skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use the stack that makes the project as easy, robust and low maintenance as possible taking into account risks involved in anything new you have to learn along the way. Sticking to only what you know can make life harder for yourself as well and means you're not expanding your skills.

If you're highly skilled in Java and C# you're not going to find it challenging to pick up Python or Rails. Heroku is a great choice for a freelancer as well as it's so low maintenance by a large margin in my opinion compared to something like AWS. You certainly want to avoid things as low level as VPSs as well. Personally I think you should take a couple of days to experiment with Heroku so you can see there isn't really that much to it.
Very good. Reminds me of the book "How to solve it" by Polya.

I also like the Feynman problem solving algorithm:

1) Write down the problem.

2) Think very hard.

3) Write down the solution.
It seems fascination with the occult is a growing trend among the educated for some reason. In the past year I've met physicists, engineers, mathematicians, and more who have all gotten in to the field recently. I have too, so I suspect some confirmation bias, but it seems to me more than I was expecting.
No, this is substantially worse than the late 90s.

In the late 90s there were a lot of very premature IPOs and a lot of money raised for bad ideas, but very few of them were total cranks or scams. I could in fact buy pet food on pets.com-- it just wasn't a viable business and wasn't well executed. The CueCat was a horrible business idea but CueCats actually did exist and you could in fact use them. (I used to have one! Kept it for teh lulz.)

Most ICO projects are complete and utter vapor consisting of nothing more than a stock bootstrap web site and a "white paper" that could have been generated by a Markov chain model using crypto and decentralized systems buzzwords. A few have a bit of code online that doesn't work. Of those that have shipped most of them are unusable, and of those that are usable I am only aware of maybe one or two that are at all interesting. Of those none are very compelling and none are things I couldn't do without.

There are literally no hits in this space. It's all junk, and most of it is outright scams. I'd be surprised if a single current generation coin ever actually delivers real ROI.

It pains me to say it too. This stuff is very much in the "I want to believe" category for me. But I've gone through them and that's what I see. It's depressing.

We've discussed an ICO here at ZeroTier and I've consistently come up against it. There is so much fraud here I don't want to go near it even if there might be good use cases. A lot of capital is sloshing around but I have both ethical and pragmatic problems with participating in a system so absolutely rife with fraud. I also don't particularly want to deal with SEC investigations.

Cryptocurrency on the other hand is useful. We have used Bitcoin to pay overseas contributors for open source work and consulting. The function for which block chains have become most known is so far the most useful and real.

The only upside is this: I find it satisfying that the scammers are gaming the "serious math/CS papers must be written in TeX" heuristic by writing their buzzword salad white papers in LaTeX. I hate lazy prejudiced heuristics like that.
The change that nobody is factoring into predictions is what happens if local governments pass minimum pay requirements for drivers. This will end the race to the bottom, which will be a good thing for all parties (except passengers who are freeriding off investor subsidies and crap driver pay).
From https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

..., Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.

And which lets it piggy-back on Windows' accessibility features, which seem to be quite good.

I guess Sublime Text and Atom draw their own GUIs to get more control over the look-and-feel, but don't add the necessary hints to make screen readers work.
Where the driver is interacting with many fewer other vehicles and has fewer demands on his or her attention.
I love the sandbaggers. People say how great the recent adaption of "The Night Manager" is, but for me this and Alec Guinness George Smiley rank as all time great British espionage shows.
New Educational Entertainment Platform for Kids
Mario Kart 64 – NEAT Algorithm
Explaining REST and HTTP to a layperson
Nye is pretty skeezy, but I can't bring myself to hope Disney gets to hang onto the money either.
Not sure how you write a VR article without ever mentioning non-gaming applications. Gaming itself is a niche market.

And for AR, mentioning Pokemon GO and Google Glass multiple times without mentioning HoloLens is plain bizzare.
> Windows is the most accessible operating system there is

I was under the impression macOS and iOS are the preferred platforms for people with disabilities?
https://outline.com/ is a great tool for this.
> No IRB, no oversight by the FDA

Yes of course domestic US agencies don't oversee or regulate medical trials in other countries.

The article explains that these agencies would need to be involved if this research yields a drug destined for the US market.

> Just because it's legal in a nowhere
> medical destination like St Kitts
> doesn't mean it's ethical.

It doesn't make it unethical either. My primary beef is with the lazy way the article is written. Maybe this trial is unethical, maybe it isn't.

But the argument put forward in the article would equally apply if this research were done in the EU. I.e. that it's somehow inherently bad that US regulatory agencies aren't involved in medical research that happens abroad.

> they deliberately chose to evade strong oversight.

Maybe they did. Companies selectively choose legal jurisdictions based on regulations all the time. E.g. EU food regulation is stricter than US regulation. Would you say that it's unethical for a EU company to fund food startups in the US for that reason?

The article quotes Thiel as saying "you would not be able to invent the polio vaccine [in the US] today". I don't know if that claim is true, but if it is (or even if today the vaccine's introduction to the market were delayed compared to the 1950s) this whole question of "unethical" trials v.s. overly strict regulations becomes much more complex.
I want something like this, beautifully designed, as gadget for my Always On Display.
The fact that they're not profitable and have no obvious path to profitability seems like an "underlying business reason" to me.
Sorry for the perhaps silly question, but is this completely cold start for the full round-trip, or is the container "pre-warmed" or something like that?
Aside from Roland technology, Graph Tech makes the Ghost system which - depending on the model - can provide MIDI or acoustic piezo individual pickups embedded in the guitar saddle. Godin does a lot with Ghost saddles for their MIDI guitars. The Ghost system is the only MIDI pickup solution that offers an invisible look to it. Fishman's TriplePlay also offers this functionality, but it isn't a built-in interface.

As digital pedals get better I'm sure we'll eventually be able to get away without a MIDI pickup, but I'd bet overtones inside some chords could really confuse a system which is effectively trying to decode frequencies in real time to identify the fundamental. However, with that said, Digitech is getting really close with this ability in their long-running Whammy pedals to transpose entire chords as well as individual notes.
> The very few jobs I found were like "Senior C dev, minimum 7 years subject matter experience, $65k" at the time when web dev roles were paying 85k+ and were so easy and dumb...

This is a big problem. I love C. I'd love to have a C job. I don't even mind the salary as much.. but practically nobody is looking for C devs, and the few that are, seem to require incredible credentials.
So this is just about some Wordpress thing, not about Project Gutenberg - the free ebook project.
Rancher actually uses Kubernetes, they're slightly different tools.
Fair enough, I think I am having difficulty in understanding your views because firstly I have never worked with Java, closest language I have worked with is C# and I don't particularly dislike its REPL, its nothing to write home about but I don't particularly hate it either.

Secondly the image we two have in mind of a REPL seems to be different. When I am thinking about a REPL the image I have in mind is of Jupyter Notebook and Clojure, Elixir, Idris, Haskell REPLs in Emacs. The image you have in mind seems to be a basic console, so having spent my day working in a Jupyter Notebook I sit here thinking what you mean by Python's significant whitespace being an issue(Haskell and Idris have significant whitespace too). But now I do understand your views :)

P.S. I didn't get your point about python having nominal types, duck typing seems closer to structural typing to me and mypy seems to support both, but maybe I misunderstood you. Thanks for the thought provoking discussion though :)
Motivation Is One of the Keys to Success
Why do I get the impression that it resembles Alan Kay's ideas on how the Internet should have looked like, only in a more heavyweight/baroque incarnation?
It does?

$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 0.9.7

$ flatpak --help
Usage:
flatpak [OPTION...] COMMAND

Builtin Commands:
Manage installed apps and runtimes
install Install an application or runtime
update Update an installed application or runtime
uninstall Uninstall an installed application or runtime
list List installed apps and/or runtimes
info Show info for installed app or runtime

Running applications
run Run an application
override Override permissions for an application
make-current Specify default version to run
enter Enter the namespace of a running application

Manage file access
document-export Grant an application access to a specific file
document-unexport Revoke access to a specific file
document-info Show information about a specific file
document-list List exported files

Manage remote repositories
remotes List all configured remotes
remote-add Add a new remote repository (by URL)
remote-modify Modify properties of a configured remote
remote-delete Delete a configured remote
remote-ls List contents of a configured remote

Build applications
build-init Initialize a directory for building
build Run a build command inside the build dir
build-finish Finish a build dir for export
build-export Export a build dir to a repository
build-bundle Create a bundle file from a build directory
build-import-bundle Import a bundle file
build-sign Sign an application or runtime
build-update-repo Update the summary file in a repository
build-commit-from Create new commit based on existing ref
repo Print information about a repo

Help Options:
-h, --help Show help options

Application Options:
--version Print version information and exit
--default-arch Print default arch and exit
--supported-arches Print supported arches and exit
--gl-drivers Print active gl drivers and exit
-v, --verbose Print debug information during command processing
--ostree-verbose Print OSTree debug information during command processing
Putting Digital Health Monitoring Tools to the Test
But it makes for awesome GoPro footage[1] so people keep doing it. When you see people flying so low that they have to weave between trees you know that they're going to make a mistake or hit an unexpected gust of wind and kill themselves sooner rather than later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTzwvyzzfjk
A cursory look into the linked github pull request changes made me spot this, and I must admit that never in a million years would I've thought to erase the possible endline character of a string returned by getline with this:

line[strcspn(line, "\n")] = 0;

I don't think I'm going to start, either, even if it is a nifty oneliner. Anyway, I've always found this kind of little projects a good sport.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progr...

Most recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702287

This video from the comments is worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0
The vicious cycle of scientific publishing
Oh, I see now that it went public domain in 2007. I had used it prior to the change (migrated to Exim and the Postfix later). Wonder if it would get a better traction and community behind it if it was OSI-compilant from the start?
I was surprised at the recent surge in articles about Claude Shannon. Taking a closer look, I can see a brilliant case of how good marketing works. Most of these articles have been written by same authors who wrote the biography of Claude Shannon. Although, he is a respected figure but his reverence—or, better say, popularity—is nowhere near a famous businessman like Steve Jobs.

These articles work as a trigger to get interested in Claude Shannon and then, the book itself. And I am sure it's working. I am almost tempted to buy the book. Like many people, I certainly detest many marketing tactics but this is an example of one that has been done right and is even helpful.
Sure but that's obviously not how it's used. Also, for the first one which is the one he's actually using I couldn't make out a single word even when reading at the same time.
Awesome project, you're inspiring me to pick back up a text editor project I had started to learn Rust a while back. Yours is much more featureful, however!

By the way, if anyone else is thinking about doing the same, HN had a great discussion on an article (also very useful) on the various data structures one can use for text editors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244103
how are these systems implemented? are they all proprietary systems? do you have access to the back-end data?
I use pinboard, I only needed to pay once (I got in before the yearly subscriptions), but I still pay for archiving.

I rarely use the archives and nothing I've looked at pinboard has gone away, but it's only been a year. I'm thinking, just looking at my own behavior, over the next 2-3 years it'll get worse.

I have to say though it's not easy to get to the archive from somewhere. It's easier to look at archive.is or way back machine first than look at my own bookmark.
The Best Oven Mitts and Pot Holders
The title implies the two events are related. As if they submitted evidence so damning that the legal fund thought it prudent to return all received donations.

In reality they're returning the donations because they can't identify which ones are legit and which are fraudulent. Rather that sifting through it one by one, they've decided to return everything:

> Lawyer Tor Ekeland, who managed the fund, said at least $150,000 of the money collected came from fraudulent sources, and that the prevalence of fraudulent donations effectively voided the entire fundraiser. He said he'd been able to identify only about $4,900 in legitimate donations, but that he couldn't be certain even of those.
Aren't both English but with different accents?
Try

$ flatpak install --help
>just about anything physical could be modeled as a state machine. [...] Are you seriously suggesting we abandon terms like "unidirectional UI flow" and just describe those architectures as state machines?

Fyi ... a meta observation about this type of discussion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters

It's an invisible underlying theme of many programming debates and the participants often don't realize it's happening.

(Personally, I like "splitting" for communication of nuance to others but I also like "lumping" to understand that many things are variations of an underlying principle. E.g. a "file system" is a "database" which is lumping but if I want to communicate to others, splitting is better and I'll call it the "Mac HFS file system" instead of "Mac database" which would just confuse the hell out of everyone.)
Slartibartfast.

Just a heads up that Richard Vernon plays Slartibartfast in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I hope one day to have a machine that can speak with the voice of Richard Vernon (as Slartibartfast "My name is unimportant."), or of course Peter Jones who was the voice of The Book in HHGTTG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jones_(actor)
Probably if the function execution time is too small, the overhead isn't worth it? And if it's too large, there's too little granularity? I guess it's the same ideas that guide "ordinary" programming styles, only adjusted to the timings of large networks (milliseconds instead of microseconds).
Shannon's six secrets: Simplification. Analogy. Reframing. Abstraction. Division. Inversion. - Claude Shannon (1954), a modern summary.

... added to my fortune database @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Also, you have to have the money while young, which is way easier if you also have well off parents.
Came here to say this. Reading Polya now and there are lots of parallels! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
This is Robotic process automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation that all the big consultancies are pushing
It would be fun to try his setup and try to get used to programming without a screen
It's gibberish to me too, but surely it's something that can be learned.
Interesting. I've always wondered if this scenario could really happen, turns out, it already did.

Glad that the pilot survived.
July 26 release, this has been around for a while.
Lopsided or not, Antifa protesters have not driven a car into 'the other side' have they.
How to make your company BETTER
Jennashop.com Review
This is great! Just starting out to work with iOS with the ML and ARkit changes, so looking forward to working with some of these soon.

I'm thinking Apple might officially release a ML "search" at some point. I can imagine a life where they sell a variety of models (price determined by model complexity/size)... not sure if that's better or worse.
OOrientation, Relational DB Design, Logical Validity and Semantic Correctness
You don't need nukes to take out an air base, you need nukes to take out a hundred air bases at once.

Look at the one time nukes were used in war (so far) for an example. The US didn't need nukes to destroy those cities. Hiroshima and Nagasaki probably weren't even the deadliest bombing raids of the war: that honor goes to the attack on Tokyo on March 9-10 1945.

The difference is that it took 339 B-29s to devastate Tokyo, but only one B-29 to devastate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

If you have a few hundred bombers armed with conventional weapons, they can destroy a large target. Arm them with nuclear weapons and they can destroy hundreds of large targets.

Battlefield nukes are similar. An attacking enemy tank division can be stopped by a division of your own... or a single nuclear artillery shell.

This was really important during the cold war because the USSR had massive superiority in conventional arms. NATO troops were significantly outnumbered, and they weren't willing to spend what it would take to reach parity. Nukes were a cheap way to defend. Instead of stopping invading Soviet troops with lots of your own troops, stop them by blowing them up.

Then it just escalates. If the other guy can nuke your troops, you need to be able to nuke his or else you'll lose the war. You want to stop the other guy's nukes, so you nukes nukes that can destroy their air bases and missiles, not just tactical nukes. If the war continues then supplying your troops becomes important, and you need to destroy their factories and transportation infrastructure too.
I've never found a case where I've wanted to retain state between R sessions (I think doing so can be an anti-pattern).

But... that image saving feature is very much like that of Common Lisp. Given Ross Ihaka's then-and-now fondness for CL, I'd be shocked if this feature weren't very much intentionally patterned off that. The original implementation of R was on top of a Scheme runtime, but I don't know if images were (then) a feature.
I did want to bank this thread skywards, but of course there's "Star Cops".

Is there any other hard science fiction series set in space?

The sets are a tad shoddy, but they are good enough; a shame about the last episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWFwLWJZEc&list=PL5nu0EE47Y...
On the flip side the US population was only 2/3 as large and no DVR's etc.

Anyway, my point was not to compare numbers which is why I did not show GoT numbers. My point was simply a ridiculous number of people thought it was worth watching.
Some people are just in it for the saved screenspace and bandwidth. Still a weird decision.
> I do find it a bit satisfying that the scammers are gaming the "serious math/CS papers must be written in TeX"

Some don't even bother to do that. This is literally the white paper for one of the hottest cryptos out there right now :

http://docs.neo.org/en-us/

This is the codebase :

https://github.com/neo-project

The current net value of the entire circulation is about 3.7 billion, all of which was pre-"mined" and 50% of which is reserved by the creators.
There's nothing valid about it, it's a misspelling and a grammatical mistake.
In my 30's I drove a motorcycle, the crotch rocket variety (Kawasaki 750). I had a few very close calls, then decided I had had a good run and a lot of fun, but it was time to hang it up. I could see the writing on the wall: keep doing this and I would have a serious accident, that would either leave me dead or seriously injured. I was, at the time, planning a family, and to this day miss riding but think it was absolutely the right choice.
This whole discussion is somewhat moot as a real biologist would almost always write "species of octopus", singular.
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Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch: First Impressions of New Wearable
Yeah, I've heard both wingsuiting and ice climbing described similarly. Possibly not as high-risk, at least for ice climbing, but they have the same issue with random disaster. If you hit a death block somewhere, that's the end, and lifelong ice climbers build up a lot of chances at that no matter how good they are.
Not sure about streaming, but I'm working my way through the reissued Blu-Rays of Avengers Series 5 & 6, and they are superb restorations. (Series 6 with Linda Thorson, not Diana Rigg, is a bit underrated, but IMO the storylines are better)

It's interesting that you get a better experience than the original transmissions. It was all recorded on 35 mm film and broadcast in PAL on the very new, small and highly unreliable TV sets of 1967. The restored versions redigitised from film look incredible.
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lol what? Did you reply to the wrong comment?
and a SID chip for audio synthesis. :)

SID chip emulation just isn't the same, since the chip has both analog and digital components in the same die.
VR is at iPhone 3GS. I'm waiting for 4S.
Except kids can't be raised on a vegan diet, particularly young kids.
I'd really like to see a Sapphire and Steel reboot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGmv6zRM84
Elixir's package manager, Hex, gains private packages and organizations
I wonder the same. I often listen to videos at 1.5-1.8x. I can listen to faster, but after about 2-2.5x it becomes enjoyable. As I need full concentration to parse the speech and miss out on the visual experience. Perhaps being blind the audio processing is heightened or just the visual distraction is absent allowing full concentration on the audio?
But... Uber isn't travel. It's logistics. Expedia isn't logistics.

I mean, seems like a good CEO overall (in the vein of the "any CEO for Uber is better than none"), but I can't see what he specifically brings to the table to uniquely bring them to market. That said, it's not like Kalanick had something special either, it's just as the founder he has different cache.