skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team uses mailcatcher, also, but (partly) for reasons I've not yet seen mentioned:

Our primary application allows us to safely import recent dumps of the production databases into select CI systems, of which some tables have user records with real email addresses for report sending, etc.

In the case that the code which sanitizes these records misfires or otherwise fails to do its job, at least we won't send random emails to actual customers. I know we've all gotten those from a vendor at one time or another and it's a corporate level face-palm that's worth the extra effort to avoid. Belts & suspenders, defense-in-depth, and all that.
If the premise is accepted as true, then it shouldn't be Facebook's choice.
I know that, and think it immoral myself.

I want to see better ways for people to 'opt out', because otherwise they will begin making demands that put other people's options in jeopardy.
A lot of studios also have Adam as well.
I shudder to think how hard it would be - likely impossible - to use a bad git GUI if I didn't already know many of the git CLI commands.

Even just, say, MS Word. If I don't know a feature exists, clicking around through dozens of menus isn't going to get me anywhere. For both CLI and GUI, Google or official docs are the only reasonable way to discover.
In which case it no longer has any relationship with your Amazon purchases, which come from an entirely different place. And still doesn't require a national ID to implement.
It's what I do. However, I rarely integrate with email, and when I do it's for in-house email addresses.

That said, I was giving an example of why a mock might not be an appropriate solution, and not on the wider topic of what "enough" might be.

I can certainly think that testing the ability to send emails to, say, 5,000 different addresses, and check that they are received, might be easier with something like this system.
By auditing the diffs daily? Code review but by someone on the US government’s payroll.
Connect the other monitor via thunderbolt->HDMI adapter? You're right, it does seem silly. Possibly just coincidental?
Well, it's an interesting survey. I'm surprised at how much space it devoted to illustrating B-trees in the context of RDBMSs as a lot of the concepts there really had no specific connection to B-trees.

So much space devoted to logging, locking and latches. All heavily used in the industry up till the last decade. All obsolete now. Not a single mention of immutable/persistent B-trees. Were there really no academic papers on the topic written in a time covered by this survey?
I’ve got an old (mid 90s vintage) pair of Acoustic Research speakers. Not being an audiophile or having very good hearing, how do they rate these days?
While English is my first language clearly me at it no good.

I've added an edit to provide the clarity that should've been there initially.
I wanted to, but Google Play Books has been closed to new publishers for some time.
Interest/enjoyment is a factor, but I don't think it's the only factor that matters. Long term success also matters. Pardon my racist stereotype but Asian families are supposedly very strict on and focused towards education for their children, seemingly in spite of the enjoyment of the child. The results here are obvious, Asian adults are kicking every other race's ass in basically every metric of success you can name: lower criminality rates, higher education, higher incomes, lower divorce rate, lower single motherhood rate, etc. Now, I'm not suggesting that everyone must adopt the stereotyped child rearing practices of Asian families, but it's worth considering that enjoyment for the child need not be the only priority.
It was a phone he was told not to use for government security reasons. Befuddled is "whoops, I trusted the nice man in the email" not "whoops, I ignored instructions to specifically not use this device which might not be safe."
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I have two creative passions in life - code and producing music. First, I'm surprised to see this on hackernews.

The love/hate of the speaker are really irrelevant factors for the product produced by an audio engineer. There are a couple things that really matter in terms of their 'efficiency': 1) the flat frequency response; and 2) Knowing the qualities of the monitor. If you have a decently treated room and you are somewhat accustomed to working with the NS10s, any engineer worth their salt could produce decent sounds on them.

The article is old so it foregoes the fact that Yamaha have actually tried to profit from the legacy of the NS10 - they produce new more expensive variants with similar design in the crowded studio monitor market. They fit into the space with the typical 5, 6 and 8 inch woofer-standard market with the HS7s for example. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/yamaha-hs7-hs8s

The end result is more important than the gear. These will do alright even if they aren't as "pleasing" as something like the Adam series'.
Japanese robot hotels only have a few humans on staff
There’s no simple, panacea, technical solution to prevailing ignorance. Granted people can have their sentiment adjusted by captological factors, but people need to dig into issues, do credible research, learn about history and cultivate better BS detectors. Lazy, passive, clueless wallflowers do not a healthy society make.
There are many possibilities. My money is based on the fact that iOS 11 just came out. "Hmm... I see that there's a new iOS....Better update my personal phone even though I'm not using it at the moment...Wow! This phone is acting weird! Better take it to the security people at work."

I don't know that's what happened, but it's certainly plausible. If it is, it speaks well for Kelly's powers of observation (noticing that the phone was behaving in an unusual way) and ability to choose a proper course of action (taking it to the security professionals at the White House, rather than, as someone else noted, Geek Squad or whatever minimum wage clerk was manning the counter at the Verizon store).
My mom and grandma (and the rest of my family) are not on reddit, so I don't care. But Facebook appeals to the masses with much greater reach, thus they can do much greater harm if they are serving biased news.
Man, how'd you get lost on Mount Takao? It's always so crowded... if you have any info that'd let one find that lone vending machine, I'm interested :)
That's the only scenario I could come up with as well. The line about "stopped updating" may be a miscommunication of "he went to update it after not using it since January, found it not working, and brought it to the IT department."
Exactly. The next Facebook news feed will just fill the void, and people who blindly believe what they are exposed to will be in the same situation. Killing Facebook news feed is trying to treat the symptom while completely ignoring the disease.
The mob is fickle, and prone to learned helplessness, which invites corruption, bureaucracy and the fall of “Rome.”
Fair point. But if it helps you feel any better I gave up several times and just barely got by with editing (very slowly) when I didn't have alternatives. What finally motivated me into overcoming my mental block was regular expressions of all things. When I realized how powerful (despite being flaky and inconsistent) regexes were in the Windows editors I'd tried I couldn't live without them and it didn't take long before I realized how much better vim was than even that.
Because I'm not a taxpayer in the US?

If somebody didn't contribute to your country, how can he/she has right to criticize people who do?
I'm amazed that for almost every "special interest" post here on HN there are at least a couple of people who know exactly what it's about.
Regarding parental attention, the reality is that most parents are extremely busy. Single parents, long commutes, multiple jobs, etc. DnsLearning was primarily created to help parents that cannot afford private schools, tutoring, or moving out of a low income neighborhood. All of these great education sites are competing with very powerful algorithms that are designed to keep users watching video after video. If youtube starts encouraging users to do a few Khan Academy problems before watching the next video, I will consider DnsLearning a total success.
There are fewer in Tokyo than in the 1980s, but they still exist. They are in virtually wall hotels, but there's a beer and chuhai vending machine on the street near my kids' Tokyo preschool.
Having lived in DC and worked with the military, I can almost guarantee that’s the case

Or else my phone line would click every 15 seconds and forget to ring when calling someone just for the hell of it
There are a number of documentaries where the instigators cite conditions and staff abuses as the reason for the Strangeways Riot.

The two most serious ringleaders are both now free, or were in the most recent doc, and are doing fairl well. One is fond of handing out papers with motivational or philosophical thoughts on them and the other now has his own gym.
They're also horrifically bad sounding and have essentially become meme status. They're also studio monitors, they're not meant for home users, they're not meant to sound good. Sadly, they're not even good as studio monitors, but hey, when you've reached meme status, you don't HAVE to be good.
"Tech-illiterate old guys" don't a) notice that a software update for their phone has been released b) try to install the update, c) recognize that something is wrong and d) take the phone to spook-level IT guys to check out.

They don't even get to a), as a rule.
Safari should work well enough with a webserver file listing of MP4s.

You could drag an icon to the desktop for an HTML page with thumbnails if it was necessary to get fancy.
Link to the original report: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/john-kelly-cell-pho...
This is actually a well-known issue though probably never presented to a non-trader audience like this before. As you raise your holding period, max attainable returns and max attainable risk-adjusted returns decline very sharply. This is why good quantitative hedge funds insist on short-term forecasts and active strategies that trade frequently though not necessarily HFT.

There are a number of other issues here. Even obvious things that a junior analyst on a good desk would do in about 2 minutes haven't been done in order to make God's returns look worse. For example, (I haven't tested this myself) I suspect God would do MUCH better if God rebalanced 1/1260th of his portfolio every day based on the 5-year forecast that day. (1260 trading days in 5 years), and God would likely have lower transaction costs as well.

There are also many issues with how they are constructing these God portfolios. Portfolio construction and risk management frequently have a bigger impact on investor returns than the quality of the forecasts.
Open source is the main thing that prevented cyberpunk dystopias that many authors imagined. This community deserves some love.
HN is like the california gold rush. Nobody is going to stop to think of ethical concerns and if forced to will make the appropriate posturing noises but the focus is completely different.

The irony is inspite of all the posturing about freedom and liberty seen at places like Slashdot its software folks who are currently neck deep in building surveillance infrastructure and selling out the world, of course qualified with suitable hand waving and apologism.

For the same commentators to reflect in a different context you need a more laid back venue like Slashdot. The problem with sites like Slashdot is to retain authenticity they cannot be profit driven. But there appears to be little room for that kind of thinking in the software ecosystem currently.
But also to the one that brought down the Berlin Wall.
We aren't North Korea who is so threatened by outside messages they have to block foreign radio broadcasts and are susceptible to leaflet propaganda drops.

Or we shouldn't be.

We shouldn't be threatened by foreign posters claiming this or that. If legitimate problems are brought up they should be acknowledged in a free society. If lies are brought up they should be ignored or addressed. But this OMG Russian Posters Everywherez is disturbing. It signals fear and weakness. It's more disturbing than the actual existence of Russian posters. Let them post. Listen to what they say if you care. It should not be a real threat if we are right. If we are not right we should get right.
Magnifying gossip is the issue. It’s almost as if we need a few thousand people or AI with really good domain knowlege and common sense whom can somehow handle moderating the onslaught of conspiracy theories, rumors and general BS. Seems very difficult to scale on the tech side. We might be better off finding a path to building in-real life communities whom can educate each other and discuss such things civilly.
Dirt simple? You must be dead poor. :-P
DnsLearning.org now says it is free until January 2018.
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Do you have any evidence that he was actually using the phone for communication, rather than just installing a software update that he'd heard about?

The article certainly doesn't say that.
As you point out there are still a few failing tests. The
The number of failing tests on both is very low but not zero.
The PyPy team has had good collaboration with Pandas and NumPy, but there are some deeper issues with these packages depending on refcount semantics in some edge cases, IMO rarely seen in real world scenarios. For numpy this means using an out keyword argument can be tricky, and for Pandas it means some galse positives in determining when a dataframe is being held by another reference, making it read-only

Of course if your workflow depends on those features, they are critical. We are working on full compatibility and also on increasing speed.
"Most of the people there". Not "most of the people".
I don't have the vitriol towards the devs you do, but I will admit it's a bit disheartening that some of the greatest minds of our time are figuring out ways to trick your brain into clicking advertisements.
> It was used because it was such a BAD speaker.

You clearly haven't read the article. The NS10 is an exceptionally good speaker in certain respects that are not immediately obvious and that convey vital information about a mix. It has superlative time-domain performance due to the sealed box design and the extremely stiff and well-damped woofer. This time-domain accuracy reveals immense amounts of detail that are lost on a conventional reflex-ported nearfield monitor. Crucial decisions about phase and balance in the bass and midrange frequencies are far easier on an NS10 than almost any other monitor. They're not pleasant to listen to, but they produce good mixes, which is entirely the point of studio monitors.

A speaker with similar performance and a similar role is the Auratone 5C, or the more modern Avantone MixCube. In hi-fi terms they are absolutely atrocious, but few other speakers are so revealing of mixing errors.

It is only relatively recently that full-range nearfield monitors have managed to approach the time-domain performance of the NS10 - the Neumann KH310, the Unity Audio Boulder and the Barefoot Sound Micromain achieve that feat, but at vastly greater cost than the faithful old NS10.

If you do not understand why the NS10 is such an iconic and useful piece of equipment, you fundamentally do not understand mixing.
I don't have the answers - I would honestly like to see training done on real workloads. In at least _some_ situations, it seems like live-calculating statistics would be quicker and I know ML work has been done on estimating statistics more accurately.

I'll be honest, for a lot of stuff I can live without any real intelligence. For my workloads, I'd be happy to wait for the query planner to gain full knowledge of the physical layout of the database before trying anything. My other main annoyance, as mentioned, is WHERE clause pushdowns. I think there is a simple, if not efficient, decision procedure for this stuff and I'm happy to wait for the planner to do the work.
ML with human-in-the-loop (HITL). There is a feedback loop that learns based on human expectation. Peloton[1] is already learning based on data access patterns, but doesn't consider subjective feedback. Maybe there could be a query planner that learns which query plans are better via reinforcement learning (the reward is given by the human).

[1]: https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton
As an aside, some of my favorite words to say: chatoyance and conchoidal.
Interesting question. As long as the controversies remain in the field of abstract/theoretical mathematics, I guess it would be hard to resolve them, but I would guess that if a controversial statement (not just a controversial proof) would be applied at some point to practical problems (in science or engineering) then reality would quickly point out who was right...
Yea its likely he used it to some degree, but if you've ever been in the situation where you have two pieces of electronics that can accomplish the same task and one of them seems to act funny when you use it, which one would you make your default?
I hope it's not connected to the internet.
Kelly did the right thing here, as long as he truly hadn't been carrying/using the phone then the compromise is pretty limited.

If he had been using or carrying the phone and it was a failure on the recent update that alerted him then it represents two problems: an operational security one and a scandal.

I hope that his integrity holds up on this one.
I know. We use Twilio for the 'important' alerts and the gateways for 'nice to have'.

But, as you said, it can be iffy, so that is why I want to know if the issue is with stuff I control, or them.

So, at least I know it is being sent and my logic is solid.
Do you use a thread per agent? What does an agent map to closer to the wire?
If you look at Nobel prizes, Turing awards, and Fields medals are not represented by Asians.
What are you missing? I recently switched from Atom to VSCode and do both PHP and JavaScript in it without issues.
Some html elements are containers, others aren't. <b> can only contain text, so there is a bunch of ignored <b>'s and </b>'s. Then comes the <em> which is followed by an unexpected closing </b>. Use div's or span's if you want to put something inside and have nesting work normally.
iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
Vintage pen plotters (or X-Y recorders) are essentially zero-price items and tend to be built like actual tanks. The ones you can buy today (and afford) are way more expensive than them, yet cheaper (in quality). However, vintage pen plotters tend to not have USB plugs.
Only gripe I have with VSCode right now is the fact that snippets have to be in arrays and not a single block.
Especially when it’s been shown crypto currency can be expropriated and no one cares

Oh boy another platform that can be gamed by a minority for their overwhelming benefit
The US is for the most part against restrictive laws with the whole freedom thing and all. But that's a two way street. Most people don't want the government telling them what to do or monitoring their activities. It seems like this is more an issue of government reform because they are overreaching in their duties. However, I see no merit in additional laws to the citizen on the freedom to record in public.
> If they're saying we'll be an interstellar spacefaring civilization in much less than 300 years, they really buried their lead :)

If you think we can't reach Kardashev scale I in 300 years you are really pessimistic!

We have, right now, the technology to go visit other stars. It would take a sizable amount of the world's GDP but it is possible. I certainly hope that in 300 years we will have explored other systems!
For the ignorant: what decisions are you referring to? I've heard this a lot but am not sure what people mean.
The author is a woman; Masha is the Russian diminutive for Maria.
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Better clouds in the browser
Running a remote team might be easier with these tools
I agree with this. Whilst I did get my wife the ATH-50xs, I find the colour not to my liking after an initial period of listening. Bass response is great if you're into that though.

I personally use the ATH-MSR7NC (music) and ATH-ADG1x (music/gaming/comms) at home, and the ATH-ANC9 at work. The ANC9s are great for the work environment, and far easier on the ears in terms of avoiding tinnitus whilst blocking distracting noise than the 50s.
The inability to blacklist channels is a major PITA.

The Power of Block is powerful, and denial of it a major Internet dysfunction.

I do believe you can hack at Squid to intercept HTTPS and terminate if for you, as well as run filtering (Squidguard), also possibly Dansguardian. Though I've not fully researched this yet.

http://squidguard.org

http://www.squid-cache.org
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That's a very odd sentiment. Do you believe most of the posters here also have no right to criticize China for these actions? Or that noone here has any right to criticize north Korea? I don't think anyone here pays them any taxes.
It's certainly valid to have some tags inside <b>. How else would you have bold and italic text? I thought you could have all types of tags inside <b>, but it seems something weird happens once you stack more tags of the same type?
The real magic of testing is when you're working on a project with like 1000 engineers and millions of lines of code and you can just change shit that you don't fully understand and rely on the tests to make sure that you aren't breaking anything.

For a personal project I don't think it's all that helpful.
First they block Flash ads, next a certain class of ad behavior, when are they going to get slapped with an anti-competitive behavior lawsuit?

I don't particularly like ads, but Google blocking them in Chrome is a bridge too far.
In the Business World, this homogeneity is often referred to as "Quality".
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I only really discovered their popularity (meme, really?) after I bought them for my wife; I was primarily searching for a set of decent cans at a low price point. The ATH-M50x certainly did fulfill those criteria.
I'd probably set SMTP_URI in my environment or as a java property and just use that to configure my SMTP service. While an Interface and DI might be useful for unit testing, when I'm testing in integration, ci, or qa environments, I'd want to make sure that I'm using an SMTP server that can't send emails to the outside world. Postfix is pretty easy to setup for this scenario (a whitelist of users/domains to forward mail for) so I can still test mail output.
It had limped along until a year or so back when the server finally fell over.

The domain is parked now.

But yeah, the trolls pretty much ruined it, life lesson. Rusty turned up running a Mastodon instance, though I haven't seen him for a few months.
The MDR-7506 isn't especially accurate, but it is a very practical tool for use on location. For mixing, you'd be far better off with a pair of open-back headphones like the AKG K701 or the Sennheiser HD 650.

Speakers are inherently more expensive to manufacture, so they lag well behind headphones in terms of price-to-performance. The other crucial factor is the acoustic quality of your listening room, which in most cases is a far more significant factor than the quality of your monitors. Rather than buying expensive monitors, you're usually better off buying inexpensive nearfield monitors like the Presonus Eris and spending the rest of your budget on bass traps and diffusers.