skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information saved locally is the main way sites such as google identify you (cookies mainly).

If you open an incognito window for all your searches, do not signin and close it right after, search engine will not associate your searches with you.

This is not enough to protect you from an evil company or government, but will affect which ads are presented to you, your search results, and should prevent your name from being associated with those searches should that search company date be compromised.
I think they mean Nix terminal work. APL & J obviously win hands down as overal one-liner kings. Can Dyalog be used via the terminal in that manner? I'm guessing so, but never seen it used outside the IDE.
Yes, I think understanding that there's a fundamental difference between the operation of parsing a language and "naive call-and-for-loop programming" is very important. Most naive efforts to parse a language starting with no knowledge simply fail (and that can include, say, things efforts to validate a file name in a somewhat complex file system or to parse a packet in a network protocol).

In college, it took me a bit of time to understand what a formal language really was and what the difference between a parser and a simple string processor was and when I arrived in industry, I notice this were something a certain proportion of otherwise experienced programmers simply did not understand this.
I'm happy with the abstraction that https://www.contentful.com/ provides; be it a personal static site or more complex integrations which involves multiple content feeds. You get to define a content model and then just create away [within the limits of said model]. Their pricing is fair too (read: free for most).

Edit: Downside(s) would include that $webmaster has to figure out whether to render content at browser or though "ssr".
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Only that most people program in GHC, not Haskell.
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So instead use a heuristic based on the wording of the marketing? I'd rather just say there isn't enough evidence to decide yet and leave it at that.
IBM's actual mainframe-product manuals (hardware and software) were frighteningly thorough, as I recall... even those that were probably read in detail a few hundred times (ever, anywhere) at most.
Yeah, but you can't tell as a purchaser.
Lektor (https://www.getlektor.com) is a static site generator with a simple admin interface (with WYSIWYG editor for markdown) which can be run locally. Publishing can also be done via a button in the UI. For even more user-friendliness, the site can be stored in Dropbox, so the user doesn't even need to know git.
That's what the civil court system is for. Nothing invisible about that hand. They are in a world of $#!+ if anyone receives permanent eye damage from counterfeit glasses purchased on Amazon, especially if their insane "inventory commingling" policy turns out to be implicated.

The article only talks about the sun appearing too bright through counterfeit glasses, but the real hazard is a pair of glasses that blocks out enough visible light to allow your pupils to dilate, letting in plenty of the UV they don't block.
This blog proves the point of the initial tweet.

VCs are founder-friendly until they have to side with the company.

VCs are company-friendly until they have to side with their LPs.
That seems like exactly the gap Netlify wants to fill with their Netlify CMS (and a bunch of other options, depending on your exact needs).
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That's what we did in elementary school last time it happened in our area years ago. I believe we used a shoe box, took off the lid, poked a pin hole on one side and viewed it.

Here's a link to it's construction.

https://www.livescience.com/33906-solar-eclipse-viewer.html

I'd say the box the glasses come in from Amazon is probably more useful than the glasses in many cases. :)
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No one person has that kind of power. Also, our species will be fine, but civilization may not be.
> But there is another important participant in the VC/entrepreneur relationship and that is the Company the entrepreneur creates and all of its stakeholders; the employees, the customers, the suppliers, and even the community around the Company.

The stakeholders are - the employees! The customers! The suppliers! The community!

He makes it sound like that anarcho-syndicalist commune in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I guess it slipped his mind to mention - the VCs! The LPs! The LPs looking for their exponential unicorn returns within ten years.

Benchmark is alluded to, and Benchmark has a long history now where you can look into their machinations on boards - Uber. Twitter. Epinions.

An LP is an LP. VCs have a few decorative ones for PR, but ultimately the LPs are just the LPs - the real ones.

There are those who work and create wealth. There are also those that do not work - like LPs. Rentiers who expropriate surplus labor time from those of us who do work. Since the dawn of civilization there has been a tug of war between those who do work and those rentiers who do not. This is yet another occurrence of the tug of that rope from one side to the other. Today it is Uber, but it has been a host of other companies before, and if they have the ability they will be pulling the rug out from those who built the company again in the future.

Wilson's doggerel here is a transparent apology for what is ultimately rentier parasitism. Parasitism on those of us who work by those who do not.
> There's a big difference between "biological suitability" and "biological inclination", at least when it comes to tone

He mentions aptitude in the essay:

"I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."

He also fumbles over his description of this in one of his interviews [1].

> People, maybe fairly, have been criticizing Damore for his writing prowess.

Yeah, words matter, particularly when you're claiming your essay is representative of current science, and that you were a PhD student.

[1] https://youtu.be/TN1vEfqHGro?t=30m13s
> the Amazon seller I used is listed

If it was "fulfilled by Amazon", it doesn't matter what seller you chose, you could have been sent a counterfeit item from another seller.

Sellers using fulfillment-by-Amazon send their stock to Amazon's warehouse, where it gets thrown in the same bin as all the other stock of that item from everyone else selling it. When it gets pulled to ship to you, there's no guarantee you get one that came from the authorized seller, versus a counterfeit someone else sent in with the same SKU.

Sellers can opt-out of commingling inventory at extra cost but most don't. Given you got a proactive refund, that seller probably has commingled inventory with everyone else, and Amazon is worried they sent you a fake that'll get someone injured and cause them liability.
Because amazon hasn't been sued enough to care yet.
Good luck if you use the North Concord station, whose parking lot is going away altogether.
> The NYT chose to publish this in full. They bear responsibility for what they choose to put on their pages.

No. Newspapers don't "bear responsibility" for opinion sections or letters to the editor.

They publish them because they find the opinions relevant, not because they condone or support the content. The NYT frequently published highly opposing opinions together.
Yes, ^this^ one.
stupid question, but the AI/neural net these days require training right? look at what happened to microsoft's AI bot that turned rogue after just a few days and had to be turned off
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an amp link to an article from 2015

http://observer.com/2015/12/the-10-most-important-things-you...
Like chargers and batteries best to buy solar glasses from a reputable store.
# SPOILERS

Great writing. Then ending was a real let down.

How could an "AI" as they describe simultaneously be so naive and ALSO protect itself in any meaningful way? Especially in its early stages. It wouldn't even know to hide. And why would Big Corp give up trying to fix this sort of problem.

Overall not a credulous conclusion. Hand waving in the final paragraphs after the author crafted an accurate and believable narrative left me disappointed. (grammar)
But the deeper issue is that done people don't want certain content to even exist, and won't be satisfied with just a filter (even thought they can't tell the difference between filter and deletion).
I think thus far the only thing I'm really concerned about is our trust/dependence on it. Articles like this one (https://www.autoblog.com/2017/08/04/self-driving-car-sign-ha...) show just how fragile some of this ML stuff is.

Of course, I'm also assuming that ML = AI... that is a correct assumption, right?
At Facebook, GraphQL is used in a such a way that all queries are predeclared -- developers write a collection of queries that represent their client's interface to the backend, and only these queries are used in the live app. This has two positive effects:

* It's fairly easy to tell "how the app is using the database" -- queries are not dynamically generated or hidden in code.

* The query performance is predictable and controllable in the same way as a stored procedure approach to database access -- but without actually requiring a DBA to load/unload procedure definitions.

One might argue that these benefits could be obtained without codifying a new query language...but when you start to think about nested objects you start to warm up to the idea.
Since their concern is about retention of course degree material, which ostensibly we're spending 4 years and many thousands of dollars learning because it'll be so useful in our careers, the long-term forgetting curve may look different if career demands create repeated rehearsals of learned material. You might forget a bunch of material from your compilers course, but the rest of it becomes periodically useful in your web dev career and the total loss flattens out. Then testing you on the trivia shortly after your compilers course will paint a misleadingly pessimistic picture. This is why they spend all that space wondering about how rehearsal affects connected concepts - how specifically do any of these concepts have to be rehearsed before it counts as a refresh for the spacing effect? Do even vaguely related career demands suffice to draw on and preserve other course material?
> turning a blind eye
> He didn't get a world class editor (present performance notwithstanding) or the opportunity to print retractions with a presumption of good faith and professionalism

He was asked, in the Bloomberg interview [1] (30 sec in), whether he had changed his position at all. He describes the process of creating the document, and explains that the current version is what he believes is the scientific consensus on the matter.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...
Yeah I hope the discovery resulting from the lawsuit from this issue will be explosive enough to force Amazon to change. If it surfaces that they've been knowingly selling counterfeit products... Wow.
This is at the heart of the issue: should platforms bow down and allow some users to dictate what others are allowed to see? Or should a platform remain neutral against anything (which means potential back lash)?
I think they are useful to wear in the last minute before totality, simply as a safe way to determine when totality arrives. Without them it is too tempting to keep glancing up st the sun to see if it is total yet.
Just to put it out there, Apple offers quite a bit of free software when you purchase their hardware. This includes OS upgrades and their office suite as well as Xcode and Garage Band, among other things. It's quite nice and they are well made.

There are a few asterisks though, most notably support life for the OS. My 2009 MacPro won't run the latest OS for no other reason than Apple decided it couldn't (end of life). The 2010 model is allowed to run it and there is no discernible difference in the hardware.

Having said that FOSS was truly paradigm changing. I lived in a world before Linux and everything was prohibitively expensive on the PC. There was a lot of freeware and public domain software available, but most of it wasn't very good or niche stuff. It's quite amazing that the FOSS movement it was able to happen, let alone gain so much traction with such great software. I mean today, you don't have to buy a damn thing except the hardware.
Is there anything particularly dangerous about viewing the sun directly? When I was dumb and young I'd look at the sun for seconds at a time without any problems developing so far. Is the danger that an eclipse encourages you to stare at the sun without encountering any pain?
That is an excellent point; thank you for mentioning it!
The way we work is changing. Work remotely from home or places around the world
Bravo? Amazon sells counterfeit shit all over. They're panicking and trying to avoid a tiny bit of the inevitable damage. I bet they'll settle quickly versus risk the full extent of their malicious behaviour become public knowledge.
I don't think that study's been debunked. But I would really like to see if it was, would you mind explaining? Were there methodological issues or did it fail to replicate in a larger better designed study?
That doesn't answer any of my questions, and they don't have any citation in that block of text. Real details could be in any of the 8 papers linked, or none at all.
A Model to Represent Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) on SQL Databases
Great compelling read....waiting for this day to happen :) unless its already here
Totally!

Compiler development = Finite State Automaton + Push Down Automaton + Context Free Grammar + Intermediate representation + Static Analysis/Optimiation + Stack Machine + ...

Hardware Architecture = Stack Machine/Turing Machine + electricity + creativity

Stack Machine == Turing Machine

Compiler development starts and ends with Turing Machines.

Hardware architecture ends with Turing Machines operating at the speed of electricity through metal.
It seems incredibly careless of them to tell people if they did not get an email they're OK. There's no way the impact from refunding everyone that bought any such product outweighs the coming lawsuits.

I feel bad for people about to be injured. But hopefully this will screw Amazon hard and make them change their ways.
This problem specifically could be easily solved by not allowing any random seller to sell the same item on Amazon without the purchases having any idea.
Is it you that I recall reading about who is/was living on the big island? Would be neat to meet up sometime if you're open to it, would be neat to see what you've built considering that you also do software development :)
> The relevance of that is people started voting based on visual appearance rather than competence of the issues.

I'm curious why we can exclude people previously voting based on "auditory appearance".
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There are a few options to allow for Jack and PulseAudio to coexist: http://jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html

There is a reason why there is both Jack and Pulse...they meet different needs (pro-audio vs desktop), and it is not necessarily a bad thing to have separate tools to handle separate needs.
> Seems like an open and shut case of bad journalism.

Hmm.. Seems like an open and shut case of a conservative saying words that mean one thing, then saying more words that are directly contradictory. We've seen enough of this "subtlety" in 2017 to recognize it.

He could, in the future, also claim that he only made that correction in order to be PC, and that he felt censored and shamed.
Echoes of Red Mars, although it was volcanoes under the Greenland ice sheet that did earth in then
It looks as if the teapot is responsive to my phone's gyros. I would've thought it would need special permission for that.

What a terribly clever Easter egg.
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> the problem is that these firms are used for work that is not valued by either the customer or the implementor.

Truth. I've noticed many contractors take specs _very_ literally. While that might be good in that the result won't be _wrong_, the product usually becomes quite brittle and can't "scale" well.
> Apple offers quite a bit of free software when you purchase their hardware. This includes OS upgrades and their office suite as well as Xcode and Garage Band, among other things. It's quite nice and they are well made.

Most of that is not "free software" in the way this blog post is talking about (FOSS). XCode has FOSS components, parts of the OS are FOSS, etc. However, much of it is not.
It is hard to be tolerant while not being tolerated.
You're describing a counselor there I believe, you'd really be wasting your money by going to a psychologist just to talk things over or vent. Psychologist would be a good choice if you have a specific issue (preferably on the referral of your GP) you need to treat, namely problematic behaviors or thoughts. Ultimately a clinical psychologist is trained in disorders and treatments, not life advice.

There's a good site for this kind of thing though, if someone just wants to talk something over - https://www.7cups.com/. Not a group thing like church, but a pretty good stop gap until something better comes along I suppose.
Some hosts like Gitlab Pages or Netlify will run hugo for you. So you can use an online git editor, save, and it'll deploy automatically.

Not Wordpress wysiwyg but still pretty nice.
Not that this is different from perhaps any other platform, but it's exceptionally difficult to grow a following as an artist on Instagram. It was probably never meant for it, but instead more targeted towards influencers. Visual artists with hundreds of thousands of followers who didn't buy them or didn't inherit them from fame outside of IG are practically unheard of.
Yes, I was mainly talking about the free as in beer. Not as much free as in freedom regarding Apple's stuff.

Apple used to charge for all their software. I give FOSS credit for changing that. I think Lion was the first free OS upgrade. I credit FOSS for Microsoft giving a real copy of Visual Studio away for free. They've done it in the past, IIRC, but it was so hobbled, it was useless.
I smell a movie starring Peter Dinklage in the offing.
1) be influential, 2) complain publicly

3) don't buy their products.
RuleBook now has an enhanced fluent interface and POJO rules support
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My go-to replacement for Wordpress is Grav. It is a flat file cms, which means that it doesn't require any database. All posts are stored in markdown files with yaml front matter. However there is also an admin GUI frontend for non technical users.

Not using a database makes it really simple to install or migrate servers (just copy the directory).

On the other hand, being a dynamic PHP app means there is no explicit build step needed, and you can build any kind of plugin that you need.

https://getgrav.org/
Isn't this what the enablement and written description requirements are for?
Or move to http2 for services?
Sounds good! Bookmarking to check it out.
Or any type of wireless headphones. Not sure the percentage, but never got a pair that was real.

In fact I don't buy anything from Amazon anymore...
Collective action problems exist regardless of the size of the population.
> even if it means cracking open a laptop in a starbucks

I would probably go with "Saying hi to the owner of the local general store" as a minimal amount of human contact. But then, I'd rather talk to shopkeeps than baristas even on a social day.
+1 for B&H. They're replaces amazon for all my audio and general electronics purchases. Generally the same prices without a chance of counterfeits.
Because Amazon makes too much money off it to do anything about it. They could easily track everything... but they obviously don't.
Yup for me I would say over 30%. I'm sure Consumer Reports will do a study soon and find that near 50% are counterfeit and the stock will drop like a rock.
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My “learn go” project was a Jekyll clone with fast build times https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll

It uses liquid for templating, and emulates a few plugins.

It currently works on some sites, not others – YMMV.
Ask HN: How to structure a growing company?
How do I learn to structure a growing company? What are the pieces to choose from to build the right team for my domain/produce/market? When do I need a product manager and where do they report? What are the trade-offs in separating engineering from QA and technical support and when should you do it? What's difference between bizdev, marketing and sales? How do I hire for these roles when I'm not an expert in them myself?

Are there any good books on this? I'm not looking for the answers to these specific questions, I'm looking for references that help me understand the organizations options, their trade-offs and how to choose among them. Any suggestions?
Probably when it's linked to, for fun, like above.
This is so frustrating to me. I want to buy makeup from amazon but there is no way to verify you're not getting fake products.
What BART parking lots are underutilized? My understanding is that all but the furthest stations fill between 6 and 7am. I wasn't willing to get up early enough to participate in the park-n-ride model. (Cynically, my office gives lots of credit for staying late, but no one is here to see you get in before 10 or so). Were there stations I missed?

Even if a really far-flung station is, say, 3/4ths utilized now, won't the next decade or two of housing development create more users to fill those spaces?
I guess immutability is the actual thing that makes it easy, and arguably Lisp is also an FP lang. m
Main point though was the ease of doing it in a pure language, almost trivial.
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Something to think about:

When raising this subject, you need to be clear in what you mean by "placebo".

If you mean that physiological healing happened due to changes in emotions or beliefs, I agree: that's fundamentally how the technique works. It's no different to a sugar pill showing increased recovery rates in a pharmaceutical trial, which can be explained by a sense of optimism and reduced worry/stress due to a treatment being administered.

If you define placebo the way some determined skeptics do in these discussions, to be a false sense of wellbeing with no actual physiological healing [1], then (in my case, for argument's sake) you'd need to account for the measurable physiological improvements that have happened in my body, that didn't happen when I was undertaking other practices over 7+ years, but that I believed/hoped just as strongly would be effective.

[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harnessing-the-power-of-...
Interesting; thanks. I just signed up for forestry.io (which I also learned of in this HN thread), I will check out Netlify also.
He's making another Monkey Island?!
Great read! I learned a lot about LLVM and Clang. Would like a section on JITs.
Well... Bravo in the sense that by recalling they admit they have counterfeit problem.

It is not too late ever for a company to admit they made a mistake. Look at the catholic church
For context: "Larry" is the author of the April Fools' RFC that introduced 418.