skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More similar than the most of other people I met/know. I studied CS. When I started working, there are (compared to my CS studies) people from different colleges, or without higher education at all, artists, HR, managers, ... They are much more diverse than people from my college.
> The internet is good as is, and improved every day, and will continue improving

You consider mass centralization and being almost exclusively under the control of a few massive companies an "improvement"?
Of course they use binary blobs — no one reverse engineered and reimplemented Intel's FSP… I wonder if there are any attempts though?
>I'm deeply disturbed to see comments here defending this

Think about the about experiences and opinions that are common to the people on HN.

Bureaucracies that have lots of rules to cover every eventuality and interpret those rules as if they're a computer executing code isn't an intolerable concept to a group that can be generalized as "tech workers in CA."
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You have a very narrow definition of what constitutes television. It isn't 1978 anymore.
I always thought pickups (the needle of a turntable) are the best example for that:

A 200$ pickup is certainly better than a 20$ needle, maybe even 10x better
The difference between a 200$ pickup and one that goes for 2000$ is miniscule. There certainly is a difference, but it's never as big as between the 20$ and the 200$ model.

That said, there are listeners who believe in the value of a 2000$ pickup and derive a lot of enjoyment from the difference to a lesser model. Who am I to say they're wrong?

Now when it comes to a manufacturer of very expensive cables (for example): Don't make me laugh...
I've found Ursla Vernon (http://www.redwombatstudio.com/) to be a witty and lucid writer much in the spirit of Sir. Pratchett.
That isn't true. We protect valuable architecture with preservation orders. Usage isn't really a factor - tenants of actively used buildings will be given notice and the site redeveloped if doing so is legal and profitable.
That file manager might be excellent, but did you look at the link? This FM uses your text editor to manage files, which is totally different from a ncurses interface.
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With CSS:

https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmNopFQyLda1PeMJsqqPXYSVZxq8i2Xk...
Did you fill a bug report about this?
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What seems to happen is that memory usage spikes (by as much as 100 MB) alongside CPU usage while the typing lag is occurring, and then it drops back to baseline as soon as the text is displayed properly.
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This reminds me of how our government currently works. Local is a LOT more important than federal.
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"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other."

..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot product' of both concepts with election results is non-zero... and concepts cannot have negative dot-products (???)... well, that's where I realized I was holding the analogy wrong.
> You seem to be doing that yourself here. Your description of college does not correspond to my personal experience.

First, the crucial difference is that, unlike him, nowhere was I drawing any conclusion based on that statement.

Second, your argument is unsound, and a strawman. Obviously some fraction of people will come away failing to learn {any given topic}. My statement was a general ("general" != 100.00%) truth I'd observed based on what I've seen others take away from college, not just myself. So if you're really going to argue this point, you need to claim that most people you've seen, at least, have left college believing that most other people are, in fact, like themselves. Would you actually claim that though?
Yes, like 'M-x calc' which gives you a very decent RPN calculator.
Interesting, but no new ideas. These rain water management ideas are being implemented for a couple of years now in The Netherlands when developing new real estate.
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If you check the ARCore announcement, "ARCore works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal and focuses on three things:", shows what the position of the NDK is.

Nothing more than a way to implement Java native methods, which I completely ok with, given the security implications.

Just wished that since they have their own fork of the Java world, that they would also bother to provide something else besides forcing us to manually write JNI calls.
As someone who knows nothing about 'good' headsets, should I get the 32, 80 or 250 Ohm
> The problem is we’re overfitting massively to a pattern here

Seems like this will be true regardless of the number of units we're breaking down at. There can always be a new outlier later, and trying to predict future use cases is usually a losing battle. It's not like you can't refactor yet again later.
Sure, but who hasn't thought of turning their enemies into zebras?
I used to go to TradeHill. So now, not really much trading to do anymore.
That analogy makes sense. So the discussion should be around what makes Facebook as important as e.g. electric power.

Personally, I think Facebook is more like a lottery or a tabloid than it is like electric power. Citizens are fine, nay, better off without it.

Most arguments e.g. ITT fail to convince me on the critical-ness of Facebook/Google. Instead, the possible harm they cause is brought forward. That's a serious issue, but I don't think it has bearing on the utility analogy.
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While I kind of agree with the rule of 3, in the example given, I would just rename BaseScraper to ScraperWithFormLogin when encountering the 3rd instance and not derive the 3rd from anything (or create an abstract BaseScraper) - there's still a high likelyhood there will be another scarper with form login.
>As a solo developer, wouldn't all these git repos be on your local machine as well?

Yes, multiple machines.

>What risk are you trying to avoid?

I wouldn't say there's a perceived risk as such. I've run my own git infrastructure until now, and I want to stop doing that. The risks I've had were with GitLab CE updates clobbering my server (happened three times now), which then involves a few hours of rebuilding.

>I guess it's not clear from your intro what features you use 3rd party git hosting for other than backing up your repos.
>Are you submitting pull requests to clients? Tracking issues? Other?

Tracking issues, yes - lots. Pull requests to clients, that will come very soon with external hosting. CI is not on the shopping list at this stage, but may be used if it's available.
Pretty hard to imagine Amazon destroying the most profitable part of their business by doing something as stupid and illegal as that. But I can see why a company might still hold reservations nonetheless.
Hmm, so leftist ideas are OK to be supported, except when they are applied to the said corporation. Fun. :)
Alexa, please ask Cortana to ask Alexa this exact same question.
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> “There are simply fewer groups that are available to speak up about Google’s activities that threaten online privacy,” Mr. Rotenberg said. “The groups that should be speaking up aren’t.”

Google has been doing strange things for a long time and despite that there actually are a good amount of groups speaking out against them, they stick to their guns and oust or bribe anyone in their way. The first time ever they've stumbled on a worthy opponent is when they started getting sanctioned by the EU.
>Trusting either is is a terrible idea, because power corrupts wherever it accumulates.

Concentrated power is also concentrated responsibility.

It's the lack of individual power for any one member that makes groups (governments, companies, political organizations, etc) untrustworthy. When nobody feels like they have enough individual power to do what they consider right they also do not feel responsible for doing wrong. They're just doing their jobs.
What we should learn from history is that ICC regulation was crippling (nearly destroying the rail industry in the US: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-nation-der...) and the county has been a lot better off since railroads, air freight, airlines, and yes telcos were deregulated.

That is not to say that we can't regulate things we care about (data privacy, competition, etc). But looking with rose-colored lenses at ICC regulation is foolish. It's the worst sort of regulatory regime: where government bureaucrats are in charge of approving/denying the rail ties that go in the ground and how much can be charged for a ride.
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Because lasers are usually continuous and even reflections are very dangerous.
I think the thing is though that it doesn't. It just has to scatter off of something else in the wrong way, and boom.
> “We are in the process of trying to expand our relationship with Google on some absolutely key points,” Ms. Slaughter wrote in an email to Mr. Lynn, urging him to “just THINK about how you are imperiling funding for others.”

That was a real kicker for me. This seems like pretty blatant corporate censorship. Unfortunately, it's hard to make the public care about a situation like this that's so out of view.
Obligatory Taleb comment:

"Think tanks are natural lobbies w/a facade of "research" Their cover allows them to censor dissent from monoculture"

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/902859415375798274

OT: I'm curious how many hours will this post survive on the front page
>The CE version is open source. I would argue that the gut feeling would be that it gets fixed faster than the enterprise version. Maybe not deployed as fast though.

I should clarify: I was referring to infrastructure issues rather than code quality. If servers go offline, I'm assuming the paying clients have a higher-grade SLA to no-cost clients, even if it's a few hours different.
Isn't the time needed for an object to accelerate to the speed of light infinite?
I haven't thought of this before, ORMs probably use 2-3x as much memory as regular structs/dicts. I've started using only the query builder in all my side projects and I've had a good experience so far.
buy a Wizard X220 off banggood.com.

It's the best value for money starter racing quad you can get. I bought it for my first drone and it's just as capable as anything you can build for twice the money.
I believe it's a reference to the fact that even large companies, Apple is $800b, don't have all that cash on hand. To convert $15b into cash takes time. Disaster victims can't exactly pay for hotels or buy foods with bonds or stock certificates.
This also works for hot technologies, not just frameworks / languages.

WebRTC has seen phenomenal adoption in the past few years, as businesses can offload media bandwidth from their centralized servers. Making that cost savings case part of your pitch makes for a compelling offering. You can even leverage third-party solutions such as Twilio and even FB Live to build customer service live help desks.

Right now I'd say with AR / VR gaining momentum there is tremendous opportunity for skilled Unity3D / WebGL people. Definitely more involved than learning React, but can also be much more rewarding. I'd even go so far as to bet these skills will be a bigger draw than AI / ML / Data Sciences in the near term. Good Luck!
We might have to make sure the upvotes are stronger than the downvotes :)
It'd be nice if there were also a metric for number of lives improved. Like meals consumed, beds slept in, etc

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
bought a wizard x220 about a year ago and am now building my 4th. Such a fun hobby.
Yeah the full on audiophile stuff is mostly nonsense as far as I can tell, but my god I do not understand how so very many people put up with those crappy apple earbuds as there primary sound playback. The difference with a proper set of headphones is massive.
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This is even more strange since it uses it's own implementation of toString instead of NumberFormat (which is not thread safe)

Edit: This could be easily fixed with double-checked locking
You say "compared to my CS studies" to argue your point, then conclude with "than people from my college"? Was there nobody but CS majors in your college? Or did you just never take the opportunity to go meet them when there were tons of them in your college?
I have been using Mongo for several years now on a fresh build that follows basically the outline you have here. The fresh build was triggered in part because of the cost (development time and infrastructure) in using Microsoft SQL Server. The only difference is that I got to step 5, realised I had two very different reporting requirements. One that Mongo works well with (real time aggregated data), and one which SQL works well with (high granularity, long time period, historical stuff). So, I use Mongo for the first requirement, and SQL for the later.

I see many posts like this, and indeed many replies like it also (your thread currently). Curious, why do they always focus on have only one database to fit all their needs? Is my situation special, can't you just make a decision about what tool is best for the job and use it? Is there some eventuality where having databases specific to needs results in disaster that I am just not aware of?
In 1960 Abraham Robinson invented the hyperreal number system, which contains infinitely small and large numbers. They behave as you would expect. The branch of analysis (including calculus) based on the hyperreals is called "nonstandard analysis". So you can develop calculus without the limit concept using this number system.
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Harvey was a hurricane. It could have occurred anywhere on the Gulf Coast. There is no direct relationship between climate change and any particular named storm.

To argue otherwise is to destroy one's credibility.

The problems that exacerbated the disaster of Harvey are indeed linked to climate change, but not in the simple-minded way that Naomi Klein makes out. The economic factors that lead to high-density construction in flood zones are the same as those that drive the wasteful use of fossil fuel energy. Overpopulation, overbuilding, market-driven urban planning practices, shoddy construction intended to maximize profit and waste while minimizing safety--all of these underlie both climate change and the disaster in Houston.

Raving about climate change as if every hurricane is a direct consequence is both intellectually ridiculous and it ignores the root cause: us and our wasteful, idiotic consumerism. If we understand that we, and not corporations or governments, are the root cause, we can fix climate change almost overnight by two simple expedients: stop having babies and stop buying things that we don't absolutely need.

By doing so, we could exercise power over the corporations that we unfairly demonize. No company is going to dig oil out of the ground if the demand does not justify it.

Klain's worst offence is being a stupid liberal, just like the ones who drove 36 hours or more one-way to join the protest at Standing Rock in gas-powered vehicles. Want to stop an oil pipeline? Stop using oil. It's easy: at least 80% of our energy use is wasted. Just cut the waste.

When stupid liberals write articles like this, a backlash is inevitable. Want four more years of Trump? Want the alt-right marching in the streets? Keep writing articles like this.

Instead, be a smart liberal. Start by having a look in the mirror.
And we are shown again that Google is now large enough and has enough enough influence that it's only serious opponent is the EU. A continent.

Do no evil indeed.
Don't bother. It turned into yet another microblogging echo chamber with nothing but propaganda and RSS newsbot reposts.
Your comment goes on to show that human intution aligns with an assumption that things are distributed with a thin tail (for example Gaussian like). On the other hand if the phenomena has a fat tail (Pareto for example) then runs of such 'extremes' are not unusual.

What is interesting is that one of the motivations (funding wise) for understanding fat tailed distribution, extreme value distributions were indeed flooding and dyke failure events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_value_theory#Univariat...
float has scale-independent error because it is logarithmic/exponential.

If you quiet the amplitude by some decibels, that is just decrementing the exponent field in the float; the mantissa stays 24 bits wide.

If you quiet the amplitude of integer samples, they lose resolution (bits per sample).

If you divide a float by two, and then multiply by two, you recover the original value without loss, because just the exponent decremented and then incremented again.

(Of course, I mean: in the absence of underflow. But underflow is far away. If the sample value of 1 is represented as 1.0, you have tons of room in either direction.)
I particularly like the Economist's "explains" section, where they unpack words/phenomenon that experts in the field take for granted in terms that a layman can understand.

This is their take on algorithms:

> An algorithm is, essentially, a brainless way of doing clever things. It is a set of precise steps that need no great mental effort to follow but which, if obeyed exactly and mechanically, will lead to some desirable outcome.
Yeah, I don't really see the issue. People play with knives, operate firearms, use table saws, and cross the street in traffic all the time. The stakes are high in life, and if you're not careful you might poke an eye out with that thing, but what fun is a world where everything is engineered to be too dull to poke an eye out?
Hey Mason, I can personally vouch for Gemini (being in NY myself). They allow for immediate trading of your ACH deposits, before the money has cleared, which I think is a massive boon to cc-traders.

I haven't had any availability issues with their backend (i.e Coinbase) and their support staff seems responsive to the fact that the trading GUI needs an overhaul (2 separate pages for buying and selling ETH).
I'd be interested in technical details about the app - the linked article doesn't offer much.
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It is only insufficient if there are components beyond 20 kHz that you want to bring down into the audio range as you're slowing down.
which version of Java ?
For those reading this, Kraken does not (and has no intention too), of buying the NY BitLicense. I had to close my account with them as my address was registered in NY.
> Fundraising expenses $169,676,000

$1 in every $16 spent is on fundraising. That seems a lot.
Start off with the $15 cheapies like the E10 and solder a small TX03 camera onto it followed by Lizard95 and similar sized drones and then onto larger 180-250 size drones like the Wizard x220s.

For the goggles I'd recommend the Eachine VRD2 if you're cheap or Aomway Commander if you want low profiles.

All can be found on banggood.
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Because it's extremely easy to damage other people with lasers. Stray reflections can easily blind. It's one thing if you're in an enclosed space only able to hurt yourself, but most of the real world is not like that.
Post-euclidean geometers did not claim that Euclid was wrong, but if the article is to be believed, this guy is saying everyone else is wrong, apparently with arguments that are sketchy at best.

He is not being called a blasphemer, he is being dismissed with reasons. There is a difference.
Yeah, this is probably the best argument for his position. The only problem is, he would probably not be passionately blogging about it if he didn't intend to generalize it beyond his daughter.
I don't understand the race condition here.

stringCache is only ever assigned to with an initialised string (the output of stringCache()), so given Strings are immutable and assuming Java's assignment is atomic, how can you get a race condition that causes a problem? There shouldn't be a TOCTTOU issue either given stringCache is copied to sc before being null-checked.

What is the statement reordering doing here to break this? How can it be prevented? (Does it need write barriers or something?)
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> Second, your argument is unsound, and a strawman.

Can you point me to the logic errors in my post, and where I set up a weak counter-point just to refute it? I would like to avoid these mistakes in the future.

> you need to claim that most people you've seen (at least) have left college believing that most people are, in fact, like themselves. Would you actually claim that though?

I do not need to claim such a thing, I am claiming the opposite: most people should already have realized that most other people aren't like themselves, even before they go to college. If they haven't, I don't think that college will make them realize it faster than the average other path they could take.
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As a UI designer, I dream of strikeheadlessstrike chromeless browsers, where the UI appears when you need it, intuitively, even when NOT in full screen. The top bar simply takes too much unnecessary space. If there's any dev that wants to collaborate on this, let me know :)
since you're setting the environment variable to be headless what happens if you're browsing with Firefox while running your automated process?
How is this different than work market and the radically less structured fiver or upwork?

Are there guarantees I am missing to see?
Saw it on tv for the first time a few weeks ago and loved what I saw. I'd like to get into it but need more time, money, and practice :) Are there any good simulators out there?
I personally use Gemini for primarily trading Ethereum but dabble with Bittrex and Poloniex (got an account pre-BitLicense).

Poloniex, I don't trust with the majority of my funds for various red-flags that the community has presented and Bittrex doesn't seem to have any retail presence (other than being in an abandoned strip mall in LV).

Gemini is founded by the Winklevi twins.
To save you the click - That's what he wanted.
I appreciate the clarification. My comfort with shell (which is one of my primary languages for countless tasks) makes it a more viable option for me and blinds me to the issues many people have. That's definitely not the case for many people.

I can certainly recognize the power of what you are describing. Perhaps I'll give it a try in the future.

Out of curiosity: what do you find are your most compelling use cases for the tool(s)?
This just seems like a combination of choosing the wrong abstraction and applying the DRY principle in a way that doesn't actually lead to less or clearer code.

In this case almost none of the lines contain any superfluous information. At best you could try to simplify things slightly by writing it as follows:

class ChaseScraper:
def __init__(self, username, password):
self.credentials = {'username': username,
'password': password }

def scrape(self):
session = requests.Session()
sessions.get('https://chase.com/rest/login.aspx', data = credentials)
sessions.get('https://chase.com/rest/download_current_statement.aspx')

class CitibankScraper:
def __init__(self, username, password):
self.credentials = {'user': username,
'pass': password }

def scrape(self):
session = requests.Session()
sessions.get('https://citibank.com/cgi-bin/login.pl', data = credentials)
sessions.get('https://citibank.com/cgi-bin/download-stmt.pl')
Left and right ideas are just stepping stones to profit.

After all, the 'left-leaning' Google sure isn't pushing for unions, only for what will benefit them.