skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Form the El Pais of today

https://elpais.com/ccaa/2017/09/23/catalunya/1506191226_2201...

> Hasta un 82% de catalanes se muestran partidarios de solucionar el problema catalán con un referéndum pactado y plenamente legal sobre la independencia. La idea seduce a la inmensa mayoría de los partidos independentistas pero también recoge numerosos apoyos entre las fuerzas constitucionalistas.
Box2D.go – Pure go port of Box2D
Then I still don't understand what's your point.
I don't follow - how is this "wrong"? If those are things you want to eliminate, why not eliminate them.
As long as they don't use Rust
JOE – Joe's own editor 4.5 released
A new, simple, ad-free app for listening to music
NASA May Shift Its Focus from Mars to the Moon
As an aside: Back in the day, I worked for a nuclear sciences consultancy whose hostnames for machines were Simpsons' characters. They strived to make control-systems fail-safe with extensive planning, processes safe as possible and simulations as accurate as computing power allowed (30 million lines of Fortan worth)... it just takes one nitwit thinking "it's okay" or "they 'know' better" to screw up the industry's reputation even more than prevailing NIMBYism.
Programming for money until I'm too old to
It's not defined as the standard date representation for JSON, nor is anything else, so every library does its own incompatible thing.
Dont depressed people sleep like 12 hours ?
Well the fact that you and the other guy offered different "standards" to use is kind of exactly my point.
Would love to chat offline but I don't see any contact info! Shoot me an email at maneesh@pavlok.com
Equifax or Equiphish?
What Do You Say to People Who Think They Have Nothing to Hide?
So if I print out a pic of waldos head and using sleight of hand put that in the hole I have proven something without having to actually find him? Far from a perfect solution.
The more things change (2015)
idiotic advice
I think that's unfair towards technology, which is our primary and - I dare to say - only tool for solving problems[0].

What Americans, and other Western cultures, have a problem with is an obsession with consumptionism - the belief that you can always buy a solution for everything, the belief that the best solution comes from those who advertise most, the belief that they even care about you solving your problem. The gullibility to buy "space-tech" widgets with "new QuantumPower formula" that is obvious bullshit, from people who obviously have zero incentive to help you, and all the incentives to take your money.

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[0] - I mean, what else is there? Magic? Hoping for divine intervention? Pretending a problem doesn't exist?
So is 1, i, j, 7, l, 5, s, o, 0 just the tip of the iceberg here
Microsoft, Facebook, Complete Undersea Cable from US to Spain
> People can be jerks at any age or level.

Good point, I was simply saying that in my experience it's the people with "senior" in their job title who do this most often.

> many people come into an organization questioning why or how things are done.

I think Chesterton's fence is a very important concept for new engineers to learn. But sometimes it's still valuable to understand for yourself why that fence is there in the first place rather than just take someone's word for it. The best scenario is an opportunity for a senior to guide a junior in the exact why.
Why would anyone in Puerto Rico want a hurricane? Because someone will get rich
Macros in TeX and LaTeX certainly can loop over subscripts.
This looks cool, is it intended to be similar to IndieHackers, but as a newsletter?
Real time collaboration is an awesome feature and essentially what justifies Google Docs' existence, as it's behind Word in practically every other area (though I find Sheets more intuitive than Excel, that might just be familiarity).

The technology to do RTC is not particularly resource intensive on the client side. Nor is it web specific: the native Android versions of Google Docs don't use the web but they do support RTC.

RTC is enabled by an algorithm called "operational transform". It's a very clever algorithm that is rather tricky to implement properly, but it doesn't involve loading huge datasets or solving vast numbers of equations. It's ultimately still just about manipulating text. You could have implemented the client side part of it on Windows 95 without trouble, I'd think. At least I can't see any obvious problems with doing so, assuming a decent Windows 95 machine like one with 8 or 16mb of RAM.

OT does, however, require the entire app to be built around the concept. You can't easily retrofit it to an existing editor.

The reason Word 95 didn't have Docs style realtime editing is simply because back then networks were kind of rare, slow, crappy and word processor designers didn't know about the OT algorithm back then because it was still being researched by academia.

The real question is - if we had a better client side platform on laptops and desktops, one that supported some of the best features of the web without the rest, would Docs RTC still be possible? Surely yes!
The US is the third worst in that list. If you're content to say "but X is worse", as long as there is at least one X, so be it...

EDIT: And if you want more recent data:
https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research...
Seq2Seq and Attention Mechanism from Scratch Using Tensorflow
Honestly, go to college. Your worldview will be changed, in a good way. The number of "unknown unknowns" will be dramatically decreased.

That said: Don't go into serious debt to do it, and try to get into the best school you can. Perhaps even consider going abroad (Germany has many programs in English, for example.) Approach it as a learning experience, not as a credential.
Apple GPU provider Imagination sells to private equity after losing contract
Some other answers (that kind of fix the issue that you might not be showing the exact Waldo):

Make a copy of the page and have your friend draw a unique repeating pattern on the entire back. Cut out Waldo from the page and have your friend verify the design “signature” on the back.

For a better design signature have your friend paint the back of the copy with a color made from three unique rgb values they choose that you don’t know. When you cut Waldo out of the copy have them verify the color matches their unique color.

Another qualification is that details about Waldo are public so simply describing the stripes on his shirt and such doesn’t help prove to your friend that you’ve found him.
> I do not encounter TeX users who write their own macros often.

But they use packages that they got off CTAN that were written by someone who is not at central office (not that there is a central office, but one would be needed if you stripped out the ability to write serious macros since there would have to be someone adding approved features).
This link resurfaced again after getting a mention in cron.weekly issue #99; https://www.cronweekly.com/issue-99/

Gotta say, I'm happy about that, as I wrote the newsletter :-D
Icongram – easily use icons from popular icon sets on the fly
I think many people know EXACTLY how to treat a dead traffic light, it's just so uncommon that they forget.

I've seen less than a dozen times either a blinking-red or a dead light.

Blinking red is more confusing than a not-working-at-all traffic light IMHO.
I agree with your conclusive point. On the others, I'm not sure we need to worry about losing tribalism any time soon so I hope you're not losing sleep over it.
> And then what recourse will/should be available?

Apparently you can pay Tesla a few thousand $ to "re-certify" the car and restore updates and supercharging.
chrony seems great from this comparison and I remember using it in the past and being pleasently surprised at how good it was with laptops. These tests show the same. Anyone know why it hasn't become the default on Linux?
BLEAH a dead easy to use tool to break BLE
SQL injection is to do with SQL, a text based protocol for expressing commands to a server. Like all text based protocols trying to combine it with user-provided data immediately takes you into a world of peculiar escaping rules, magic quotes and constant security failures.

The fix for SQL injection is to work with binary APIs and protocols more. Parameterised queries are the smallest step to that world, where the user-supplied data rides alongside the query itself in separated length-checked buffers (well, assuming you're not writing buggy C - let's presume modern bounds checking languages here). They aren't combined back into text, instead the database engine itself knows how to combine them when it converts the SQL to its own internal binary in-memory representation, as IR objects.

Another fix is to move entirely to the world of type safe, bounds checked APIs via an ORM. But then you pay the cost of the impedance mismatch between the object and relational realms, which isn't great. I will provide a solution for this in part II.
Beginners and experts
> complain that Senior Developers don't believe some Junior hires have minimum competency if they are unable to compile a file.

You're definitely taking the wrong impression from my post then. Do you code in C / C++?

If you've never had an issue compiling a large codebase as a new developer then I should either bow before your greatness or mock you for your inexperience because in large, complicated projects with 1000-line makefiles included from various sources, on a platform with various skews, flags and options, even the most talented developer can have issues with compilation - especially in most corporate scenarios where the exact command line you need for the internal build tool Steve wrote in 1996 is passed down through email and IM logs. OH and don't forget that some of the objects we link with are actually dummy files to be filled in by a shared library on the target that's been precompiled... OH and some of our functions are actually programmatically generated by a Perl script that runs as part of the build script. These are just some of the things I was exposed to as a junior at various companies.

Building gets messy, quick. Should it be? Probably not. Is it? Hell yes. Download boost or blender or something and try and compile for a non-standard or multiple platforms. My sibling even gives a specific open-source example (although open-source projects are typically MUCH better about getting building to be simple)

More importantly, my point is not that the junior doesn't know how to compile. Compilation is just a place where things get very messy very quickly, and a precise explanation of what was done needs to be given so that the senior can guide the junior along a proper debugging path. Your attitude is precisely the thing I'm recommending against.

> a file.

Whoever needs to only compile one file? That's not the hard part :)
A college degree is not something Americans think they can go without anymore. You get taught your whole life in the educational system that if you don't go to college you are going to be a failure. Degrees are so prevalent now that they are becoming the new high school diploma instead of a differentiator. In 2012 I was a year out of college, 4 years after the recession, and working at a call center that would only accept employees with a bachelor's and they had too many applicants.

Given how many jobs have moved to cities nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if it was easier to get by without a car than it would be to not have a degree, and this is in car centric America
EURUSD Sees Price Hesitation with Downside Bias
The big open question I have about kotlin native is the gc story, i.e. How is it implemented? Neither boehms (libgc) or reference counting are adequate solutions imo. Last I knew go was in the process of moving to a generational gc, state of the art as in hotspot jvm.

Also, the multi process, thread, coroutine, async io scheduling story in go is very compelling. Java (and by association kotlin) has lots if async server frameworks, but seems doubtful you'd get that level of integration unless they target it.
Static Libs Do Not Modular Make
"Taliban Driving"?

In New York we call it driving.
They did not allowed lower cases which helped alot. "L" was easily distinguished from "I" |_, so was "B": |3 from 8.
You're looking in the wrong place. Install the homebrew version, it has 3 patches for macOS that aren't in the upstream.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
Russian Hackers Say They’re Using Twitter Bots to Help AfD in Germany
In general, I don't see a problem with targeted ads. For consumers, I think it is a positive. I want to be made aware of products that I will actually like. Even for political issues, I want to be put in touch with the candidates and organizations and events I care about.

The only real problem I can think of is when these targeted ads are used as a way to lie to one set of targeted people while saying something completely different to another set.
My response to "grand vision" projects is to say, "work up an actual spec of what's necessary, and I'll respond based on what's technically feasible." I find that when they finally get their heads out of their entrails, most needs are very simple. Animation can be done in .gif, static images can be supported by imagemaps and tables.
Unverified Rumor Circulating That Amazon May Accept Bitcoin by October
Citing an NPR article for a legal point is like citing NPR for a programming point. Just, no.

Corporations and humans both implement the ILegalPerson interface. So for some purposes where you need a legal person, they are interchangeable. But they are not in general people.
I’m no nuclear physicist but from this article, they weren’t even close to critical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
On one hand, products are measurably different, yet they are “good enough” so people did not notice/care about it long time. Now when it hit headlines and people feel cheated.
Twitch Single Sign-On with Ember Simple Auth
6 hours' sleep = zombified, confused, stressed, steeped in dread

10 hours' sleep = alert, optimistic, sharp, happy

And the only variable that changed was lengthOfSleep !
The problem is you don't need to convince me. I could easily switch to org mode. It's the generic public that concerns me. You have to admit most people use stars as bullets. Even languages like wiki do. But also things like onenote and office things.
El-Rufai’s Morbid Fixation with Death of His Political Opponents by Farooq A
Towards a CA free internet with CT
> accumulate money, say 1.000.000€, until you're 35 and then live out of interest rate? I want to enjoy life while I'm still youngish.

Enjoying life doesn't necessarily have anything to do with money.
Sane layout control for apps was a solved problem 15 years ago (well, for some definition of sane). Look at toolkits like Swing, GTK2, Qt, heck even Cocoa has better layout control for apps than HTML.

Flexbox is essentially an import of those concepts to CSS. There are no new ideas there.

But now flip it around and try to make a beautiful, responsive document in Swing or GTK. The layout managers that make them so great for laying out UIs won't help you much there. They can do it, they have layout managers that operate somewhat like a CSS box flow, but it won't be as natural or as easy.

So it's worth considering if it's easier to evolve HTML towards sane layout management for app-like things, or GUI toolkits towards sane layout management for document-like things.
> Markdown doesn't have comment syntax!

Sure it does, <!-- ... -->. This is also what Emacs will automatically use if you add-file-local-variable in a Markdown file, so I don't know why you're using that weird format.

There's a stronger argument to made that org-mode doesn't really have comments. As far as I can tell syntax-ppss never gives me non-nil for them. Sure, a line like "# foo" appears in a comment face, but so does a line like "#+ASDF:" or "#+BEGIN_SRC" (but not a line like "#+TITLE:"). So whether something is a "comment" depends on its contents, which means it's syntax, never really a comment.
Deliveroo raises $385M in new funding
Very few web apps actually use the same HTML for desktop and mobile. It's more common for WordPress templates and other document-like things, but the UI constraints on a phone are so different that it's better to create a dedicated UI for them. So I'm not sure judging VB6 by that metric is valuable.
> is it more useful to me to contribute to open-source software to add to my portfolio or to find people who will hire me?

Vastly more beneficial to you to contribute to OSS in my view. Nobody will really care how old you are (they'll only know if you tell them, or make it obvious in your profile) - you'll be judged only on your contribution.

The experience, both for yourself and your CV, will be worth far more than some menial task set by whoever hires you. Bear in mind that anybody who does, short of some sort of family/friend connection, either can't get or can't afford an undergraduate intern.
As other posters have said I recommend talking to them in person if possible. It's worked for me to just get in front of them because they're a lot less likely to think you're lying, and you can more quickly shut down the paths you've already went down if you do know your stuff about that method (and if you don't, it'll be clear to them and they can alleviate the issue).
Google Security Team: Guide to protecting your web app
Apertus: Open Source Cinema
PULoveRE DAMA MODERNE
I'm not. I'm just stunned by the ignorance of people who aim for that goal.
There is massive problem in the culture about value of sleep. The culture implicitly defines mentality where working hard without much sleep is somewhat heroic. Therefore according to the culture (again implicitly) those who sleep a lot are lazy.

Hard working heroes who sacrifice sleep from time to time displayed in popular films. Take for example three films Micro Men [1] and The Martian [2] and The Social Network [3].

In first two films, hard working heroes don't "waste" time on "useless/unproductive" sleep and instead drink lots caffeine.

In corporate culture it's often the same. Since 2006 till 2008 I worked as a technical support engineer and I often had to work at night. Sometimes, I took two hours of sleep (in an office's couch) from 4 AM till 6 AM. After these two hours of sleep I would be energized and work really productive till 9 AM. But the company decided to impose strict ban on sleeping in office and instead put coffee machine. As I expected my performance fell significantly no matter how much coffee I took. So the company put stupid discipline over actual performance.

In 2014, I had insomnia so I couldn't perform well at work (again no matter how much coffee I took). I went to corporate doctor (a doctor assigned by company). She looked at me and said that I don't have bruises under my eyes, so I'm totally fine. More than that she actually didn't take any my complaints seriously and instead assumed that I'm lazy.

Nowadays, I mostly sleep well and I almost don't drink caffeine. Sometimes, my insomnia came back. Since I participate in algorithm contests and I know very well that no matter how hard I try to work hard without enough sleep I do not perform well in algorithm contests.

The mentality that working hard is opposite to good sleep is most irrational, harmful and widespread yet very implicit thing in the culture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network
A person I knew with depression complained that it was just impossible to sleep at the time when one needs most and then get 12 hours of a bad sleep when one better do other things.
Just for completeness, how would ntpsec fare in this comparison?

I know ntpsec is a somewhat questionable fork.
But the refactoring work itself can't be all bad...
Reddit can also send RSS:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney.rss?sort=top&t...

AmazonTopRated is invite-only. Hence, no 403.
It's not about how close they were, it's how they ignore or don't understand simple safety rules that are supposed to prevent incredibly dangerous accidents.

These people aren't responsible enough to be working in the nuclear industry.
Internet giants, once above the fray, are on the defensive in Washington
Ever considered using Kickstarter for a full edition?
On Windows, not having to install DocBook tools.
where is this quote from? I want to learn more about Charlies thoughts. What should I read?
Why you can't kill the web app
That's a lot of maybes to support an already unlikely scenario.
Slightly off topic but its always funny to see you can freely buy Uranium on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/
Transition Effect with CSS Masks
You should decide to do some of these one day! Show up to a bar mitvah with gifts and stuff and when people ask who you are, you just show them the invitation. "I dunno man, they told me it was a party, so I showed up... Mazel tov!"
Absolutely. I have to admit I don't really understand why neanderthalensis is separate from sapiens - H. sapiens sapiens is a widespread enough classification, so why not H. sapiens neanderthalensis?
I see a big problems with using org-mode format with other editors than emacs, and that's why I use smth like simplified-YAML instead for notes: it doesn't lend itself well to indent-based folding (popular out-of-the-box feature in like all modern editors: Sublime, VSCode etc.).

Like, if I write

Heading 1:
Heading 10:
...
Heading 11:
Heading 110:
...
Heading 111:
...

I can easily navigate a huge tree by using code folding to hide subsections. If heading levels are instead given by number of leading `*`s, then the editor really needs to be aware of the language.

(Also, backtricks are really easy to type, I see no reason to replace them with other weird characters.)
What are yoir definitions of "takers" and "givers"?
Of course, those people are all the while often reiterating it.
I've seen that meme get passed around Facebook for several different airlines, several times. It's always so lazy too "this company that's been around for 60 years is turning 88! Wow get your free tickets because thats what companies do when they turn 88!"
I'd love to get some feedback! :)
How to Be  More  Productive?Pareto Principle
The average americans checking accounts has high fluctuations over a month so it can be used for overnight interbank loans but not directly turned into home loans. This means two banks need to cover their reserve requirements so ~(90% of 90%) of the money in checking accounts can be loaned out. Savings accounts are more stable so ~(90%) of the money of the money can be loaned.

Also, banks may make loans, but they can also sell them to other groups without reserve requirements. Allowing for a near endless streams of new loans.

Thus the total amount of loans is not fixed and depends on where in the economy the actual currency is.