skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't expect a CSV to be a plain text file, unless all the data it's encoding is plain text. CSV is a data interchange format, not text. If I open a CSV in a plain text editor and get junk out of it, I would be mildly surprised but I wouldn't immediately conclude the file is invalid or corrupt, I would at least entertain the notion that the data is correct but indisplayable.

Mixed encodings would make sense if the columns in a single CSV are coming from multiple data sources. Any data processing software that expects to work in the real world is expected to be able to handle inputs in different formats. Depending on the relationship between the parts of the processing pipeline, a trying to reconcile formatting issues before/while creating the CSV may be an objectively incorrect design decision.
If the price is meaningless amount I would actually be more comfortable paying than being a "product" that is being sold.

Especially if there is no friction in paying and apps would subtract little amounts of cryptocurrency and I could review from time to time if all is in check
Will this handle duplicate Employer field entry ?
AI company Elon Musk cofounded intends to create machines with real intelligence
So much of VC funding is just about being in the right place at the right time. A lot of these guys seem like geniuses because of winning bets, but that's because nobody talks about their flops.

It's entertaining watching all of the VCs who have made a major bet on crypto, who are now doubling down on what looks more like an overheated casino losing steam. Fred Wilson might end up watching the tide go out on this one. Maybe people will finally remember that he was part of Twitter's clueless board, the one that didn't think it was important to buy Instagram?
"compared to x264 high profile at roughly the same quality"

Compared how? With what kind of source videos?

Unless you are matching SSIM on similar content I don't think you can meaningfully compare your numbers to the ones in the article.
This particular new right would apply only to "publishers of press publications and news agencies" (to quote one of the recent drafts), which is why I added "in journalism" to the title to clarify [edit: but mods removed it].

Open source is unfortunately threatened by a different provision, which would force GitHub and other code hosts to implement "ContentID"-like filters trying to detect copyright infringement in commits: https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filter...
Not exactly a Dapp, but to me the first killer cryptocurrency use case is/will be Althea: https://altheamesh.com/, incentivized mesh-networking and internet provider services with micropayments.
Reddit generally never acts on anything (whatever the subject) unless it appears in the news and they are in the spotlight. There's very rarely any proactive action from Reddit.
Purity and Time in React
Makes sense. Can't wait for the shows based on Cocoa and UIKit.
Myths About Society Too Many People Believe
Measures to protect users' data and privacy will not strictly kill a "free" internet -- there are lots of reasonable caveats such as number of active users, total revenue, number of employees that would allow a small business to compete.
A proactive approach might get better results than a prohibitive one. Minecraft modding and making Minecraft videos seems like an obvious route for this given the interest.
Yes, blockchains _have_ been overhyped thus far. But there is some promise to having distributed control over a database.

For instance, you can build a company with [token|share]holders that no one controls -- a true cooperative. (full disclosure I work on this problem)
Various intranet pages at my company "work" in IE6/7 or whatever and nobody seems to be rushing to fix them. That kind of sucks, though.
When I was 15, I discovered Usenet and the various binaries subgroups. This was beyond what my folks understood was on the PC. Your son will access content beyond your current understanding as well. Additionally, you might have a monitor on the PCs you own, but you don't have a monitor on his friends PCs either. The monitoring game is already lost. You indicate a loss of trust, but it goes both ways. There's absolutely no way he's going to tell you anything now that you've dealt the monitoring card. He's not going to thank you in the future. He's simply not going to say anything about it.
Censorship resistance. Twitter could delete your account (or some of your tweets) if they wanted to. They could also prevent your tweets appearing in other people's feeds. And they have done this to some controversial figures.

Basically a Dapp is a more neutral platform that costs money. Probably not worth the cost for the average person though.
It's only ignorant to able to apply the laws of supply and demand to something where supply _is_ infinite.

Copying a file is free, it's weird to make it equivalent to theft when there is no loss on behalf of the studio. Perhaps a better example would be one friend sharing a dvd with another friend.

That's what I'm saying though, it is stupid, to call file sharing theft. Theft involves loss on behalf one party. If simply taking profit(file sharing media companies would say) is enough to count as theft, then regular competition does that.

Another analogy: suppose you had a technology where you could clone real life items, you could copy food, cars, precious metals etc. you wouldn't call that theft. However in computing that technology readily exists.

Another thing, you're conflating laws with morality, just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral. Copyright has been extended again and again by the Disney company afraid to lose their mouse.
One reason is to move from being the product to being a user, so that your attention is not sold to the highest bidder and your behaviour manipulated in such a way that it produces the highest value. Of course, paying with your attention is a valid way of paying for things as long as the implications are clear.

edit: spelling mistakes
The big elephant in his post is the fact that you need to pay (ie buy ETH) to start using dapps.

That’s a big stumbling psychological stumbling block that the “regular” internet doesn’t have.

And I think that fact will shape whether any of us or the regular public ever launch a dapp.

There will be a small set of services I believe which will cross this threshold. Not sure if it will be a large number or not.
Sample size of 200 with no baseline. Ignore the study.
> There is no fine-grained way to say what apps can be used when, what web sites can be used or not used, etc.

I'm surprised to hear that. We've had the smaller model iPod for a couple of years now. I have parental restrictions on and my daughter can't install (thus, not use) apps that I do not approve, nor can she visit any websites that I do not whitelist. Both features are stock, no third party app needed. The former only required adding the device to my family sharing group and ticking a box requiring her to ask permission before downloading an app.

My opinion is that there is definitely an in-between, but you're correct in saying that time limit enforcement would be quite useful.
Dapps mean apps on blockchain and consensus. Patchwork does not apply, otherwise one could mention "Torrents!" etc. You would be at least 20 years late to the party.
Probably, friend of mine seen a dbase one lately...
Can't wait to support Althea Mesh some more in the future! We don't live in a great place right now with much human-density at all.

If we ever live in a city though I will be the first to put up a system that can run Althea Mesh.

Anything to put a tiny dent in the last-mile providers.
Ah no mention of Black Mirror’s “Arkangel” yet? Haha go watch it.
>have a separate name for programs using NoSQL too?

Yeah, horrible legacy projects that are a pain in the ass to maintain

Source: I am working on a legacy API based on a noSQL database with a very dumb design (because the data was relational of course) in a very large company
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Other streams:

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A bunch of others on YouTube.
That's all very reasonable.

What I hear from parent around me come straight out of a dystopian novel. 24/7 GPS tracking, Webcam monitoring at random moments of the day, silent alarms when the child visits certain websites, silent alarms when the child enter certain stores and locations, etc.

That's 16-18 years old teens I'm talking about. By that time, the child should be well on its way to becoming an adult. They should be teaching their kids about freedom, the cost of mistakes and the weight of their actions.

Instead, we have kids growing up a bubble. Once they reach legal age, they rip them out of that bubble and throw them into a strange world they learned nothing about.

No wonder you then end up with people that are not very mature or have issues.
I know some extremely well-written apps from 2000 without trendy obfuscating flat interface, and many trendy albeit unusable monstrosities from the past 3 years. What kind of argument did you make?
So then would it be impossible for me to write down your phone number in my phone, without my phone's contact list app asking you for permission first? That seems kind of excessive.
I don't know the true answer to your question, but since encoding is expected to reach just 5X of VP9 by the end of this year, I think decoding is in the same order.

The plan, of course, is in the coming years there will be decoders baked into the silicon so the computational complexity is offloaded from the CPU and therefore becomes (in some ways) irrelevant.
Hierarchical structures are how we organized things historically. So I think it's pretty natural. I know that for a long time I was relatively careful about filing email, files, etc. into a folder hierarchy and categorizing my music collection. I won't say folders (and tags/labels) don't still have their uses. But I've definitely moved away from spending so much upfront time to carefully organizing stuff that I may want to find some tiny percentage of some day. Instead I mostly figure I can search for it if I need to.
Could someone provide a summary of the kinds of mistakes/remedies?
Because a bunch of losers hiding in their parents basements upvoting comments for a penny doesn't inspire the same awe that a Russian "hacker" does
It became useful for people who have as job using public data or providing it. Such as the life sciences, governments and the archaeology/history and more. It allows for nice bottom up standards and user interfaces such as flight data in your e-mail.

If your not consuming a lot of public data or providing data to the public it is not very useful other than having a bunch of better graph databases associated with it.
There are similar inalienable rights in copyright, collectively referred to as "moral rights": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights#In_Europe

It's a bit murky, especially in an international context. But they generally aim to protect authors, specifically in the author<->publisher relationship.

It may seem counter-intuitive that taking away "your right to relinquish your rights" may be protecting you. But the idea is the same as whatever law stops you from selling yourself into slavery.
Goldman Sachs gets even more bullish on high-flyer Netflix, predicting big subs
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While this isn't great, it is worth remembering that this is one individual's proposals that hasn't passed any committee, any vote, any vetting, any review period, and is a long way off becoming enacted.

I'm all for voicing descent to this bad idea. I just want people to keep it in the context it belongs (a very big longshot for getting through as-is regardless).
Some quick googling didn't turn up an answer - do you know how "publishers of press publications and news agencies" are defined? Does my blog count?
That's probably the best solution. It would be nice to have a dictionary of answers to these sorts of things (a dictionary of names, a dictionary of cities, etc) to quickly generate these in a truly random way to try and eke a little bit more entropy out of it.
How to Create a Subscription Tracker App
The history of Africa every year since 1600 BC
The biggest fallacy in this particular debate is the idea that ORMs are somewhat "higher level" whereas SQL is "lower level". SQL is a 4GL, and as such, a much more higher level language than anything you can do with an ORM, which leads to much more "lower level", imperative data interaction patterns.

On the other hand, a lot of people put their database in lower layers often confused with or used as synonym for levels.

So, the level-ness depends on what you're trying to abstract. Algorithms? SQL will be higher level. Layers? ORMs will be higher level.
The problem is that for many products, if it can't integrate with an Excel workflow, it is dead-on-arrival.
One of the reasons to improve productivity - if you really have to do stuff you don't like, do it swift and effectively, so you can quickly get back to more important things.
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It was a stupid idea, although remnants can be seen in html5 with elements like address and , nav, and section.

Turns out that keeping presentation and data separate is much, much easier. Hopefully HTML 6 will get rid of everything except for div, span, and form elements.
Showing how billions of people's psychological profiles can be algorithmically weaponized against them would be highly informative I would think. That way the average user would understand the types of things they are "consenting" to when they write a blank check for their personal information.
"reverse engineer and reimplement it ourselves from nothing" :)
Did we watch the same show? The only drug-addicted person on the ship was well past millennial, and the various skills of the crew were what allowed them to survive.

It wasn't what I expected of Stargate, but it was watchable.
It amazes me that the EU can be so forward thinking on Data Privacy. Yet so draconian when it comes to copyright laws.
"Web Scale"
Comparing VueJS with other JavaScript frameworks
Yes, it does to me:

0) Augur, decentralized prediction markets and a very early ICO has reached the bug bounty phase, getting much closer to launch (https://medium.com/@AugurProject/announcing-the-augur-bug-bo...)

1) Golem, another early ICO has launched (https://www.coindesk.com/golem-arrives-one-ethereums-ambitio...)

2) Distense, a decentralized code-cooperative with be running on the Ethereum mainnet in a few weeks (disclosure: my project) (https://disten.se)

3) 550 more live here: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/
Would you really let your 10 year old watch porn?
Maybe it wasn't important at the time. Instagram only became wildly popular after they introduced stories, which they didn't have at the time, did they?
Comparing Python and Ruby upgrades is not fair.

Ruby 1.9 was working mostly the same as 1.8 while provising 2-3x speed improvment, and new exciting features.

Python 3 breaks even the basic Python 2 hello world, everything was notably slower, and not anything new and exiciting feature-wise apart ubified string support.
Sure Dapps might be an interesting concept but let's not pretend it is free from manipulation. Miners are the gatekeepers to the system.

F2Pool is one of the biggest pools in Ethereum. It was alleged that they manipulated the Status ICO:

https://themerkle.com/f2pool-allegedly-prevented-users-from-...

They controlled 26.6% of the total Ethereum hashing power.

So, lets say this twitter clone - Peepeth takes off. And then there is someone who wants to post some stuff against F2pool. What is stopping F2pool from manipulating the feed? You might say other miners controlling 75% of the hashrate will pick it up. Sure, you might be correct. But what if the post shits on every other mining pool out there? What happens then? What if the post is time sensitive?

Decentralized apps can only go so far considering there has to be a record for the system to work. And if record keepers manipulate the system it will fail. The question becomes then:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Perl6 isn't an update to Perl5. It's a completely unrelated language with a misleading name.
IE6/7 objectively sucks. One could argue Python 3 sucked more than Python 2 based on performance benchmarks even year ago. IMO both Python 2 and Python 3 are pretty messed up languages with similarly messed up libraries, and "pythonic" way is often meaning "idiomatic" in the ugly sense of the word. But I do Deep Learning, data science and stuff with Boto/MWS on Amazon, so I have to stick with it. However seeing all the warts Python 3 throws at me and a crowd of people nagging to switch all the time, I frankly don't see much value in switching from one set of warts to another set of warts, waste the most precious thing I have - time, and all that just to duplicate what I already had (and disliked developing in Python anyway, but it was the fastest way).
That seems like the point the parent is making: we already have "distributed apps" and have for decades.
Considering it was so easy for you to find two articles about it, it appears many people are talking about it, counter to your claim of "nobody."

Maybe no one's discussing it in this thread because this article is about something specific.
For what it's worth, if you consider that most people used to pay $60/mo for TV, that would easily cover Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, BackBlaze, Office 365, Evernote, and Apple Music. That's a _lot_ of value.

(This is more of a response to the other comment saying that subscriptions get expensive. You just had a nice enumerated list to work with!)
> Yeah, horrible legacy projects that are a pain in the ass to maintain

How can a "legacy" project be using noSQL? In my company, "legacy" projects are projects that have been around for 10+ years. MongoDB hasn't even been out a full 10 years, yet...
There is a romanticized narrative of the founder that sleeps under their desk sacrificing every moment to make their dream come true; where their success comes from the extent of stress and hardship they were willing to absorb while their competitors didn't go to such lengths and are now left in the dust.

The rational mind knows that getting proper rest lets you work closer to your optimal and 5 hours of work at 100% is better than 20 hours at 20%. That's not as good of a story though and the optics themselves have marketing value so it may balance out in the end.
At some point I was led to the conclusion that CSV stands for Character-Separated Values. So as long as you pick one character for your delimiter and stick to it, it's a CSV.

This apparently isn't actually true, but the world makes more sense if you pretend it is.
Seems like the consequences could go way beyond licensing and into monopolization of news and press. They just can't help themselves but always push to centralize control over media.
TDD is for programmers who don't program
I am reminded of a charity that was posted to HN recently. They were helping mothers in Africa birth children. I asked what they were doing to help the children after they were born, and the reply was that other charities would fill that gap.

So ignorant. It's just blind heart-fullness. Yeah, let's help bring more children into poverty! It was refreshing to read your comment and I hope that other technologists apply critical thinking to their charity.
Q. Can the users completely delete their data ?

Zuckerberg: Yes, there are two options. First to deactivate because students and want to suspend and come back because they want to study for exam. Second option is users can totally delete all their data.

Where is the second option anyone from Facebook ? There is only an option to delete the account after you DIE, not an option to delete it when you are alive.

So many lies.
The real real question is why he was complaining about the difficulty to carry bags around.... carts were invented fulfill that purpose.
I assume because it allows you to trade in and out from crypto positions to something that tracks fiat.

This of course assumes that this coin can actually hold its value in the event of a market crash. I also assume it’s not backed by real dollars held in a bank but some kind of basket of other cryptoassets right?
And making things forbidden won't encourage a 12 year old to find a way to get to it anyway? The hormonal boy will just say "porn is blocked here, I won't look at titties until my parents says it's ok"?
It's certainly not a precise comparison, you're right.

Nevertheless, compare for instance x264 and x265. Exactly how large the difference between the two is depends on the type of content, bitrate, resolution and other factors, but it's hard to find any case (encoding speeds aside) where x265 wouldn't be substantially better, to the point where we generally call H.265 a better codec.

I was expecting a similar kind of leap with AV1. This comparison may not be conclusive, but it looks like that's probably not going to happen.
I agree with the main idea: working with hyped technologies is not a solution and you can build most of the things out there with boring technology.

But then ... you have to find, attract and hire good developers. That's already difficult, adding an extra layer of 'boring technology' will make this task even more challenging.
ICOs like to move fast and break (lots of) things
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I'm not blaming anybody, everyone has freedom to decide. It is better to be no parent than a parent who never wanted to be in this role.

I want to point out that the evolutionary mechanisms are always active, and intelligent humans rationalizing against procreation (something that primarily educated humans seem to do) are part of the evolutionary game.
"Inappropriate videos on youtube", like what?
Yes and your Python 2.x code will still run after 2020. But going the other way - new programs might not run on older distro releases, which is what GP said.