skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to read further to understand why Cathode Ray Tube televisions were tied to mains frequency - it's due to an effort to reduce artefacting

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/164252
It‘s amazing how much opposition there apparently was against AC current – a technology that noone is afraid of today.
IIUC, this was a fork of storj created by a recently-former maintainer [1]. Strikes me as a great time to liquidate your SJCX (I just did).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/6llxpn/so_long_frien...
SpiderOak will throttle upload speed for unlimited customers
> it does seem that the US is determined to look inward for solutions instead of looking to what works elsewhere.

American exceptionalism at its worst.
What you're saying is, they all had undiagnosed mental issues, that could've been treated. And the main reason for them not getting the treatment they needed is that people with opinions like yours set the tone.
> The IDE screenshots for Windows show off Windows XP.

The IDE is based on their native GUI backend. Thus it picks up much of the looks of the current OS automatically (windows, buttons, dialogs, ...).
> The story was not worth writing or publishing or reading

Of course, these are the wrong metrics.

The correct metrics are: ad impressions vs. cost to generate content.
There Is No More Encryption Debate: Backdoors Threaten the Whole World
Can Smart Contracts be used to enforce clean data?
Every article I've seen about smart contracts involve a buyer, seller, and some type of exchange transaction. But could a blockchain solution be implemented with the sole purpose of data validation? Using smart contracts as a means of enforcing clean inputs? With the end goal of having a trustworthy, decentralized ledger where participants can log events using a common syntax?
Among other books, I read this year Give and Take [0], Flow and Deep Work [1]. I tend to summarize the books I enjoyed the most, to internalize them myself, but also to give others access to it. Maybe you find them interesting (if you haven't already read them). My whole reading list can be found on Goodreads [2] for more inspiration :)

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-give-and-take/

- [1] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/

- [2] https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/63553187-robin-wieruch...
The title is "Direct Sales for Bootstrapped SaaS Startups". The "Fat article about..." can be omitted.

It's a good article, I've read it a couple of days ago, but please don't change the title when submitting to HN. From the HN guidelines "It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."
What languages have you tried? I think once you experience a language with types outside of the run of the mill Java/C#, you will get more excited about it. Ocaml, Rust, Haskell, Purescript, etc. Haskell for me was the one that got me excited about types.
What do you mean by "clean data"/what kind of validation are you thinking of? If it is data about the real world, the term to look for at least in the Ethereum world is "Oracle" (which are providers of external data, and people are trying to figure out how to make sure they can't lie effectively)
If the universe is not computable, and if the non-computable aspects are relevant to the functioning of the human brain, then our ability to build a brain simulation is strongly limited. A functioning synthetic brain would have to leverage the same relevant natural phenomenon as a real brain; a mathematical simulation running on a standard computer would not suffice.

I do think that I actually agree with your earlier point that once we have a functioning synthetic brain, we can ignore subjective experience itself and just focus on its functional implications for the entire system.
> Because of this we strongly recommend that you always host your main site or app on www or any other subdomain (app.example.com is perfectly fine as well).

There is real, measurable value to no-www. To anyone here who owns a public website, do visitors mainly go to the www or no-www version of your site? (assuming you don't redirect)
Are the short or long versions of your URLs shared more?

I would be willing to bet there is a strong inverse correlation between link size and likelihood of being clicked. Anecdotally, on my own site of about ~1k daily active users, the no-www urls were used almost exclusively. Using www to avoid the rare disaster of DoS is unwise.
Gerrymandering affects Senate and House races. Electoral votes for president are based on the entire state's population. How could gerrymandering affect the Presidential election?
> I'm pretty sure media corps would be fine with an IE world.

But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world where Firefox saved the web, Chrom{e,ium} has changed it as well (though they have done plenty of things I think are horrible). In _that world_, they are trying to piggyback off the current state of the web's open standards by adding extensions that will only work because the same browsers that made the web what it is today are now forced to implement EME.

> Chromium is developed by the work paid by bigcorps, not by the free software community. The code being open source doesn't change this.

By that logic, Linux is not developed by the free software community (80% of kernel development is done by developers paid by companies -- which I think is great).
100% agree -- made a small free time calculator along these lines awhile back [1]

[1] - http://www.datadriventhoughts.com/2016/09/27/how-much-free-t...
A near error-free parcel sorting facilities in China, powered by #AI and robots
How Digital Platforms Increase Inequality
Also the thinking process. I looked at the repo it seems straight on solutions.. do not spoil yourself.
I use protonmail (protonmail.com). It's encrypted email developed by the scientists at CERN. The data is hosted in Switzerland and therefore subject to Swiss privacy laws. There are app for iPhone and Android. They just came out with a VPN product, too.
Capitalism actual doesn't veer toward winner take all. Government does, elections do, etc. Capitalism leads to people voting with dollars so instead of a red or green car being given a vote, the red car may be cheaper if lots of people want it.
Hey look, just what I was talking about. I mentioned electron and now I've been called lazy and uncaring
It really is fantastic. I'm a long time user of full visual studio and I find it superior in many ways
From what I see from QZ fb feed, they also post articles that portrays India in a negative light. Definitely their focus is their India, but assumption that they want to appease the Indian demographic may not be enitirely true.
C++ metaprogramming might not be pretty, but it's extremely expressive, I'd be surprised if it didn't have some kind of type theoretic background.
>$ 576 for 1 single chest x-ray

Well, that's just a rip-off price.

>Health Insurance coverage is too closely tied to employment. In order to get continued coverage, you are more or less working "for the man" till you die.

At age 65, you can enter the single-payer system!
That's my inspiration ;)
Because they used the 2.5 billion to buy planes which they used to make money.
Cheap Hotels, Online Hotel Booking, Hotel Deals
Was there any way we could have prevented the "loudness war"?
I think it's largely a loyalty and fealty signaling mechanism. Even though you are not achieving anything more, you are signaling your dedication to them by sacrificing leisure time.
Regarding Lisp's ordering, this has come up in the article "What if Lisp was invented by the Japanese?"[1]. Note also that in the comments to that article[2], I mentioned that "Japanese Lisp" is something I find easier to read and would prefer to write, even as a native English speaker.

1. http://lispnyc.org/blog/euske/what-if-lisp-was-invented-by-t...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2213012
Only slightly tangential, have you come across the term eggcorn[1] before?

I always get a chuckle out of thinking about it.

1. In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes called oronyms). The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease". -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Pulled data from nba stats API using a Python library, created features in Python, then fed the data into pretty basic machine learning models. Only achieved slight gains over just assuming a player's performance was going to be his average over the past year.

But a big part that was pretty effective and not even predictive related was using a modified knapsack algorithm to fit the best predicted value into one day's roster.

I never proved the algorithm, though...
The question is: How are those news items going to be named: Robo news?

Or maybe "fake news", until 'elevated' by Google curators?

Maybe Microsoft's Ai bot experiment might offer a cautionary tale.
That's where companies like Arria https://www.arria.com/ doing natural language generation step in so you can't tell the difference if it's machine or human generated. Well that's the promise.
Yeah thats fine, freedom of choice and a better experience for users, sounds pragmatic to me.

Much better than the many posts here trying to force their opinion on the world!
That is a meal for a vegan.

Source: vegan friends.
The definition in the article is that a unicorn is privately held startup with $1billion or more valuation.

I understand that it might be difficult to get the data, but I can't avoid being skeptical about the value of such companies, when there's no mention of profitability...
That "author" published 87 such articles on July 7 2017[0], and a total of over 8,500 so far this year[1].

[0] https://www.nystocknews.com/author/mack-tyler/page/9/

[1] https://www.nystocknews.com/author/mack-tyler/page/854/
How did you enumerate this list of algorithms to do in your self challenge?
Talking people out of getting excited about it was not actually my intention, but since you ask: it is important not to lose sight of the fact that this event is actually a very ominous portent for the future of the planet. Getting excited about it is kind of like a dinosaur getting excited about watching the Chicxulub asteroid hit, albeit in super slo-mo.
I don't think approaching type systems from the mathematical angle is much help either. When I was learning Haskell, I started to try to learn category theory to develop a better understanding of what was going on. In the end I decided my time was better spent learning Haskell, and not category theory. Where they share words I look shallowly into the mathematical concept, but the understanding I develop is how it relates to me in a programming context. That doesn't mean I don't value that there is a mathematical basis for it though.
The whole thing is full of rehashed phrases:

(link to google for "A deeper exploration of the setup is sure to yield a clear picture"):

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+deeper+exploration+of+t...

Craziness. Auto-generated soup to farm SEO?
That kind of video will be captured, no question. I'm pretty sure that's not what the OP meant.
No. Regulations on speech are not as easy to justify and enforce as regulations on other actions, because of the First Amendment.
It's not actually Google doing it, they're just funding it. Here's a better article https://www.recode.net/2017/7/7/15937436/google-news-media-r...
Do know what a critical path means.
Moralizing is cheap. How about you stop voting for politicians who keep bombing and destabilizing countries and producing more refugees?
>2. They tend to hide information.
Redfin does this to comply with local MLS rules. Zillow does not, so best to check both.
To be honest, I still don't use exceptions. They don't really feel all that great in C++, and I think Go has solidified my anti-exceptions attitude. A lot of the STL and standard libraries and even many third party libraries also abstain from using exceptions since they behave poorly across library boundaries on many platforms thanks to the lack of properly standardized ABI, and of course because the standard libraries try to be as unassuming as possible. Of course, you can still more or less safely use exceptions if you control your ecosystem, but since this is the case, it gives a (pardon my french) PHP feeling of inconsistency in many ways.

There may be compelling reasons to use exceptions, but if there were I think they have to be quite compelling to overcome the limitations.
I was very careful to use the word "might", as there really are cases where Electron is the optimal choice. Usually though, it is not.
Yeah, except it is all encrypted so only the person who owns the data can read it (unless of course they decide to make the key public), and you pay for the storage with zcash.
What makes you believe that Google will destroy this deceptive content?
Ad impressions read by who ? Triggering which action ?
Firefighters are getting increasingly frustrated with drones
In theory a convoluted solution could, in practice not so much.
Richard Branson: We are what we repeatedly do
Combining blockchain and smart contracts to disrupt the music industry
>A myth of capitalism is that the donkey can reach the carrot hanging from the stick if they work harder

That's the myth of the "American Dream", not Capitalism per se.

Capitalism is more simple, if you have capital, you have control, and with control you can profit.
> Why is that required?

Say, because you want to use that reference cell in two different threads.
There is research that shows that on a casual listen, people believe louder music sounds better. Similarly, people tend to find brighter pictures more appealing at a glance, even though both of these can be fatiguing and cause discomfort. That's why stereo stores (in so much as they still exist) crank up the music to very loud volumes and all the TVs at Best Buy are grossly mis-calibrated.

Unfortunately, most musicians are just hoping you will notice their song when it comes up on the radio, pandora, a friends iPhone and so everyone is incentivized to crank their song to the max.

The thing that bums me out is that there were really good records released in the 2000's that are mastered terribly, and we may never hear a better version. It's one thing when a stooges album is fucked up on re-release, I can always grab the original, there may never be another version of "Is This It".
i do, and i hope other do too. its hard to know who is going to do what when people lie to get elected, but i do my best.
the real world is not strictly typed, i think types are for the compiler rather then humans. Im however a big fan of runtime bound checking so that the program always have a sane state.
I don't think reporters exist in this scenario.
The free plan is only limited to 500 Mb though.
Well, both.

The Libertarian in me thinks we should deregulate the energy market, and that means starting with removing subsidies to fossil fuels and renewables.

My left-leaning political sense thinks we ought nationalise the energy industry as it's too important to leave to the whims of the market, and work out a cost factor to apply to the waste products of energy generation.

My right-leaning political sense says nationalising energy assets would be a disaster and that we need stable base-load energy, because the alternative is untenable.
Thoughts on Hexayurt capitals
Impossible for perfection, but a solution that is 99.9% effective would still be a viable solution. I do it manually with people who sign up for our test system.
Well, they most probably have programmed in Clojure before. Because otherwise introducing re-frame doesn't make too much sense. Plus, you're speaking to the creator or the great Clojure Web framework luminus which I can recommend highly from personal experience in multiple projects.

https://github.com/luminus-framework/luminus
I agree. This leads to burnout and it is not a pattern for a lengthy or successful career. I had to recently take time off in order to recharge from burnout... avoid getting to that point at all costs!
This. A "hack" is the same as a "gambiarra".

In all honesty, my impression is that some admirers of the Brazilian Portuguese language frequently believe there are words and concepts that are exclusive to that language while in reality there's, more often than not, a very good translation in English or other languages.
Temperature Converter for Android
I'm excited by superhuman (https://superhuman.com). Alas I haven't got an invite. Also, dunno if they're going to support my style of email use out of the box (I'm strict adherent to the Andreas Klinger style: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...).
Like craft beer or artesanal cheese?
Quick! Someone should tell Netflix and Apple, that. They've been using Cassandra and Datastax as their main DB for almost a decade.

They're always hiring. You should apply and show them the error of their ways.
Very nice overview, always a pleasure to learn from your real life Lisp experience in the original Lisp environments.

I got mine from endless hours reading the manuals, books and papers from those days, so I sometimes miss a few details.
this is not wrong, but to me, its out of scale. tons of people are getting injured, dying, and unable to live anything resembling a normal life. i just think the need to address that is much greater than the risks you outline. i think we (the usa) can certainly do more to help refugees before that is thrown out of balance.
This is an awesome resource that I keep coming back to again and again. Save this somewhere on your computer so you'll have it handy whenever you see some weird matrix derivative...
This looks like the opposite of IPFS in terms of what gets stored on your computer if you are part of the network.

On IPFS, something gets on your computer only if you decide to let it, and there are blacklists to automatically keep off material you don't want.

On ORC, it seems that encrypted pieces of everything get stored, so you can wind up with all sorts of things you don't want, but on the other hand might be able to deny legal responsibility.
I've been testing ProtonMail for a couple months now in search of a Gmail alternative. What's keeping me from fully switching is support for contacts and calendar syncing as well...

That's where I started looking at FastMail.
I can sympathize, as this recently provoked myself to take a vacation for my mental health to recover. I went to an island with horrible internet and phone service and disconnected.. this helped me restore the fragile work/life balance I require. ^
Kill the free site.
It seems plausible that programming while tired doesn't do a whole lot of damage in itself (more than the usual amount of bugs), provided that you also write unit tests and do code review. This could include self-review: that is, don't check in while tired, and read it over the next morning.

On the other hand, the shortcuts people take while under deadline pressure seem more damaging, and people are more likely to work longer hours when under time pressure. And the cumulative effects of working while tired might result in worse results the next day, even if a single day doesn't do it.

But I'm just speculating. It would be interesting to see a study that tries to distinguish between these different effects.
Google Inbox is really amazing, it groups email automatically and its spam filter is awesome.
Ah, okay. I can see that!
LLVM is a very interesting project when it comes to C++ style. It is very much modern C++, except that they implement quite a lot of stuff themselves (e.g. RTTI and dynamic_cast/dyn_cast). Certainly very well engineered, but I wonder whether some of the techniques are strictly necessary (It works well, so I'm not complaining)
As author of the cited post on HBase lemme clarify:

0. Here are more details on that: http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.de/2013/07/protected-hbase-agai...

1. By default HBase "flushes" the WAL. Flush here means to make sure that at least 3 machines have change in memory (NOT on disk). A datacenter power outage can lose data.

2. As HDFS closes a block it is not by default forced to disk. So as HBase rewrites old data during compactions by default, old data can be lost during a power outage. Again, by default.

3. HDFS should be configured with sync-on-close, so that old data is forced to disk upon compactions (and sync-behind-writes for performance)

4. HBase now has an option to force and a WAL edit (and all previous edits) to disk (that's what I added in said jira).

5. This is post is 4 years old for chrissake :)... Don't base decisions on 4 year old information.

HBase _is_ a database and it will keep your data safe. Unfortunately it requires some configuration and some knowledge.
Since we're on the topic of matrices and linear algebra, here is a tutorial on the basics: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in...
It is so frustrating to see this inane sour grapes mentality. The idea that there is nothing exceptional about attendees at ivy league schools is wholly absurd and betrays a personal ignorance. The schools are extremely selective and offer lucrative scholarships to minorities (and, let's not forget, poor whites as well) such that you do not need to be wealthy or connected to get into something like MIT, but you do need to be technically brilliant.

This is gradually normalizing viewpoint is toxic to society, because our obsession with rich white people is nothing but anti-intellectualism and scapegoating disguised as a seemingly justified class welfare. Does it make it easier to be wealthy? Yes. Does it give imply that no one born into wealth is capable of being meritful? Absolutely not.

And bear in mind that these are the people that build society, and the kind of people I would guess frequent other intellectual bastions like hackernews, where you can experience their brilliance daily and first hand.
AWS accounts require separate email addresses, which may OR MAY NOT happen to be provided by Gmail.
The point being made is that they apparently haven't updated their screenshots in over 10 years, making their product seem dated- a pretty big marketing fail.
I heard Mike Naples from floodgate say that 90% worldwide >$1B exits are on a 50 miles radius from Stanford, I searched but never knew where he got this numbers.
That's not true at all.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/10-useless-human-body-parts-what...
I didn't read the article but I can answer your question: bad
ahappy protonmail user here, too
Technology: A Force for Good, in the Right Hands
Their pricing pages are also a disaster.
I had to drill down a few pages deep to find these epic tables:
http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-1c.html
which presumably could be distilled into 32-bit/64-bit categories plus a maintenance add-on.
Sure we do, that's why we have emissions laws, catalytic converters, and most of the population running on unleaded gasoline.
Tangential, but for the longest time I couldn't figure out why VLC always played music / DVDs at such low volume. Setting the system volume to max and overdriving VLC's volume slider was the only way I could actually hear the soft parts.

Recently I found out about the volume compressor, which with a single check box does exactly the right thing. I asked myself "why the heck isn't this box checked by default?" I think the answer is with audio purists wanting to stem the loudness war.

When reading about CD mastering maxing out the volume, It seems like it is the right decision. Most people do want the loudest setting, no mess with the EQ, compressors, etc. Only a tiny population wants to preserve the fidelity of the amplitude.
Can someone suggest FOSS code for experimentation?
Any free tutorials, notes, books.

Thanks
Duane Blehm, the late Mac shareware author, his source code
Correct, which kind of begs the question, why have the work hours not gone down when society started employing both men and women?