skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is just not fair to say that gitter is the reason your questions go unanswered. Gitter is a chat technology. It depends on who you're chatting with not the underlying technology. Its like calling and ordering pizza, and then blaming your phone because the pizza is cold.
Nifty, today I learned about the concept of a pedestrian scramble, interesting.

Speaking about cities becoming more pedestrian-friendly, Barcelona in Spain is currently experimenting with something they call "Superblocks" which is supposed to "give streets back to residents".

- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/17/superblocks-r...

- Previous HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237966
State Power Index 2017
It's not clear cut. It appears to be the case for things like counting, as detailed by the article.

For emotions, children obviously can express a range of them before acquiring language, so it does not seem it would be the case; but that is not really a settled matter (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification)

Regarding counting, some cultures have adopted different bases: for instance, some native american cultures do use octal as they count the space between fingers rather than fingers themselves. The Mayas used base 20, presumably due to using fingers + toes.
Actually the top right holds a font switcher.
While some Reichsbürger share neonazi ideologies, the term actually refers to the German equivalent of the Sovereign citizen movement. But I admit that was a bit of a low blow even without insinuating neonazi leanings, I apologize.
>When has Google published pageviews?

Didn't say they did. They have, though, clearly done things to keep people on their properties vs straying off to the organics. Which is the same thing as pageviews.

Why else, for example, would hitting the back button 2 stories deep into a carousel AMP article not go back one article...but go all the way back to Google?

They don't publish their CTR for search pages either. You think that means they don't track goals for it internally?

Edit: Regarding this...

"Is this not FUD? Reading the tea leaves and discerning the future. Personally I find Android Instant Apps a dramatically bigger threat to the vague idea of the web."

Phrased as if I said AMP was their sole strategy. Of course they have multiple ideas to placate the investors that are used to double digit percentage YOY click growth. One does tend to focus on search since that's where the vast majority of their revenue is.

As for tea leaves, sustaining the same growth of stock price almost requires anti consumer and anti partner behavior.
You are talking about Mercantilism and more specifically Protectionism. That is not Keynesianism at all. In fact Keynes was part of the British delegation to Breton Woods favoring negotiated trade balance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
I am even more convinced to learn OCaml, seeing the passion the creators have to solve the problems.
And noise? I used to do long exposure photos of interiors of buildings on film (~2h) but digital cameras seem challenged to me.
Well, in the case of bread (read: gluten) it's really the effects on glycemic index that's harmful.

This is what gets lost in the gluten free discuss. Gluten is bad for you. You might not be intolerent, but it'll still hurt you.
I've got relatively simple requirements but I found FastMail to be really good
> blatant admission that they don't want to talk to you about any issues you have

I think that's a little hyperbolic. Companies use noreply because replying to that email is not the correct path for support. If you want support, go through the real support system (which likely has additional features around sorting support requests, paid support, antispam etc).

> I would expect it to get an automated response with clear links to helplines/addresses/etc

It would be a minor pain for me to set up and keep up-to-date email based auto-reply systems for everything. Most users don't expect such a thing to exist, and it's far easier just go to the website and use the FAQ/Contact us pages there. I do occasionally check the noreply inbox for some services, and I've never once seen anything other than spam or out-of-office notifications in them. It's wouldn't take a ton of effort, but for nearly no reward.
Both Gmail and Outlook are available for custom domain at about $50/year, which I guess is not prohibitive for most HNers.
Depends on the usecase. Sites for local stores need opening hours. Having those information as plain html is enough but that can be extended via ajax to show if store is currently open... So no need for dynamically rendered pages serverside.
Honestly, I'd say longer than that. The Democrats have very little impetus to do them either, given their corporate funding record.

It's been about 30 years since the Democrats gave up on the working classes to cater to "Cause of the Week", "Big Media", and associated areas. Even Obama, with the ACA, set it up that we're required to pay for-profit companies for insurance. He even had a super-majority to enable Medicare for All... but didn't.

Republicans claim they're for the "Common Working Man", but time and again we see policies that ascribe to 'Socialism for the Rich, and Capitalism for the Poor'. And that's not discussing Trump, who has been criticized by both US parties for his actions. (I'm focusing on R-Congress and state governors.)

Something's got to give, and I don't see this going well at all. The fact that regulators and congress refuse to do anything is just a symptom.
The thought of it becoming commonplace is somewhat frightening...

Really cool though
I lift weights 3 times a weak. Early 40's male. Other than my weight lifting I lead a fairly sedentary style. My baseline is <2k.

When I was lifting 5 times a week and actively seeking to add weight, my average intake was 2400kcal.

To me what you describe doesn't sound typical at all, unless you're huge (I'm about 240lbs; and far more of that than average is muscle, which burns (marginally) more calories).
I love reading about hardware bugs, and people their perseverance!

Reminded me of a developer for Crash Bandicoot who had seemingly random crashes: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...
Customer support of costly. Why do you think that many companies raise artificial barriers to getting in contact with support (e.g. burying their support line deep within their site in a non-obvious location). Even then the support that you get is many times designed to blame everyone but the company for issues in an effort to frustrate you into just getting off the phone and falling into acceptance of your situation (rather than actively trying to improve it).
It depends on position. They treat CSRs like absolute shit -- see Talia Jane. Given a choice, I'd prefer not to work for companies that treat any employee like that.
I suddenly felt the urge to visit http://astalavista.box.sk again. Next up: zombo.com
You wouldn't believe how many folks I've met who have no idea that those are ccTLDs, and not just handy two-letter TLDs. Kind of astonishing.
The Scramble Light is one of the first things people learn about when they go to Ball State University.
I don't get the fixation with grid planning...

Why not just break up the grids, making blind roads, and large roads without street parking... Dedicated lanes for bike and buses.

I guess converting a grid to a non-grid is hard. But non-grid cities are so much nicer..
Shit, it's as if insecticides harm insects like bees!
London has quite a few intersections that work this way: most famously, Oxford Circus. But most are not marked in any special way so there's nothing obvious to let you know you're allowed to cross diagonally.

I suspect the real reason for them is to improve the flow of car traffic at the expense of pedestrians - since pedestrians now only cross once in each light cycle instead of twice!

A more worrying recent trend (also in London) is to remove the pedestrian signals all together. Rather confusing when you first ecounter it - I guess you're just supposed to cross with the vehicle signals or "when it's clear".
Appears to be a blatant decade-late 'made for ads' SPAM post. Why is it here at all?
Interestingly, the other firms cited in the article as taking up the Google fight are Microsoft and Oracle, which both have had their antitrust issues.

This definitely looks like a case of "well, we got in trouble for this, so they should get their come-upings too!".
There's a couple of things I find interesting about Sally Hemings that always gets glossed over in comment threads. First is that Hemings was 3/4 white, and second, that Hemings surviving children were all free as adults.
The etymology of words and phrases can be very interesting IMO. One of my favourites is the origin of the word 'school':

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School

"The word school derives from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure" and also "that in which leisure is employed"".
This reminds me of the complete lack of security in ADS-B transmissions from aircraft.

See an interesting DefCon talk from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXv1j3GbgLk
That article ended too early. I was looking forward to reading about how anumeric people see the world, and what happens when they encounter situations where seeing exact quantities would be helpful.
Also some example of this: "I was continually impressed by their superior understanding of the riverine ecology we shared."
Yah I know normal linked lists are totally possible in all languages. I should have specified I was talking about the use case of sharing data through immutable singly-linked lists.

In these languages you use them specifically because you can prepend without worrying about other things still holding a reference, even in other threads. In Rust you'd need Arc to do that.

Also yes you can use custom allocators in Rust/C++, but then you have to have everything have the same lifetime. With GC'd functional languages you don't because the GC will move them to the old generation if necessary.

I'm mainly talking about the empirical question of why Lisp/Haskell/OCaml use linked lists so much, but in other languages they're rare (e.g I see/use them less than heaps). In most cases where you want fast prepend you just append to a vector and just treat it as reversed or reverse it after.
One night I had to have a "birds and the bees talk" with one of my taxi passengers. Previously she did not appreciate the power that women have to choose who they want to have relationships with.

http://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys-...

I've given this diary as a speech several times (brother's mother-in-law, Toastmasters's, etc). People usually chuckle - the tension between the genders makes a lot more sense with these considerations in mind.
FWIW the French ç is a pain to type on a German keyboard too (hooray for compose-comma-c on Linux) but I like these quirks of our languages that all share a variation of the same alphabet but took it in different directions.
Nice! The title made me assume that this was an article from someone who didn't understand the different use-cases for these technologies - to the contrary, it's a handy flow-chart for understanding which NoSQL databases are suited to various types of data.
I have never studied group theory, so this is way beyond what I'm ready for. But I scanned over a few sections and read to the point that I got lost.

The part that surprised me is that it seems to focus on rational numbers. I always assumed that Galois Groups were focused on more abstract concepts of sets. Is Galois Theory mostly about rational number (or even real numbers), or is the author just using the rationals to keep the paper focused on beginners?
Here is one reason companies might use a "noreply@" email address: autoresponders.

If you set up a real email address as the "from" field, then when you send out an email to a list of any significant size, you can expect to get a bunch of autoresponses like vacation notices, out of office, so-and-so does not work here anymore, etc. Then someone has to go through and clear all those out, looking for real replies.

If you use a "noreply" email address, then you can avoid that. But then you should put the real support email address in the body of the email, so that people can get service. I agree it is annoying when companies seemingly have no way to get support.
8pm and 9pm are really late to "stop eating".
Oakland has these in Chinatown, and they are awesome. I wish they would expand them out to other parts of the city.
And Inbox is even worse. It's fine on a modern beefy desktop but brings my slightly anemic ye olde Linux box to a standstill, whereas GMail is still basically fine.
>I guess converting a grid to a non-grid is hard

more like impossible, unless you want to tear down your city and start again.
CASIO WQV-1 is would be much better choice for 2-bit astrophotography.[1]

[0] ftp://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/watch/wc/WQVLink_Manual_K.pdf

[1] http://www.3wheelers.com/elvis/body_wqv-1.html
I have gmail handling my email for a custom domain for free.

You sign up with Google and follow a process they have, which involves setting some MX records and CNAME records on your custom domain to point to google's hosts.

This was free within some limits... I guess I assume it still is? (I set this up years ago. Google's never asked me for money for it.) I don't remember what the limits are. I and my family never hit them. I guess there are limits on the number of accounts and storage space.

I suppose since it's free it's a matter of time before they stop doing this, but so far so good.
Safari in private mode operates that way if you're on Mac.
I said the vast majority were teenagers. I said they often enter voluntarily. You were conflating two different things.

And I was referring to classification bias as well. There are "rapists" in prison in the deep south because they received blow jobs from consenting 15 year old girl friends while they were 17 years old. There are certainly 17 year old prostitutes who enter the field voluntarily. Why do we treat that as identical to the horrible crime of a child being brutally raped in the statistics? All the statistics from this one sided hit piece are questionable attempts to sway opinion through classification bias.

And lots of prostitution isn't done through Backpages, it's done through other venues, strip clubs, massage parlors, etc. Do you think that clients are checking ID before they consummate their transaction? Thats the price of illegal prostitution, the customer can't know whether she's 16 or 18, whether she's willing or unwilling. The customer is already breaking the law to fulfill his urges, the prostitute and her pimp are breaking the law to fulfill his urges, none can call the police for any dispute. Their incentives favor more lawbreaking, not cooperation, once they've already crossed the line.

When prostitution is legal, the weirdos we agree we want to catch won't have a sea of consensual prostitution transactions to hide in. What do the police do when they entrap a back page escort labeled "amber alert" or "underage candy" only to find a 21 year old wearing pig-tails? Do you not think police resources can be more effective focused on legitimate under aged sex crimes, if they weren't spread so thin policing consensual activities between consenting adults?
Really cool idea, and from the author of knockout.js no less!

You can just see how this could become a mainstream approach
"Mr. Stoppelman feels he has no choice. Like a lot of small internet companies, Yelp lives in a world where one company, Google, accounts for an outsize share of its business, and could destroy it at any time."

That sums it up for Yelp and many others, myself included. Combine that reality with the black box that Google is, in many ways, and you have an inaccessible behemoth who's decisions decide the fate of many.

Googles combination of Search, Browser, and Advertising dominance gives it a unique position of power. Then there are secondary markets like Android that just buttress their position.

I see the fight raging about net neutrality and keep thinking that Google neutrality is just as important. It affects people in even more meaningful ways, determining where they go and what they see on the Internet.
A feedback loop makes sense, but the problem still seems to be that the counter-cyclical stimulus ends up being immortal.

OK so if we aren't all devaluing our currencies lower and lower what explains the deflation we have been witnessing across the globe?
Makes perfect sense...

Even just closing a few streets to traffic would be neat...

I walk along Union, Polk or Filmore in San Francisco and marble at the fact that these tiny road with lots of shops aren't closed to traffic.
> Edit: According to the about page, it isn't really cryptolocker, but VirusTotal still isn't happy about it ….

Since you've obviously followed this up, for the benefit of those of us who don't want to follow the link, could you explain what it is?
That's very interesting re. film. I'd be curious why that is. I've only ever done exposures less up to around a couple of minutes with film & digital. Do you have any examples that you shot for 2hr out of curiosity. Was that with ISO 50 or less, or did you use a darkening filter too?

Edit: I wonder if it is due to reciprocity failure with film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography) ?
Most of these sites don't want you to navigate away from their page. They would rather you can share without leaving their site (i.e. a dialog pops up that allows you to create your Facebook "share" post, and submit it).
That was only in reference to their lobbying "office" in washington DC (no formal office, just a seat in a coworking place).
I think he means they start off voluntarily but it devolves into sex slavery and forced prostitution. Like how people in sweatshops are not kidnapped initially, but them find themselves locked in the factory barracks until their "debt" is paid.
Not sure what these companies are thinking. They might not realize, but some small companies get big. Some of the young engineers of today will be the CEOs of tomorrow. The people who are getting shitty support from Xilinx and Qualcomm right now are likely not to want to do business with them later. Furthermore, some big companies actually do listen to what the engineers have to say. IMO, big tech companies are failing to understand why you should try to have the technical people be on your side.
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Google Apps For Your Domain / G Suite is no longer free for new accounts.
Huh we had these on the main intersection of our college town, I didn't even realize there was a special name for them
I used BeOS back in the day too. Doesn't look like Haiku is making much headway. Are there any alternate operating systems that are?
Java API for CRISPR.
I think the point was, you can choose not to use Yelp and your life will fine and dandy; not so much with google.
Interesting idea! I had created a vaguely related experiment a while ago, breeding gamebook content with interactive fiction:

https://github.com/cjauvin/gamebook.js
> Hard to know what the causes are here

Institutional collusion. I don't mean explicit, agreed-upon conspiring; I mean the sort of industry signaling you see everywhere, like cellphone provider and airline pricing.

FB, say, ups the intrusiveness in one way, and the other surveillance firms watch carefully. If the blowback is manageable, yay, new normal has been achieved.
Hartford, Connecticut has many of these intersections. I enjoy them as a pedestrian.
ha. I had a repo I started a while back that I also called xeger that did exactly that: it reversed regex's. I thought the name was clever, but I guess not clever enough. Kudos to them for making something that works. I think I spent a few hours one night and did not get so far and have not revisited the idea in 2 or so years. Maybe I should look back into that...
One interesting thing to me is use of the word "outed" to refer to people who commit sexual harassment:

> “Some men have the feeling that the conversation has turned into a witch hunt,” said Aileen Lee, a founder of Cowboy Ventures. “They’re asking when people will stop being outed.”

Now, when I think about being outed, it's definitely in an LGBT sense. But in general, I feel when you are "outed" it's about something that might be bad, but you can't change, and shouldn't really matter anyway. Some examples would be being gay, previously being convicted with an unrelated crime, etc. Being outed is usually bad, as it usually means that you're divulging information that reflects poorly on the person who to a group who doesn't know it.

So what's the difference between being "outed" and being "called out"/"reported"/etc? I'd say it's bad purpose/intent or harm to others. I don't say I outed that meth dealer to the cops right?

I also recently saw this in a reply to a comment I made here on HN, about how the commenter hopes people won't "out" those managers who don't feel it's appropriate for members of the opposite sex to have 1:1's alone.

It's an interesting choice of words, and it does get the point across. But to me, this sticks in my throat, because it seems like people are implicitly saying it's okay to do these things, as long as nobody knows. Which seems to be and have been the status quo.
It's always worth noting that today's underdog could be tomorrow's monopolist. When any of these companies get on top, they'll do anything to stay that way.

So like, today I would consider Microsoft an ally against the current monopoly party, but I have no doubt that Microsoft would return to their old ways if they were on top again.
Relevant talk with author - http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1455
Der Nutella-Brotaufstrich.

Two can play this game. There is no sane answer.

Except for rules of thumbs like "Romance-sounding word ending in -a is probably female".
Doesn't have to be. As someone who's on a similar regimen, best part of the intermittent fasting is that once the body gets used to it you can stop/start at will. If my coworkers go out for lunch, so can I, even if it would technically violate my fasting period. Then I just go right back fasting the next day with no issue.
A parsing API handling common forms like "strings", parens, {blocks}, key:value ...
Could someone explain the differences between Azure Data Lake and Azure Blob Storage?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=czXbhW_hT3A
Imagine there is no e-mail, no telephone, only postal mail. You've lived at the same house for 20 years. Now you're moving out of state, and your postal service doesn't forward mail. You have 30 days to send everyone you've ever met or business you've done business with a letter and confirm you really are moving to the new address.

The speed of downloading the archive is no big issue; it should take a day and a half. And you can sort through it by importing into Gmail and using their preconfigured filters. But the biggest problem is resetting all your old online accounts to use a new e-mail address.

To change the address, you may have to confirm an e-mail to your old address, so migrating all your accounts has to be done within the 30 day window.

Alternately, signing up for new accounts isn't always easy. Financial and government services may require special codes be sent by postal mail, and a confirmation possibly mailed back (along with waiting for it to be processed) before you can reset or create a new account. Creating new accounts also loses you any time or money you may have invested into an online account. And each recipient still needs to update their address books with the new address, probably by hand.

He certainly never owned the domain, the servers, the connection, or the name, so the isp is legally justified. But it's a much bigger pain in the ass than people realize, and giving him more time and assistance would be a big help, especially since he's in the middle of a big life change already (closing on a house).