skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several things you mentioned that I'd encourage you to continue to parse. Breakage, test coverage and code [quality] improvement are three areas you mentioned.

The assumption that refactor leads to breakage doesn't have to be true. It might be, if you are coding in a live environment, if you aren't feature / issue branching, if you aren't breaking up coding work into modular pieces, or any other number of scenarios. If that's the case, the benefits of a modern workflow should be discussed and a new process introduced. Baby steps.

Thorough tests may be a side of a high quality code base. But, the value of them is about reducing bugs / errors. Start with that and lead by example. Once again, have a discussion about the value of adding something.

Same with code quality...however you define it.

Now, since you are new, it seems like you've worked other places that were engineering enlightened and you want to show everyone a better way. Be careful so that your enthusiasm / experience doesn't come across as you being an know-it-all, condescending, superior, etc. First, lead by example. Second, share, preferably when asked. Lastly, teach.

If you weren't hired to modernize practices, and even if you were, you have to become a part of the team first, before you can change it. People have to know you're invested in them before they'll invest in you. Which is so say, no one cares about what you have to say, until they know that you care.

Good luck!
Nifty.

I've been able to use Duolingo to bootstrap my way into being able to sort of read French. It's also decent at drills in German, a language I took in college.

I really like Duolingo for drills and for getting a sort of 101-level language map. A lot of the early sentences are absurdly inane, to be honest, but they are useful in the drill sense.

That said, I took a run at Chinese, a language which I see as something potentially really useful, and it was a complete non-starter.
A lot of tech people don't get this. You see this in web design, where they think HTML and CSS are separate domains. They think CSS is just pretty effects.

Style can convey as much information as text.
Airlines Know You Hate the Airport, and Are Trying to Do Something About It
From the photo [1] of the grandparents, they appear to be in their early fifties, so they are not elderly, frail or incapable of raising this baby. In Chinese culture, grandparents often take care of the children until the teenage years while the parents are working long hours, so there will be no Western-style stigma of having grandparents care for the child. I think it's a caring decision that they made to have the baby instead of destroying the embryo.

[1] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2141048/baby-...
I think it's more interesting to honestly discuss the argument and its merits if one doesn't have to personally vouch for it upfront.
The raw data is close to useless unless you are an expert on the detector which took the data.
Sure! It's not absurd at all, as long as you don't care about silly stuff like fundamental human rights.
The Big Lebowski said everything that needs to be said on this topic :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjBFsyYC0g
It is NOT learning.
The article shows that there is good data.

One of the more easily interpreted statistics given is that American women on average have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of about 12%, while women that consume 2-3 drinks per day have a lifetime risk of about 15%.

It's a huge lever for public health to pull on, I guess individuals may not give much thought to moderate consumption.
If you are into this kind of thing, "Beneath a Steel Sky" is an amazing game and it's even available in many repos.
Isn't Russian one of the hardest languages to learn if you don't already know a slavic language?
Progrmmable robot/drone to program group behavior
I'd like to test some grouping algorithms that I've come up with using some real robots. I've seen the crazepony drone (and it looks nice to program a single robot to move around), but I'm not sure whether it can handle my requirement. I want to get 3+ robots that can sense surroundings (approximately), and move. I'm wondering is there some robots that can be used that can cost < $200.
>"firmly in the past"

That's something I never said, or even implied.

If I said that America has a "history of military power projection", would you object that military power projection is the present reality as well? It certainly is, but you probably would not object to that phrasing. You're reading much more into the use of the word 'history' than you should be. I'm well aware of the civil rights problems in southern states. Save your outrage for a situation more deserving than this conversation, in no conceivable way did I defend honor or reputation of Alabama. I used the word disreputable specifically because the social problems of Alabama are widely known, you needn't teach me something every schoolchild is taught.

The simple fact of the matter is that when it comes to the felony murder doctrine, that boy could have just as well been in San Francisco. Rather than allow you to write felony murder off as a consequence of Alabama being a typical southern state, I decided to give you a brief education on the true scope of the issue. Since you were obviously distressed by felony murder doctrine, I expected you to thank me. Instead I get the feeling you're looking for a fight. That's disappointing.

>"histories"

English isn't my native language, so please correct me if I'm wrong. However I believe when you're referring to Alabaman history specifically (not the history of several separate states at once, as I was in my previous comment) you would use the singular "history" rather than the plural "histories".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/history

For instance:

>Alabama has a history of civil rights violations.

>Alabama and California have histories of suppressing labor organizations.
Is it bad that I first thought of the electric scooter company Bird?
I might have visited those sites before, but thought it was some kind of new token bullshit.

Got a white paper link up at the top and some graphics of some decentralized nodes, so probably hit the back button faster than I delete spam from my inbox.
Not true that journalism is in the toilet?

My wife was, and all of her friends still are, journalists. They constantly worry and complain about all of the tasks that were once the domain of trained professionals--photographers, editors, designers--being put on the journalist due to budgetary constraints.
They very much are, although in somewhat different ways.

https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/21/laptops-and-flat-panels-...

Markus Kuhn has since discovered that by tuning into the radio emissions produced by the cables running into a monitor, hackers can garner the pixels one at a time, and carefully stack them together to form a picture of someone else's screen. Reportedly, Markus was able to "see a PowerPoint presentation from a stand 25 meters away (pictured)," and he also noted that laptops with metal hinges were particularly good targets as they tended to broadcast the necessary signals quite well.

One of my favorite elements of The Laundry Files series, is the old spook who only uses a Memex machine because of van Eck phreaking.
You're right. I love it when websites run slow and hog resources to provide less functionality than they used to.
Although if you had this everywhere, you could probably do away with most of the batteries on electric cars, making them a lot cheaper and lighter.
Sure, but then bear in mind that with the onset of deep learning (which seems poised to be the foundation for a lot of emerging technology for at least the next decade) GPU programming has suddenly become a lot more useful.

What if, just as deep learning brought life to GPUs decades after they were invented, some other algorithm or paradigm that we’re not paying attention to now becomes huge once QCs are available to test on?
I'm not sure what your objection is. Did you want me to not write my post, or what?
I’m Albanian and can confirm. Numerous people in my family are in the pizza business. Most the Albanians I know in general are either in tech or the restuarant industry (more so restaurant industry).
Just like the best Pizza is actually across the border from Italy in Slovenia. We even have a common pizza variation with caviar.

Most pizzerias offer 10+ types of pizza. Pizza life is pretty boring in the US by comparison.
From what I can gather, nginx still sits in front of Unit and proxies requests to it
> Yet Sela believes consumers have been abandoning local shops--even those with fresher ingredients, better flavors and ties to their communities--mostly because they lack the ability to take mobile orders.

That may be part of it, but among people I know the majority of it is cost. A 16" pizza at most of our favorite spots ends up around $25. I can get a 14" 3 topping pizza at Dominos for $7.99.

The local pizza is great and we get it a couple times a month, but it's not 3 times better.
Refactoring frequently has to compete for resources with new feature requests and bug fixes. Even when team members are sure refactoring will help considerably, it can be hard to get traction.

Performance testing can highlight areas of the code that need help, so work to improve scaling and performance abilities can be used to justify resources to refactor related code.

Sometimes a new feature request can be used similarly where the refactoring and new feature development is a better option than trying to develop only with existing code.
A bit of anecdotal evidence of the pitfalls of welfare and what it could mean for UBI.

I grew up in an area of questionable safety. There was a woman across the street who spoke to my mother about how she would scam the welfare system to receive multiple payments every month. This was on top of food stamps and child support checks. She was making more than most people with full time jobs in the area while doing absolutely nothing for society with no desire to ever change.

People will take advantage of the system if they can. Spelling out what it is and what it is not would have to mean making people understand that it is only the minimum and somehow encourage them to expand their horizons. That seems like a cultural shift that needs to happen before UBI becomes prevalent.
That isn't true. It means you need less storage space, and you need less capital tied up in parts you aren't using. It also means your cabbages don't rot.
Try the rikaikun chrome extension?
> Just curious why the discussion is always Tesla "autopilot" vs Waymo "full autonomy" vs unaided humans, when other manufacturers are also putting level-2 "lane keeping" systems on the road.

Because, ironically, Tesla and Waymo (and Uber) have been more suscessful at deliberately drawing media attention. The thing is, once you draw media attention, it tends to stick around even when the story goes someplace you don't want it to.
"IF you have Grammerly plugin in your browser they capture EVERYTHING you type into a browser, and you've given them all of the rights to that data, for which they can sublicense at fee."

While it does seem like their TOS gives them the legal out to do this, is it not more likely that this is merely a CYA measure to cover any data they happen to collect and any way they happen to use it? If their TOS narrowly covered only the data they planned to collect and the uses they expected to have for it I would imagine every change to their code would become a potential legal liability.
I guess it would be useful as a layer to signal if a user should be checked more carefully. Given it can be used passively, it could be used to flag that there is a mismatch between the user signed in and their historical typing and that whatever they were up to looked at in more detail.
>Now pretty much anything is on the table.

Not really. The_Donald hasn't been banned even though Reddit doesn't like it. They have kind of hidden it though.
Even the concept of 'warped' space itself indicates that the intuitive, euclidean concept is correct, the light does in fact not travel in a straight line, it follows a 'warped' line.

The difference between the two is that the 'warped' space is what we observe (because observing is an electromagnetic process, subject to gravity), 'real' space is something we can only infer (or observe in photos like in the linked article)
The key to keeping up motivation is some sort of success or reason to think you'll be successful. In the beginning, us entrepreneurs are filled with confidence (or dillusions depending on how you look at it). It's this confidence that keeps you going. But, as reality sets in and no one uses your app, you begin to realize it's not going to work.

I guess thats why they always recommend release soemthing early , so you can get some small measure of success: at least get some positive feedback to validate your idea.
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Ask HN: FOSS projects with bad UX?
All of our work at ShittyMVP.com is under an NDA, and we'd like to donate some of our UX resources to FOSS projects. We believe it's a win-win: we'll have something to show and the project will benefit from a UX improvement.

(P.S, not LibreOffice)

Thanks
If you don't mind me asking, why do you think Hubski has failed so far? You'd think its innovation really would make it a likely candidate for passing the network effect threshold.
We ban accounts that post like this, so please read the guidelines and comment civilly and substantively instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huh, what do they do if you just say "Alright, guess he's your problem now"? Pretty sure my parents would be cheering me on from the after life. We're not the most sentimental bunch.
Ask HN: Impact of GDPR on personal blogs / web sites / Google Analytics?
Hi HN, does anyone who has a personal blog or personal web site (maybe used to show bio and content related to professional work, but not a company), and who may or not use Google Analytics on their site or blog, have any knowledge of the impact of GDPR on such activities?
Do such people need to take any GDPR-related action?

Thanks in advance.
The fact that sensors reported the driver didn’t have their hands on the wheel, and ignored warnings to put their hands back on the wheel is important, and there is no reason why this needs to stay secret for a year. It’s a stark reminder to Tesla owners to follow usage instructions.

And releasing it doesn’t prejudice the investigation in any way.
As citizens, we should not be placed -- nor allow ourselves to be placed -- in the position of having to perform blackbox analysis of our own governance.
Ha, good point. We had relatives back in the States that were expecting something to bury so I was stuck.
Webpack is now type checked by TypeScript
I want to preface by saying that I have no issues with Albanians, this is just based on what I know of how some Greeks fell about Albanians.

Given that plenty of Greeks are, to put it mildly, less than fond of Albanians, is there a lot of tension in the Greek Diner/Pizzaria run by Greeks, and those run by Albanians? I hope not, but I’d guess that there is.
Giving Tweetbot a More Accessible Design
It is going to come down to the insurance companies. These first few crashes are going to be a nightmare of legal issues and set a lot of precedent. Likely, Tesla and the others are not going to be fined a lot, but they are going to be held accountable in some small way. As such, the insurance companies are going to set very stringent requirements for the 'new' auto-driving features or they are going to come up with some crazy clauses when using the features.
I heard Portuguese from South America and from Portugal are different - maybe that could be a reason?
Ask the Cambodian guy who runs a Chinese restaurant how that’s workin out ;)
The Label Is Not the Object
I don't think so. Most content on the frontpage is pictures and videos, not news. They added image and video hosting relatively recently so users wouldn't leave the site while consuming media. They can't do that with news
GIMP is... not great.
The touch of moderation on HN is not always obvious right away, but it is definitely something that requires a lot of work to make HN the way it is. There are certainly biases and such here, they just happen to align with our world views usually.
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/lib/python3/kotd

Warning: this is a mess
Semi-on-topic, are there others providing GraphQL backends in the cloud, other than cloud.graph.cool and AWS?
Am I missing something, or does this seasonal variation imply that the "sea" of dark matter WIMP is stationary in the galaxy (which would cause the motion of the sun around the galaxy to look like "wind").

But actually, if there were WIMP's in the galaxy, wouldn't they orbit in precisely the same way as the Sun, leaving no relative motion? And thus no seasonal variation?

There would not even be daily motion, since it's assumed dark matter is cold, and thus the sun would capture them and they would orbit the sun in the same way as the Earth.
There is that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11976892
You can also just change the subdomain to i.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com to achieve the same effect.

e.g.

https://i.reddit.com/r/all

I personally find this quicker to type.
Two relatives of mine died recently, one had arranged his own funeral, the other did not.

TL;DR: If you want to make less stress for your loved ones, you'll plan your funeral yourself.

Also I remember seeing a post on HN a while back about water cremation. I thought it was interesting.

* Leaving Earth the Greenest Way Possible: Water Cremation - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Le7rLbkFe4
Wait until it's coupled with the optogenetics for control of neural bundles. New senses are just the beginning.
We recently experienced a stillbirth after 38 weeks. I was thankful to have a level-headed, knowledgeable friend at our side to question most of the hospital norms. We were in no shape to push back. After asking the right questions, we were able to work with a local monastery to bury our child for a grand total of $0. IANAL, but at least in California, we determined that in our situation working with an undertaker was optional. State law clearly gave us rights to control and custody of our daughter's remains.
I would very much love it if Privacy Badger were included by default in browsers (or at least something with similar functionality).
That happens with large enough communities everywhere, since the dawn of the internet. Eventually users move to smaller subs where there's more quality discussion
Weird pro-Tesla, anti-airliner FUD. A modern airline’s autopilot will handle everything between takeoff and landing, and can land the plane if needed. The A380 auto pilot has been able to respond to TCAS (collision avoidance system) advisories automatically for almost a decade.

GA autopilots may be more limited, but that’s not what the general public is thinking of when you say autopilot.
Well look at you
relevant https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/88048t/wh...
> To attempt a sale is not a right, at least not one I am familiar with.

It's called "copyright". You have the right to control distribution of your creative work. A direct and unavoidable implication of that is the right to try to sell it.

> Actually, in as much as that is included in the archival process, I disagree.

Archival doesn't produce a creative act by either common sense or legal interpretation. You can add value of course by writing backup programs or just doing the work of backing people's files up, so arguably I didn't choose my words carefully enough there. But the thing you created was the process of doing the archiving. You're entitled to control of and credit for that work, but not the actual files that your process created. Writing a program that saves the text of an ebook doesn't make me the author of the book.

> Good thing Disney has nothing to do with it, otherwise copyright might stretch out to over a century.

I completely agree, but it's irrelevant to the discussion of whether or not copyright as a concept should exist.
I’m trying to learn Japanese and 99% of the apps out there focus on memorizing phrases out of context that could be applied to any topic, and market itself as a language learning system.

I’ve yet to find a single app that beat out a one-time read through of a Japanese grammar guide.

That being said memorization apps can be useful, such as for vocabulary, but I’ve yet to find an app that markets itself as that.
Ask HN: Printing (canvas, tshirts) service via API possible?
Hi HN,

Is there any printing service (think: canvas prints, posters, or even tshirts) that one can use as a startup?
The idea is that we send an SVG file over to the printing service and they can then sell the print to the customer.

I only found services where I have to create my own store and can upload my designs. However, I just want to send a single SVG file to that service so that a customer can purchase a print.

Does something like this exist?
Any hints much appreciated?

Cheers
im not trying to be anything. its a cnbc headline, not some kid writing a term paper. if you know the subject it should be a mediocre joke. why are you calling people elitist for math jokes on a programming forum??
Have you done http://nand2tetris.org ? It involves (virtually) building up a CPU that has two registers, which I'm guessing the minimum possible.
Desktop also has tracking protection by default in private browsing windows. See Preferences -> Privacy -> Tracking Protection to enable it everywhere.

Per the roadmap at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap, we're explicitly working toward making Firefox more opinionated in 2018. Specifically, "Firefox will take a stand against tracking," will "filter certain types of ads by default," and will "block ad re-targeting."
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> People will take advantage of the system if they can. Spelling out what it is and what it is not would have to mean making people understand that it is only the minimum and somehow encourage them to expand their horizons.

People on welfare often already treat it that way, doing under the table cash work while receiving benefits (many don't, either for moral reason (it is fraud, usually, both tax and welfare) or fear reasons (the punishments for such fraud can be catastrophic) or availability reasons (they just haven't found opportunities, which aren't exactly openly advertised). But it's still fairly widespread; UBI would normalize additional work and stop punishing it, and allow it to take place in the formal economy, which all by itself would produce exactly the culture shift you refer to.
I'm a Turkish native speaker and I couldn't pass their intermediate Turkish material as well.

EDIT: Also it felt like the whole game was written from an "Indo-European" perspective. For example, in Turkish there is a word "bir" (read [biɾ]) which literally means "one" which is sometimes used akin to indefinite articles (a/an). But they're not exactly indefinite articles, and sentence usually makes sense without them and when you speak fast you omit them. But in Duolingo they taught as if you should translate "the X" without "bir" and "a/an X" with "bir". That's not even remotely close to the truth (and made me get all "article" questions wrong). In Turkish definiteness is mostly denoted with accusative case. There is no single language construct similar to "article", you infer it from other kinds of information. For example "dolaba bira koy" : "put A beer in the fridge" vs "dolaba biraYI koy" : "put THE beer in the fridge". You add +I accusative suffix to "bira" (beer). This was not even mentioned in Duolingo. It also makes sense that they don't mention this sicne this is probably super advanced nuanced speaking, but then be consistent and don't teach that "bir" distinction to beginners as well.
By enriching a private corporation? That doesn't make any sense.
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