skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flipping back through a physical book requires a process of trial and error

And yet I am so much faster at finding that vaguely remembered section or passage by using that process of trial and error in a paper book than I am on an ereader. That physical third dimension makes it so much easier to remember roughly where it is.
Modify and submit a PR?
I use the calendar built into EM Client. The backend for that is Fastmail.

I write scripts to import events into my calendar. For instance, talks from the computer science department at my local Uni.

I am maybe 75% hacker, 25% hustler, I find the calendar a great tool for hooking up with people. For my own hacking work I tend to use a paper Kanban system and also am leaning now on getting my wife and child to stamp out "work in progress".
You clearly don't understand the pace of work at a biotech start-up.

If you could only do one or the other, which would you choose?

1. All hands on deck to get the FDA submission completed so the drug can get to patients sooner.

2. Peel off a bunch of headcount to get a handful of papers published, knowing that will result in a delay in getting the drug to patients?
One lesson here is that when reusing a previous test setup you ought to look for assumptions you made which are no longer valid.

If they'd been starting from scratch, while thinking about modern SSDs, it's quite likely they wouldn't have built an application load tester using files containing only dots.

But as it was an existing system, it didn't get the same amount of attention.
Ooh, so close. I think I'm gonna count it.
At least it's on my mind now, so I'll remember to check back in soon.
Isn't Google also an investor in Uber?
And, to underline, we have a lot more than 2-3 misogynist trolls in these parts. Reflexive rich-white-dude defensiveness is perhaps HN's greatest challenge.
I just wish there was a way to use it on Windows and Mac OS! i3 and Window Tiling is such a better user interface for my work flow. I have having to use the mouse or track pad.
Still, it's bring your own asset pipeline to Hugo, which is a pain. Middleman used to have it, but now its moving away from it.
To be clear, this isn't a news article written by our journalists - it is a piece written by the team themselves that we felt may be of interest to others, and that might help us do things better in the future. While I enjoyed reading it, I can assure you that SSD performance testing doesn't move the BBC PR needle compared to the identity of the new Doctor Who.

We're acutely aware that we've still got much to learn in this space, so if there are thoughts you have on how we could do better we're all ears.

Finally, while I assured you it wasn't a PR piece we're always looking for engineers in this area (and across the whole BBC) so if you'd be interested in helping us improve, get in touch.
Cool. Does anybody know an app where I can exercise like in the video?
The highest volume model also has an entrenched pipeline of parts and widespread experience with any problems that model does experience. So repairs will tend to be more straightforward and less expensive.
It tells us either: there are a handful of professions that are drawing down the average. OR: That a pervasive wage gap exists.

Either is unacceptable, don't you agree?

Why are you so eager to assert the labor of women is obviously worth less?
Yes, messaging over the Internet is useful, but we had that for a long time. Whatsapp was far from the first.
MDN didn't do a good job of advertising itself as a wiki. It wasn't until recently that you could login with a GitHub account.

When you google "can i use flexbox", caniuse.com comes up but MDN does not.

The other thing missing from MDN, is that caniuse.com shows browser support as a percentage. Now I know I'm safe to use flexbox since its supported by 97.74% of browsers in the wild.

When a new feature comes out, I add it to both MDN and caniuse. It would be great if these two could be integrated as well.
Don't do college. It's a waste. Even for building a network, it's a waste. It's 2017, not 2007. Instead, start something!
I don't understand what you're asking. One organization (CNN) has these constraints, another (HN) does not.
7-15/hour for non "teachers"
>>refactoring

>Again, what do you mean? Now it feels like you are just listing stuff or maybe I just don't know what refactoring actually means.

It allows you to inline / rename variables and methods. It allows "safe deletes". It gives suggestions for improving code (i.e. if a best practice wasn't met or if there is some obvious improvement). "Move" or "extract" snippets of code into other/new files.

If you haven't used an IDE-like's refactoring capabilities I'd be surprised. Meanwhile, almost all of this is likely possible with the correct set of VIM plugin. I've just never had the time or energy to go find plugins, ensure they individually work as advertised, and work well all together, when I can just download Intellij and be extremely productive.

FWIW, I sync my laptop's directories to my remote dev box, so I rarely develop on anything but my macbook, but I do use Intellij with VIM bindings, so when I log into a remote machine I'm still quite productive.

P.S. I prefer VIM for Ruby / JS / Config files, etc.
> She explained that the findings might come down to the “McDonaldisation” of dating that Tinder perpetuates, given that we expect speedy and satisfying results like we would at a fast food restaurant.

This is something I've long suspected. I read these stories of people going in 100+ dates in three months or whatever, and it's clear that people are expecting too much from a single interaction with someone. Movies and TV shows have definitely given people the idea that deep connections can be formed in 60 to 120 minutes.

I'd also like to see statistics on the distribution of matches and likes on dating apps. I suspect 90%+ of likes are received by <1% of people.
Dropbox isn't even mentioned in the article. Dropbox is fighting against at least four of the five giants : iCloud Drive, One Drive, Google Drive and Amazon Drive. Guess who should buy Dropbox (or Facebook Drive?)
Well, all GMO products are subject to the same pressures of divergent interests. If you eat things, and if some GMO products you might eat are bad, and if the only genetic-modification-related insight you have into what you eat is "is-GMO" or "not-GMO", then the (entirely rational and reasonable) heuristic to adopt is an "hysterical" avoidance of GMO products.

Also, the reason why a person does or does not do such a thing is rather of less importance than what that thing is that he does or does not do. For example, if pigs carry disease, and your religion proscribes you from eating pigs because "God says so", your life is preserved whether or not you or anyone else have any conception of germ theory whatever.
Scale is due to monoploy
That was the policy for several years, but this year they changed it - the Sierra installer is no longer in the App Store after you upgrade.
Typically the mods unflagkill gender discussion threads if they notice in time.
It's not just parts though. The car analogy is more like, I can't drive my car to your house because your house was built by BMW and my car is an Audi. It's like we all live in corporate-controlled subdivisions with proprietary, incompatible rail lines instead of roads.
Why would an end user care which language the tool is made with? The only times it matters is if they want to contribute or if it requires you to install their toolchain, which is not the case here.
I found out about m.lyft.com and m.uber.com the other day. Both work pretty well, and I hope they save you as much space as they saved me! (Uber's app was 451MB on my phone)
Yes, but they don't own it, or have a controlling stake.
Oh I completely agree, Chomsky has a terrible track record when it comes to being critical of Communist/Socialist regimes. He is very intellectually dishonest in that regard.
Critics say WeWork is an overvalued real-estate play
most may not, but many do. There are also many workloads that require a discrete GPU running at medium to high load constantly. Granted I have an older iPhone, but my battery life drops from ~1 day of normal usage to ~1hr of intensive usage, and generates an _incredible_ amount of heat.
Well there's an investment and a lawsuit so it sort of balances out.
The article actually says "fewer than 1%", but they don't include the "fewer" as part of the link text, which seems like a poor choice.

The linked article reports the actual value in their cohort to be 0.91%[0], which is surprisingly close to 1%.

For what it's worth, this cohort is of companies that received their initial seed in 2008–2010. Obviously it takes a while for a company to hit $!Bn valuation, but the landscape has changed a fair bit in 7-9 years, so the current number may be a lot lower (or a lot higher).

[0] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/venture-capital-funnel-2...
Found this, but I'm sure any N-back will work:

http://brainscale.net/dual-n-back

Also, if you feel like working off of someone else's source:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/brainworkshop/files/brainwo...

Though it seems relatively simple to design.
Swift vs. Kotlin
The Lyft app is 17.38 MB, and the Uber app is 35.04 MB.
Study was in the UK, which may explain that difference in what I've seen from years of tinder use. American woman are certainly as superficial as men.
Yes. Search for dual-n-back in app store. I can go till 6 back without much effort. It gets tougher after.
Is forcing children to eat their vegetables, take regular baths, and go to bed on time an example of "one size fits all" parenting? I find it very difficult to believe that learning to read later in life won't adversely affect your maximum reading proficiency later in life, a very concerning "future difficulty" as it is the most basic possible skill required to function in society after learning to speak. I don't think either that it makes sense to give children a choice in the specific matter of whether or not they should be instructed in this skill that is so critical to their development and usefulness to society - they are by definition the least experienced and informed about the consequences of their decisions. That's not to say I don't think kids should have a choice in anything, just that part of raising children involves not letting them make choices that significantly and adversely affect their future.
How about Canadian Shield? CanShield?
Wait, what? Assuming he exists (because otherwise the point is moot), are you saying that this God who created the UNIVERSE should be obligated to ask, "How high?" when we ask him to jump? Hinging one's belief (or disbelief) the existence of God on whether he is compliant with our wishes is foolishness; the mistake made by the priests here was NOT that they trusted in God (a neutral act in this example), but rather that they placed expectations of civil/criminal justice on a God who had promised them no such involvement in society. He didn't even provide this to the Israelites, with whom he had a much more intimate covenant. Instead, there were the judges/prophets/kings who administered justice.

What is more interesting to me is how these ordeals seem to (poorly) parallel the cut-the-baby-in-half sort of justice King Solomon was recorded to have administered. Except in his case it was obvious soon after that he never intended to carry out the sentence.
The other aspect of that is not only is it hard to make a connection that fast, but if you've got another dozen attractive options, why bother stretching that out into multiple dates?

It's lots of window shopping. Maybe we have too many options?
Opinionated Database Access in Java
This strikes me as a windows issue, not a VirtualBox one. How does windows kill applications that have not exited, how long does it wait to do so, etc?
Let me try a more concise explanation. There's two separate fields in a TCP packet header: the 1-bit URG flag, and the 16-bit Urgent Pointer.

The spec says that "when URG is set, the Urgent Pointer has meaning", and means to "put the user into urgent mode", and points to an index of the stream at some point in the future. When the user reads the data at that index, signal the user to return to normal mode.

Because the wording was confusing in the original spec, everyone interpreted this as "there's a special byte at index which is considered 'urgent data'". Popular implementations removed it from the stream entirely and placed it in a special out-of-order bucket.
> Why would I need more?

For same reason you have multiple email addresses no?
> with Hugo + Pygments was taking ~20s for ~20 pages at the time

That's long! Glad I wrote my own in Haskell (and I'm a Gopher! just did it to get my feet wet in Hs) --- 92 pages in 1s (full rebuild; incremental is of course just a fraction) feels good to me now. http://github.com/metaleap/haxtatic

No CSS magic tooling though. Just don't find vanilla CSS troublesome enough yet =)

Edit: I saw you do ~10k pages in ~60s so guess we can see the Rust bonus there now --- certainly beats my extrapolated expected ~5-6k for the same time-frame. (Though I hope you were talking there about complex layouts with component-like-sub-templates / programmatic sub-renderers and date-time formatting, not just dumping-inner-markup-into-outer-markup =)
I'm a fan of a method of language learning called TPR (Total Physical Response).[1][2][3] It is by far the fastest and easiest way I
know of learning vocabulary and grammar.

In a nutshell, with TPR the teacher gives the student a command in the target language, demonstrates the action the command is asking for,
repeats the command and finally the student copies the action.

For example, if English was the target language, the teacher could say
"sit down", then sit down themselves, then once again say "sit
down" and the student would copy the action by sitting down. This
can then be repeated for "stand up", for "pick up the fork", or
any other arbitrarily complex and sophisticated command.

As you've no doubt noticed, the commands are given in grammatically correct sentences, in context. Grammar is not explicitly taught, however.
It is implicitly taught and implicitly learned.

What makes this method work really well is that when you learn words and grammar, you're not doing it with just your mind and maybe some
visual cues, you're using your body and doing so in a specific physical context (the place where you're learning), associating what you're
learning with parts of that place. It's somewhat analogous to using a memory palace to learn, only without any extra effort of constructing
the palace or imaging placing things you want to learn there. With TPR you actually physically interact with the things you learn in that
space.

Another great thing is that a TPR teacher need not have any special training in education or really even in the method. TPR takes maybe a
minute or two to explain to anyone, so you can recruit helpers from any friends or acquaintances you have who know the target language and are
willing to help, though if you want consistent lessons and dedication you'll probably want a professional tutor or teacher anyway.

TPR focuses on learning to understand, in emulation of the first step of a child's language learning process. Children first learn to
understand, then to speak, then to read, and finally to write. TPR helps with the first part.

TPR has its limits, and it can't be used for all aspects of language learning, but it's fantastic for getting your language learning
bootstrapped really quickly.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_physical_response

[2] - http://tola.maf.org/collect/missionb/index/assoc/HASH01da.di...

[3] - http://tola.maf.org/collect/missionb/index/assoc/HASH0162.di...
State of Gradle Java 9 Support
This is due to a current style of thinking known as the "Chicago School approach": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law_theory#Chicago...
>Do you have a reference for this

Yes, the article.

>There's also the question of whether those records are unique ID numbers

Primary key contraints, plus they name of the column "NEW_IDN" (see GP) would strongly suggest that this is the case. It could be an autonumber, but NEW_IDN as a column name has a clear meaning. Also I think Troy would know how to check for duplicates.
I use it together with DynamoDB and SES to support an email newsletter system that involves verification, unsubscribe, delivery notifications, etc.

Spins like a top and costs very little ro run.
Thank you for the thoughtful response!

Empiricism as applied to theories of gravity is one thing. Empiricism through statistical inference is entirely different.

I can actually reproduce the expected results of the theories of gravity by measurements related to projectiles and celestial bodies. In this way I can directly experience their truths.

However, I cannot reproduce the results of the majority of psychologic, economic, and sociologic experiments for a number of reasons, and for the sake of brevity I'll just refer any readers to a couple of Wikipedia articles.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misunderstandings_of_p-values

Beyond these issues with methodology are the dissemination to and interpretation by the general public who will not have access to the studies themselves and will always and only be presented with summaries unless they happen to know someone with access to a digital or analog university library. This makes discussions about methodology moot as most people will not be able to examine the nature of the experiment.

Considering the general public's access to academic knowledge is restricted while their access to commercially produced knowledge is promoted and subsidized by advertising, we should be able to see the epistemic crisis in our contemporary age of information.
These companies generate billions of dollars a year in profit. They, quite literally, have nothing better to do with their money than invest.

Interestingly, this is what will make these companies so entrenched for decades to come - anything that would ever come close to being a competitor..they will be part owners of.
> Dyslexia is the most common learning disability and occurs in all areas of the world.[3][11] It affects 3–7% of the population,[3][6] however, up to 20% may have some degree of symptoms.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia
Remote Dekstop Manager from Devolutions is really complete and as far as I know it's a good enterprise level remote desktop software.
https://remotedesktopmanager.com
First time I hear about wlc. And I'm curious about something. Does wlc only help to write compositors or can Window/3D libraries also access that? For example when writing a 3D library which should run on Wayland - do I have to write support for every compositor out there to get things like input and copy-paste working or is there a common base-library I can use (like wlc maybe)?
How?

It's formatted monospaced text, its perfectly readable to me.
Translation:

When people use Tinder, they behave in the way that the user interface encourages them to. Because Tinder was built with assumptions about dating that are socially conservative, the behavior that the app encourages is behavior which conforms to socially conservative ideas about dating. Because the people who promote these socially conservative ideas like to wrap them in a veneer of pseudoscience, they claim that Tinder reinforces “ancient” behavior.

(Great source on the pseudoscience part: “Delusions of Gender” by Dr. Cordelia Fine. Plenty of others exist. And while I know the pseudoscience part might be controversial to some on here, I hope at least the idea that user interfaces guide user behavior is not.)
>I cannot, by definition, censor someone. I can ban them from my systems, kick them out of my home, refuse to listen to them and tell all my friends to ignore them, but I can't censor them, because I do not have the power of the state behind my decision. The difference is I can do all of those things, but nobody else needs to put up with my antics. If Dang banned you, you can still talk on thousands of other places.

I would argue that this is definitely censorship. Just because you can go somewhere else doesn't mean you aren't being censored - you are being denied access to the HN audience. Somewhere else isn't going to have the same audience. And that audience isn't making the decision - a small number of moderators are. But you're right that this is just down to pedantic word choice, feel free to discard this thread of the discussion if you'd rather not push the matter further.

>I absolutely agree with you that this argument is used to shut down discussions, but that doesn't mean the distinction isn't important. Just listen to all the dishonest, deceptive bullshit we hear from politicians defending themselves by whining about the First Amendment when criticized, as if their right to speech is a right to be free from criticism. The problem being, of course, that people who don't necessarily know better fall for it and suddenly believe false things about how free speech works.

I'm not here touting free speech like it's a legal right I have as a submitter and an obligation HN has as a publisher. Instead I'm touting it as a damn good idea that makes for a better medium for discussion and suggeting HN embraces it anyway.
I noticed that just after posting; made an edit though. Since he's basing that on a row count, I'm not convinced it's necessarily unique IDs. To be fair, I don't have the data, and he does.

We do like our autonumbers here in SA, so I wouldn't be surprised, despite the column name.
That's a billion with a 'B'! Is this a way Google is trying to get back at Uber?
Don't run this on EC2; you'll probably get your metadata stolen. Also:

if (!validUrl.isUri(url)) { // Also protects against file://...

It does?

▶ cat valid.js
var validUrl = require('valid-url');

if (validUrl.isUri("file:///etc/passwd")){
console.log('Looks like a URI');
}

▶ node valid.js
Looks like a URI

Perhaps the problem requires a little more than 15 minutes to do well :)
/s/qx58g/GenericPhrase

"New version of Pandora Nexus released."

Great - is this any relation to the 2 Pandoras or the several Nexuses? Does this play music on my phone or move assets into a VM? Neither, it syncs bookmarks between browsers.
I work with a huge monorepo and ag/rg are noticeably faster. Might just be the out-of-the-box .ignore support but that's another point in favor.

Our complicated ignore rules make ag miss a directory though (known issue with ag) so rg it is.