skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how this thread started as a 'HN is no better than twitter' opinion which very quickly descended into an emotional argument about something utterly unrelated, somewhat proving the point. I happen to agree with one of you, and I would've taken up the argument in the past, but I'm starting to come around to the idea that it's so pointless trying to discuss these kinds of political/social topics online that we should just avoid them altogether.
"Movie star" is a good word to use, rather than "actor". Good acting can make a stick figure convey emotion, but the financial appeal of a movie star face is something else entirely, as seen all the time with people who can act, but end up finding it more lucrative to sell themselves; CGI Kirk or Spock or whoever, or the actual rotting corpses and skeletons animated with voodoo magic -- how could that be worse than, say, Al Pacino doing a Dunkin' Donuts dance in an Adam Sandler movie? And we have that already, boat loads of it. We hardly have anything but that. It's about family, that's what makes it so powerful.

Personally, I could not care less how stuff I won't watch gets made, but even in passing I know that the hordes people who do the actual animation work will not get paid well. Apart from them I'm not really sure who to feel sorry for, if anyone.
I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting copy+pasting as an alternative to retweeting.
> It wouldn't have been hard to write a Slack competitor then. It wouldn't have had streaming video, and the client would have been native, but you could have gotten 80% of the functionality in there, and watched as people still complained it was just a fancy wrapper around IRC.

In 1998, I was using the Internet Explorer COM embeddable COM object to build an IRC client where all of the text rendering was handled by the HTML renderer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (The reason why is the same as the reason I'd do the same thing today: because fancy text layout in a native app has always sucked and still sucks :/.)
Well, it looks like that life is one of those non-binary sliding scale concepts. Accept this and move on.
This is exactly what I wanted to write. But some people can't be helped... Our school also forced us MS Office and I had to learn LibreOffice myself. I have been using OO/LibreOffice since I finished school and I am not looking back. It's sad that some people don't know about alternatives and are paying for Office360 regularly, they are like drug addicts.
> your point about cash and cash equivalents.

Individuals need to hold a certain amount of their 401K/IRA in cash to pay expenses, to prevent having to sell a lot of stock in a bear market. Individuals will not have the time to recover from a sharp bear market just as they begin retirement. This causes them to miss out on the higher upside in normal and bull markets. (see "sequence risk")

Permanent funds, adequately funded, could leave a greater percentage of their money in equities, which has (historically had) higher overall returns despite larger short-term drawdowns.
Thanks for the comments on Bazel -- I am evaluating a proper build system for us right now for a data science codebase almost entirely in Python, with a lot of scientific computing dependencies. Bazel doesn't yet seem to have first-class support for Python, so that's out, and I'm running into a lot of problems with Twitter Pants, although their Slack channel is really helpful.

Did you ever try using Pants or Buck, or a more barebones approach like Ninja?

P.S.: An explanation of the pun on "Basil Fawlty" (as a non-Brit, I thought, what on earth is that?) in the article might be helpful.
1/ Author's a dude.
2/ The singular (gender-neutral) they has existed since the 13th century in informal contexts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they). Just use that.
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Why it is necessary to discard messages? Isn't it a sign of bad design when resources have to be spend to create and pass a message that is ultimately discarded?
Keras: Deep Learning for Humans (in Python)
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Sounds like they may have had a deploy script which ran again a week later or something like that :/

(Also overriding scrolling is not cool)
What is the risk of just ignoring this letter altogether? Surely it would not hold in any court of law due to overwhelming number of examples of prior art, widespread use, and vague wording of the patent?
Isn't replication through mitosis or miosis generally accepted as a requirement?
In abstract algebra, polynomials are just tuples (a_n, ... a_0) with addition (simple elementwise) and multiplication (more involved) defined. The +s and xs in the "x²+3x+1" notation are just syntax without semantic relevance; in particular x is not a variable and the substitution a ↦ P(a), a ∈ 𝗦 for any a and 𝗦 is not defined. This is because most interesting things about polynomials can be reasoned about without assuming anything about what x is.
More generally, the "likeness" of someone should remain in their control.

I don't thing anybody wants their image used by someone else without their consent. There are already provisions for that in laws for photography in some countries.

I'm thinking specifically about the laws in France where you can't take a picture of someone without their consent. A picture is "of someone" when that someone is clearly a subject on the picture and not background.
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No, modal editing is utterly insane in today's environment.
It was NCAA athletes that sued EA games. (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/09/ea...)
Real world GDP growth over the last 55 years has averaged less than 3.5% [1]. Not that matters, but I didn't even specify US GDP growth in my previous comment.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?cid=GPD_...
Indeed. Like they say, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

However how do you go about picking a new provider? How do you know that anyone else is any better?
Sometimes the lack of capability was a good thing, meaning less distractions and more focus on the core functionality.

The simplicity of Win3.11 and Win95 was great, and that isn't just rose tinted glasses speaking.
PII isn't a term used by the GDPR, and the association stripping we're used to (from healthcare, for example), isn't necessarily enough... GDPR covers psuedonymized and anonymized personal data too.
Oh now I get it, what an excellent metric devoid of bias, not meant to deceptively grab attention, can we put Kenya on the graph too to show how much less income inequality and poverty their children are subjected to relative to the US?
Bad execution can and should be improved upon. Bad science (eg, matching bullets to guns) needs to be thrown onto the trash heap of history.

The former can be debunked on a case by case basis. The latter needs to be categorically banned from judicial proceedings.
Spoken like someone who has never seen obfuscated/underhanded code contests. C++ can do fuckery that rivals higher level languages just because of the limitless hardware access and undefined behavior the language has.
I experienced the same. Not showing retweets in my Twitter app of choice made Twitter enjoyable again. I can highly recommend it.
Real-Time Streaming ETL with Structured Streaming in Apache Spark
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I think it's useful to remember that this is, at it's core, a signal detection problem.

As such, there is necessarily a tradeoff between the rate of hits (correctly identifying "bad" parents) and false-alarms.

The question then becomes: what's an acceptable false-positive rate?
Also would add mtr to the "tools" list.
There is one simple technique that would allow nearly any forensic analysis technique to be assessed. It would detect the difference between good science (DNA) and junk science (forensic hair matches). It would work down to the level of the individual laboratory (as in this example) or individual laboratory researcher (Annie Dookhan). And it would only cost 10% extra.

That technique is blind testing with published results. 10% of all submissions to the testing lab would be test samples -- a mix of a bunch of known negative samples (from individuals completely unrelated to the crime in question) and a few known positive samples (perhaps from someone already convicted with overwhelming evidence). The lab would not be told which samples were tests and which were "real", and the test samples would be evenly distributed (10% of the submissions from each department; 10% of the "rush" submissions, etc.). Finally, the results reported on these test samples would be made publicly available.

Although this simple, effective, and cheap method would completely transform forensic practice, it will not be implemented. The reason is incentives. The parties involved in forensics are the police or prosecutors and the labs. Both have an incentive to identify the guilty. The accused have a countervailing interest (in correctly determining innocence), but they are not part of the transaction, so their interests are not represented. In fact, the entire system is incented to find people guilty, not to correctly assess people's guilt. So most in the system are actually DISincented to discover and debunk junk science.
But why increase operating cost if you can try to get it resolved otherwise?
I don't understand why Spotify hasn't gone the Netflix way and started their own label to produce and release the music themselves. Their margins are severely cut by licensing and since the labels hold the rights to the content they might be convinced to sign better deals with competitors who have other revenue streams to subsidize a music venture that isn't making money.
Seriously? What about a trust? Or a power of attorney?
Android is one of the poster childs how bad Google documentation is scattered all over Stackoverflow, Google blogs, Medium articles, outdated entries in official documentation.

Then the multiple revisions of build tools and plugins, support library releases with multiple issues on release day, breakages on Android Studio in spite of several months in beta.
The Architecture of the Next CERN Accelerator Logging Service
Thoughtful content is good when I want something to mull over in a car ride or when I'm actually feeling curious. When I'm worn out and just want brain candy thoughtful content is effectively trash. It's not as simple as thoughtful content good and emotional content bad. Feel good memes are a perfect example of this.
I don't have problems with retweets, I usually just stop following people who retweet non-interesting noise.

Twitter however now also displays tweets people I follow have liked and that has been the worst change for me. People seem to use retweets more sparingly (and may even think if followers are interested before retweeting) than likes. So now my feed is full of cat pictures and memes users have liked instead of just the content I really subscribed for.
Usually a missing Content-Length in the response header.
The first reports in the Gaurdian - yesterday -
indicated the substance was Fentanyl.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/salisbury-ho...

Salisbury city centre was in lock down for a while. Pizza restaurant still closed.
The issue is that this is asymmetric warfare. It's "cheap" for the patent troll to engage in countless procedures, each of which costs you the case if you fail, whereas it costs the defendant tens of thousands of dollars each time.
I bet every biology student has struggled with the introductory "what is life" chapter, full of conflicting definitions.

It is so difficult to define life because there is nothing to be defined. There are complex stuff and simple stuff. We tend to call things that exhibit a certain degree of complexity "alive", but that's just a word.

Can't remember who wrote the perfect definition of Biology: "The study of complex things". There's a great deal of wisdom in that.
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I've read that story once before, and it is absolutely blood-curdling. I wondered while reading if a movie was made, since it seemed like such an incredible story, it could pick up many awards. Seems it's coming: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263946/
How old is this article? I ask because the examples use Allegro and DJGPP, and reference the 1991 games Micro Machines and F-Zero. And also the giveaway sentence "Floats are so slooooooooow! Why don't you use fixed-point numbers?"

I learned games programming as a teenager in that era, and I present my fixed-point 3D code from 1996, which does sin and cos through the medium of 512-entry 32-bit integer lookup tables:

https://github.com/pjc50/ancient-3d-for-turboc
The author praises Snapchat and Instagram and makes a compelling point for their anti-shareable features.

I myself have begun to think that a higher standard of friendship is needed in social media. Something like Twitter, where you can follow anyone unless they actively block you, makes more sense where engagement is limited, like how selecting a TV channel to watch is largely a one-way experience.

I would love to see a social network demand a higher standard of friendship from a user before other users are allowed in their network - based on something more than reciprocal button pushing, so kind folks don't feel compelled to accept a friend request out of politeness. Snapchat may be on to something here, as you actually have to know the person exists before you can add them.

I don't know exactly what the answer is - ask compatibility questions, quiz the user about their history, analyze their current social networks for positive engagement - but I'm extremely curious about the possibility of a social network that purposely limits its own network effects.
Haven't seen any of this in Tweetbot. Twitter's own clients kinda blow.
Seems like most social media is going that way now. Facebook in particular. I thought Snapchat would be a break from this since the content is temporary, but I've read news articles from my home country about kids having to get "Snapchat-sitters" to maintain their streaks while they are offline for more than a day. So they post random images to each other to keep their streak number increasing, which is total nonsense with regards to both engagement and content.
It seems like there was a mismatch in expectations that goes to the heart of how universities and philanthropy work.

The university thought it was getting a donation, along with some vanity conditions, comparable to naming a building or a chair, which it could fudge while spending the money on whatever it wanted.

The foundation thought it was paying the university to carry out something very specific on its behalf.
WinAMP 2.x was nothing short of a miracle, it was a revolution in audio players. I wasn't a huge fan of the skin-based interface, and the playlist did some odd things once in a while, but on the whole, it was a damn good piece of software.

These days I'm using Foobar2000 and Quod Libet, and have looked at other "music library" type apps, but I'm considering just going with a simple player such as DeaDBeeF, and handle everything else through the file manager, since I've taken the time to properly plan the folder layout. I don't need ratings or playback statistics or all kinds of other things. I need a simple playlist to add music to, with basic playback controls. If I need to add tracks, I'll drag and drop from the file manager.

Basically, I don't need in-between applications between simple WinAMP 2.x style and the all-singing all-dancing streaming services such as Spotify, that do a much superior job with ratings and especially smart playlists.
What’s Wrong with GNU make?
> Miele/AEG/Bosch

These aren't comparable; Miele is on a different level. In particular, Miele washing machines are properly repairable. Of course, they're also far more expensive.

EDIT: Missed AEG. These are essentially three tiers of product.

AEG is Electrolux's "premium" branding. In most cases, the same washing machine with different plastic will be available as Electrolux and Zanussi. Very much mid-range; better than Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit, but that's not saying much. Should not be expected to be super-long-lasting.

Bosch (and Siemens, Neff; again, just different branding for the same thing) are definitely a step up. Some though not all machines are very repairable.

And Miele is a huge step up again. All machines should be properly repairable.
> On the other hand I don't know any other provider who just gives a fixed IP.

SFR does (at least on FTTH) and you also get native IPv6 (not 6rd) and (IIRC) a /48. That is, unless you're subscribed via RED (which I currently am) in which case the IPv6 feature is disabled on the remote end (you can enable it on the NB6 router but it just sits there waiting for the prefix to be announced). On cable the router is different but they're on DOCSIS 3.0 mostly by now and I hear at least some people do get IPv6.

Orange still leases dynamic IPv4, dunno if they enable IPv6 by default now or if it's getting tiered like SFR.
This is a thing others have already done, although I don't have citations to hand.
https://www.thepatentscam.com/help
I agree, still amazes me how good Postgres is for free, coming from Microsoft partner world of insane SQL Enterprise per core licensing.
How much incentive would you guess is required, to get auto incremental mat view refresh?
Launch HN: Heroku for AWS Lambda
Hi HN! I’m Jay one of the co-founders at Seed (https://seed.run). We are building Seed to be the Heroku for AWS Lambda. Here is a short 2 minute video walkthrough - https://youtu.be/n8N8zRVM5tE

While using Lambda with Serverless Framework, we noticed that it took quite a bit of AWS knowledge to configure the development workflow. Everything from configuring environments, to tracking deployments, setting up custom domains, enabling access logs, etc. This can make the transition to Lambda quite painful, in spite of all the advantages of serverless. Seed is a service to deploy, manage, and monitor serverless framework apps on AWS.

Our goal is to ensure that your team needs to do as little AWS related devops to work with Lambda. We want to improve the developer experience and workflow. There is a lot more that needs to be done but improving developer productivity at teams is something we think about a lot.

We wanted to share what we have and get your feedback!
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Yep. In grad school, the university took like 50% of the funds for our project, probably to plug budget gaps. I agree with the first comment:

"Relying on a university administration is generally not prudent. It is clear that the Family envisioned an effective "new business," in the spirit of a venture or a "start-up" and those kinds of projects take serious business execution. In my experience, the Pearson's complaint merely exposes the tip of the iceberg as far as what the donor "sausage machine" looks like in a major university. Lesson? Donors need to act more like active investors, despite the general hard resistance universities put up."

They were expecting university administrators to provide "serious business execution".
Wow so much hate for the MacBook
>Sb trying to push sb else to use a definition meets the second part of the sentence.

This is post-modernism in thin disguise.

Certain categorizations can be more valuable (practical, useful, just, etc) than others, in which case it's reasonable to rally for their use over other, less valueable, categorizations.
Are you saying that ballistic fingerprinting is entirely bullshit?
Robocar tunnels would be vastly cheaper than trains like SF's new Central Subway
More like they'll create faces and bodies that are more attractive and sell more tickets than people they'd need to pay.

And they'll create algorithms to animate emotions more accurately and creatively so they won't need living actors on which to paste the simulations.

Or maybe each viewer can choose which face and body they see, at least on home viewing, and software can put on the likeness you want each time.

Why would they depend on people if they can simulate more attractive and expressive?
Zero. If the choices are to leave a child in a bad situation vs. destroying a family for no reason, I would err on leaving a child in a bad situation. Neither option is great, of course, but in the absence of perfection...
Yeah, I was steadily using FB more and more until a few month ago I just suddenly stopped opening it at all. And I feel way calmer now, without all the political spam 24/7.
Yeah I felt similar when reading, actually it is simply removing forks from the system, and rate limiting ‘eat’. It is not much different than an rate limited API design on ‘eat’ function.

Also pretty similar to view architecture requiring paint (ex: setNeedsDisplay)
Interestingly, although the title talks about "performing after they're dead," it opens with the example of Sean Young, who is still alive. That's the other aspect of this technology, continuing roles as actor's age. Arnold Shwarzenegger could continue to crank out Terminator films, looking no different than the first film. Harrison Ford could continue to play Indiana Jones. Why not let the studios use your likeness as you get too old to play the part or play all of the scenes>

I'd be worried about greedy estates, too; licensing the actor's likeness.
Uber Spent $10.7B in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It?
No, they are not. The point is, it is different at the bytecode level.
Patient Payment Responsibility Increases 11% in 2017
I'm well aware that we'd have lost millions of lives if drug inventors were not able to patent medicines like Penicillin... er wait. Other stuff...

I'm also aware that there are all sorts of great medicines that have been invented and created and help people.

And, the economic incentives and distortions created seem detrimental.

Your allusion to the opiode crisis is actually a pretty non-trivial example. The opioid crisis is deeply connected to companies trying to push drugs into the market, get people addicted, and profit off of patents. Opioides are probably killing more people now than many other drugs combined are saving.

I could do without the entire profession of psychiatry for the most part, and the actually useful drugs - psychedelics - are being brought to market by a non-profit and are non-patentable by design. HTTP://Maps.org

I'm all for curious, creative and skilled scientists making drugs to help people - I don't like the side effects of the way the current economic system behind medicine works.
I would be surprised if they did; this just seemed like an excellent opportunity to share a fun anecdote. :-)
This looks quite interesting.

I was looking into implementing something like that (though only R>W) for a caching backend to improve throughput.
For some reason the byte counter represents number of saved files when you do a "Save complete web page" in Chromium. It still displays like "4/53 B, 5 secs left". Weirdly sloppy.
When science and the science community fails, your solution is to suggest that more -- indeed ALL -- people start valuing science more and putting more time and resources into it.
It sounds like what's missing is a bad faith mechanic. Assuming it could be implemented in a way that's not terrible or outright ineffective, it would be interesting to see a legal framework for barring a party from filing patent suits if they accumulate enough verdicts that rule their case to be outrageous enough to earn them a black spot.
From what I’ve read they are trying to cut out smaller independant labels, where the budget and need for large capital injection is smaller. The long tail of music makers. From that perspective SoundCloud is probably a great hub to acquire.
Worth checking out https://apex.oracle.com/en/ apex also, easy to build and a no cost/license option.