skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Minimal Version Selection

Means no security fixes at the price of, well, minor developer inconvenience? What is the inconvenience, exactly?

> ...tomorrow the same sequence of commands you ran today would produce a different result.

I mean, I guess this is technically true. But seems like it shouldn't be an issue in practice as the API you're calling shouldn't have changed, just the implementation. If it has changed, then downgrade the dependency?
Thanks, found this link about this which was pretty useful as someone who doesn't know much about this already; https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/04/guide-http2-server-...
That assertion is incorrect. There are reasons. Reasons that you and I might find vain or foolhardy, but reasons nevertheless.
> Any advice on how to do this in Juptyer with Python? In an ideal world, I'd just "tag" a cell somehow so that it ran periodically.

Don't. Use something that will engage them visually and mentally. Kids are not impressed with text, that ship has sailed.
It's in the signature. `b` has a causal dependency on `a` because `a` is on the left hand side of the arrow and `b` is on the right hand side of the arrow. That's it. Functional programming 101. There's no way around this.

The operational semantics and details of thunks are not relevant here. Tricks with `undefined` are not relevant here. This is just the meaning of the arrow type.
Most people here seems to miss the point. If you tell people to wear an helmet to cycle, they won't cycle.
Maybe you see something else, but I see 1 fairly standard side ad and 2 pretty small ads at the far bottom of the article.

I wouldn't call 3 ads on a 3.7k word article "filled with ads".
How do you find common cause with someone who denies your basic and essential humanity?

Competence. Music. Food. By living a life of accomplishment and worth. There are some who will never be reached. They are not worth your time. There are others who can be reached, and it is your moral duty to make contact and reaffirm their humanity.

"Black Lives Matter" has shown that large portions of White America treat black people as invisible at best

That is the minimum acceptable behavior. If someone is willing to live and let live, then at least that should be appreciated. Unless one is trying to have their "SF Chinatown Adventure" many people where I live treat Asians as invisible. I, for one, think this is just fine, just so long as I can live my life and accomplish my own goals.

and deserving of their mistreatment at worst.

That is where behavior needs to be condemned. The left is now unwilling to condemn bad behavior in their own ranks. This is how a movement loses the moral high ground and devolves into bad behavior.
Really neat article. In the US though we'd fly a "don't tread on me" flag and say you crazy scientists ain't gettin' my baby's data.
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Sincerely,

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On Social Media, Lax Enforcement Lets Impostor Accounts Thrive
patio11 refers to subscription based software as a "financialization" of it, but I'd argue it runs deeper: it turns software from a single, large "opt-in" transaction, to a small "opt-in" transaction followed by a series of "opt-out" decision points for customers, putting more of the burden on the customer to disengage vs the business to sell the customer on the latest version every couple of months.

This runs into some tricky ground. Consider the fact that many customers who do not churn may also have not used the product, at all, in a given month. Given the difference between "existential risk" and "profitable enterprise" is a 5% change in churn rate, these customers may make all the difference!

How does a company balance reducing churn with ensuring that customers who (perhaps temporarily) have dis-engaged can easily turn off the software? For example, how long of a period of inactivity should a company wait before asking a customer if they would like to unsubscribe? Do any companies actually do this? Should we expect them to do this given that doing so may kill their entire business?
I own a similar clock (the Atmos clock mentioned in the article). It loses several minutes per month. FWIW, I live in Los Angeles and it has been the same regardless of time of year over the past decade or so. It's great that I don't need to wind it, and it's mesmerizing to watch, but it's not the most accurate clock in the world.
I didn't mind COBOL as a language (but it was overly verbose), it was the JCL to set it up and kick it off that drove me nuts.
Did it buzz and/or light up? Isn't that just as distracting?

Would a phone on silent/vibrate only mode offer the same convenience?
New York Times is 160 years old.

It is the 'paper of record'

I am just pointing that out because your comment doesn't make sense as it reads like these newspapers are becoming 'increasingly' dominant or narrative setting.

They have been that way for decades.
Can they not be simply hired as a foreign worker? Then the employee would pay taxes wherever they are a resident?

Does the location of the bank account matter?
A Teaching Experiment: Eliminate the Word Count
Anyone who has to deal with UCC1 filings at the State & County level can point to a blockchain use case that is a killer app. I've approached a few of the ICO's on this use-case without interest.
Mmm... that sort of hypothesis can't really be quantified, unfortunately, without surveying all your customers whether they bought their software due to a previous pirated copy (and getting honest answers).

I don't think the number is zero, as seen in this thread. But overall I don't think humans are that altruistic. :) This is probably particularly true for user-oriented niche software (like the software in question, premium flight sim DLC). Some software in the past (eg Adobe Photoshop) that was marketed primarily for businesses possibly benefited a little from consumers pirating it, but again, that "benefit" is hard to quantify as well.

The reason I like the "time bomb" approach though is that I think it gives a bit of a "push" to anyone who is actually using your product extensively. If they aren't using your product enough to care to pay for it, it's probably not a big deal if they stop using your software. If the "time bomb" is at a reasonable period, I have serious doubts that they'd suddenly decide n months later (with no time bomb) that it's all of a sudden worth it to pay for software the have for "free".

I don't think niche products unfortunately can do what mass market products are doing these days... which is switching business models towards ones where piracy can be controlled a bit more or is less of a big deal. (Freemium / DLC, cloud-based, subscription-based, etc.) In fact the only alternative model I see for niche is the Kickstarter one where the consumers themselves front the initial business costs (which can work out for consumers sometimes, and not work out other times).
on the same page with banks faking Libor, his main argument is governments can ban banks working with bitcoin and everything is dead in the water, first of all, a global enforcement of it must be done, seconds there are even constitutional rights here at play, and you can buypass banks all together, and in Japan is legal tender.

If bitcoin can challenge banks & money printing machines even a little then it kind of achieves its goal, and I think is happening already otherwise you won't see so much bad press, don't tell me bankers are just trying to inform, they are really worried about me losing money speculating on bitcoin, they didn't cared when they crashed the economy in 2008, also I saw a news story the other day, the poland central bank or so, paid 30k euros to a famous local youtuber to trash bitcoin.
You're suggesting that nothing matters but the top result?

Don't be silly.
Because solar power is older than that CSP. For example, Mouchot's work on solar power in the the 1870s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Mouchot#Solar_researc... . His machine generated steam that could be used for mechanical power. At that point it's trivial to produce electricity. It just won't be cheap electricity.

In 1941 Asimov wrote the short story "Reason", which took place in a solar power satellite which beamed power down to Earth. He at this time wasn't thinking about PV, because it didn't meaningfully exist, and the story only talks about a "converter". (The station is also a mile across, and in solar orbit.)

There's another SF book I read, probably written in the 1950s, about building such a power plant in Earth orbit. It used a mirror to heat up material in its focus to generate power. (One of the side plots of the story was that some TV show was being filmed on the construction site, and the lead actor, in a space suit, almost drifted through the invisible focus.) This is why I'm sure that SF at the time didn't say that solar power stations had to be PV.

I looked around for something more definitive. In 1981 Asimov wrote "How Did We Find About Solar Power", available at https://archive.org/stream/HowDidWeFindAboutSolarPower-Engli... .

That booklet predicts PV use for the future. (It's also where I learned specifically about Mouchot's work.) In the 1980s he know the cost of PV power was growing ever cheaper.

What it doesn't answer is what Asimov thought in the 1960s.

He might simply have left it open, as he did in "Reason".

So, I could be wrong about my belief. But it's surely not obvious that Asimov is specifically predicting PV over other possibilities that he reasonably know about.
This parametric equation set draws a hamburger: x=sin(tan(t)) and y=cos(t)

Picture:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hamburger_plot_ies.P...
So the author who finds blockchain useless is willing to put money where their mouth is?
You're stretching. :) But even if I accept the point you're making here, that doesn't make monads synonymous with choice. Every choice is not a monad, and every monad is not a choice. This is far too reductionist. Is there no choice involved in monoids, arrows, for example? What makes monads special in this regard? And what about I/O in languages that cannot implement these concepts?
Statistics don't work that way. Applying an aggregate metric (life expectancy) to an individual is what gets you statements like "Babe Ruth and I hit a combined 714 home runs", or beliefs like colonial Americans all dying by age 30 (they didn't; the average is heavily skewed due to child mortality).

Wearing a helmet doesn't increase the number of minutes of your life like you're winding a clock or something. It decreases the probability that you're dead by 40 from a preventable tragedy, leaving your parents without a child and your family without a parent.
The author of the SaaS course I mentioned ran away from Udemy because of this.
From the Fitbit blog post on the topic, it looks like the effect will be nill for me. Can’t buy new apps? Don’t care. It appears that day to day use will continue uninterrupted, at least for me.
Cherry picking a single sample, getting facts wrong about the 12V port and handles, not even doing a comparison with the handles on other cars?

I mean, having Detroit car makers, notorious for bad build quality, and critique Tesla reeks of people like Steve Ballmer criticizing Apple, or the ULA folks running critics of SpaceX.

Biased means I this case, a tear down free of context. What’s the defect rate of Detroit built cars of similar class and age? How many recalls have they endured?
Which ideally should try to solve problems pragmatically, rather than resorting to "excision and destruction"
But the public perception of encyclopedic has changed since the marriage of data storage with computation.

A printed volume has limitations that do not exist in a database or a filesystem. A wiki encyclopedia can easily preserve all information ever added to it, and still present it through as many interfaces as it likes.

If articles are tagged with enough metadata, it would not be extraordinarily difficult to produce all of the following automatically, with no further human intervention: abridged dictionary, unabridged dictionary, single-volume encyclopedia, multi-volume encyclopedia, single-disc encyclopedia, all math and science, all history, all art, all art minus the webcomics, all meaningful human knowledge, every last bit of trivia ever recorded, and everything written by anyone named Steven or Stephen.

It could be like moderating an entire library with the Slashdot system and then setting the default browse level to +4 or +5. But instead, the moderator-tyrants delete anything that they believe to be (-1, unimportant), and they can't be effectively metamoderated by the community.
Nice, I can see the value in directions while walking around.
None are novel, but it is a good summary of all of the problems. And there aren't any good answers to these criticisms, so they're worth repeating.
I'm teaching someone to code right now on the Raspberry Pi, and JupyterLab is working far better for us than IDLE or a separate text file and terminal. We use the workflow described in http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/documents_ke.... We open up our python file and a console side-by-side, and pressing shift-enter in the file sends a line or selection to a console. We can easily investigate it in the console outside of the file too.

You can just "pip install jupyterlab" on a Raspberry Pi and it works great!
Exactly. It's FOMO rather than anything tangible, which can work quite well as long as you don't mess up completely.

Anybody remember color.com?

https://www.fastcompany.com/3002341/color-failed-what-happen...

I don't think Bill Nguyen would be able to repeat that sort of raise.
Give me collaborative editing please. It's a great potential feature for pair programming or instructing with Jupyter.
I'm quite an anxious person and even just the thought of cycling in London puts me off it.

I've looked at the route map and most of it is on incredibly busy roads, including Henleys Corner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henlys_Corner) one of the busiest junctions.
No one actually reads Nietzsche. He is just used as a boogeyman for anything bad.
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

-John Maynard Keynes
The article confuses two things, fake noises generated by speakers, and real noises tuned/directed into specific parts of the cabin.

A 7 series might be insulated enough that the models that come with V6 and V8s need some artificial help, but the V12 is loud enough that any generated sounds are just overkill, it’s a very throaty engine... if you want it to be
Blockchain's primary utility is in creating what initially was a complicated way to allow people to convert money into another currency that was easy to transfer around the world and use in ways that people would not want to use real fiat currency for. Without that utility, the whole thing would be a boring article somebody wrote back in 2008. Without the obfuscation of blockchain and mining and distributed ledger and all that, if people in china said "hey I want to convert my RMB into something called magic money that allows me to move 1 billion RMB into another country", the government would block them. But when they did it with bitcoin nobody initially freaked out because they were confused.. so eventually blockchain will be improved and as it improves it will become more centralized, more reliable, and less anonymous.. no big surprise this has happened many times before in the various era's of the internet...
And they now support both Python2 and Python3.
Can you give that to me in football fields?
> If you are doing things that require a lot of research and experimentation

In other words, "anything useful".
Minimum wage in California is $11/hr as of Jan 1st this year.
I had remembered the conntrack stuff being in a different manpage, but maybe that's faulty memory on my part.
How much public information is there about how much support this will get outside of Google?
> as long as there is freely available land of sufficient quality

For any reasonable near-term (centuries scale) prospect, there are no serious space or material constraints to outer space. Quality is a different subject, I want to get into that.

> Yet, given the harshness and distances in space, and the fact that land generally obtains value by proximity to other stores of human-produced value

Density of development is fundamentally different in microgravity. Our cities are all 2-dimensional. We can create a space station that hosts a "metro" area of stupendous population where everyone is in fairly quite commuting time of each other.

Of course, we have to return to the "quality" aspect. More work is required up-front to get this sort of thing working. On Earth, we already have many resources that we take for granted for which we would have to devote effort to producing in space. Consider, Oxygen, fresh water, soil, etc.

But couldn't the same thing have been said about virtually every component that went into creating the industrial revolution in the first place? The production of one thing requires support of another industrial product. Enormous production chains are created. Coal products are used in blast furnaces to make steel. Steel is used to make rail tracks to transport coal. Coal is burned to power steam engines to remove water from coal mines. Steal is used to produce those steam engines. Before long, steam engines are used to move coal over the tracks. All of this network goes to create manufactured goods, which make farming more efficient to support more people. In a superficial sense it would kind of sound easier to stay at prior population levels and live with the less efficient farming that didn't have this wild, confusing, and unsustainable web of dependencies.

Why haven't we made progress toward a space-based industrial network of production? You can hardly say we've tried. Through the Shuttle era, launch economics hardly budged. Space programs were turned into science & jobs programs. Manned exploration beyond Earth orbit stopped, and all robotic (indirect) interaction with the rest of material in our solar system ground to a crawl. A major rover like Curiosity takes years to drive as far as the manned lunar rover did in a day, at a tremendous time and resource cost.

Actual exploitation of space resources has so little actually invested in it. The main value we derive from space now is a perch from which to spy on and locate the citizens of Earth. Spending on space is not, at all, focused on something you can "development". Nor has it been. The one time we passed an international law on space resources (the Outer Space Treaty), we came up with incoherent and inaction-able drivel that undeveloped (and presently useless) resources were the property of everyone, and that only governments are really use them.
Visualization of the same technique:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/7wztif/generative_art_...
The free trial section gave me an idea. I have a product (a course) which can be used in 2-4 weeks.

This isn't exactly SAAS, but there's some overlap. Has anyone ever seen (or tried) a full free trial which lasts 2-3 days?

I currently just have some demo videos, but it occurs to me I might increase conversion if I just let people into the full thing, let them have a taste, and then ask them to pay if they want to keep access.

I could limit it by time or percent watched.
If I can help you with proofreading and editing your work, please let me know. I can be reached at victomlinson@proofpapers.com. Sincerely, Vic
I would love some examples where R makes it easier to get answers than Python. Probably would make good Pandas2 issue too!
I think this may be a good thing. But I've heard overdosing on Vitamin D increases some cancers and cardiovascular issues. Why should I trust you and not government funded research?
I think yours is a defensible position, but I'm not sure I agree with it. Scammers, while not posing immediate physical danger to others, can still pose enormous harm to many people. Banning them from engaging in various financial positions may not prevent them from running scams from outside the normal financial system.

For this person, I think I could support just a fine and a ban on working in the finance industry. I think it's likely he regrets what he did, and is unlikely to cause further harm to society. But there are people like Bernie Madoff (and people who only aspire to be as big a scammer as Madoff) who I think pose a continued, further harm to society.
These issues all seem to be solved by lockfiles, which are a part of the dep tool. Why ditch them here? It seems like rsc seems to be hinting at an argument for simplicity. But the long history of package managers, and my anecdotal experience confirms, that you're going to need a lock file no matter what. Good versioning practices are not enough, npm versions 1-4 prove that you need locking, and it must be on by default to make reproducible software. Minimum versioning will likely be better than the newest version for stability, but its not enough.
It's worth noting that the "star" of Big Short, FrontPoint Partners, very nearly went bankrupt because the collapse took longer than Steve Eisman thought it would. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
According to your link it is the actual engine but played over the stereo. As if the car doesn't have windows :)

I can totally see how this will eventually play out the way you describe it though, and worse, maybe they'll end up putting speakers on the outside as well.
Ask HN: Pragmatic choice of server-side web framework
Questions on web frameworks come up often, but I feel mine has slightly more context that I hope others will have more experience in.

I want to build a few SaaS projects on the side to see if they take off.

I want to keep my technology choice pragmatic in order to get something made fast with the desired functionality without creating too many bugs on the way. I'm open to different technology choices (and can pick up any similar backend framework quickly), but there are a couple things that I think are most important:

* Pragmatic: I don't need a SSR PWA SPA with all the newest bells and whistles. I'd ideally like to keep the complexity low. Regular pages with forms and postbacks seem to be the way to go here, with javascript sprinkled in where needed (maybe something like turbolinks if the UX is hindering the product, but I'd like to avoid paying the SPA tax if possible). dotnet core MVC, Rails, and Django seem like the most appropriate options here

* Active: I'd rather not use something abandoned where either bugs in the framework or surrounding libraries will not be fixed.

I don't have a language preference. My framework familiarity in decreasing order is aspnet MVC, Rails, express/sails. Most of these topics say use whatever framework for whichever language/environment you know best, but I could get equally up to snuff in a week or two of evenings with any of these.

I also don't mind using something that is non-traditional if it is the better choice. I've contributed to running Servant, Compojure, React, and Angular projects at various places I've worked.

I'm leaning towards dotnet core MVC or Rails.
Blockchains are very inefficient if the ledger can be controlled by trusted sources. Git for example is far more efficient at managing local copies of object state and history. Most organizations have no use for trustless data structures, so I would agree that blockchains have limited use outside of pure p2p anonymous networks.
Thus burning fuel around others is a very obvious criminal offense.
"the first hit is always free"

Who decides when they need to start paying and what thought process do they apply to that decision? Profit maximisation probably involves putting alternatives out of business first.

Similar to how Microsoft and Adobe we're okay with piracy in developing nations on the basis it would kill competition and they'd get paid later.