skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am unsure exactly your meaning regarding the stratification of Western culture, though I assume its in reference to inequality. If this is the case then I agree. However, I don't believe it stems from Western culture but from a culture of consumerism. Capitalism often receives the blame though I believe it is our lack of discipline as a society. Out consistent drive of want - material items, money and power. Religion, be it Catholicism, Protestant, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism etc..., teaches to lead a far simpler life; Buddhism strives to be content; minimalist.

Does capitalism thrive if everyone in society reduces their wants, focusing more on their needs and being content with their current belongings? I would think so, though it would look much different with current economic measurements needing drastic revisions.

Is religious belief required to move society in this direction? Not necessarily. Though deep, open philosophical and theological discussion is required. Agnostics, atheists and religious individuals need to be able to discuss matters, find similarities in their beliefs - how they guide their lives.

Since the millennium we have all become aware of our differences, but not our similarities. Division consistently drives our lives which will increase the stratification of Western culture. A main area being reduced is Western Civilization history and thought. It would be hard to argue the United States was founded on ideas outside Western civilization which goes back to Greek and Roman thought, but this is now seen as a negative.

In the end we need to have open discussions, be aware of our history, both the positive and negative aspects and understand the negatives that happened in the US have happened all around the world and still occurring. In the end I believe spiritual discussion and reformation is required to reset society will maintaining freedom of religion being of the utmost importance.
Mobile Chat: What CEOS Need to Know About This Growing Trend
s/code is why/comment is why/, I think?
I've been using Apple Music the past 8 or so months because somehow while I was finishing up school I ended up on their student discount plan and not Spotify's.

I really miss Spotify's Discover Weekly. Apple Music (AM) has a similar feature, called "New Music Mix", but it's never as accurate.

While I was still using Spotify heavily last year, almost every week I'd duplicate the Discover Weekly playlist so I could keep that exact mix because a majority of the songs would really fit my current music tastes. Nowadays with AM I only duplicate a New Music Mix playlist once every month, if that. It's ridiculous how uninspired the playlist from Apple is and oftentimes it includes music that isn't similar to anything I listen to.

Discover Weekly is the one feature that would bring me back to Spotify and let me ditch AM once my discount period expires.
They certainly can, I don't know if they do in practice. It always work for me, so I haven't investigated too much.
> There's nothing about visual programs that say "no version control"

Well, this is one of those "in theory" things. In practice diffing and merging visual programs never works well, if at all. Usually nobody has developed the tools for a particular binary format.

Visual programming also has a lot of non-functional information like the exact placement of items. Textual code has indentation and such too, but not as much. To keep visual code clean you need to move it around often, but how to you merge that with other changes?
I was being sarcastic

The original post was about how professionalism was replaced by method in healthcare

But in my opinion saying "you have to be professional" and "you have to follow this checklist" it's the same thinkg

A doctor that was amputating the wrong leg without checking was not making a mistake because "tools", but because was being unprofessional.

A paramedic that is not checking all the vitals because it wasn't on the checklist, is unprofessional

Not having a checklist in the first place is unprofessional!

It's the same thing, said in a different way, just to have more doctors onboard willing to be trained to perform procedures like robots, that bring profits into private hospitals.

I think it's mainly an US thing though, I've worked in healthcare in Europe and it's not like that

Having said that, programmers skill vary a lot based on the type of work they do, the industry they work in, the experience they have, the context, where they come from etc. etc. etc.

Uncle Bob might be wrong or not showing enough data, but the lack of tools is still a programmer's fault.

You can blame management if they are doing it poorly, but if the tool you're using are not the best for your job, you're just being less than professional.

Maybe it's enough most of the time, but that doesn't mean that being professional is something else.
Can't be that much per second, if it were millions they would be beyond fabulously wealthy in just few days.
It seems nice, but I think it should be made more explicit upon downloading, that you can only do that once. I can see myself e.g. downloading a file I received on my phone to take a quick look, intending to then download it again on my computer later. I would be surprised to see it just gone.
>1. I hear repeat songs in my discover all the time

Something is wrong. Discover Weekly is supposed to have only songs you have never listened to, even once. That's how it works for me.
Simplicity is a war
I have a second gen jailbroken kindle, not only it looks amazing and works perfectly supporting every format possible out there but it also doesn't look as ugly as this new oasis one
Luminoth, an open source toolkit for Computer Vision
A lot of us in tech can relate.

Q: What do you do ?

A: I am a Computer Networking Engineer

Q: Sounds great. So you build websites ?

A: Umm not exactly but I am aware of how websites work.

Q: So you can build a website ? Like one of those Godaddy ads ?

A: I can surely help you find someone to build that for you. I am just an IT guy.

Q: Oh you mean IT guy who fixes computers/printers etc ?

A: Kinda. The weather is really great today, isn't it (subject changed)
Successfully down, in India and Singapore.
I really like the academic citations where applicable. Mad props for that.
I prefer to reply "living the dream, you?".
Which Zoom Level Increases Productivity?
And this isn't? (Honest question, hasn't looked at it hard enough yet)

I don't disagree with you but I kind of expected a note as to why this wasn't a solution in this context.
Similar model - http://compellingsciencefiction.com/

I'm not a subscriber, but I've bought every issue on Kindle. Mostly good, sometimes great. Glad I discovered it.
Thanks for writing on decisions that poor have to make. I grew up in a poor family and can't stand when people don't even try to understand the plight many low-income people go through.

My mom pays 200-300 a WEEK for her car. Many people on here would say that's a terrible idea and she should just buy a cheaper used car for 1000-2000 dollars, but they don't realize she needed the car NOW or she'd lose her job and she doesn't have that cash laying around. No one would give her a normal loan and none of us could afford to help her at the time. It really seems the only people in the world willing to help her are the people that need 200-300 a week to sell her a car. And that's just the car. Housing, food, clothes, and nearly everything else can be explained with the same rationale.

Your line here is key: "Too often, we assume that poor people make poor choices, without considering that they might actually be making the best of the shitty slate of options available to them."
You need a lawyer. My instinct is that you're going to have a real uphill battle and the case may be a total dog due to the contract format, but that doesn't necessarily mean all hope is lost. Email me at info@jurymatic.com if you want a lawyer recommendation. I work on cases like this and know some attorneys who might be worth talking to.
New Duck Duck Go Bang Command for Searching for Algorithms and ML Models
Duck Duck Go has added "!algo" as a command to search. You can just type in "!algo sentiment analysis" to pull up every list in the Algorithmia Marketplace.
Js crypto make the client trust the server. As i host 0bin, i can inject code whenever i want in the page if i change my mind.
Any possible DDOS?
The Power is our era’s Handmaid’s Tale
I've been observing problems with my profile only loading the page skeleton but none of the content. Every once in a while, some of the content will go through, but if I try to click through to a subpage (e.g. my photos), I just get the skeleton.

One group I'm in gives me an error page when I try to load it on desktop, but it works on mobile (I thought I'd been banned at first). Other groups seem to be working fine, though. And the Android app is working.

Edit: Well, I thought they were. I'm getting blank pages in other groups now.

Edit over an hour later: Everything seems to be working again.
Facebook and Instagram are down. Looks like globally
There should probably be something like a Surgeon General's warning for embedded devices running JavaScript.
The point being made is that the choice isn't between 'strict constitutionalism' and loosey-goosey-legalism, it is between loosey-goosey-legalism and feudal warlordism. I realize a disturbing number of techies are actually attracted to that (even if they think it will turn out differently), but I think most of the US populace thankfully isn't.

The theory is that there's a social analogue of Gödel's theorem, the humans are incapable of defining a formal set of rules for governing themselves that provides non-absurd outcomes in all cases. I believe this, but of course we don't have solvers for human reasoning (otherwise we could test the theory).

So sure, I absolutely agree with you that civil forfeiture is just a new name for highway robbery by the King's men. But for literalist constitutionalism to be viable, it has to handle hard cases as well as simple ones in zero-and negative-sum games, and the US Constitution (any document) leaves huge areas of potential conflict undefined. So your choice reduces to either it won't work with real humans, or you have to interpret it. To interpret it means designating someone (or some people) as official interpreters. And at some point, you find yourself back where we started, arguing about the interpretation of justices who are right because they are final.
Autonomous cars witho human drivers will be allowed on Cali roads starting in 2018
Another good example of this is an IRS audit. I went through one the first year I setup my business. They said it was a "random" audit, meaning not based on any specific findings. I had to put all of my small business resources (me) onto defending the audit for probably 40 hours. In the end, they found nothing, so it was just purely a resource drain.
And make sure it gets official as you die, either by being public or handed to a 3rd party.
No, not "crash the browser" (coz browsers are not supposed to crash no matter the site's content), but that "this site might drain your battery quickly" or something along those lines.
Puerto Rico’s Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria
This is the kind of stuff that happens when large groups of people still choose to live like slaves of a government, and believe that government is neccessary.
I think I may need to explain: TV is passive, you either watch it or not

The engagement in social networks comes from being actively participating

"Your opinion matters" they say

No, they don't

But the fact that you can argue with someone on the internet believing someone is finally listening to all the important things you have to say, keeps you there refreshing over and over

it's "someone is wrong on the internet" [1]

And it's highly addictive, especially for those people who feel powerless

[1] https://xkcd.com/386/
From linked examples it is clear that version() is allowed outside of functions. Since version() already serves a feature, there is no need to overload the meaning of if().
Great article! Going to forward it to my manager (non EE) who I keep denying requests for MILSTD-461 testing.

The switching supplies ICs (with integrated FETs; like from Linear Tech, TI, etc) are noisy where you might not think. Extremely fast rise times on the FET generates white noise through 2 GHz, even if it's only running at a few 100 kHz. Putting wrong bypassing/filtering parts on can only make it worse as they will act like an antenna. It may not even show up in a EMC test but enough to degrade RF receiver sensitivity a few dB.
Q: network engineer?

A: that series of tubes you use, I make sure they don't suck.
It is glorified robbery. My experience is that they are smooth talkers, roll deep, excellent sales people, and the execution and product are lackluster. Try to roll your own where possible or find another vendor.
Tony was 27 when he came up with QuickSort. Impressive
eShares raises $42M to manage equity compensation and investments
dang is the administrator of this site, and his comment was referring to the submission title on this site, which he changed.
I've never heard of a single suburb being an economic center, what would be examples of it in the US(?) because when I think of economic centers I think of NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, or Los Angeles.

What do you also consider as failing?
> Even a "small" eruption of a super volcano will change the climate significantly for decades. This helps motivates Elon Musk's desire to be a multi-planetary species.

But even the biggest conceivable eruption will leave Earth infinitely more habitable than any other known celestial body.
Both the human and the dog.
How to achieve maximum benefits with a minimum viable product
Japan's homogeneity is also part of a massive racial/cultural superiority complex which fed their imperialistic ambitions and propelled them into ww2.

If the international order hadn't chosen to try and avoid the mistakes of ww1, Japan could be the equivalent of east Germany today. Or worse, since I imagine the iron curtain is easier to enforce on an island.

As it is, they're having issues with youth marriage and a population pyramid imbalance that's seriously threatening their stability. These are not unrelated to their unwillingness to progress.

I don't know how much I'd be willing to hold up Japan's homogeneity as an example of a successful hidebound and insular culture.
Pretty cool site, thanks for showing it. Are you plugged into each exchange's API or using an aggregator?

Taker fees should be shown on all of these potential cross exchange arbs. Exchange withdrawal fees should be presented somewhere as well.

For those looking at this site and seeing the percentages and thinking it's easy money, it isn't. Arbing has become a pretty crowded space and this kind of low hanging fruit is very hard to capture even when fully automated, not to mention the banking logistical issues of using USD (not tether) as a base pair.

If building trading systems in the crypto world is something that interests you feel free to reach out to me, company / contact info is in my profile.
Facebook Messenger is down
I'm getting a 500 status on https://www.messenger.com.
In most non-common Law countries I believe, one of the three requisites however (at least in Italy, France and Spain) is that is should be (besides handwritten and signed) also dated "exactly" (day/month/year).

A not-so-uncommon issue with holographic wills is that multiple versions may exist, in which case only the last one (date) is valid.

Also, parts of a holographic will may be nullified if contrary to Law provisions, such as - an example - violations to the reserve share.
Social media doesn't make it easier to get out of the echo chamber. It encourages you to stay, by feeding you a constant drip of content you're likely to agree with. If you're one of those conspiracy nuts, you can tailor your twitter feed to get all your news from Brietbart and Infowars. This was possible before the internet, just not as easy.

I agree that the electoral college is a larger issue, and I agree that democrats can't lay all the blame on russian interference. But any difference the Russians made was helped by microtargeting. Facebook knows way more about it's users than any traditional media outlet knows about it's audience.
I dunno about all that :-)

MITI is Mozilla trying to keep the internet credible as a source of news and information. This is in keeping with Mozilla's core principles. Give the blog post a careful read, as it might change your mind: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information...

Re: Cliqz, working with a search-oriented company might be a way that Mozilla can help avoid monopolies in search. The goal is to find new ways to keep the web open, so that new challengers have a level playing field vs. dominant companies.

Andreas wrote a good blog post about the worrying monopolistic trends in search a couple years ago: https://andreasgal.com/2015/03/30/data-is-at-the-heart-of-se...

Edited to add: Cliqz is a very privacy-conscious company, and I think that respect for the user was a major factor in Mozilla partnering with Cliqz. This is just to say that, AIUI, the partnership was evaluated, again, in keeping with Mozilla's principles.

Also, here's the Mozilla manifesto, which documents those guiding principles: https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/
What happened to distributed programming languages? [video]
A packaging system is orthogonal to modules.

Those ideas are also present in Maven, Gradle, NuGet. All older than cargo.

And all trace back to CPAN as general concept.

I am still waiting for cargo to support binary libraries.
How anybody can still use this argument after prism is beyong my understanding. Literally. I do mean i can't grasp it.
TLDR:

"The very label I live with causes such Big Feels in anyone who hears me utter those words that it is a huge, exhausting derail to ordinary conversation. So, most of the time, I would rather just not go there. Kaythxbai."

I can relate.
this is the case of almost everything available to the poor. go price the per-roll cost of a 4-pack of toilet paper vs. the per roll cost if you have the financial ability to maintain a costco membership and buy the giant 40-pack.
In fairness, the author does make note of that:

Note - In a real-world application, validating an email address using a regular expression is not enough for many situations, such as when a user signs up. Once you have confirmed that the input text is an email address, you should always follow through with the standard practice of sending a confirmation/activation email.
I don't think the parent comment is saying don't use the built-in user model. The comment is suggesting to sub-class/extend the built-in user model. So you can use much of the built-in functionality and add/change what you'd like, eg. to add a birthday field

There are obviously other ways to do this, perhaps by creating a Profile model that relates to a User.
This just in; Dennis Ritchie father of 3.
Replay with side/external-effects is problematic, but it seems like you just need futures to handle this.

Each event that triggers external effects is bound to a future identifier. The replay actor then accumulates a map of these events. When encountering an event that represents resolving a future, that future is removed from the map. At the end of the replay, you're left with the list of futures that haven't been resolved.

At this point, you can trigger the side-effecting computation to try and resolve the futures.
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Tony Hoare when I was at Microsoft in 2007. He was a staff member at Microsoft research UK and was visiting the Redmond campus. Having studied and appreciated quick sort in freshman CS it was like being in the presence of God :)
Ask HN: I’m an American and I want to hire a non-US employee. Any advice?
I’m an American looking at building out my team by hiring foreign (non-US) contractors and then, if we work well together, making them full time employees. These team members will be my first employees and will be in design and full stack development. What do you wish you knew when you started hiring foreign (non-US) talent for your company?
This was once a common use of AOL Instant Messenger.
I really want to use Firefox full time, but I miss Safari's multi-touch gesture integration.
I think he considers this as "tethered to a cloud service".

I think a solution to this problem that wasn't tethered would be something like in an IPV6 world where everyone has an IP address, if I could just put in your address, send you a file, and as long as our computers were on/connected to the world wide web, it'd get to you.
thanks for pulling this up. i was going to be angry about the current administration, but now i'm angry about what amounts to standard practice in governance today.

i guess its still better than the old days.
A friend of mine has both a PhD in computer science, and a M.D.
He basically looks like a giant flashing single point universal problem solver for people that run into him.

Wise from old mistakes, now he just lies if the guy next to him on a plane asks what he does.
Filter by Product: Data Studio, and the result says it all:
https://www.google.com/analytics/success-stories/#?modal_act...

"Sorry, we couldn't find any success stories to match those filters."
Time to lawyer up?
Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries
Are gradients a new design trend?
File.pizza is very seamless point to point transfer of arbitrary file sizes.

Doesn't work in safari though (haven't tested ie) so maybe it is not general enough for your use case.
>username

I've got this bazooka bubblegum
the equals and hashcodes are kind of inconsistent as well. hashcode supports null for the second component (explicitly in patch, implicitly previously) and equals doesn't check for null in the second component. i guess second component can never be null and probably both can never be null and none of the checks should be there.
"Better than many, not as good as some".
Poverty is very expensive and genuinely stable, middle class lifestyles are increasingly rare. It sucks. We really need to work on reversing this trend.
Great list! I noticed Tastypie wasn't included. I've really liked it, but are there reasons I shouldn't be using it?
There are lots of them with varying trade-offs between ease of use and power.

The problem is that there are none with enough of a user base to have a network effect, and users hate installing new apps.

It's 2017 and it's still hard and somewhat dangerous to install apps.
I stole the idea from php zerobin. I know mega used to do it. Not common but not new.
Firefox Send is still an experiment at Mozilla (as noted on the site). The question now is whether it is popular and useful, and how much it actually costs to run. Those questions aren't answered yet, and there's no big schemes behind it.

If Firefox Send graduates from being an experiment, then it recoup its costs implicitly if it can increase engagement with Firefox itself (which does produce revenue), or awareness of Firefox and Mozilla. Firefox's revenue comes primarily from search companies who pay for preferred placement in the browser. In that sense, people who search using Firefox are ultimately the product.

However, Mozilla is a mission-led company, and so profit maximization isn't ultimately the answer to why Mozilla does something. I think it's accurate to say that Mozilla is trying to maximize its positive impact. Revenue certainly enables that impact. But direct impact is also worth something, and it's not necessary for everything Mozilla does to involve profit maximization.