skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Communists considered Soviet Union just a bridgehead for the World Revolution. It primary goal was to serve as a resource base for spreading the fire all over the world. I just checked and it looks like English version of “the Internationale” is mild, the Russian lyrics explicitly state “this world of oppression we’ll reduce to rubble and will use that rubble to build our new world” - and I can guarantee you, USSR was really looking forward to destroy the capitalist world.

The industrial design showcased in this article is nice. But the reality was that most “nice things” were replicas, authorized or otherwise, of the things developed in the first world. I remember in 1980s looking throw the mail catalogues people brought from abroad and being amazed on how many nice things there were in the world. Obviously, I was mostly interested in the toys section back then - but those toys were decades ahead of what we had in USSR.
I think what's started to happen is there is an entire generation of new coders that grew up on Javascript and the web and so all of this just seems totally normal.
I look at some of this static site and server side rendered Javascript stuff and wonder if the people developing them have ever used flask, or Sinatra. I mean hell these frameworks make RoR look lean and simple.
Good point. Even economic development is hard to define, and that can be measured in dollars!
Easily. The bacterial population can double in just half an hour. The only thing limiting them is nutrients.

And they probably get a lot of those nutrients from bacteria that died, so it self balances.
> Better octopus merging

I'm curious why do you do the octopus merges often. I'd probably avoid them as much as possible, mainly because small incremental changes verified by CI/CD are easier to deal with than multiple things at once. What's the benefit of merging more than one thing?
Origin's Premium Aluminium Windows at Oryx in Dubai, UAE
My point was there is masses of surplus, even too much, and it is just a distribution/allocation problem.
Really? I thought it was more like awesome-mongering.
Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
I think just the system recognizing faces that it's seen before would be good enough. Entering by hand isn't too bad.

When it detects a new face, add it to the "seen faces" list, and let the user go back though that (sorted most recent at the top) whenever they like, to add names and maybe a short note like "met at party in LA". So you have to remember their name yourself but only momentarily until you can enter it into the local DB.

Whenever that face is detected again, it shows the info.

That way you can skip Internet connectivity on the device entirely.
I discovered Erlang in the late 2000s via its kinda weird and iconic video "Erlang the Movie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE that prompted me to dig further. I was at the time an average developer. Erlang, and Joe Armstrong books and videos, made me understand things that other web-oriented languages ( Ruby, PHP... ) never really dug into at the time.
Because the Erlang ecosystem is more than distribution. Distribution is a consequence of its design around concurrency and message passing and let-it-crash/auto-healing philosophy. Erlang, and after that Elixir, made me think differently about code and made me a better programmer.
Of course!
Databases are just more complicated spreadsheets!
And puppet is just scripts that configure servers.
And encryption is just a few math equations that mask data.

Man when you put it that way I just realized how trivial all technology is!

Really anyone can do it without years of experience and training!

Who knows why the salaries are so high!
The tie-breaker is financial. Jupyter is winning because it's free

This is it really

Back in the 90s I was using a program called MathCAD, it provided a “notebook” interface by running as a plugin to Word 6. In terms of general usability and experience, 20-years-ago blows away modern-day Jupyter and it’s silly “cells” interface, which it does not because it’s better but because it’s trying to force itself into a web browser. I haven’t used MathCAD since but I bet in 2018 it’s amazing.

I think few people who have used the commercial tools think Jupyter is better. But the commercial tools are soooooooo expensive...
Hah! One of my tricks is to introduce people. "Hey, have you two met?" Often they haven't, so they'll then say their names.
Also in the kitchen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8S_ibxarEg
Yep, this is completely possible to implement in git. Fossil has it built-in already, that's good.

For anyone who wants to see what's possible using low level git tools: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
This is cool. I also can't help but notice the objective-c [method message] smalltalk-like syntax.
I’m trying to build a static site with content coming from Contentful. I don’t want site visitors to have to download 500k of vue-markdown before they can see the content. Am I missing something? Is there a better way?
Definitely, would do it regularly if not for my daughter.

Cheapest therapy ever, ~$200. Everything in life gets the reset button. Just so happy to be ALIVE. I kissed the ground on my return, haha.

A friend asked how long it lasts, personally was about two months, but there are still residual effects years later.
I actually seen photos of those in action: during 70s, my parents had natural gas well in their backyard and one day it did catch the fire. Fire fighters waited for week or two and hoped the gas will deplete itself, after that they bring those machines which blow out the fire. So those machines are probably few decades older than stated in article.
Membership in an open source community is like membership in the community of science. There is a straightforward process for finding a true answer to any question

Oh please. Dare to ask what is the best of anything and prepare for an epic flame war.
Lanier talks about behavior modification networks and ways out at TED
Don’t forget Discord! I finally got my entire family in a server on there.
There doesn't seem much info on the stack though quora has

Sinatra, no rails(2012): https://www.quora.com/Does-Stripe-use-Rails/answer/Patrick-C...

nqinx, mongodb, Kubernetes
True, but one approach that might help is paying generous pensions come after basic services, education, and pay for active workers. Versus them coming first then saying "gee no money for pencils at school" is just wrong.
What if the other person is bad at videoconferenes? I find them extremely awkward compared to talking face to face, and I know some people find them very distracting.
For now, I am using the text to speech provided with the native sdk.

I am looking for alternatives, like Watson, etc. Which can provide more natural sounding
The same chances as retroactively renegotiating on other deferred obligations. We call it 'defaulting on a loan.'

Wouldn't it be a great idea if the government just stopped making payments on its loans that, in hindsight, were a bad idea?
The resonant bit for me was movies. If characters are sufficiently visually different, I'm fine. But if it's a movie about a bunch of similar people, I'm screwed. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was about a bunch of middle-aged English dudes all dressed as British civil servants. At some point I just gave up.
Google’s astounding new search tool will answer any question by reading books
I’m sure some other mode of communication could be used. Email is fine for most things, TBH. In some cases I’m ok with stopping by in person, at my own expense.
If pensions are a ponzi scheme, so is the expectation that our economy will, on average, grow YoY.

Yet, every single part of our society, from pensions, to investments, to government planning, to retirement advice for people working in the private sector is based on the insane notion that 3% GDP growth is perpetually sustainable.
People prefer to think their ideas are new and haven't failed 100% of the time before.

"Hey! I just had a great idea! Rent control!"
Yes, but they don’t usually charge you this fee if, e.g. you miss a flight.

Additionally, that $200 fee comes nowhere near covering the lost revenue if you change flights a day in advance of departure and that seat isn’t re-sold.

I hope you can see that a last-minute change (even with a nominal fee) means the plane takes off without a paying butt in that seat.
> This means that two people arguing about it can both be right and unable to see the other point of view.

Thanks for sharing this. This is something that has been extremely important for me to realize. When it comes to holding strong and passionate view points on any topic. I have to stop and understand that there is a reason that the person with an opposing view point may also be right from the perspective of their world view and I’m simply blind to it because I may never fully be able to understand their world view and they may never understand mine.

We all go through anywhere from slightly to drastically different life experiences that inform our world view. And it’s something I force myself to be more conscious about. But thank you for bringing this up in your context and experience.
Should be noted that if you want a server, this isn't a good way. Just get a HP microserver or Dell T20. Same price, much better.
The whole point of property rights is that it only matters who owns the property, not who needs it.
Hardly.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/federalism-and-libertar...
Ask HN: Where do you find inspiring news? News that motivate your (geek) life
Actually sounds spot-on with regards to the parent comment: by his/her logic one way to deal with social media is to make sure you see everything, else you might miss something relevant. Nerve-wrecking if you'd ask me.

On the other hand, some learning algorithm which figures out what is relevant to you sounds interesting at first but could, in my opninion, quickly lead to creating a bubble in which you only see what some algorithm considers relevant and nothing else. Now I get that some people like it that way, and in the end we all live in some kind of bubble, but still, I'd rather keep options open and actively look for new things I know nothing about.
What do you mean by "workable steel or iron" ? We're not mining for steel, and it's not like iron age started with finding some magic store of "workable iron" instead of iron oxides - the surface iron and mined iron deposits e.g. hematite, magnetite, etc are oxides of iron. The fully oxidized remains of a scrapyard would form pretty much perfect iron ore.

Our iron (and other metal) mining is not "using iron up", it's just bringing the iron closer to the surface and transforming it in ways that will be undone by millions of years. Fossil fuels are a different case, though.
Same as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/retry no?
My bank's app sends a notification for every transaction. So normally, I pay, and seconds later my wrist buzzes and I can check the amount.

Thanks to this I caught a fraudulent online transaction for 1.2 million columbian pesos(?) and was able to block my card immediately after.
Is there some kind of war between The Verge and Business Insider? The article mentions 3 times that Business Insider mistakenly called dopamine the pleasure chemical just in the intro.
Motorcycling can do this too. I've ridden with quite a few people who get depressed if they can't ride.
I'd say they got pretty good: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is...
You sound like you might have CAPD. A common coping mechanism is lip reading to help fill in missing auditory information, often without consciously realizing it.

I don't know what your situation is, but my sons just don't use the phone. I handle all phone calls.

I'm so used to us just side stepping such issues that I have trouble imagining feeling obligated to connect a certain way. Some people prefer email. Some people prefer texting. Etc.
yeah, deleted all my friends but kept the account. left a public message for folks who discover me.

also... not satire. though, that feedback is appreciated.
Part of me wonders if things could improve if the resources put towards "drug discovery" could go further if they were allocated to tooling to allow for individuals to synthesize drugs tailored to their present state.

With increasingly more data available on the drugs released by FDA, EMA, etc, combined with cheap genetic sequencing and other measurements, part of me wonders if the statistical approaches with some sub fields of chemistry combined with bioinformatics could move things from the era where certain drugs are produced in mass to one where getting certain interactions with compounds to take place based on and individuals state.

Razib Kahn talks[0] about this recently:

"There’s a debate that periodically crops up online about the utility, viability, and morality of returning results from genetic tests to consumers. Consumers here means people like you or me. Pretty much everyone.

If you want to caricature two stylized camps, there are information maximalists who proclaim a utopia now, where people can find out so much about themselves through their genome. And then there are information elitists, who emphasize that the public can’t handle the truth. Or, more accurately, that throwing information without context and interpretation from someone who knows better is not just useless, it’s dangerous.

Of course, most people will stake out more nuanced complex positions. That’s not the point. Here is my bottom-line, which I’ve probably held since about ~2010:

- The value for most people in actionable information in direct-to-consumer genetics is probably not there yet when set against the cost.
- With the reduction in the cost of genotyping and sequencing, there’s no way that we have enough trained professionals to handle the surfeit of information. And there will really be no way in 10 years when a large proportion of the American population will be sequenced.

"

[0]https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/04/10/notes-from-the-per...
See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/... - you can easily import from Github

https://notebooks.azure.com
Right, it is a pretty fair offer, but it's not SF real estate generous. That would work out to $16 billion or so.
New Idea Prototyping SaaS for Startup Teams – Mink
Skydivers suffer from depression too. It would be interesting to know if skydivers as a group are more or less depressed than non skydivers or people who skydive less frequently. Are the effects the same for someone with +1000 jumps or is it the change in environment/trying new things that is the key to stave off an episode?
We're not consuming iron, tin or copper - all the iron, tin and copper that we've brought up from underground is still there. The only difference is that a future civilization might need to look for these metals by smelting rubbishdumpitis and cityruinitis scattered e.g. close to river deltas where our major population centers are located now instead of hematite, magnetite or limonite scattered according to long-term geological processes.
Medium.com has all kinds of writers and publications where you can find great content.
They don’t know how.

But anaconda python will work nicely on centos 6 I suspect.
If the average person makes 50K a year then the average person in Oregon takes home about 35K per year. So you say it's "only" 300 extra dollars a year they have to pay.

In other words, this person now owes nearly 1% of their disposable income for life to cover _currently_ unfunded pensions with no corresponding increase in goods or service levels.

To put it another way, this person will work ~1/3 of a year out of their career to pay for unfunded pensions.
It's NOT* propelled by a diesel piston engine, it's propelled by a turbine engine. Seems like a fair assessment, nothing misleading.

*Edit: added required negative
Who knows perhaps they will succeed after all? But not a tiniest bit in the way the communists envisioned!

Inequality will be stopped from growing indefinitively because somewhere must be a limit. What if the one percent owning ninety nine percent of global wealth is not enough for them? When will the rest of the world stop being sheeple and how will they change this? I hope in a peaceful way.

Communism is dead. It's a stillborn ideology. I experienced Communism during a trip to the German Democratic Republic 1986. I found it dodgy and full of internal inconsistency.

However the problems Communism tried to solve are real and as of today even more pressing than ever.
Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
Impeding, or just not encouraging, job growth in rural communities devastates them far more than rare eminent domain issues. Building all new infrastructure can quickly turn an endeavor unprofitable, resulting in it not being done at all.

There is a balance, but I favor the use of eminent domain to expand economic opportunities to rural areas, as long as the buyouts are above market rate. Those that are affected are often the wealthier and older homeowners, not the struggling young families that most need help.
If you like Wat, you should like this talk by James Mickens on computer security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc
Trans fats are more or less banned in the United States

Not at all. They remain common in packaged food, especially in the form of artificially hydrogenated oils.

Even butter has some naturally occurring transfat.
I'd guess none. Lying is ok when it's done by the good guys. Especially to harm bad guys. Holywood taught us that.
The author has many other similar trip reports on his home page at https://timonoko.github.io/. In the 1992 report (in Finnish) he already says that the tide chart and vhf radio are must haves. At least he wasn't too stubborn.
"There has never been a double blind test on the efficacy of parachutes!" -Internet Scientist

Not sure I'd trust a parachute without proper testing.
There is no need to start as a social app. You could start as a to-do app. For example, if Todoist would add a persistent group chat to shared lists, it might replace the WhatsApp conversations with my wife.

There are apps that are used in intimate settings. They can be made "social".
except it’s just stuff I want ... why keep Facebook at all

FB can do this, or at least close enough for me.. I mainly have it for chatting with certain friends (the chat UI is pretty terrible, but unlike IRC/Slack/Discord/... the percentage of people I know using it is extremely high), and to keep track of events from bands and other organizations. And it's fairly ok for that and there aren't really all-in-one alternatives for tracking bands imo.
For all those who are unhappy with WebPack, I seriously recommend brunch (http://www.brunch.io). It used to be the default that ships with Phoenix/Elixir (not sure if it still does) and it's really straightforward to get started with it.

For our app, we use Jekyll+Brunch for the static site with about, contact us, etc. And Phoenix for everything else. Brunch + VueJS is a breeze (unless you're into dynamic imports, which is required for SPAs).
So that's what happened to his clutch...
Paperweekly: recommend, summary, discuss the lastest AI papers (Chinese now)
Developing the Writing Habit (2017)
Once the first page is loaded subsequent interactions that would normally require a full page request can be done with smaller requests and with nice transition effects.
CDC AND HIV: WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG?
What were the teachers in Illinois making a couple decades ago?
On a similar note, repetition is a great way to remember names.

Try to repeat the persons name in conversation a few times, just slip in in there.

For instance, if they say their name is Charles, respond with "So Charles, how's your day been so far?".

Not only does it help you remember their name, you're also more personable.

Since I've started consciously doing this, it's helped a lot.

I'm terrible with names. It's entirely possible for me to meet someone and know practically their entire life story, but not remember their name.
The sequel is shorter and more fun, “all erlang needs is an image upgrade.. we need something fresh, something edgy”

https://youtu.be/rRbY3TMUcgQ
Most of the examples you cite are tax evasion, not avoidance. If you use the company car privately you need to pay taxes on it. They may even require you to log your tours (Fahrtenbuch) if they don't believe you.

If you rent out the office in your house to your own company for a too high price they will investigate you for "verdeckte Gewinnausschüttung".

There are of course margins to play with in which you can probably hide a lot of money, but generally this is tax evasion
I always pay by card and where I live you can't add a tip so I never tip.
Top arXiv papers
To me (IANA...) this reads like 'Sky Diving relieved my anxiety which cause(s/d) my depression'.
Predicting Exercise in the Music Industry
They are not independent. If you want to make a movie about army it's hard to do without filming their gear. And army will help you with that but only if you praise it.

To get critical movies about US army we need to wait for full CGI. Although I bet Army will retailiate then through copyright law.
It still doesn't explain why the tip has to be a percentage. Makes no sense.
When I was a junior sysadmin at a hosting company I raised this point in passing. It was acknowledged as a problem, but apparently so hard to fix that it was just ignored (and I didn't care enough to pursue it further).

I haven't given it much thought as I've not worked with physical kit since then. I wonder if virtualization is good enough now that they could take a security stance to only deploy VMs, and deprecate the root "physical servers" product offering (i.e. you can spec out a physical server but you will always get a VM).
Not only that. From TFA:

Prosopagnosia appears to be different from other
neurological memory problems because it doesn’t cause
any other issues with memory and isn’t always caused by
brain damage — as in my case, it can be developmental
and genetic.

@schaefer: "Thanks."
You don't see them as American even though they are American? How strange.
Property isn't worth much when it's not reachable by roads.
I have an older Odroid, and it's powerful enough for a home server. It also only consumes a couple of Watts, which is difficult to beat.

Mine is hidden away, so I don't hear the hard drive clicking, and it doesn't have a case at all.
It would be interesting to see how the SIMD versions work for small arrays. I suspect in this case the naive version better, and this could be the reading why compilers do not convert the code to SIMD instructions...
The Pilot and the Plane
I always miss multithreaded benchmarks when using SSE/AVX instructions. AFAIK AVX processing units are oversubscribed, there are less of them than CPU cores.

I can imagine that running AVX is_sorted (or any other AVX procedure) in multiple threads would be actually slower than running non-vectorized procedure.

Of course, that's my purely anecdotal opinion.
On a similar tack, in Australia they have been treating methamphetamine addiction with flying lessons: http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/43369891/a...
when you do have jumped more than 10 times it's only $25 a shot (even cheaper if you BYO parachute)
The possibility that viruses can benefit a host or cellular species is interesting. I have wondered whether the common cold virus(es) may impart some benefit to humans? Are we symbiotic with mutualism?

Could they provide some defense or warning against other diseases in the environment? Just speculating.
> The problem with Mathematica from a science point of view is that, being closed source, means you can't independently ensure the calculations are happening correctly. To be replicable, science involving data needs to use open source tools.

Excel and MATLAB can't be used for real science?
I thought targeting by demographic, area, even “friends of” were already supported natively in FB ad targeting. Same goes for the pixel. It is hard to see what special sauce they are bringing here.