skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to the end and realized I'd been reading Robert Sapolsky.

His "Biology of Human Behavior" Stanford lecture course in about 25 parts is on youtube. It's absolutely amazing; he's a great lecturer, articulate, funny, fascinating, a great storyteller about remarkable experiments and legendary scientists. It starts with evolutionary biology/sociobiology and goes down via a dozen levels of explanation ('buckets' he calls them) to brains and genes and how they work, in quite a lot of detail. I couldn't recommend it any more highly. p.s. My girlfriend (very non-sciency) loved it too.
Do you not see the irony in what you're saying here?

It is by definition a decentralised, anarchic system. The idea of authorisation or ownership of the one true core is hilarious.
So Bitcoin/Bitcoin Core/whatever need to stop claiming to be Bitcoin too?
As a hiring manager, the cover letter was the most important part of the packet that I was given. The resume was pretty meaningless since I've seen plenty of bad candidates with good-looking resumes and vice versa. But the cover letter was a much more reliable signal of a quality candidate.

For me, there were two important goals that a cover letter was supposed to accomplish. The first was that the cover letter should prove to me that the applicant read the job posting. I took time to write an engaging job posting that wasn't just a list of job functions and qualifications. The cover letter should explain why the applicant is the person I'm looking for by essentially regurgitating everything that I've asked for in the job posting and citing relevant experience, skills or traits of the applicant.

The second is to prove to me that you invested some amount of time into applying. If I choose to schedule a phone interview and possibly an in-person interview that may include airfare and hotel, I'm going to be investing a non-trivial amount of resources into you as a potential hire and I'd like to believe that you're willing to kick in the 10 minutes or so it takes to write the cover letter. I'd like to be one of a handful of places you're applying and not one of 50 or so. A customized cover letter is like a proof-of-work system that prevents resume spam. It may seem tedious, but that's the point. It should be hard to automate and if I believe that you're using the same cover letter for multiple companies, I'll pass.

As an applicant, the formula I follow when writing them is to start by talking about why the company's product or mission is compelling to me. If I have difficulty writing this, I rethink applying in the first place since it's really hard to enjoy working for a company with goals that don't excite me in some way. After I've talked about why the company is appealing, I pick the two or three most-emphasized things from the job posting that I feel describe me and write why I believe that. I save linking to Github for the top of my resume.

But that's me, and by some of the responses here, I gather others feel differently.
Tricky overhead?

Isn't the ES part what makes these systems superior in the first place, because you can restore any state of the past?
I have no idea how many books are bought just for show, but why would being an editor provide you with insight into the numbers? How could they know?
SublimeLinter 4 beta
I'm American, sorry :/
I applaud anyone who gets things finished and released. "chat on any website" extensions seem to pop up with some regularity though and it might be instructive review the others. One I found with a quick google search which has some useful comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628577
What depresses me the most about this is that most people, even ones with elite degrees in stats, are not actually free people.

If this were a free woman, she would have raised her voice, made a scene, and possibly even delivered a well-deserved slap to professor creepy. Instead, there was "struggling", "humiliation", "embarrassment", etc. She didn't even name names in the Medium post!

As to why she is not free, I do not know. Escalation of commitment? Prestige? Financial insecurity?

What I do know is that this is a terrible example for the ladies out there. Saving it for a cryptic blog post and waiting for some godless HR department to mete out justice is a shit plan, even if it did work this time. If this were a rougher crowd than a bunch of stats nerds, this could have ended very badly...
Ask HN: Where to start in making a React Native wrapper for an iOS/Android API?
I've never attempted this before. I'd like to take a shot at making a RN wrapper for the MPRemoteCommandCenter for iOS. How do I get moving in the right direction, assuming that I have zero experience in merging iOS/Android API's into JS?
Wow, that's impressive, because Telus charges about $100/mo for fiber, and even something like Freedom Mobile charges $60 for "unlimited data" but only 8GB on LTE and everything after that on low speed. I don't know what magic packages you managed to arrange for yourself, but the rest of us sure as hell don't pay that litte.
I use PlantUML(graphviz) for this.

http://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7017-plantuml-integrati...

http://plantuml.com/eclipse

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.pl...

https://github.com/scrooloose/vim-slumlord

http://zbz5.net/sequence-diagrams-vim-and-plantuml

http://plantuml.com/emacs
A relevant take on the metoo debate, although is contains some rather contentious points:

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/12/06/the-warlock...

'Several cases recently in the headlines are simply baffling. They do not involve the workplace—or vast discrepancies in power—at all. Perhaps there is more to the story, but from what I’ve read, the improprieties committed by the UK’s (now former) Defense Secretary Michael Fallon amount to this: He kissed a journalist—not his employee, and not someone over whom he had power, but another adult in another profession—fifteen years ago. What transmogrified Fallon’s kiss to a crime that cost him his career were these words, and only these words: “I felt humiliated, ashamed.” Had the object of his affection said, “I felt flattered,” there would be no offense.
'

I think the chilling effect is already here now. Nobody will say it, nobody would admit to it and commit career suicide, but I have no doubt countless startups, corps, research groups will just not hire any women in the wake of this debate.

I am a PhD student and it makes me think about teaching female undergrads at all or taking them on for projects. If I meet female undergrads for teaching, it's already only in public places in the department, never in my office or an actual teaching room. I am not the type who would ever make lewd comments, or anything of the sort, but it does not matter. There are no bonus points for being a good guy, an 'ally'.
If a network (or endpoint) fails you usually only few options during runtime, retry, skip, stop. That is pretty much all you want to know. Everything else is specific to the endpoint, which is more about contracts and constraints then about networking. You either use the endpoint correctly of not. I.e. using a database like MySQL has similar constraints. And decent engineers know how to work with it and where it is happening.
And how does this relate to https://epiverse.co/, another existing tool?
No, we're not becoming serfs, we're riding the tip of the wave, where more things are tried out and thus more things fail. There can be no progress without failure.

The gas for your not-Tesla has been provided as-a-service since the first internal combustion engine was invented, and gas has occasionally been unavailable for periods of time (and the price has risen to levels unimaginable just a few decades ago). You're not a serf because you don't stick to a horse and buggy (and keep a workshop for the buggy and a paddock for the horse on your own, private, non-mortgaged property), you're a citizen in a modern economy. Let's not even speak of how you get food.

All these things need to be worked out and be reliable and eventually they will be. Today, alas, was not that day.
This seems like a false-dilemma.

The real value in network neutrality is that companies cannot discriminate based on the human-understood message of the data (e.g. political censorship) or to use it anti-competitively.

Now, QoS is not entirely orthogonal to that, but most of the worrisome overlap involves the case where the ISP's motive isn't too maximize customer experience, but instead to impede a competitor.

The line may not be super-sharp, but it does exist.
Bitcoin has problems but I really don’t think that is one of them https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Bitcoin-blockchain-itself-ever...
Algorithms are the New Drugs
I miss posts like this on HN.
That's a false chain of reasoning. It's a regulatory device that prevents discrimination of service based on content and origin. It does not hamper free market competition, it protects human beings from monopolies and cartels and sets up the legal framework within which the free market is allowed to operate. Pretty much every industry has these regulations, and the market's doing just fine. You can't have an actually working free market without a regulatory oversight to act as feedback coupling. You need a dampening force, it just needs to be appropriate to the times, and net neutrality is appropriate to the now.
Also, your comments basically prove my point.

Apparently, free speech is so controversial, that people like you believe that a person who supports free speech must obviously hold some sort of deep dark evil opinion.

The fact that you automatically assume some nefarious motive, proves that supporting free speech is indeed a controversial opinion to hold, and that it is rational to be worried about being persecuted for believing in it.
So it will be possible to buy one ? It looks cool
The Changing Shoreline of New York City
So the system of managing academics need to change, to allow normal investigations without prejudicing future advancement? Sounds fixable. Otherwise we seem to have a system where no action can be taken against an academic because any action could be career threatening.
" Let's focus on the likely outcomes, not the unlikely ones."

Ok. Porn, Facebook, Netflix, Wikipedia, and General informational browsing.

Facebook is likely to become more cemented in their social media spot. Good luck to the competition - Facebook doesn't count towards data limits. Now, this could go many ways, but we already have issues with this walled garden and folks getting all their news from here. I suspect it is reasonable that such a thing will become worse.

Wikipedia could easily be included, which doesn't have some of the scaryness of facebook being free from data caps. Netflix draws customers, and some will offer hulu instead. This could be good or bad.

But general information to verify things from facebook or wikipedia? Want to browse porn? Forum for that autoimmune disease you have? Now you are going against your plan, going to look at sites that don't especially work with your ISP. Not if you've gotten over your cap. Maybe you are just throttled? Yup, the doctor's office page won't load quickly enough for you to fill it out and neither will your bank's. Oops. Welcome to dial-up speeds on today's internet. There aren't enough people on some of these niche websites to matter to the near-monopoly you call an ISP so folks can't make enough of a stink to get it changed.

And that's really the point. It isn't so much that they will automatically do such things - but the fact that we are so powerless to stop it, when it really shouldn't matter to the ISP whether I watch 5 minutes of cat videos on Youtube or 5 minutes of porn. I don't trust the companies to do the "right" thing without minimally basic regulations outlining things.
Thanks for the heads-up. :) Will do a bit of research. But yeah, I recon it's not that novel a concept and have heard of others who had the idea before. For me it was/is more of a fun project to get back into coding a bit... but still want to see where I can take it. ;)
We Snuck into Arthur C. Clarke’s Home, And… (2013)
There is an abusive and potentially criminal pattern of behavior spanning years.
I don't mind a loose JSON REST-ish API, where everything is a GET, POST or (maybe) a PUT, with explicit endpoints to resolve ambiguities.

Once people start exhibiting excruciating pedantry in designing their APIs, I'll switch off somewhat.
I think that's a valid concern. It tends to be be dismissed these days because the balance was shifted so far away from real victims. The pendulum will likely adjust a bit soon.

It is a bit over the top right now. I was recently chided for giving a female acquaintance a weak, "side hug" instead of a "real hug". Probably prompted by a subconscious idea that I need to be careful about that kind of thing.
It's only easy if the system is built once and never changes.

For example, does an "item sold" event from 8 years ago has the same data fields and fundamentally mean the same thing with the same outcomes, compared to the ones recorded today?

If not, you've got to start talking about stuff like writing multiple versions of code to play-back multiple versions of events slightly differently. Or at least have two versions in place, while some background process "upgrades" the old events.

And that's assuming you can even imagine a good way to re-express old obsolete behavior into a direct modern equivalent.

In contrast, I'm suggesting a mutable model which emits events. The events are used for triggering current logic, and are kept primarily for auditing/data-mining proposes.
Why risk it? For the same reason Islamic extremists shouldn't make you fear all Muslims.

A sense of decency and fairness.

Edit: you edited your post to remove "why risk it?" which makes my reply look nonsensical.
again, don't know it, will check it out. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15938982
Indeed. The coin is only as strong as it's cryptography, and given enough time, all ciphers can and will be broken.

Until that happens, there's still money to be made!
In 2018 you should build eCommerce startup Investment goals of eComm Managers
Why is it not the same? It'll be fine.
I think that is hyperbole. If you are a man, treat women just like you would treat men. Most men would not try to kiss another man without asking first.

Organisations with more women in leadership roles perform better. [1] Which reflects my experience as well. So it isn't only negative from a human point of view to not treat women correctly, it is also a poor business decision.

[1] https://hbr.org/2016/02/study-firms-with-more-women-in-the-c...
This might be OT but I just noticed - the baby doll's eye is blinking just like those mechanical light arms are blinking in the new trailer.
For the record, of that list NetSurf is an independent browser with its own rendering engine (and is correspondingly less… full‐featured).
I happen to have worked with the system author coded/maintained. We're not in touch and I'm not here to defend him, but he's no hipster. Rather, he had to integrate a lot of heterogeneous services, as that system was acting like a hub between many departments in the company, with various tech skills and resources. If anything, I suspect he's more kind of unsatisfied by changes that he deemed unnecessary.

As a note aside, the xmlrpc endpoints of the aforementioned system worked fine and saved us time.
McCarthy.
Thanks jquip. I guess, it's not that novel an idea, as you can see from some other comments here. The thing is it's a bit of a marketplace problem - gotta have users to be useful. Will see, where I can take it.
Also, I'm a bit of the bootstrap/solopreneur mentality... :D Will have to see. :)
While I have no intention of ever getting involved in that way, I disagree.The article I linked gives a good perspective on this:

'They are subtle to the point of near-invisibility. It seems Michael Oreskes liked to kiss women. Now, it is an embarrassing faux-pas to kiss a woman who does not wish to be kissed, but it happens all the time. Kissing a woman is an early stage of courtship. It is one way that men ask the question, “Would you like more?” Courtship is not a phenomenon so minor to our behavioral repertoire that we can readily expunge it from the workplace. It is central to human life. Men and women are attracted to each other; the human race could not perpetuate itself otherwise; and anyone who imagines they will cease to be attracted to each other—or act as if they were not—in the workplace, or any other place, is delusional. Anyone who imagines it is easy for a man to figure out whether a woman might like to be kissed is insane. The difficulty of ascertaining whether one’s passions are reciprocated is the theme of 90 percent of human literature and every romantic comedy or pop song ever written.
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We cannot eliminate and sterilise male-female relationships or pretend they are not different from male-male.
> The idea of authorisation or ownership of the one true core is hilarious.

That's great, but it's not what I wrote. What "one true core"?

Taking someone's software, modifying it, and touting your change as the next version of their software is wrong. Regardless if the code is meant for a block chain, or anything else.
I've been meaning to build this since messenger bots were made, nice work!
kind of, but more "your original complaint is about a release channel intentionally designed to give you all the latest features turned on by default, including experiments", which has been true since the release/beta/nightly channels were set up. If you don't like something Mozilla did to the browser in nightly, you file an issue in bugzilla, and if you missed this and discovered it too late, then that's a consequence of being a single human being who can't discover every single that is introduced every single day when nightly gets updated.

If your problem is with the actual _release_ version of firefox, that's a completely different complaint, and you have lots of choice in terms of getting the Firefox codebase but without some of the stuff that Mozilla feels is appropriate to put on top. If that's the level of control you want, then there are actually several options for you.
They're bad even for those who refuse to use them, like when the neighbor rings you at 7:30 in the morning because his "facebook stopped working" and you got to bed at 3:00 after fighting with a customer windows PC.
ggplot2. Simply better in every way. Hell, even base R is better than matplotlib. Full disclosure: I hate matplotlib so very, very much.
No, because those same developers worked on the earlier versions as well. They didn't just come in, take someone else's code, change it, and say, "Look guys, here is the next version of their software! Enjoy ;)"
Those are essentially ADTs --- not "type-classes" in the ML/Haskell/etc sense at all.
You can even get Pharo to run on AWS Lambda - https://gitlab.com/macta/PharoLambda

However what's really interesting is that it serialises any crash to S3 which you can then pull down and run/fix in your local Pharo debugger - https://twitter.com/martinfowler/status/897083875003969536?l...
Fascinanting the misinformation indeed.

1. Litecoin fees are much more expensive than with Bitcoin Cash and it's not secure with 0 confirmations.

2. The DAA upgrade included the NULLFAIL and LOW_S BIPs, both of which remove sources of transaction malleability. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7hqt7k/transaction_mal...
I am not an academic and not in this field. I have dealt with harrassment issues in business though. I hear do much nonsense about 'grey areas' and 'men and women would never meet if we followed HR'.

I hereby advance my theory that it is rather simpler than that. 'If you are in a position of power over the other party, then you should keep some social distance'.

Don't smack their bum, don't message them about their holiday photos on FB. If they come to you tired and emotional, sit them down on the other side of your desk and ask them what is wrong. Tell them you are sorry they feel that way. Talk for hours if you need to...at work. Keep your trousers zipped up.

Is it that hard? If your team socialize, then by all means go with them. If you find there is only two of you left, then go home.

I think it is very easy for a decent human being to avoid.
Mozilla Silently Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'Promo Plugin into Firefox
From the article
> According to the Kansas Star, the company reached a settlement with the former employee who had made the allegation, Gary Funkhouser. <

A financial settlement means that there was some basis to the allegations. The fact that she was not convicted does not mean much in a political environment where we need more people with a higher set of standards.
> And I still can't multiply six times eight! I have to work it out every time...

No offense intended, but if that still bothers you, it's time to learn it.

Either by accepting the offer you got with 5 (that is, memorizing the multiplication table - BTW, it is more fun to do this with 15x15 or 20x20 rather than 10x10).

Or by playing mental calculation games and trying to get high scores in speed.

(Essentially, this is the same as with learning vocabularies for a foreign language. The word "4x3" is translated to the other word "12".)

Maybe your teachers failed to make it interesting to your 5-year-old self. But your current self does seem to be interested, so that can't be the issue anymore.

You can critize your teachers that they didn't make your learn it at 5, but you can't critize them for still not having it learned later as an adult.
"Literary fiction" is a category used in the publishing world to contrast "genre fiction". A publisher would consider Harry Potter genre fiction of some kind, whether in fantasy or young adult. I think it would be quite strange if it were included in the survey.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730
The private key is stored on the node. Haha big fail. That's not what decentralized blockchains are about.
> If I meet female undergrads for teaching, it's already only in public places in the department, never in my office or an actual teaching room.

For many years trainee teachers are reminded not to be alone with a pupil (esp. female) in the class room (before or after class to answer questions, for example). There are directives that school administration can't call a student in for an interview (e.g. disciplinary stuff) unless at least two staff people are present and at least one has to be the sex of the student. (This is in not the US).

Some companies have de-facto "at least three people" rules.
Ah, thanks Egor, I hadn't seen that.
Literary fiction as opposed to genre fiction. Literary fiction consists of pointless books about the middle class, by the middle class; genre fiction is everything else.
Writing an HFT market making strategy in Scala for Betfair, part 6
That's not entirely true. The "The Three Body Problem" trilogy had a lot of literature tone and it's considered one of the best SF works ever. Obviously not for that reason alone but what I'm saying is that nobody seemed to bother by the prose as long as the science part was solid and the fiction original.
It has already happened with kids - how many men hesitate to become teachers? Even though there are lots of men who want to teach and are good at teaching?
Reading the article I wondered why we even integrate services so deeply with HTTP. The things I care about is the ability to cache at HTTP layer and the option to move endpoints. Which can be added indepentendly of the actual protocol. Moving a service to another protocol than HTTP could be an interesting option.
For what shall I wield a dagger, O Lord?

What can I pluck it out of

Or plunge it into

when you are all the world?

(Devara Dasimayya
10th century Indian poet)
This is an example of the "doesn't make sense" referred to by dang above[0] - the original pointed to the "shitty article" and now it points to the recommended blog post.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15938382