skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple things briefly.

The only time to do something important is right now. If you found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, marry them. Today. Life won’t wait.

Secondly, the culture of startup Uber alles is real dubious and I question the wisdom of dedicating yourself 100% without question to a group of venture capitalists who are, bluntly, counting on most of you to fail. Trust is reciprocal. Don’t get too far out over your skis- this is business and managing resources and risk is your job. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that you are costantly triaging your time and energy, and without a strong sense of priorities and boundaries, you will be totally consumed by the endless cycle of other people’s wants. There are a lot of people who will tell you to go all in and sacrifice everything for the company. I think most of those people have an agenda that is serving their interests over yours.

Lastly, man, I work real hard and have for a long time. You have a ceiling where your hours are going to get real soft efficiency wise on a consistent basis. You can go 60 hours a week with a family. Very few people can put more than that number of hours in at their job without experiencing a real sharp productivity dip in their per hour output. I would submit that most of the folks going 80, 100, 120 a week for sustained periods of time are getting nothing they couldn’t have with a disciplined, 100% focused schedule and a family. They’re selling out the only life they’ve got for a handful of sloppy meetings or ugly code. Go home and have dinner with your kids. Hug your husband. Get a couple hours in on the weekend. Delegate more stuff, better. Focus on finding and executing what’s going to move the needle, and cut out the rest.
Popular streamers are entertainers. A video game is just an interesting and demographic-relevant medium. The only popular streamers that don't add commentary or have a video cam stream are the pros, the ones who play the game better than 99.9% of the rest.
> falls for them at a rate where I can only think it intentional on some level

> extremely proud and talking to him is useless

This is terrible, and I can't think how I'd cope with it :(
I'm curious to hear if people can confirm this, but it sounds like a 'Gladwellian' type of argument, for lack of a better way of putting it.
Well... do you have the same level of fun when you read quite a long discussion on HN about Firefox where people write many interesting things, but no one knows that the abbreviation of Firefox is not FF? Come on.
> As was mentioned in a few comments in this thread, high-school textbooks in multiple countries are gradually dumbed down, so much that 20 or more years old textbooks are now considered a material for gifted kids. (I can confirm this.) Your turn.

And what do you think that proves exactly? Did you prove that the kids using the old textbooks actually absorbed the more advanced material? Did you prove that outcomes using the old material are better than with the new material?

Perhaps the new textbooks simply distilled the relevant material that the vast majority of kids actually grasp, without all the unnecessary detail that was just skipped over. I can think of plenty of different scenarios to explain the evidence that's been listed here, and only one of those explanations are "dumber kids and/or dumbed down education".

The exact same arguments have been trotted out about the dumbing down of liberal college education, where in the 1900s, every college degree meant exposure to poetry, art, history, philosophy and more. Modern college education is then portrayed as poor substitute, completely ignoring the fact that our body of knowledge is at least 10,000x larger than it was in the 1900s, and a direct comparison is frankly laughable.

> If the only problem is that humans are losing the ability to learn without playing computer games, perhaps we could fix it by making all the necessary games.

Talk about missing the point. As evidenced by my use of "for instance", that was merely an example. Even among adults, interactive systems are clearly more engaging, and given the environmental factors that shape modern kids, you obviously are already too old to grasp their thinking process if you can't understand that different environmental factors entails different learning processes.

Which just proves my point that adults are and always will be out of touch with the kids of their day.
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Let's say we uncover those things. This administration has proven that if their party controls the government, nothing bad happens regardless of how foul the play. What other options exist to circumvent that issue?
I would use it but facebook doesn't work on it for me
UK supermarkets try face-based ID and payment system
Vimperator :(
This is really good advice. I'm a Fedora user who has set up several "non-technical" users (quoted because I have qualms about that term) with gnu/linux. At first I was giving them Ubuntu since it's the most common and supposedly "regular person friendly". After multiple experiences struggling to provide advice or support, ended up switching them to what I use. It's just easier when I already know the ins and outs of the system.
> I'm sure if you sampled all developers the number that would say Javascript is their favorite programming language would be in a substantial minority.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.
I demand your courts help me but not using the currency your courts operate in is like Calvin Ball for cryptocapitalists.
4 Words, 1 Question, 4 Students, 1 Answer
Votes in 18 nations 'hacked' in last year
Quantom computing for the determined
> This worked for me to scrape Google, before we hit the capatcha.

If Google wanted to give back something to the community, it would offer cheap automated searches (current prices are absurd). Another thing - more depth after the first 1000 results. Sometimes you want to know the next result. We shouldn't need to do all these stupid things to batch query a search engine, it should be open. That makes it all the more important to invent an open-source, federated search engine, so we can query to our heart's content (and have privacy).
they make it very hard to separate science from marketing

Isn't this true for pretty much any science done ever? It only becomes a problem when marketing is good, and science is not.

so it's theory more in the sense of a hypothesis rather than what is meant by "theory" in math or physics

Again, isn't it true for pretty much any neuroscience research? How would you judge a neuroscience paper importance?

Also, going back to your earlier answer: what would convince you that a program displays the learning and reasoning abilities of some advanced invertebrates?
He even threw in a dab. Nice.
Honestly, I find it to be (subjectively, I didn't actually measure anything) much faster than Chrome. At least, it feels much snappier on my MacBook Air.
Interestingly, the "pee tape" as described doesn't really even depict the typical self humiliation-oriented urination kink. The allegation is that Trump hired five prostitutes to pee on a bed, not one that he was in or using but one that Obama had used years earlier.

It's unclear to me whether that even counts as a kink: if it's true, I'm not sure Trump was getting a sexual thrill out of it. My guess is that it's more of an unchecked mental illness, with Trump as Captain Ahab chasing after his great white whale.
> The sad fact is that the mobile phone ecosystem in general is full of garbage. Neither Android nor iOS is exempt. But at least with Android I have freedom.

As a Windows Phone user, this is why I'm dreading the day I need to replace my phone and pick a side. It seems like there's no winning in the mobile world.
Ok, cool, that might serve my development purposes, then.
Maybe they should have done (b), sure. Otherwise, the badges are not ok for security, and a random employee telling them anything doesn't change status quo.
How to Make Money with an iPhone or Android
Meet the robots caring for Japan’s aging population
Well... it seems that disagreeing to the opinion of the crowd is a very bad thing. /s
Of Turing Awards I would recommend John Backus' "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs"
Can a data uri be used to store 10% of a file in HTML, but then get the rest of a file? I mean you don't want to include the whole file.
Which current browsers you have in mind that don't support GIFs or Javascript + SVG (or canvas)?
The market is literally filled with companies that started with finance first and then grew more and more powerful.

Furthermore Airbnb is actually finances first as they had a business model from day #1 they weren't actually using VC money to find it first.

And google had their secret sauce before they got the funding.

The discussion I was trying to start though wasn't that you should never get funding but rather that way too many companies in my view uses funding when they don't really need it and instead could just start to charge.

By charging you are also more likely to solve an actual problem need people have rather than just giving the first fix for free.
You can't even remove all the search engines. I tried.
Again, this is nothing new. Some streamers are even dipping their toes into game development (Reynad, for example; he's making a competitor for Blizzard's Hearthstone).
firefox autoupdates without prompting
How were those numbers estimated? To go with adventured's proposal that Germany replace half of its coal power with LNG, Germany generated 284 TWh from coal in 2013. Producing 142 TWh from gas would require about 25 million tons per annum of gas (assuming 490 g CO2/kWh from gas generation in CCGT, per IPCC 2014, and working backward from CO2 to CH4 -- 178 kg of methane per MWh).

The US is already expected to add 66 MTPA of LNG export capacity by 2019:

http://analysis.petchem-update.com/supply-chain-logistics/us...

Were you perhaps estimating the numbers to replace all of Europe's thermal coal consumption?
Have you considered running OpenWRT / LEDE or a pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net/) to block adverts / known websites where such scams occur at a network level?

(There are publicly available lists of known botnet / scam IP's)
unconditional morals are the cause of every violent conflict in history.
HR Blacklist? Terrible idea.

Just because you made a mistake 20 years ago doesn't mean you should never be allowed again. We're not talking about murder; and this is directly messing with someone's livelihood.
There is no such thing as hate speech, as something that can be objectively identified and reasoned about.

You can have free speech or you can have "hate speech."

Hate is an emotion, a label people apply to the way they feel. The way you feel is your choice. Emotions and feelings are variable and subjective.

Freedom is absolute and objective, something is free or it isn't.

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it's exciting to imagine

What exactly excites you about such a scenario, from an open discourse and marketplace of ideas perspective?
To be honest I think that’s the demographic that they shoot for. Sinking a bunch of time and then taking a long break and going back to it .
The TCP RFC!

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793
As much as I dislike JS, my experiences with React Native (JS but largely native UI elements) and Electron (JS with some native elements, but largely HTML+CSS) has convinced me that that HTML+CSS is my real (performance and battery life) enemy, with JS a significant but distant second. I look forward to better UI kits that just draw to a Canvas-like surface or something, ideally without needing an HTML+CSS engine at all.

I'm not thrilled with that because I really like the old-school lightly-styled-HTML web, but I have to admit it's really really bad at "app" style layouts and interactivity, so if we must do that with the web (and apparently we must) it's gotta go, or it's gonna continue to suck.
I agree it can be considered terrorism, what I explicitly disagree with is then claiming that for this reason
the US and other countries should be considered a terrorist group, rather than a country.

Same reason ISIS shouldn't be regarded as a terrorist group, since their actual modus operandi is better described as a militant group and proto-state.

Also to reply to your nitpicking on 1: I didn't specify a timeframe, so yes. If I had to I could go back in history for a few thousand years for most countries until I found something that fit my parent comment's definition of terrorism. There will be scant few who will come away clean under such scrutiny, which is also why I rejected that definition for being useless.

But since only tens of countries are currently completely at peace, I may not even have to go very far back.
I wonder if a router-based solution to limiting his traffic would work. DD-WRT or something else with an online solution for dynamic limiting of sites might help.
You mean like just last month when greenpeace activists got to shoot fireworks next to used fuel pool:

- https://phys.org/news/2017-10-greenpeace-fireworks-french-nu...

Or the still not practically solved used fuel problem. Or that Germany already now often does not run nuclear power plants (that are for now still allowed to run) because they are too expensive.
That is also the underlying problem, they DON'T have enough bitcoin to do exactly that...

More importantly (note: IANAL), the bitcoins converted, by law, to a specific valuation on a set date when the assets are frozen. Per the court, years ago, the amount owed to each creditor was set in the court's working currency (i.e., the Yen) and the court doesn't deal in Bitcoins.

In your example, during the bankruptcy process, they would set a date of valuation and you would be entitled to the value of the shares on the date when the bankruptcy was set. Future lost profits are not the purview of the bankruptcy court.
I think I'd be willing to move to wherever place it is you may be thinking about where that actually works.

I always vote "do not retain" in every election that allows the public to vote for judges, on the off chance that someone else that knows something I don't may need the help in removing a bad judge, and none of those judges ever failed to remain on the bench.

But most places that I have lived don't even vote on judicial retention. The only reliable way to get rid of a judge is to get them appointed to a more prestigious circuit, which would be a pyrrhic victory.
right. like using any browser engine bound to a .net instance doesn't do the same. I'd like my bike shed bright effing magenta, please.
We were hoping to capture the feeling of crafting something, rather than racing to tick-off to-do lists items. We wrote a little about why we think that's important: https://medium.com/make-better-software/software-matters-in-...
Yep, I know, but that means if I am writing the crawler in Ruby/Python, this is not something I can do, right?
I don't see your point. They are still advertising to me
So you kept the originals, but didn't organize them into a way you could use them later?
New 'IcedID' Banking Trojan Found Targeting Financial Institutions
The move to WebExtensions (a shared standard for extensions in Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Opera/etc) is great.

It makes it much easier for extension developers (most of which work for free, on open-source projects) to maintain support for multiple browsers with a shared codebase.

If you want to track the conversion progress for a particular extension, have a look at this site:
https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/
Customer assets are separate from brokerage assets (due to rule 15c3-3), so if a broker goes bankrupt, your stock shares are unaffected. If securities were lost due to theft or fraud, the SIPC protects them up to $500,000. To (sort of) answer your question, the SIPC guarantees the number of shares, not the cash value.

http://www.finra.org/investors/alerts/if-brokerage-firm-clos...
I always find it humorous that Twitter was the creator of the HTTP response code:

420: Enhance Your Calm

Returned when an application is being rate limited for making too many requests.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/response-codes
Ask HN: How to transition to mainframe development
I am a sr software developer with 6 years of C# experience and am itching to get into mainframe development with COBOL or even assembly. I have a few months professional experience with COBOL but don't know how to make the transition to a full time COBOL gig. It isn't as easy to pick up COBOL like C# is since the ecosystem is very limited. I have a MS in CS but didn't touch any mainframe type content so I have no formal education in this either. Is the only option to really apply for entry level jobs and take a pay cut?
Manuscript integrates well with Trello: https://manuscript.com/integrations
This is how Clojure does it.

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/recur

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/trampoline
if the whole point of the lib is to run html/js/css in a desktop-friendly app, you don't need .NET for any of it. yes, I've worked with both and worked with the browser interfaces for .net as far back as 1.0. It's simply not needed.
Also keep in mind that Firefox has used Google since 2004 I think.
I think you misunderstood. The client is uploading a single data blob for each image, but the blob can be smaller if the client resizes it first.
> A hypothetical perfectly-realistic CG rendering would need to be perfectly realistic to animals as well as humans.

That's not necessarily a true assumption - unless you mean realistic as in an exact light-propagation simulator, not realistic as in fooling humans. On the nanometer-scale there are things that happen with refraction that would probably be more accurately done if using wavelengths and photon energy as the units, start-to-finish. But at the end of the day, the models we use for rendering are already extremely effective - the uncanny valley arises with how we use them.

> No one has ever achieved a perfectly realistic 100% synthetic video of complex scenes

I get what you're saying, but that's a little bit subjective, like the turing test. Some people see some CGI scenes in movies and are shocked to find out they weren't real. Some people see a real scene and complain about how bad the CGI is! An interesting litmus test is Moff Tarkin. Some people were shocked they found a perfect lookalike, and had no clue it was CG. Some people were apalled at how poorly it was done.
TIL Chrome is the worst browser on my Macbook atm.

Not too long ago it was the best.
You can use lambda edge functions for this. They recently announced support for query string parameters.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/lambda-at...

I have built an image resizing service around this with go and libvips. With go libvips, s3gof3r, you can load s3 images directly into a buffer, pass to libvips, and serve without writing to disk. Basically, you can use edge functions with your origin as the above go service.
Get the negativo repo. That's the most painless experience.
There is Sway, which is i3 ported to Wayland.
Yes, FB absolutely does. Their inflated "active user" count is where their money comes from.
Federal are fixed, private are often variable.

Also, not sure about the 4.45%. My federal are more than that.
>renewables can not make up the difference then, now or in the foreseeable future, no matter how hard we wish it could

Can you maybe provide some back of the napkin math on why not, or a link to someplace that has done this?
> An ulterior motive would be...to benefit his own commercial interests.

> My definition (of ulterior motive) doesn’t require a commercial interest.
Though keep in mind it dates back to 2004.
How's that racist? All he did was say the opponent's name in a weird way and "passive" aggressively criticize Daybreak.
It's not an adblocker. It's a "content blocking" engine. Basically, there are two pieces to any blocker: the blacklist, and the actual execution (matching against blacklist rules, and probably executing JS to remove it).

Safari's got a native engine for the execution part. And you pass in the blacklist with declarative rules. It's the best of both worlds in that you get competing blacklists, but the actual engine is even faster than JS. And for security like you said, there aren't any shenanigans since it's literally a JSON blacklist and can't contain code.
How banks are using blockchain
Viewers might want to see Beren and Luthien, and that's about it? You could easily get three whole Game of Thrones sized series out of the Numenoreans alone.
Oh thanks! I fixed them.
The snub seems perfectly in line with the Dr's last name
My biggest gripe with the 6.0.0 GA is the removal of multiple mapping types per index. This creates a significant breaking change that will hurt the community tools adoption to 6.0. Their initial plan was to deprecate it and only remove it v7 onwards, which imho would've been a better balance.
Guide on Running Nvidia EGPUs (with CUDA) on MacOS – Updated with High Sierra
I updated to the beta last night before doing a bit of homework. While working in Google docs, I noticed that if you right click and try to "paste without formatting", you get this popup: https://cl.ly/3O0n2e3y1p1e

Has anyone experienced that in a browser other than Firefox?
An alternate perspective could be that California is lagging the other western states on legalization exactly because of overreaching campaigns that don't acknowledge the conservatism in the middle and south of the state.

A previous cannabis legalization effort in California, IIRC, proposed to make cannabis consumption a protected employment class.
Yeah I agree; when I'm on the subway it's a video game. When I'm on the GO train I chat with my dad. I'm going to miss that when he retires next year.
Interesting that Goldman are one of the few banks to create a site explaining the technology fully...
What I don't understand is: If Electron apps can be compiled to be cross-platform out of the box, why use an Electron binding for .NET that makes it inherently locked into Windows (without jumping through fancy hoops for other platforms)? I wrote a lot of Windows-only freeware on .NET over the years, and there's just no reason for it that I can see, if the core component of an app is cross-platform by default.
Thanks for the clarification. I've made the necessary changes.

Regarding engines, Chrome uses Blink, as opposed to WebKit. They were forked a couple years ago.
The discussion two weeks ago was very similar to this one.

Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616638
I think it would be cool to write a post about this. I'll talk to my co-worker about this as he did help out with a lot of it.
Haha I was thinking the same thing - until I remembered some trivia I learned on a recent trip to Germany
This is where I disagree, and I know I'm in the minority (clearly) by how popular streaming has become. Professional athletes are marvels because they look so much bigger, better and are faster than the average joe. That's their appeal - they're real-life super heroes. LeBron, Jordan, Ronaldo, Ali, Jim Brown - they guys are living, breathing physical specimens who can do what no normal person, no matter how much training, can accomplish.

Video gamers, while no doubt skilled and dedicated to their craft, look like regular guys off the street. There's no wonderment. It's why nobody has the world chess champion as a poster on their door (or desktop background, whatever today's equivalent). Poker is popular on TV too, but ask a kid who they want to be when they grow up, Messi or Phil Ivy and I'm pretty sure I know the answer.

This stuff is popular and more power to those who succeed, but I think it's unfair to just brush off people's bewilderment at the success of esports by trying to compare some 19 year old "esports athlete" to a proper athlete.