skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I heard about it at Radiolab first, but thought it was better to share here one of the linked written article.
What Halo thing? I'm always up to hear about new podcasts. Thanks!
Summarize how it changed my belief system (or gave it a dent)? Or summarize the video? Ok, here's a summary: the video is just one of the most watchable things I've come across.
Typically Bitcoin-only, but in the past 1-2yrs Monero (XMR) has gained acceptance in certain large venues. I'm not sure, but I suspect your parent commenter may be referring to the large amount of darknet commerce that does not take place using cryptocurrency?
I've automated deployment of my side project. When I merge a pr in github to master it will pull the new build and restart any process that's changed.
How Andy Serkis Plays a Talking Chimp
An excellent player with a ton of great features. However I'm not sure if it ever caught up to VLC in terms of performance. Specifically it was around 10x slower at seeking in H.264 video compared to VLC. When used on low performance machine (Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz + 7200 rpm HDD), this resulted in a sub-second seek time in VLC compared to over 5 seconds in MPC-HC when viewing 10Mbit bitrate video. Especially annoying when I wanted to rewatch a single moment over and over again.
QUEBEC SUMMER FESTIVAL IN JULY 2017- the Biggest Music Festival
Battery Free Phone
It's not only a bit silly (I wouldn't say "insane"), it's trite even if it were true. It's the tech wold equivalent of "folksy wisdom" about working hard. There's sort of a truism about it, but it's not useful in the sense that anyone can use it meaningfully.
Glove is great. Simpler and faster with a very small trade off for quality. Word2vec has an advantage in that you can produce document vectors with only a small change in the network infrastructure. Tf-idf weighted word vector averages will probably be the best you can do using glove.
Mid-market near the big tech offices feels way more sketchy than anywhere in Oakland west of the lake.
Yes, I agree with you. And plain old arrays or switch statements are the simplest format that I know, understood by developers of (almost) any background.
In the US, all these things are strongly correlated: Living in non-rural areas; anti-globalist sentiment; religiosity; support for Christianity in schools and government, including as guiding principles for domestic law and international policies; distrust of higher education; and lower amounts of travel.

The analogies are there.
>> You only added shell script SSH executor to your toolbelt

> You've said this enough that I'll push back. That's definitely wrong. [...] For one, [Ansible] checks the current state of the system it is configuring to determine whether or not software needs to be installed.

So you claim that Ansible learns the state of the system through some magic
that is not possible to be called from shell? Because I could do pretty much
the same in a shell script just fine.

I've seen a different paradigm for managing servers, I thought about it for
a long time figuring out the differences from a shell script, and this is not
where they are.

> I'm not even sure your claim [the approach doesn't scale] is true considering that there are some pretty big companies using Ansible

There are many big companies that throw money at dumb processes only to make
them running, so this argument is pretty weak.

> [Ansible] was recommended to me by someone who is one of the better programmers I have met in my long career.

You see, precisely this is the issue here. It was recommended to you by
a programmer. You should have asked a sysadmin, because this is where
these tools come from and whose tasks they do. For some strange reason,
programmers tend to avoid tools available to sysadmins, which is a quite big
blind spot (even more so, since it's usually unrealized blind spot).
I automated my wedding seating cards and plan.

I managed invitations as a CSV (who had been invited, who responded yes and no, addresses and dietary requirements).

I designed the placecards and seating plan as SVG in inkscape with special text I used as {templating parameters}.

I could then produce all my place cards and seating plan from a simple simple script. This was handy when guests changed their RSVP a week out from the wedding when I had little free time and I could make a change instantly. (Although admittedly I spent more time getting the layout right for the seating chart than if I had done it by hand).
Maybe it's time for mpc-qt: https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt

It reimplements mpc-hc UX using qt for the UI and libmpv for the heavy lifting. The issue with this one is that it doesn't have public builds yet, but it has been in active development for years.
They were using Plutonium 238, which is the most common RTG fuel. The Wikipedia page on RTGs has a fairly comprehensive overview of the possible candidate fuels[1]; one advantage of 238Pu is that it requires the least amount of shielding, an important consideration when launching things into space.

Pages 101-105 of the termination report I linked to above have the power output curves for the various RTGs, showing the decay curve (1 lunation ~= 1 month).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/
A couple of other cool features in the works are

- Add goals and ability to track weight

- CSV export, take your data and use excel to make your own charts if you're looking for something specific

- Youtube links to videos for exercises for proper form.

A really cool long term feature would be to use some ML to allow exercise discovery / make workout recommendations based on goals.

All feedback is welcome!

(Edit: formatting)
This thread has very low quality discussion. MOst of you have no clue of what you're talking about.
Interesting, do you have more information about what you're doing there?
Damn. I remember all the debates on /a/ (4chan anime board) on what are the best options and presets... for watching anime. Looking back it was kind of silly but we were able to do that because the player was so well built.

On Linux/macOS I use mpv - I recommend it!
Will SpaceX become the world's biggest telecoms provider? Probably.
Regardless of whether you are being sarcastic or not, you aren't really saying anything informative or provocative; this is probably why you are being downvoted
Please, before comparing Poland or Hungary to Turkey take some time and do a basic research.
Bridge traffic + BART congestion means that it's easier for me as a resident of San Francisco to visit Palo Alto than Oakland.

Maybe not how it should be, but certainly how it is; with a new Bay crossing slated for 2040 at the earliest it'll be like that for a while.
So previously, there was a law that said "it is a felony to carry a firearm in public, except as follows...", or something to that effect.

Now there is no such law.

I sincerely don't understand how you can view the removal of a law as "bigger government."
Wow, that's fascinating. On the pulley cutting mechanism, what kind of material is being used to cut the marble? Never seen anything like that before!
What important things should I know before investing in a tech startup?
I'm only a fan of the original 26 years, but isn't the Doctor limited to 12 regenerations?

The rebooted Doctor Who seems too Americanized. Maybe it's the 1 hour story format. I much prefer the Tom Baker years.
Going to second SMPlayer. My daily driver over VLC easily.
Ask HN: What can an engineer do in southern Africa?
I'm an electronic/embedded engineer, and would like to put my skills to use in southern Africa. I have no contact or knowledge of the industry there. My question for HN is this: what are the greatest unmet engineering needs in southern Africa? How can a humble engineer contribute?

Any info would be super appreciated!
That's part of why I made the comment I did. 15 years ago, I was starting a small little MicroISV. Rather than focus on the product, I focused on building a Scheme interpreter I was going to use to build the product. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a great deal that has stuck with me today. But it didn't result in a better product and it didn't result in a successful business.

(I'm not saying remacs is the same thing by any means, but the relationship between effort expended and the type of value realized is something I've become more attuned to the older I get. Maybe it's a mild mid-life crisis, but I'm pretty cognizant these days that there's an upper bound on the length of time we have available.)
Any activity that requires running iTunes on my Mac is a non starter.
Can you use external renderers like madVR in mpc-qt?
That's how STARS are born!
> for what purpose?

For the same purpose we have kids, to propagate life and our genes. Earth might will be around forever, and in the mean time we may or may not be able to habitate other planets ourselves.

So why not spread life to other planets anyway we can?
They had the Time Lords grant him another set (which is an ability that the Time Lords were known to have from the original show).
Very interesting, thanks for responding.
Without soldering skills: wildlife motion camera or something like that, depends on version it can send mms or email. Or if you want save more, buy lights with motion sensors and put how much as you can just remember burglars hate light
> Its internals are fundamentally different and not a derivative work.

That would be a strong defence to a copyright claim. We're talking about patents, where there is no concept of "derivative works", and what matters isn't implementations but broad concepts.

> Software interfaces cannot be patented

Right, but what makes Preact concerning isn't that it offers the same API, but that it is built using the same underlying concepts.

Preact renders independent, encapsulated, nested, functional-ish components, usually but not always written in JSX, into a virtual DOM. Components are rerendered to the virtual DOM when their inputs change, and then diffing is used to efficiently sync the virtual DOM with the browser DOM.

If Facebook has some sort of patent covering the virtual DOM (although thankfully as far as I know, they don't), it's hard to see how it would not also cover Preact. And this is true even if, as I assume is the case, Preact shares 0 lines of code with React.

Edit: To be clear, I don't believe the patent situation is concerning, I think Preact is a great project, and I may well be using it in production soon. But if I was worried about Facebook's patent portfolio, I would be worried about using Preact.
This made me curious enough to google it.

Maybe this?

http://huntthetruth.tumblr.com/tagged/s1
I doubt it. Mpc according to many on doom9 and other video player forums in combination with madvr filters provided objectively better quality frames. They post side by side comparison pictures in high resolution and mpc comes out as a better choice if you care about picture quality. Also about performance I don't think mpc is as bloated as vlc is and recall many having complaints of vlc using a lot of ram and cpu whereas mpc seems pretty lightweight. I can't stress enough how much vlc is losing out on not having madvr equivalent add on type to enhance picture quality though, the hardware utilization to push out the perfect pixel is nuts, not to mention built in smooth motion
At the end of Matt Smith's reign, the Time Lords popped in from Gallifrey and granted him some extra lives.
You may want to change the wording on the "Why Ewolo?" page. At a glance, it looks like you are saying it is: platform specific, not user friendly, and not flexible.

That may just be for users like me who see the title, then go straight to reading the bullet points.
>Reason has so often been the refuge of the enemies of empiricism. That it shouldn't be this way is true, but careful you don't fall into a "No true Scotsman argument," here; since the complementary view is not an accurate look either at history or of much of academia now, in my experience. Too-quickly assuming complentarity (as de facto true or worse logically true) is precisely how many people fall into the trap of conflating the two very distinct things.

The thing is, what academia or those people you mention say about Reason and/or Empiricism doesn't matter that much.

It's what people (e.g. actual scientists doing research) do that matters. And what they do is clearly using them complementary.

Just because there are theories that posit that it's either all A or all B, and people ascribe to them, it doesn't mean that it's indeed all A or all B. Or that a pure A/pure B even exists.
> gotta buy the things you gotta buy, when you gotta buy them

I would add, I think it's usually best to wait until the need is crystal clear. "We think we're going to need this in a few months" is not generally a good reason to spend money now, even if the case seems airtight. Circumstances can change. Of course the exception is when the purchase is needed to start a chain of events that you need to initiate, even though it won't come to fruition for a while.
No... those lines still have to be maintained and kept in sync, otherwise you end up with bugs. So it's not over counting, because there is still work associated with these different implementations
W3C just fragmented the open internet with DRM – here's how we can fix it
I've been a happy PocketCasts user for years so maybe a bit biased here, but I think they handled this really well.
Cool, I'm always sceptical of whoever they choose for the next Doctor but they usually make a good choice.

For me, the actor is the least concern, what the series really needs is some better writing.
That's a good way of putting it, and I think he would actually agree with you on that. I was at his "Event driven architecture" talk at Goto Chicago where he talked about four patterns that can show up in something you might call event driven. He didn't presume to be inventing anything, just categorizing some patterns that have been recognized before, with the intent of clearing up some of the haziness/hype that occurs when someone says they have an event driven architecture.
I've been thinking about automating this myself. Which Saas is it? ("another SaaS that will let me download a zip file containing all invoices from a date range.")
"The only other option is to compile Qt, but that is hardly an option as it’s really difficult to compile an actually working Qt with all components. The last times I tried, I failed, wasting days compiling."

Is there any chance that Qt will ever be split up and modularized the way xorg has been?
I was part of a startup where the founders were older and the team was older. The technical competence and the competence of the team were amazing but I wouldn't characterize the team as "working like animals." However, the founders were pretty loaded and put in the initial 1-2M. We had a pretty good exit after less than 2 years.
I don't really feel safe in either mid market (tenderloin) or patches of Oakland, and I live here
Wordpress is bloated and I really want to get away from it. I understand if you can make a web app that works, it doesn't really matter what it's running on.

I just want to know if there's a specific starting place?
It would be very interesting to know how you've gone about automating those things.
I wouldn't say much has changed haha https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/61406534
https://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/85034716
While the points Ron raises are really good, there is another source of investing error which is "generals fighting the last war" effect. As an Angel investor you are drawn towards founders and companies that resemble you and your experiences. This is almost certainly going to lead you astray as conditions will have changed and everyone's experiences are so limited.
Well, it's a marathon, not a sprint. A CEO that isn't taking care of him/herself isn't taking the long view. Sacrificing your health and not making time for thinking big thoughts is a bad way to lead a company.
Saying this because I didn't know it for years: Fourmilab isn't a "they", it's just the personal website of John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and a fantastically interesting person. Not to be confused with "fermilab" of course, which is a United States national lab that does high-energy particle physics.

There are a ton of very interesting things on his site, including a DIY RNG that uses a radioactive source and an event counter: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware.html

I wonder if anyone else has built a similar device to this, it seems like it'd be very popular among hackers.
That's good advice - I will think about how to redo the text then. Thank you!
~$ gsmsendsms -h
gsmsendsms: [-b baudrate][-c concatenatedID][-C sca][-d device][-h][-I init string]
[-t][-v][-X] phonenumber [text]

-b, --baudrate baudrate to use for device (default: 38400)
-c, --concatenate ID for concatenated SMS messages
-C, --sca SMS service centre address
-d, --device sets the destination device to connect to
-h, --help prints this message
-I, --init device AT init sequence
-r, --requeststat request SMS status report
-t, --test convert text to GSM alphabet and vice
versa, no SMS message is sent
-v, --version prints version and exits
-X, --xonxoff switch on software handshake

phonenumber recipient's phone number
text optional text of the SMS message
if omitted: read from stdin

(it's in the gsm-utils package)
There's a PocketCasts mobile app on Android that works reasonably well (can't figure out how to set >1x speed) and syncs progress. It should be included with price of web app, imo, but it's cheap enough for the pair that I was ok with it. You have to then carry headphones, and still have to pause, so that seems unsatisfying.

Consider getting Chromecast Audios and cheap speakers through your house and creating logical groupings (e.g. I have an "everywhere" group, and common room paths + destinations for various things, like Living Room through Hallway to Bathroom), and using the Cast feature of PocketCasts. Much cheaper than Sonos, etc. and you probably have a bunch of speakers anyway. Also Google Homes double as a good enough speaker in annoying rooms that don't have many outlets, if you're ok with having a microphone in those rooms, and they obviously synergize well with the Chromecast Audios.
If you use the PocketCaster Chrome app, media keys work fine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pocketcaster/jmlel...
Is there any reason not to just release it anyway? Users know the risks with using an unofficial app. Even though they reached out via Twitter with a polite "No," why not counter with a polite "I understand the issues, but I'd still like to release this"?

It sounds like Pocket Casts are rather overstating their case. The dev put a lot of work into it. Unless they get a lot of traction, none of the concerns seem to matter much. And if they do get traction, it informs Pocket Cast what they should be building.
Does not have NGU
As an European, it seems amazing that you even need to automate half of this stuff/that it is a perk of a single bank.

Over here nearly everything recurring is done with direct debit, in which you authorize corporations to directly and automatically withdraw funds from your bank account, and it's a required feature if you want to connect to the European payment system. (don't worry, you can charge it back in case of errors or malice)
At what time of day? Currently Google maps shows a 20 minute drive from SOMA to downtown Oakland vs 40 minutes to PA. If you're trying to use public transit obviously the difference will be even greater.
Probably the "getting people's accounts locked" part, which might be too big a risk.
That doesn't happen because you don't let them have the credential vault keys. In fact no humans get them; just the build and deployment pipeline.
Nice! Even as a native speaker it's fun :)

Would love a French version too
Spotify just needs to host more podcasts... I have become obsessed with how convenient it is to cast Spotify to my wifi speakers, phone, computer and back and forth. Easy to switch where it's playing by changing in the the mobile or desktop UI. Constantly switching between phone/speakers when moving around the house, or leaving the house.
Gawker published a video of someone having sex, that was recorded without their consent. They then refused to take it down when ordered by a Federal judge. That's almost as scummy as it gets.

They deserved to loose the court case, and made it much worse by ignoring the judge. The only surprise was the amount of the damages awarded.
He could sell it for a good bit of money, I guess. But I think he still has the domain from what later turned into Paypal.
i have been lucky - multiple exits, 1 unicorn (and more importantly half a dozen fails)...and in that experience stingy always wins in hindsight. if it doesn't feel painfully stingy, be more stingy. the future You will thank you every single time, regardless of outcome.
Apple Music has some things Spotify doesn't have, some out of the control of Spotify Inc, some they choose to ignore:

- Siri integration (this is Apple's fault, no reason not to open SiriKit to music services)

- An Apple TV App (This is on Spotify, it's been asked for forever)

- An Apple Watch App (This is also on Spotify, but there are rumors it's coming soon)

But there are some real downsides to Apple Music vs Spotify:

- Apple Music's playlists aren't as good, community playlists are tough to find. I've found links to Spotify playlists filled with interesting music, no luck for Apple Music.

- Apple Music's radio is subjectively worse. Repeats far too often.

- iTunes is a travesty and I'm forced to use it to listen on my desktop. It's slow, ugly, tough to navigate, terrible to search. It does 500 things and none of them well.

- The Apple Music app on iOS isn't much better. UI is scattershot and it is tough to do some things that shouldn't be.

- No cross-device play state sync. For example, if I start listening to a playlist on Spotify I can start at the same point in the song and pick up exactly where I was on any other device.

- Social integration - I can send Spotify previews to people via Facebook Messenger, and Spotify integrates with other social stuff. Apple Music is all by itself.

I think a big issue that Apple will run into is that they insist on tying releases of Apple Music to iOS releases. Spotify can release new versions whenever they want, but because Apple didn't announce something like cross device state sync there's no chance I'll get it until at least next year.

I have both Spotify and Apple Music, but I'm not 100% happy with either.
I think that users knowing the risks of using an unofficial app is a bad assumption.

PocketCasts has many options for blocking the apps use. They can simple secure / update their API regularly, thus breaking the tool or they can simply send him a cease and desist for violating their IP and ToS.

PocketCasts would not want this app to exist, because they will be the ones that will have to deal with the influx of support tickets and customer problems related to this unsupported app.
Network of Thrones: Visualizing the Complex World of Westeros
Dev hiring matrix for nontechnical founders
Castro is discussed in the OP article..
BTC itself won't replace USD or kill America. A crypto-currency successor to BTC that eliminates the frictions for using BTC as a full replacement for fiat eventually could, however.

BTC is a fascinating social experiment, truly. It offers a glimpse into the future of money, as well as a modern-day manifestation of tulip mania.
If you want to do word vector similarity search, try the "annoy" library from Spotify. It's much much faster than Gensim. https://github.com/spotify/annoy
XHP is after my time with PHP, so no, but that's a fine way to handle that to me. (And it reminds me, too, of JSX, which I really like.)
C's a major PITA to use too, it's just less up-front about it. C++ is a little more up-front, but also has its own minefields.