skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> complicated things like sql

Heh, SQL (formerly SEQUEL) is the 'structured English query language', designed to be simple enough for anyone who knows a bit of English - not unlike Cobol.
Any red flag on your resume? Very short tenure or stuff like that? Where are u looking?
> build a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, and lower the water level of the Mediterranean.

You mean like this? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bonkers-reallife-p...
I think science journalism is what was meant. Obviously scientists communicate the results of the science they do, but there's a very big difference between a scientist failing to communicate well and a non-scientist failing to understand and adeptly communicating something not supported by the science (e.g. sensationalizing some minor/tangential/wrong idea).
> I am a better steward of my money than the government,

Really, ok what have you done with your money? How many buses do you run? How many schools, roads, armies?
Note that Qt has two separate technology previews for porting Qt apps to run in the web browser:

Qt WebGL streaming (qplatform/qpa plugin):

The Qt binary runs on your PC as normal, but instead of opening an X11/Win32 window, opens a network port. You can open the URL in a browser to see the interface. Only one connection is allowed / only one user can interact with the app at a time.

Technology preview since 5.10, will be "TP2" status in 5.11. See http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/11/14/qt-webgl-cinematic-experie... and http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/07/07/qt-webgl-streaming-merged/

Qt for WebAssembly:

The entire QtWidgets / QML libraries are compiled to WASM and run clientside. There is no server-side component.

Will be released as a technology preview in the upcoming 5.11 release.
I recorded hundreds of runs with a garmin forerunner and HRM. Aside from occasionally plotting avg pace vs avg hr over time and saying, "oh that's nice", I didn't find much value in recording.

Focus on what you'll do with the data once you get it and work back from there.

Good luck with lowering your blood pressure the natural way. Stay away from blood pressure meds as long as you can.
Actually, if I could have Photoshop run in a browser, with its full feature set, and running at >90% of full native speed, that would be pretty awesome. And I'd even be willing to wait for the multi-GB download as long as it only happened once (with small deltas thereafter).

Not saying we're there yet, but it's not hard to see where WASM could take us.
LiveJournal predated Movable Type by two years.
How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews
Ars technica only provides a blurb trough rss and iirc no topic filtered rss, hardly a good or usable solution if one has to get out and find content outside the reader
This argument is so lazy and seems to crop up every time income tax is discussed. It's perfectly fair to criticize tax policy while also acknowledging that you (and others like you) are paying a lot less than what you should be paying.
Links.net and Scripting.com were blogs before the term existed. And Movable Type, Greymatter, and numerous other blogging tools existed long before WordPress, which was relatively late to the game (and technically a fork of a prior project).

Nowadays, we also have more modern tools like Jekyll, Ghost or whatever for blogging.
Not just on Udemy, but for MOOCs in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042
It reimplements the UI layer and event layer instead of using the existing css/ Dom layer right? And does that not prevent scraping, accessibility and deep linking as well as adds a lot of download time?

It is great for intranet applications for large companies and other internal tools that are already in it, but otherwise it is a non starter.

Webassembly excels when it is minimized around core performance problems. Not when it is the whole app.
You don’t have to worry about recursive entity definitions in JSON.
Yeah that guy is a nutter. There is absolutely no way to bank $15m after-tax in a continuous risk-risk free manner.

And his plan does contain banking a 46x return on his yet unconceived start-up ($500k -> $23m is 46x, Minus 35% for taxes in CA)

This is a discontinuous event. This is not “fat FIRE.” This is called trying to spike it and get rich, like everybody else in this town.
How does providing the source code help with proving trust? You don't know that the service is actually running the source code that was published.

If you're willing to believe that the service matches the published source code, why wouldn't you also be willing to believe that the service matches the published "specifications" (e.g. privacy policy)?
Depending on your needs, you might want to consider MSYS2 (http://www.msys2.org) (based on CygWin). WSL provides linux emulation in kernel. MSYS2/CygWin provide linux emulation in a DLL. MSYS2 includes MinTTY (https://mintty.github.io) as a terminal program.
Really surprised and saddened by the negative comments here. Qt is an amazing framework that has been around for nearly 30 years. Developing with it is a great experience, probably the most enjoyable coding I've done.

I have faith that the Qt project won't spend time shipping this if it doesn't offer advantages. Give them time, and a little benefit of the doubt based on a very long history of excellence.
I don't think it's a matter of brain being trained to see fake images, or people being emotionally readied. I haven't heard yet heard of the essential difference between fake evidence and the real thing.
Can you show me a GE product which doesn't need an anesthesiologist present at all times?

As far as I can tell, none of those devices acts autonomously or even close to it.
Training was a bit of a process. The architecture I use now is an 8-bit quantized mobilenet_v1_050_224 retrained on about 1000 versions of Loss.jpg (some quite similar, but not exact duplicates) and about 10,000 other images. All the images are 240x240 or thereabouts.

I'll be publishing something soon on what it took to build that 10K image dataset - it was more challenging than I initially anticipated.
People might be down voting you because "Microsoft > Sony > Nintendo" comes off as grandstanding. As someone in the "security field", you must be aware that poor communication can tarnish otherwise correct information.
> The questions remains, as an abstract idea, is it better to give everyone money or give those who need things the things they need?

That depends on the level of abstraction; if you get abstract enough to ignore all the real world problems with central planning, sure, the latter seems abstractly better. Giving everyone money isn't an abstract alternative to giving people who need things what they need, it's a solution to get closer to that abstract goal given the concrete implementation problems with centralized need determination approaches.
If every programmer working on a side project were to collaborate on a single project together, just for a full day one weekend, I wonder what could be achieved..

If selection of the project were democratic, would you participate?
In case the site is timing out for you like it is me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180423210101/https://neflabs.c...
There are also other questions like “will people become more mobile, seeking new jobs or quitting jobs they don’t like, if they have basic income.”

Also “will people be more likely to start their own enterprises if they have basic income?”
Framed properly, it does detect what you posted: https://imgur.com/a/0wdqPea. Positively identifying abstract geometric loss while rejecting non-loss text and drawings was something I had to explicitly optimize the training sets for.
Embedded images?

I don't think the big weakness is lack of tracking, really, I think the big weakness is consumer adoption. The average person (outside of the journalist/influencer-types that continue to bemoan the loss of Google Reader) doesn't care to use feeds. Podcasts (based on feeds) are still held back by the idea that you have to figure out how to subscribe to a show.
I mean turn it off fully at night, actually. Notifications are a psychological hack–our brains get a little endorphin rush off seeing or hearing them, which makes us want more. They don't serve any actually useful purpose, though. You could stand to not know about new emails, Twitter and Facebook replies, etc., until the morning. If it's an emergency anyone you care about can already reach you by phone.

App notifications are just programming you to be psychologically dependent on them. You can break free of the programming.
My wife is a dog breeder in Canada. She was starting to get worried about her dependence on Kijiji as the only site to advertise her puppy litters. Kijiji is a de facto monopoly due to network effects and they have slowly been increasing the fee they charge to post. In addition all other alternative sites are terrible - filled with pet scams.

I built CanadaPups.com as an alternative. Free to post. Started a couple of years ago. Growing slowly but consistently. I pretty much spend my nights afterwork fighting pet scams. I wanted to hire a web designer but she prefers the site to look "hand-made" for a softer feel… ok dog brown color it is then :). Any constructive feedback is welcome! Trying to grow it.

https://canadapups.com
Is there really a brain drain from Europe to the US?
I wonder...
> Python versioning of plugins is really broken

It is not broken - you ARE supposed to use virtual environments. I would say its is much saner than nodejs ecosystem where every conflict is being solved by having multiple versions of overlapping dependencies.
Can someone explain what Loss.jpg is? I've never heard of it and pretty much none of the comments here make sense as a result.
Here is the RSS feed of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Edit:

Every single of those webpages have an RSS feed.

Ars Technica: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss

LWN: https://lwn.net/headlines/newrss

BBC: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/news_front_page...

Reuters: http://feeds.reuters.com/Reuters/worldNews
It's a matter of monitoring and dosage. You can easily do mass scale sedation with proper monitoring and appropriate patient selection. If your BMI is over 25 or you have OSA, you wouldn't qualify. If you're healthy, fit, and consenting, you could be sedated for a long haul flight and have minimal hangover, perhaps even feeling rested.
RSS doesn't need analytics. If you want analytics, put them on the links in the feed. If you want to know that people are reading the link at all, either put in an invisible pixel, or just include a paragraph with a [more...] link.
http://knowyourmeme.com/news/heres-to-loss-the-internets-gre...
.. and also how they force people to adopt it when it is convenient? ie Facebook making you privately specify RSS feeds for Instant Articles through their system (but not public ones that other people can use)
Thanks, but I wanted to know the real-time visitor capacity of any shared hosting plan. what if I get all 5k to 7k visitors within 1 hour?
A sampling of nice good articles about Forensic Pseudoscience, courtesy of Google search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=forensic+pseudoscience

This is a broad-based problem.
Something to consider (trying not to color the argument with my own opinion): if you conceive of UBI as a replacement for the social net, what's to be done with people whose income is not enough to cover their expenses? This has to consider both people that blow their income and people that have special needs due to a medical condition (wheelchair and other mobility tools, accessible housing, costly medicine, live-in nurse, etc.). If you say cover the latter with special supplementary income/resources, what do you do with the former? Leave them become homeless (and potentially end up in the second group, as they get sick)?
Mezzanine is the only album of theirs I could identify by sight/sound/name. Seems like a reasonable assertion to me.
although not all of the subjects remembered what they said to the robot, all of them “remembered and reported seeing the prompt word during their dream state, showing successful inception

Ha
I remember a big deal being made of a TAS video of Mario and people assuming it was a real run.
I believe you can do something similar with NewsBlur.
But not the others:

1999 LiveJournal

1999 Blogger

2001 Movable Type

2003 WordPress
>I like them being highly targeted ... Since these advertisers aren't given any personally identifiable data by the ad networks

The fact that the ads are highly targeted, and the fact that they are used by many companies, means that you are probably personally identifiable by correlation. They don't need your name. They probably have your locale (to a high degree of precision), your shopping habits, your sexual preference, your education level, your family size and many other details.
> If there’s a need for spectrum enforcement, then people should be out doing it.

At least in the US, there are already people doing it and anyone who gets caught is subject to massive fines, e.g.:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2474412/data-privacy/g...

https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/florida-man-fined-48k-fc...
> Is the “dream” of homeownership really just a massive, intergenerational wealth transfer?

Yes & it has been this way since the inception of government backed loans.

I've recently been digging into the history of housing discrimination in the US and how it relates to the racial wealth gap between blacks and whites. In my opinion there is a clear line from redlining, blockbusting, white flight & loan discrimination to the massive wealth gap among races we see today. It's quite clear to me that one of the best ways to build generational wealth is by the older generation passing off homes to the younger ones.
For anyone wondering what the "Is this loss?" meme is about, this provides good context http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/11/longest-running-miscarria...
Can you buy a property without being a resident though? From a quick search, I found a site stating that you must live in the house and cannot buy one for other reasons.

This contrasts wildly with anecdotes I read about with Chinese investors in places like Vancouver.
Another poster mentioned this, but I'll reiterate: "avoid Webpack altogether".

ES6 or UMD/AMD please. Please do not subject me to toolchain choices just to use a lib.

If you're a TypeScript or Babel user, you can share code between backend, web tier, and native code without Webpack or other complex build tools.

Webpack is unnecessary in most cases.
> An actual solid mathematical case for gun stockpiling would need to show that 1) disasters are likely enough to prep for 2) the expected benefits of prepping outweigh the costs and 3) stockpiling guns is a better use of your finite resources than e.g. buying more canned beans.

He kind of addresses that when he mentions the "raider" survival plan. "For an unethical zombie prepper, firearms may be all they need, if they can find someone else from whom to steal."

Maybe I'm deep enough into gun culture to see something as implicit where it ought to be explicit, but that suggests that it's worth having a minimum amount of deterrent against hostile parties once you have a few weeks food.
fair comment about existing hormones. Adding the modifier 'added' makes my statement more accurate, but misses the criticism of drinking milk at all due to the inherent levels of hormones. I am biased to assume the concern was about added hormones because it's a specific problem addressed by Canadian laws.

That said, if you think the science supports the case for limiting oestrogen intake in our diets, a practical step might be to lobby for limits to the use of those hormones in dairy production (like most other western countries) as a first step. Trying to somehow have people stop consuming dairy products seems like a much larger hurdle, limiting it's effectiveness in actually reducing consumption of those hormones.
I don't see why we won't be able to reference common 3rd party libraries along with their version number and cache them across websites. Eventually a giant repo of common libraries will be built.
In .NET Core with Razor pages requests just bypasses the Controller and hits the OnGet() and OnPost(). They just eliminated the Controller in their 'MVC'.
That’s the global tax.
how does that work? does the bank pay them for taking their money?
A truly shocking number.

I saw a number of around 20% of Florida voters right after the 2016 election. Of course I can't find it now.

But there are plenty on HN who thought (think?) it is real. Read the threads and weep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13432291

Edit: yes, apparently still think it is real. You may need to turn on "show dead": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407737
SHRDLU was a natural language interface program by Terry Winograd at MIT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
The original REST API had a quasi-RSS feed[0].

[0]: https://twittercommunity.com/t/can-you-get-your-twitter-feed...
The Consequences of Learning OOP the Wrong Way
I'm glad you made this comment, it really illustrates the thesis of the essay

Let's start with the line I find most telling:

>...a person who has written something they feel passionate about and that reflects their personal experience...what is the takeaway here?

The takeaway? You can't just read an essay and live through someone's qualia for a bit? No wonder writers are despairing.

At it's best, the author argues, writing is about:

>...mak[ing] something happen in a space barely larger than the span of your hand, behind your eyes, distilled out of all that I have carried, from friends, teachers, people met on planes, people I have seen only in my mind, all my mother and father ever did, every favorite book, until it meets and distills from you, the reader, something out of the everything it finds in you. All of this meets along the edge of a sentence like this one, as if the sentence is a fence, with you on one side and me on the other.

But nowadays everything has to be some kind of politicized appeal or self-help panacea for it to make sense (to you, Nelkins). On your substantive points about "unsupported hyperbole", I didn't see much hyperbole there, just a sad reflection on the work culture in this country and the sacrifices we all make to live the "American dream". It is not at all easy to support an arts career in this country, and it is getting more difficult every year. And that is lamentable. To wit:

>I have been to convenience stores where I see people working with untreated injuries, and when I leave, I get panhandled in the parking lot by someone in a chain-store uniform who is unable to afford the gas to get home on the last day before payday​—​someone with two jobs, three jobs. Until recently, I struggled to get by, and yet I am in the top twenty percent of earners in my country. I am currently saving up for dental implants—money I could as easily use for a down payment on a house. But I’m not entirely sure I’ll see the end of a mortgage or that any of us will.

I think he's right - there are clear decisions and policies that have created this dystopic state-of-affairs in this country. There was design, and there was intention, and this essay ends with a call to arms to save what may be as well as an elegy for what was.

>If you are reading this, and you’re a writer, and you, like me, are gripped with despair, when you think you might stop: Speak to your dead. Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. Let them make you bolder or more modest or louder or more loving, whatever it is, but ask them in, listen, and then write. And when war comes—and make no mistake, it is already here—be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love and the ones who are coming for your life. What will you give them when they get there?
Princeton's compsci department released a tool that snoops on IoT devices
In Australia NewStart (unemployment benefits) amounts to about $250/week, or about $13,000pa in an economy where the cost of living is close to $45k. There are other support mechanisms such as rent assistance, but NewStart also obligates the recipient to search for work with a minimum number of interviews per week (up to 10) and a requirement to accept the first job that is offered (thus a person with IT project management experience could end up full time retail). Refusing a job offer means termination of benefits.

In addition the system is administered by private industry who are rewarded based on number of interviews, not placements.

I would hold up Australia’s unemployment welfare system as a prime example of what to not do.
I did not say most PE companies fail, just that 'often' aka one pattern for PE is to over leverage as a risk mitigation strategy. Every dollar they pull out is a dollar they keep independent of how much the company tanks.

As to over leveraged, the most attractive targets for PE is when the companies assets are worth more than their stock. That's the opposite of being highly leveraged. Remember, profit and assets are two very different things and a company can lose money while still having a lot of capital.
I mean, web apps today are optimized to get a click-and-play feeling. Software like Photoshop or GTA5 isn't optimized for that, you need to download and install them for hours.
I had to lookup the backstory. I obviously cannot know all of the context, but... honest question: why would people make fun of a comic about such deeply personal tragedy? To me it seems tone-deaf to say the least.
This doesn't sound "commented" at all. It sounds like you are talking about conditional statements/loops.
YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts
YouTube Official Developer Issue Tracker Is Teeming with Spam Posts
The assumption by some people is that everyone else is as lazy as themselves, so getting UBI would mean living a subsistence lifestyle and avoiding work where possible.
Would anyone be interested in an RSS social network that allows you to

1. Pull in RSS news streams

2. Automatically generate your own RSS streams from your posts (and re-shares)

3. Provides content curation over the RSS streams amongst your friends that are subscribed on the same streams

4. Presents previews with images and scraped data in a 3/4-column summary layout that is easy to skim
The YouTube API's official public issue tracker (accessible via a link from the official docs stating "Something wrong? Send us a bug report!") is teaming with fake posts, spam, and blank entries.
I like dividend stocks because it is automatically increasing my number of shares in a stock I like, and thereby 'bakes in' the gains. A stock that doesn't have dividends must be sold in order to reap profits, and as a novice investor I never know when to sell.
Firefox also has an okay/not-great reading experience if you directly navigate to an RSS page, including a configurable bar at the top with options to subscribe to the feed as live bookmarks, or in a feed reader of choice.

An interesting thing is IE had similar RSS support for rendering RSS feeds, configurable subscription options for them, and RSS feed-driven favorites folders. (Of course, none of that has made it into Edge. Yet?)

Perhaps more interesting was that IE had a platform API for its RSS store. It supported using the same Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) that Windows Update and other systems use for background downloading things during "quiet" periods on the machine to update the feeds. That RSS store provided a lot of what you needed for a good RSS reader application, though few reader applications took advantage to my knowledge. (I recall having part of a hand-crafted one at one point.) Outlook used to use this RSS store for its RSS support (thus sharing its feeds with IE), and the shutdown of IE's RSS support may be part of why Outlook's RSS support hasn't really worked that well in the last several versions.