skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what model do you use?
+1 for Metabase. I'm currently running a pilot project with it at work, and everyone seems to love it so far. The UI is simple enough that even "common" (as in technophobic) employees feel comfortable using it!
Yes I agree, the inexperience with balancing expences and revenue were ultimately what led to the restaurant’s demise. He didnt leave himself enough runway for this project to succeed. $20k for the grease trap installation was a sunk cost that could have otherwise went a long way, better served on other expenses. He fell in love with this particular location and that was it. He went for the home run - a high end restaurant. I feel like he should have started smaller, something less posh, somewhere people could afford to get lunch every day, rather than a place where half the draw is based on ambiance and the ‘dining experience’. This would have allowed him to figure out a lot of important details - how to make $20 chicken for $5, finding good vendors, crafting good tasting food with low cost ingredients, creating dishes and a menu that dont require a team of chefs, building a buzz, managing a stock of perishable products, etc. Master those intangables then step into the big leagues. Basically learn to crawl before you attempt to sprint.
Glad to see btsync renamed since it wasn't open source
something like file.pizza is "alright"
I'm happy that Race Track is there (in Other)! It's like a super minimalistic version of Car Wars, but still very fun. You get the same realization of "Oh shit, I'm going too faaast!" when you're about to lose control.
https://wetransfer.com

Often sending to non-technical people and this I have found is the easiest solution they understand. Click and download.

Would use Google Drive but it makes the download process rather complicated and non-obvious.
The article isn't "demonizing" LIMIT/OFFSET. It's very clear about the use cases:

> When to Use: Limit-offset

> Applications with restricted pagination depth and tolerant of result inconsistencies.

I don't agree with your conclusion that result inconsistencies are "not a big deal" for most cases. It's a deliberate trade off. For example, I think it is annoying on Hacker News, but I understand why they chose to show inconsistent results (If I recall correctly, HN used to have consistent pagination using something similar to cursors, but they threw it out because it caused too much server load and it was annoying when sessions expired)

On the other hand, when my accountant goes through my expenses one by one to check if they have been booked correctly, I don't want him to miss lines due to inconsistent pagination.

Just because a technique is "time-honored", it doesn't mean it's "perfectly good" in every situation, or even in most situations. You always need to evaluate your techniques, no matter how common they are, to see if they work for your particular use case.
mega (kim dot com's successor to megaupload) would be good for you. It's like dropbox, but encrypted iirc, and gives you 50 gigs right off the bat. Only issue is speed, but shouldn't be too bad.
I remember playing Paper Tetris with a friend at uni about 11 years ago now. I made a single player version in Flash at the time. I was quite proud of the algorithm to determine if a piece can be drawn in place as it's a bit different than normal Tetris rules.

Here it is: http://speps.github.io/papertetris/ (Flash player required, lost source code)
I switched to Void Linux which feels BSD'ish while keeping Linux conveniences like Steam, inotify (for things like Dropbox), etc. It comes well recommended.

I've been running this as my main dev machine at work for six months now without too many issues. The biggest problem was installing TeX packages actually :-)
The Minimalists want you to be happy with less
almost every type of insurance can be "maxed out". You buy a policy with a particular amount of coverage based on your perceived need. The insurance company charges you less for a lower cap, but if you put the cap too low, it won't cover everything you lost. So choose a policy with enough coverage.
I wrote nexter (https://github.com/charly/nexter) a few years ago without knowing I was applying the keyset principle (it's not pagination though but a next page library). It works well on a consistent data set but often falls short with Nulls, too many associations and whenever I aggregate stuff. Also it generates so many ANDs & ORs you do feel safer using Offset & Limit. I find it frustrating there's no easy solution provided by DBs for such a universal and simple need...
Fraud prevention, so you can't claim you had more than was actually there and get exorbitant money back.
The problem is we don’t have many "second generation” angel investors here in Australia that understand startups from first hand experience (this is where SV has a massive advantage over us and most of the rest of the world).

On the positive there are more and more of us second gen investors out there. I am part of the Sydney Angels group and over the last 18 months the number of entrepreneur that have joined has been really encouraging. We have a long way to go, but at least we are heading in the right direction.
Internet of Trash: How IoT Can Help Solve the Problem of Waste Management
>UE4 uses Blueprints[0] now, with the ability for programmers to drop into C++ for more control.

Yep, and they produce things which look like this:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/filedata/fetch?id=1137264&d=...

That's an A* pathfinding algorithm, it looks like this in code:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm#Python

On top of that, blueprints are stored in a binary format which can't be diffed, which means it can't be version controlled properly. I'm not sure blueprints would be my go-to example of not-terrible visual programming.
Same. Also, anytime I get a bad recommendation I blame my daughter for wanting to listen to the Frozen soundtrack.
They still suck compared to what Last.fm recommends me. Also the fact that Spotify uses implicit feedback instead of explicit like Last.fm pisses me off. I'm constantly left asking what the algo would make of my actions.
> I'm not sure why it's not being covered more heavily

I might be cynical but Accenture is a big advertiser and main stream news sites generally don't want to piss off their source of income.
Spotify's discovery engine playlists (Discover Weekly and Release Radar) just don't work for me. I now ignore both playlists and I suspect that the lists are influenced by payola.

I've tried training the algo by following artists and saving albums in the style that I would like, but these playlists keep peddling stuff that is way off the mark. Interestingly, the daily mix playlists have responded to this training, but not Discover Weekly or Release Radar.

For users who are tired of the same songs being fed to these playlists each week, you can create an IFTTT action to save the content of these playlists in separate archive playlists. Once a song is in the archive, it won't (or shouldn't) appear in either of the weekly so-called discovery playlists.

edit: grammar
"Those small items really add up to thousands. (unless you are a student/poor)"

Given the price of most college and university books, a student could likely get very rich by simply buying used and having those burn if they looked new enough and could be documented as being in the home when the fire occurred.
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If sending to someone, I just sym link it to the webserver dir on my workstation, in a non-indexable directory with a non-trivial name.

If receiving, I create a shell account on my workstation for them, and have them scp it. If they're non-technical, I tell them to download a GUI SCP client for their platform.
>I don't understand how people keep bringing up Google product shutdowns as if literally half their products get discontinued.

Because it feels like half of their products DO get discontinued.

And because it doesn't matter if it's half or not. As if 20% would be a better number?

One would be foolish to fully trust any company that shut down 1-2 products they were using.

But it would take a special kind of stupid to trust new products by Google who has shut down over a dozen of their products, including widely promoted ones, from Glass and Wave to Video, Reader and so on.
Resilio Sync if they are willing to install software.

And Mozilla Send is also nice... https://send.firefox.com
Ask HN: Privacy vs. benefits of social media etc.
Where do you draw the line between wanting privacy/anonymity and wanting to reap the benefits of social media, dating sites etc?
Not only that, but also diagnosing the problem on Saturday and Sunday. Kudos to the Google Home team.
Many devs don't like new VS Code Logo
I upload to S3, which gives me the option of using either a public or a signed URL to share it
New kind of privacy breach found,regarding Whatsapp and  Viber
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> Burden of proof belongs to those who want to change the system.

This is only true if the existing system does not keep on worsening. As the technology progresses human working hours has become more and more. How is this even fair when the whole point of technology is to make human life easier. So the Burden is on the people who want the current system not to change.
Build natural and rich conversational experiences, from Google
Upload to S3, generate presigned URL, distribute presigned URL (with optional expiration)
How else can you explain their obsessive occupation with The Equation Group, which they themselves claim to be a (US) state actor, targeting other (US-unfriendly) state actors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group

An ordinary anti-virus company would never get involved in state-vs-state cyber warfare, let alone pour tons of money into researching it. How does that support their business model?

Do you think it's normal for a commercial company to spend so much time, money, and effort researching areas that have nothing to do with their core business, and will likely get them in trouble with their customers and antagonistic governments?
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I disagree, Last.fm's recommendations have always felt lukewarm to me. Discover Weekly, on the other hand, has introduced me to TONS of new music that I still regularly listen to.
Wrt fear of sending signals, I feel the same.

Also, I have a young daughter who often asks me to play music in the car or Google Home and those affect my recommendations. I wish Spotify had some switch I could turn on to temporarily ignore anything I did until I switched it back off.
Lovely reminder. Though nowadays I mostly think that these are also a great coding challenges.
I filed a new report here, with perf.html attached:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407536
Done: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407536
Theoretically, insurance is supposed to work like mortgage or other deaspool, where people pool money to cover a low chance but big risks by paying a small amount.
However it got broken the moment it got capitalist. There is a whole idea of maximizing gain and doing essentially what is investment banking in some countries.
In terms of behavior influence, I listened to pretty much exclusively Hamilton for like a month and didn't get very many new Broadway or hip-hop songs (which is good for me because I tend to not really listen to either genre). So there must be significant weight given to songs/genres you've historically listened to a lot.
> That chicken is a confit [...] plus cost of employees to serve

Is that really a thing in the US? Honest question, I'm confused. The justification for requiring 20% tips (and considering you "nasty" if you leave any less) is that the waiters in the US are not even paid minimum wage, they rely on the customer tips to make a living. So, which one is it? If they rely on the tips, surely they don't cost the restaurant owners any significant amount of $$, do they?
It's also how Criticker recommends films, and I have to say their predicted scores are uncanny. After watching a film, I often think of a 1-100 score and then look it up on their site, and it's at most ±2 from it.

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Hi! Thanks for your comment.

> I know that many of the packages you have listed are not immediate but transient dependencies.

Yes, and that is where the crux lies. Transient dependencies are hard to change, and as a community we lack good tools to reason about `npm install ajv` upfront. After we have installed a package and our software works, the janitor role is less fun.

It's not a webpack problem per se, I just chose webpack because it's popular and I know it takes a while to install.

> That being said, we still would welcome at any time improvements to transient or dependent packages that we use in webpack, and consider this a really really valuable contributions up stream to many projects!

Lowest hanging fruit is those 17 duplicates, I'll see if can nest them down.
In my experience they got pretty close to Pandora's recommendations already, which were excellent.

last.fm for me just recommended the next big artist in the same category. Often their music styles were still obviously different and the recommendation rather put me off. People that are hooked by the complexity, details and perfectionism in "Nightfall in Middle-Earth" won't necessarily like Manowar.

I recently got one Spotify recommendation that lead me into listening through a band's full catalogue and getting tickets for their show two weeks later (Insomnium, btw). It also dug out a song that I liked in primary school but completely forgot about. They discovered that I like cheezy metal covers of 80s pop songs and add one by some obscure band to my list every now and then. I'd say my experience was often pretty accurate.
> There, they hauled rocks under the heat of the sun to gather samples, occasionally suspending their work when a bison or a bear roamed nearby.

NYT is a horrible source for science news. Why were they hauling rocks and what did they do with their hauled rocks? I like bears and bison, but that doesn't seem important.

Another article, slightly more sensationalist but worth checking out, in my opinion:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/651406/yellowston...
Why is income equality relevant in this case? The presence of billionaires in your country does not automatically imply that the poorest people are worse off than if the rich were driven out. I think what you were looking for is average income or purchasing power for the different percentages of the population.
It seems weird that the good judges will reward you for poor behaviour and the poor judges won't.
What you're after is what they call 'private listening' or 'private session':
https://support.spotify.com/cz/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...
Oh come on, "whatsapp dominates texting in europe"? You do not know every country ;) Based on my experience it would actually be opposite, but I am not going to extrapolate to whole continent.
More readable XCode build output for CI
> Historically, using HSMs has meant smartcards, but Koch noted that even though these implement an open standard they do it with proprietary code, leaving us no current choice but to evaluate the vendors for trustworthiness, and then choose a product. Though this is what Koch himself does now, he'd like more freedom, and is working to bring to market the Gnuk token.

As far as I’ve understood, the NitroKey[0] is fully open and commercially available. Why not it?

[0]: https://www.nitrokey.com/
On the other hand, "if you're not here on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday." When did this become admirable again?
How to get your first tag badge on StackOverflow – and why it’s important
'I've always found it suspicious that Russia and China created their own social networks, email providers, and search engines. Almost like they know the power of a capable search engine or social network for intelligence gathering purposes.'

Seems like the Europeans are the only ones stupid enough not to.
save() and load() in the console
You bought life insurance to hedge against a nuclear attack? I suspect we will have other things than accounting to worry about after an exchange like that.
Blizzard Entertainment Is Returning with New Halloween Terror on Overwatch
Amazon S3, or one of the API-compatible alternatives.

Most desktop FTP clients support the S3 protocol, so it’s convenient: you can just treat it like an FTP server with infinite disk space and file-level control over which files are visible via HTTPS.
Bitcoin Segwit with Jordan Clifford [podcast]
I wasn’t at the talk, but I imagine this is may be related to beliefs around quantum computing gradually moving from ‘if’ to ‘when’, in the last few years.
Google Drive/One Drive

worse comes to worse, server on azure or EC2.

Encrnypted archive with modified SOF is ok for me.
Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) works well for tech guys. It's oss and bidirectional.
Making a Hex Bin Layer for Greater Manchester
China’s AI Awakening 中国 人工智能 的崛起
Aren't all MS product logos pretty terrible anyways?
https://instant.io/ is an easy P2P option over WebSockets.
> Once part of the central city, the suburb gains a high-profile mayor in the public spotlight who is now responsible for what happens there. It becomes part of a city with diverse neighborhoods and housing types that will rise and fall on different cycles. And there are the assets of a big city downtown to draw on to help finance services.

Why would a city agree to merge with a distressed, money-draining suburb?

There is no solution for these suburbs: they aren't economically sustainable, their income and household density is too small to support the vast infrastructure they require. The lower the density, the more miles of roads, pipes, wires are needed per capita, and more policing, fire services, etc.

Let them fail and wipe them out. Instead of wasting money trying to sustain a broken system, provide resources to facilitate moving to mid and high-density housing in the central city.

If people still want to live in large houses in low-density areas, let them pay for it.
Source? Just last week I had to explain what whatsapp IS to my friend ... And he is young, what about older generation?
transfer.sh [0] will handle files up to 10GB but it is not p2p, which can either be good or bad. Files are purged from the server after 14 days.

Someone here mentioned ShareDrop [1] recently which looks really nice, although I haven't used it yet.

[0] https://transfer.sh/

[1] https://www.sharedrop.io/
Note that Kim Dotcom publicly outed MEGA as an untrustworthy platform after its purchase by an unnamed Chinese buyer.

I've also read observations that the encryption wasn't up to scratch as well.

Totally use it for random file sharing, sure, but use your own end-to-end encryption if you really want it, and if you think it's necessary add your own anonymization into the mix.
Is it so hard to just put microchips that identify the owner into these animals?

Just imagine how easy it would be to punish the citizens releasing animals into the wilderness if micro-chipping was mandatory. No need to ban imports, nothing.
Two things that annoyed me when I last reviewed:

There is no way to display individual time series data points, but they are always aggregated, and minimum resolution is one hour.

You can have only 10 time series in a single visualization.

(Of course, I just may not know how to use this...)
This is a lot of BS. Kaspersky have also documented Russian government malware, so that is one nail in a very weak argument.

Having a lot of experience in this space, no loyalties to Russia, and all loyalties to the US, if anywhere, I strongly disagree that there has ever been any meaningful current or historical link between Kaspersky and the Russian government.

Posts like this do not seem to be informed by actual industry experience and those speculations are not even agreeable to those who are suspicious of Kaspersky. You're sharing a lot of FUD.
Of all the things to worry about in an electron app, they don't like the logo?
My approach is basically anchored in the knowledge that a large part of what happens with the market is emotional and not based on actual numbers. I watch a stock for a while to get a sense of how it moves. By this I mean, how does certain news effect the price, what sort of deals are they making, what are people excited about with the company, what are they disappointed with in the company. I find what their customers are saying about the company, what people think of their competitors, listen to the earnings report. I'll do this along with more technical research of the company until I feel like there's a good entry point, if at all. I'll have a target price in mind and sell once I get there. In some situations if I'm feeling especially good about an opportunity, I'll invest in LEAPS instead, which is about as risky as I'm willing to go.

Doing this right is incredibly time consuming, and I don't do it with the bulk of my investments. I will usually focus on three companies max, because that's about all the work I can handle. I've been much more successful since I started taking this approach, and the percentage returns are much better than what I get from my investments in index funds, but the amount gained comes out to about the same because of how I allocate. Trading is only as risky as you make it, but a lot of people will get sucked into the allure of outsized gains. Use all the tools and financial instruments at your disposal to protect your investments, and don't get lazy about managing them.
I think I'm going to do an inventory this weekend just in case something similar happens to me. I need to know what sentimental stuff to grab in a hurry
Metaballs and Marching Squares (2014)
Most of the complaints I've seen have revolved around their shared hosting environment and some support complaints. I figure it worth mentioning. I do know there are far fewer complaints AND that they are still in business, so they can't be too bad, can they?

But, yeah, at one point their shared hosting services had quite a reputation and they had lots of complaints (reasonable or not) concerning getting terminated for unreasonable resource usage when hosters felt they were in the right.

I had a personal site with them for a few months and had some downtime that put it below my acceptability level. They were pleasant enough to work with and refunded the remainder of my money without any compliant. I don't recall the exact figure but it was in the 95% uptime range.

Caveat emptor, I suppose. Refunding and moving was easy enough. I'm in the market for hosting, again. So, maybe I'll give them another shot.
End to end encrypted and anonymous (external observer does not know who's talking with whom) IM/email/filesharing.
Needs to surface some recommendations up front. Should broadcast new recipes periodically to keep the user engaged.
I doubt we can get Intel to change directly. Most people don't buy from them directly anyway. My belief is that we can get OEMs to consider this a serious issue, and have them turn into a market pressure on CPU manufacturers. After all, OEM's life would be simpler if Intel simply didn't put the IME that everyone wants removed.