skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Firefox, in `about:config` you can set `media.autoplay.enabled` to false to permanently disable auto-play video everywhere. I love it. Now videos only play when I press play. A slight annoyance when watching netflix/etc, but well worth the price everywhere else. If I could whitelist a set of domains to allow autoplay it would be perfect.
To be honest, that's a bit of a minor signal all its own I personally don't consider worth the effort.
> There are few, or no, signs in the post itself that the author rejects meaning or anything or the sort.

You're correct that the article itself doesn't spell it out clearly. My spidey senses just started tingling when I was uncertain I had understood the singular intended meaning of the sentences. I checked out the author bio and it confirmed my inkling: that postmodernism and/or posthumanism has something to do with why this article is such a pain to read.

I am a human, and all of the beings which read and understand English, as intended, are humans. Posthumanism is an affront to the conveyance of meaning, no matter how drab or lame you think your essay is after you run it through Grammarly.

It is true that, given only the rules and conventions of a language, no singular meaning can be read from an utterance. It is, thus, tempting to say that no utterance has any singular meaning. I contend that the human condition lends sufficient context to read a singular (or close enough) meaning from a well-formed utterance.
Please do not try to taint this discussion with the idea that Trump voters are the real victims.
If f were deleted, it would still be in memory unless you explicitly call ns-remove to clean it up. In practice, this is rarely an issue, but I do wish the experience was a little cleaner there.

The same things do apply to integers, but if you use them at the top level (outside a function) then they will be dereferenced immediately (there is no delayed function body to wait for) and so you will get the initial value only once. If you want to enforce a delay, you can use (var x) or the shorthand #’x and later derefence that with @
And let's not understate the value of the dollar that goes beyond economic fluctuations and military might: it's legal tender for paying your taxes if you're a US citizen. That's not to say I suggest investing in treasuries, but strictly as a comparison with Bitcoin.
100% agree. Let's wait, been waiting for millennia already. Otherwise, next year another team has another curiosity that requires just a small hole...and 2000 years later the thing is crumbling.
Scaling Memcache at Facebook (2013) [pdf]
The End of Gratipay
It's interesting that the curve shown in the article started to grow right after Steve Jobs died in 2011. (Too bad the previous years are not shown.)
I remember when even some corporate web sites often had a misc site somewhere with something about who built the site, even a picture of the server, a cat.... it was personal. It was very human.
It can be, absolutely. Emotions are an intensifying tool.

There are ways to use that language without being a prick about it though. Linus does not have that ability.
Apparently the suppliers told Tesla that the dates were impossible, but Tesla management didn't want to hear that and continued to pass on nothing but good news up the chain. It wouldn't surprise me if Elon only recently learned just how bad it is all going.
Modulo the fact that friends don't let friends use Jet in 2017. ;)

Microsoft hasn't supported Jet in forever (a decade or more), and doesn't recommend it. The number of corrupted MDB files (and stranger, corrupted LDB lock files) I've had to work with in the last couple of years (in trying to migrate Jet-using VB6 apps to something 2017 has to offer) has shown me wisdom that Jet/MDB is a database format that should be properly thanked for its service over the years, then gracefully old yellered.
in software specifications and jounralism fine.

In prose it's lunacy and shit advice. That's the problem of the one trick pony education style we happen to have in the US. Lack of nuance from teachers is appalling. Growing up in Europe I got a much wider exposure to history, philosophy and other humanistic subjects than my american wife ever had (and ironically she's the art history major...).
Cosmic rays unlock new secrets in Egypt's Great Pyramid
Because they'd have to talk users through allowing direct APK installs, complete with all the scary warnings.

That's going to reduce the number of customers they get a lot more than a redirect to the Play Store.
Artist Creates a “Factory of the Future” with Machines Controlled by Brain Waves
A stoics guide how to raise children who they are
For some reason my mind read browser-plugin. I thought the whole time that it was a browser plugin that made it easier to connect to the proxy and passed the proxy some parameters for the type of connection you wanted. Now I see that it is a plugin for the web server. That makes a lot more sense.
Isn't the issue rather how your rate of return scale with the amount of funds under management?
Never done thousands (wtf are you doing??) but I’ve done dozens and it’s been instant in VSCode.

Define large too - several mb? Or several 100?

Maybe you’re just an outlier?
I don't particularly like the author's style, but I like that he has a style, which I think in some ways reflects the point of the essay. Software that "helps" you with your grammar does so by eliminating much of the style that is unique to you.

This touches on, I think, a pretty deep question. To what degree are our mistakes and imperfections "us" and how much should we seek to eliminate them? Where is the line between simply choosing how we present ourselves versus presenting ourselves inauthentically?

A completely untouched photo is obviously "me". A picture of a some other model is clearly not. But between those two points there is an increasingly smooth continuum that people are getting to choose from. When software using machine learning trained on datasets of photos of models subtly corrects my skin and facial structure, is it still an honest photo of me? Is the choice to use that software itself an honest expression of who I am?
No, not "dealing" with the US government: actually compelled by force of law to render a portion of your assets. I don't mean this to sound as ominous as it does, but rather as stabilizing a force as Bitcoin can never be.
Donald Knuth created a virtual machine written in MMIX that simulates the MMIX instruction set architecture, so that it can then simulate the MMIX machine which can simulate the MMIX instruction set and so on.
The disconnect here, which explains the style of the article and the nature of the advice, is the assumption that human technology could lend a post-human quality.

I'd say that the human technology is more human than any individual human, because it is closer to the humanist ideal than to any individual.
I tried a link to some product in some ecommerce (http://www.lazada.com.my/samsung-galaxy-note-8-6gb-ram64gb-r...), and it does extract the content.. but I only care about the "hero" item. Is it safe to just always take the 1st item in mainEntity>offers>offers[0]?
I was not, but even if I was that speaks to Yarn’s quality imo because they recommend that as an option.
The problem is that everyone can be an asshole, but most of us are not so consistently correct on a subject as Linus is.
It seems interesting for health checking, are you able to run them like every minute and integrate with alert systems?
Understand your subconscious behavior patterns through color patterns analysis
Would you mind telling me if my GP comment is alive or dead?
Not to hijack the comments section, but a little while ago I made a small VM for educational purposes in C. Heavily commented ANSI C with example programs and documentation. I figure it might be of interest to others in this thread.

https://github.com/andrewrothman/SmallVM
Exactly.

Understanding how atomic instructions work and their effect (or lack of) on the system is important for optimizations.
The difference between a 'neotar' effort and a 'neovim' effort is that for 'neotar', you'd have to be using it also for me to send you a neotar file. It may seem like a small thing, but this is a major impediment to the adoption of new formats. (Corollary is that neotar would have to offer major improvements to get people to buy in.)

> A single unified directory structure does seem like a desirable feature,

It can make it more difficult to incrementally stream out an archive, so it's not a complete win.
I think Apple introduced this in 10.7: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202255

IMO this is better handled by the OS than by each individual app.
can you describe this solid foundation in more detail?
(Throwaway as I don't want people tracking me down but want to be transparent as I find it interesting when other people are)

I'm a mid-30s senior tech person in NY. I've been in and out of crypto over the past few years as a hobbyist speculator.

Heard about BTC in 2012-ish and thought it was an interesting novelty but probably wouldn't amount to anything worthwhile. Tried to buy/mine some but it was hard so gave up. Bought some drugs with it in 2013 (a night out that "cost" me $70k at current prices hah). Made about $3-4K in the 2016 surge, got out for a while, got back in around $1,300 just before it went crazy again.

I have a crypto portfolio worth about $20k, my cost was around $9k. It's about 5% of my net worth which I consider high, but I want to to try and get ahead by taking a few measured risks and this is one of those attempts. Most of my net worth is in boring investments like Vanguard index funds/401k and I have 6 months expenses in cash so I'm otherwise a fairly conservative investor.

My crypto portfolio looks like:

* 40% BTC

* 20% ETH

* 20% LTC

* 10% IOTA

* 10% Spread between DASH, OMG, LSK, NEO, EOS

BTC has been the money maker (up 140%), IOTA was my "missed the BTC boat lets try something emergent" punt (not worked out so far, I'm down 40%), the other 10% are just to give me an incentive to follow the tech.

I think I'm probably too late to get life-changing riches from crypto, but am buying and holding using money I can afford to lose until it either goes to the moon or goes to zero as there is a small chance I am not too late. I'm back to putting my monthly savings allocation into Vanguard now though.

My brother (non-tech industry) put a few thousand into Bitcoin a couple of months back, I advised him not to. I'd stand by that advice.

I think cryptocurrencies are the start of something extremely interesting, but I'm not sure if the current crop will be the eventual winners. I'd recommend people in tech picking up small amounts of various emerging currencies just to understand the ecosystem and how it works. It's a fascinating field.
hey - pretty cool. I wonder if you can incorporate something like Netflix's optimization

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15567657
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Seems to me like there could be unintended consequences to the changes for corporations and pass-through entities. Sounds like multi-nationals would be incentivized to move elsewhere so they are no longer seen as a US company and don't take the 10% tax hit, assuming they pay any tax at all even at present. Likewise for pass-through entities, if they want to be taxed at the lower rate, chances are they going to find a way to do that, regardless of the new formula.
5 big challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2018
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Analysis: Renewables beating coal and nuke power on costs
How about a choice of Google Play Store or direct download, for "Advanced" users? That's all I'm asking, just a tiny little 8pt font link to directly download the APK.
At risk of being petty, no, they don't and aren't. See sibling thread: they're not disputing the core point I raised (that PoW schemes are not immune to being weakened by forks), but changed the topic to different one and seem to have copy-pasted general arguments in favor PoW. (It's copypasta because they have a cryptic reference to a poster on a different forum, /u/nullc that doesn't help us find the argument here without searching their history on reddit [I guess.])
I think the exact rule is this: International bank transfers denominated in EUR below 50.000 EUR can’t have higher fees than domestic transfers.
FX fees and spread can still remain.
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Is this similar to Apify?
https://www.apify.com/
Ask HN: How would you rebuild the internet?
The web has been built like a lean startup. It started small as a way to share documents between scientists. And kept growing at a tremendous pace. But because of the underlying architecture, there are some major problems that don't seem to have a solution in the existing web. Like end to end encryption, IOT etc.

If it were up to you today, how would you rearchitect the web (both software and hardware)?
Meet HN user megous, his fellow closed-source re-inventing co-conspirators (click a 'comments' link on the search results, then 'parent'), and potential open-source future fans:

λmegous(2016Dec): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170

For each use case that is not a free browsing I create an electron app, that never executes any code from the web or uses any external style. It only uses XHR to fetch html pages/json data/other static stuff and then transforms that data and uses it in the custom UI designed for the use case.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13226170&type=comment

Any references to similar projects (whether closed, commercial, or open-source) would be appreciated.
I think so. Technically you can put linebreaks and whitespace within XML tags.
A way to punish slackers + moral stance? Why not! In other news, tobacco consumption varies from person to person and stepping away from your desk 15 minutes at a time should not be abnormal.
Ah, good clarification, indeed I mostly used pinewood for inside and Azobe and Meranti for outside (though some composite for the parts we walk on). But The pleasure was mostly from being able to drills holes and put screws in with a light cordless drill and saw it in the right shape either by hand or a light jig saw. It's carry-able and still very strong. I guess this also applies to the used composite materials your describe?
Doesn't ICICI quote at least 2 rupees higher than the market rate? I have only sent money from INR to $
Go to a coffee shop with no one and no phone except for a notebook with a pen.

Take a drive anywhere with no set destination.

Use public transit alone also would work .

Go to a library and read a book that you may or may not like.

Go to an art museum and look at one painting .
Not if using different currencies. high fees and/or abusive exchange rates.
Thank you. I hear chrome is going to or maybe has and is going to make a similar option more visible.

I agree, having to hit play is a small price to pay.
Previous research showed that stents increase lifespan only in patients who have already had a heart attack.
What an awesome idea. I wonder how well this technique would work for different data types. Text and audio for example.
Well done! How does this compare to diffbot's website extraction? https://www.diffbot.com/
I was running an afterschool program teaching kids to code and we were looking for a way to have them code that was more social and group oriented rather than having everyone hunched over a computer more or less by themselves all the time. I was also looking for a project to explore Computer Vision and Machine Learning. This ended up being a good fit for both needs. The video on the website shows the students working on it. It's surprisingly engaging for being just paper cards you are writing on...
It amazes me how often this fact is ignored in any discussion of AI.

The real world is a pretty damn good "training environment".
Looks pretty neat, but does this support sites with HTTPS or certificate pinning? A simple proxy is easy, but that's been the annoying part in the past
it is common practice now to place a function that can self-destruct the contract and start a new one, selfdestruct() is a reserved global function in Solidity, instead of criticizing blindly maybe learn more about writing smart contracts, there are unforeseen flaws in a new open source development platform no surprise there...

Think about running an auction and placing bids, I can place a bid and not have the money which can only be resolved in an alley way or a court with us dollars or we can conduct a more open auction and even a blind auction with cryptography on the blockchain, it is also easier for everyone to participant globally without sacrificing the privacy of giving your card information, I don't have anything to hide but would you consider giving a financial company like Equifax your personal information a safe thing?
I'm not sure you understood his point..
The comments here prove, at least, that not everyone is cut out for dense or complex reading ;)
It is not as if forces hostile to Trump/Brexit were innocent of buying analytical data. The recent Senate hearings on Russian ad-buys were strangely incurious about, say, purchases from China. Were there any? Would they tell us?
Rust is now an official part of Stanford's Programming Languages course
If video content would be so "hostile", it would have failed on its own already. People would flock to other places where they can read instead.

I don't buy this idea where everything is always imposed on us by evil corporations.

More and more websites using video to me seems more like a proof that people prefer videos over written content. That's why videos usually autoplay, also on YouTube and Facebook: if a person starts watching and listening, it's much more likely that they will stay instead of closing the page.

We have taught things to each other by talking for as long as hundreds of thousands of years, probably more. By contrast, reading has been common among a large percentage of the population only for a couple of centuries.

We evolved using verbal communication, not written one. Written form has, of course, its advantages, but it does not mean that it's the preferred medium for most people.

Videos and audio are also easier to watch/listen to while you are doing something else like cooking, gardening or commuting. There are a ton of contexts where you cant read, but you can at least listen.

That's why even books are converted into audio formats nowadays.

The fact that a small crowd on HN prefers reading is not the proof that video is "user-hostile". HN is rarely the reflection of the general public.

Although I keep reading a lot of online content or books, lately I have consumed a lot more valuable information in a podcast/video lecture format than in a written one.
Yes, imo Docker makes it possible to migrate to Windows 10 from Mac OS and Linux
Google's AI wizard unveils a new twist on neural networks
Ditto. Docker seems interesting, but also a solution without a problem.
I saw these two all up and down El Camino along the train. Even saw a new hotel being built the same way (San Carlos new Marriot)..
From the article, emphasis mine:

> The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

> [truncated...]

> When I was manager of Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.

> [truncated...]

> The funding arrangement with HFA[1] and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical.

That's the Clinton modus operandi.

[1]: Hillary For America
If you want to try it out and don't want to register via the website you can email me at my first name (jared) at puzzleschool.com and I'll send you the zip file containing the cards and a few sample programs that can be printed out and photographed directly.
I do think that politically, it would be a difficult change to make.
No, putting aside deployment means he was talking about the benefits of Docker for local development instead of the benefits of Docker for deployment. As to your talk of a build script, this is what the Dockerfile is for, and it is heavily documented.
A government would need to produce ASICs, but would only need to commandeer GPUs. There are massive GPU farms used by various industries, including ones available for rent (aws, etc.)
I think that the alternative to excessive proofreading is not an altogether rejection of standards, but a willingness to break free of them when you feel it lends a desired quality.

Grammarly and Hemingway are not really intended for artistic writing. The best they can offer to the artist is some perspective on why the readers may not see what he's getting at.
Wikipedia page is about a very concrete problem described in a specific paper.
Have you read the paper?

Then, Bitcoin does not allow to choose "the sum of all facts asserted on the
blockchain", not any more than a typical DHT or a gossip protocol in
a peer-to-peer network. In fact, there is nothing resembling the end state as
in "we now terminate the protocol with this value as the outcome", which is
required by definition of any type of "consensus" term.

Also, have you tried, as I said two comments ago, swapping sealing
transactions using proof-of-work with a trusted third party that provides
unique timestamps for the transactions? Have you read what timestamping is?
This is why you do config management. Here, our Vagrant builds are exactly like our development and production servers. Its literally the same config to run them both, with just variables to differentiate as needed.
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I totally enjoyed this article.
Most audio translation is first transcribed to a text representation, I think, and then that text is what's translated. If you assume a perfect speech recognizer (for the sake of argument), then the end translation should be the same.

Or am I misunderstanding your point?
Yep, it is really hard for everyone to use the written channels all the time when part of the people are co-located. Remote only http://www.remoteonly.org/ is much easier than a hybrid organization.
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I thought I was the only one. A few years ago Devops conferences sounded like:

"Docker docker Docker? Docker. Docker docker docker docker Docker docker docker. Docker, Docker docker Docker docker Docker."

Now the hype seems to be wearing off and people are realizing that it's just a way of treating Linux installs like giant static binaries plus a whole lot of unnecessary complexity.
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> Productivity is a canard. Either labour is paid its living costs or not.

Care to elaborate? You don't think there are large variations in productive capacity among all of labour, and that higher productivity usually results in compensation far beyond living wages?

This may not apply to the majority of workers. I could see the Iron Law of Wages being true for them [1]. However, I don't think we should ignore the dynamics that we find as we move towards the edges of the spectrum.

[1] Still, I would argue that a "living wage" means different things at different times. A living wage at time period 1 could result in a significantly better quality of life than that from time period 2.