skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s answered in the comments elsewhere on this page. Mainly because shell processes are started frequently and the JVM start-up time would be much too slow.
I'm assuming this is the standard technique, like the Google Analytics tracking id.
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> Amsterdam has plenty of suburbs, they just look different from US suburbs because of the different land-use and planning approach that they have in the Netherlands.

> But they've also invested a lot in their train network and most people commute that way.

Most people in say D.C. don't commute by train not because D.C. hasn't invested enough in it, but because the suburbs "look different." D.C., for example, has invested a ton in its train network. As I mentioned above, despite being a smaller city, D.C.'s subway has four times as many miles of track as Amsterdam's. But most people still commute by car, because D.C., like most U.S. cities, is only a small portion of its larger metro area. Washington, D.C. has under 700,000 people, but is just one part of a metro area of 5 million people. Amsterdam has over 850,000 people, and dominates its urban area of 1.6 million people.

That urban/suburban mix drives people to car use. Jobs in the D.C. metro area are scattered all over. For example, most of the technology jobs "in D.C." are actually in Virginia, e.g. Google is mainly in Reston, which is 25 miles outside the city. If you draw a 25-mile ring around Amsterdam, you'll mostly hit farmland. Around D.C., you're actually hitting many of the major population and economic centers in Virginia and Maryland.

The dispersed nature of the jobs makes building transit very hard. Reston has a train station. Many people opposed it, however, not because of "social disorder," but because it was a $6-billion project that wasn't useful to them. You see, the train really only goes to D.C. But not that many people go between Reston and D.C. Aside from a handful of yuppies who might want to live in D.C. and commute to Reston, people who work in Reston drive in from Ashburn or Great Falls, or one of the other nearby suburbs. There is no rail network that connects these places, nor would it be practical to build one.

Building cities around cars didn't just result in people who are conditioned to drive rather than take transit. It created patterns of housing and employment that make it really hard to build transit after the fact. Fairfax County, a suburban county to the west of D.C., has more residents and almost as many jobs as D.C. itself. But the rail system is designed to get people from Fairfax County into D.C.--it does nothing to get people to all the jobs located in Fairfax County.

Loudon County, still further west from D.C., has almost half of D.C.'s population. There is no rail in Loudon. Nor would extending rail from D.C. be all that useful. Only 10,000 people from Loudon commute to D.C. (and almost nobody does the reverse commute). Meanwhile,65,000 commute to Fairfax County. Another 31,000 commute to another county within 20-40 miles. Try convincing people in Loudon to spend the money to build rail into D.C. when it would only benefit 10% of the commuters.
It seems to me the Internet has been tamed, by in large. But it has to do more with the overlord companies swallowing most of it, and then subjecting everyone to their own regulations. Even if you're on the outside, you can't exist without services that require you to play by their rules (or virtues).
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Isn’t déjà vu just your brain storing something in memory quicker than another part of your brain “looking it up”? In other words it’s a race condition on a dictionary insert.
Perhaps The Verge would like to re-run it’s survey now, after yesterday’s rash of users being banned from Google Docs that we’re shared with them.
This is the key point, "Would you rather have Frank Lloyd Wright in his 20s or 60s?". They aren't looking for designers/artists/masters. This is the big reveal you have hit upon. If they were, age would not matter or might even be prized. It isn't about skill or style or mastery or speed or experience-- it is about something else.
Let's say you have a successful manufacturing business, and you need to buy a new machine to produce and sell more of your stuff. The machine costs 1M and will last 10 years. You go to a rich friend of yours and ask for 1M DeflationaryDollars to buy that machine; your friend accepts to lend you that money for 10 years, at a 10% annual interest. You agree to pay the interest every year, and to give back the principal at the end of the 10 years.

The first year, you buy the machine, put it to good use, and sell more of your stuff for an additional gross profit of 200K - a GREAT return for a 1M machine. After paying 100K interest to your friend, you're left with a good 100K in pre-tax profit, which isn't bad at all!

The second year, DeflationaryDollars deflated by 10%. You're lucky, because all your employees gladly accepted a 10% salary cut, you slashed your prices by 10%, and you still make 180K in gross profits from your machine. But you still need to give your friend 100K, so your pre-tax profit is only 80K.

Third year, another 10% deflation. Gross profits are 162K, you're left with 62K after paying interests.

Fourth year: gross 145.8K, 45K after interests.

...

Eighth year: gross 95.6K, but you need to pay 100K in interests. You better have saved your profits from the previous years, and not paid any taxes on them, otherwise you're already in trouble.

...

Tenth year: gross 77.5K, and you need to give 1.1M to your friend. But the total gross profit you made before taxes was 1.3M, so, even with a very low tax rate, you're broke, because your machine is worth nothing by now. Next time, instead of investing to expand your business in a deflationary environment, you should think better and just spend as little as possible, save and hoard your DeflationaryDollars under your mattress, like most other people are doing.
It's a shame they sold it. It still has the highest modelling capability / difficulty ratio of any 3D software I've seen. Also the 3D Warehouse was a load of fun.
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> After Stalin, the Soviet Union had several levels of "above president" parliaments, such as the "Supreme Soviet", that had enormous power.

The office of President wasn't created until 1990, and there was only one person to hold that office.

Are you thinking of the Premier (formal head of government before 1990), or the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state)?

> Presidents where forced to resign, some where placed under house arrest.

The dictators (such as they were) were usually the General Secretaries of the Communist Party (including the three that were Premiers). Like most real dictatorships, rather than theoretical ones, there was a lot of power within the upper bureaucracy and shifting practical, if not consistent legal, checks on the power of the leader (particularly, the Politburo was powerful), and like most 20th century and later dictatorshios there was also a lot of political theater behind which the actions of the dictatorship were cloaked to give a veneer of legitimacy.

> Communism is Marxism. You will never be able to separate them.

Communism is broader than Marxism; as well as things like anarchocommunism, it also includes Leninism, which while it claims to be Marxism rejects several key components of Marxism.
The MIT story focuses on "big data," but it looks like this might be applicable to coupled-cluster calculations in physics/chemistry too. Is it? Can you compare/contrast with e.g. the Cyclops Tensor Framework (http://solomon2.web.engr.illinois.edu/ctf/) or NWChem's Tensor Contraction Engine (http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/TCE/)?
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Same. After the first week, I decided I'd buy another the day this one broke. Sooooo much time saved.
Why couldn't the blind appreciate this software?
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the kind of disability that needs help opening a door and bringing a package inside.
I had a similar experience. Full keto diet and it's gone completely (it used to be a huge problem). I'm not saying that carbs were the sole cause. I think it was a combination of the carbs and fat and just being overweight in general. Losing weight and sticking to a relatively healthy diet can work wonders for your body.
> Debian and GNOME plan to migrate their communities and projects to GitLab

Maybe others were already aware, but this was the big thing for me in this announcement which I wasn't previously aware of.
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Because the FCC needs their help to defeat Net Neutrality! Jokes aside, no, I can't recall actually ever feeling a ghostly presence -- how many people here have?
Great to see Google entering this space!

My company, Gyroscope Software (getgyroscope.com) does prediction, cohorting and timing of callbacks into mobile games and apps, with plugins for iOS and Unity. We've built a real-time prediction engine to make this happen; we also use some neat tech to get us enough data from the clients to do fast machine learning without the developer having to do any instrumentation, data collection, or other data wrangling - we do this automatically. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.
From https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/12/studies...

"One of the most high profile examples of corporate meddling was the revelation last year that Coca-Cola had paid scientists to push the message that exercise was a more effective weight loss tool than cutting down on food and drink. The beverage giant went so far as to create a nonprofit called the Global Energy Balance Network to push the message that Americans spend too much time focusing on cutting calories, and not enough time exercising. Following an investigation by the New York Times, the nonprofit announced it was disbanding."
And this is the problem with ageism. People in your network age right along with you.
I love the pi calculus. It's a good starting point for analyzing distributed systems in a rigorous way. If you're interested in learning more about this kind of thing, check out the Kell calculus[0] and it's related calculi

[0] http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~bidinger/publi/fmoods2003.pdf
Hi, very useful stuff, thanks!

A tiny nitpick: if you have a little description in the page title it's easier to find it when searching the bookmarks. It's easy to append a bit more information when bookmarking on desktop, but when bookmarking on mobile it's harder, and as usually you don't see the bookmark's details after bookmarking, it can become unfindable.
100% agree. Another factor is that Perl is highly correlated with heavy usage of regular expressions. Those are easy to write but often pretty hard to read whatever the enclosing language (and author) :)
Ah I wasn't sure which part of my reply was being referred to. I think there are two different phases of the data science process: (1) EDA and exploratory modeling. (2) productionizing models on the large.

I believe Arrow can be part of (1) and (2). It is an in-memory format that aims to avoid serialization to/from different use points, so it is tooling and data-size agnostic. You can still sample from it and perform your exploration and analysis.

Spark on the other hand and is mostly (2) -- it can be used for (1) but it is fairly weak at it due to overheads. It also doesn't support the full range of capabilities that dplyr (and other R packages) bring to the table. I would not use Spark for EDA or throwaway modeling.

I think we can agree to disagree but I see a lot of advantages to having a common in-memory abstraction (such as Arrow) to small/big data whose difference is only that of cardinality. We don't have to mandate the use of such a format of course, but I think having such a format solves a large class of problems for a lot of people.

At the same time, no one will stop using CSV (tabular)/JSON (hierarchical) even though these are inefficient, "dumb" formats. It is good enough for most applications and are what I consider local optimum solutions. Even Excel XLSX is a pretty good format for interchange.

I am open to changing my mind but my experiences so far have not convinced me otherwise yet.
>So in my view no communist country would invest in a national network

It's a shame that reality contradicts you then. See Allende's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn. In a much less positive vein, see China's rapidly developing communications infrastructure (hand in hand with massive surveillance and censorship)
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Also, while I can't find a definition for obscenity, a later section bars the transmission of it over cable and subscription services. So it would seem that the sort of material that is already being transmitted on Cinemax, HBO, or the Playboy Channel is not what is considered "obscene". I see there are still pornography shops and strip clubs still around, so whatever the definition of "obscene" must be, it must not involve garden variety, hardcore pornography.
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Have a list of those Flickr users or albums? Want to grab them and put them in the Internet Archive before Flickr degrades further under Verizon.
This is so old and rarely works.
I quit reading after I saw the sample size.
From the very same blog post:

> Is this Magical Pixie Dust I can sprinkle on my application?

> No, not quite. Exactly-once processing is an end-to-end guarantee and the application has to be designed to not violate the property as well. If you are using the consumer API, this means ensuring that you commit changes to your application state concordant with your offsets as described here.

I think that is a pretty clear statement that end-to-end exactly once semantics doesn't come for free. It states that there needs to be additional application logic to achieve this and also specifies what must be done.
As a general trend, I don't think so, but this thread seems to be an anomaly. This is the first HN thread in a while where I felt like I stumbled into a default subreddit or something.
try command + cntrl + shift + 4.

copies the image straight into the clipboard, no detritus to your desktop. many web apps will just accept the cmd +V paste like an uploaded file.
Be careful if the photo includes a person’s face prominently. If it does, the person in the photo has likeness rights in the photo[0] which the photographer cannot assign to you without a signed model release form from the subject of the photo. Most Flickr photographers are amateurs who don’t have model release forms for their photos.

Plenty of lawsuits have occurred around the use of Flickr photos without model release forms (there is also a major sub-plot in the Kevin Smith movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” that revolves around likeness rights).

Creative Commons is not enough when there are prominent faces in the photo.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
Do you believe that "harass" and "abuse" are well defined?

It doesn't bother you that a sizable proportion of mostly harmless messages on Facebook, Twitter, 4chan, etc are suddenly potential felonies? And that they can be used to target innocent individuals by the federal government?

What happens when a legitimate whistleblower becomes a problem, and suddenly an angry twitter rant becomes an excuse for arrest?
Ulcers are one of the possible results of acid reflux, that's a symptom too but also a risk factor. You won't be able to heal ulcers if you don't get the acid reflux under control somehow first.

I'm on Pantoprazole for over a year now and saw my doctor a few weeks ago; I asked about long term risks, and she mentioned stomach cancer, but framed the dangers a bit differently than what I've read in the article from this study.

Basically the established risk is that these PPI drugs work so well that if you were to develop stomach cancer while taking it, the likelihood is strong that the drug would mask the symptoms of the cancer until it was already too late to treat it effectively.

Long story short, I am not (this kind of) scientist, I know it's not a miracle drug but I can testify with anecdata that it certainly does a great job of controlling reflux.

(What my doctor did recommend was of course better diet and exercise habits, not eating so late in the day, and not drinking alcohol right before bed, so I can eventually stop taking it without those symptoms coming back.)

It's quite worrisome for me reading this article now!