skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, depending on your definition of "fine," it could be fine now and it could be fine in the middle of an ice age.
It's a good idea, but if your product is a website, cookies and authentication in general are going to be a real challenge. Obviously you won't be able to share cookies between the site and the api. But you have the additional challenge of having your api domain treated as 3rd party and are thus subject to all the security measures and sandboxing that come with that.

And what if your product is just an api for use by developers? Now the api is part of your brand.

It's just a bad situation all around.
What was your point? That one man without an army of collaborators can't make a really good encyclopaedia? Or was it that it is worthless to try?
Agreed. I was really pleasantly surprised about how wonderful this was.

It brings me back to my years as a teen playing Graphical MUD's like The Realm Online, basically a text adventure with some wonderful pixel art and a point-and-click adventure interface UI. Made by Sierra in the late 90's, sold to Codemasters, ruined by Codemasters, and then re-sold to a private family instead of a development studio. The game slowly died thanks to a lack of even a SINGLE programmer...until recently:

If you've never played The Realm Online, I highly recommend looking into the newly formed private servers, there are two of them (Sacred Temple / MistWalkers ) with a ton of changes since the people who own it have long since abandoned the game.
I suspect you'd have been better off switching them to ChromeOS. Most people do not need a desktop in 2017. There was only a brief window in the late 90s and early aughties when "most" people did, but that was only because of the internet. We have better consumer-oriented devices for that now. Desktops are for people who do work, hobbyists, developers, and the kind of gamer who is basically the hotrod-guy of the computing world. If someone actually wants to make the Linux Desktop a good desktop OS, they'll have to stop trying to make things "easy" for the strawman of the "average" user and instead make something for those people.
...wink one time if measured in weeks, wink two times if measured in months
I wonder why the down-votes? For a company with hundreds of millions if not billions stashed in tax heavens and a founder who's worth £2.5bn to give a $40k award a year seems like an insult to me. It's not bad but still...even McDonalds had better campaigns as far as social responsibility is concerned.
and I bet you can't get a residence without a bank account huh.
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>and think to yourself, "Gee, I wish we had that"?

No I think "why the hell didn't they put a sunset provision in all those bills?"

As an aside, one could construct a pretty good argument that the new deal was the result of all the Europeans who got off the boat in the prior decades throwing away freedom they really hadn't come to appreciate in exchange for the government playing the role of a lord who has some responsibility to prevent his peasants from hitting rock bottom (lest they revolt) with the catch being that said lord also has a ton of control over their freedom.
You can pry my Linux desktop out of my cold dead hands. I've been using it for almost 10 years now, and I couldn't imagine having to deal with windows telemetry and terrible performance, or apples outrageous prices. Yes it takes longer to set up but my desktop setup fits me like a glove. I always feel slightly handicapped when I have to use windows at work.

There is one thing that would make me switch, and that's apples IME methods for Chinese characters, which are a lot more sophisticated than the Linux offerings.
10 years ago I used Abbyy Finereader to add an OCR text layer to about 500,000 pages of scanned PDF documents. At the time it appeared to be the best OCR software available, at least of the options I could try.

Later I played around with the open source Tesseract OCR, but it was way behind commercial desktop packages in accuracy/usability. It lagged especially in dealing with different document layouts. What's the current leader in desktop OCR? Has deep learning yet revolutionized the "traditional" OCR market for desktop document processing, or is it just making it easier for companies like Dropbox to quickly get something reasonably good working?
Shouldn't you be covering up your electrical outlets if you have small children anyway, and not counting on security through obscurity? Small children have a knack for sticking forks or other hazardous objects in electrical outlets whether or not they've seen someone else do it.

(Come to think of it, college is when you really have to worry about your kids frying themselves because they saw something cool on the Internet. At that point, you've let your guard down and assume you don't need to babyproof. But I distinctly remember being sad that I'd missed the exploding wires demonstration in physics class and deciding to replicate it myself with a frayed Ethernet cable in my dorm room...that could've gone very badly. And my friend electrocuted himself trying to get pirated satellite with a board he'd bought off the Internet and a dish we self-installed on the dorm roof.)
One good explanation is that people simply aren't aware of the implications of purchasing those domains. Personally this is the first I'd realized .io was both 1) unreliable and 2) a country code.
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The target consumers in this case are small children, that they are incapable of evaluating the content placed in front of them is exactly the point.
> I think the French were a little too hard on Marie Antoinette

If you're referring to the "why can't they eat cake?" thing, she didn't actually say that.

I believe there was a completely unrelated girl around the same time who said something more like "why can't they eat brioche?", but that alluded to a custom of baking brioche loaves with a knobbly bit on top which people would tear off and give away, so the question had the meaning of "why can't the poor rely on private charity rather than state support?"

Still not the most endearing line imaginable, but nowhere near as dumb as is usually supposed.
> There's a well documented reason why there are a lot of single men in Japan.

What is that reason? (Serious question)
A little off topic, but is anyone using this in a large production environment? I'm currently using sequelize for a side project and haven't been terribly happy with it. TypeORM looks better but it feels like it has just sprung out of nowhere and is maybe too new to use in the real world.
Using SQL as a query language doesn't limit your choice of backend data source(s) any more than using GraphQL does.
Create an LEDs' Based Cloud with a Raspberry Pi
IIRC Percocet is a combination of Oxycodone and Acetaminophen, so you will still be getting NSAIDS.
I really love this kind of stuff, and it makes me wonder how the first person who did it figured it out.
Can you keep your meeting to 5 minutes?
That actually matches my current political views fairly accurately. I didn't know the name for it (or that there was a name for it).
After a number of years with a different diagnosis, I convinced an ultrasound technician to go beyond their exam script -- enough to discover that, in fact, I did indeed have a minor hernia.

If the doctor hadn't been so sure of his diagnosis, this would have been caught years earlier. I'd specifically asked, more than once, about the possibility.

A lot of scrambling on their part, that day, to get me a same-day appointment for consult with a well-regarded surgeon.
From what I could glean, they struggled with user interface issues - end users didn't like having to relearn how to use their very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same-word-processor software.

I find this very interesting. We are all familiar with less tech-savvy users that are only comfortable what they know.

However, Google Docs is a fierce competitor of Microsoft Office. Android/iOS replaced Windows for a lot of regular users. Chrome crushed the competition, including Internet Explorer.

Why are these examples different? Is it because these alternatives did not try to emulate Microsoft's products and hence didn't cause the impression that 'it's almost the same, but glitchy'. Or was the experience of these products so much better than Microsoft's counterparts?

What lesson could the FLOSS world learn here?
IPv6 and the cloud: not quite NATural
Lord and Taylor, WeWork and the Death of Leisure
I find it quite ironic that the author at one point complains of misleading tags being used in titles to generate clickbait (or 'searchbait') in an article that awkwardly shoe-horned in "self-driving" into a couple of sentences to artificially generate additional clicks. It's currently the "top story" on Google from Bloomberg for "self driving."

Actually ironic is not the most accurate word. It's telling. This is another article which is essentially a call to censorship. And what's to be censored? Well like most of these articles, that's not really discussed beyond whatever the author happens to disagree with. You see, jamming in misleading tags to produce hits isn't a problem when it benefits the author or their publication, but when others do it? Oh, it's time for a serious conversation now.
This is a blogpost by Planio about moving from .io to .com

https://plan.io/blog/post/166816338743/moving-from-planio-to...
Agreed. I looked at it for one of our properties a few years ago and discovered that the legal ownership of the domain wouldn't really be ours long term. I'd prefer to stick with US-enforced property rights, warts and all.
No, the year of the Linux desktop ended a few years later:

- Laptops became hugely popular and Linux never was great at plug and play hardware handling.

- PulseAudio was part of the fix that wasn't

- KDE4 and Gnome 3 happened (even though the plasma desktop was stabilized soon, things like Akonadi and Nepomik have managed to destroy much of the appeal of the unique tight integration of KDE software)

- systemd happened. Mentioning this will trigger rabid supporters among the HN crowd, but the fact remains that this is at least a PR disaster on all accounts.

The end result of the changes of the last decade is that Linux installations have become extremely opaque even to experts while effectively staying just as brittle as before.
Some ccTLDs have good infra though. Many of the smaller ones (particularly ones ran by CoCCA, such as .cx) use Dyntld or Packet Clearing House which have pretty good servers and connectivity.
Author here. At one point I made a big pivot towards just text + options. Before, I had complicated systems for what I called Forms (basically, minigames).

Once you have only text + options, that's when you need to start thinking about player agency and repetitiveness. So I'm glad I did that because otherwise I'd have made a bad version of Sorcery! instead of what Vermin is today.

That said, it's always tempting to add more functionality and UI. For example, both beta testers and then players noted how hard it was to orient oneself in the game. This would be solved by a map (perhaps in a sidebar) but then this makes the game less accessible again.

Still pondering what the best way is.
It's very frustrating if you keep your programming projects backed up through Dropbox, and want to back up the code but not gigabytes of node_modules and python virtualenvs. Not that Dropbox has any incentive to make it easier to use less space...
Isn't the CIA here specifically attacking this model of attribution?
>I also told that could mean legal trouble.

I would've certainly asked for a clear explanation of this as it's hard for me to believe it's remotely true.
Another saying is "Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations", said to come from a Lancashire proverb, “three generations atween a clog and clog.”

https://www.corpmagazine.com/shirt-sleeves-to-shirt-sleeves-...
But isn't the problem that Google isn't a news outlet? It's essentially showing us all the 'shit' that's floating around on the internet. Going to them expecting to get 'just the facts' is a category error.
I also found the wine example peculiar, as good wine and scarce wine aren't often the same, but I kept with it as it was brought up. Mistakenly I thought you had brought it up, sorry.

"Aggregate market demands" are capitalism, where wine is a status symbol and "good" wine generally refers to price. You are continuing to view this only in the eyes of capitalism and considering "value" to include "profit."
Right now we're indiscriminately spraying pesticides that definitely have a harmful effect on the environment. All the evidence points to this being a better solution.
> we took the iPad away from our four-year-old daughter

Not referring to the person of the author, but people use tablets and phones as stand-by buttons for their kids. However much active the kid might be, they get parallised watching cartoons and whatnot. But in a recent interview with a local doctor from a working-class neighbourhood where I live, he was referring how excess use of this is causing kids to suffer from under-developed motor skills (Evrensel.net on the Esenyalı neighbourhood).
You could also argue that income tax makes no sense, because the people are going to pay sales tax or property tax with it anyway.

The more you concentrate the tax in one area of the economy, the more you incentiveize people to try to find a way around that specific tax. Spreading it out reduces the risk of making people behave otherwise irrationally just to avoid paying tax.
> But if you do a website or webapp, 99% of your code is not using interface{} in it's methods.

How do you deal with the lack of sets and trees? I believe those two data structures are frequently almost indispensable - even in the most boring mostly-CRUD web projects. And it's either type assertions on {}interfaces or go-generate based specialized implementations. Both feel odd to me. (Am I missing something?)
Acetaminophen is not anti-inflammatory this is not an NSAID.
Ask HN: How to practically limit data collection without becoming a tech-hermit?
In the face of frequent data breaches and widespread data collection by aggregators like Google, FB, Amazon, etc. how do you protect against companies building a thorough profile of your life against your will?

I'm not talking about extreme anonymity here. I'd still like the ability to use social tools, Google services, etc. to the extent practical. Are there any straightforward steps that can be taken to fragment the data that is collected about me? Some examples:

Can I use Google Maps on my phone without it logging my location to Google servers?

Can I use Instagram, Facebook, and Whatsapp independently so that my usage and connections aren't shared between the co-owned services?

Is it safe or reasonable to allow a service like Mint or Personal Capital aggregate my financial information?

Are there services that I should just avoid entirely due to breaches of trust or too much data aggregation?

How do you manage your digital identities?
funny i'd just bookmarked inversify-express-utils the other day and have been meaning to go back to it :)

the Typescript ecosystem has really come a long way
Device driver development in Rust for TockOS [pdf]
Podcast: How Artomatix Uses AI to Generate Infinite Zombie Armies
> 1) FP8 half-precision training: NVidia is artificially disabling this feature in consumer GPUs to charge more for Tesla / Volta.

No, this physically is not present on consumer chips. You can't subdivide the ALUs like that even on Tesla P5000 cards. Of course you can promote FP8 to FP32 without an issue, on any card, but you don't gain any performance either.

At the time Pascal was designed it didn't make any sense to waste die space on FP16 support let alone FP8, since games are purely FP32. This is changing now that Vega has FP16 capability ("Rapid Packed Math") and titles may be using this capability where appropriate. I would not be surprised to see it in Volta gaming cards at all.

It's funny, everything old is new again. Someone comes up with this idea about once every 10 years. Using FP16 or FP24 used to be big back in the DX9 days.

> 2) A licensed / clone of AMD SSG technology to give massive on-GPU memory: NVidia's 12 GB memory is not sufficient for anything beyond thumbnail or VGA sized images.

You're looking for NVIDIA GPUDirect Peer-to-Peer, which has existed since like 2011.

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect

AMD's product is actually purely marketing hype, it's simply a card that contains a PLX chip to interface a NVMe SSD. It is the same technology that is used for multi-GPU cards like the Titan Z or 295x2, and it offers no performance advantages vs a regular NVMe SSD sitting in the next PCIe slot over.

This is something that people didn't know they wanted until AMD told them they wanted it. But you can do this on any GeForce card even, no need to shell out $7000 for some crazy custom card that doesn't even run CUDA.

The bigger problem is that there really isn't much of a use-case for it. NVMe runs at 4 GB/s, which is painfully short of the ~500 GB/s that the GPU normally runs at. That is even significantly less bandwidth than host memory can provide (a 3.0x16 PCIe bus limits you to 16 GB/s of transfers regardless of whether that's coming from NVMe or host memory).
I’d encourage you to read a book called Drug Dealer, MD. It details how pain was made “the fifth vital sign” and doctors could lose their board certification and license if patients filed complaints alleging that their pain was not adequately treated by their provider. Even today, surveys that are sent out following hospital encounters ask people if their pain was addressed to their satisfaction. It’s difficult to withhold opioids when your livelihood is on the line.
A christmas party for 20 people? Do you not have anyone's phone number? Or address?

People will ask if you are going to the party and people tweet about a party or they will ig a photo about it. If you have no point of contact outside of facebookfriendgroup you are on the edge of losing connection to that group. It will start happening when people start moving over to snapchat one by one, joining new circles you are not part of, having smaller parties you didn't know about. If those casual friends are important you really need to strengthen those bonds outside of facebook. One day there will be a new smaller group.. will you make the cut?
I don't know if they'll do it, but I'd love for them to offer a hosted VSCode product. It seems technically fairly feasible.
What? The people, known as Îlois or Chagos Islanders, could well have had .io as this represents the native name of their land.
Along the Niagara river are massive inlet towers that hold the gates that manage the flow of water over the falls. Agreements with Canada mandate that at least 50% of the water goes over the falls during touristy times then at night they can divert more through the underground tunnels to generate power.

http://clui.org/ludb/site/niagara-power-station-intake
I love your comment but disagree on one point. I don't think Facebook has ANY obligation to improve the quality of the "news" shared on it.

I favor freedom of speech and freedom of association. If I have a friend who keeps posting BS articles from shady sources (and I do) then I just block them from my feed or simply ignore their posts about current events and conspiracy theories.

I think asking FB, or any other platform, to start policing the quality of what we post is dangerous. What happens is if a story breaks that official authorities deny, but which is actually true. Would you want FB being the arbiter of truth, in such a case, or would you prefer for individuals (preferably alot of them) to be free to do their own research and to come to their own conclusions?
I definitely do not want to have to verify my account by logging into facebook... and I also dont see how this is much different than, say, meetup.com + social media.

As a woman in tech who recently moved to a new city, I'll pass :/
> Pretty close to some dystopian scifi actually.

But it's not really that surprising, as much as I love Japan, the way they've commoditized casual social interactions has always been downright scary to me.

Hostess club culture might be the most obvious example, but it's only the most well known atop a whole mountain of service industry which revolves around people paying for casual social interactions, which imho belong among basic human needs.

The notoriously strict Japanese social hierarchy probably played a part in the widespread establishment of such practices: Can't show any weakness among social peers, so people rather isolate themselves and even keep their casual social interactions on a "professional level". This also removes the need to keep up with peer pressure in a very dense and very socially competitive environment, just outsource all the venting to a service worker.

I fear in a not so far-flung future this will become more common outside of Japan because high population density probably also played a role in the establishment of these strict social hierarchies and all their resulting woes.
That's the only reason I use them. Since .am (Armenia) allows anyone to register a domain I can have boreh.am and hence be d@boreh.am. Still haven't got around to putting up content at the web site at http://d.boreh.am :(
Happy to see this hit the front page! If you have any thoughts about how you'd like us to improve Python support in VS Code please let us know.. with the additional resources we're hoping to accelerate the development quite a bit.
Why not Emacs?
Just curious.
Open Source or it didn't happen.
> Either you use LetsEncrypt which automates the pain away anyway or you do the sane thing and buy a wildcard cert

For what it's worth, Let's Encrypt plans to offer wildcard certs starting in January 2018.
Go back to r/btc with your propaganda.
I had to research the commercial OCR market recently for a client project. It's abysmal. Most of the solutions are horrendously overpriced, windows only enterprise packages, and the ones that I was able to try out bordered on unusable (bad results and terrible UI). Since OCR is basically "hello world" for tensorflow, I don't understand why these incumbents haven't been wiped off the map.
Our current solution is for trucks to drive down the road spraying pesticides everywhere.

We know that kills far more than mosquitoes.
"Due to its decentralized nature..." should read "Due to its CENTRALIZED nature..." If DNS were decentralized, like for example Bitcoin, so many problems like this would never happen.
For video games maybe, but for high-performance computing, Vega is incredible bang-for-buck especially in FP16, where a $500 Vega 64 gives you 25+ TFLOPs while a $6000 Quadro with GP100 gives you 20 TFLOPS (other NVidia cards do FP16 at 1/64th the speed of FP32, making it largely pointless).
What is this giant web you are referring to?
In Sweden we have some commercial free television channels that are run by the state. It also has play services for all content. One of the play services is "the children's channel" which has something like 100 curated kid's shows (from all over the world). No commercials. My kids can watch whatever shows they like there and it feels safe.
Is there anything similar in the US?
Macy's third quarter numbers miss estimates
It is in fact a suspiciously perfect interview with a man who specializes in giving optimized impressions.
Thanks, that clears things up.
Why would that be surprising? They are incremental, as far as I know..