skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web should be something simple, after all HTML and HTTP were both designed to transfer text, the former is the document format and the latter the means of transmission. Of course nowadays the web is bloated with javascript, webassembly, webRTC, EME, and many other technologies. Perhaps a good word on design are the following two sites:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

It's fun how the authors present valid ideas about the web. Please, don't get offended, instead try to think about the origin of their criticism.
"If you take just one piece of information from this blog:
Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems
instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once." - Scott Aaronson

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Could Eastern Europe have had an industrial revolution before the Western Europe?

I have seen the industrial revolution always as

paper -> printing press -> better paper -> newsletters -> more reading & books -> more inclusive institutions -> ...

I can't see industrial revolution without large number of books and reading just before it.

Acemoglu & Robinson have pointed out that the eastern and western Europe were almost identical in institutions in the middle ages but then Western Europe developed just slightly more inclusive institutions.

In Russia print office was established by Fedorov in Moscow and printing was heavily censored. I think Russia had long time only 4 printers. Meanwhile tiny Scotland had something like 7-8 printers at the beginning of 1700's and many Scottish inventors followed. Germany, France, England, Portugal etc. had printers in every major city.
. . . That's an example of being told bullshit in history.

The Dark Ages generally (to historians) connote the time between the end of the Roman Empire to around the end of the Viking Age and the rise of feudalism in the High Middle Ages, or about ~400s-1000s. The term mostly refers to the lack of comprehensive written records caused by the collapse and general loss of effective bureaucracy.

Originally, the term was used during the Enlightenment era to distinguish the "enlightenment" of modern times with the "backwardness" of the past. The association with the Catholic Church being the cause of backwardness was part of a general attack on Catholicism by Protestants for getting everything wrong.

In reality, the Catholic Church was pretty much the only surviving institution of the former Roman Empire in the Dark Ages. Virtually every record in Western Europe that survives from the Dark Ages is a result of the Christian monks or other church officials, being the only institution capable of producing the durable written record we desire. The church was also one of the heaviest sponsors of science during these times, basically being one of the only institutions that could afford to have people doing such work.
The recruiting actually starts earlier than that for the most gifted players.
What about official (but from OS, not hardware vendor) software downloaded as a source code easily compiled by yourself?
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WTF

Contributing:
Being typical computer science students, we hate people.
Please don't contact us.
Nobody likes Age of Empires anyway.
None of you is interested in making openage more awesome anyway.
We don't want a community.
Don't even think about trying to help.

Guidelines:
No bug reports or feature requests, the game is perfect as is.
Don't try to fix any bugs, see above.
Don't implement any features, your code is crap.
Don't even think about sending a pull request.
Please ignore the easy tasks that could just be done.
Absolutely never ever participate in this boring community.
Don't note the irony, you idiot.
To prevent accidental violation of one of those guidelines, you should never
I've read a conspiracy theory that Nintendo is wising up a bit to this, but can't do so openly, which is why the SNES classic was just as easy to hack as the NES classic even though a few simple changes could've made it much harder. They know the number of people who would pay $15 for a 15 year old game that hasn't aged well except for nostalgia is limited (assuming they even have the rights to sell it), but the market for hardware that would let them emulate them with a better (perhaps not better but more nostalgic) experience than the simple PC emulator setup is wide open. Thus the NES and SNES classic.

As I said, it is just a conspiracy theory, but leaving the power port to transfer data as well as power in the SNES classic after the same design allowed massive hacking of the NES classic does give a slight nod towards the theory.
MS-13 is around in some isolated pockets on Long Island. About 1100 identified members total in Nassau and Suffolk, though not all are active. Generally stick to El Salvadoran neighborhoods in certain large-ish communities.

https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/ms-13-long-island-k...
The Need for Better Built-In Security in IoT Devices
An Imperfect Glance at Tech's Notable Exits in 2017
If you want, you can already see bioluminescence walking outside at night on a trail. Many things light up, if you allow dark adaptation and look away, you will easily see that the entire trail is "glowing".
Lightning with blocked 3rd party cookies and no Javascript. Wonderfully fast.
The link shows that the last commit was a week ago... so, yes, it's still active. It compiles and runs, provided you have access to the media assets. It still needs work though.

Having a FLOSS engine for this game is more desirable than having to rely on a proprietary mess like Steam to play AOE2. So I hope this project is eventually successful.
A problem with that. Crime in Newark is going down too:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/newarks_crime_decli...

In fact, crime in the whole country is down dramatically from what it was in 1990. So unless the poor are being deported, something else must explain the drop in crime.
I use GANs at work (I manage a machine learning team) and while they can be useful, they can also be difficult to train. A good approach is to start with a working and hyper parameter-tuned example that is similar to your problem.
Building an E-Paper Badge with the ESP8266
Realized that client works sucks and quit my consulting gigs.

4x:ed SaaS revenue.
Because the ads they show us are autoplaying headache-inducing flashing videos with jump-scare sounds. Their ads open new windows, which open further new windows when you try to close them. And on top of that, they also gather data about you which they'll sell to whoever is buying it.
How do digital nomads deal with paying income taxes (assuming they are programming or freelancing along the way)?
They literally said it was new in the 8th paragraph in the link, consistent with the patch notice from that release. The second paragraph plainly says they have never engaged in planned obsolescence. As a business they’d never make so blunt a statement if it weren’t true, as they’d get sued into the ground if it came out otherwise.
Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line
The was a bankers strike once, in Ireland. For months.

The way people busy worked around it is really amazing, because those workarounds are what the system actually needs to do, minus all the abstraction.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/pubs-replaced-banks-in-ireland...
Agreed. I guess the core of the question is 'what does that ultimately give nintendo?'.

And that's where I think the government needs to step in as it did with copyright and patents, and ask an additional question: 'what does that ultimately give to society?'. The answer is decreased environmental impact and decreased cost of living. The console manufacturers are passing on costs to consumers that consumers shouldn't have to bear - and don't have to bear when it comes to patents and copyrights. Imagine if patents were perpetual like DRM is and rocket engine technology would forever belong to a single manufacturer with the license..?
Incredible video. I’m a software engineer but I feel I know so much more about physics now.
That’s what fractional reserve means.
So what I gather is it would appear academics are arguing over semantics to describe an otherwise unerring narrative of historical events they otherwise agree upon again. Did Rome have an industrial revolution? Well it depends on how you define industrial revolution, but we all agree... Stuff happened.
Do you feel well rested after that? Or do you feel run down? If the former, that's how much is required for you. Myself, I need nearly exactly 8 hours. More is fine, but anything less and I will feel like garbage for the whole day.
True -- but GP's comment didn't sound like a mentoring relationship to me. He was saying he expects people to watch what they say around him, implying that open and transparent communication is not part of their culture. Had he said that he took the person aside later and talked through office communications and culture, THAT would sound like mentoring.
Even with stock Android you can skip setting up a Google account, turn on "Unknown Sources", and direct-download an alternative app store like F-Droid. It probably still feeds them telemetry, but you're not locked in to any of their cloud services.
Anyone has more insight into why? if I try to grid search hyperparameters for a random forest takes ages in a single machine with scikit-learn. I only ever see GPUs in neural networks. Is there some acceleration for non-NN machine learning algos?
Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson [2k3?]
I mean no disrespect, but perhaps my honest opinion might help a you a bit, though I could be totally wrong.

Your hook, “Super Global is a nonprofit tech advisory service for social impact organizations.”, makes me feel like you think I’m stupid and is personally a turn off.

You’re an IT consultant that specializes in the charity industry. Everything else is just buzzword bingo.

Your non-profit status is meaningless to anyone who understands corporate structures and social impact organization seems to be a new-age word for charity.

The charity industry is big business and people make a lot of money in it. While I really do appreciate their positive impact, the virtue signalling is tiresome.

If your hook works for you, great, don’t change a thing. But to me it’s cringe worthy and might not be helping you. Sometimes being more direct is better.
The "bypass the SMMU" part was so funny :)
Planned obsolescence. The same thing that wrecked the US Auto industry, is now the same thing thats going to wreck American tech dominance like Apple.

The crappy Chinese phone running android does not do this, Further more, its cheap to get parts for it. Twitter and facebook (or whatever app) still run perfectly well on this device.

So why am I suffering Low quality decisions from high price Apple?
I think this is pretty spot on.

The market back in the 80s was an experimental fledgling market that was prone to crashing and loss of faith. This was largely solved through licensing however rather than technical drm (Nintendo lockout chips not withstanding).

There was after that, an expectation and an assertion of quality. From the user side of things, this was the Nintendo Seal of Approval. That meant to the buyer that it was at least a working somewhat playable game. We could argue the relative merits of that program but I think largely speaking it did the job.

These days, Gaming is a form of entertainment that is completely mainstream, I would argue that it is immune to abandonment and major crashes much like other forms of entertainment. (Keeping in mind that Video games thrive during recessions due to low dollar per hour of entertainment ratios.) Void some completely destructive force (Major War, that derails most normal avenues of business) it won't crash out anymore than books, TV or Film. (It may modify and change delivery mechanisms, but none of these are going away any time.)

So I don't necessarily agree that protection against low quality efforts is something that is compelling Console security, though its often what is said.
Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations [pdf]
Why do some developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense?
Because you had to buy another one for another $500.
It's a joke. It's obvious that they want people to contribute, as this follows with:

---

To prevent accidental violation of one of those guidelines, you should never

* learn git

* fork the repo

* learn python

* learn c++14

* read the code and documentation

* contribute anything to the code

* contact us

cheers, happy hecking.

---

The contribution guide in general is pretty well written and welcoming.
Raising money from friends and family is something I would not recommend. If the business fails you will have a lot of broken relationships unless the lenders have enough money to not care.
The two most important electronic marketplaces for games today are probably Steam and the iOS App Store (not necessarily in that order).

Neither of these is as wide-open as the first-gen consoles were. Despite this, both are absolutely flooded with crap, to the point where the most common complaint I see from developers about both is how easy it is for a good game to get lost in the noise — if Valve/Apple don’t feature your title on the store’s home page, you basically have no hope of being found.

So I do think this is a valid concern, though perhaps not quite so dire a threat as the platform owners think it is.
Probably a little overdone in terms of sarcasm/2nd degree, to the point that it's not really funny. It references https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/master/doc/contribut... for contribution guidelines though
8yo is a great age to play MC with friends. Look around in the forums for kid friendly servers, or host your own.
Ask HN: Connecting with other developers on side projects?
Would anyone be interested in a site to connect with other developers based on common interest in topics as well as programming languages? The purpose being to find people to work on side projects with.

Anything like this already exist? If so, what's your experience with it?
Community Curated Docker Resources
Question for football fans: Would the game suffer that much if we changed the rules to reduce contact? Say, like flag football?
Also, "Don't note the irony, you idiot." directly above that.
Not all exercise is the same when it comes to brain benefits. Moderate to hard endurance exercise makes your brain secrete BDNF. And you need to perform it at least 3 times a week for 20-30 min minimum to notice any benefits.

Strength training on the other hand does nothing for your brain.

See "Bran Rules" talk by Dr. John Medina @Google:

https://youtu.be/IK1nMQq67VI
Dave Ramsey talks about personal lending and recommends that you treat it as a gift, not a loan, because it can be so destructive.
When my kids were beginning to read, we brought out the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little house on the Prairie etc). For our international readers, the books are autobiographical, and she grew up in the North Woods of the central US in the late 19th century.

Reading them as an adult really impressed me that her family was remarkably close to the "landholding peasant" model that you describe. As the family moved from one settlement to another, the description of possessions that they brought along suggests that they were accumulating basically zero wealth, for quite a time period.

And at that point, the industrial revolution was already running full steam (literally) in the eastern US and in Europe.
Thank you for taking a reasonable perspective on this.

Most humans are not slathering animals just avoiding being caught.
Well I was tacitly pointing out the inadequacy of that definition for the term, while running with it.

Anyway my original point stands :)
This is not limit to Apple iOS.

Android has this problem too. If you upgrade your 2 years old phone with the latest Android (if your phone manufacturer did happens to provide update), your phone is not responsive at all. I know, few years ago I updated my Note 1 to Lollipop and it was completely unusable. The good thing is the Note 1 has unlock bootloader and I was able to restore the older software.

Unfortunately, you cannot downgrade iOS. I wish I can as I am on 11.2 and the battery drain is crazy. 10% on idle. FU Apple.
Ask HN: What are the best books on leadership?
No one uses the Mac App Store?? First of all many people do. And second, isn't that there aren't MORE people a problem for Apple?

How are people supposed to get apps for their Macs? Download from random websites? How do updates happen?
Apple’s flagship Chicago retail store wasn’t designed to handle snow
Experiment by going to bed sooner. Personally I figured out there's a certain time in the morning when I'll wake up which does not depend on the time spent sleeping. After some trials, I figured that less than ~7 hours of sleep will leave me in a bad mood, but only in the afternoon -- I seem to function quite well in the morning.
You don't want to see a portfolio?
I have reported it to c3voc and they just said they're going to recut it :) Thanks for mentioning!
First of all, if you move often and apply to jobs in various countries, some recruiters take note of that; they probably assign you a flag in their system that says that you're 'willing to relocate' so you often get offers for lucrative overseas contracts sometimes in low-tax (or no-tax) jurisdictions like Gibraltar, Dubai...

Another benefit is that if you see a company you like, you know that you can just go work for them at their HQ wherever they might be. Really good companies are often the ones which attract talent from all over the world. If other talented people are prepared to fly half-way across the world and leave behind all their friends and families on a short notice to work for a company, then you know that this company is almost certainly doing something special.
Too many businesses start with good intentions and not enough capital. I've seen those, in my industry, that think hanging a shingle is enough to generate a solid income. They over spend, Taj Mahal everything, and BK shortly thereafter.
I'm shocked that living in hotels requires a high income. Shocked.
It does not block ads, but it does block ad trackers.
Alright, I downloaded this, now what? How can I learn more about ARM?
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The Post-Quantum Crypto Summer School lectures cover this in more detail if anybody is interested https://2017.pqcrypto.org/school/schedule.html specifically the Quantum Algorithms lectures and notes by Ronald de Wolf.
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Cool! I like to see the cookie-cutter stuff. I used pydanny's cookie-cutter back in the day.

However, as I've become more comfortable in the Django and python ecosystem, I have been cutting closer and closer to the stock install.

I think the cookie-cutter stuff is great for when you have a highly-opinionated way to do things (specific test frameworks, databases, patterns, etc).

Some feedback:

Authentication:

I looked at your way of authentication, and I kindly ask you take a look at djoser [1]. They have a nice authentication system for DRF with a password reset flow.

Or also maybe an integration with Auth0?

Storage:

If you replace boto3 with Apache's libcloud [2], then you make this project a little more platform agnostic. I say this as someone who works across multiple platforms. I see that django-storages even plays nicely with it also [3].

And to be honest I'm not so thrilled with Heroku as the deployment target. Maybe just beef up the README with instructions on getting started just on my laptop with pip, cookie-cutter, and docker-compose?

All in all, nice job. I'll add my star to your project and consider it next time the use case arises.

[1] - https://github.com/sunscrapers/djoser

[2] - https://libcloud.apache.org/

[3] - https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/ap...
He advocates for prioritizing your health, do cool free stuff instead of cool non free stuff and do not be too materialistic. The more you read, the more you understand this is not even about saving or retiring early.

He retired early by having a high (but not sky high) income and saving like 50-70% of it.

Nothing he did is unbelievable, you can't apply everything but you can apply a lot and it really gives benefits, no matter if your goal is to retire early or not.

Plus he doesn't sell anything and doesn't fool anyone to earn money. :)
Ohh right.

D'oh.
Most spoken first language. But much more people can speak English overall. When people from Greece, Sweden, Estonia, Slovenia meet, they will most probably could speak English as common language, not German. Let's all stick to one global language, it would be so much easier for everyone...
Yeh this sounds plausible.

I have felt that the virtual console prices are way to high for what they are. But stuff it in $10 worth of largely OSS and off the shelf hardware with a pretty case and sell it for $60 and I'm all in.

I think given that emulation is a pretty well known thing within the target audience for the classic systems, protecting against it is a lost cause. The market for the classics are nostalgia driven game folks which is different from the switch, which is broader. They have to convince Mum and Dad of

Shelly the 12yo that there is something there.
Of course if Mum and Dad happen to see a game from their childhood that they've forgotten about on the Eshop, so much the better. Plus that entire teenage market isn't as susceptible to nostalgia purchases as the 30-40 market is right now. We'll see another wave of those kinds of devices in 20 years :D.

Given the low numbers of the classic systems available, it just had all the ear markings of a small group's side project that may or may not have worked, rather than a complete exec buy in to be the "next-big-thing".
Y'know, you could not force multiple tracker scripts and obtrusive ads on me.

Stupid bastards.

The sad part is that anti-adblocking may work in their favor because the average person isn't going to go as far as to stop using certain websites or turn off JavaScript. It may get to that point with me, though. I already refuse to use most websites that try to block my ad blocker, autoplay videos, open modals too early, etc.

It's not about ads, but the types of ads that are presented. There would be backlash if the types of ads we see on the internet were equally as plastered everywhere in real life, but for some reason we've just got to deal with it on the web.

I generally don't disdain people for doing things for a living, but I'd openly thumb my nose at developers and anyone else involved in thwarting adblockers and tracking blockers. Talk about a sisyphean job that helps nobody except one of the slimiest industries to exist.

A lot of people would be willing to pay for web content; Patreon and the wealth of content on YouTube are a testament to this. But websites that let you pay to remove ads have a problem, and it's that they don't use a unified system to manage subscriptions. The user is somehow supposed to manage what sites they're subscribed to. It'd make more sense if news sites, for example, could integrate with a service where you could manage your subscriptions to these sites as well as more content.
Maybe the bigger news is this...

Twelve miles north of Roxobel in Woodland, population 729, Sharon Ramsey closed the DeJireh Grill because, she says, she couldn’t get bank financing. At first, she says, the restaurant “was turning a profit, but it was just enough to stay open.”

Small town businesses cant turn a profit and as such shouldnt be getting a loan. They are barely keeping the lights on.
http://an-emission-impossible-world.blogspot.com/2013/12/anc...

The romans were producing a huge amount of lead and other metals at levels not achieved again until the 18th century. The graph is pretty striking. And it's a logarithmic graph so doesn't give the full perspective of just how ahead of their time they were.