skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now I wonder how long it'll be until someone comes along and eats Imgur's lunch. Imgur is now a community, not just an image host, so there is some value there, but monetizing it from what I understand is a struggle. And a cheap image host alternative is very low cost of entry.

I read somewhere that this particular business goes in a cycle of: dominant player starts trying to monetize, that pisses off the users, one of the users creates a new free/fast/easy-to-use clone and everyone migrates, and then that new company starts running an actual business and wants to monetize, resetting the cycle. I am sure this is the case with more than just image hosting, but image hosting in particular takes like 20 hours and a few hundred bucks to get started and scales very poorly as you get into multiple millions of users.
I probably should have stated that at least with running your mileage my vary. (pun intended)

The elliptical machine gives me shin splints and I don't get a really good cardio work out.

You are right swimming works wonders as well.

Never had any doctor told me not to run, but they all told me to have surgery?

My personal experience is that with some proper exercise and corrective action, the majority of people can beat the need to have significant back surgery. I just want people to know there can be alternatives out there.
> The solution is to not allow the military to lend any assistance to movie productions. Frankly, it's not their job anyways. This is the only way to avoid the kind of influence described in the article.

Unfortunately this 'solution' doesnt facilitate the foreign effect from distributing these films abroad to spread positive american sentiment and further the goals of the US govt and Hollywood and corporations (product placment for starters, mindshare, etc), so it is 'inferior'..
Indeed. I love my iPad Mini and I use it for pdf's quite regularly (GoodReader is great for this), but it's just a tad too small to comfortably read A4-size documents, even on a retina screen. For many eBooks this is fine, but scientific papers are usually A4 and can be hard to read and annotate.

In some cases this can be fixed by cutting the margins, but aside from a certain unpleasantness I feel reading an almost-marginless document, it's often still not enough to comfortably read.

So for the most part, whenever possible, I go for ePub documents using Marvin (also an excellent app), and I print the larger documents.

It's one of the main reasons I'm considering getting a normal-sized iPad though.
> (it doesn't matter if your invoke undefined behavior if the only compiler you use at your optimization level does what you want)

I mean, in one sense you're right, but UB can make even trivial maintenance absolute hell even if you stick to the exact same build toolchain.
The line between folly and scam is not absolutely sharp.

It's like murder. There's first degree premeditated murder, crimes of passion, insanity, and manslaughter. Manslaughter can in some cases be charged for gross negligence, or the death can occur as a result of another crime where murder was not the intent.

Scams can be similar. A pure scam is like first degree murder. The scammer(s) plan it as a scam and execute it with intent. But sometimes a failure or misadventure can evolve into a scam.

This happens when those behind it double down in the face of clear evidence of total non-viability. When the tech doesn't work for fundamental reasons, nobody is truly interested, etc., but the operators keep ratcheting up the salesmanship and doubling down, they are heading into scam territory.

You see this a lot with quack medicines backed by people with actual medical degrees. Sometimes a doctor or researcher comes up with an idea and then their ego gets into it. They start fantasizing about being the greatest genius in medicine, the person who cured cancer, etc. So even when the data comes in and shows that their treatment doesn't work any better than placebo they refuse to "see" this. Their ego won't let them and they delude themselves. Over time they devolve much like Walter White from Breaking Bad, going from legitimate doctor to quack. It's rarely a sudden thing.
No it's not. Software is not even in the top ten of US exports
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That's because PT is evidence-based: http://www.apta.org/EvidenceResearch/
I agree with you.

Not just because tidyverse is "easier" but also because it teaches the right mental constructs to think about data.

I think beginners should spend a lot of time just thinking about normalization (Normal form and all that good stuff), and tidyverse directly encourages that.

There are some interviewers who want to test people's knowledge in the base language (particularly with Javascript), and I haven't understood that since you'll constantly be learning new libraries. It would be better to throw people an entirely new library and ask them to figure out how to use it.
Also the endless monologues where the speaker is just so correct that no one can dare question what they are saying and the target of the monologue is left speechless with just how wrong they were.

Same thing happened with The Newsroom, it's a Sorkin trademark. Although the heavy-handedness was relaxed with season two.
I’ve wanted this specifically for terms and conditions documents for a long while... any thoughts on it’s applicability to this subject; so many legal document sections are the same but you can’t just copy them.
I really agree with this. It has always disturbed me when a push for female developers is mentioned; a company should be focused on acquiring the best developers they can, not finding ones of a specific gender. This behaviour is literally an example of the problem it is trying to resolve. To the company I work for, I am a software engineer, not a man or woman.
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Pdf games? Do you have an example you could send me, perhaps? I'm really curious.
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Why?

Amazon is THE marketplace to sell on. They don't need to keep adding features. Sellers are welcome to take their business elsewhere but don't have any reasonable alternative.
>How many useful die per wafer? Is there a ballpark yield for 14nm?

~550/580
> Physically it's very simple

Claiming weight loss is "simple" is like claiming that climbing Mount Everest is simple because you simply put one foot in front of the other and repeat until you reach the top
Ok, I get it, do not mock The Law of Accelerating Returns.
Watching from the sidelines as a white male, I have to say that I find these kinds of situations so confusing. Some people want these differences to be highlighted, while others like yourself want the complete opposite. I'm left believing that my only choice is to have no opinion. Though I lean towards your stance across the board.
"A gimmick is a novel device or idea designed primarily to attract attention or increase appeal, often with little intrinsic value."

> Contract applications in need of blockchain immutability can store and retrieve data on the Etheruem blockchain

> A new kind of cryptocurrency based on tokenized quantum signatures to use as payment for service offered on the platform.

> Build contract apps that can scale easily. Launch multiple instances and share tasks between them.

And I still can't think of a single use case. Also there's a spelling mistake in the first sentence of the white paper.
BPM software is excellent for selling to CIO/C-Suites types, they tend to have a vocabulary that uses business jargon instead of technical jargon which is attractive to business people. The actual product capability matters little after that.
Good point!
Sorry if my Call sounds repulsive.
Your idea with creating publications in multiple format works. I will update my post for that.
Though, in my post, I want to highlight that usually simple solutions works fine. Most of this publications are not complex in terms of typesetting. If there is an objective for complex typesetting than fair enough.
Their privacy policy says they aren't in the business of selling user information. They also say they do not share information with third parties for the purpose of enabling them to deliver their advertisements to you.

https://www.grammarly.com/privacy-policy
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Thank you!

Terry Gilliam has made some great movies (although I found Tideland too intense to watch). This one is now on the top of my to-watch list.
Number 1 reason for your back pain is almost definitely having to do with the size of your gut in front of it.
What a scary statement.

First: you make a false dichotomy: one can be behind troops without a hagiographic approach to discussing the military (or any subject). In fact the best way to support troopers is to keep them out of harm's way. Consider WWII in Europe: Eisenhower set the invasion a year later than the other allies wanted in order to manage the supply chain better (supporting the troops) and to make sure the real bleeding of the enemy was done by non-US troops. In terms of materiel and logistics, the US won the war in Europe; in terms of fighting, the Russians unquestioningly did. Excellent call by the US if you ask me.

Second: there are other means of being a superpower than military might (which is only one tool in the toolbox....and as history has shown, usually not the right one). If you don't criticize the military, how can you reasonably discuss tradeoffs between military intervention / negotiation / economic hegemony / ignoring the issue?

And I know it's just an HN comment, but the phrase "the military is acting in the citizens best interest" is worrisome on its face: the military should be under civilian control and thus acting in the interests the citizens have specified. The military is the organization that should act in its own interests the least since it has the weapons.
I would think such things are OK because if people saw it in a fictional movie that doesn't say "based on true events" at the beginning they may be inclined to believe it didn't really happen.
The iPhone is now a 10 year old device still selling like crazy. Thanks for the link.
I flew a round-trip on Turkish (Atlanta-Istanbul-Vienna, then Budapest-Istanbul-Atlanta) while the ban was in effect. The ban was only in effect on the Istanbul to Atlanta flight. I believe I could have carried a laptop on the Budapest-Istanbul flight and "gate-checked" it at Istanbul; I didn't see anyone do this, but my carry-on bag was searched at the gate so I suppose that's when it would have happened. See http://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2017/04/19/guide-elec... for an example of how this gate checking may have worked.
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Maybe when you've got too many of them, but Mobike has just arrived in Manchester, UK and I've tried it a couple of times. I really like it and am impressed with how well it actually works. They just need to deploy more bikes so that it is easier for me to find one during busy periods.
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But Rust is where it's taken to the extreme (use on memory resource), and used to prevent a class of UBs (use-after-free, double-free, dangling pointer...)
Footage of Volvo and the kangaroos from a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YiZ0aHINBI
There are some elements of this already; WEEE makes it supposedly slightly more expensive to make disposable products, and a ban on smart cartridges that wear out early without being refillable: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/30/eu_tells_hp_et_al/
Whose browser and OS is logging keystrokes? OSX/Windows users with IE/Edge/Safari? Are you insinuating that Google has a patch which integrates keylogging in their Chrome builds of Chromium?

I typically use Chromium on OpenBSD, am I being keylogged. I'm pretty sure we all have a choice, and many of us choose convenience over privacy.
That stood out to me as well, but not in a positive way. Their sole example of the sort of proactive scheming and weaving I was expecting from our spooks, and it happened in the 40s/50s? Again it sounds scary on the face of it, but I'm just not quite feeling it.
It's relevant but not really what I was looking for, I mean one that actually went to court.

I do find it somewhat sad though that a company with the resources of Reuters wouldn't be willing to go to bat for an employee. Seems like employees are so interchangeable these days that businesses can openly not give a fuck about them, just can the ones who present mild legal issues and move on to the next ones.
Not sure cheating, lying and skirting regulations are a fact of capitalism so much as a fact of any economic system. Many Soviet factories lied to meet quotas, both numerical and qualitative.
I'm currently considering getting an iPad pro 12" for reading piano partitions. I'm sick of the stacks of large heavy old books laying on my piano and muffling the sound.

Does anyone here have a similar experience for that use case ? An iPad Pro seems large enough, but I don't really know. I've seen the Sony dpt-s2, but it seems very expensive given its limitations.
Now that I think about it I'm kind of surprised that browser don't natively show EPUB files.
I've seen blind CS students use a combination of braille displays and screen readers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
Aggregating Reddit comments with golang and visualizing with d3
Consider Bernay's book "Propaganda"

(BTW Bernays was Freud's nephew).
> the software makes the hardware unusable or insecure because of the lack of updates pretty quickly.

Or, alternatively, the (practically) mandatory updates make the previously perfectly fine phone slow to the point of being unusable.

I'm saying that the updates are practically mandatory because if you don't apply them, your apps gradually stop working (as they cannot talk to their respective server backends, which are being updated without maintaining backcompat) - and of course, the current version of the app requires the current(ish) version of iOS. This all amounts to an engineered obsolescence of millions of perfectly good phones.
Not answering your question directly, but I don't think you can compare calorie restriction with fasting in that way. Over time, reducing calories by 15% just causes your body to lower its metabolic rate accordingly (see Biggest Loser contestants), while fasting turns off the digestive system completely, allowing the body to focus on other tasks. That's when you get benefits like persistent low insulin levels, autophagy, etc.

In other words, if you have 1000 calories to eat over two days, you're better off fasting entirely one day and eating the 1000 calories in one meal the second day rather than many small snacks over the two day period.
I think the format itself could be ok, but not in its current format.

The PDF header can be anywhere in the document. This makes parsing for bad content harder. (Also, you can have a valid pdf that is also a valid zip with the contents being the original file. How do you virus scan this?)

To many old image formats allowed, with readers only supporting a subset. Tiff alone has a bunch of options that are often broken. What happens when you put a multipage tiff in a pdf? (I think you just see the first page in Reader but some other reader might allow you browse them)

Lots of features in later versions that are not well supported. (forms, document libraries, scripting?)

It has been while since I left the document area but while I liked simple PDFs, once you say you support them, you have to support all of them which is almost impossible to do correctly. The later specs just have too many features that are almost unused but add a lot of complexity that really isn't needed in a portable document format. A stripped down/cleaned up version of the spec would be nice.
To be fair, Apocalypse Now didn't come out until 1979, four years after the war's end and twenty four years after the war's start. Though 15 years after official US involvement. So, depending on how you count it, we still have some time :)
Falling demand, really?

"After delivering 25,051 vehicles during the first quarter, it pushes deliveries to “approximately 47,100” according to the company. [For the year.] It represents a 53% increase over deliveries during the same period last year and both Model S and Model X deliveries were higher than during Q2 2016"

Maybe a plateau could be argued looking at the graph here.

https://electrek.co/2017/07/03/tesla-delivers-vehicles/
Agreed. Software and hardware should be sold separately.
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As in some many things regarding politics (in a broad sense of the word), my favorite take on this is by Yes, Minister, specifically the "Equal Opportunities" episode, which overall goes much in the same line as this article. Of course, the irony being that it was written by a man.

By the way, if you're interested, I beg you not to read the synopsis. Unlike most, this show has actual actors playing the parts, and they provide a much richer experience than just knowing the story.
While we are focusing on Facebook, Google etc. for breaking our privacy to extract data and pass it to third parties, we are willing to use Grammarly, CloudFlare and CrashPlan, pay for it and use it while hoping they will not work with security services. We need much more transparency it seems.
>Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?

Aside from the CCP wanting to maintain its control in-land, there's this little real issue, that 80% the internet is mostly controlled from a handful of companies, all in the hands of foreign nationals (who are all "patriotic" and all reside in countries other than China).

That is, things like search, social media, etc services are not a neutral international ground, but mostly dominated by a single country's companies. Those foreign countries get to siphon the data, dictate what's acceptable, promote their culture, viewpoints and national interests 24/7, censor or bury what they don't like, etc.

So, while lesser countries might bend over and take it, it makes sense for a country that is a superpower in itself, and has billions of people, to take control of its own web and have its own search, social media, etc -- orthogonally to if they censor them or not.

Ask yourselves: if Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft where e.g. Russian or Chinese, would the US (as a state and as citizens) be using them them all the same?
Easy to say when your site has almost no functionality besides just displaying some info ;), Elvish is software you download and install, not a web app.
Unpopular opinion:

I think when you're in a minority and you are not rising to the top as fast as you expect, you use your minority as leverage to propel yourself.

I am also in a minority. I've often felt cheated that my career isn't Musk-esque. And sometimes I even ask the question, "Am I being held back because I'm [in my minority]?"

Then I snap back to reality.

It's not the minority that holds you back. It's a class system.
> Broadcom can torpedo this if it starts impinging on their own business in some way. That's not the kind of power you want to hand to somebody when you are trying to promulgate something.

Not really - if broadcom torpedos it, tomorrow the raspi guys buy Mediatek or Allwinner chips instead or we switch to a different board maker. They don't go bust on the spot and almost everything software wise would remain the same even on a different board. Plenty of similar boards are already using these other chips, there's lots of competition in the ARM SoC space.