skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the substance to his claim.

I think I've used email since the 1980s. I think I still use email.

Yet I have never used an email client with the essential elements that Ayyadurai claims an email system must have.

For example, in the mid 1990s my mail email client was BSD Mail in the terminal, and a local Sendmail. There was no relational system, no address book, no printing, and so on.

Does that mean I didn't really use email in the 1990s? Or does it mean that Ayyadurai's definition is too specific? I think it's the latter.

Perhaps I don't appreciate UX design, but it also feels like Ayyadurai doesn't appreciate the work of the scores of people who came before him.
hdf5, Feather, Arrow, protobufs, json, xml -- all solve the problem of binary representation of data on disk. They all leave the question of how to map said data to a specific problem domain up to the developer.

Projects like ONNX define said mapping for a specific domain (in ONNX's case, by agreeing on a proto schema for ML models, and its interpretation).

To use a simplistic metaphor: protobufs are the .docx format; onnx is a resume template you can fill out in Word.
I'd love to see z/OS being licensed for hobbyists. I'm very curious about mainframes, but I don't have the space to get myself a used zSeries.
Yours is a theoretical concern.

The very practical concern is that entire areas of research have been based on studies replicated and backed up entirely through p-hacking and selectively publishing only papers with positive results. This is a proven issue today. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis for more.

It may be that there is a pendulum that needs to swing a few times to get to a good tradeoff. But it is clear, now, which direction it needs to swing.
I have no idea what you are looking at, but I see them as under $20 with free prime shipping.
Behind the secret plan to bring Nazi scientists to US (2014)
This is a good answer that changed my perspective, thanks.
I can't say I blame her for deciding either way (apart from coming here without authorization.) It was a calculated gamble -- essentially 5 years of guaranteed immunity in exchange for being easier to find if the feds had decided to show her the door.

Had she stayed in the shadows, she might have been caught and deported regardless. I don't have the data to accurately weigh her chances either way.

In any event, her most likely outcome right now is deportation, then sneaking back in.
Tell HN: Hurricane Irma and impact
All, I just thought that other than staying safe which is highest priority for the upcomign Hurricane Irma (for those around Florida), please also double check if you run any servers in that region and be ready for disaster recovery. Double check your backups and process if you haven't. Better to be safe.

Most importantly though, get out of the danger if you can and don't try to ride it out. It is going to destroy whatever comes in its path. This is a big one.
GnuCOBOL – Questions, Manual, and Cookbook
Neat idea, might look into this for .NET, the obsolete attribute doesn't really cut it currently. Some of the comments on here mention unit test, static analysis, and just a good all round IDE makes this a non issue, but those are the scenarios I find most dangerous.

A unit test does not prove without a doubt a class/method are not in use. Static analysis/good IDEs are bound to the immediate code base, they can't determine usage when your code is shared across multiple workspaces or when the class/method are only called externally.

Tombstoning isn't perfect, but its safer than what I typically do given a sufficient amount of time to collect logs along side a bit of analysis on a case by case basis (e.g. method AddTwoNumbers() not being called for 6 months maybe okay to remove, whereas EndOfYearReportGenerator() not being called for 6 months shouldn't blindly be removed.)
I wish it was so easy; my camera a few years back, Canon TX1, got wet in one of those rains on Hawai'i and display could never turn on, thought camera was operating normally, taking pictures. I tried to put camera on a sunny place for weeks, didn't help. After two years I read something on forums somewhere about rice. I told myself I don't have anything to lose, so I put rice in a box and immersed camera with display open into it. After a day or so, I took it out and voila, display was working again! Though I must say there was rice dust present on display from inside. Obviously, I would have rather used another desiccant, but where could I buy such thing quickly and in required quantity?
Imagine our current issues with poorly secured devices connected to the internet (with default creds, for example), and then compare that with all of the embedded devices secured behind a NAT. It's an important security layer.
My point is that this 'data scientist' may be called one at fartapp.io, but not at Google/Microsoft/DARPA/MIT.
Clever attack! Then the phone AI voice command system must start to recognize that the speakers voice is the original speaker via user finger printing. Then the attacker will counter attack with another new system that emulates the original speakers voice and speech rate via deep learning. You will then as a counter measure have to press a hardware button to use voice commands. Seems like microphone proximity sensing and frequency filtering are easy first starts as counter measure as already mentioned in this thread.
Mighty fills an iPod shuffle-sized hole for Spotify subscribers
How to Get Over Local Maximum? Everyone Hits It Eventually
Male participation didn't drop by 20%. Rather, 20% of the drop that has been experienced might be linked to opioids.
For those who miss the 3270 terminals, I made this:

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

Won't turn your keyboard into a beam-spring one, but it still feels cool.
Nobody agrees that homeopathy works what are you talking about
How does physics connect to variational inference in machine learning?
I think building software is more like building a whole city for millions of people in one go. The bridge has a very simple goal, to cross from one place to another. Also you would need to speed up time a lot for it to be comparable. Imagine if technological change was so fast that by the time you finished building the bridge there were flying cars everywhere.

Blueprints are not that important when you need to build something that needs to adapt. Take for example olimpic stadiums that no one uses, they might have good blueprints and all the regulations but who cares now they are still useless. On the other hand take the exampole of haussman buildings in paris they are still being used and proved very adaptable.

I guess it might have something to do with nassim taleb's concept of antifragility. Software is very rapidly proved to be fragile because it operates in a context where there are a lot of black swans. On the contrary bridges operate on another time scale wher it might not be so obvious how fragile they are but given the correct scale you would have bridge builders facing the same problems as software developers.

[edit] Also you need to take into account the crazy fact that you build software based on some facts but the software you build changes those facts, so now you need to change the software that will change the facts so on and so forth.
> I have been interested in this language for quite some time

Out of curiosity: do you mean you find the job prospects interesting, or the language itself? Because I'd understand if it's a money thing, but... I used to work with COBOL and I wouldn't wish the language on anyone.
> Why do I continually hear the term "unpaid intern".

Because those things still exist, just not doing employer-sponsored g work in for-profit firms.

> I believe there is more to the US than just California, right?

Yes, and unpaid interns doing work that directly benefits the employer is a violation of rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act in the whole US, not just California.
Indeed. The site itself is uncomfortable! It's meta.
I recently re-read the classic "Peopleware" (written 1974) and I think it's a bit unfortunate, given all the innovation elsewhere in the field, that there hasn't been much innovation or even experimentation about the nature of employment or how teams are constructed and actually execute work.

Sure, there's a new "method" every few years but these seem like tinkering around the edges.

I admit this is not a fully-formed idea but I've wondered about a concept where an entire team would be compensated as a team, but then the team would be responsible for hiring/firing. (Which seems only fair -- if you're going to be compensated as a team you should have control over it.) A group "audition" interview technique is discussed in Peopleware that I have sadly never seen implemented, but something like that could form a part.

But as long as people are compensated on an individual basis there will always be an incentive to treat communication and particularly assistance or training of other team members as a second-tier function, to be done only reluctantly if at all. But viewed from the throughput or potential of a team, someone who increases the performance of multiple other developers has a much greater shot, in my experience, of being the mythical "10X developer" than even a very strong individual contributor. And the reverse is certainly well-known to be true: someone who hurts the performance of people around them, even if they produce good code at a reasonable rate, may actually be worse than useless to the team as a whole. Producing an incentive structure that takes those issues into account that's based on measuring individual performance is extremely difficult, and I've begun to think impossible, given that the industry has been trying to do it for decades with little apparent progress.
Sorry, but no. The only thing primitive about the first nation of peoples that inhabited the land which later came to be known as "Australia", is that they were massacred and brought into non-existence by the invasion of white Europeans who, still yet today it seems, even still seem to think that their way of life is superior, and therefore anything otherwise is utterly inferior. However, this is a matter of great debate.
Maybe Russia just forgot to share progress downstream and kept space tech under military secrecy ? Or maybe too much resources allocated to space and none to the rest of society.
Amazon targets authors/marketers for alleged abuse of Kindle Direct Publishing
Smalltalk Is the Nikola Tesla of the IT Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6afA_pypxM He breaks down intelligence, talks about a bunch of interesting topics, then near the end talks about what IQ level can do what kind of job, and at the very end, he touches on what happens to people who are unemployed, but in fairness, he doesn't go in depth on that subject in this video. If I come across a video where he goes into it more, I'll post it here.
Hm... are there any GNU repos currently hosted on github?
The catalyst for this project is my frustration with popular tracking and A/B testing products being overly cumbersome. I'm not sure how many developers share my frustration, but my hope is there is a market for a simple RESTful counting and AB testing API.

I created a similar MVP about 4 years ago and dropped the project in favor of another. Since that time I've decided to take another stab at it, this time focusing more on how the API can be used for marketing research.
Actually it is good that nobody can get proof for their own vote. Thus votes selling is harder - provider cannot provide anything to seller. And yes, taking pictures of your own ballot is not allowed over there. Camera shutter sound may cause quite an issue.

Another issue is employers pressing workers to vote for certain politician etc. They could flat-out ask for one's blockchain ID. With paper voting, there's no way to valid way to get proof.

Paper voting trust is based on crowd trust. Anyone can check voting make sure everything is going smoothly. Don't trust your local voting committee? Go and sign up to volunteer!
Amazon's own Lambda is that, yes. But the Lambda architecture it inspired is the opposite: a de-facto standard (based on the way Amazon's works, but probably eventually an open standard) for servers any org can use to stand up their own public or private FaaS cloud, which developers can deploy Lambda functions onto rather than having to build an entire container/VM just to slot it into OpenStack.
If you use a regex then try:

git log -p -G regex
I'd love to give it a shot. I'm a retrocomputing enthusiast (don't get me wrong, COBOL crowd) and I'd love to get to know more about how mainframes, their care and feeding.
Ah OK, got it. How big was the overall drop? I assume a lot less than 20%.
my guess is it is the latter.

If I have my own framework and I want to operate with this standard, I need to have the ability to map to and from ONNX's format. I don't think it is intended for people to write directly in ONNX's format to maintain compatibility. If it were, I'd imagine it would fall flat very quickly as people wouldn't want to rewrite everything in the hopes that their framework of choice will adopt it. Seems the intent is more like .odt to me than, say, Markdown.
So since there are lots of non druggies out there virtually the entire population in fact I'm guessing employment at said factory is so crappy that the only people willing to hire on are junkies.

This says more about the factory than the junkies. Figure out why nobody decent will work there.
React component lifecycle simulator
> Sure, but having a great university down the street means they get first crack at interns.

I can't imagine an Amazon HQ in Cincinnati would have trouble recruiting interns from Columbus, Cleveland, etc. They already attract interns to Seattle from all over the country.

For every Skyline rec (which is, indeed, a shitty thing to do to a visitor), there's a Graeters one. :-p
If the parent used C++ in the old days, using the "Better C" paradigm im sure he will have bad memories being plaged by manual resource management.

Its a whole new language and much more stable when you just use smart pointers, take care of ownership and know how to use the right reference types.
Ask HN: Would it be legal if I put my web scraping scripts (lib) on GitHub?
Hi, I am using the data for research purposes. How bad it is to show scrappers in my Github account.
I am using scrappers to collect data from news sources, analyze them and work on some data analysis tools (recommendation sys, data visualization of aggregated data, .. etc).

I tried to consult with some other people in the field, but most of them gave mixed signals, and recommended articles like [1](https://gijn.org/2015/08/12/on-the-ethics-of-web-scraping-and-data-journalism/).

As far as I know, some big companies like BBC do have some scrapping tools like [Juicer](http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/juicer/). Any one of you got into troubles by putting such scripts publicly.

Best,
There's no guarantee of results, it's just another way to introduce people to non-ordinary states of consciousness/mind. Certainly don't ever do it without someone's consent, and don't impose some sort of belief structure over what's personally and independently cognizable and knowable. I suppose I have a hard time saying that un-erasable insights are "brainwashing" because that's like saying traveling abroad is like being a traitor. Really, it makes you a stronger citizen, because then you have terms and modes with which to compare, and you also have a newfound wealth of treasure and discovery to help accelerate your own nation, to bring the simile full circle.
There's too much money to be made to worry about long-term effects.
If your code base is only used within a single workspace (and you know this with certainty) then I completely agree. The issue arises when your code is used outside of your workspace as a shared code base or a public facing API.
I completely agree. Without the external ability to directly contact nodes on the inside, an attacker has to either compromise the network hardware, or somehow deliver a software payload inside the network. It's not a silver bullet, but it does have a strong role protection.
Mostly Microsoft Outlook.

(But more seriously, even with a good MUA and either client-side or server-side search, the way mail messages are constructed, with tons of reply quoting, makes searching them a pain.)

In lots of business cultures there's no expectation to search email, because it's so hard to get useful results that way, so if you send it in an email you can expect to have people just ask you to send it again. Even if you can use search, it still sucks.

Slack is not perfect but it's at least designed for search.
Uh, I seriously doubt Musk gives two shits about his "whiteness," whatever that means. SpaceX can't hire non-citizens because of ITAR regulations. So no armies of Tata consultants and other H1B mills.
Again the straw man, second time in this thread. And ask native Canadians about their experience in tar sands areas.
I think the key is in how much is being administered and what method. I'm sure the pothead next door will have different effects than someone who has been properly dosed by someone who know what they're doing.
Kafka is fairly mundane piece of software aside from periodic ops issues with Zookeeper.
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Well, if your main goal is building rockets, ITAR regulations are going to hold you back from hiring globally.

(Also: South Africa not South America)
Docker is a fragmented mess network wise if you need to support developers on both windows and macOS. Also, docker requires hyper-v and admin privs on Windows. And you can't run VirtualBox with hyper-v active so you need to choose either of the two options. Granted, you could run Docker in virtualbox but it wouldn't be very clean.
Some speculate that the Motorola acquisition was for their patent portfolio rather than their product line. I don't know how much credence to give that theory. An argument in favor of it is how quickly the Motorola phone business (minus the patents) was sold off to Motorola and an argument against it is that Motorola's former patents don't seem to be especially valuable to Google.
> This information is outdated, SourceForge at the time was owned by a company that tried to squeeze everything out of it but it was bought last year by some people who seem interested in restoring its reputation and functionality.

It's worth remembering that the company that initially tried to do the squeezing spent many years being a decent FLOSS citizen. That's the reason so many open source projects were hosted on Sourceforge in the first place.
This is an impressive team effort by Delta--and a great demonstration of the teamwork required between those in the air and on the ground to pull something like this off.
It's the volume of the user's posts on social media over the months.
TITBITS
Hey, yes we usually handle the work visa. However, the job is already filled now
You got it right. Tensorflow is HUGE in the AI community, Facebook and Microsoft are scared. I, for one, am a huge fan of Tensorflow and don't plan on learning anything new to do the work I'm already doing. Facebook and Microsoft should just join Google's coalition and use Tensorflow company-wide.
This is, in my experience, not true. Anecdotally, xhyve has performed much better for Docker; especially when choosing the appropriate method for volume mount consistency[1], which has solved most FS performance issues I have run into.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs-caching/
Neural Network Training with Maximum Likelihood: Theory and Implementation
I guess what I don't like about NATs is the mandatory enforcement in consumer networks because ISPs still only hand out one IP.

There's something wrong with the internet when two devices that want to talk to each other need to trick the NAT with a hole-punching server before they can communicate.
+1 I agree with you. :P
Race is a proxy for urban/rural and income. Population density is correlated with increased crime rates. Certainly that's not to say urban living causes crime.

The idea that so many rural deaths could be covered-up murders is simply fanciful.
The New Nokia 8
Mandelbulb 4D
If you subcontract production, the service provider typically has supply chain specialists that source things on your BOM. Procurement people might do direct purchasing/negotiation (typically on special&pricier bits), or go to wholesalers for mass consumption items.
why? the hurricane is predictable in its movement and moves at a snail's pace relative to the plane. The pilots I'm sure had radar data inside the cockpit

It's not rocket science.
The fact that it's deliberate is a common viewpoint among people who have studied it. The New Jim Crow is a good book along these lines targeted at a popular audience.

It's definitely an uncomfortable and politically-incorrect claim, but I don't think it's a very bold one (in the sense of being a tenuously-supported leap of logic).
The difference is on attributing every move to a lock-in motive -- instead to a motive of improving the product, ensure future capabilities, etc.
I read the whole Operation Paperclip recently. Wow. Just... wow.
Well, this starts to break down when you consider that NAT means that an individual subscriber may only be able to open one connection at any one time.
It's a lot like OpenResty (https://openresty.org/en/), which is Nginx with a Lua interpreter embedded and bridged to its request-response cycle (the OpenResty page explains the point of that pretty well); but instead of Lua, Unit has a bunch of other language runtimes embedded.
> Lisp trolls existed even back the

Recently while reading, Appel's Compiling with Continuations, I read some mistaken claims about Lisp and scope, one doesn't have to be a troll, which requires intent, to make ignorant claims about Lisp, parsing or any subject. Although the amount of ridiculous arguments from people who clearly haven't used it (or at most used it very briefly) does make one's blood boil at times.
This doesn't make much sense really. Climate Change is what caused the polarization, not the fact that Al Gore made the film.
The same reason the "top 40 pop charts" can put a song in the number 1 position before it's release.

It makes more money.
Great points and I think you're spot on.

I'm personally a skeptic of the claims made by the AGW side and the alarmism pushed out by so many. The proposed AGW solutions are not feasible worldwide either which is what would be necessary to solve the problem they outline. I'm saying this not to get into a discussion about it at this time but to lay out why I would STILL support the agenda: essentially there are several great secondary benefits from doing what they recommend.

This is the biggest failure of the AGW side - they have terrible positioning and think you're stupid if you question science. If you tell people they're stupid (even if they are) they aren't changing their minds.

This is how you push the AGW agenda. "Let's say we're wrong. Here are the benefits of doing what we're suggesting and making some changes & investments":

- Better air quality

- It's good for national security - we no longer need to send large sums of money to hostile countries, many of which support terrorist organizations and other groups which are Anti-American / Anti-Western values.

- Cheaper energy

That's hard for anyone to argue, assuming the legislation is sensible.