skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tool for me that I have spent a lot of time learning and improving is my Emacs environment.

It wasn't easy but as soon as I got the hang of things I was able to improve a lot in terms of overall productivity. Knowing how to debug when things go wrong and where to look to solve it was the first step in my learning journey. I eventually started heavily customizing by making scripts and packages to further suit my needs.

> After you master a tool, you internalize it and go minimalist, and reduce it to first principles.
This line made me feel like I'm on the right track. Just recently I've cleared up the fluff in my emacs config leaving only simple but effective and essential tools. I realized that I've made a lot of edits to my config and that each one taught me something that eventually led to where i am now. In a way, clearing things out was a learning experience in itself.

I still have a lot to learn though. Just recently I've made a jump to reading the enacs source and even took the time to contribute to Remacs, a Rust port of Emacs. I'll admit that this one is a bit overwhelming and may even seem overdoing it, but it is still a fun learning experience.

I sure do love my tool.
> “Sorry, but..”

So are you refuting that the missions were incremental? Because if you look at the mission outcomes, they certainly were..
How is this different/better than just disabling all third-party cookies?
Is mean a valid statistic for this dataset?

I suspect that the score a link gets is highly variable and doesn't follow a known distribution, therefore, taking a straight mean may not be a valid thing to do, or at the very least, very very skewed.

That being said, cool idea, well executed.
Yes, but not right now or in 3 months like that managers says it.

This is just spreading unsubstantiated FUD.
Fire phone = Amazon

Facebook was called Home. And it had some nonsense gimmick with a Facebook-like Android skin for the OS.

But, yes it failed on its own merits when the consumer market took one look and laughed it off.

edit: I remembered wrong. Home was the name of their Android skin. HTC and Samsung launched a few phones running it by default, which all flopped.
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I always preferred Digg Reader to Feedly for some reason. Sync between the app and website was seamless from the start so when Google reader was shut down I wasn't quite so annoyed.

Shutting things down same day out of the blue is quite surprising though.
Beware interpreting copyright law with the assumption that interoperability is relevant. The law doesn't care.
How about "Proactive Shower" ?
> Further, we don't stop using trains, or buses when a pedestrian makes an error and gets killed because they "could have not been hit, maybe".

That argument might be convincing if the car had detected the pedestrian, slammed the brakes and evaded, but still could not overcome physics in time to prevent fatal injuries. But that's not what happened.

We could have built self-driving cars that mindlessly follow the road no matter what fifty years ago, but we didn't, because that kind of vehicle has no place on a public road. What changed now is not that the same danger is suddenly ok because it's 2018, what changed is that some self driving cars are supposedly much better now. Those that are not need to continue to be confined to the test track.
That's exactly what I was talking about. Nice work!
No amount of “better” paternity leave will ever mean that I will be able to birth and nurse a child myself. (First time dad here of a 5 month old) Nor do I require extra time off before the birth. Fathers don’t have this issue because they don’t lose time giving birth and recovering no matter how involved they are in taking care of the kid after birth. This lost time is unavoidable for working moms.

Even in countries with generous leave policy, this lost time is unrecoverable and has a permanent affect on your career. For example, in Italy the mother is forced to take a year off whether they want to or not. That’s one year less of a promotion or pay raise.

Time is money and time not working is time not earning money. These are real obstacles women face in the workforce that drive down their earning potential. Successful women either choose to not have children, or earn enough to pay someone else to care for their children full time.
You can't repair satellites beyond LEO very easily though, so if your spares fail in spaces, that's it.

If your spare gets damaged in storage on earth, you send the electrician over with a car.
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> Why don't the middle 50% deserve a great experience or progress? There is A LOT of progress to be made in education in the first world. There is so much low hanging fruit.

Why do they deserve better devices than the poor ? This is why poor people are poor. Because rich people "deserve" great experience, great progress, great opportunities, which is another way of saying, of course, that the poor do not.

> Look at it this way, if a $300 iPad is easy to administer, easy to manage, easy to get children to use, easy to clean, easy to handle, useful for teachers and students, and extremely reliable - that is a huge win compared to the status quo because it will convince schools that implementing and integrating technology is both a worthwhile and easy endeavor.

So what you're saying is, it's a great tool for learning and bettering yourself ... and the poor have no rights to it. (I was very poor as a child, and lots of people, especially in my classroom, felt this way about things like nice books/clothes/sports gear (as opposed to secondhand), later computers, and gameboy/consoles/... thanks, people making this argument really made one feel good)

> Can Google do something similar with Chromebooks? Sure. Is it a different approach from Apple? Yes. Are both approaches worthwhile? Probably yes, let’s see what happens.

I don't know if you've been watching chromebooks but they've also become systematically more expensive, especially the google supported ones. Windows 10 devices are the only thing left that has decent cheap options available (cheap meaning < $200 and usable).

Also none of the Google devices work, frankly at all, without a constant internet connection. That's $20/kid/month on top of the basic cost for the android/chromebook device.
Even so, 128k is a bit excessive. They're definitely charging the enterprise/business markup for that power.
I do not use google analytics
Yep, like it's not enough that Facebook already knows a ton of information about your online life, these greedy monsters want to inject a spying device into your offline life. I am not an expert, but I guess that this Facebook product has pretty slim chances to be a hit.
You didn't and don't have to run google play or google services..

I use an LG V20 and have never once used play services. It's completely disabled.

Almost all my apps I get from 3rd party app stores, mainly fdroid and a few others. As well, I've had an old google account linked to a prepaid card and a phone that is rooted, and I used to download apps from play store with it, use an apk extractor, and send the apps to my new phone.

The days of this happening are not long for this world though, as more and more app devs are implementing safety net and forced play services checks. This really started happening around the pokemonGo time period. Some don't implement it correctly and you can still bypass it, but it's a real hassle..

A recent update broke a scanner app that I use to get alerted if a police scanner gets really busy.. I emailed the dev to ask why, they implied google is really pushing these safety checks now. Wonderful security, keeping us safe..

Even still, you only have to use play and play services if you plan on using the play store apps... I realize I'm an outlier, but then again, I've never been bothered by the few minutes longer it took me to login via mobile browser instead of just getting the app. Everyone makes choices about where and what they spend their time on.. I've always valued my privacy I suppose..
Same with vim (and other text editors), at first I started customizing heavily. Now I can get going with just 3 settings.

syntax on
set number
set relativenumber
The States is the only place I’ve ever been that seems to have jaywalking laws, I don’t think they are common at all. Even in the states it seems hard to get pinged for it.
Most places require you to cross at a crossing if one is nearby, which is fairly common sense.
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>which time do you measure? Time-to-first-running-example or Time-to-debugged-productions-ready-code?

Had the same experience. Rust feels slower to develop, but the type system just saves you so much headache in the long run that you're usually much faster at reaching your goal.

Lack of mature libraries is a normal issue for a language that's 3 years old. It will get better with use.
Outside of cubesats and mass deployed sats like GPS and the European variant, almost every satellite is somewhat of a unique build.

Even cubesats and GPS sats are special, you can't simply take a GPS sat and repurpose it for a TV station. The requirements can be vastly different (geostationary vs LEO, precise orientation vs simple attitude control).

The same goes for space telescope. You can't just take a ST sat body, ram in a LEO weather satellites electronics and expect that to stay in orbit or work reasonably.
It doesn't make decrypting the message easier. It just exposes a bit of unencrypted information, that makes it possible to infer information like how the connection's round-trip time. And the argument is over whether exposing that information has value, and whether routers and other boxes in the middle will abuse that information.
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Those names are really something. Love it.
The thing that gets me is they have holographic displays but they can't figure out that it's a bad idea putting the pilot of a military ship right at the front with their head sticking out.
Weather.gov is much better than private-sector, privacy-sucking and adware-laden equivalents.
OK, thanks goldenbeet, very helpful answer! Will consider this but I believe I'll drop law school and go to an engineering school :)
Judges don't decide what's fair or ethical, they determine how disputed action intercedes with law.
Finding and deploying tools you know about (but wouldn't immediately think of) in non-standard ways is a meta-cognitive skill which can be practiced. It's possible you had some relevant past problem-solving experience which your friend did not. It is also possible that you had systematically been socialized to pursue different high-level strategies toward work – I have many friends who were children of working professionals and were taught to value 'working hard' above looking for shortcuts.

Aside: It's not only the explicit prospect of hours of work that might have stymied your friend... research suggests that when working for a reward people are typically less creative and less thoughtful than when intrinsically motivated (see Alfie Kohn's book Punished by Rewards).
I imagine the point the parent was trying to make is that the NTSB will be more interested in autonomy-related accidents than common car crashes, and as more cars with autonomous features are sold there will be more such accidents to investigate, regardless of how good the systems may be.

So today the NTSB probably investigates very, very few car crashes, but that should rise quite a bit.
I use Firefox Focus on Android when I don't care about sessions. Works an absolute treat.
https://hnleaderboard.com/about :)
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Makes you wonder if a governing body will ever come about - eg medical councils/boards, engineers associations etc. Presumably it’s these type of problems that they came into existence for. It’s a double edged sword, but often works in the interest of the profession where I am. The biggest difficulty I’d see is that defining a software developer is not prticularly easy.
Thanks for the feedback, this is definitely something I should consider. I guess I was inspired by musical.ly here. I also built and launched the app in a week and I didn't pay too much attention to the branding side of things
So just figure out which library they’re using and patch that.
Aaaaand it turns out that a Palantir dude did talk to CA and suggest ideas. Palantir still says they turned down all opportunities and had no interest in doing any kind of partisan election work.
Subverting and abusing UI lifecycle methods has a history as long as UI components have existed.

As a former Adobe Flex dev I had to maintain mountains of scream inducing code I had to maintain that was littered with callLaters - the clearest sign the other dev didn't understand the component lifecycle.

You can't blame the library authors for that.
Even if Uber it's not legally at fault, they have acted irresponsibly (not limiting the vehicle's speed, disabling the vehicle's builtin safeguards), which resulted in a self-driving car hitting and killing a person. Doesnt't really matter who's at fault: a self driving car killed a person so the next thing you know there's going to be public backlash against self driving vehicles, just as it happened with nuclear energy.

Automated transit is protected with platform screen doors, at least in Paris, France. This is a very good example of responsible automation. Also the EZ10 driverless bus which travels at 20 kmh and the Waymo driverless cars which also cruise at low speeds.
GDPR does have exceptions for legal compliance, yes. If someone does something illegal and they request deletions you can (IMO, not a lawyer) retain the records if you know there is an investigation or court case going or strongly suspect so or initiate it yourself.
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There was also a study done on rats that showed they would not seek out drugs when in an a nurturing and stimulating environment. Kurzgesagt have made a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
This is the bailey in the motte-and-bailey defense of diversity. Of course people from different backgrounds will contribute differing perspectives. But in practice, it always ends up being race, gender, and sexual orientation. No talk about getting representatives from groups that actually think in ways that are different. Where are the quotas for libertarians, green party members, immigrants, aspies, former attorneys, artists, competitive athletes, scoutmasters, stamp collectors, gearheads, all shades of personality types?
I have read it and yes, I have. Assuming they had that many developers qualified to work on the problem, they'd also likely already have been employed on other projects. Therefore the management infrastructure would already be in place. The state would need to change, but yeah, the government would already be there and qualified.
As a long time vim user and lover of the idea of vim. emacs is better at being a vim than vim is. (org, magit, helm, swoop, and all the other great packages are a bonus and work as well as they do because of the way emacs was created.) vim modal editing is life but vim's implementation is really bad comparatively.
The EU has recognized that a 200 million fine won't hurt facebook. Instead it says "fines up to X€ or Y% of global turnover, whichever is higher."

I also strongly suspect that in cases like FB or Google, the judges will happily go for the 4% mark if possible.
So your skepticism seems to be aimed not just at Facebook but at "the Internet". So you believe that Google is lying/deceptive in its privacy policy?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/465

> When you use Google products and services, we keep some data with your Google Account, like when and how you use certain features. We keep this data even if you delete activity or other items.

> For example, if you go to My Activity and delete a search you did on Google, we'll still know that you did a search, but not what you searched for. What you searched for will no longer be stored with your account.

> We keep this data as long as it's relevant to meet uses like those above. If you delete your account, we remove this data from it.
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Speak for yourself. Surely you understand that there's a wide spectrum between watching a film on a laptop with built-in speakers and the true theatre experience you mentioned.

Personally, I use a good projector and a high quality audio system in my living room and while not typical, I'd consider it far from unusual. Degrading any media consumption that happens at home in a blanket statement really doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Not only that but the teams would be working independently by design. 9 people can't make a human in one month, but 9 people can make 9 children in 9 months. You can then choose amongst them. So, yeah, I have no idea why you're bringing in mythical man month stuff here.
A lot of voice generation is cost-center (call center that are outsourced to cheapest location) with short sentences. I doubt industry would pay 4x price multiplier for that use-case.

So in fact WaveNet competes more with voiceover and new use-cases such as voice assistants. Still I don't hear that much difference there today, but maybe WaveNet will improve in the future to human level sooner than the other models.
I think you can do it well!
True, but they are way better than whatever used to be available for OpenCL.

Have the OpenCL debuggers improved at all in the meantime?
Actually I'd sooner blame video games, which often assert that a single bullet to the gas tank door will cause an instant car-flipping fireball.
There's a difference between being an introvert and having (clinical) social anxiety. It's an irrational fear and no amount of "realizing" will help with that. Cognitive behavioral therapy however will teach you to recognize thought patterns and channel them elsewhere, but that's something entirely different from "stopping giving a shit".

Source: extrovert with lots of anxiety who loves the public but still gets irrationally scared of it at times
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Well, I had helped her with her compiler project a year earlier, but given that we both had experience with lex I'm not sure if we both saw the relevence or not. Your other point makes sense.

And your point about hard work really makes since given her background and personality.
Good point. I’m struggling to think of a recent example but maybe smart phones? How you would find stats on deaths due to smart phones though? Obviously lives have been saved with them too, but the number lost due to distraction must be considerable.
> Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off.

They're not meant to be lasers in Star Wars (: They're packets of ionized gas (a gas Lando and friends mine at Cloud City).
Switch to the view that shows just the last year and you'll see lots of news sites.

This matches what I've been sensing (rightly or wrongly) in that the mix of stories has shifted from computer science and engineering to have a more business and general interest mix since I first started reading HN regularly. This goes for the sources as well as the stories themselves.
"Shading" obviosuly comes from the plugin of the same name.
But I think of shading to refer more to the practice of repacking classes into a single jar, than the renaming of package name spaces.
As far as the standard approach to supporting muliple library versions in one application, i think OSGI is probably the closest thing to a workable solution.
nice project, love it!
The copy in the hero is full of typos/english mistakes, FYI :)
The webflow ads have piqued my interest. A lot of nice little projects are shown on Show HN but I don't know if I've ever seen any to feature any sort of sponsorship right off the bat. Pretty clever to throw that in there. Do you have any lessons learned to share about the process behind it? (If it came from an easy personal connection just to show proof of concept, that's cool too!)
There was a far more advanced cheat(a gamehack patch) called Soulburner's Editor that allowed to spawn items/monsters, teleport to any level and spy on other players with ghost mode(which allowed to join games unannounced) and various other hacks.
It was my early inspiration to programming:you could convert earlier (e.g. 1.07/1.08)hacks(which don't work in new version) by searching for the offset where the code content was identical in hex editor(usually new patch just changed the offset) and trying if they work again or crash the game.
That way you can make old hacks compatible with newer versions, but the code was still a mysterious string of hexadecimal digits that didn't make sense(outside of ascii content which looked like text in hex editor).
Then i found out you can disassemble the strings and the entire game was a huge megabyte long assembler dump(which i had no idea what to search at first).
There was a windows debugger called SoftICE which i got reccomended and i've started to tinker with it, it was extremely boring and tiresome pausing and single-stepping through thousands of lines of assemblers and if you modified anything wrong the game promptly crashed.
Still it was a fascinating look into the "Diablo hacking scene" despite having near zero skills i managed to get a general idea how the "gamehacks" worked: they overwrote memory without touching critical code and the hex strings functionality was often very simple, its disabled jumps or set bytes to specific values. Some of them were small assembler programs which added new functions(like Soulburner's editor) but the mystery of how it was created in the first place was beyond me(the only clue was it hooking into diablo console to add its own console commands). It was obvious it wasn't incrementally added(like simple godmode cheats it was distributed with), it was tested and programmed separately.
However i quickly got bored with it and diablo as a game itself, exploring everything it offered and even looking at beta content with MPQ editor and diablo-specific utilities.
It was also extremely discouraging when many people enjoyed crashing games with various hacks and competed on who didn't get crashed(by using various anti-crash patches).
The game turned into some online crashfest and real players migrated into password protected games and single-player.
This depends on thread implementation and how much is allocated for the stack. Java will by default allocate 1MB, you can change that if you know what are you doing.

I know that you can have millions of M:N/green threads but these are different. In any case, you need to compete for memory and CPU time to execute.

Since not many people are programming in Haskell and BEAM languages my simplifications still hold.
The documentation states you have to follow the instructions to install the certificate manually which is what I would expect.

You can also click a link to a certificate on a webpage and install it manually on iOS.
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You mean eggsactly :)