.
Want to develop a Github profile which could be very attractive to Python related job. How do I get started on it? People say "do something new and solve an existing problem with Python" But is EVERYONE solving a new problem which hasn't come before to get a Python Job? I just want to become a potential for Python Junior Dev job.
Is there an equivalent library for Racket?
Why are you unwilling to move to certain states? I know that in kentucky, for example, you could find a 2 bedroom for 400 a month fairly easily- I know that because I lived there.
Have you tried netlify-cms ? I have been using it for my friends site and we both are quite happy with it.
They are an advertising company blowing money on free inducements to get you to click on their ads. Utilities don't work that way.
What company in the PH is this?
Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes
NYC is filled with plenty of residential skyscrapers.
Wow I never would've thought someone could get a dopamine hit from shopping. Shopping either bores or irritates.
This was exactly the route I wanted to go down until I found out about hydroponics, especially the Kratky's method. It's super easy, does not need any electronics or pumps, and I've successfully grown lettuces and herbs.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Kratkys-non-circulating-hydr...
Right. For people in Greene county, the obvious answer is transitioning to Pittsburgh, which is only 60 miles away, doing decent economically and still affordable.
people say this a lot but it's pretty hollow. if you're smart enough you can do it even if you don't like it. anecdotally I'm a fairly good dev (full stack, know several languages, several projects under my belt) and I hate it. the day I move from technical to management will be the greatest day of my life.
It's just a silly observation. I come from a generation that had to create products like AutoCAD to run on CP/M systems with 64K of RAM and precious little permanent storage. As an aside, few people know that software like AutoCAD started on such --by today's standards-- crippled systems.

Anyone who came up in software development through that path has a full understanding of the cost of every bit of code written, every abstraction.

Today's programmers, unless they've taken university courses to expose them to the low level stuff, are extremely isolated from the innards of what they write. They reach for classes and objects by default and seem incapable of thinking outside of these boxes. All of this adds overhead and bloat, something you had to be keenly aware of with limited memory and horsepower.

I do understand that a higher level of abstraction in the context of massive amounts of memory and horsepower can be nice. What gets me is that this is often an unnecessary default.

Going back to state machines. One does not to create a bunch of classes and methods to implement them. I see that almost as a violation of the conceptual simplicity of state machines.

I mean, to go in a different direction, I use state machine in FPGA's all the time. The synthesized hardware works fine and represents the bare minimum necessary to implement these very high speed state machines. No classes involved. One can do the same in software development.
I have serious health problems that are significantly impacted by things like climate and local vegetation. It is vastly cheaper and more cost effective for me to not be deathly ill. Most homeless people have challenging personal problems of that sort. It is a significant contributing factor to homelessness and it doesn't help when people act like we are just being unreasonable or something.
Another way, without using a quasiliteral: just set the output field separator (ofs) to empty string, and prn:

txr -e '(awk (:set ofs "") ((prn [f 2] ":" [f 0] " " [f 1])))'

This is like:

awk -v OFS= '{print $3, ":", $1, " ", $2}'