skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped using DDG a few days ago, when I noticed the !g flag is not encrypting traffic to google anymore, it just redirects to google.com. Do you know what is up with that? Using startpage now.
I'm big and have unkempt beard. Not once was I stopped by police, and I walk at night pretty often (I like to photograph my city - Lublin, Poland http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1497719 ).

Actually sorry, scratch that. I was stopped once, when I was moving from one flat to another, and my girlfriend was sick, so I had to walk both our bikes 6 km to a new flat, late evening. They asked if I'm sure I didn't stolen them and we went our ways.

There's something wrong with your cities if police has to check on you for walking at night.
The police in New Zealand and Australia seem to be a lot less agressive than their American counterparts. I don't ever hear of stories like the original post come from either country.
I have migraines regularly, and the vision problems are definitely the worst part of it. The pain I can handle, but the aura usually makes me incapable of even moving somewhere safely, and puts my life at a standstill.
I think his comedy is some of his best work. The Futurological Congress is one of my absolute favourites. Brilliantly funny and clever.

I have Summa Technologiae on my desk and started it but I admit my attention drifted. Its good but it is quite dense and it has a strange mix of great ideas and bizarre ideas whose time seems to have gone - though of course bizarre ideas have a habit of boomeranging back.
5% is the norm in the United States, elsewhere it is a fraction of that. US consumers have become accustomed to being ripped off by realtors.
No, but if flask or pip or some other widely-used piece of the python ecosystem pulled in unmaintained packages, trivial packages, or very large package trees, it might make the python ecosystem chaotic and insecure.
What I really want as a renter is not to buy a house but to protect myself from rises in the residential housing market in whatever area I'm living. I want to invest a portion of my income that will grow when the housing market grows.

That way I can continue renting but hedge against big swings should I want to buy in the future.
Do you find movements that discuss commonly accepted neck-down differences between races disgusting too?
Truly asynchronous, multi-core crypto for Node.js
Only if it gets 500k downloads per day :)
Have you tried using the mediawiki API [1], or any of the alternatives?[2]

I don't know how well they work, but the built-in parser should give you the text without markup. And since they switched to Parsoid [3] to support the Visual Editor, the've polished the wikitext formal specification so all instances of markup have a well-defined structure.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
The Dilemma of Sunk Costs in Venture Capital
From what I've seen as a contractor usually there is no package-lock at all.
Using IE11 with the emulator switched to IE5 I can assure you, it works in IE5. At least the main layout, no popup though :D Still equal parts scary and astonishing.
I can, and do. But I am mostly ignored by my friends and co-workers who are PhD students. All of the Postdocs I know seem to be far more aware of their situation.
The article doesn't convince me.

It can be summarized as "don't overengineer" but quite frankly these days ML/DL is so easy to apply from a technical point of view (taking care of the data or fully grasping the things you apply is another issue) that I don't see why one wouldn't at least try to use it. I don't see why a ML-algorithm couldn't grab the first name for example. I mean if your argument is "just use SQL" my counterargument is "I agree but I can just try ML as SQL on steroids". If you already have well curated data that you run the SQL on you might as well play around with it in an ML setting. "Customer with largest basket" might work fine but why not try to prod the data to check for other interesting things. Same for the POD example. Why not at least try to see if a combination of variables might yield more interesting results than the simple stuff that might work. Occams razor should not cut out all curiosity :D

I like the overall idea of "try the simple stuff first" but quite frankly these days you can run very good ML with pretty much all it takes to do SQL queries (assuming you train your models on a separate machine).
How do you protect yourself from drops in the local housing market? Especially if you have a mortgage?
Difference between HBase and Hadoop/HDFS?
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To be fair, not long ago 24 months was the common loan term.

Now people are getting 7 year and even 9 year loans. We live in a time when you can finance a 400$ watch for 2 years.

The renewed focus on chipping away at people’s monthly income is almost impressive.
> [GC not catching on]

Well, GC was much harder to adopt, as it wasn't incremental. Either your code was GC or not. All of it.

> If it had been popular, Apple would have kept it.

Weeelll...I think the bigger problem with GC was that it didn't work; they never could get all the bugs out. Including the performance issues, but more significantly potentially huge leaks. Well, technically that's also performance.

I also very much liked the idea of ARC, it looked exactly like what I had lobbied for, and it certainly was much better than GC, if more limited (cycles). And then I tried it and noticed (a) for my idiomatic and highly automated use of MRC, the benefits were between minimal and zero and (b) the drawbacks, particularly the stricter compiler errors, were a major PITA, and unnecessarily so.

This becomes noticeable when you write TDD code in an exploratory fashion, because with the errors you have to keep 3 sites in your code up-to-date. That becomes old really fast, but I guess most people don't really do TDD (their loss!), so it's not something that's a major pain point in the community.

Incidentally, someone once mailed me that they had switched some code back from ARC to MRC (partly due to what I'd written), and contrary to their expectations and previous assumptions could confirm that the difference was, in fact, negligible.

> [Swift like ARC when it's more like GC]

That's a good observation. Of course, Swift is a much more dramatic change than even GC ever was, and interestingly the community seems to be much more radical/rabid than Apple. For example, in the community it seems de-rigeur that you must use immutable structs whenever possible, whereas Apple's Swift book gives a few conditions where you might consider structs and then says you should use classes for everything else.
I love my palm III xe. My single application is to record go games (I still use it). A friend had bought one and was using it to take notes during meetings. I think it was a good product with a small market and with no obsolescence (my palm works as well as when I bought it). The market could have increased a bit by having better app stores, better apps, better features for the price (the price tag was high).
Is the rounding of planned expenses a feature or a bug? I entered 3.80 euros as an expense, but in the calendar it shows 4 euros. If I enter 3.30, it shows 3 euros.
Apparently it's an American alt-right news platform
Debugging Guide
That's what I meant, the previews are on by default for not-logged-in users, but appear to be off by default for logged-in users (or at least the preference was set to 'off' for me).
A guy that rediscovered Direct Marketing. Congrats.
Isn’t the idea that you don’t worry about it? You’ll still have your home.

On the other hand, if the market explodes and renters who are paying prices below market start getting forced to pay more or move out, you’re left with no options
A guy just rediscovered Direct Marketing.
Congrats.
I hate that I don't have the bar on the left to be able to switch to a different language conveniently. I use it all the time and I've no idea if it's even accessible at all in the mobile version. The mobile version also wastes a ton of screen real-estate but I guess that's fashionable these days.

I really enjoy Wikipedia but the #1 item on my feature wishlist is "redirect me towards the non-mobile version of the site when I click a mobile link on the desktop".
I find it hard to believe if even the majority of housing markets have doubled. Economic growth mostly seems contained to a few established and up and coming cities.
Thank you for your detailed and informative response.

This is the first I'd heard of you chx, you have quite a storied history surrounding your untimely departure from Drupal.

If nothing else you sound like a great developer, and I hope you've found new projects in the FOSS community which can benefit from your expertise.
> The choice is also influenced by my desire for a mainstream mcu, with broad availability, good documentation and community support, good development tools, and a positive long-term outlook. This leads me to eliminate some options like the Parallax Propeller and Cypress PSoC.

Can anyone elaborate what kills the Cypress PSoC in that scenario? Never used them, but the reconfigurable logic part looks interesting.
ML is not going from 0 -> 25% it's going from 25% to 28%, say, and that 3% being much more in profit than the cost of the ML work.
That's weird. I'm white, 6'4" with a beard and I have never been stopped by cops while walking at night in my midwestern college town. Maybe because I usually have my backpack with me?
But when the feature only needs you to hover over a link to activate (which people do anyway) you have no basis to claim that this is users "liking" the feature - it might just be noise from everyday regular navigation.
Yeah but if the market collapses and you lose your job, you'll be forced to sell at a huge loss
The bigger issue in my opinion, at least from the point that it's the wrong behavior 10/10 times, is that these previews pop up when you are just scrolling. Obviously I did not want to read a preview when page under my cursor changes. There should be a check if the cursor had actually moved.
is-odd package doesn't use modulus. And I don't think thats really the issue either. is-odd has three dependencies of its own, one being is-number...
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If I were ever to make ML bingo, "That's not really ML" would definitely be on it.
Probably because the original software was developed for the Russian market, and Russian rubles always get rounded.
Go isn't limited by the type system per se. IIRC from the various papers on the matter, the only real way to get Go to stop dropping unused functions is to use the runtime and reflection packages since then Go can't tell what functions might be used and fields accessed. Though also IIRC the go compiler is decent at localizing this instead of stopping all optimization.

>You had already answered that on your previous sentence :)

Yes but NPM/Yarn should be capable of atleast dropping packages that can be statically proven to not be imported. That means if a package imports require("xy-" + variable) then you'll have to be clever but if a package consists only of static imports then you can shake a lot.
He's assuming that the rent stays constant.

A lot of what he says is correct, but this is a critical point. Buy, with a standard compound rate mortgage, and you essentially freeze your rental payment. Yes, for the first few years of the mortgage you won't pay back much equity - but you can compensate for that if you overpay your mortgage (make sure terms and conditions allow you to do this without penalty), say by the amount your rent would have otherwise increased. Do that, and you can make quite a dramatic difference in the cost, and the duration of the mortgage...further reducing your rent.

Broadly, house prices track the money supply growth, and money supply growth is approximately 2x a decade in the USA. Unless you're moving a lot, it is usually better to buy if you can.
How many hours it takes to turn an acquaintance into a friend
Maybe it's reversed in US, but I find the exact opposite here in UK - a house from 1930s will offer much better sound insulation that any new build with its cardboard-thin walls separating properties.
It may be coming in the near future: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/3748
Not really. The average home price in the US is $200K (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/what-the-median-home-price-o...). You would have to buy a house with a mortgage of over $500K as a couple to make the interest more than the standard deduction. If you include the $10K cap on state taxes and property taxes, still with the average household income being 60K, most people won't be taking advantage of the mortgage interest deduction.

The standard deduction is $24K for a couple.
Wow, great timing! I had to sleep early yesterday cuz my arm was killing me when typing, I knew it was RSI.

Great list of resources man, thanks!
I'm seeing them in both cases.
Yes you can, there is a nice API returning the Popup-data in JSON

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48527419/4398037

Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_pag...
Ask HN: I have 3 months of free time, what should I do?
Hi HN,

I'm an dev in Europe with about 7 years of experience, mainly in web development (front-end and back-end) and I have a master in CS. For various reasons, I happen to have 3 months of free time (6 to 8 hours during daytime) from now until August (I can live without earning money during those 3 months).

I figured it might be good to broaden my knowledge in another IT field and start doing something else than webapps... or not(?)

I'm considering a few things to do and invest my time in during those 3 months and I can't really choose what would be best to secure a path for the next 5 years of my career:

- take some MOOCS to try to land a job in Data Science/ML (is 3 months enough time?)
- learn as much as I can about blockchains (is it really worth it?)
- learn modern JAVA and its current ecosystem (my last contact with JAVA was at uni 10 years ago)
- sit back, relax and enjoy doing nothing, for once (and only? no mortgage, no children, for now)

What do you guys think a good investment would be?
You can switch to the classic Navigation popups gadget,[1] which has a lot more configuration options (including links that shows the history or whole article text in the popup).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_pop...
1,2,3 don't apply in Australia. Here are some things do that apply in Australia, that are advantages, but not sure about the US:

1. Primary Residence has no Capital Gains Tax
2. Can rent out Primary Residence for up to 6 years at a time and keep it exempt from CGT.
3. Pension eligibility ignores Primary Residence value. So you can own a $1m house, $0 cash and get the pension. But $100,000 cash and renting you are SOL.
If you want to integrate this into your project: There is a nice API returning the JSON data of the popup

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48527419/4398037

Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_pag...
> We couldn’t expect every single article to be edited to designate a thumbnail.

It wouldn't surprise me if they could. Not to say that automation isn't great, and for this purpose probably ideal.

But, selecting a thumbnail for every Wikipedia article seems like something the community could easily have done.
I think we do have a good-enough understanding of "understanding" to characterize what is required. However this is to be found in the textbooks of neuroscience, not in the machine manufacture manuals of a silicon lithography plant.

There isn't as much mystery as there seems. When a neuroscientist asks "how does a animal perceive the world?" the answer is reasonably methodologically obvious.

When a computer scientist asks, "how does a machine perceive the world?" the mystery arises only because it doesn't.
How are Insights Success media publications?
The reply you're responding to was a rebuff of the original parent to the thread - so it should be read without a comma i.e. it is correctly written.

You could write it as:

"Not a single Leaf has active cooling" or "None of the Nissan Leaf's have active cooling".

The above two alternative sentences aren't as elegant or concise as the original, hence why it was likely chosen.
As well as most Americans. You can either take the standard deduction of $24,000 as a couple or itemize. Most Americans don't buy homes where the interest is high enough to be over the standard deduction.
You aren't far off. Remember the bitconnect guy?
It was more like a genocide. In fact, in many parts of Eastern and Southern Australia, it was a genocide.

>Our whole nation is locked into a kind of determined fluffy antebellum fantasy, where we didn't have a nation-founding war, but just a kind of sloppy de facto displacement of savages by imported middle-class suburbanites, regrettable certainly, but all too natural (so inevitable).

It becomes very obvious whenever someone stirs up the hornet's nest. The last I can think of was when Adam Goodes [0] tried to express his cultural ties.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Goodes#Controversy
Heh cool, what did you work on? What did you find the hardest? What do you regret not having time for/would you like to add to what you did?
Not really. It also works if you also lower your account security setting to low to enable 'Less-secured app' to login.
A point that is not mentioned is being smart about where you buy your house. If you can do some research and estimate the future demand for the area you are buying, buy a place with more of the cash going into the land value than the residence, not buy brand new (generally) etc. then your carefully chosen residence/investment might beat the stock market especially when leverage is applied.
I think she's talking about ev1servers.net. I used to be their client. Yes, it was crappy white-boxes, but it worked okay with the proper setup.

Look what happened with EV1Servers:

EV1servers.net > bought by ThePlanet.com > bought by SoftLayer.com > bought by IBM.

The Softlayer was formed by former ThePlanet employees.

I used to be a client of the Softlayer when they started too. They elevated to the next level the budget servers market, instead of crappy white boxes they used great Supermicro hardware. The secret was everything automated, very well executed by skilled and experienced people.

Today, even Joe's DC is automated and most of them even use branded hardware.
It's at the top of each page - click the icon directly under the article title (on the left) that looks like a Chinese character next to an A.

I'd snip a screenshot, but I'm on mobile...
Android permission handling done right with Kotlin
It's not uncommon, but I doubt it applies to people who did not buy within commuting distance of a major city. The housing stock is old in the Northeast, the taxes high and getting higher, and unless there's more high paying jobs coming, there's no one to buy the houses.
Until you get a new job where the commute is causing you to put more miles on your car than the lease allows....
It's interesting to see that ObjC has some heritage on the Amiga. That explain why MorphOS (one of the Amiga ecosystem fragments) is doing something similar[1] these days.

[1]: http://morphos-team.net/guide/objective-c
skummetmaelk their examples. What I should have said that the HDR is for the event sensors, which are black/white in the direction of the event (i.e. motions dark=> bright or bright to dark). But if your usecase is motion detection or tracking, that is enough as far as I'm concerned
Did YouTube go offline for somebody else due to an expired certificate?
'' the server uses key pinning but. No trusted certificate chain could be constructed that matches the pinset''. This is what mozilla shows me and I simply am blocked from accessing the resource.
Isn't the 'trust' eroded once a single party gains 51% of compute? Then you're just a really complicated and poorly implemented centralised database.
Thanks for letting me know about WikiWand.
High-speed digital data transmission over electric power distribution wiring
How to Use React Context to Build a Multilingual Website Pt.2
I did electrical engineering and listened to a lecture by our neuroscientific systems prof https://www.nst.ei.tum.de/team/jorg-conradt/ and it kind of developed from there, since I was interested in AI and ML as well(worked as a freelancer)
Until your renter stop paying and if takes you three to six months to evict them or until they trash the place and you have to pay for repairs.

Been there. Done that.
How does a drop in the local housing market lead to you losing your job? A general market crash causes many people to lose their jobs, it doesn’t discriminate against homeowners.

The renters are probably in a worse position in that case too, stop paying rent for a month and you’ll be evicted the next month. Stop paying your mortgage and the bank will at least work with you for a little longer.
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Pretty sure that someone called "Rachel" is female, although I cannot find a full name or imprint on the website.
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You are doing about as well as I did...I'm full EE, but worked as Software and AI/ML freelancer. Do some reserach about labs (there aren't that many) and then develop towards that
You get it totally right, I just knew that there are 2 ways to implment DI with dagger, dagger 2 or dagger-android.... And the official docs are indeed useless... And before you learn some dagger basic, some online tutorial just can't be understandable... because either they mixed up the 2 plugin or they just all have their different setup.
Pretty much this. However I think that you can actually get pretty far with cleaning a surprisingly small subset of data and just quickly tossing together a prototype. Talking to people helps a lot. "Ok so you have this and that data...how helpful would it be if you could predict the price of item X that you buy 10% better"...well ok it would be worth roughly Y$/year. Let's build a small prototype and see how well we can actually predict it. At this point you quite often find out that "oh we more or less predict it via one person who makes the buying decisions by experience" and it might take some convincing to actually compare the two.

I'd summarize that the "big three" of ML/DL are all nontechnical

1) Finding the data/cleaning the data

2) Is there actually some reference you can benchmark against

3) It's not really all that hard and you might need less data than you think to show enough business value (broadly speaking a pretrained net + some usecase layers is good enough to get started for most business cases)

#3 is interesting. I tend to be quite honest but I've seen a lot of mumbo-jumbo hand waving "oh it's very tough" which of course makes sense if you want to sell shiny new stuff. Reminds me a lot of ERP sales where I've seen basically SQL+a little webfrontend pitched as rocket science :D
When was Google Plus launched?
Ask HN: How did the pros manage source code decades ago before modern SCM?
Always wondered how, in the days before SVN and Git and others, like in the 1970s - 1990s, during that enormous golden age of office software, video game software, etc, how were developers managing source code changes and versioning? I started hobbying at the tail end of that era and just used different copies of files in different folders for "versioning" so I could "revert" by going back to a different folder copy.
Here in Toronto landlords are actually paying above the rent in order to meet their mortgage/insurance obligations.

https://betterdwelling.com/cibc-over-44-of-toronto-condo-inv...
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