skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP: but working on a downstream project and my current boss used to work on EMBL-bank in the day.
A lot of this stuff is in databases. e.g. Oracle and I think for advanced search it was in Teradata.

However, databases are hard to share so many steps require dumping the database into some interchange formats (custom and often from before the age of XML or JSON, yeah for ASN.1 parsing!)

Sharing database dumps is done but commercial licenses and version mismatches do add issues here as well. Remember EMBL/ENA is older than MySQL.
The databases tend to have the wrong shape for the next downstream step i.e. table design is related to work flow and if your next step in working is completely different we end up with issues. Also some data can't be published until a certain date so that needs to be filtered from the dumps in some way.

Consider as well that this project is 3 decades old and used to be printed in books at some point, and shipped on DVD as recently as 2004. File based operations can be extremely efficient.
Just for the record, a previous similar attempt, unfortunately discontinued, that was aimed to very compact code and interoperability on all Operating Systems:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130329160607/http://www.bernar...
Qt Creator 4.6 Beta released
expletives?
Yubico CEO Predicts Big Year for Cryptographic Key Devices
IMHO, a NDA should always be limited in time. I am pretty sure twillio would not request a judicial review for a NDA lasting a couple of weeks. For a NDA lasting more than a year, a judicial review seems justified. Avoidind judicial review may be a good motivation for FBI to use shorter NDA. This would benefit to transparency.
SOME types of execise are bad or at least not that great for you, like jogging/running as it damages your knees in the long run(heh).
Serverless computing?
Is it really necessary to ask people of they're over 21? Why 21 and not 18? Why ask that at all?
Well, I just wanted to use pandas to load a 4GB csv file. After using 32GB of my RAM, and 4GB of swap I gave up. I've just loaded all that data to Postgres, and made a couple of queries. This way I stopped using pandas at all.
>Really? Do you have cameras looking at you all day at work? Or at home, while interacting with your family? I hope not. I also hope that you'd object to any attempts to put such a device.

Okay, this was a generalization and exaggeration on my part (to a certain extent that is), but at the same time - how many cameras (notebook, smartphone etc) do you have at home at any give time? At the office? Security cameras are everywhere, any modern business center have dozens of them on each floor.

>That's just dystopian.

Sounds dystopian. And you don't need to equip everyone with them. Police, CCTV, transport (busses, taxis etc) will cover most of it. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your... - this will be everywhere soon enough.

>that's like saying that since children are most likely to be abused at home, then we should outlaw parenting, and have the state raise all kids using only state-certified™ personnel.

Two differenct things here. If we are to compare those to IT support - parenting is the last line of support (in fact parents are the developers in this case). But you also need to make sure that kids who happen to be born into a bad family\neighbourhood also behave. Yes, you shouldn't just put a collar on them, but instead try to help them somehow - that's the 2nd line of support. 1st line of support is the CCTV's AI that will monitor them to keep things under control.

In other words - I'm not trying to say that one should be replaced by the other.

>potential for abuse

This risk in always out there. Gun control, police, drug stores you name it.
V-Play: Use QT to Build Cross-Platform Apps
I don't think the rules of the lottery allow this, so no.
Ah, good to know. Main point is that Unicode is not a problem however cumbersome it might get.
In early UI we can see a Wastebasket, which ended up being changed to the Recycle Bin.

As a user I would say that Recycle Bin is a misleading name because it has nothing to do with recycling a file / folder. However it has a more positive sounding than the weird Wastebasket.

Meanwhile classic Mac OS already had a Trash. Simple, clear and short.

I wonder why Windows could not simply name it Trash? Could it be that they did tried to stay away from copying as much as possible?
She has no assets because she didn't fulfill the requirements and rules of the competition. This is like supplying no work but demanding a payment anyways.
How the Republicans Rigged Congress Using Gerrymandering
It was a lame and absurd joke,... but what I meant is that the dominant one that people without any particular interest flock in. Now, it's Facebook. In the past, it was the taboo magazines in Walmart checkout lines and at gas stations, so that's why it used to be clothing. If Facebook didn't make it, I think we wouldn't have seen the shift mentioned.

The average person thinks what's popular is what makes them likable, not that he/she has found a more meaningful life in travels and """experiences""". Btw, I'm from Vietnam, the news there is changing rapidly but still have an emphasis on celebrities, so I notice that Viet immigrants in the US care about how you look & dress more than American people. Every comment on how I dress was from my Viet friends and our girls wear a lot of LV bags :)
Oh, yeah, it's certainly a problem. However, they could almost certainly have done a lot better with Java than they'd been doing, if they wanted to.
Many people wouldn't trust a lottery in which no one has ever provably won.
Maybe that's just what they want you to think! /tinfoil
Android, bleh. Long time ago they had such a good operating system with
readers that, among the others, supported ToC in PDFs and ePubs. Unfortunately
they ditched that all for some underdeveloped software.
Two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in a science writer's stories
As I say, I think it'd put off a lot of people who aren't vegan at all if they knew about it; it's unsettling.
My impression, as a husband and father who admittedly doesn't shop very often, was that lots of women's clothes on sale - obviously not high-end ones - are all the things you said, but relatively inexpensive and supposed to not be used a lot of time, with the idea that you buy many and change them often.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on an opinion tracker?
This is not a startup idea, I'm just looking for a pet project to work on and I came up with an idea that sounds promising to me. I wanted some feedback on it.

The idea is basically a journal of your opinions. I'm imaginaning connecting this with various different social media and other journaling apps so there won't be too much to deal with. For the moment I'll take Twitter as an example, since people tend to post their opinions there anyway. By tweeting something like "I think Brexit is stupid", you can record an opinion on a topic, and then watch it grow and change over time. You can add sources, reasons why you think the topic is important, track your confidence in that opinion, etc.

I'll flesh this out and come up with designs a bit later, but right now I'm just looking for basic validation of this idea: Does this sound cool? Would you use it? Why or why not?

Thanks in advance!
Ask HN: Depression Hacks
Hi, throaway account here!

Thing is, I'm depressed, not sad, it's an ongoing depression and I'm fighting it! Some things I did & choices I made to fight the depression had the completely opposite effect and my life is now pretty much in ruins. I'm franatically reading some books and considering therapy, but my question is: Are there any hacks (which a developer & numbery guy like me would appreciate) that you did to fight "it" (the hole, standing on the brink, the deep well that is going to devour you)?

Thx, hard times ...
Ask HN: What to do when you have no tech founder?
Please, recommend some tools for building a web app to someone who has no technical skills and got no tech co-founder, or budget to hire one.
With Instagram you either get Facebook's hyper-niche targeting parameters, or ads based on previous engagement as well.

Snapchat's targeting is deliberately vague (based on the presumed anonymity of the service) - which can be ok for brand-awareness campaigns, but bad for conversion campaigns, hence why you see it more tailored to puff-piece content over and above specific ecommerce.

Seemed like an interesting tool, but a harder one for SMEs to sign off on compared to IG/FB/Google.
Indian Bitcoin Investors Should Pay Taxes on Their Crypto Earnings
According to reddit, even the center core (B1033) was Block 3. No block 5 cores have flown yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores#wiki_.5Bfh.5D_b10...
Air pollution in London passes levels in Beijing (2017)
Ryszard Czarnecki No Longer Vice-President of Parliament
That was part of Apple’s GUI lawsuit in 1994 against Microfoft. Apple lost all parts of the suit except for the exclusive rights to the trash icon. Microsoft was forced to replace it with the recycle bin.
I don't even want a stylus, I just want an A4 eink device that I can read A4 formatted PDFs on (papers / textbooks).

This is pretty much the only thing I actually use my iPad for right now.
Classic Mac OS (System 7 was contemporary to Windows 95) didn't really have any concept of minimisation or even maximization as such.

There was no task bar or dock or anything else really to minimise to. IIRC there were addons for 7.1 that added "window shading": a button on the window title bar that reduces the window to just the title bar.[1]

The closest thing to a maximise button in classic Mac OS was more like a size-to-fit button: the application gave the window manager a hint which was the appropriate size for the document displayed, be it a file folder, a word processor document or whatever. Having a single window fill the entire screen wasn't as common as it was on Windows.

None of this was particularly strange to me back then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowShade apparently a standard feature later on
You can actually drag a file from one window to the other without having both showing (such as between two maximized windows). While dragging a file, you can still manipulate windows around using the keyboard, like with alt-tab.

For example, you can begin dragging a file, then alt-tab to another window or tab or even open a new program or whatever using the keyboard, and then finally release the file into the destination window.

It's not obvious that this would work, but it is convenient if you find yourself wanting to drag something with the mouse for some reason.
> I think this is very good news. Fast fashion leads to resource and people exploitation.

Not a fan of fast-fashion, but what does "people exploitation" mean?

Should a Bangladeshi factory worker go back to begging in the streets instead of working a job at a factory? They provide value in terms of making a product that you buy.. what's the problem with that?
A Data-Driven Clojure API for Neovim
Thanks for mentioning Julia, a good solution to slow Python code. I used Julia for 2 weeks last year on a consulting gig, and despite rough spots and given more development time, Julia might become fairly popular.

I have never been much of a fan of Python. 15 years ago at lunch Peter Norvig was talking about the advantages of Python (he and I wrote Common Lisp books at the same time). I then tried Python for a few months but then went back to Ruby for a scripting language and Java, Common Lisp, and Haskell for non-scripting tasks.

I now manage a machine learning team that is all-in using Python so that is what I am using also. I am starting to really like Python, and by using type annotations, heavy use of pylint and PyCharm, I am finding Python really nice to use. Spinning up on using Cython is on my want-to-do list also.
Ref: Underlying data for this article via the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/cex/
Microsoft Anti Ransomware bypass (not a vulnerability for Microsoft)
I feel absolutely the same about Gnome 3. One of the biggest things, I think, is that it puts workspaces absolutely in your face, so using them is a much more natural part of the workflow than in Gnome 2. It's also more keyboard-friendly than Gnome 2 (though it still could use some work in this area). Despite being rather large (gnome-shell on Wayland is typically the second-biggest RAM user on my laptop), it feels minimalistic, and is almost always fast, and stays out of the way of whatever I'm working on.
Show HN: An enclosure for my homebrew Calculon/80 microcomputer
Even those judges that claim to follow a strict interpretation of the constitution as written (as opposed to the spirit) have recognized there are legitimate exceptions to the first amendment with regards to free speech, which include fighting words, obscenity, defamation (slander/libel), some court proceedings (gag orders), and national security concerns.

Most of these are fairly narrow. National security letters are generally the most questionable limitation, although their use has been clarified somewhat.
Huh? http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.html
How to Master Windows 10 Explorer
> Minimized windows also used to show up at the bottom of the screen when using "Expose", but then Apple changed the name to "Mission Control" and removed them.

Eh? They still do, as of MacOS 10.13.
Plasma 5.12 is out, and it is faster, stabler, and has more features than ever
I'll add to my previous response to this post:

Bitcoin users fall into basically two camps:

1. Users who want to ride the hype to make money (be it through speculation or through a centralized service).

2. Users who want untrusted decentralization as an ideological benefit.

If you're in the first camp, you have no reason to care about decentralization. And frankly, if you're in this camp, you're more likely to be taken by one of the more knowledgeable users in this camp who is running a scam of some sort than to make money yourself. The traditional banking system might be better for you. Not because you're not welcome, but because untrusted decentralization doesn't fit your goals.

If you're in the second camp, you have little reason to want adoption beyond a certain point. Obviously adoption increases value and utility of your coins, but it also pushes regulation (i.e. recent Chinese policy changes) and centralization (like SegWit). Large-scale adoption has not been a good thing for ideological proponents of Bitcoin.

It sounds like you're in the first camp, and you're not going to understand why the ideas you're posing don't work until you understand the second camp. Bitcoin was created for the goals of the second camp and if those goals aren't your goals, using it is probably counterproductive.
The Influence of Blockchain Technology on Online Marketplaces
I think I should have put "all day long" in quote in my original comment.

This is an exaggeration for sure, I just wanted to say that when you can been seen on the screen while commuting to work, while walking in the street, walking through the business center etc - this is basically "all day long" in my book.
You can add a #hashtag or even a bunch of them to every post though.

Makes it easy to filter by topic.

Another quick tip: you can have multiple chats with the exact same recipients. Nice if you have a running chat with someone and you also have one or more shared projects.
A bid to solve California's housing crisis could redraw how cities grow
You left out the most quantitative measure of all: 525,600 minutes.
Microsoft Will Buy Existing Cloud Storage Contracts
But when it is full screen then you can't alt tab, right? You would have to use the shortcut to switch workspaces. Maybe I just remember wrong.
> This is in line with the "spend money on experiences not stuff" trend we're watching rise in popularity, particularly in the younger generation.

The irony is that vacations ARE the exact same thing as buying stuff. It's just you're buying stuff for your time. The worst part is that these vacations are commodity items. It's not like people are having new adventures and unique experiences - they're doing the same shit millions of other people do, the way people buy the same shit millions of other people buy. Nothing interesting in that...
Twitter used to have an RSS feed for users that you followed. So oldskool private Twitter accounts would be kind of similar too.
How would a person defend against this fingerprinting?
For reference, that company "CliqZ" is majority owned by a German ad, tracking, and publishing company, Burda.

Burda is mostly known for its tabloids (e.g. the clickbait magazine Focus that loves spreading conspiracy theories) and for its malware-serving ad and tracking networks.

That’s the company that Mozilla, by default, sent the autocomplete data of 1% of German users to.

That’s sure to inspire trust^H^H^H^H^H
Yeah... Probably. I suspect that they don't really have a clear idea for how this will "reimagine at-home shopping" in 5-10 years.

Online shopping has often been a mental goto for people trying to imagine how technology will change commerce. The 90s boom/bust was full of retailers, cargo-cult online versions of regular retailers. Amazon worked, but nothing else did. Even Amazon never made profits directly from retailing physical products.

In reality (post bust) the first big industry to really go online was travel, with hotels, flights and such going mostly online very fast. Even faster than software, interestingly.

I think it's a parallel to robots for automation. For automated hotels or whatnot, people generally imagine an atm-like check-in desk. Robot maid. Robot room service. Robot consierge.. Jetsons. In reality, the check-in is your phone, an extension of your non-existant travel agent. The robot maid might be a self cleaning bathroom, where the entire room "flushes". Room service is just-eat...

People use robots as mental place-holders, for tasks people will not do in the future. Sometimes they take it literally. They do the same with digital department stores, for ecommerce.

So.. I dunno. I doubt Walmart will be the thing that's revolutionised early by ar/vr. Maybe a vr view of a model wearing something would be good, but I doubt it's important until the devices are ubiquitous. Ie, not a "killer app", which is what matters now.

For now, I think you'd get more mileage by developing the current generation of online stores. For example, have 3-4 models of different ages, shapes and sizes wear stuff. Use video for browsing. Use a Starbucks instead of a runway. ..way better/more content..use the technology people already have.
Pressure Mounts on Vice Media Amid Leadership Questions
The NSA has made direct targeted attacks at US companies in the past. Just look at Google, they got NSLs and had to cooperate with PRISM yet at the same time the NSA still dug up their fiber and tapped it.

With the NSA's twisted logic that a search is not a search unless it matches and it's fine to search data so long as there's a chance it involves a non-US citizen I think jurisdiction is largely irrelevant for attacks other than the necessity of one seeing as the NSA has access to a secret court that has a history of never siding against them.

I'd view eliminating tyrannical government orders as a plus.
For some reason we used Trumpet stack. Could it be that OS stack didn't work very well at first?
I think the article makes a lot more sense if you consider it in the context of "Python for data science".

In the last few years, there's been a lot of hype about replacing other number crunching solutions (R, SPSS, even Matlab) with the Python ecosystem of tools (Pandas, SciPy, etc.).
Perspectives :). I don't like this feature for exactly the same reason. I wake up in the morning and there is a deluge of notifications since most of the people I follow are in the opposite timezone.
The JVM is fast enough for me but for some reason any JVM project requires hundreds of megabytes of RAM even for the simplest things.

cpp webserver + sqlite database + cygwin overhead? 9MB RAM
lua worker + websocket client? 4MB RAM
JVM server + static html page + websocket relay + kurento api? 500MB RAM

With the exception of the cpp webserver none of these tasks are CPU or memory intensive yet the JVM is still off by orders of magnitude.

It's ok if it's the only application running on a server with multiple users but there is just a single user and that's me.
Does the VP deliver value for the company? If so then it doesn't matter.
Changing the Music Industry with Smart Contracts… in the Small
It requires that your code is architected so performance critical sections of Python can move into C etc. Let's say that your code creates a complex object tree from some configuration settings, and executes Python methods and code from all over it, using heavy OO. That is difficult to move to C++ as your performance is spent on Python bookkeeping -- you are calling methods and thus looking things up in dictionary, you are modifying fields and also looking up more thing in dictionaries, increasing decreasing refcounts etc.

If you have a million 32-bit numbers that you current run Python code on, great, you don't have to convert Python objects to C at all.
Because Apple would issue again Microsoft about stealing stuff from Mac ?
Transfer mac mail to windows outlook
I guess what I am trying to say is, "Now, Apple, too?"
Ford Fusion Titanium Plus 2017, better if you get the Hybrid version. (This one I own)

Chevy Bolt/Volt. (This would be my first choice if I lived in the US)

Toyota Prius. (This would be my second choice if I lived in the US)

Honda Civic. (This one has a lot of information out there thanks to Comma AI)
I'd think so. They also 3D print a lot, but metal powder does seem expensive.
An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Unix Utilities (1989) [pdf]
Then include a renderer for VP9 in your App, as CnX Player does.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnx-player-ultra-hd-enabled/...
Polychain and Andreessen Horowitz Invest $61M in DFINITY
>there are not infact security cameras everywhere, footage is not centralized and analyized by huge powerful parties

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your...

You just wait.

>there are not infact security cameras everywhere

Well, depending on where you live of course. You won't find a single one in Somali most likely.

Anyway, as I've already said - I'm not trying to justify anything.
I don't get it. Chrome's store is for Chrome extensions and apps only. Not progressive web apps in general. If I get it correctly, Microsoft is trying to create an app store for applications that are already available on the internet as is.
Evolution is just persisted coincidence.
They are patented but there is a patent grant in place.

https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index/blob/master/PATENTS

Disclaimer: IANAL. Consult proper legal professionals etc.
Seconded. I've been repeatedly trying to work with MobileOrg and Orgzly, and while the latter had finally turned into something functional, stable and actually usable day-to-day, I'd still call Org mobile support severely lacking.
Cleveland converting vintage Boeing stratofreighter into restaurant and lounge
In an infinite string of random integers, 4 appears consecutively an arbitrary number of times.

There's no way to prove, of which I am aware, that a string of 24 fours is not random.
You’re using macOS wrong ;)

I remember Windows 95 as a complete disaster of crashes, data loss, failing installations, incompatible applications, missing drivers and countless other problems which were only fixed with the release of Windows 98 (maybe even SE), which was much much better. I have memories of people sticking with DOS and 3.x, only having 95 as a nondefault boot option in case they wanted to watch the Buddy Holly video or launch the new Encarta cd-rom.
How does this compare to Home Assistant project (https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant)
Beginnners might want to try The Javascript Way book on
https://github.com/bpesquet/thejsway/#. Best I've seen yet.