skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the guide for fasttext I am not sure how a non NLP researcher would use it.

"This library can also be used to train supervised text classifiers" -
https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText#text-classifica...

Looks like you can use it for gensim.
https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/models/fasttext.html
Ask HN: Which cool sideprojects have stood the test of time?
I once (re)discovered a mathematical theorem in the shower. (My wife shakes her head at such behavior...)
It’s Surprising How Little Big Teams Can Get Done
Fantastic work. I wish there was something similar for Linux. it sounds like you've made something that has minimal overhead.

I like the mouse-pointer hack, I guess you could take it further by only adding it when the user wants to save the clips (and it gives the option of having no mouse pointer, or maybe hiding it around the time when the mouse is not moving or being clicked).
I run a small blogging platform (https://blot.im) and get a steady stream of Medium-apostates who've made this realization. Medium is a deeply flawed product and is not designed in the best interests of its writers or its readers. I recommend The Billionaire's Typewriter by Matthew Butterick if you're interested in why this is so:

https://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

Medium's trendy design can be enticing but I'd try to steer people towards a platform over which they have control.
I recall reading somewhere that the old testament "Adversary" view could be interpreted as Satan being less of an antagonist who is directly opposed to God, and more of a celestial prosecutor, whose role is to ensure that those who are deemed faithful (by God) truly are. Prosecutors aren't evil people who are opposed to the Judge, but rather are important instruments in ensuring, perhaps imperfectly, that justice is applied.

Almost like a divine unit testing framework: if there are critical weaknesses, please help me uncover them ASAP. Hence God's willingness to let Satan make Job's life miserable.
I'll second this. While it's not self-hosted, it is the only SAAS option that's actually usable in regulated industries. The main consideration is that the api is slightly different and some integrations aren't as nice (Looking at you PagerDuty)
Sanderson is good, but not quite what I'd call great. I recently read the Stormlight Archive (I'd tried Mistborn years ago but didn't get into it) and enjoyed it. But it was the kind of enjoyment where I was very engrossed while reading the books but didn't find myself thinking about them very much afterwards. He's not without novel worldbuilding ideas, but, thematically, the books don't do a whole lot that I haven't seen before. Though that did start to change a bit with Oathbringer, his most recent book.

I also admire his obvious and sincere efforts to include non-neurotypical characters in the series. He specifically thanks people he consulted with about this in his acknowledgements. The Stormlight Archive includes, among its main and secondary characters, people with depression, PTSD, and autism. I think it's great that he's giving people who have those, especially kids and teenagers, a chance to see themselves as heroes in an epic fantasy series. The depictions aren't perfect, but they're pretty good, and they avoid some common pitfalls. Nobody gets superpowers from their mental illness, for example.
It's intended that server-to-server messages be signed with the private key that matches the public key baked into the user's profile data. I'm not sure whether the final specification requires this, or merely recommends it; it may have gotten pushed off to a future update in order to get the spec out on time.
Lightning Network as a Solution for Bitcoin's Scaling Problems
Another way of putting it is the old aphorism, which Keynes probably didn't coin[1]:

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
Linux-driven DLP platform for 3D vision teams up with Raspberry Pi
Given that everybody collects data I believe this is at least a step in the right direction. It'll be interesting to see what data they are collecting though.
Don't be like these people. Keep an open mind, be ready to adapt, and try to just be kind. Kindness is one thing I can guarantee you'll want to have as a skill, in any future.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_prediction...
An HN gem of a comment!
Ask Bob and Dave's colleagues as part of a 360-degree review. Their peers definitely know who is being productive and who is slacking off.
Fraud does not exist on Wall Street? Try again. This is another reason the blockchain and crypto do exist.
Engine ignition is around the 16 minute mark
SSB is rock-solid in that the community encourages the use of diverse client and server implementations rather than having a monolithic interface that's meant to do everything.

On the other hand, the underlying libraries are opinionated in that they usually use depject and a handful of other tools/techniques that aren't super familiar to those outside the SSB community, which makes it harder to write brand new clients.

I'd use SSB exclusively if they offered a web client (as I'm on a Chromebook), but we're slowly getting there.
> "To confirm their findings, the authors then ran the same experiment on a single macaque."

How do you instruct a macaque to stare at black dot?
The Earthsea cycle is very, very different from Tolkien and GRRM.

The first three books are a classic "bildungsroman"--a coming of age story--both as a whole and individually. The point of view character in each novel is a young person, passing through late adolescence and into adulthood. In this respect it is more comparable to Harry Potter or The Dark Is Rising or perhaps His Dark Materials fantasy series.

The world LeGuin builds for the story is incredibly rich and unique, like Middle Earth and the world of ASOIAF, but the structure of the stories are considerably simpler.

However, the "inner life" of the stories are richer. Like the Dune series, the novels of Earthsea spend a lot of time deep in the perspective of a few key characters. I think it is one reason these novels are so hard to film in a satisfying way.

That said, where Earthsea really distinguishes itself from almost any other fantasy series, is the fact that LeGuin came back to the series much later in her life and added two more books. These are set in the same world but regard it with different perspectives of age and gender.

The original trilogy is classic fantasy about Our Heroes who are uniquely gifted and ultimately save the day and pass into legend. The final two books are about what happens to those people when they face the complicated and unsatisfying future: their personal gifts are no longer powerful, and their beliefs and assumptions are challenged by a new generation... and ultimately found to be not only flawed, but awful. Some of the things they defended were not absolutely good after all, but the lasting artifacts of earlier selfishness, bias, and bigotry.

I resisted reading these later two novels for a long time because I enjoyed the purity of the stories in the original trilogy. But now having read them all, I find I can enjoy them in related but still somewhat separate ways.

If the later two novels don't sound like your kind of thing, you could read the first three now, and then visit the last two books a decade or two (or three) later. That would align your perspective with LeGuin's when she wrote them.
Hey Rich,

I enjoyed the article and IMHO it did well in encouraging self-awareness and introspection. I hope it goes far.
While not meaning to take away from the focus of the article and not in any way intending to disrespect Ms. Berners-Lee, I just wanted to point out this solicitation at the end of the article by the Guardian:

>Since you’re here …

>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can..

I'm a bit heartbroken to read this mainly because I feel this isn't really sustainable in the long run. While, at the same time, I don't have a silver bullet to offer. (I did make a donation though)
Why Apple Will Allow Users to Throttle the iPhone’s CPU
Definitely a great lesson to be learned. I'd be interested in some stats on the average payout percentage for engineers of acquired startups (broken down by tenure, obvi).
I emailed the author, and received this response:

> I'm so glad you found the interview of interest. Unfortunately, as with our print interviews, the full unedited interview is not available. However if we get a number of similar requests, we may consider releasing a longer edit,

Please message him; I'd be interested in an uncut version as well.
Is there anything similar for Windows?
Granted, even if the approaches are outdated, they can still be used to solve NLP problems.
He won't go https, sign his binaries, or enable mark-of-web either. It's strange to see people still playing small binary golf in 2018.
server-to-server signatures are a good start, but what about encrypting messages end-to-end? I assume the servers already talk over HTTPS.
1. Open Paint (or other options).
2. Click line icon on toolbar.
3. Click canvas, hold down click.
4. Move mouse.
5. Release click.

Don't need a language to do it. Don't even need a keyboard to do it.
I recently read the Elric books and loved them. A friend said they're the written expression of an airbrushed 70s conversion van, or some heavy metal album cover. They're rough, but alive in a way eg. Sanderson can only glimpse.

Also, Gloriana was great (very different from Elric).

In this vein, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword is probably my favorite; it's direct and raw, like a bare knuckle punch in the face :).
wenc's comments are spot on. Just to add: we have found ourselves being used alongside historians, as an easier way to extract and analyze the actual data.

In other words, instead of "rip and replace" companies are using TimescaleDB as a more flexible, powerful and easier-to-use operational analytical engine alongside historians, for easier access to their data via full-SQL and in a relational model that lends itself to more useful, complex analysis.

Always intrigued to learn more about where we can help here, so if you have any insight, we'd love to hear from you: hello@timescale.com
> I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those ads, it just amazed me that NONE of them seemed to be aimed at adults or tried to sell the phone as being a productive computer.

They have several different ads, selling different features, to different groups of people.
Apple's interest here is the patent licensing policy change.

Apple has been losing legal battles against wireless patent holders for as long as the iPhones have been around. In their quest to squeeze their wireless suppliers (Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, etc...), Apple has challenged their licensing practices -- ie, royalty rates and basis -- every time their licensing contract was up for renewal, claiming that their licensing practices are in breach of FRAND. Of course, Apple never had any evidence of such violation and lost or settled every lawsuit.

Now that it's evident that they can't win in courts, they are trying to convince policy makers/regulators to do it for them. It helps Apple's cause mightily when their largest patent holder is found in violation of anti-trust/competition laws and, contrast to their past policy of letting the market work things out, now Apple's friends in DC and FTC have to implement draconian licensing policies in favor of Apple to better control abuses in wireless patent licensing.
That's basically how Secure Scuttlebut works; the super nodes are called pubs.

It's actually remarkably easy to onboard to SSB with Patchwork. The problems set in when you start considering mobile devices or multi-device support (the latter is currently possible but risky).
Somehow...I didn’t see that. Thanks.
Are you still an insurance skeptic? What does that mean?
In the U.S., it's extensively regulated by both Federal and State laws, though the amount of regulation varies from state to state, and even county. The regulations don't just cover how the food is processed, but also where the food is stored and the vehicles the food is transported in.

Very few foods can be processed outside of a licensed cannery. Usually only items that don't require refrigeration to stay fresh, for example dried foods or preserves that don't have large pieces of low-acid fruit.
The Third Age of Jagex, Developers of Runescape
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Watching the screenshot I felt happy to have a centralized way to track exams instead of printed record scattered here and there.
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I would not do it on an exchange for two reasons:

1) Counterparty risk. Bitcoin exchanges go out of business way too often.

2) They have enough money to manipulate the market.
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Three Ways Technology Will Change the Gig Economy in 2018
Well back then, they had games which were consumption, and honestly, mostly what I use a computer for. I also programmed. I think the missing ingredient is showing off (as implied in an earlier post). In other words, when we wrote something, we would show it off to other people.
I've looked in to this before to build rPi binaries on a more powerful x86 machine, but i've never been able to get Jenkins/Java running under QEMU
Why did you link this extremely non-related link to 'death spiral'?
I'm one of those people. I would be really interested in seeing what percentage of exploits, malware and spyware is caught by each feature of the common AV suite. I suspect that Defender is at the sweet spot.

Additionally, I see the entire AV market as a leech that was only able to grow as it had because Microsoft was able to shirk its responsibilities with respect to security for so long. Now that Microsoft are trying to handle the problem the AV companies are crying foul because they think they deserve the right to exist, which means Microsoft shouldn't do too much to help their own customers.

AV companies are the car dealerships of the digital realm. Superficial middlemen ensconced in a bygone era leeching money from the unwary. We should be careful, lest we legally formalize that relationship as we have with the dealerships.
I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though. And I am not talking about getting rid of what I consider undemocratic processes in the U.S like gerrymandering, removing capacity to vote (closing I.d card issuing centres etc). But true reform in functional representative democracies.
> said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.

On a side note, I think that's the first time I've ever seen a quote from Apple's COO since Tim Cook left the job.
Scientists send squid into space to study glowing bacteria microbiomes
We need P2P not federated. Federated still requires trusting a server which is not good. We've tackled this problem and produced an insanely simple API for creating fully P2P apps, even the cliche Twitter/todo app can be built in 4min: https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4
sure but wouldn't you agree that being in business at all, and not unemployed, is a bigger thing, and that the luxury to play is earned by success. if you can't pay people including yourself, I suppose you can always stay at home and play/experiment all you want.
When I hear of accounting like that, my immediate desire is to see GE Switzerland nationalized, and its shareholders get paid $40K for it. That's what it's worth, right?
Order Status, the Long Awaited Feature – Peapod
x.25 there is a blast from the past
Shoot me an email, and I'll happily share my thoughts. My email address is in my profile.
>I figure we'll be able to charge about $1-2k per hour

Knowing my luck, that will be $15 / hour in present dollars. :)
It seems like Apple's interest in health data is an important part of their unusual concern for user privacy. The less secure the phone, the more problems they'll have with something like HIPAA.
Quantum Weirdness in Your Browser
This goes beyond blogs. So much of the web is cluttered with unnecessary crap, loading hundreds of resources to show you a small section of text you're interested in that you have to scroll down to see.

You have to have a content first mentality to do something like this.

Even Medium, for example, blocks me from reading a post until I close a popup asking me to register an account. No thanks! I just want to read the post.
I heard an anecdote that in the late '60s someone put a bunch of interns in a room with with a few computers & digital camera to solve the object detection problem - he figured they'd be done by the end of the summer. 30 years later, that looked very much impossible to do. But 50 years later, it was eventually solved. Like I said - "always"/"never" are very long time periods...
That could almost be a corollary to Brooke's Law[0] (aka the mythical man month).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
I HATE that. Even worse are some wikis like the ROS wiki that if you click on text to highlight it, it enters edit page mode. Aghhhhh!
I've considered that, as well. I enjoy Mastodon, and am working on another ActivityPub project. But in a lot of ways it's not a significant advantage over Usenet.
awesome, except it doesn't look like there are any incentives to running a server. unless i missed something?
Regardless of whether it drives widespread Bitcoin adoption as a medium of payment, Lightning is a very fascinating technical solution to the scaling problem.
I was thinking this as well. If they're fully focused on email right now their best case outcomes are getting acquired by somebody who offers a full suite (email, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.), or using email as their proof of concept to raise more money and expand their offerings.
TheHappieCat. She talks about various computer science topics, usually with a focus on games. She also occasionally does tutorials for engines/languages.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsuOBu-dxj5bx1KMgmar5g
Well, 30% that's not from the individual managers still leaves plenty of people who have never seen this even once in their careers. So there's plenty of, if not exactly counter evidence, then... counter experience?

I once had a manager who had a bunch of people leaving. They were not leaving him, the manager; they were leaving the situation the division was in that put the engineers in difficult working conditions. But the manager had HR interview several of his people, to see if he, the manager, was the problem. He said, "I had to know." (Of course, if he's that honest and that willing to look, you have a pretty good idea that he's not the problem, even before HR comes back with the results.)
How to Win Enterprise Deals Without a Sales&Marketing Budget?
Even if that wasn't up on the site, it would appear at the top of any basic credit report.
Middle management people are the graphite control rods of a nuclear reactor, they slow down the process enough to be useful and act as sacrificial elements in the power plant.

The Gervais Principle is a great lens with which to look at company hierarchies and all people in any large organization should know about it: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

"Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves."(Don't get too attached to the names used, Rao intentionally makes everyone into a miserable cog in the machine)
You put a green checkmark emoji at the end of your display name. There, you're verified.
Probably because showering is the one time you can't be stuck to your phone screens.
also, i believe d.tube uses cryptocurrencies to incentivize participation.
The WSJ had an interesting article about antitrust lawsuits and calls out why the EU is issuing fines while the US isn't.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-antitrust-case-against-face...

The main takeaway I got was that they have different views on what is a monopoly and how/when it is bad. From the article:

> The different outcomes hinge in part on different approaches. European regulators are more likely to see a shrinking pool of competitors as inherently bad for both competition and consumers. American regulators are more open to the possibility that it could be natural and benign.
put the oven in the car
I'm nearly 40 and I really enjoy Tehanu and The Other Wind much more now than I did when they were first published. I find it much easier to identify with the aging characters. I think TOW is now my favorite of the series.
Would you start using the service that offers you free unlimited cloud storage?
I thought about that, but the problem is, I would have to decode and then re-encode the video on save to composite in the mouse cursor. As far as I know, there is no way to quickly and non-destructively composite an image on top of h264 video.
I'm curious why you think highlighting text is a bad habit. I find it useful for quickly finding my place after looking away from the screen.
No, we have these at work and the LEDs are definitely controlled with a square wave. If you wave your hand back and forth you can see the strobe effect. Nice light bulbs but they'll still give you a headache.
I’m aware what speed of traffic means. The actual reason for the phenomenon I described is that there are a lot of hyper-aggressive low-skilled drivers out there. Note that “skill” in this context means driving in a way that optimizes for keeping yourself and your fellow commuters alive so we can all go home to our families; not an ability to weave through traffic and teach slow drivers a thing or two about blocking lanes.

Please drive safely.
I proved a lemma while shampooing as well.
It gives immense pleasure to run away naked and wet, grab a pencil, and scribble some nonsense in a paper.
Why Sports and Elite Academics Do Not Mix (2017)
Hi,

Author here, happy to answer questions and share our vision of it. Many problems require more complex approaches, and we definitely have Fellows tackle some of those (https://blog.insightdatascience.com/entity2vec-dad368c5b830).

That being said, when it comes to the volume of practical applications that come up for the many teams that we work with, the vast majority can be solved by the techniques outlined in the post. These techniques are simpler, but often overlooked. We believe that they should often be a starting point, and most of the time they end up being good enough for the job.
Jam tomorrow
‘Niksen’: Do nothing without guilt
This may refer to the project you mention there.

http://www.lyndonhill.com/opinion-cvlegends.html
BitMex
Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes Come in from the Cold
If the individual manager is bad enough for long enough to make people leave, that in and of itself means there is a supervision problem that extends at least 2-3 levels above that manager.
1. You don't buy a car on a credit card. Dealerships won't even accept cards. Private individuals won't, either.

2. Your counterparty (the dealership) will sell your data, regardless of whether you pay with cheque, cash, bitcoin, gold coins, or lost pirate treasure.