skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should a newbie-stackoverflow, where all newbies post.
This would avoid to see the same question for the 100000th time or messages from people who do not read error messages on the main SO. It would also prevent many experienced programmers from seeing these questions and answering with snappy comments. That way, the main SO could be focus on high quality questions and answers.
When we developed antibiotics we thought we solved the problem. Now we are looking at more and more strains of bacteria resistant to all we got. We have to keep going, turns out we are not done developing antibiotics, forever.

So, as I see it, this might show that once we "cured cancer" (I know, there is not "one cancer", and that there won't be that one drug, it's more a dynamic equilibrium), when we think we made it we might find out that the threat develops too and cancerous cells may come up with completely new ideas. Red Queen hypothesis, in a way. I know the article says they have not seen any such thing in humans, but when we developed antibiotics the ones we see now weren't there either.

A little OT:

The new public release version of that new cancer like thing will be open source, as always, and also as always that is of little use because the code is a mess and deciphering it takes as much time as writing it new from scratch... on the other hand, whenever I looked at source code of major projects it reminded me a lot of what biological processes would come up with, just as messy, you can only patch the immediate problem, probably introducing 10 new ones in the process. Especially when they rely on automated testing to replace understanding - patches that pass the tests are accepted (keep fiddling until they do), until nobody understands the code any more a hundred developers and years later.

Sometimes software developers ask what new programming language to learn for self-improvement. Inevitably a lot of languages from Haskell to Python to whatever are mentioned. I think that's all aiming way too close to what those people already know. I would recommend - biology and neuroscience! It's easy and free these days, e.g. "Introduction to Biology" on edX, "Medical Neuroscience" on Coursera after the fundamentals from Harvard at https://www.mcb80x.org/ - plus probability and statistics (edX, Coursera - many very good courses).

Only some random musings triggered by reading that article.
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It isn't poor planning.

I'm medically handicapped and I fell in December and hurt myself and basically spent three months in bed, not doing paid work, though I was working on other things to try to raise my income. I'm a woman, so I am barred from the old boys network. I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of Hacker News. No, this does not gain me entree to the old boys club. I still have essentially no professional connections here, though that may be painfully slowly changing.

I have cystic fibrosis. So does my oldest son. Both my sons are ASD. So, there's a whole lot on my plate.

I also am getting well when doctor's claim that cannot be done and that gets me called a lunatic and teller of tall tales. It doesn't lead to anything good.

I was gifted membership to Metafilter by a kind soul. That forum is full of people who like to imagine they are good people making the world a better place. They did nothing but crap on me. They were unwilling to help me figure out how to increase my income.

I've done everything in my power to solve what are supposed to be unsolvable problems and I mostly get kicked in the teeth for it.

But, hey, thanks for taking the time to make swipes at me. Really nice of you to add to my troubles while I sit here with $2 to my name trying to figure out how the hell I will eat for the rest of the month and also dealing with the IRS sword of Damocles today just to add to the fun.
I work a bit in the field and I think it's a completely impractical but fun hack.
I used to have about a dozen clients with the agency I ran with a friend a few years ago.

I found out a number of things when I was working closely with my clients. Most were doing ok in the SERPS and a few did really well because of the niche industries they were in.

Some things I found out:

1 - SEO helps, but is never the determining factor in hiring any of the companies I worked with. This means you can be #1, #1 in Google and still not get any business because of it.

2 - Tracking contacts is critical. We mandated all of our clients use an answering service. They would contact people within 24 hours of receiving a contact form. The owner would then follow up to set up appointments, consultations, etc. Once we did this, we saw a massive jump in sales conversions which had nothing to do with SEO.

3 - If your design sucks and people can't find what they're looking for quickly, they're going to leave your site no matter how high you're ranking. We found this out with several of our clients who didn't want to redesign their site for various reasons. They ranked high, but their traffic and conversions sucked. We redesigned their site(s) for easier navigation, and prioritized content and got rid of other content that clogged their site. Conversions jumped by 43% over a 6 month period.

SEO does matter, but even if with massive amounts of traffic because you're ranking well isn't a magic bullet for success. You also need a good design and content people can find quickly and easily.
The term "scientism" is pretty well self-refuting, given how often it's misused. It's special pleading raised to a new level of condescension.
I believe the reference is to a vector clock [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock
> viva

I wasn't familiar with this term; apparently it refers to the "oral defense" of a PhD thesis.
Netflix doesn't pay retail for AWS or G Cloud
What part of "burden of proof" do you not understand?
Truffle makes it possible to implement a JITed dynamically-typed language simply by annotating actions on the AST.

http://www.graalvm.org/docs/graalvm-as-a-platform/implement-...

Here's an example of the addition operator from Graal's SimpleLanguage:

@NodeInfo(shortName = "+")
public abstract class SLAddNode extends SLBinaryNode {

@Specialization(rewriteOn = ArithmeticException.class)
protected long add(long left, long right) {
return Math.addExact(left, right);
}

@Specialization
@TruffleBoundary
protected SLBigNumber add(SLBigNumber left, SLBigNumber right) {
return new SLBigNumber(left.getValue().add(right.getValue()));
}

@Specialization(guards = "isString(left, right)")
@TruffleBoundary
protected String add(Object left, Object right) {
return left.toString() + right.toString();
}

protected boolean isString(Object a, Object b) {
return a instanceof String || b instanceof String;
}
}

https://github.com/graalvm/simplelanguage

By default it uses an arbitrary precision adder. But node rewriting on the AST (predicated by the "guard") provides specializations for long and String types. The long-type execution is a "fast path" that executes machine instructions directly; the String-type execution is a string concatenation.

A research paper provides further details:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2658776

The full tutorial is at:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/truffle/docs/Lan...
No. In bitcoin, you don't spend from an account. You spend "unspent transaction output" or UTXO.

There is no unspent transaction that B owns, so any transaction B creates to send money to C is invalid.
> Let's not give them the benefit of the doubt here. They're shills.

Excuse me - are you addressing me with this comment? My identity is not secret. My contributions to open source software (and to higher education in New York State) are reasonably well known.

Are you seriously directly calling me a shill right now?

Is this the level of discussion that we've reached on HN now?

FWIW, I think my comments have been pretty moderate. I don't see anything that is even vaguely construable as shilling. Nor am I positioned with anywhere near the resources to make shilling worthwhile.

Rather than a shill, I am a long-time NY activist who has deep problems with the way my government has interacted with nearly every facet of the (largely toxic) financial industry in my state. I don't think that concerns regarding the underlying motivation of the AG's office are ever unreasonable to raise, and certainly not here.
That's a really interesting approach. Give away the platform to get everyone's data for free. Like GitHub for data.
Be warned, the jruby compatible interop isn’t complete, and I don’t have the jruby test suite running for it because that requires a much more complete implementation to run at all.

It’s good for quite a lot though.
My impression is that she has had little political influence outside the United States.
>"Cities are not much better for me, as most of places there are to go and things to do tend to cater towards the lowest common denominator."

What do you mean by this? Are there not museums, art galleries, chess clubs and a variety of other venues that are adequate for your high standards?
Don't you worry, I make plenty of profits in the markets, using AI trading robots, but I would never transfer 6 or 7 digits account to one of those shady exchanges, just to watch my money being stolen by crooks...

Just wait few more months and the sign "This domains has been seized by the FBI" will start to pop around...
> Japanese pop culture diversifies in time rather than space

That's not diversity, it's simply pop culture.
Rome was not built in one day either. Every step in a peaceful future is a good one.
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This is like saying that GoDaddy, Namecheap, or any of the countless number of other domain registrars own every domain registered with them. Performing a fraudulent transfer or DNS change would destroy their registry business and cause a PR nightmare.
Right -- Fads and technological gadgetry aren't necessarily the root cause, as much as a (maladaptive?) kind of treatment for the symptoms.
Was the cause of death "violent" depressurization?

If a piece of shrapnel flies through the window and impales the person on the other side, you can have a fatality at sea level, no depressurization needed.
Did you even read the article? There are pleanty of negative impacts caused by this specific method of cheap immigrant labor.
This is obviously useless for almost everyone, likely including you, but I urge anyone in or near Seattle who has this problem to check out Scarecrow Video[0] which has over 100,000 films in a variety of formats organized by director.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_Video
Do we know the tools that will work? Waymo uses expensive LIDAR's, and we dont know the price of the whole hardware set, since Waymo does not care about the price, they work on scientific problem.

Tesla claims that cameras are enough and they can put it into mass-produced cars without changing the cost significantly.

Pretty large gap, don't you think?
We do have a partial implementation of the jruby API, though I don’t believe it works on substratevm due to reflection.
We use metabase too! Far superior to Mode with no cost!
The US military has performed poorly in every guerrilla war they've participated in. Your chances of success are better than you think.
No, it has shades of truth and untruth. Absolutism isn't a great look on you.

You own the content, in the meaning of the sense that you can prevent the public at large from seeing it.

You don't own the content, in that you never have physical control over deletion, whether or not facebook employees see the data, or whether or not facebook licenses the use of your data for profitability purposes. All of those strongly detract from any strong concept of ownership.
EU drags US to WTO over steel, aluminum tariffs
Since the video of the guy talking about dog toys with chrome closed, and then seeing dog toy ads shortly after, I've become skeptical of this.
So, I've begun testing it myself. I thought of something somewhat specific but random, unrelated to me, unlikely for me to see regular ads for, and now from time to time I talk about that thing. Until maybe a few weeks from now when I stop doing this, I will not be typing the thing, or anything too closely related, into any kind of text field.

I've been doing it a few days so far and nothing yet.
>Keep in mind that the test wouldn't be administered on any randomly chosen diabetic patient but presumably rather on those who already exhibit some type of vision imparement consistent with the disease.

Not true. The aim is to treat patients before they become symptomatic. Outcomes are much worse otherwise.

2min promo on Diabetic Eye Screening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK1Y-1BKFn0
Sure, me too. But we're back to talking about policies and actions, like invading Poland or enforcing caste apartheid. These are bad things.

My objection is to conflating them with scientific matters, i.e. empirical claims, especially about human biology. I worry that doing so actually weakens our arguments against such evil. We shouldn't build into our case against them scientific claims on which we may ourselves be proven wrong. It's not necessary.

(And, much as I enjoy using words like diversity in their older meanings, in the hope of tripping people into thinking, here I resisted the temptation. Intellectual monoculture was however a feature of most of the evil regimes of recent times, too, and one of their weaknesses.)
> In reality, this pressure is all coming from elites who are upset by the prospect that they've lost some of their exclusive control over social media to the Bad Side. When it was the Obama campaign applying largely the same tactics in 2012, they were feted in the press as tech geniuses.

That's just false equivalency.

> "So far" being the operative term here, and I'm amazed that the same people who think Trump is a huge threat to civil liberties are somehow still not up-in-arms about this. It's probably also not true that its use has been benign, there are strong hints that NSA surveillance has already been deployed in an unconstitutional manner against U.S. citizens who find themselves in the government's crosshairs, e.g. in the hunt for Ross Ulbricht.

So far we can only operate with the evidence we have. Ross Ulbricht was caught because he was trying to order a 'hit' on one of his accomplices who turned to authorities. It's strange that you used this example because he was arrested and charged by using good old police work, everything that he did to run his organization, besides tech skills, was really amateurish.

> Again, the only reason people are talking about "subversion of Western democracies" is because Trump/Brexit/Orban/AfD are winning, and that's not "supposed" to happen according to their own preconceptions. It's far easier to chalk these election results up to nefarious foreign meddling than it is to confront the genuine, pressing systemic problems causing voters to want to upend the system in this way.

There's consistent, irrefutable evidence that it is in fact the nefarious foreign power manipulating people to achieve destabilization of what it perceives to be the enemy states.

> I don't like Facebook, and even as a fairly hardcore libertarian,

Try throwing Atlas Shrugged at Zuck and see if that does anything.
As someone in their 20's, going for traditional dates of coffee/dinner and conversation is all I do. I have been on about 30 dates in the last year and they were all traditional dates. I've also never tried for anything within the realm of casual dating ever.

I really don't think your claim would hold up to light in my experience dude. All of the women were readily aware that it was a date and none of the dates really went anywhere.
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Except for lisp -- emacs vi implementations don't usually play as well with parenthesis as native emacs, which is superb for lisp coding.
Given Tesla's track record to date, it seems to me that not-yet-ready features should mostly be treated as a kickstarter.
How is this better than compiling everything to WebAssembly and using V8 as your interpreter?
Fail2ban: simple and yet very powerful
Sorry, I was not referring to you here, although I realize that it's confusing given the threading. I was more referring to some of the other posters here (the "True Believers" referred above).
its not that expensive, the transfer of raw audio to the server would probably be a bigger problem to deal with. Likely the processing is done on the phone. Either way its not cool, using YOUR data or battery to do their processing to target you with ads.

Its likely a passive listening for keywords kind of thing.
> when it's not the Federal government steps in and makes sure people are bailed out.

This may be a conservative talking point but it seems more likely that such disasters happen on timescales humans aren't built to reason about. Even if there were no bailouts I doubt things would be any different. These areas have desirable attributes that make them attractive regardless of the risk. There are also precious few areas not subject to any risk at all (a large portion of the continental USA is subject to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, blizzards, or other potential disasters).
Yes (as sly010 pointed out), here is an example:

https://blockchain.info/tx/cffa18e3d519c31c8624fc2c3e498c0d9...

https://blockchain.info/tx/f24eaa493071e96f5bdf931204b893098...

Both transactions are in the same block (203732), the f24eaa tx is spending an output of cffa18.
> the above could have been done in a long weekend

I would guess that retooling the machines, processes, training, and supply chain for over ten thousand locations worldwide, without disrupting operations and losing customers or reputation, took more than a weekend. Even planning it might take a little time.
Seismic is different than basic construction. That building tilt would have happened anywhere vs. in an earthquake prone zone like SF.
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For one, your 日本語 doesn't even work. Just leads to 404. And why does this look suspiciously like some PHP based social site that I've seen before.
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>Attacking Telegram while simultaneously praising WhatsApp seems really strange to me.

Look at them both from a purely technical perspective.

WhatsApp has made an effort to ensure that they're limited to only monetizing the metadata of the chats, Telegram by design does not share this limitation.

Even if you don't trust Whatsapp, you know that they'd have to push a backdoored app to everyone in order to intercept your chats. Telegram is backdoored by default.
Even getting ads for related things could happen now. I'd suggest thinking of something entirely new, and begin talking about it, but make sure you do not enter that term or anything too closely related to it into any kind of text field. (or rather, only enter into text fields which should be 100% private)
The original statement is ridiculous but the decline in magical thinking does lead people to stop going to church which has no obvious replacement.

Atheists and agnostics don't get together every week to talk about God not existing.

There are meetup groups and such now but usually there is some common interest, activity, etc. which is a higher barrier to entry than "I'll come and say we mostly believe in the same thing that neither of us can prove."

A church community does have the unique characteristic that anyone can participate regardless of age, personality, or talent.
Linus' whole schtick is cringiness, but I do enjoy his channel in general. I've never known if them to intentionally lie, and when they've been mistaken they make corrections.
> If you break American law in America, saying "the information is overseas" isn't--and shouldn't be--a valid excuse.

So, by this logic, if a prosecutor in [country without privacy rights] claims one of their laws has been broken, they are able to seize emails, files, and VM images (even, say, from the US government) stored in any cloud provider that happens to have a business office in that country?
After several years of using GnuCash as a poor student to control my money I moved to kmymoney. It was really fun to generate graphs/reports to get an overview over my expenses, but it later annoyed me to manually export data from my bank accounts and import it to Gnucash manually and assigning expense categories to all bookings.
After trying to connect my accounts via HBCI/FinTS to automate importing transactions with aqbanking, I received certificate errors. This led to me to just switch the software instead of going into debugging hell.

Kmymoney uses aqbanking too, but didn't lead me to certificate errors. I hope Kmymoney is as good as Gnucash in generating graphs and reports. I just couldn't see Gnucash anymore and wanted to start from the beginning.
But then how am I supposed to turn the garage doors of all the other houses on my cul-de-sac into the world's largest game of Hungry Hungry Hippos?
Or Japan. There are quite a few homonyms there too.
I am trying to learn intermediate to advanced SQL as my employer wants me to but apart from the the most basic keywords I don't see a lot of difference between Basic to Intermediate SQL. Or maybe by intermediate it means designing a good data model which shouldn't be concerned with SQL. My question is, if someone asks me to learn the advanced SQL constructs, where do I go? What do I look for?
Try to set a realistic amount of time that you can spend over a longer time rather than setting long hours that you can sustain only for a week or two. Do less and do it deliberately. For example: Always work on Django from 8am-8:30am, every day, no matter how busy or relaxed it is. Always work on a problem that you find interesting. Maybe you start with a simple todo app and develop features every day that make it a project management tool or expand it into a mail system. Establishing a system that is realistic for at least two years will make you a lot better than binge learning for two weeks and loosing interest and power after it.
Imagine a government information bureau.

The employees who work there have access to all information. Why wouldn't they? They work at the information bureau.

They also answer all questions. Why wouldn't they? They work at the information bureau.

You walk up and ask questions. You get answers. Three days later, you're arrested for knowing state secrets.

Do you see a possible problem with this arrangement?
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Gotta downplay his achievements to fit the narrative of the 'prodigy'.
Sadly it’s not the case. Some low cost airlines are said to have extremely short training just for minimal compliance. It goes as bad as an Air Asia crew felling the passengers to pray instead of preparing them for the emergency situation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2...
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I have never dealt with cloud services autoscaling. Does it really work seamlessly or will it take time to scale up? Let's say I have a system that has 10 users/day and suddenly I have 10 million for some reason. Does AWS handle this (as long as my credit card can handle it) or will there be outages while AWS is scaling up?
The video is rather cringe worthy but if you can get past that, the story that is trying to be told is rather worthwhile. Assuming that what is being told is truth it is silly that in 2018 finding parts to our electronics is still so difficult. Having repaired my fair share of iPhones and iPods those devices life span has increased significantly due to non-apple parts from eBay and the like. I can not begin to count the number of times I had to tell people that some parts can not be sourced to repair a very expensive device that is still very much usable if repaired.
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