skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing is that technical debt is not like money debt. There is a lot of possibilities that this debt will just be deleted, obsoleted, project discontinued.

So it is more like survivorship bias, you only get to fix debt that is still alive. Debt that went away and no one is ever paying it is nowhere to be seen.
Krita has much better default pressure curves though. The default settings on the gimp are basically unusable with how nonlinear they are.
I don't think this is a terribly good counterargument, personally. To me, the gun control movement is basically reacting to several high profile mass shooting cases. Your argument to me seems to be the equivalent of countering, say, a mother who lost a child to a drunk driver, with an argument that they shouldn't be concerned, because they don't know about the technical details of engine displacement or the neuropharmacology behind ethanol. That would be nonsense.

Obviously, with drunk driving, no one tends to blame the tool, either, as gun control movements often are doing. It is worth pointing out that automobiles are fairly regulated, though. There is a "street legal" definition for a car, you have to have an operator's license, and there are things you cannot do in a car -- elsewise, your license gets taken away. For better or for worse, America's one of the few places out there with a relatively high minimum age to purchase alcohol -- 21 -- and drunk driving was one of the reasons it ended up this way (https://www.boston.com/culture/health/2014/07/17/why-21-a-lo...).

I personally think it's fine to counter over-emotional focus on the tool (after all, 99% of AR-15 owners are just normal, average folks who don't commit mass shootings or indeed violence of any kind). Ultimately, though, "what they're calling for" is a reduction of gun violence. If "they" don't get a reasonable counter-answer to their concerns (and in my opinion, the NRA is doing a poor job here, themselves often being overly-emotional in response), it's entirely possible the regulations "they" want will result in the end.
The headline is terrible. The salient point from the article is:

> By mapping hedge fund IP addresses to those accessing financial filings, the team identified information gathering by hedge funds such as Renaissance Technologies and AQR

What is interesting for me is that there is a possible correlation between people who mine more and more data - even from publicly available sources - and their returns.

Important to note that correlation is not causation

Also interesting to see that the SEC would give out IP address information of who accessed their filings.
People who run apps dependent on facebook can immediately see any significant change. Basically any website that receives the bulk of their traffic from FB.
I did write a Whitepaper and Demo: UX for Authenticated & Verified ERC20 Payments Using MetaMask and EthSigUtil.

This can be applied to identity and digital ownership of any property. This solution moves security to the edges; that is, the sole owner of the property holds the keys to sign away their rights to the data through digital signatures.

This removes the need for a central authority entirely.

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@emmonspired/whitepaper-and-dem...
Not at all. As an example, consider how 55 and 57 are pronounced. "PachPAN"and "SattaVAN". The components have changed arbitrarily for no reason. 70 is "Sattar" but 71 becomes "IkHattar". 2 is "Do", but 12,22,32 use "Ba" as the prefix. Plenty more cases like this.

Compare this to "Fifty five" and "Fifty seven".
I noticed that Hindi hasn't been represented by its own script in the 'Number' column which it should.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/hindi.html
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I'm aware of this tool, but this project isn't pixel art. Traditional animation. I've tried working in that style several times, but it's so damn consuming! Not that I won't try again.
I currently live in Texas and the amount of firepower that any one person owns is not readily apparent. Texas is not the wild west that many think is with everyone packing heat and daily shootouts at the corner. Open carry is now legal here and I've yet to see the first person doing so.
I’m on my third set of lead acid batteries. I got 8 years out of the last ones and 7 from the first. This is on the long end of lead acid battery life. Capacity was down at the end for both, but I limped along. These are my last lead acid batteries. In 6 years I’m sure I will use something lithium based. The location is remote, requires small boats and hand carrying and the batteries are about 1000 pounds. A lithium replacement system will weigh a fraction of that, last longer, and won’t rupture and spill acid all over the place when I accidentally freeze them in the winter while the cabin is inaccessible and in telemetry only mode. (I’m two for two on this, both sets I’ve misjudged just how small their capacity had become and not gotten into emergency power conservation mode fast enough.)
Ask HN: Can I expect extra compensation for fixing product problem of employer?
There is a company we acquired that has a product, with an issue that prevents it from working as the diligence team believed. I was not part of the diligence, nor is my job description related to products of this nature (e.g. this is all occurring beyond the scope of the my job description). Nonetheless, I believe I may have a solution to this issue (to fix the product), but it is worth at least $2M to the company. I'd like to test and share the idea, but I'd like to be compensated accordingly.
Yes, particularly the 'theatre' part. Its expensive and useless.

More useful would be to have a central location with humans monitoring dozens of cars, like a sort of air-traffic control situation. Better chance of keeping their attention with enough going on. They'd be there in case of difficulties, know when a car 'went off the rails' or notify authorities in case of an accident.
Why not add a random suffix? http://{address}:{port}/{32-bytes from /dev/urandom as hex}

If the URL isn't being manually entered (I mean that's the whole point of the QR code right?) then adding some random unguessable text would solve the problem of something else on your network connecting to that port. It doesn't solve the problem entirely as it's still possible to MITM the HTTP connection but it's a tad more difficult.
Why on uber? It should be on the driver. That driver kept looking down almost the whole time. He is not employed to watch movies or something else. If he needs to watch some data then maybe 2 of them should be there.
Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
Facebook for me is mainly a self updating address book. So is there any other recommended service that could possibly even import all or some of my FB data and is able to help keep in touch with my acquantances?
Because such decisions are often based on emotion and not logic.
SpaceX launch last year punched huge, temporary hole in the ionosphere
The actual influence of Cambridge Analytica - who also spectacularly failed to help Ted Cruz win the primaries - might have been greatly overstated, but the difference between this and the Obama campaign is that the latter isn't accused of breaking British data protection law with large scale scraping efforts and none of its executives have been caught on camera bragging about bribing and honeytrapping potential political challengers, and there isn't even a tenuous link between executives working for his team and alleged treasonous collusion with the uh...data mining efforts of a foreign superpower.
Especially since the cabin footage shows the person in the vehicle was only glancing at the road every several seconds.
If you want it really fast, and as reliable as your local machine, have you considered storing your data locally, e.g. in a plain HTML file, sticking that in a git repo and uploading it to github?

> I've emailed Maciej about turning this into a subscription business (to support development, vs one lifetime payment) but he doesn't seem interested.

For new subscribers it's already subscription-based. Only old-timers like us paid a one-time fee.

> Pretty much no new features... ever

What are you missing? For me it does everything I need. And it has a pleasantly reduced/no-frills look.

Sorry, I don't know of a good alternative, as Pinboard does the trick for me, but if I had to think of something new, I'd really consider going a service-less way.
The weird thing for me is the disconnect between that kind of stuff, which I've been interested in for a while (I read similarly interesting articles about how good the Republican use of computers for targetting where to get the vote out was in elections before Obama) and the CEO of a microtargeting operation offering to bribe opposition politicians or send prostitutes round to their house and catch it on camera.

Like, even if you wanted both those tasks done, why would you want the same people to do them both? It makes no sense to me at all.
It makes sense when you use the term censorship to apply to something like the government, which has a monopoly on violence and can literally jail or kill the people being censored and can apply that standard universally.

It does not make sense to apply it to someone's private property, especially when people are free to continue their speech somewhere else.

Summed up elsewhere, they are not being denied the right to say a certain thing, just the right to say it in a specific place (Reddit or Youtube).

What these people call 'censorship' is more accurately described as 'house rules'.
1) It seems like the Obama campaign was "above board", even giving interviews about what they were doing;

2) CA overstepped their agreement with Facebook, agreed to delete their data, and didn't

3) The CA process specifically harvested data from friends of people who'd signed up, including under false pretences.

4) The Channel 4 interview talking about bribes and entrapment: https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...

Edit: 5) It doesn't seem like anyone on the right claimed the Obama campaign was unethical in this way at the time?
Exploring zero configuration with Vue
Further, the author says "because of a lot of irregular pronunciation, you have to memorize 100 different words as if it were a centesimal system". But I could say the same for English. We won't say "three-ty-three", we say "thirty-three". Hindi's irregularities are pretty much at the same level.
Biggest issue for me switching to Firefox is the DevTools. "Undo" does not work for CSS changes in DevTools! Tried to submit a bug for this but it was misunderstood and dismissed. Hoping this might be fixed by the 3-Panel Inspector...
I drove by last night around 10pm and this is in line with what I noticed. It is not anywhere near as dark as the original video shows.
you mean bringing code which has not been cleared as secure & authorized by corporation's legal experts? BigCorp makes all those easy things hard (usually after lessons learnt).
I didn’t read further than the abstract because I couldn’t tell why we need a new language.
> I admit naievity, but I didn't think contract law could waive things this fundamental.

In civilized countries, it can't: binding arbitration is unenforceable in Canada, Europe, Japan, etc. This is purely an American problem.
TL;DR: A program needs either (a) features + good UX/I or (b) rock-solid stability + amazing performance characteristics to compensate for anything else lacking. Gimp has neither, it's some kind of "middle ground" thingy that annoys everyone.

> give up your freedom for a few extra features

Not really, I use like 10% max of Photoshop's features I guess. But those features simply feel perfectly implemented, they just f work. Heck, I even use it for vector graphics sometimes because it "just works" and feels more natural than Illustrator.

And I'm not just used to PS. I actually liked Corel Photoshop more back in the day.

And Inkscape has the same natural/intuitive feel to it after you use it a bit. Starts to crack once the complexity grows, but for starter it just works. Blender has a learning curve, but afterwards it also feels "natural" and "well built".

Gimp is just bad at... everything: (1) performance feels horrible, like doing everything in slow mo compared to anything else (2) UI feels very inconsistent and has very weird concepts about the relationship between layers and selections and stuff like that (like "wtf is a 'floating selection' thingy doing in my layers panel? ...you get used to it, but boy it's weird), keyboard shortcuts don't work in all contexts (sometimes it feels like they randomly stop working) and (3) there's no easy way to reversibly do things like ad an adjustment/effect layer, turn effect on and of on a layer or some groups from the layers panel etc.

I don't care about color space support or even mildly advanced features. And I could put up with a "weird" UI if I could find some logic or intuition for it. But at least stellar performance and stability would be requirements. If you can do things fast enough and things don't crash at 30 huge layers, even non-destructive edits cease to be a "must have" since you can just clone stuff like crazy and always have multiple "versions" of the "same" layer in the same doc. That's how lots of professional graphic designers use PS anyway. I was once handed a 20GB "trashcan psd" from a designer, and I hated every second of touching it, but it miraculously worked, relevant content was extractable, and the job got done.

Honestly, its hard to say what's wrong with Gimp, because I can't figure out anything fully right about it. Even the fact that I'm comparing with Adobe Photoshop, a program itself known for horribly beginner-hostile and unintuitive (but in a weird way "learnable" and "natural") UI is a sign of how off things are.
Not just aggregating writes, but merging them.

It seems that high load high scale solutions [1] [2] start to converge on this idea of merging updates and eventual consistency.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.06423.pdf

[2] https://databeta.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/anna-kvs/
Any hope for support of things like Metal at all maybe?
I think I remember some password managers that have similar features alerting if a site that you have an account with was breached. There has to be some sort of external accountability or pressure to make these organizations move the needle on their security practices.
Looking back on my own childhood, unfiltered internet access really changed my life. Yes, I got into some things that weren't appropriate for my age, but it also turned me on to programming and tech in general. In the end I turned that into a lucrative, successful career. I can honestly say that internet access was more of a factor in my life than school.

In light of that, I give my kids the same thing. Instead of filters, I just keep logs of network traffic and occasionally grep them for keywords that I think might warrant discussion.
If you're old enough to remember IBM being a real tech (evil) empire, the striking thing is how much the swapping out of old career employees with young people and contractors has correlated with IBM floundering and the cool parts of the company being gradually replaced with services and... more services.
Walmart Launches Small Army of Autonomous Scanning Robots
> As I've said elsewhere on this thread, corporations don't have rights, people do. A more clear way to say this might be: corporations only have rights inasmuch as the people who make up the corporation have rights.

> But giant corporations are different from individuals.

You can see how this gets fuzzy then, right? At what point is a corporation "giant"? How to measure and who decides that? Why is it okay for your Dave's Liberal Hosting Service to arbitrarily moderate material but not YouTube? YouTube isn't even a monopoly on video hosting services. Both YouTube and Dave's Liberal Hosting Service are still made up of individuals, and you think that individuals should be treated the same. So why aren't they?
I'm extremely skeptical of any stats around firearm counts, and ownership stats. Firearms aren't registered, which means the only data we have are the amount of background checks for buying them from a dealer (which goes through a department at the FBI called NICS). The issue is:

+ Those background checks are used for lots of things other than firearm purchases

+ Firearms can be transferred legally in some cases without background checks

+ Plenty of firearms existed before the background check system and are still owned and functioning

+ Many firearms are purchased, left to rust or otherwise break, and never repaired.

+ Firearms are occasionally turned in to the police or surrendered (usually when a family member passes and their relatives don't know what to do with the firearms).

The other source of information is directly asking people, but that runs into a bunch of problems too, mostly that people will lie.

I also don't think there's any kind of remotely common pattern that lets us correct this bad data from self reporting. Liberal gun owners are likely to lie about owning a firearm since they don't want their family to know, and conservative firearm owners are less likely to trust the person they're reporting to. Many firearm owners are taught to never ever talk about being a firearm owner to avoid being a target for burglary.

My point is, we simply don't know at all. Any gross figure is extremely suspect.
Ruth Wakefield, Inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Nearby residents are already compensated. When you build a high density apartment, the value of land near it goes up.
Season Review: App Samurai's Top 5 Viewed Blog Posts of Winter
Exactly. How many articles have I, and others on this site, written with the same words. Even if we had written and published it, many of us would have simply deactivated it or decided to stop visiting.

Few actually follow through and delete.
An innovative idea, I like it and could think of using it. Actually it would be more helpful if there was a way to transfer multiple files in a reasonable manner. While the server implementation would be trivial, the mass downloading client on the mobile phone is obviously the tricky part. Effective file managament on the mobile phone is even bad on Android, in my experience.
Maybe it's intentional, but the tail looks much too heavy. It only looks remotely natural during transitions where it starts to dive. The motive tail is providing significant lift. As a later commenter (ibnjmn) mentions... it looks like the center of gravity is too far back.

Maybe they designed this so that the robo-fish could stop quickly, but it certainly doesn't look efficient for something that is nominally neutrally buoyant.
I bet they use card instead... In Germany you stand in line waiting for everyone to find exactly the right change, be them young or old. Most people pay with cash even though it seems to get more common to use card. Euro has at least eight different coins. Sweden has 1, 2, 5, 10 as coins but most people still pay with card because it's easier and people are not burned by the big brother syndrome of the WW1/2 :-)

Would be interesting to see relative difficulty of each language, some of them are pretty close and have very similar difficulty while others are close but widely different difficulty.
Oh, well that sounds _much_ safer and more reasonable then.
The problem is that you don't both benefit in the ways you think you are. Apple is pretending to be pro-privacy, but they actually aren't pro-privacy. You think you are getting a privacy-oriented device, but you are not.

I would love it if Apple did build privacy oriented systems. I would be their biggest supporter, and I would spend mountains of money on their products. And I do think they would make good money from it from everyone. But until they do design their systems correctly, all we have evidence of is that they can make money by deceiving their users.
What we talk about when we talk about monads [pdf]
> In fact, not sure why you'd want to, but for escaping the daily grind for someone else.

... isn't this exactly the point of retirement?
SEC EDGAR is terrible for a variety of reasons. It breaks, few things are truly standardized/normalized, etc. If you have the time and an invested interest there's no reason not to.

Filings are subject to change but they are restated, not modified in place. That said, anything goes on the site.

The only real reason not to scrape everything on a continuous loop is that there is a rate limiter in place, so you may end up impeding your intake of new data by loading yourself down with old jobs to handle.
> I guess this refers to welfare recipients

No it doesn’t, as a more careful reading of my words would reveal. I’m not interested in discussing this with someone who won’t carefully read, so I wish you good day and God bless.
I am a native Hindi speaker and I don't think Hindi is very different from base-10 number system(as the article acknowledges) thus there shouldn't be any difficulty as such. Although I can't say that I have done any kind of mathematical calculation in Hindi script/numerals ever.

NOTE: Hindi has its own script for numbers as well which the article is missed to point out.
I'll mention that COBOL devs are no longer doing just fine. I had an ex-coworker that had trouble finding well-paying COBOL jobs. A lot of it has been offshored or outsourced to low-paid consulting companies like Tata and the like.
GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration
Some recent hard data is the analysis of the #deleteUber campaign and market share in NYC of rideshare services. The data showed a dip that was swallowed (erased) by broad, gradual shifts within a few months. It was a recent front page HN story, but don't remember the title. I think it will take no more than a few million in a nationwide ad campaign running on TV to more than erase any #deleteFB campaign. That is, these campaigns cost the targets $$, but don't really fundamentally alter their trajectory (regulation could be a different story entirely).

The other thing in FB's favor here is how incredibly difficult it is for an average user to actually delete, vs. suspend, their FB account. I helped a non-techie friend with it recently and it took about 45 minutes. It wouldn't accept the user's password for deletion even though it worked to login. After 2-3 password changes, it finally worked.

(As most here know the actual account deletion page is hidden behind a barely visible link in ... a locked filing cabinet in the basement, guarded by a venomous snake...)
Wow, Tongan number system is simply beautiful. Pure elegance that I'm sure could be defined mathematically very simply. I myself can only scribble a naive implementation for natural numbers in Javascript:

const base = ["noa", "taha", "ua", "tolu", "fa", "nima", "ono", "fitu", "valu", "hiva"]
const tongan = n => Array.from(n.toString()).map(Number).map(i => base[i]).join(" ")

Not as pretty as I thought. Probably would look better in functional language.
I hope the following perspective helps with your question. Think of newspapers as a mix of Journalism and blog-type "Content" and this writer as a Content writer. Content ideas are pitched by a writer to the editor, or assigned by the editor to a writer. After it's written, a third person (SEO expert) adds the headline. This article looks like Content filling out an idea rather than Journalism uncovering a story.
Spotify announced the date for its IPO following South Africa launch
I have never been able to understand why so many other scientists and "rationalist" look back on humans early "superstitious" ideas with contempt. To my mind these superstitious ideas are the beginning of the rationalist mindset. These ideas are people's attempts to explain and understand how the world works. I am certain that some of the ideas that many of us hold now will be thought quite silly in a few hundred years.