skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, Oracle's been doing a wonderful job at spreading their current reputation beyond the smaller developers community.
Indeed, it's small (88KB) and silent, but I shouldn't do that on mobile. I've just removed it.
Turning The Database Inside Out: Martin Kleppmann - https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou... in both video and blog form. Describes how to think about any software stack as layers of derived caches on top of immutable event logs, effectively proposing a solution to the first of https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html . It's certainly changed the way I approach software architecture.

Honorable mention: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Why do you think they never won the hearts of the people who actually had to use the product?
It depends. It seems like the goal here is to make the airlines money while still making it seem to the passenger like they've gotten a decent deal. A less frequent traveler who doesn't know that $300 is a low-ball offer might be perfectly satisfied with that, even while a more frequent traveler would laugh at such an offer.

There's no objective measure of the feeling of "getting a good deal". It's entirely subjective and depends on what the customer values, as well as how much information the customer has about similar transactions. Obviously if the customer later gains new information that suggests they could have gotten a much better deal, that's a negative, but part of figuring out that optimum deal point is figuring out the likelihood of that, as well.
This article is actually providing select anecdotes from a more exhaustive paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf
> For all that the EU is the one I hear about the most on HN and elsewhere, it is hardly the only one.

It's the one people talk about most because it's the one with the most actual integration and power. The others are much looser.
Glad to hear it. If you have any problems, or additional features you'd like to see, please post an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/developingMagic/pdfassembler/issues

Thanks!
I'm sure that Fossil does solve some interesting problems, but I don't see anyone talking about them here or on the previous HN post. I've read through the most obvious user-facing parts of the documentation, and everything seems to be focused on integrated issues, which... I don't see as a problem, or the UI improvements.

Maybe I'm just blind. Does anyone have a link or would they be willing to do a writeup on what fundamentally makes Fossil better than Git (ie. not just from a user interface point of view)?

> Git command line is not inelegant, it's confusing

Agreed, but it's not unusably bad. The question isn't whether or not Fossil can do better than Git's command line, it's whether it can do so much better that it's worth learning a new set of abstractions.

For new developers or large organizations, I can see it. But if I'm used to Git, and I can handle the bad command-line interface, why should I switch then?

Keep in mind that I'll still want to use Magit anyway, because the improvement of Magit is in no small part its Emacs integration. It kind of strikes me as a losing battle to ever market a VCS based on a GUI. When are you ever going to want to use a VCS without integrating it into your IDE? Even if Git's command-line interface was amazing, I would still want to be able to overlay `git-blame` directly onto my source.
It is unfortunate that project management tools that build on top of git instead of around git haven't really managed to succeed enough on a wider scale to coalesce into a some degree of defacto standard.
I am not a psychiatrist, but it does sound like you have bipolar symptoms, especially if you have the hypo-maniac episodes.

Bipolar is sometimes misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder, because the mania doesn't seem like a problem. Who doesn't want to feel more productive and on top of the world? I know I've failed to recognize a manic episode, and wow did I end up paying the price when the pendulum swung the other way.
What's it called when you look for a general wisdom in an everyday situation? ethics? That's all I see myself pointed to in the article.

Would we accept "OR ELSE" as a society? Should we? What laws does our government come up with so we can make sure "OR ELSE" doesn't happen past the certain extent it already does? Can we attach a metric for how much "OR ELSE" is too much?
Despite not having hearing loss, I'd be interested in augmenting my hearing. It seems far more useful than I can ever imagine Google Glass would have been for me.
I don't usually go home. I stay in the office and use a separate laptop or go to a coffee shop. I know if I go home I'm just going to sleep immediately. Then Ig et up in the middle of the night and get more tired.

Using S.M.A.R.T. goal system (https://www.yourcoach.be/en/coaching-tools/smart-goal-settin...) is helpful, too.

"I will resolve this 1 bug."
"I will scope out this feature"
"I will wireframe this UI"
"I will start and tabulate this survey with these 2 questions"

These are all helpful and can be easy to finish.
Lending Privilege: Anjuan Simmons
http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/

Not strictly about tech itself, but it was one of my favorites talks at CodeConf a few years back.
Counterpoint: USPS is cheaper than any other carrier for me.
I remember that some of the Coast to Coast episodes were quite technically interesting. There was at least one about home made radio telescopes (for SETI of course!).

Some were totally fun, as when the Russians penetrated Hell when they drilled a deep well (probably referring to the Kola Superdeep Borehole). "I will play the best tape someone sends me of the actual sounds of Hell that the Russians heard from their well."
Dalek Crytography a suite of cryptographic libraries written in rust
YC companies are collectively worth over $80 billion. They’ve invested in about 1500.

Considering they’re almost always first money in, those are not even in the same zip code as normal returns. Those numbers are absolutely astounding.
Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness cannot be planned.[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI&index=49&t=2s&li...
Should they build their own planes, too? Just hire some engineers and make it happen, right?

Governments outsource because the best people in various industries aren't working for the government (for lots of different reasons).
The government tried to do this stuff in-house. It turns out it's ridiculously cheaper to let Amazon do it. This kind of move saves you tax money.
That was one great thing about gchat when I was in grad school - everyone had gmail, so chatting was easy. I had a number of groups that I would chat with almost daily, even after graduating. That petered out over the years and, of course, once I departed from gmail stopped completely. The ubiquity was nice while it lasted though. I wish there was a client that was as universal that was not so invasive with unrelated personal information.
This assumes a market where participants are all acting in good faith. In any marketplace for a good like this, you'll end up with ticket scalpers. I suspect any cost savings will be eaten up by the premium people would have to pay to scalpers who buy up ticket stock early and wait to sell them closer to the flight date. You end up with a lot of value being eaten up by predatory third parties who have no interest in getting on planes themselves.
It cost the US government $20 billion for air conditioning alone during the Iraq war. A data center is a rounding error.

On demand compute is nice for startups, but overly expensive for mature organizations.
Yes, although I looked again, and found some things I understand well. There's certainly no profile information there, and they don't appear to be well-specified at build/run time. Some don't seem useful, e.g. reference HPCG basically reduces to STREAM.
Basically this. I could either use this or make it myself. Are people comfortable using this?
The camera is Iskra, not Vilia. Manufactured by KMZ rather than BelOMO.
I don't trust the market to treat all signals equally. There's a great opportunity for selling a cheaper (free?) device that inserts ads, or blocks audio from ads whose companies haven't paid. Or hell, we could just sell the data. The possibilities are endless!

I hope someone is working on an open source "augmented" hearing aid.
I've thought a WhatsApp equivalent for just families or even for specific events (like a wedding) would be cool. In addition to the regular chat window, there would be shared photos and so on.

But I think the challenge is not the financial model, the problem is product/market fit. Path (founded by a former FB exec) tried for a few years to create an intimate social network but couldn't retain enough users to make the biz work.
Just because they spent $20 billion on this, and $20 billion on that, doesn't mean that they also have another $20 billion they can spend on something else as well. There's no logic in that argument.
Scientists in Florida are using honey to treat injured sea turtles
This talk is awesome. It's funny but I learned a lot. And the prediction of the talk is happening! [1]

[1]: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
Pipenv adds extra baggage and is more complex to use for simple projects. I really like Pip's dead simple interface and that it won't break due to a joke:

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/pull/783
Libre-Halaal By* Digital Ecosystem – Narrated Presentation – Autonomy/Privacy
5 ways of looking at Machine Learning
Didn't even think of that. I just assumed the code is mine but the output is not. But I agree,being clear is essential.
In an open platofrm you will always be able to abuse in some form or another. But what will end is the platform abusing your data. And that is the point here. If I want to sell my data (or hand it to someone, whatever) I will be able to do this. But there won't be any central party selling my data. And that is all we can ask for.

To be more specific, I could make my data available only to those who I allowed to see it by including their public key in my list of authorised keys. Therefor no scraping.
Large organizations have the cash flows and reserves to realize efficiencies smaller organizations cannot.

You cannot afford to own a refinery. Delta Airlines can and does, as a hedge against fuel costs (which turned out to be a very profitable decision for them). That is the point.
It's not bad once it's set up. For example, hot reloading your application state.
Worth considering the anti-amazon lobby's position (I really would not want Oracle to get a single slice of the pie though).

Is there a good reason for this contract to a single cloud service provider?

AWS already runs the CIA's private cloud.
“Hey, look at this page from the Internet Archive! ERMAGHERD lulz!”
Behavioral Programming [pdf]
http://worrydream.com/dbx/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4)

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (imagined from perspective of 1970's)
How quantum computing could wreak havoc on cryptocurrency
WPP CEO Sorrell Quits After Three Decades at Top of Ad World
facetious (fə-sēˈshəs)►

adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks
For possibly the first time ever, I really liked this one, and it makes great sense why it happens. It showed a clear demo in seconds, and then automatically closed itself to reveal the UI it was just showing.

The demo is so robust I probably wouldn't have figured out the tool's purpose in 10 seconds without the video.
I wasn't going to bother commenting on this topic, but when I read the title I instantly thought of

Geoff Hinton, The Next Generation of Neural Networks (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M

I watched that talk probably 10 times after it first came out and wrote some visual basic stuff to try and replicate his results.
Using `-copy none` with jpegtran can be a bad idea in some cases, because it wipes out the color profile data. Be absolutely sure you don't need it, before you go blowing that data away everywhere.
Don't forget the "-w" linker flag, too.
I would bet 100$ that over the last 30 years, qualities such as the one you described dropped massively.

I saw an old picture of a biology note book from a junior high school kid from the 50s. It was masterful and so beautiful. Writing, phrasing, vocabulary, layout, drawing aesthetics. These are all 'useless' in our days of IoT and neural network, but to me it hints at the fact that kids before were way finer raised than today.
Quantum Experiment Creates What May Be the Most Entangled Controllable Device
The article hits the nail on the head for me. My son got a google home mini for Christmas last year for free with the chrome book we bought him.

Now we have a home mini on every floor, and we are happy with the relatively cheap price we paid.

Apple’s version either needs to come down in price or offer a lot more for its current price - if it wants a larger share of the market, in my opinion.
> The only reason I tolerate webpack is because of how convoluted the front end web build chain has become.

I've moved back to browserify (/ watchify) for hobby web projects and I've been very happy with it. Its a huge relief to jettison all the complexity that webpack brings. Browserify configuration often fits on the command line even for complicated projects. You have great tools for analysing bundle size with disc[1], and you can do hot reloading on SPAs with budo[2]. The ecosystem has babelify for JSX, tsify for typescript, uglifyify + unassertify for minification, and sheetify for CSS.

Browserify also seems way faster. I haven't tried webpack 4, but with webpack 3 I've had plenty of builds that take nearly a minute. Its out of control.

Webpack seems like the web generation's automake & autoconf. How long before we have tools which generate webpack configuration programatically, and which need configuration themselves.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/disc
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/budo
I am not holding my breather either, but there are some pretty big companies getting behind reducing the stigma.
They typo’ed on the word poopular. Or not. :D
Kinda embarrassing mistake when the name is quite visible right in the picture.
There was one for couples: https://www.fastcodesign.com/1669435/pair-a-social-networkin...
Ask HN:Pivacy conscious internet store?
Is there any privacy preserving web store.

For search engines there is duckduckgo and ya.cy ,email has protonmail but I am looking for a place to shop online as an alternative to Amazon,Ebay and other sites that openly track,fingerprint and log everything users do on the site.

If there isn't any,what in your opinion has been(or is) an obstacle?
I'll just say it, from someone who is similarly in your boat:

if you're even questioning it, there's probably something there

think about someone who is questioning their sexuality. there has to be some reason they're doing it.

i agree that there are probably varying degrees, like everything, but comeon...you're obviously very aware of the stigma. bipolar people who are highly functioning exist, and your doctors' metric is probably quality of life. if you can hold it together, it's not really life-affecting. it's just the way you are.

you could probably say you are bipolar-ish but have developed systems on your own for dealing with it.
Lots of packages are increasingly hosting on their own domain (like go.uber.org/zap) and controlling the mirroring themselves.
Especially when stuff like this tends to happen a lot with AWS:

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-inscom
Well, I used Oracle rdbms for a number of years and quite liked it.

Their business applications on the other hand I have never used but have heard they are pretty much horrible.
So, has anyone ever been to svnhub.com?

>>SVNHub Isn't necessary because GitHub supports Subversion!
tl;dr If you're stuck with svn repo mirror this to a git repo. Sourceforge has no use any more and has a bad rep.
For the 3rd time, do you have an actual example of what's wrong?

In the 1.5 years of wait time you mention, the current process will have standardized and released features across all browsers. The web has changed and nobody wants to wait years discussing something. Compatibility is not a major issue because features are rapidly updated and there are compatibility tables that will automatically reference and even build your app for you with the proper polyfills and transpilations.

Sure, sometimes there are bugs and partial features, but this is rare and there's no evidence that W3C prevented this since implementations are not up to them.

However the W3C has definitely failed to make any progress with HTML/XHTML. They failed with SVG. They failed with DRM by completely ignoring the issues raised and causing the EFF to leave. So please state exactly what the W3C has done better and where they have added value because as far as I can tell, they are just wasting time every few months from the very people who are trying to move the web forward.
Recruitmate – An app that applies to jobs for you
>Apple’s Stumbling HomePod Isn’t the Hot Seller It Wanted

Well, just like any other "Pods" out there. Seems ordinary people do not see a point buying them. One of my last tasks back when I worked in a sourcing company 2 years ago, was to investigate what are consumer attitudes to different "random speaking house appliances." It was like 9/10 people will just simply think of them like talking alarm clocks or radios. No wonder people are not spending $200 for a talking alarm clock.
Seeing how the F-35 worked out, maybe they should consider it
I currently work as a solutions engineer on Oracle Cloud. The product is absolute garbage and I'm miserable. If anyone has any good leads on other positions please let me know!
Actually, learning Ember.js is quite easy nowadays. There are great free options, where you can go far in a few days: http://yoember.com | https://guides.emberjs.com/v3.0.0/tutorial/ember-cli/
This is why needed the carbon tax.
disagree. There comes a certain scale where doing it yourself is way cheaper. There's other reasons to outsource to Amazon than just cost though
I have to admit I don't know this stuff first hand, but based on what I heard, it took quite a while for ITA to be fully "absorbed" into Google, during which time they didn't change much. I also heard that their first customer was more of a pilot or development partner. Also, from what I know about the airline industry, they change very very slowly and it'd take a long time from the time airlines are approached to the time things are actually in production, especially for something this critical.
As an Australian, I can only apologise for this fucking disgrace.
Ironically, the popular media has historically been the one of the largest sources of consumer data for ages through magazine subscriptions. They sell their data to brokers like Axciom (and many others) who package it and literally sell it for cash for anywhere from a few pennies per record on up depending on what features you want. Just addresses, addresses and phone numbers, number of cars owned, family make-up, age, etc.

Facebook is honestly quite humane in comparison. No one knows this stuff exists except direct marketers, which is why it doesn't get any attention.

Facebook gets much larger quantities of mundane information like you clicked on a news article, or you went on vacation to a certain place, etc. It also has social graph information that data brokers don't typically have like "is close friends with a woman with an upcoming birthday." That is a real ad targeting example you can do on Facebook.
Fair point.

But, I think they are different markets. The Home Pod, and Siri more specifically, simply cant compete in the "Home Assistant" space on either a technological nor price front.

Honestly, I would be more interested on Margins and Development costs to bring to production - because it does feel like a product that has a very small core target demographic (apple ecosystem audiophiles(?) not concerned with AI capacity outside of tuning for sound).
Trans fats are more or less banned in the United States.

The burger patties at McDonald's are real actual 100% beef.

It's not particularly good food, especially if it is served slower than in their test kitchen, but come on.
My kneejerk reaction is fury, but actually reading the article suggests another reaction should dominate, namely disinterest.

According to a spokesperson from Hunter Energy, it expects roughly 5% of the energy from the power plant will be used for blockchain related processes.

Ironically, it’s just a coal plant reopening with a touch of Blockchain hype, but really has almost nothing to do With Blockchain tech. At this point I wouldn’t be shocked to find “Blockchain enabled!” on peanut butter.
Counter-point:

He took clearly incredible people and introduced them to his audience, and in doing so, granted them a shred of legitimacy when they deserved none. His show caused vulnerable people to become entrenched in nonsensical conspiracy theories that even the hosts realized were crazy.
Looks like a good product. Nice site. Two heads up on iOS:

- there is a “Contact” link floating at the top of the page off centered that opens Mail. Maybe link it to your Olark integration.

- 14 day money back guarantee runs over the text underneath it.
This is one thing I think Google+ got right. I can have different types of “friends”, each in their own categories, such as “sharaholic” or “meme poster” and only visit those circles occasionally.

The only problem is the unpopularity of G+.
That's because having these hot microphones networked in your house is such a creep concept, and feels extremely far from useful, that the people who do buy them, are simply open to the experimentation, and accepting the dare. I don't think anyone imagines the experiment will bear fruit, but they've made peace with throwing some money away on a thing that seems to be something, somehow.

Personally, I hate the idea of Siri. I see people use Siri and I just shrug. I see people with Apple watches and I just shrug.

But I see a lot more people with Apple watches, than I do using Siri. I never see anyone using Okay Google or Cortana or Alexa.

My instictive judgement tells me that people who go beyond mere experimentation with voice-activated personal assistant software, and come to rely on it, are ridiculous people. When you use these things, there aren't many cues to guess at the response you'll get, and the sensation is not unlike yelling at a deaf child that doesn't speak your language. Will it hear me? Does it understand me? Can it follow basic instructions? (frequently the answers are yes, maybe, and no)

This is even with the low learning curve of a consumer product design.

Virtual assistants aren't fun, feel undiginfied, and don't have a lot of redeeming utility. It's no coincidence that only large companies have developed them, and I think it's best to bet against them for now.
Google is always listening
> I believe you are the only person trained in mathematics in the world that thinks x^2+3x=0 is not a polynomial equation.

Then you are not reading my comments.

> To be clear, outside of very particular contexts I would still call x^2-x+1=0 a polynomial equation, because it is extremely useful to talk about polynomials without invoking all of the machinery of formal polynomials.

>You don’t understand the underlying algebraic theory.

My claim is that the underlying algebraic theory is not necessary to rigorously state or solve the problems under discussion.

>You can’t write such a statement if you really understand that “what values make x+3 the number 5” is a nicer way of conveying the question “under the natural evil map induced by x+3 what is the pre-image of 5”.

My claim is that "what values make x+3 the number 5" translates directly into { x \in F | x+3=5}. I further claim that the "x+3" in this interpenetration is not a polynomial in the formal sense

I am not disputing that this is set is the same set as the pre-image of 5 under the natural map induced by x+3.