skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Justice doesn't just come in form of public defenders. I lived in Chicago and had my car improperly towed to the yards. Being a rich computer dork, I could take the time off when the yards were open to go retrieve it. It was only PoC for the entire 3 hours it took me to pay the fine and get my vehicle back, during the day, when anyone with a job would be required to pick up their vehicle.

My job says OK when I tell them I am taking the afternoon off. Most people's don't. Most people's job says, "you're fired!".

One lady lost her car because they found a worn out pot pipe under the driver's seat, while her son was driving the car. For fucks sake. They wanted 1700 to get the car back out of impound. They didn't charge anyone with a crime. But the car was gone.

I on the other hand, had the time to go give my evidence the magistrate and get my 390$ returned due to a improper impound. No working class PoC could have done what I did, on either side of that equation.

The whole time I wanted to scream my lungs out about the fucking level of utter bullshit we inflict on ourselves. I love Chicagoans, but shit, Chicago cops and Chicago justice need to get tossed in the trash.
I'll start off echoing what others have been saying... ports and madeiras were more popular. They resisted spoiling due to the high alcohol/sugar content. They can kick like a mule, so you can't just down 250ML in a sitting.

Wine glasses are also fragile. A lot of places serve wine in common water glasses of roughly the same size. Italians have been doing that forever.

Bigger glasses are more fragile, but they greatly enhance aeration and aroma. The smell of wine is over 50% of the experience for me. If i'm trying to maximize the experience of a good bottle, I'll use ridiculously large Riedel Vinum Old World glasses : https://www.amazon.com/Riedel-Veritas-World-Pinot-Glass/dp/B...
They're enormous, fragile, a pain in the behind to wash. However It's tough to go back to standard wine glasses after you try one.

All in all, I would say glasses are getting bigger in some cases, but the article is totally missing the how and why of it.
The GitHub desktop client is very limited and seems mostly geared toward a lone developer or small team who has never used git before. In this context I think it's a reasonable decision to use a more common verb.
It is doubly tragic because the process of obtaining evidence with a rape kit is invasive, time consuming, and uncomfortable when done by a sensitive and properly trained examiner. Very often the examiners were men who were openly hostile to the victims, and many women refused to be examined when they discovered what was involved.
GEYA Time Relay
If you're letting 1% of the population hoard 99% of the opportunity, you're losing metric tons of potential.
I hate to break it to you but Sir Ian McKellen definitely blows his load in a non-productive way.
No it hasn't. Those walled gardens still comprise a miniscule amount of the actual content on the web. In fact many are link aggregators and depend the existence of content beyond the walled garden to survive.

Nothing has devolved except the willingness of users to explore to find new content. But that's not because it no longer exists, but because for the most part new content is delivered to them.
The first thing makes money, the second just improves lives. Guess which is a priority in the halls of power?
ReMarkable tablet review: The high price of getting that paper feeling
> All because FB's algorithm presumably decided that he didn't post much, so he didn't warrant enough attention in our feeds.

All because you've given Facebook responsibility for keeping in touch.

One suggestion for keeping in control and in touch: a less algorithmic address list in email.

"Oh, but I don't want to manage that."

Well, how good is what you're using now working? Is that chance of someone outside the list serendipitously stumbling across a post really that valuable?

And, sorry for her loss.
What if foo is `null` or `undefined` ?
I have a much simpler technique: Always have a non-empty drink on your desk. It makes you take breaks to get a new drink and to go to the restroom. During these breaks you can procrastinate.

It keeps you hydrated (drink water, tea [caffeine free in the afternoon] and coffee) and makes sure you don't sit at your desk for too long periods at a time.
so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking? or do you see it's already too late?

p/s: it's more than relevant, it's eerily accurate in predicting our current situation
Unless you have a large subscribed audience, titles are important for getting people to click in.
Perpetrators of all crimes are mostly men. Sexual assault perpetrated by men isn't out of proportion with theft or murder perpetrated by men.
this inspired me to write https://medium.com/@jfriedensreich/rest-is-just-not-for-rpc-...
This machine learning algorithm is implemented using the quantum approximate optimization algorithm [0]. I encourage you to read their research paper [1]. It not only contains some interesting ideas about how to use a quantum computer for machine learning applications; but also some information about their 19 qubit processor.

[0]: http://grove-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/qaoa.html

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05771.pdf
I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, in Wayne County. What I recall is that there was practically an ongoing blood feud between Detroit, the county, and the state. Racism may not have been the only factor, but it was a decisive factor. I couldn't make sense of it at the time, being just a kid, but I think it might still be hard to make sense of today.

I certainly don't want to make any excuses for what happened, but one question that crosses my mind is: Did Detroit have any money to investigate these crimes, even if they had wanted to?
I'm not talking about ownership, I'm talking about storage of data.

I wouldn't be happy if Google owned my emails, but I'm happy they store them so that I don't have to run a server in my kitchen.
REST is just not for RPC
Do you guys have any deployment docs or Kubernetes deployment for on-prem Pachyderm? I tried setting it up a while back on our cluster and it was pretty challenging.
I think it's okay that the web has different communities on it. The web has grown in population at a staggering rate, if we had the same system we used to have of public boards that would be full to the brim and people would be seeking quieter spots anyway.

I don't like the idea of walled gardens for advertising at all mind you. But different communities, some of them private, makes total sense for such a large population.
Badly titled articles with excellent content can get rapidly flagged to death on HN.
> All because FB's algorithm presumably decided that he didn't post much, so he didn't warrant enough attention in our feeds.

This is the oddest thing to me. I would imagine that people who post rarely should be given preferential treatment and have their post included more often than if the feed was just a chronological timeline.
As far as I can tell this is a side effect of optimizing the algorithm to encourage greater usage by discouraging limited usage. Asking FB, Twitter etc. to do any different is the same as asking them to make less money.
True but not a recent phenomena. If you hear stories from Google's early days when 20% time was a buzzword (around 03-05), people always worked well more than 8 hours.

It takes a fairly massive amount of time to build something from scratch, and if you chose what you're working on, you'll want to spend that time. Managers are expected to adjust expectations and not require more than 4 days of work if a person has a 20% project, but given that it's software and software never seems to hew to planned deadlines, this tends to stretch.

Actually, I suspect that a lot of the decline in 20% time is because Google hires more people now who want a stable 9-5, who have no particular ambition to try out a new idea on their own or build something from scratch.
it is equipped with a camera...and as its advertisement shows, one of its targeted space is in your bedroom, among many other intimate places in your house...

But as we have already been doing with our laptop, one could always tape the camera in this thing...but if I were the designer, perhaps I would put a manual shutter there to control the camera visibility for either laptop or this echo spot...

I just feel that these kinds of ubiquitous devices need better access control mechanism, instead of the uncustomizable all-or-nothing configuration....
i have a simple suggestion, you should learn both, we live in a polyglot world now, you need to be able to learn multiple languages and to do so quickly. i started with php then moved to python/tornado/sqlalchemy, ror, ruby/sinatra/activerecord, nodejs/expressjs, and lately golang/gorilla mux/database/sql. just start with one, suggest ror, i’m sure you’ll have multiple projects in the future. ruby was built for web app development, django’s a bolt on for python that then added web functionality. dont worry about the community issues, ror has enough great libraries out there that you could put together a pretty slick website quickly. a side note, if you need to use some scientific packages, python might be better supported like numpy etc. fyi ruby language is much nicer than python imho (insert flame war). dont dwell on this decision too long, either should be able to get you what you want which is a slick website, get a move on it
s/besides/in addition to/g
I found that actually using a timer was too rigid but I still use the same basic concept. I use Anki, electronic flashcards with spaced repetition, by far the best learning tool I've ever used. I do cards for about 15-20 minutes or so. On Anki you can see how long you've been practicing. Then I take a break to do something physical not at my computer, like wash dishes or clean my apartment. Nothing too fun. Typically for 5-10 minutes. Then I come back and do more. So I take a break, but it's not as rigid as pomodoro with a timer.
I've been blogging for about 2 years (120ish articles posted) and a lot of what he says makes sense.

Especially finding your voice. I still don't feel like I've figured that one out. My problem is I started blogging after working as a developer for 20 years so I want to talk about a billion different topics.

But the quickest way to become successful in this field is to write a ton about 1 specific thing and then suddenly you're "that guy" about the topic you're writing about.
See: https://consumerist.com/tag/grocery-shrink-ray-2/
Have you tried a Sercial or Verdelho Madeira? Almost all Madeira sold is Malmsey, which is the sweetest. You'll sometimes find bottles of the Boal style, the next sweetest, sold as a digestif if the restaurant is a little more discerning.

But the best styles, IMO, are Sercial and Verdelho. Sercial is dry and Verdelho medium-dry[1], IMO have more fascinating flavors, and tend to be more acidic than the sweeter styles, which as a soda drinker I especially like. Both are really good for extended sessions as they're not nearly as cloying as Port. And the Sercial in particular suitable for drinking by the glassful with dinner if you care to splurge.

And one of the greatest things about Madeira is that it's already completely oxidized. Opinions very, but as for myself I still enjoy bottles of Madeira that I opened years ago. By contrast, IME an opened bottle of Tawny Port starts to lose its punch after a week or so (on the outside). This is why you can still buy Madeira from the 1800s and even 1700s and still enjoy it today. The oldest enjoyable Ports (Ruby or Tawny) tend to only go back 50 or 100 years if they've been preserved well.

If you're not a regular drinker (like me) or are the sole drinker in a household (like me), and don't enjoy hard liquor (like me), then the long shelf-life of opened bottles is really nice.

The Historic Series Madeiras from the Rare Wine Co are good exemplars of the various styles

https://www.rarewineco.com/rare-wine-co-historic-series-madeira

I don't know if they still do, but they used to offer a 4 half bottle sample gift set.

[1] Though both still sweeter and thicker (mouth feel) than a Sherry, with less of the distilled spirits-like flavor/smell coming through--which is why I dislike Sherry.
So you can't have 'real friends' that you met online? Hell, guess my wife is imaginary then, met her in 2005 online.
Crypto is the tech. It's cryptography/cryptology and has been important and studied for a long time.
My fave is one Christmas dinner wine served with my French in-laws in duralex glasses (you know, the unbreakable ones).

Not cheap wines either :)
In most cases on twitter/facebook, the author's official account post is going to be the main area for discussion. For places like here or reddit, alerts are an option.
+1 for anki, the greatest tool i have ever found for learning - i will use anki for the rest of my life, without a doubt. i still everything in there now, math equations, history, italian (which is why i started using it), haskell, birthdays, my new address, phone numbers, vocabulary.

spaced repetition is life changing
Yes, those are advantages too.
For me on Firefox on macOS that is just a couple of key strokes away:

cmd-l cmd-c ctrl-a r <space> u r l : <enter> cmd-t cmd-v ctrl-a h n <enter>

I have set up `r` as keyword to search on Reddit and `hn` to search on Hacker News [1]. `url:` is the Reddit keyword to search in the url field of the items. (In Firefox, you can right click any search field and add a keyword bookmark for it.)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com
The small participation rate in voting empowers the actual voters. If only 50% show up then each of those voters effectively voices preferences for 2 people (his/herself and another person who didn’t vote). It’s all about perception. Votes are also more valued (by a lot) in swing states.
Carafes are usually house wine though. Hard to get carafe sizing for a higher end wine.
I'd hope they opt out of participating in the shield program?
Show HN: Bot house for Slack
In a way, though the instructions specifically handle GMail labels which aren't present in other mbox files. But it's pretty general for any mbox email dump.
I had a go at building this general idea as a browser extension about 5 years ago, but abandoned it as writing browser extensions is a pretty fragmented, horrible experience. The general idea was take the current page URL, hit Reddit/HN various APIs and coalesce various posts (multiple for Reddit) and single HN instances (perhaps with and without hashes, "?new" and other reposting conventions).
Didn't know Medium supported a canonical url to point somewhere else. Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, I think a comment system is one of the things Medium does poorly (I actually like Medium a lot in terms of other aspects, unlike most of HN it seems). They seemed to try to re-use their regular post system too much for commenting and each comment is like its own post, making a threaded discussion almost impossible to be had or read.
I don't see how it silly. Autonomous cars are going to be a game of information. I don't think it is in any nations interest to give that information away. If autonomous cars, artificial intelligence or any other technology is going to be as big as people say (or even just as big as computers, software and information is these days) then it's going to be a large part of the future wealth of a nation. Just like oil or even regular car manufacturing is today.

Also I think you severely overestimate the subtlety of Chinese propaganda.
Yes. I'm just adding to Cyberdog's comment that it's not immediately obvious from the title of the article that the instructions are for indexing a static file.

The title makes it sound like it's instructions to setup up an alternative API to Gmail search. I was thinking something like Algolia.
I've seen port served in similar looking glasses, like this: http://whitecompany.scene7.com/is/image/whitecompany/GLHMP_2...
I think GP was saying that this story can be seen as evidence that a real friendship does not need face to face interaction to be valid.
So he spends 20% time on writing, but can't run spellcheck?
Cluster Registry API
Deploying Pachyderm on-prem is very similar to deployment on a cloud provider, you just need Kubernetes and an object store. The challenging part in my experience is getting an on-prem Kubernetes cluster, but this is well-tested territory for Kubernetes these days. We point people towards this guide to figure out the best Kubernetes deployment option for their infra:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/

Pachyderm on-prem guide: http://pachyderm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment/on_prem...
"security cameras outside of stores" would be in public areas, yes? The Lifehacker link you pointed to says "Generally speaking, you have the right to record video in all public spaces without need of consent."

Now for the fun part - it can be possible to extract audio from video, by careful processing of the small motions the sound induced in objects in the frame. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXOucXB4a8 . High-speed camera is best, but at the end they show how a regular consumer-level camera can also be used.
I guess it’s hard to run ads next to a post about a sick and dying friend.
My oh shit moment is that `git add .` doesn't stage deleted files. I almost always use `git add -A` because that is typically what I meant, especially for someone coming from another Version Control system.
We do: http://docs.pachyderm.io/en/latest/deployment/on_premises.ht...

Hopefully that should work for you. Deploying on prem can mean a lot of different things so some paths will work better than others. The most common on prem deployments we see are back by Minio.
It is an interesting comment on the state of commenting. Gardening the comments section is a lot of work and not something people want to spend their time on (the Blekko blog would get hundreds of spam comment attempts every day!).

That makes me wonder if there is also an opportunity for a 'meta comment' section which pulls comments from web sites like HN, Reddit, or Slashdot and puts them below the blog / article that they are related to. You could set an arbitrary vote level cutoff limit.
Are you suggesting having a friends mailing list? That doesn't really work for a dynamic pool of people.
Don’t Make Me Think + Local Context + Constraints = Great Software Features & UI
>We're probably nearing the point where the Zapatas of this crypto-token boom start using their inflated valuations to try to acquire more traditional tech companies.

The crypto co's aren't going to try to acquire companies, first b/c most traditional companies have no product of interest to a decentralized platform, and second b/c most crypto's are set up as non-profit foundations.

What they will be doing soon is raiding top traditional tech companies for their best engineering talent with promises of new tech to work on and great wealth.
> And if they don't want our self-driving cars I don't want theirs.

Not about this particular example but we know that’s not how it works; people buy whatever is cheap so not wanting something on invidual level works if you are strong and willing to spend 2-3-4-n x the money, but in general people will just buy. In the 80s many people said it about Japanese cars and yet everyone bought them eventually because cheap and good. Even in China, where many people have the old hate against Japan (far stronger than your feelings most likely as the Japenese did horrible things here), they still drive Toyota etc and they see the issue with that but it’s cheaper than German and better than Chinese, so what can you do.
At the risk of sounding like a Linux snob, there is a right way and a wrong way to do package management in Linux. Installing binaries into your home directory then linking them to a system directory isn't the right way, unless it absolutely can't be avoided. Not surprised this happened -- use the package management system that comes with your distribution, especially if you have special requirements on maintaining certain versions.
The Bitcoin Boom: In Code We Trust
You'd think that FB would want to pull "wayward" people in, though. If I haven't posted in a while, and then suddenly post, FB should give that post wider reach, with the hope that I get a lot of engagement, come away with a positive feeling, and then post/engage more.

I just did a sort of impromptu 2.5 month posting hiatus from FB (which also included no commenting or liking), and when I returned I got a ton of likes and comments on my fist couple posts.
[video] Tagging drug names on /r/opiates: fast data annotation using Prodigy
This appears to be what Twitter's "In case you missed it" is doing. I follow accounts that post maybe once a week and they're regularly featured in that section.
The Battle of AI Processors Begins in 2018
The title of this article seems to imply a lot more than the facts it establishes.

The narrriative in question is "This Republican narrative of net neutrality as an Obama-led takeover of the internet"

As someone who monitors a lot of republican, conservative, libertarian, and alt-right sources online, I personally have never encountered any anti-NN comments about an "Obama-led takeover." Many do have concerns over government takeover of the internet, but not once have I encountered someone who blamed it on Obama.

I believe most right-leaning readers will see through this hole in the article's premise.

Also, it would seem that because the point of the article's claim is largely moot, the practicality of having this OIG report made public seems pretty weak. I.e. a nothing-burger.

Note that the demographic that this article dispariages can be quite dismissive of Vice, as it's seen as a left-leaning publication.
> Does the value of XMR mined exceed the electricity consumed by the app?

There seems to be a bit of disagreement over this.

Let me ask it another way, would it be worthwhile for someone too lazy to replace the dead battery in their thermostat to mine some coins to add a little heat to their apartment and make a couple bucks in the process?
This is a good move. I hope other states follow suit. I highly recommend reading Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Firefox ads run a lot during the show. And before the show, they have a mini blurb saying "this week sponsored by firefox"
The attitude towards debugging is dismissive -- and I'm not the only one to have drawn that conclusion. Indeed, it's the original author of this article who came across that and drew that inference -- one that I (obviously) share. To flip this around: do you think that the work outlined in the original article is work that should be expected of anyone wishing to debug the kernel?
What's right with it? If I want to install it I will. I don't, but Mozilla feel that is their choice to make, not mine.

You can't remove it (and disabling it is hard enough), so you cannot reduce the attack surface of your browser if you don't use it.

It's also really badly integrated into the new mobile version.
Not immediately at all.
“Flight deals to Portland!”

“Great hotel rates near the hospital! Act now!”
Also says

> The .NET runtime supports a wide variety of high performance applications. As such, performance is a key design element for every change.

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...
Then IT probably shouldn't enable Shield studies on their machines.
So HN pays dang to curate, then ChucksCommentScraper.io appropriates that content for free?
Self-Driving Cars Would Kill 4m Jobs but Could Create a $7 Trillion Industry