skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it?

I have the feeling much of the tech of the last century was too much for the people living at the time.

Yes, they found out about fusion and fission, but there are no viable fusion reactors out there and even the fission ones are highly problematic.

Yes, they build super sonic planes but they barely held together or did cost a fortune.

Yes, the send people to space, but how many and at what price?

We even had super computers and main frames, but it took half a century to get this tech in every home AND then some time to get it in everyones pocket.

Last century was more of a industrial mass market thing. The stuff from the 1800 was finally available for the rest of us.

The whole high tech stuff was discovered at the time but it wasn't really usable, even if it was still used, see concord or fission based power plants.

On the other hand, the risk we took for the power plants was probably set off by getting electricity to everyone and allowing the industrial age tech to work more wide spread.

Anyway, I think we are in more of a space age now than we were back in the days.
I’ve been having the same experience with iOS 11. I often open the phone app to call someone I recently talked to, see their name at the top, click it to call them, only for the phone to call someone else. What’s happening is that someone else had called me in the meantime and iOS showed me the cached image of the screen but registered my touch on the “real”/live view of the screen. Safari does the same thing on both iOS and OSX when you swipe back and interact with the page, and I’m sad to be seeing that behavior leak elsewhere. Super frustrating.

Also, the amount of lag when loading basic apps has increased significantly with this update (I have an iPhone 6s).
With iOS 11 at this moment the developer betas are better than the released alphas.
Bootstrap can be used with just the CSS and none of the JS components, although Vue also makes it easy to encapsulate jquery into components. [1]

Tachyons [2] is another CSS framework that basically takes the component approach to the extreme and makes all styles separate, like bootstrap being made of only utilities.

1. https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/select2.html

2. http://tachyons.io/
I really wish the Census would publish more normalized data sources. For example, the American Community Survey summary file is effectively a giant table with thousands of rows (representing different geographies) and thousands of columns (representing different statistics that have been calculated for those geographies). The columns just have an ID and a name that tells you what's in there, but it will be something like "median income for black or african american women with a master's degree." If you want that data point, you basically have to go searching through a bunch of docs (or one of their horrendous online interfaces) to find out the ID of the column.

Instead, I'd love to have a set of tables... in each one, you'd have a geography column and then, using my above example, a race column, a gender column, an educational attainment column and a median income column. Then you could easily load that data to a database and run a SELECT query over the information to get what you need.

Heck, I'd even settle for metadata that was good enough to enable me to construct this stuff myself. For example, for each column ID, tell me what variables were used to construct it and what their values were equal to. Unfortunately I've contacted the Census Bureau and they've told me such a thing doesn't exist.
In which country do you live?

Keep in mind that the smaller the hearing loss the more sophisticated the hearing aid you need to get a benefit. If you have a slight hearing loss you will experience issues in the "hardest" situations for hearing aids to cope with such as conversations in noisy places or bad telephone reception.

Finally, the over the counter hearing aids come with a limited number of pre-fitted configuration (e.g., 4) and "tweak yourself" means choosing one of them. To get a hearing aid fine-tuned to your specific hearing loss you need a professional in a shop equipped and trained to use with the professional fitting software of the hearing aid
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Shihab, founder of SurveySparrow here. We’ve been working hard for months to get SurveySparrow steady on its wings and open the door to public. We have come quite a long way. Despite our best attempts, there are some features that need to be perfected. But we are far from finished.

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Because if you are a company that "eats the world" via automatic selling of the ads your leadership and your engineers are delusional enough to think that everything you touch turns into gold not because of hundreds of thousands of hours spent on testing and tweaking but because of your new amazing phone orchestration software.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a good markdown viewer that auto refreshes?
I use vim to edit markdown and have been using MacDown to preview the files. However, MacDown doesn't automatically reload the file when changes are made in vim. Any recommendations?
On the contrary, I have found lxml suitable for all of my scraping projects where the objective is to write some XPath to parse or extract some data from some element.
- Does not work with the available voltage

- Far too big

- Requires about 1/3 of the entire power budget

> I'm pretty sure there is space for disruption here.

[hackernews noises]
Can something be done to clone/distribute it?
The weird thing the constants for animation times in iOS are between 200ms and 350ms depending on what you do (segue, show keyboard) and I don't think they have changed.
They can be but not instantaneously, because of multiple replicated copies in a distributed environment.
Craft Container Orchestrator
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You want mayonaise or mustard on your shit sandwich?
Homepage - http://oddtales.net/

This is so Snow Crash-y and Blade Runner-y... damn.
Seeing Earth from outer space
We started our current codebase with a blank Emacs buffer back in February and went straight to (draft) C++17. Everything is compiled with both gcc and clang. Flags like -Wall, -Wpedantic -Weverything -Wno-c++98-compat -Wno-c++98-compat-pedantic -Wno-c++11-extensions are your friends.

But apart from that, languages have “cultural dialects”. So for example I essentially always loop with for(;;) and so a while (or do while!) looks alien to me. Likewise, a destructuring bind is not the only way to unpack a loop variable, so no compiler would mandate its use.

It’s a large system programming language so it will take a while to learn a lot of nuances...but you can get a ton of great code written without learn8ng that stuff.
As a cs undergrad, i found it hard to get more than an intro level skillset in AI. Machine learning, nlp, algorithms for data science were all offered as grad courses, which i was able to take, but the undergrad offerings were underwhelmingly basic
But really, when something feels random, it usually means that there’s something we don’t understand

You'd improve that understanding by showing standard deviations on that graph. Are the fluctuations bigger than expected by chance? How much bigger?

You'd increase it even more by mentioning that subsequent research wasn't nearly as definitive on the "lunch break effect": http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html
Hum... I'm pretty sure my life wouldn't be much different if I could only communicate non-verbally.
I use heavily earphones. They usually last between 3 and 9 months because of the fucking wire. When I am working I cannot type comfortable because of the wire, it is in the middle. When I move I always pull the wire. If I am walking with my mobile in my pocket I also pull the wire from time to time. So they always broke in the connector because of the wire. Even with a lot of care they always break in the same place. So it is around 15€ every 6 months. You can buy them cheaper but the sound is crap. My Bluetooth headset was 30€ and have been working like charm for more than 3 years now. They have 8 hours of battery life and I need to charge them less than the smartphone. So I don't get the inconvenience of charging something than last more than an smartphone.
Often, claims that 320kpbs is indistinguishable from lossless are based on tests conducted on regular people (as opposed to trained musicians) and with pop music (as opposed to classical recordings). I would like to see a test conducted on classical musicians with well-recorded classical music. I honestly don't know what the outcome would be, but it would be instructive.
Just ask in the right way:

- "Do you want to see more interesting content on Facebook?"

- "Do you want a way to discover more relevant pages?"
I started making my personal site as terminal just like this one and eventually scrapped the idea because it's a terrible experience on mobile, but also it's just gimmicky on desktop and will only be mildly interesting to other devs.
I'm fairly sure that the comment you replied to was sarcasm.
We’re at the part of late-stage capitalism where people find eating food to be too much work.
I am more scared of professionals using a phone calculator instead of a dumb calculator that should work all the time. I always carry around my scientific calculator not because my phone can't do it but because it is more reliable.
How this works in Android for system apps: One can only disable a system app. This disable button replaces the uninstall button. It deletes any updates to the app from your phone, since it will obviously still have the original version baked into the ROM, and removes it from the app list. It might also disable any service registrations for the app... Unsure on whether that's true.

Re-enabling the app will basically restore the ROM version. You can then install updates from the store, which I think is basically a full install and the ROM version is ignored again, based on the consumed space of such apps.
Good to know. Any idea what happened?
how much of the medical field is slow on purpose ? I know about heavy regulations and safety standards .. but still
they have faster and lower latency network interconnects

It will not be possible to replicate Ares - which is itself a moving target - for general workloads and still be competitive on price.
Prior art https://www.shysecurity.com/post/20120401-PingFS
I thought they were expensive because you have to individually tune some sort of equalizer, depending of the damaged frequencies of the user.

Also the hardware is not really very cheap either, you have to insert it deep into the ear, and the microphone should be sensitive enough to capture all kinds of sounds, at at all distances and air conditions, removing noise, etc. Microphones have always been expensive. It also would be running 24/7.

But to be honest, price should drop indeed. But everybody knows that everything relative to health will often be overpriced if not regulated, especially if it involves any sort of technology.
What do you mean by they view a blog as a liability?
Beware the rise of the 'zombiecorn'
YouTube don't seem to handle colour profiles correctly

or there is some problem in the pipeline between uploading your video and it getting reproduced on screen by the player inside a web browser

videos exported from e.g. FCPX have colour profile attached and look right when played back in Quicktime desktop player, but the contrast always gets messed up when it comes back through YouTube

this is a separate issue from compression artefacts
Show HN: Hypewatching – crowdsourced, geolocated trends around the world
Very simplified, but assuming a 5000 km cable and 300 000 km/s speed of light (is slightly slower in fiber), light needs 0.01666... seconds for that. At 10 Gbit/s (fairly slow), that'd mean ~ 166 Mbit or ~ 20 Megabyte in flight. (I hope I didn't forget a factor 1000 somewhere)
No it definitely existed. I got a 4, and it was not uncommon to go from a perfectly fine phone call, to a dropped phone call until I got a case.
The computers at my old job working as a cashier did that. It made working with produce so much faster because as soon as I heard the beep, I could move on to the next item, even if the screen hasn’t updated yet.
>Is this demonization of opposing viewpoints a new thing, or am I just noticing it more in the last two years?

I think it's more in recent years. Especially in the US where things are highly polarized and every issue seems to have a "Republican" take and a "Democratic" take. So points of view on specific situations are taken to reflect much more about a person's overall position than they actually do. And we have more echo chambers reinforcing our conviction about being right in the first place.

Finally I think there is also something legitimate about connecting viewpoints to consequences and evidence where possible, and discussing higher level concepts with the low level consequences in peoples' lives, in order to understand the tradeoffs that each point of view entails. I do think certain viewpoints are tightly linked to certain outcomes, and it wouldn't be demonizing to say "If you are for policy X you are accepting the likely effects Y and Z".
> If Google wasn't dumping prices, there would be a local cheaper alternative

Apple's not dumping prices. Where is Ghana's local cheaper alternative to Apple?

> The only way to stay afloat is to sell with hefty premium like Apple does

There are plenty of other companies that are surviving without the hefty premium Apple charges. Apple managed to reach $200B in liquid cash assets; clearly their path is not "the only way".

> Apple doesn't care about "elite". They charge price they see fair and provide their services to anyone who can pay that price.

... how do you think elitism works?

s/Apple/High-priced lawyers/, to see how empty that argument is against elitism.
Hell even recent Apple laptops don’t have one.
There is no issue with parsing and scraping in the same loop as long as there is caching in there as well. You don't want to be hitting the server repeatedly whilst you're debugging.

A project like Scrapy should have caching on by default, but it seems to be an afterthought. Repeatable and reproducible parsing of cached websites is necessary, e.g. if you find additional data fields that you want to parse without downloading the entire site over again.
Of course there are people that want to get help but you might be surprised to know that on average people wait for seven years before wearing a hearing aid starting from when they would benefit from one. There are customers (more than you would believe) who have hearing loss, that test the product for a month and still decide not to buy it.

Also the type of hearing aid you need is highly dependent on both the hearing loss profile and the specific life situations when you don't hear well. If you have profound hearing loss and stay mostly at home and need help to watch TV or have conversations in a silent enviroment you can benefit from a basic hearing aid.
If you are a bartender with a slight hearing loss and need help in noisy environemnt even a top of the line one might not make an appreciable difference.

Finally free hearing aids always suck because the free service you get with them sucks and they do not take the time to see you multiple times and fix the fitting for you. It is normal to see a customer in the shop for a one-to-one with the audiologist 4-7 times in the first three months. That is expensive and difficult to disrupt because the value is the in human interaction
Ah, but they were very intense years, so they counted more than one!
But I paid money for it. Least I should get is Support and fix which they promise with a one year warranty.
As pointed by a Human Rights Watch member (https://twitter.com/NicDawes/status/922622481311166464), they ran the test in countries with recent and/or fragile democracies, where independent media needs every single help possible. All this mess is a fricking disaster
Python Requests has a notion if "session" which takes care of cookies etc... Use it all the time when needing to automate tasks that require to sign in.
Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books are really good for learning the "right way" to code C++. He has a good intro to c++11 and 14 too, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22800553-effective-moder...

Don't worry about not taking the time to properly learn C++ . It is a huge huge language and trying to learn it all at once from first principles will take you forever. Just try to do things in the most memory safe way possible.
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I don't really see why you're comparing them both, they are both in essential 2 big companies that wants to control their customers in certain ways, sell them products and keep them in their ecosystem.

If Apple could actually take advantage of the potential customer information they have access to in the same way I'm pretty sure they would.
This was posted on here a while back. Most of the links go to YouTube videos:

Computer Science courses with video lectures
https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses/blob/master/...
I don't see many people mentioning a proportional value-based land tax, which would probably be about the first thing a traditional economist would recommend?

Brings down prices, hurts land-banking, increases density, generates revenue for infrastructure, captures public benefit from value increase, etc...
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DOJ changes “gag order” policy, Microsoft to drop lawsuit
Great website. A few wishes :

Would love to have a PWA for it.
Web platform daily doesn't work anymore. You could parse the content of the weekly issues in https://github.com/simevidas/webplatformnews-weekly/tree/mas...
Singapore: no more cars allowed on the road, government says
Is that the actual UI? Oh, man, that is fricking ugly. Biggest computer company in the world, everyone! Famous for their good design! Think how many well-paid people signed off on that dog.
Notice how it's not a grey area when Google do it. The usually double standard apply I guess.
Does it suffer the same limitation as PostgreSQL's fulltext search? i.e., It doesn't use corpus frequencies in its ranking function. (I skimmed the docs but couldn't immediately find my answer.)
Facebook inhibits you from communicating with friends and family? Are we talking about the same Facebook?
I'm not attempting to claim subject matter expertise but I would like to raise two points.

1) If your hypothesis assumes that information is actually created then it's either wrong (as it's contradictory to our current understanding of physics) or you need to describe a mechanism through which information can be created or added to our universe from an external source.
You might be able to contrive a mechanism through which the expansion is simply a byproduct of the every increasing entropy but I don't understand why would it then appear to an observer that the total area of the hologram is shrinking.

A hologram cannot hold more data without expanding it's surface area (adding additional dimensions to a hologram to make it more complex would also impact "our universe" in this analogy), the popular science "formula" for the total information that can be stored in a hologram is basically it's information density (which has a limit) x it's surface area.
Now you can say that our universe is encoded in a hologram that hasn't reached the Bekenstein bound so the information density of it can increase but again that would require some sort of a mechanism that I'm not aware off, but I'm not an expert or even particularly knowledgeable in this matter to be able to have a truly constructive discussion.

2) A theory that describes the "true nature" of the universe is useless unless it gives new predictions or new tools to explain existing phenomenon.
It doesn't really matter if our universe is encoded on the surface of a black hole in another universe, is one of many bubbles of the foam that makes up the multiverse or is it one of many marbles in the marble bag of some alien teenagers from the trans dimensional universe five-nine-alpha.
I'm just curious what kind of indispensable feature an editor like emacs or vim has. I don't see the productivity gain.

Ultimately, it might just be pleasurable to learn to use something new and use it. You "feel" like you do things differently, but to me it's just another nerdy gadget thing.
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You didn’t answer the question, but I’ll go ahead and suggest that you are motivated to create good software, not by a fear of being yelled at, but rather something else. Maybe you think the product you are making is of actual value, and are proud of it. Maybe you want to impress your boss with the quality so you can get a raise. Maybe you don’t want to be fired.

In any case, I would be shocked if there was anyone, anywhere that thought: “you know, I would have put in the effort, but I knew even if I screwed up, no one would verbally abuse me, so why bother?”

Just my opinion, but I would reckon no software has ever been made better by verbal abuse. Jobs succeeded in spite of it, not because of it. Going on a tirade is something egomaniacs do when they can’t control their temper, not an effective motivational strategy.
It's also an incredible hassle to keep pairing if you change the device quite a lot (between pc/phone) in my opinion.
A theme isn't exactly what's asked... Themes are just... A lot of work put into making an unwieldy system meant for blogging look like something else.
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I disagree. There are too many negative comments in this thread. This is an awesome site that will resonate well with clients and recruiters. It has exactly what they looking for and yet presented in such a refreshing way. It show cases your creativity, ambition and dedication to do something like this. Great job!
Would getting yelled at make you perform better?
I use Bluetooth and never had issues with delays. I had couple of computers, couple of mobiles and 3 different Bluetooth headset during this time. My Bluetooth headsets weren't the cheapest ones either.
This varies by country, but for the United States, the law requires you to honor opt out requests. A link is one mechanism to honor such a request. Another way is to remove a recipient from a list after they reply stating their wish to be unsubscribed.

From a practical level, it is worth including an unsubscribe link just to avoid having someone mark your email as spam after not being able to find the unsubscribe link.
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I'm interested in hearing his reasoning, too. Maybe said companies don't want people posting about what they're doing at work or don't want a PR nightmare if the employee says the wrong thing
> That runs a few days and does not sound terrible?

If they are 1/10th the cost, then the number of people that could benefit goes up tremendously. I'm sure lots of people would accept having two sets that they have to charge every night if the alternative is not having any.
Me too. After Google left us Nexus 6P (and 5X) users out to rot, I won't be buying into their next hobby.

To be honest, if the battery on my (already-replaced) 6P wasn't laughably bad, I'd be happy to use it for another year or two. Everything else about it is fine.

As it stands, my next phone is likely to be a Nokia 9.