skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What empire in decline is Japan (or the US) a far flung outpost of, exactly? Japan has about the same population as Britain and France combined, and America has twice that.

I’m also not sure how Britain is relevant here. I think you have might have an interesting point but I can’t see it right now.
Classic post where you jump from one tech to another and completely shit all over the stuff you were previously using. There’s hardly a real tangible difference between express and flask. They both do routing and turn requests into responses. When folks make such naive and blanket statements as they do in articles like this it’s impossible to respect any of it.

I feel bad for this team and the future they’re going to face with the poor decision making at the top.
I would, but I also would like to know in what way is it different from vixie cron and what impact does it have on the user ?
On the short-term moving things out of process will have much more benefits.
I would be inclined to say it says more about our feelings on Will Wheaton. . .
Depends. Do you want to rule out NASA ever being allowed to evolve its requirements based on what it's learned from past failures? Or out of a sense of fairness, do you demand that what we knew about safety at the start of the 1960s is all we're ever officially allowed to know?
Wow, that's bad. And judging by the dates on some of those articles this is not just something that was happening a few years ago. It looks like the law came down on this mid last year.
Erlang lets you receive first message first even if it arrives last, you just have to specify which message, exactly as in your example. But order doesn't actually matter for sorting, you cannot possible make a mistake wrt to ordering here.
PWAs are broken on iOS. Push notifications are not supported, and in general the experience is pretty bad.

See this article for more details: https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-her...

The worst is that if you are in a PWA, say in a page like /my/sub/page and navigate out of the PWA, like go to a different website or go to another app, and then come back to the PWA, it will reload and go to the / home page, destroying all state and routing.
I'm not sure if I got downvoted for the joke, or because people think I'm wrong, but near the end of the study it says "At the current time, there is insufficient evidence to draw any firm conclusions regarding an association between vitamin D deficiency and non-musculoskeletal health outcomes, including mental illness." So the jury is in fact out on whether or not you need vitamin D for your mental health.
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The main thing of interest here is whether a system that knows about physics (traditional approaches) can be beaten by a system that has no a-priori knowledge of physics (OOB DL) or if someone will find a way to integrate physics knowledge into a DL approach.
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The article mentions they used Auth0 and Cognito. I spent quite a bit of time researching Cognito (https://github.com/baus/cognito-strap), but I never figured out how to recognize which user is logged in when using federated identities. I found the docs to be misleading or wrong in many cases.

I'm curious if anyone is actually using Cognito in production. It feels like an alpha product to me.
There are zounds of languages which compile to javascript so it is definitely not the only option. With the advent of WASM this will likely get better so we can finally ditch this abomination.
In addition to your in addition, the experience gained learning and using a proprietary framework isn't "resume-able" in the same way putting React or Angular is. That could mean a significant difference in salary, and it's also why I'm shopping around for new work right now. Like it or not, it matters.
Mining is a bit of a paradox. Historically mining companies were the "start-ups" of their day.

When you discovered a deposit you'd stake a claim (e.g. patent) and then seek investors to exploit it (e.g. venture funding). If the discovery turned out to be genuine and the mine was successful the returns would often be extraordinary.

Thing is, a lot of mines fail. Maybe there's resources there but extracting them isn't practical or profitable. Maybe there wasn't as much there as theorized. Maybe it was all a lie.

The paradox is that once you have a successful mining industry built up, people think of those as the conservative play, the safe bet, and are reluctant to go through that process all over again with a new industry.
Hey, I just watched the Riff video and I'm a little blown away! Can't believe you've been downvoted
Depends exactly how you limit the problem, but going from detector hits to abstract arcs takes a few seconds.
In ‘Elastic,’ a Physicist Argues That the Mind Needs Time to Play
Art or skill is an interesting way to look at it. There are a couple somewhat opposing social skills that seem to make like easier, or more bearable, for those who possess them. One is the ability to schmooze people, or even just remember their names and faces, easily.

The other is what you describe: not taking shit from others. But in the more artful way you described. I still think being a schmoozer a more useful superpower. But being able to signal that pushing you will be more trouble than it's worth seems to help avoid trouble.

I often think about the violent climax of Do the Right Thing. There's the melee in the pizza parlor which ends with the police killing Radio Raheem. Then, as things seem to be calming down, Spike Lee's character, who works at the parlor, picks up a trash can and throws it through the parlor's window. It leads to a full-scale riot.

The first time I watched the film, I was a bit puzzled by his action and even put off by it. Now I feel like it is the right thing to do. For the reason you described here: not as an act, not even as an act of catharsis which is how I expect it often gets read. But as a communication device. As an argument on behalf of violent resistance.
Here is a very to-the-point summary of particle tracking:
http://www.physics.iitm.ac.in/~sercehep2013/track2_Gagan_Moh...
- link found in Kaggle forums
polls are stated in such a way ... theyre part of the control
To me it sounds more like the way Salesforce allows you to add custom fields to objects.
I have trouble getting any value from this article, which seems relatively devoid of pertinent facts.

The author wants to claim "Japanization" of America after the Great Recession because of a reduced fertility rate and an emphasis on the experience economy.

But, although he notes that fertility declines are a mark of industrialized nations, he fails to adequately compare the U.S. phenomenon to other countries, to compare and contrast those relationships with the relationship between the U.S. and Japan. In brief: the author presents no cogent argument as to why this is Japanization rather than, say, Frenchification (the French are notoriously anti-materialistic, preferring travel and cuisine to accumulating junk).

This New Yorker article appears to be nothing more than a blog post detailing some personal interpretive lens with no new information or analysis.
Not sure what the OP intended as the context around this submission, but here's some more info:

Latest version 1.1.1 released 2018-04-08 [1][2]. Previous version was 1.1 on 2018-03-19, and the one before that dates to 2010-06-13 [2].

This is a job scheduler compatible with vixie-cron [3], but written in Guile Scheme. Entries in a crontab file can be the traditional format, or snippets of Guile. There's a whitepaper from 2003 [4] and up-to-date documentation [5] that explain the rationale and usage.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-04/msg00004.... [2] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mcron/ [3] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vixie-cron [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/design.html [5] https://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/mcron.html
Yes it can be done but how efficiently? I couldn't call up the netops guys to buy and provision all of the resources I needed to test scalability within the time it takes me to setup a cloud formation script.

In 2008 we had racks of servers we were leasing and that were sitting idle most of the time just so we could stress test our Windows Mobile apps.

I've been developing professionally for 20 years and 10 years before that as a hobbyist. I know what a pain it is to get hardware for what you need when your company has to manage all of its own infrastructure.

Just setting up EC2 instances and installing software on them doesn't reduce the pain by much. Sure you're cutting down on your capex but you still end up babysitting servers or doing the "undifferentiated heavy lifting", I would much rather stand up a bunch of RDS instances.

As far as serverless, why manage servers at all when you can just either create a Lambda function for the lightweight stuff or deploy Docker images with Fargate? That's just one less thing to manage and you can concentrate on development
I have lived on both coasts and the biggest difference I have noticed is the strength of the elite university caste system in the East. It felt like if you didn't go to a top ten school you had a glass ceiling.

It exists out West too but in my experience so far is less prevalent and is given less weight. People out East often start a presentation, pitch, or interview with where they went to school. Out West I have done a dozen VC meetings and have only been asked once or twice and I didn't get the impression it was a major data point for them.

Dominant mentalities are:

East: who are you? What is your background?

West: what can you do?
The advice about "chunking" when writing new code does not apply when, like the cartoon character, you are debugging, perhaps post-facto, an event in a complex system where you must recreate the state while considering multiple hypotheses. You are constructing and exploring a fault-graph, formulating various 'experiments' you can try next to prune (or expand) the graph, weighing the relative costs/benefits of each next action, and assessing your confidence in multiple beliefs. All this with imperfect information (e.g. as the cartoon shows, missing course code; but also empty commit messages, obscure or obsolete comments.

The most useful 'chunking' I do is to actually write down the multiple hypotheses and evidence pro-and-con. Often the mere act of putting the idea into words helps, and at least it gives me something to come back to when I get interrupted.
The Latinate -ix suffix becomes -ice/s when pluralized, as in matrix and matrices, or dominatrix and dominatrices.
Definitely a nice idea. Although I'd strongly suggest to leave out the recommendation about supplements and drugs.

The study PDF says that it's not clear why there's a correlation with Vitamin D deficiency but one explanation might be that people stay inside.

Regarding drugs, actually people with a latent "sleeping" schizophrenia can get a psychosis even from soft drugs like Marijuana. Marijuana is a lightly psychedelic drugs, Magic Mushrooms even more so.

At least you should put around a giant disclaimer and possibly also link to websites like erowid.org which go into a lot of detail, I guess they should also have details about complications, safer use etc.
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One of my grandfather was building huge oil extractions platforms. You can bet 50 years later he was still complaining about his work being interrupted.

It's not a new thing, but it does affect engineers a lot because their job is to solve new problems on complex systems regularly, and it involves creativity, abstract thinking and holding a lot of variables in your head.

Today, IT is one of the field where you have the most engineers, and by nature they master the most important communication device made by man: the Internet. So you hear them the most. They are not cry babies, they are more numerous and can be more vocal than other professions with the same problem.
These kinds of studies often feel like the result of some p-hacking. Take a smallish sample size from a population of interest, record a bunch of data on them, then pick the result that is most abnormal and say “hmmm maybe this is why this population is different.” Not saying that’s the case here I’m just always skeptical until I know the methodology.
Certainly not all that construction is related to real-estate. Still real-estate as a % of GDP eclipses "mining, Oil & Gas".

http://www.investorsfriend.com/canadian-gdp-canadian-imports...
As a Canadian in Vancouver who owns a home, the sad state of Vancouver is even the suburbs are ridiculously expensive.

If I want to sell my downtown townhouse and buy a detached home or upgrade in any way I'm looking at a 1.5 hour commute easily and still not getting much. And once you're outside downtown , entertainment etc rapidly drops off.

Alternatively in the bay area, where I may soon be moving, the suburbs have a strong drop off in cost from the hotspots while still maintaining a reasonable commute and quality of life.

The issue is, Vancouver's infrastructure drops off so dramatically as you get further from downtown.
A high numbered port (above 1024) can be bound by non root programs. Use some non 22 port below 1024 if you want to change the port. Or use some RBAC system like selinux to keep anyone from binding to 2222 or whatever.
Hough transform is basically useless for precision tracking in a high multiplicity environment. Tracks have 5 degrees of freedom, so the memory costs make it infeasible. I think ATLAS uses it in the trigger, where you don't need to actually reconstruct all tracks, just find out if there are a couple passing certain criteria.
But to a potentiell hostile stranger it is better to lie, than to tell the truth.
More extreme examples come to my mind, with active agressor wanting to know something, where it is smarter to fool the enemy, than to tell the truth. "I don't knoe the code instead of "I am no allowed to tell".

But besides, most kids learned to lie pretty well, to circumvent various restrictions - and learning from the adults who tell them no to lie, but do it by themselves.

I am in favor of leading by example. If I am lying, how can I possible demand it from kids, to do otherwise? When they find out, they loose confidence in me. But when I tell them to only lie in extreme situations to "enemys" and act accordingly, they are much more likely to become truthful by default as well.
I think you make a very fair point, and I appreciate your intelligent and measured response. For now, our users are reasonably happy with the look and feel (dare I say, they like it!). Having said that, I am tempted now to develop a library that can render iOS or Android specific components once my budget allows, so that users can select a "skin" they prefer (and we would default to the right one based on the accessing platform). I know we can't always please everyone, but we'll certainly give it our best shot!

P.S. This is not meant to sound patronising - I think your points are valid and need addressing in PWAs. I don't think it's insurmountable, but it does need some work.
You don't need a cofounder.

Don't ever let another person distract you from your vision.
i dont think these problems started during the cold war.

much earlier... i think it began when the federal power began to chip away at the state power.

theres no vulnerability in having a friendly northern ally, no eastwest neighbors, and a subjugation economy to the south. the vulnerability is internal, to the thinkers and activists... so lets keep them chained by debt & chasing tail & feeling scared
Can you elaborate on what your application does, what’s a basic flow of a request, and finally, what are the high-level steps you take to ship a new feature or API endpoint?
One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong
yah, but the Steelers! did u see that game last weekend?

/s
I’m an expert at my job. I still get things wrong sometimes.
Stripe Launches New Security App for Fraud Teams
I haven't looked at working with GraphQL too closely yet, but this seems to partly answer some questions I wondered about. Because REST leverages HTTP, our infrastructure--our client software, our frameworks and programming languages--already have some knowledge of what to do with it, how to parse URLs and GET and POST requests, and so on. But the discussions I've seen of GraphQL suggest that in order to make it work, additional layers of code must be added, such as Relay and Apollo, or some equivalent. Is this really the case? Perhaps this will change in the future--as GraphQL becomes more widespread, it may be integrated more natively into the infrastructure.
Well this is interesting..

Based on my own experience of finding remote work for US companies.

I usually get lowballed on the offers because I am based in Canada.

In other words, US companies pay average salaries calculated based on my local salary rates.

In fact I just had a phone interview with a SF startup for a remote position and they were shocked to hear that I was asking for an AVG salary rate in SF instead of Canada.

Not sure if this is the norm for everyone.
Second joining startup networks. I graduated from a startup incubator and it is a small world. You'll meet lots of driven entrepreneurs. There are so many non-technical founders that would love to have a tech co-founder (me-included).

If you have access check out demo days. You'll meet lots of founders working on interesting things as well as investors.

I'm in NYC so we have tons of meetups on all kinds of tech from different types of SQL, data science/AI/ML, blockchain, food tech, hardware, Python, women coders, etc, and whenever you go to one of these events, you will always find someone working on something interesting. Maybe see if there's a local meet-up on an industry you're interested in?

I also recommend hackathons. Could you be a mentor at local hackathons? I went to my first hackathon and met lots of driven people who were willing to spend 12+ hours mentoring or coding on the weekend.

I also heard on a Jason Calacanis podcast episode that a great place to find a co-founder are employees of acquired startups- because they see it's possible and think I can do that too, so they caught the bug.

There's also websites to find co-founders too but I didn't really gain anything from it.
There has also been even more support for the opposite, so that's just more sophistry.
> and then assume a random integer yourself C.

This is impossible; there's no uniform measure on the integers (as σ-additivity makes it impossible to bound such a measure).
+1 on write it down. Leaving myself an unusually effective trail of notes is the secret weapon that makes me substantially more resilient to interruptions and task switching than many of my peers. Paper, osx notes app, google docs, emails-- the right tool depends on the exact task, but step 1 to solving any problem is always "start a doc".
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> I think the analogy that stuck with me most about this was that war may be the male version of motherhood, that is, the closest we come to being true to our biological selves. Somehow this feels right, although that's just intuition on my part.

I've just started reading Robert Sapolsky's book, Behave, and this is how he frames his study of human biology. Around violence. From the introduction:

We are always shadowed by the threat of other humans harming us.

If that were solely the way things are, violence would be an easy problem to approach intellectually. AIDS--unambiguously bad news--eradicate. Alzheimer's disease--same thing. Schizophrenia, cancer, malnutrition, flesh-eating bacteria, global warming, comets hitting earth--ditto.

The problem, though, is that violence doesn't go on that list. Sometimes we have no problem with it at all.

This is the central point of this book--we don't hate violence.
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This approach is known as 'Top Down'[1] and was VERY popular in the early days of system and program design.

When I started my career I encountered a beardy-sandal-wearing systems programmer[2] , who 100% believed that there should be more comments than code in a program. His approach was to use the comments to write out long-form exactly what the program would do. He would write the whole solution as 1000's of comment lines, from start to finish in one big comment block. Once he'd done that, he'd then start again at the top, and split the comments at a natural point and insert real code to reflect the 100 or so comments above it.

At the time, I thought it was a crazy way to do it, and even now I wouldn't do it. But it had it's upsides. His code was really easy for others to maintain, and it was also fundamentally self documenting.

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[1] http://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Teaching/MTP/Common/Stran...

[2] Ironically, my beard is now WAY longer than his ever was.
Oh yes I would, but since when was this website only available to the HN community? It is full of mysterious pages like this...hardly making free software accessible.

It certainly isn't likely to make me question the choice I made to use the cron that my distro came with.
To be fair, 50 PU is above design peak luminosity, much less mean. And I'm sure I've seen plots from both ATLAS and CMS at the end of LS1 that show improvements in the processing time at 100 PU by factors of roughly 10.
Broadly, those with power and money. Having enough money to lobby congress is one manifestation of that. Having enough money to wage large multichannel PR campaigns on the population is another. Funding think tanks, funding PACs, ownership of or influence over the major media outlets.

People with this kind of power and money form a series of formal and informal interlocking networks, and often interests align across most or all of those networks. Tax cuts for the rich and for corporations is perhaps the most obvious one. Pushing for war might be a bit less unanimous, but wars do produce near-immediate profits for the military-industrial complex and those invested in it, and potential future business opportunities for other sectors (for example if the war results in regime change, which leads to an opening of previously closed markets, the sale of state-owned businesses and assets, etc).
I came here to say that it didn't compare to general population.
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