skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that a lot of similar comments will be deleted if you simply respond "shill". Sure, it's rude, but a real person will argue with you. A shill will delete to avoid being associated with the accusation.
Seattle isn't in Silicon Valley...
Pretty much any subreddit that idolizes marxism, communism, the soviet union, or che guevara is in some way supporting or advocating the extermination of entire ethnic and religious groups. It's kind of hard to play the "only nazis want to kill people" when you have a soviet flag and hammer and sickle in your subreddit.

Proof of Soviet / Communist ethic cleansing:

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

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

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3229636/Martin%2...
That is what passes for entertainment these days. Who do you thinking is following the feeds? Who is watching the cnn warrooms? The general public is rooting for or against whatever they believe.
You're right, of course, there's no place for teachers in the academy, except as members of that most degraded and despised class, contingent faculty. But I think this is a serious problem. Not to put too fine a point on it, but many recipients of engineering degrees being turned out by our well-respected institutions of higher learning can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag. I worked with people who didn't understand the physical models underlying their discipline. I worked with people who didn't trust statistics, who were easily misled by noise in their data and preferred to eyeball regression lines. I worked with one individual who somehow had a B.S. in electrical engineering despite having real trouble with the concept of plotting points on a Cartesian coordinate plane. These people had degrees from R1 universities. The indifference of career academics to these outcomes is a disaster. It's a disaster I'd hoped to avert, but I can only do my best to get out of its way.
Never heard Pony before. Sounds like a faster, type-safe erlang? Sign me up, looks awesome!
> * They use whitelist (visible in source) of sites, thus they do not record activity on all sites, but just the ones in whitelist.

Is that in the manifest or in the source?
One issue here is that there aren't always real/practical jobs within the field of study, though. Furthermore, I would claim that people who do experiments often are ones that are doing "real things"
100% this. I showed my doc some stats once, and she looked a) annoyed; b) surprised; c) disbelieving. All of which i was not expecting.

By the second child i was too tired to keep stats, so we winged it and the docs and I happily acknowledge that ignorance is bliss (sarcasm, i think).
I helped build Twitter's data platform, 2010-2016.

There isn't an "analysis server" and analyzing user activity is not done on a "user database backup" at Twitter's scale, though indeed that's a common way that would be done for smaller businesses.

By the way, if by user db you literally mean the db with user accounts, that's not the right data source -- you want the user _activity_ db to count active users, and for high-scale applications, those are different things. Presumably user activity updates are orders of magnitude more frequent than user object updates. You don't want to thrash your user db by constantly updating some "last seen at" field. Put that stuff somewhere else.

That said, it's true that counting is simple, it's just a Hadoop / Spark / distributed computing platform of choice job. Filter, distinct, count. It's not even hard in real-time if you have enough ram or are ok with approximate counts with bounded error, thanks to Storm, Heron, Flink, etc.

Defining what exactly constitutes an active user and catching edge cases such as this Digits thing is where things get tricky; the number of weird scenarios that cause under/overcount for what seem like reasonable and straightforward definitions would surprise you.

@baddox nailed it.
Just think of all the bloat in a browser. Don't mistake size for complexity. Graphics/game engines are complex. Browsers are big.

Whilst true, your simple renderer analogy does not work because it is like me saying that if I can create a program to draw some scrolling text then I can create a browser. I presume you have not had to optimise GPU graphics code whilst maintaining compatibility on multiple GPU vendors with a common code base?

One game engine is not the same as another and therefore not suitable for bulk comparison with any particular thing. Each game/graphics engine has their own set of requirements, and quality level, and the level of understanding required to "understand" what is actually going on.
The repetition seemed like some form of deliberate hypnosis. I would read the repetitive parts and my mind would start to criticize how it could be so poorly written, and by the end of the book I had quit smoking after over 10 years and not even thinking I would ever even want to quit when I started the book. (and still quit after 10 more years)
Regarding A, do banks ever make "margin calls" when homes drop in value? I mean, force people to sell even though those people have an income and are making mortgage payments? (If so, why, when the mortgage income, if it continues, is worth more than what they can get from the foreclosure?)
You definitely can build Flutter apps for Android without Android Studio.
https://ifdevthentalk.com/2017/05/29/flutter-on-windows-with...
I use this for a pocketknife or leatherman. It's a perfect size for either and keeps my phone from getting scratched.
Sandringham time
> Also make sure you look at the affect of monsanto GMOs on the indian farmer's suicide rate:

You forgot to add the end of that sentence. It goes, "... and you'll find, in amazement, that farmer suicides went down in line with the introduction of GMO crops".

This tends to be quite contrary to a commonly held view.
Last weekend, my dad needed new printer cartridges and so we went sifting through the internet for different offerings. By chance, we got onto a page on the manufacturer's website, which had images of all their cartridge packs. Among those, we also found an XL version of what we initially thought to buy.

So, there we were, needing exactly this feature. If I didn't know that it's impossible for them to have developed this in such a short time, I'd be a little freaked.

Thankfully, though, TinEye served the exact same purpose...
Someone got too much paternity leave! :)
Basically a set of fine-tuned virtual machine images for Amazon Cloud.
> I do find it curious that WhatsApp was operating at a much larger scale in terms of users and messages processed when they were sold to Facebook

I recommend you search around HN before you make sweeping generalizations, there are numerous threads that explain how or why WhatsApp were capable of doing what they were. From a technical perspective, as a "core product", Twitter's business has more abstractions

To get you started[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225096
No, they don't sue for that. Myth #2 as listed here:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...
What an ignorant comment. Who has Trump committed genocide on? Who is a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in the white house?
Plenty of 80 hour a week jobs that pay 35.
The web browser extension part makes sense. In order to handle payments completely automatically without user intervention, there needs to be _some_ piece of software that keeps track of what users are engaging with and handles payments based on that. Makes perfect sense to use a browser extension for that.

Same goes for the association with Adblock Plus. Both of Adblock Plus and Flattr are aimed at fixing the basic monetization strategy used on the web. Adblock Plus does it by removing overly intrusive ads while leaving less annoying ones, whereas Flattr aims to replace ads entirely by just paying the sites you visit directly.
That's the general idea. But, Erlang has a wee bit of a head start.
Of course. I was wanting to keep my example reductionist on purpose to answer mrow84's question in an easily understandable way.
What risk? I bought the flat I live in to make risk lower. If you live on somebody else's property, you are more vulnerable and owner can limit how you treat the property.
So what? Do we continue because we're f* up anyway?

I don't think it's an option to consider alternatives in this case.
>Who is a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in the white house?

Seb Gorka
I have been looking over to this language every now and then for a long while now, and this article finally motivated me to actually learn it.

But it seems the documentation is a bit out of date - I cannot even get the "Hello, world"-program to build correctly, neither on Debian Stretch nor on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

It is quite frustrating if you try to learn a new language, and when you make your first step, you step on a nail.

And it is even more frustrating, because Pony looks very interesting, for the reasons the linked article explains. ):

UPDATE: On Debian, telling the pony compiler to --pic does the trick.

UPDATE2: On suse, installing binutils-gold solved the problem.

UPDATE3: Now we're talking! This language is very, very interesting, indeed!
Üniversitede Bitirme Projesi Nedir?
Your camera example made me think of how digital cameras often have a shutter sound effect when taking a photo.
> Biggest weakness would be maturity.

Has there been any progress towards a preemptive scheduler? Otherwise, I'd think that's the most obvious weakness.
Firstly: There is nothing wrong with supplementing if breastfeeding is not enough.

Don't make rash decisions like "no pacifier" or "no formula" just because you want to be the best parent ever. The baby's (and your) comfort is more important than any of that.

All the stuff in this application is fine to measure, if you need it, but it's not necessary. The most important thing is your own sleep/sanity, the baby will tell you if it needs anything.

For instance, the baby's weight. You will likely go to a few checkups in the first few weeks and get the weight right there. You don't need to know it daily. A good rule of thumb for instance, is that the baby is doing well if he has fatty legs. There you go.

A D-Link Wi-Fi camera came in handy, I remember it costing around $50. The application tinyCam Pro is good, as are a few other more baby-oriented apps which alert you when the noise level is past a certain threshold.

The amount of sleep needed between me and my wife became much more apparent after the baby came, so we had to change sleeping arrangements a lot until we found something that worked for us.

Oh this is a good one: Croup sounds like a barking cough. It is very scary the first time baby gets it, because he will have trouble breathing, but don't panic. There are 2 home remedies, both seemed to be effective, so I'm not sure which one is "recommended": The first is to take the baby out into the cold night air (bundled up of course). The cold air will treat his inflamed vocal cords. The other option is kind of the opposite: Go into the bathroom and turn on a hot shower, filling the room with steam. That should also help baby's breathing. If home remedies do not work then you will want to go to the ER, but only a small percentage of cases really need that. They will give baby a nebulized vapor of epinephrine and some corticosteroids, and charge you hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I wish there was some middle of the road option between "home remedy" and ER, but I don't know what that would be. Anyway, don't panic, the baby can tell you're panicking and will react with even more trouble breathing.

OK one more tip: Luv's are the best. They don't leak, you don't even need overnight diapers, just Luv's. They are owned by Pampers so you're basically getting premium diapers for rock-bottom prices. Conversely, Huggies suck, they are overpriced and can't touch Luv's on any level.
Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’
My bet is that still it will be in USA. Among many other things, there's no shame in "failing" in USA. Investors and banks take a chance, fully knowing that most will fail.

In a lot of countries failure will follow you for the rest of your life. Not to mention that you'll be broke owing to banks, friends and tax authorities.
2nd child I got gaslighted again until I went to the _specific person_ who had diagnosed it correctly the first time. And yeah, exactly the same problem (different symptoms, but children are different). Turns out she’d been disciplined after the first time for stepping out of lane.

(You’ll note, not for being wrong, the diagnosis got independently confirmed both times.)

Medical professionals like and are used to being the unquestioned experts. But you are always the expert of your own child (because, like I said before, every child is different.)
Sure they do, but we now have a ton of anti slumlord laws because there was a long precedent of landlords being slumlords.
Slightly off topic, please forgive me.

What kind of cloud product should I get if I want something that's equivalent to a Raspberry Pi on my own home connection, to run small scripts and maybe some small server applications without any real traffic? The load could be considered insignificant, but I'd like it to be available 24/7, and I want to install my own programs and libraries.

Is it as simple as a VM? What's a good place to get one, Digital Ocean? Being able to use my own domain name for access would be a plus.
I don't understand where the 'hierarchy' comes into play? This reads to me as a standard computer program where you execute code, and some of those lines execute other segments of code which might be much more complex than what I see. If I execute the line 'printline('Hello World')' I only excuted one line, but many other things happened that I did not directly execute. I'm sure I'm missing something, and this is somehow different and novel, but I'm just missing it from this blog post.
Does this work with all of the dash buttons including the AWS IoT buttons?
The whole purpose of the court system is to prevent abuses such as this and to deny these subpoenas which are not necessary to the investigation of a crime. It seems as if our court systems have forgotten that they exist to be a check on the executive branch, not co-conspirators of it.
haha, I know I got bit too, but consider that even the author John Ryan had fun with it "More recently, Atlantic salmon have escaped fish farms in Washington by the thousands, apparently without gaining a finhold in the wild", finhold as in foothold. How can that not erupt a chuckle?
Huh? Me and Warren Buffet together are worth about $81 Billion, it varies daily but around that range.
Will people stop writing on Medium?
There are far too many assumptions in this comment, particularly in the second paragraph, to even begin to unpack.

Your entire Parent post is centered around a false equivalency between MSM outlets and Wikileaks.

Here's a similar assumption I'll throw your way: Parent personally slighted you and/or your belief system, and caused you to react this aggressively to my comment.

If I were to employ the same non-sequitur logic
you used about myself further, I would reckon you are a shill.
> Farmer's who don't use their seeds are sued for patent infringement if a neighbors seeds blow onto their land and they find out about it.

This is not true. This NPR article, written by the same author as top link, was already linked above:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...
What does a Monsanto astroturf campaign pay these days? Just curious.
Billionaire Insys founder charged in U.S. opioid bribe case
I've seen groups of 5-6 roommates looking at 1 bedrooms in Brooklyn.
Publishers give advances, have milestones, etc. It is uncertain whether a game will make money out in the market, but part of a publisher's role is supposed to be to have a portfolio and be able to spread that risk, funding some of the development of both the losers and the winners.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/19/donald-trump-aide...

>Mr Gorka denied any anti-Semitism in his family.

>He said his father had protected Jewish boys wearing yellow stars on the way to school as a child. When Communists took power, he supplied information to MI6 before being arrested, tortured and imprisoned (possibly betrayed by Kim Philby). He arrived in the UK after escaping during the 1956 uprising.

How exactly is that "self-proclaimed" when he is denying it.
Show HN: A site to look up DNS records
Pony looks really interesting and I look forward to trying it out. I can't help but try to reason about how my work language would handle these problems. Go.

Highly concurrent: check.

Predictable latencies: I think that's a check, the go gc has had alot of engineering put into it to provide good pause times. There are some edge cases still.

Data safety: I think go is weakest here in terms of language design. Go does have go build -race which works pretty well for me, but I can see how some wouldn't consider it sufficient. It also wouldn't catch single threaded ownership problems, which can happen.

Easy way to interact with other languages: via CGO and buildmodes you can trivially call go from other languages. Some don't like that the runtime is still shipped and started, but the fact remains that you can cffi go functions from python very easily.

I'll have to check out pony this weekend. I've read up on it a bit but haven't compiled anything.
> Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either

They probably suspend a lot of people every single day, but we don’t notice it.
I once had a homework assignment to attempt to construct the choice function for the set made up of all non-empty subsets of the reals. A lot of intuitive ideas come to mind and it's a good exercise to show why they don't work. You should feel weird about the axiom of choice after working through a few.
With the greatest respect for Mr. Thiel and his accomplishments I'm skeptical.

I've travelled the world and my experience is that very few places in the world have America's, often irrational, can-do attitude, appetite for new venture risk, and societal acceptance of new venture failure as an important part of the entrepreneurial process.

I just don't think it's that easy to graft these cultural norms to other cultures, let alone replicate the new venture capital, both human and monetary.

As someone in London I wouldn't be on hacker news to 'keep my finger on the pulse' if I believed otherwise.
>On a team of 8 sales people, typically 2 people together sell enough for the team to break even.

Likely this is true for engineering as well. 25% of the team pulling the weight of the department.
Yeah, that could be really cool. I do actually have a Pi around with Snips[0] on it... I'll have to experiment.

[0] https://snips.ai/
The solution is to build more. The free market should take of it. But the market is not free, local economic interests wield sufficient political power to prevent this.

This is happening in almost every medium and big cities in the U.S. It is capturing a big chunk of the productivity gains in the whole economy. It is a tax from one generation to the next. A national solution is needed.
> A "mole" is a unitless quantity. Literally it's just a number.

True, but it's defined relative to the kg. It's the quantity of Carbon-12 atoms in 12g of Carbon-12.

As for why it isn't an 'simpler' number, it's because if you want a standardized definition of something you have to have a reliable reference. Which is precisely why the kg itself is being redefined.

Side-note: the act of creating this ultra-pure kg of Si-28 has actually created a lot of useful science in its own right, which is nice.
Thanks for pointing this out. It was the first thing I thought of after seeing the headline. I have family that mentioned they have a MTHFR mutation so I checked my 23andme results through genetic genie and I did indeed inherit a mutation from one of my parents.

I changed multivitamins to one without folic acid and supplement with methylfolate and methylcobalamin.

I feel like it has helped a bit, but not exactly sure. I am still experimenting with the amount of methylfolate I use. I think if I want to take is serious, I need to cut out caffeine completely. I definitely notice stamina issues when I drink coffee and take methylfolate. Caffeine also prevents B12 absorption with kind of defeats the point also.

I would definitely like to see more research done as it all kind of feels uncertain.
They sell support really, the software is free.
Using Google Cloud Platform to Analyze Cloudflare Logs
How have all the economists missed this obvious point?

Murder also hurts property values. Fortunately, we have the ability to create laws to punish destructive behavior.

Why would a landlord destroy the value of their own property, harming their own ability to draw rent?
>We need to reduce the use of pesticides, maybe even eventually ban all pesticides.

You are fighting your own best interests.

Roundup ready has reduced harmful pesticide application by millions of tons.

Yes, zero pesticide is best, but you can't reach the moon in one step. It takes incremental change. Glyphosate replaces much more harmful pesticides like atrazine, and we are all the better for it.

>especially patenting life,

You can't patent natural genetic sequences.

>and secondarily turning all farmers (people who work the land) into serfs

Contracts are willingly signed, and those that don't sign are successful in other areas of agriculture (see organic farming).

>I reject the pro-GMO arguments about increasing yield.

No GMO plant has ever directly tried to increase yield. Rather they mitigate risk from weather or pests.

>Lastly if Monsanto (and Big Ag) is for it, I'm against it.

I'm glad you're willing to approach this topic reasonably, and with an open mind.
Digging deeper into tables in the paper, I realized there is actually even less data about non-smokers than I thought.

Out of those 60 non-smokers with lung cancer apparently just 20 were men (out of 14,208 study participants who were men and non-smokers => 0.14%)

http://ascopubs.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/asco/jour...

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Curiously this also means non-smoking women have 1.28x higher chance to get lung cancer than non-smoking men (unrelated to vitamins).

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For never-smokers vs smokers men risk ratios are then (again unrelated to vitamins):

- current smoker: 31.7x higher risk

- recent smoker (stopped < 10 years ago): 21.3x higher risk

- past smoker (stopped > 10 years ago): 8.9x higher risk

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Take home message: stop smoking!

Precautionary principle: if you take B vitamin supplements, you can continue (for slight decrease of cancer risk), just make sure you aren't taking mega-doses (especially if you still smoke), but really - stop smoking - the sooner you do less cumulative harm you get.
ASP.NET MVC – Using Ajax Helpers with Razor Partial Views
Yeah, I was hoping that this would be an nvidia managed cloud platform as a new competitor in the space. With only AWS, Azure, and Google there is definitely room for another deep learning cloud competitor. But this announcement makes sense in the context of the new AWS P3 instances, so there is definitely a partnership going on that nvidia wouldnt break from.
I usually trust Google Maps to give me the standard way to get somewhere that I've never been to or know anything about, no weird shortcuts or crazy backroads. I use Waze when I'm trying to get somewhere that I already know the general direction and highways I should take but want the quicker backroads and crazy shortcuts.
I think this is a great example. I don't even know what an X12 transaction file is, but boy howdy, I know how to parse it now!
It should be part of the big 5 or that was the thinking 5 years ago.
The level of conceit required to think that such things did not exist before, and don't exist now, is awe inspiring.