skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think this is a good point to end my Hacker News usage for good. Some thoughts:

1. I've just come off a call with a university friend who is now a manager at a big startup out in China, working on a really ambitious side project, and building tons of relationships out in the Asian startup world. I used to hang out with tons of people like that, then I had some bad life experiences, and disconnected from many good parts of my life. At the same time I got sucked back into HN procrastination.

2. Even times when I'm not producing or meeting interesting people, I have a stack of interesting stuff to read. Sebastian Marshall, who I mentioned above, has this amazing "Strategic Review" series, of which I've only read a fraction. There is never a single second of my day when HN is the most valuable thing I could be doing.

3. For the last 2 years I've had a second account under a pseudonym where I could be more outspoken about my political beliefs. (Hopefully at least a few people followed links I've posted from this account, or that other account, and learned something). Aside from the timesink aspect, the reason I'm leaving HN now is because it's become way too much of a political echo chamber.

I can cope with a place that's dominated by liberal/progressives, but not when they take a haughty, dismissive tone towards anyone who disagrees with them. (E.g: commenter takes a controversial stance, people who reply jump to the worst possible interpretation of their words).

To be clear I'm not remotely any kind of alt-rightist, Trumpkin, Milo fanboy or anything like that. I have tons of idiosyncratic opinions based on years of living abroad and reading every thinker I could get my hands on. People like me usually find their way into fringe communities of similar people -- and then slowly see those communities colonised and turn conformist, and leave to find somewhere else. It's a constant search to stay ahead of the world.

4. HN comment threads are usually noise, but one super interesting thing to do is read the comment history of an interesting poster. lionhearted I mentioned above, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bane is another good guy to "follow". As was https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=michaelochurch, though he went a bit nuts for a few years. Deep in my comment history I'm in a thread with Aaron Schwartz (on Austrian economics!), which illustrates the unusual paths that cross on this site.

Aside from that, I'm done here.
Your threat model is not my threat model.
Some readers (e.g. TTRSS) have a "star" button. You can then just click on the feed or category and view only the starred items.

Alternatively, you can use a separate bookmark system, like Pinboard.
Well, there is this. Part of the reason why I took the cameras out of my step-daughter's phone. No ability to consider past the here-and-now.
I won't call it magic, for me programming is like alchemy.
I've said this a few times but happy to say it again: I will very cheerfully pay for a good podcast -> transcript service.

I speed-read. I don't speed-listen. And my lifestyle has zero podcast-compatible travel time. So there's a whole world of great content in a very user-unfriendly format for me currently.
There is an amazon product to this effect but that's obviously not local. I know one team inside a very large engineering organization that used x2go to remotely access an eclipse developer environment with all the resources/separation of duty available. I also visited a developer site that was rigged with a windows terminal services setup and two monitors/keyboard on every desk and that actually worked fairly well since the true horsepower was in the VM farm in the lab. Active Directory allows for that profile roaming as part of the core functionality so it's easy to transplant yourself around the place.

Generally (I was on an interview bender recently) I see desktops with raised monitors ganged together (either displayport or hdmi supports daisy-chained monitors) and a keyboard and everyone is issued a lightweight laptop and defers all the beef to the cloud/vm farm.

I keep going back to windows remote desktop as really the best remote desktop solution. It supports multiple monitors, and if you are a Windows environment with an AD you can roam from desk to desk trivially.
I really miss Google Reader. Nowadays if I want to follow updates from my friends or events from some organizations, I almost certainly have to like/follow them on FB. But even doing this I cannot be sure that I will get news that I want - because despite I always use "Most Recent" sorting, FB is hiding some content from me.

Many times I saw interesting post when accidentally entering FB "Top stories", from let's say 2 hours ago. I switch to "Most Recent" and guess what, I can't find this post anymore (except going explicitly to this person's page).

I'm getting closer and closer to stop using FB and using only messenger.
For someone having never ordered from alibaba or aliexpres - other than briefly fleeting with drone spare parts - what exactly of use and purpose would you buy from there? I can see large scale uses for industrial machinery / commodities but what about the day to day consumer. Pointless gadgets? I briefly looked at lightinthebox for female accessories and they seemed tacky, overly glittery and just plain cheap looking. It did make me wonder about the premium Western consumers pay to line corporate profits for chinese factory products. Ignoring secure, specialised electronics factories, most day to day fashion accessories in Sachs 5th Av, Macy's etc will be quality controlled chinese/indian products. Is it possible to get hold of these on aliexpress?
Cropping is still happening, and it can gobble up your content if you're not careful.

Even in their demo video of guy jumping down sand dunes, we see the destructive price of 'fused cropping stabilisation'. The most important shot of guy jumping misses the moment his feet hit sand at 2 sec in when he does his biggest leap.

It's details like these, and the clouds of sand he kicks up behind him which make an interesting shot. I like my focal length untouched, thanks anyway, optical stabilisation all the way for me.

Here's the sand dune video.
https://youtu.be/kaO7Gs-F2vA

I wonder if there's any manual control over crop factor in the Pixel settings.
Paper creates mess when you write on it (barring stuff out and erasing pencil are both messy) and afterwards (pile it or throw away, arguably more mess than used markers).
You might be interested in Numenta's [0] anomaly detection tech for geospatial tracking [1].

[0] https://numenta.com/applications/

[1] https://numenta.com/assets/pdf/whitepapers/Geospatial%20Trac...
A large proportion of the workstations at the company I work for are using Teradici (I'm not affiliated with this company at all) to implement the machines-in-the-machine-room idea you mentioned. They basically are remote units for providing keyboard/mouse/display connections over ethernet. In our setup each desk is always connected to the same machine in the rack, but I guess you could have them configured to change machine if you are changing physical location but want to use the same machine.
I just discovered https://trint.com .

No idea if they're any good, but they're certainly cheaper than Rev.
holy shit, as a father of young children this made me extemely uncomfortable.
Corporate watchdog Asic in privacy breach exposing users' search history
More like C++, actually. Ada has RAII via controlled types [1].

[1] http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/ht...
> If it was something done for the CIA, I believe it would probably have been kept secret instead of marketed.

If that is the case, we would have doubted about this too much early than it would otherwise (because there is a dedicated hardware).

So some people friendly feature have to be dubbed along with the anti-features. This may not be the real case though, but one of the possibilities.
I made a mental note of some of the prices before the 11.11 discount kicked in. The discounts were around 10%, sometimes less. So the Aliexpress regular prices were already way lower.

The thing is, on Aliexpress there are many, many sellers of each of those items and there is often a significant price difference among them. If that is due to quality or delivery times I have not figured it out yet. So I usually buy from the cheapest who has a fair number of sales and few if any complaints in the reviews.
You absolutely can have tracking pixels in RSS feeds.
Here's a graph depicting Google's quarterly revenue, in billions, versus total number of internet users, also in billions. https://imgur.com/a/eBB9E

The gap that opens up between the two roughly shows how much more advertising they are pumping at us. Some of it understandable, like their acquisition of YouTube. A lot of it, though, is just turning search results into nothing but ads above the fold.

Investors are expecting to see that gap grow at the same, or higher pace. From my perspective, that means anything that doesn't advance that goal is a low priority. Whether that's accurate news, quality of the organic search results, etc.
I order 3D printer parts, physical hardware (fasteners, typically), electronics components (Arduino work-a-likes and shields), small tchotchkes for kids [birthday party giveaways], cheap computer accessories and cables (USB chargers, USB cables, USB-C adapters, audio adapters and cables, etc).

That's all aliexpress. Alibaba is more industrial, negotiate for pricing; Aliexpress is a pure marketplace. With the subsidized shipping, I can often get something for <$2 that would be $8 on Amazon and $25 at Staples/BestBuy.
Thanks for this. Also, for future reference, can you just paste wsj article URLs into archive.is and it will go out and pull the non paywalled article? Or does archive.is get the cached page from your browser or something?
Lack of exceptions (in my code, but more importantly in library code) is one of the main reasons I use go.
As an avid podcast listener, and a recent attendee to the podcast festival in LA, I think this article has several flaws.

1. It never mentions gambling or fantasy sports, which makes me suspect it’s a native ad for the NBA. I bet that a good percentage of the 745 Patreons are really into gambling on the NBA, in some form — how could the article not mention that!?
https://www.patreon.com/DuncanLeroux

2. It starts off with some headline listener stats (e.g. “hundreds of thousands of listeners”) and later admits the hard truth that listener stats are not reliable. You only know if people have downloaded a podcast — not if they listened.

3. It perpetuates the myth that Serial is the most successful podcast. I also used to believe that, until I learned otherwise at the LA Podcast Festival.

4. It mentions, but doesn’t properly emphasize, that the $7 Patreons get to download a spreadsheet (which, again, they probably use for gambling). So, really, these guys are both podcasters and data providers. The podcast is how they market their data service.

5. It classifies them as a financial success, without saying how much they make. We know they get about $5,400 per month from Patreon (split 2 ways). I’m not sure how much they earn from Blue Apron, etc. I know $2,700/month doesn’t go too far in San Francisco. Also, they don’t divide $2,700 by the number of hours they spend watching NBA games, compiling their data spreadsheet, and producing the podcast.

6. Gives the obligatory main stream media reference to Gimlet Media, calling it “successful.” Does Gimlet make money? How much? How much does Gimlet pay its employees?

7. The headline is unnecessarily snarky, implying that podcast listeners are looking for vanilla, short, mainstream content. In reality, niches are the biggest areas for opportunity in podcasting. The headline should not start with “Even This...”
Ask HN: Why developers get frustrated when using third-party APIs?
There may be many different reasons. This discussion is a followup of the article "5 steps to API frustration" https://medium.com/@bpedro/5-steps-to-api-frustration-5562c5d124ce
You could have a identifiable feed URL. Static, personalised ads that most feed readers wouldn't block.

And in terms of technology, there's nothing stopping you sticking an iframe or script block in your feed. It comes back to what the reader will allow. Origin really doesn't matter too much.
I think they enter the water with a closed mouth and then open it to grab the fish. I see them frequently when I’m kayaking but they are too fast for me to tell which way their mouths are for sure.
I wrote a script to periodically fetch the front page of my selected news paper web sites. Pick only the top news from there. One news. And then compile a news feed from all the sites. More like your own Google news. But one single news from each site.

Don't know how much legal it is. But I do follow robots.txt.
Conversion is exactly the metric there and btw have little to do with UX in this specific situation and everything to do with the quality of the content.
Looks great! That is a very impressive list of projects for any engineer, never mind someone your age. You've got a bright career ahead of you. Best of luck and please don't become a corporate drone.

One piece of advice: Add some details to your work experience. Why do you list details of your OSS projects but not work experience? List your accomplishments at your internships. If you can't say much because of non-disclosure, then at least talk about what technologies you worked with.

I imagine someone like you gets great reviews from your employers. Maybe you should ask one of them for a recommendation you can put on your website and/or linkedin.
> Nobody smart enough to design that system is dumb enough no not understand the consequences.

Do you remember the plain text password leaks from Yahoo?
In the real world nothing has to be true/good/secure. All it has to be is that users should be felt so, doesn't matter what the reality is.

As long as the focus is on earning more money/power/control, this is always going to happen.
Netflix has too many of these standup specials now and most of them are bad.
It's interesting, because that has really nothing to do with email or RSS as protocols, it's purely a social convention that daily/weekly aggregations get sent as newsletters rather than published as RSS feeds.

As a counterexample, I follow Leah Neukirchen's Trivium, which is a feed that publishes a weekly post with a bunch of interesting links (mostly tech related). http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/intro

And of course, there are tools to display emails inboxes as RSS feeds.
You can 'easily' generate a RSS stream out of Facebook and Twitter (and many other sources), e.g. w/RSS Bridge (https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge).
Which are all measured and via conversion metrics (I am talking about conversion in it's widest possible interpretation)
Hyperlapse from Instagram does some impressive stabilisation, but not for prerecorded videos. Hyperlapse (yes, same name) from Microsoft does, on prerecorded videos, but using an entirely different technique to Google's - IIRC it actually attempts to construct 3d spatial data about the scene.
Do the applications need to be running on the developers machines? A good deployment process that allows quick, one-click automated deployment of your latest changes to a testing environment can help a lot with that.

Otherwise, modern high-end laptops are quite powerful if you pick the large models not 13 inch thin ones, and you can certainly run a bunch of virtual machines/docker containers/whatever on a maxed-out laptop while it still being perfectly responsive; but you might want to have people running both a killer laptop and a beefy desktop if they're not deploying/running/testing everything on remote servers, the cost isn't that high.
> I've switched to DDG half a year ago or so and haven't looked back much

Same for me. I specially like their approach to technical documentation.

Search for some web development stuff and DuckDuckGo shows you the MDN site while Google points to some outdated (and low quality and spammy) w3schools site.

Ask a question that is answered on StackOverflow? DuckDuckGo points you to StackOverflow, and even shows relevant parts of the answer. While Google points to some spam sites that are a bad rip-off of the StackOverflow content.
>Humans need to review

uhm...this seems like a bit of a flaw in the plan
I would argue that the right boundary for designers to be working with front-end people is via central company style assets, and not at the component level where ad-hoc styles should be stored.

It seems a little odd that the front-end designer, who is in our hypothetical not comfortable enough to actually work on component themselves, would be brought in to tag-team with someone else who also doesn't feel comfortable enough to do the work themselves.
hello basemi,
thanks, but I can't reproduce it.
what distro and kernel version are you running?
I tested it on arch and centos only.
To add to this, backup power systems are in fairly widespread deployment and bigger installations are tested and maintained on a schedule. You'll never see "hospital transferred emergency-available circuits to backup system; no malfunction" in the news, yet it happens every few weeks in every installation.

Generators themselves are very reliable machines. The engines are cast iron (instead of cast aluminium as found in all cars since two decades or so) and are nowhere near as close to the edge of material capacity compared to car engines. Electrical generators are essentially just a big blob of metal, they are simple, efficient and very reliable technology giving many decades of service. Generator controllers are designed to be reliable and aren't terribly complicated, either.
Less than 4 liters of any alcoholic drink, including pure 100% alcohol, sounds like a month-long supply at the very best.
> In my experience developing Ada software, not being able to depend on a garbage collector being present means that code intended to be used by others must manually manage memory. This means that it must manage memory exposed to client code and document who (the library or the client) is responsible for deallocation of a given data structure.

Ada has controlled and limited objects, which allows implementation of shared/unique_ptrs, so that's not true. As in c++, if you are in a performance sensitive area you will not use those, but that's also true with a GC, and then you have other options, like memory pools or static allocation.

> In effect, this makes Ada no more reusable or composeable than C.

I think you meant "with regards to memory management" :). As pointed out above, that's not true.

Also beyond memory management Ada has a generics model that composes much better than C++, due to being based on contracts for generic formals (think C++ concepts lite).

In general your statement strikes me as oversimplifying to the point of being simply incorrect.
It is a pain - I've found 3 formats for users, channels and playlists:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<user name from url>

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<id from url>

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<id from url>

I wonder if there are more?
US consumers spend over $32 billion every day of the year. The average American adult spends $57,000 per year as of 2016. The consumer economy in the US is around $13 trillion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/13-trillion-us-consumer-getti...

China's GDP is $11.x trillion for 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
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I'm very happy the React and Vue projects are headed by people like Evan You and Dan Abramov, not HN commenters. The hostility in these threads is upsetting. There is no best approach and both React and Vue have their worth, if you like them or not.

Every time I see a topic about Vue or React (or practically anything JS related) I see the polar opposite of the disarming friendliness coming from the community leaders on Twitter.
I find this a bit concerning.

Sure Netflix (private company) can do what they want - but as a society, this shunning of art based on the artist smells of book burning.
I use ddg, and I dont like the results for anything not one dimensional. Now I can agree that google results are less appealing to me but still way above the pack.
You choose to sign up for email updates then. WordPress doesn't do it by itself. WordPress also has RSS still.
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I use a blend of things. For a story that's breaking right now, I go to Twitter.

For blogs and websites that consistently have things I want to read, I use RSS + Feedly (I follow around 40 feeds).

For actual news, I use Apple News.

I probably spend the least time on Twitter and the most in the Apple News app. Apple News does a remarkably good job of showing me things I want to read. I assume it's based on how long I spend reading articles because I don't use the like button a lot.
>> does anybody else feel that google's search becomes less and less useful?

Not for me, not at all. I do like your thoughts on domain names though, I've never considered that.
I'm actually writing about this right now. I've worked with a lot of teams that have kicked off big, production-grade applications with boilerplates like Create-React-App. Your intuition is right: they get to prod having no idea how their buildchain works, and once something goes wrong they're stuck.

You really don't want your first time reasoning about your build process to be some kind of deployment disaster or production bug. And that's exactly what these tools are selling you.
I have a hard time understanding why they needed humans babysitting the restart of servers and services. Servers and services are supposed to automatically restart after the power came back. This implies OVH doesn't regularly test server restarts with something like Netflix Chaos Monkey.

Moreover, the power lines were not really redundant in SBG, and regarding the network downtime in RBX, it looks like the network core is not really redundant either.

I'd be curious to know how competitors like AWS and Google Cloud mitigate this kind of problems.
Unfortunately none of them work for me. Stack in my eyes is just what they call scroll with a fancy animation.

When skimming headlines I want to keep my eyes fixed and move the content past them
Maybe your working environment is different than the ones for many other people. In my experience whiteboards are a huge help when you're brainstorming as a team or you need to communicate an idea or concept to a team. You can't use a sheet of paper when 5-10 people have to look at it and Visio won't make you as flexible in adapting on the fly.

I do however think that as pure software developer you may not make as much use of whiteboards, since you just need the specs and docs to get going, while a requirement engineer or just some more business oriented developer will nearly be forced at one point to draw some ideas or concepts for more than just one peer.
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Google still almost always gives me what I want but when they "improve" my results by excluding words for me it ALWAYS fails. This morning I went looking for an Ansible role and the first few results it "helpfully" excluded the word ANSIBLE for me. I see this behavior quite often and I really do not understand it.
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Preferably no one in the implementing company. Work using customer pressure, say an important bank. And later you swoop in and get exclusive access during a nice and cozy dinner with one of the Cs. It's more like judo than brute force arm twisting.
I don't know any RSS clients.
Couldn't agree more. RSS is just about content. It's up to the feed reader to provide interactions, e.g. w/plugins allowing to ping back authors/original URLs in order to create a kind social network. I don't think such a business logic would have to be implemented in RSS for it to be successful. Separation of concerns rules.