skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the RF to Coax adapter to play on my TVs, I think I feel the lag but I'm not sure. Either way, a CRT is going to be my next splurge :) Another thing I love about the old stuff is that there's no boot-up, no login, no updates. I was getting along just fine until one of my TVs forced me to do a "channel scan" before I could even tune to channel 3, it took over 5 minutes :/ Won't get that with a CRT.

Just getting a hold of a physical system really amped up the nostalgia, I even picked up a boxed version of Adventure since that was always my favorite. The annotated source code for it is fun to play with, I started modifying it to make it Stranger Things themed version because I figured my kids would enjoy it (Dragons are Demogorgons, Chalice is Will, Yellow Castle is Wills house, Sword is a nail bat, stuff like that). I can't seem to find the source online right now, can't remember where I picked it up but I had it archived in my email for years.
Pretty interesting. I worked in the athletics (cycling) industry for around 5 years and I always suspected that there's a lot of doping among amateur athletes. From what I understand, it's most common in amateur cycling among masters racers.
Imposing criminal or civil liability for false news has a chilling effect on someone reporting even true news if there is reason to believe that the government might disagree with the reporting. I certainly wouldn't trust Trump's DOJ not to abuse such a law. Just look at how the Alien And Sedition Acts were abused.

Supreme Court jurisdiction holds that commercial speech (advertising) is less protected than other speech. This is why laws against false advertising are usually upheld while similar laws against other kinds of false speech would be ruled unconstitutional.
Netflix and other video sites will be blocked from a lot of VPS providers. You may be better off going with a professional service that can keep their ips clean
I don't know anything about aerospace HVAC, but wouldn't the larger cabin volume necessitate a larger exchange of usable air, and therefore bring in just as much ToPC as in the cockpit? I.e., isn't the volume adjusted for regardless?
> Whatever happened to "metadata is often more revealing than data"?

That's true, but the article claims that the actual data is accessible which it isn't in most cases.

And it's a bit in the nature of being an ISP, after all the only thing they are supposed to do is to take your packets and deliver them elsewhere, if they didn't do that then they wouldn't be in business at all. To the extent that this raises awareness of how the internet works under the hood I'm all for it but it is designed that way, it is not as if AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have gone out of their way to get this ability by injecting their content into each and every web page.

> You can trivially install Privacy Badger, Ghostery or any other number of tracker blockers that are available for free.

Yes, and I do. And most people do not.

> Every person on the planet has the option to opt out from FB and Google tracking.

Yes, but only a small percentage actually does so. And Google is present in so many market segments that in practice you will be interacting with it whether you want it or not even if you have a blocklist a mile long. Because that email you just sent to that innocent looking domain is actually gmail masquerading as some other domain.

> Whereas I've never seen a site block you because you have Privacy Badger installed.

I see this several times per week actually, usually related to some over-eager adblocker detector.
Of course the community doesn't care. You can spend your time learning to make a better visually designed project or spend your time learning to make an accessible project. You can't do both (to the same degree and in the same amount of time) and one is way more likely to make a difference in your likelihood to get a job.

I agree that the community should care but am not at all surprised that hardly anybody does. There's no incentive to do so.

I'm not saying it's solely on businesses to make people care. They don't have the incentives, either. This is where regulations might've helped.
VirtaHealth looks interesting. What are their key assumptions for reversing Type 2 Diabetes?
In a pond, you have the force of gravity (i.e., buoyant force) to do this sorting. This force doesn't exist in space, or at least not in a way that's analogous to the pond.
Zuck was just beta testing! He's hard at work testing new features for your privacy!
> The size of the shards depends on the data.

You're right. What I meant was that a 'shard' in actordb isn't meant to be 'all data on one machine/node' - which is how many other databases view sharding, but is expected to be much more fine-grained. Thanks for the other explanations.

Another interesting implementation aspect is its use of LMDB for storing the SQLite pages.
I think this is a bad trend. These university make basic courses free to gain popularity and then ask for big money for their real courses.

This is bad in two ways:

1) The people taking these courses do not learn much for the effort and time they spend. Also it gives them illusion that they know enough as they take course from big university.

2) Industry is already so confused in hiring, they hire by name. So even you take these courses and study in depth on your own you can't get hired. Someone more qualified can not get hired just because they can't pay 100k to get a degree in machine learning from one of these big university.

This is really a bad trend and we should spend time on real courses. Everyone knows that TV series are waste of time, these courses are like TV series.
Stop watching them.
I used to work at a vertically-focused web search engine and ran the operational side of the crawler.

Also missing from this discussion would be a mechanism to rate limit (and determine adequate rate limits, based on your error rates) the crawl.

Also, detecting that you've been blocked and backing off so as not to further hammer the site you're crawling with requests. Related:

IP management is an issue here as well: lots of places just carte blanche block whole ranges from crawling activity. And will you be honoring robots.txt or not?

Be prepared for people to block you in new and stupid ways: once got blocked from hitting the site's name servers to even do lookups against them. They blackholed our packets. So what should have been a ~500ms DNS query at each http request turned into a 15s pause while the DNS request timed out ... eventually this stacked up across all threads, backing the overall crawling infrastructure to deadlock.

The Wayback Machine architecture is probably a good, public implementation of a large scale crawling mechanism. This post[1] about it may be a bit dated, but it's probably still accurate.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/19/a-short-on-how-the...
Right, Japanese has both /iˈ/ and /j/ sounds. Another example that happens outside the や column is イェス (yes).
IMO, the most important innovations around guns have mostly been because of changes in bullet technology.

The modern day bullets are the things that have caused the massive increase in accuracy, energy, and range.

And I guess, also decreasing prices, and reliability.

It is perhaps possible to make a reasoned argument around THAT, but the arguments around guns rarely reach the point beyond "ban the guns that look scary".
There are lots of people with doctorates who give talks, many of which contradict each other.

What we know is that:

- the common dietary pattern isn't working

- many more "primitive" diets show better results

What we don't know is exactly which aspects of a primitive diet are so beneficial relative to modern diets. A general pattern is that foods which are digested quickly tend to be overrepresented in modern diets. Foods which are easy to digest tend to be more pleasurable than foods which are slow to digest because our bodies like to save energy whenever possible, but our body is also configured "with the expectation" that food will be sort of hard to digest. I bring this up not to propose my own dietary remedy but to suggest that there is likely to be a trade-off between pleasure and health, and while careful study of nutrition can help us reduce the hedonic cost of healthy eating, it is not likely to disappear.

In fact, the neural pathways associated with hunger and satiety are implicated in the pathophysiology of diseases associated with overeating; this is discussed in one of my favorite reviews of the subject -- "Limitations in anti-obesity drug development: the critical role of hunger-promoting neurons"

http://faculty.vet.upenn.edu/ngg/user_docs/DietrichandHirvat...
You're a small minority, when you include both cell phone and broadband the vast majority of the country is a customer of one of at least one of them.

It would be good to see data on the relative monopoly market concentrations between the cable/telcos vs Facebook/Google.
Absolutely!:) I didn't expect this at all. I had to write 5 articles as part of my last milestone for HugeThing (accelerator) and share them somewhere. I wrote four technical ones in a day and a half. I then struggled with this one for three days. Had no idea where I'd share it or if I was going to use it at all. Finished it up this morning, and figured what the heck, I'll post it on HN. Probably no one's going to read it. Holy moly, was I wrong. Immediately posted on Reddit too, where it went through the roof.
> This also makes me so, so thankful that I am a Rails developer. React is surely good for certain things, but developer happiness and productivity i think are not among them.

I assume you haven't done much front-end engineering then. Because for all of the many legitimate gripes with React, developer happiness and productivity is one of its strengths. Going from something like manual Backbone views to React components was a breath of fresh air when React was released (there are now other frameworks that'll do the same, but still).

Rails is not a front-end framework, so basically you're saying "I am thankful I am a backend developer, not a frontend one".
That's because (like many genres of literature that claim to know the secret to becoming rich and successful), the writers really don't know what makes that the case. So they're taking surface level qualities they see in successful people, and assuming that's at least part of the reason for their success. It's just cargo culting really, like those tribes who build airports out of wood because they think that causes supply planes to land.
"Hey homeless dude. Wanna make $100? Just sign your name here on this Political Ad contract and that's it!"
In most Western countries this would be a crime and the mobile network would be obliged to provide an intercept.
Will Reddit retroactively come out with an edit without showing that you edited feature?
"How did you do that?" "Oh, my wife wrote those.""

Haha yeah I have a similar one - I emailed a colleague once (on a Saturday) "hey, how are you on task xyz". He comes back to me less than an hour later "yeah my wife's almost done with it."
I had Tom Lehrer as a math professor in college (he taught 'Nature of Math' at UCSC). It was fun, and the birthday paradox was an extra credit problem. I basically took the course because as a kid I had listened to New Math and really wanted to hear more.
Facebook Rolls Out Plan to Battle Fake Ads with More Disclosure
One solution would to be to buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course...

And this https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/edu/harvard-lab-kit (BOM's with all the components needed by the book)
> but decided not to comment on

Ahh, you were so close too!
Interested to see who that might be, it seems a bit nuts that that wouldn't work.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all yeaaar....
Preservation of what culture anyway?

You can't prevent people from buying existing housing, as one example, so what happens if you try and preserve the form by not constructing any new housing, is that wealthier people win that particular game of musical chairs...

... and you've changed the culture anyway, if not the form, because you have a new set of people there.
Even if both parties delete it the message is probably not actually deleted, it's Facebook after all.
Yeah so would I. Actually, I've often thought there should not be a restriction on the window during which you're allowed to delete a post on this site. I understand that there are reasons they might not want that such as to encourage civil interactions and so forth. But I still think there should be no restriction on it.

There are things I've said in discussions I've had here that were not always well informed or motivated by my better self (yeah, you're free to peruse my comment history and see). Or I may have just grown up a bit since I said them. Either way, I've always felt it a bit unfair that they could be dug up years later.
The text of Joint Resolution 34 when it passed in the Senate last year
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

The role call vote breakdown
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

Ars Technica's coverage of the bill (now law) with context
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-...
Buy "The art of electronics" and work through it.

Buy a PCB board some components and start putting things together. Supplement with youtube, blogs.
Blockchain isn't necessary for that. All you need are some shitty PHP pages behind a Tor hidden service and an escrow agent to facilitate transactions. The currency doesn't matter and it certainly doesn't have to be Bitcoin-- prepaid Visa cards work just as well, and are more anonymous than Bitcoin anyway.
Typical Silicon Valley libertarianism - trying to solve critical policy issues with a new app instead of fixing the root cause.
> We need to fix human beings.

As a non-utopian, I understand that human beings cannot be "fixed." Thus, we must create systems that cannot be corrupted by humans.

Creating a money outside of state control may be the smartest thing that humanity ever does. We'll need maybe a century to see how it plays out.

That said, most of the blockchain projects out there are scams. If your project can run on a centralized database, then you don't need a blockchain.
Yeah it’s completely untrue. There were lots of very powerful weapons available in those days that rival today’s assault weaponry (even from medieval times) and the 2nd amendment makes no mention of that.

The 2nd amendment is a principle, not a law. It’s a universal, in time and space, foundation upon which we base our laws. The Founders were well aware of this and it actually was their intention.

These were highly educated enlightenment thinkers, to assume they didn’t foresee weapon innovation is just silly.
I highly recommend checking out the Make: Electronics series. You can also buy kits for each book on Amazon if you don't feel like going out and finding all the parts yourself at RadioShack.
That's great news, I'll pass that on to the county. Thank you!
That’s a bit of a wide topic. There are some good courses on Udemy and Coursera. Is there are anything more specific you want to study?
I think that /j/ sound is classified as a consonant, not a vowel
I wasn't aware of that. I know of places where it is popular and a reflex for quick communication but I didn't think it would be a/the primary tool.
I think also important is that there are exploits that break the existing system (e.g. 50% attack) but it's not in the financial interest of any given actor to exploit it. Part of the algorithm is economic.
Write a short script to resolve Twitter's address. Run it on a cron to pop it into your hosts file.

Now you can get to Twitter in the case of a resolver being down. Woo!
It's important to practice once in a while. Find a clear road where you're not putting anyone else at risk and get used to the feeling, so you'll not release the brakes in an emergency.
It helps with parsing and would disambiguate nouns from verbs (if German has words that are both noun and verb, as English does).
Nightdive has posted an update[1] which talks about the source code and clearly says they are back to development. Most notably:

"We have been able to re-use the majority of work we’ve done over the past year and we’re making significant progress in a very short amount of time. With that said we’ll be inviting our highest tier backers to privately test the game beginning in September at which point we estimate that the game will be fully playable, from start to finish."

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock...
> There are many solo web developers who simply don't have the resources available to make their website accessible.

All HTML and JS documentation is available gratis, and every operating system is distributed with a text editor.

<html>
<head>
<title>Accessible Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an accessible web page.</p>
</body>
</html>

Perhaps you meant to specify rapid, tool-assisted development of a feature-rich website?

Making an accessible website is simple as dirt. It will just look dated to people who don't need to rely on the accessibility features of their browser or OS. It may even "look" dated to people who use screen-readers.
One thing I've noticed having worked with many clients, is that legacy architectures that get moved to AWS start by creating subnets, NACLs, etc. while for almost all AWS-first developed applications the Security Group is the smallest unit you tend to address.

So a legacy architecture will for instance specify the "frontend servers subnet" (and a unique SG, hopefully!), while a cloud-native architecture will only specify a SG. I think, asking which subnet some machine is in, is kind of like asking which core some process is running on at the moment: any one of the subnets for any one of the availability zones in that region, and the next one will automatically and on purpose be assigned to a different one by the ALB/ASG combination.
I can easily imagine a persona who could complete that sentence: scientists who wanted to share data across the country. The internet was built because it satisfied an actual need at the time, and grew organically.

It is even in the name. The "Internet" was not some monolithic project. It was a way of connecting the many different networks that had already been built.
> Yes, but only a small percentage actually does so.

But they can and its free to do so. Opting out of ISP tracking costs money, when I'm already paying my ISP money.

> it is not as if AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have gone out of their way to get this ability by injecting their content into each and every web page.

Not for lack of trying[1]. Also Verizon now owns Yahoo and AOL which have some pretty large ad networks of their own.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav...
I really like the 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics. The text is a fun read, and the student manual is a great extension of the main text, with a bunch of practical insight and discussion that puts it beyond mere exercises.

Caveat: I'm a software guy. I burn myself when I solder. I make smoke come out of components. I might not be the right person to listen to :-)

With the exception of an oscilloscope, you can put together a simple bench for a few hundred dollars. I've had mixed luck stocking components (for instanced, either my circuits are clueless crap, or the 10Mhz crystals I bought off of eBay are just empty cans -- in any event, a circuit that should oscillate just sits there). I found a used Tektronix scope and couldn't be happier, it really makes a difference when you're debugging something.
And to stay in the mood: the "uplifting end": "We Will All Go Together When We Go" and "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)"

And since he wrote the "Who's next" the list did grow longer, I wasn't completely aware of, for example, "NATO nuclear weapons sharing states":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...

Designated nuclear weapon states: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

Other states with nuclear weapons: India, North Korea, Pakistan

Presumed to have nuclear weapons: Israel

NATO nuclear weapons sharing states: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey

Formerly possessing nuclear weapons: Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Ukraine (Lehrer mentioned South Africa in the song).

"(Mommy,) I'll look for you when the (WW III) war is over, an hour and a half from now!"
careful because I already see this coming:

"In order to server our customers better and provide the best possible experience, VPN services will be blocked and will require a Business Tier service. We feel that unless you have a legitimate business reason to anonymize your network traffic we will provide this service in order to protect our subscribers and network integrity. Click Here to Speak to our Sales Representative"
A correlation. :|
This and youtube is what I did. Later on, you can get "The Art of Electronics"
This.
"The art of electronics" is the best text book I ever had the chance to read.
The cynic in me believes that for every salesman out there (vitamin or otherwise), there's someone or some article telling you that you are "deficient" in some way.
Qlik Core – a development platform built on top of the Qlik Associative Engine
> This is a problem not limited to the development and design circles. It's a human problem. Disabled people are relatively rare, and so humans have a tendency to forget they exist.

This is a completely misguided notion. There are many types of disabilities out there, some can be apparent to the outside observer (physical disabilities) but there are many which are not apparent (mental and sensory disabilities).

1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women throughout the world are affected by colorblindness.

Epilepsy affects 2.5-3 million individual in the United States.

Hearing loss and vision loss will affect most individuals during the course of their entire lives.

These disabilities and others are all considerations relevant to web and software development, with so many affected populations throughout the world disabilities are much more common than you or I might perceive.

But it's really not a question of perception among developers. Accessibility guidelines are relevant to some industries more than others, enforcement is sparse. If it became necessary to support all users and take into account their accessibility needs then we would see a change in the marketplace. The short answer is that developers and product managers who do not take accessibility into account with their products are lazy.
Maybe in a few decades if it's still around. I'm sure they're hopeful of that at least :).
What you can do is use a third party DNS resolver like 1.1.1.1, ideally over HTTPS or TLS, and use HTTPS for all your web traffic. That dramatically reduces what they can inspect.

If that isn’t enough, your next option is a VPN or Tor.
The one that kills me is "In case you missed it". I read my twitter chronologically, and removing tweets from that order in order to show them closer to the top (and therefore later) is the exact opposite of what I want.
I recently signed up for a promo from DirectTV Now where the promo was cheaper than the free AppleTV that came with it.

Don't worry, I'm not promoting DirectTV Now because it sucks balls. I have ad blocking at the router level at home and DirectTV basically won't work because of it. Even when it does work the picture quality is awful, you can't easily skip commercials, changing channels is painfully slow. And there are ads everywhere.

But, my main point is that a few weeks after getting it, I get a mailer from Charter asking me why would I want to pay for channel bundles (I get only internet from Charter)... the only way that mailer makes sense is if they were watching my traffic and seeing that I'm a subscriber to a channel package from their competitor. (I've never gotten a similar mailing and it doesn't make sense absent spying, otherwise they're kind of arguing against their own main cable service.)

It really made me want to get VPN setup whole-house.