skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thread talks about efficient and elegant and effective. Good engineering is mostly in the domain of how a system handles failure. Either by making it a really low likelihood or making it graceful.
So are restaurants, actually, if you count bars.
The fourth E is an R as in resilient and reliable.
SSH home computer
Webpack and grunt (or gulp)together?
Hello world.

Actually read the title as:

> "webpack and <whatever-task-runner>...together?"

I am ranting here today, only because, I just wanna know if "its okay..."

webpack is a great bundler. Its primary goal is to reduce the number of requests a browser would have to make to load your webpage (which may be a composition of many libraries - javascript or css). Which is cool...

But is webpack "only enough"?!

For something as basic as a "copy file operation" I had to..."do a lot of stuff". (https://github.com/deostroll/requests-spy/blob/ba40eee3bdbc7895aff45050bbd487699a202f30/webpack.config.js#L35-L55)

What I intended to do in the config I have linked to does its job. But webpack it still complains. It kinda got me wondering...

> Is webpack was meant to do those "basic" things...?!!

I'd rather use the node api for webpack from within some task-runner like grunt or gulp. I am simply much happier with how those tools support those "basic" things...

Perhaps I am biased...Whats your take on this?
Yes, as long as you take "protect them and ensure they have a decent quality of life" to not include employment!

We're telling grown adults what they can't do, supposedly for their own good.

That quote from C. S. Lewis applies:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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What have you tried? What problems did you encounter?
How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire
more exactly “underlying C/C++ object has been deleted" error.
Analytics for Ecommerce Websites
They can both be helpful. The grid system is great for getting from coordinate (a,b) to (c,d). Much better than a natural city core as most older european cities have (and I mean old in the european meaning, i.e. >1000 years). But grids are extremely bad for mental mapping, as they are virtually featureless. So to remember your paths in a city without the coordinate system, it is much more helpful if the place has curves and outstanding features and little weirdnesses and so on (you can have outstanding sites along the way on a grid as well obviously, but because the streets are all just long tunnels, you will almost never see anything of it except for extremely tall parts like the mentioned mountains outside, or very high buildings).
I took this class in 2015, it's a great class. Unfortunately, the material from the course are several years old and they stopped updating it.
IDBI Fedral Life Insurance
How about IDBI Fedral Life Insurance, a company that ensures your life value. What if someone tells it to be the most unethical organisation one can ever be.
Now, who am I to say all this, I am an undergoing MBA graduate associated with IDBI Fedral Life Insurance as an intern.
Roles I was offered as per the job description - Marketing, Finance, Leadership.
Reality - Sales, that to working as an agent.
Learnings - Taxes can be saved by fake donation receipts.
Mentor - Avinash Jalan(IDBI Fedral Life Insurance Kolkata)
Mentor's Agenda- The company hires 200 interns just for Kolkata location, pushes to sell 4 policies each. That makes it evident to be a stunt to meet their sales target.

ADVICE- Stop this fraud as you loose your potential customers doing the same, MBA intern will have a potential to buy your policies in future, congratulations you just lost 200 future customers plus atleast 4 contacts each, which makes a lot of 1000 customers in your anti portfolio.
But Einstein's objection was almost identical to Newton's.

Newton wrote, "It is inconceivable that inanimate Matter should, without the Mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual Contact."

Einstein wrote, "I cannot seriously believe in it because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance."

Newton was talking about gravity, Einstein about entanglement. But the objection is essentially the same one. That's the reason that Newton's quote above is included in an article on the principle of locality.
PySide2 (Qt for Python) has been in production where I work (and in the visual effects industry) since 2016.

Since then, bugs have been smashed, modules have been added and improvements have been made. I would recommend almost anyone to start developing with this right away and, like always, report bugs [0] and contribute improvements back to the project [1] (not on github).

[0]: https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/PYSIDE/issues

[1]: http://code.qt.io/cgit/pyside/pyside-setup.git/
From what I saw on edx, it's a completely different course.
I had knowledge of basic statistics and it worked fine for me (though I had some math education before the course).
The great foreign exchange rip-off is coming to an end
The social safety net here in Japan is amazing, but the stigma of relying on it is so high that utilization by those most in need is very low, and that taking risks that could potentially lead to needing to utilize it are strongly avoided (among other social reasons for low risk taking).
NASA launches InSight spacecraft to Mars to dig down deep
Garbage outrage bait.

For more than a decade these same people cheered and clapped for every benefit of the web and algorithms and software and automation and social media and all of that.

Now it's becoming fashionable to turn around and point fingers at completely obvious and trivial consequences of it and act as if the citizens are helpless infants and the corporations are the babysitters responsible for anything and everything.

"OMG lies found on the internet"
"Facebook accused of allowing people to lie"
"children allowed to view slightly creepy animations on YouTube ... oh wont somebody think of the children"
"Public information shared on the internet was scraped and sold to 10 companies ... everybody go nuts"

I'm happy that these concerns have finally reached the mainstream but there's an alarming "brain dead" theme to these waves of news articles.

Like just a particular flavor of news articles becomes fashionable and then every journalist pushes out every possible variation of that topic at all cost just to stay relevant?

How do you go for more than a decade not caring at all about any of these concerns and being so dismissive to suddenly turning around in such extreme way?

If it was more of a balanced transition from not caring to caring I'd understand better.

But this pendulum swing makes me think that not many people are thinking for themselves anymore.

They just go with the group-think mindset of the year.
Yes, but just because they were profitable at some moment back in 2016, that doesn't mean that they're profitable today.
Direct file sharing from your computer
Compilation doesn't sound like an I/O intense workload. It's more CPU intense. Some heavy DB usage or video editing on the other hand is I/O intense.
Cryptocurrencies Were Never Good for Anybody but the Rich
It's more than just automating the calling of PyInstaller. It also fixes some edge cases with PyInstaller-built apps that lead to crashes on some users' systems and took me months to figure out. Further, it integrates the solutions nicely. You don't have to learn how PyInstaller works, fbs does it for you with very reasonable default settings. You don't have to figure out how you are going to ship resource files and access them from within your app, etc.

Yes you should use the AppContext. You don't have to convert your entire app to it. Only enough to "start" your app. (I highly recommend the app context approach where possible however, it's just so clear.)
Can the parent support any of these claims? It's just a long string of assertions.

> Japan and S Korea ... are protectionist

They are not except in the absolutist sense.[0] And the U.S. protects its politically powerful industries too. In fact, the last round of the WTO was held up primarily, IIRC, by the US (and possibly Europe) refusing to lower domestic agriculture protections.

Finally, you are better off if you lower tariffs even if the other side does not. Whatever 'fair' means, tariffs cause goods to be more expensive for your consumers and divert economic resources from their most productive uses to unproductive domestic companies that hide behind tariffs. It breeds corruption (as the government picks winners rather than the market) and unproductive business, instead of meritocracy of competitive businesses.

[0] For example, another absolute statement is 'everyone is a liar' - obviously true in an absolute sense but meaningless. Some are far more trustworthy than others; most people are not called "liars".
This isn't PyQt, but an update of PySide. However I find the PyQt developer very responsive to bug reports. It's a much better service vthan the usual post to a bug tracker and no response you get with many other projects.
To me, "nothing" implies no equity and no debt owed.

So maybe they could have forced Birchbox into bankruptcy, but would have gained nothing except bad will. Or could there be tax implications?
Hello Go [Updated 6th of May]
> it's unrecognizable and and you can reverse the process to get a cow back.

I am assuming you meant to type "can't reverse the process" here? (and drop the extra 'and'). Apologies for being seemingly pedantic, but the distinction is important here for the very definition of a hash.
Repost from about a week ago, updated and revised since then.
For a proposition P, make your statement of the form "there are N blue dots iff P".
I don't recall this (everything was really due to Automation) being a serious bone of contention by anyone. The articles the article links to are all "This is totally counterintutive, but is it true?", which is basically just clickbait. As far as free trade philosophy was concerned during the election, Trump (and Bernie) got Hillary to back down from supporting the TPP, which seems to support the idea that politicians believed that outsourcing was reducing manufacturing jobs in the US. So as far as American Politics were concerned, everyone, including the free traders, believed that free trade hurt manufacturing jobs at home.

It seems that the author is making this entire scenario unnecessarily political and polarizing. "Rogue Economist finds blinding obvious flaw by incompetent elites"; which, given that this is Houseman (one of the economic elites), it's very much kinda not?
A lot of these README’s seem a bit samey. Is this a trend that was stared somewhere? Was there some dude middle-managers all look up to who suggested an example README that was used to provide inspration?
Or old-fashioned diners. I was in one and some old guys at the counter were talking about the conspiracies that control everything.
> the only way globalizing an economy is good for a strong country is if you define good in a strictly economic sense like "lowest prices for the consumer"

This is not based on any serious understanding of economics. Just reading around this HN discussion should explain why free trade does far more. But really, if you truly care about the economic welfare of people rather than the politics of nationalism, just find some basic economics online about free trade; it's not very complex.
It isn’t free. Thus the profit.
In FF, you have to tell it to save as 'Webpage - complete'. Other browsers have similar options.
One thing to distinguish is whether that's a scheduled opportunity or a forced occurrence.

For example, I have weekly scheduled 1:1s with my manager, as does everyone else he manages (we can see the times on his calendar), but rarely do we actually chat every single week. I think my last one was 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Additionally, my manager isn't actually on the team, and has no idea what goes on day-to-day. Our 1:1s are usually him getting caught up on what the team is doing and my perspective on our newer team members, rather than anything about myself. Often it gets sidetracked by something totally unrelated - one of these 1:1s was how I learned his favorite superhero is the Hulk, though I don't remember at all how the conversation actually got there.

Being able to chat often like that, and get comfortable talking to your manager, makes it a lot easier when you actually need to talk to them about something important.
That mountain range and Monserrate are super helpful. Similar in Rio de Janeiro, once you know the different rock outcroppings around the city, it's really easy to locate yourself.
Was there something missing that was important for .Net developers? For C++, there was practically no difference aside from the aforementioned plugin support.

It's long been the case that businesses buy the pro version and hobbyists use the free one. Now it's because of license restrictions rather than because of missing features, but the end result is basically the same.
Did I not read the article clearly, or is there exactly zero information here that wasn't thoroughly covered back when this happened months ago?
That's not true. The word otaku, while it originally means "your home", is used as a polite second person pronoun; "you". When used by men in their 20s it can be considered as too polite, to the effect that it sounds something that a socially awkward people would use. There's some other forms of "otaku speak": using the honorfic "shi" (氏) instead of the commonplace "san". This, too, sounds too formal, and thus awkward.

The word "otaku" to refer nerds was coined by the writer Akio Nakamori in his essays, who used the word to refer to nerdy young males who used awkward language like that.
FWIW Redis Labs already offers a Redis-on-Flash solution, which also happens to work really well with Optane: https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-enterprise-flash-intel-opta...

Full disclosure: I work for Redis Labs.
Well GDPR is a god send to the world when every Silicon Valley billionaire is trying to sell your data to the highest bidder to increase their valuation.

It’s a relief in the madness that we consider normal.

I want a chrome plugin that GDPRs the shit out of websites and enforces maximum privacy on any website I visit.
>They are not except in the absolutist sense.

Tell me how many foreign auto manufacturers are allowed to build in JP and SK. What's their output?
Yes, and I still hate myself for not specifically looking at this aspect when I spent 6 months in Argentina. Six months with the sun turning in the wrong direction with me not having any clue of it!
I said "judges" because I understand them to be the final authority, since the regulator's number can be appealed. If that's wrong, then substitute whatever party does make the final decision.

My question isn't whether the fines are frequent or high enough. It's whether they're predictable enough--whether the law is described in enough detail that two people interpreting it independently would reach something close to the same number given the same facts. I don't think it is. (Do you?) The usual answer is "but don't worry, the people interpreting it make good decisions". I think that's probably true; but when the maximum penalty is indeed financial annihilation, that doesn't seem too comforting.

The USA has indeed pushed the extraterritorial limits. I think that's bad, and I don't see how it makes the EU's reach any better. And to emphasize, my concern isn't the burden to ~200 nations--it's the burden from ~200 nations. Should the UK be able to enforce that super-injunction? If not, why not? Iran, a prohibition on the Satanic Diaries?
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155459.
>should you get special welfare because of your nationality?

Given that it's my country: yes.

Why else spend so much money on bombs?
Much of rural America is like this. It's useful for pinpointing people in emergency situations.

Unfortunately, it leads to ugly addresses like:

Jane Doe
E18873 Rural Route 74
Smalltown US, 80001

Or even worse...

Jane Doe
N7883 W17382
Smalltown, US 80001

Precise for first responders with auto-routing. Not exactly descriptive for humans.
I get the feeling there's been a persistent campaign to attack whatever is deemed the current symbol of American hegemony, for quite a while, but every now and then people move on in a coordinated way. I distinctly remember when there was a constant focus on fracking for a while. Fracking is still around and the US is still one of the top oil producers in the world, but it's as if someone decided attacking it wasn't fruitful, and everybody moved on in more or less unison. This is conspiratorial thinking, but I can't seem to shake it.

It was recently reported that the Jade Helm conspiracy theories of a few years ago were encouraged, if not originated, by a Russian disinformation campaign:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/cia/386156-ex-ci...

That's not the same thing as the majority of the media being controlled by a single entity though, so I still have no idea what is happening. But it doesn't feel natural or spontaneous.
If you think PCM-like byte addressable flash for disk block caching is awesome, you may interest another PCM killer application - Intel persistent memory(pmem). They already implemented pmem and pmem doesn't just live in a textbook or a simulator now.
> The hell are you talking about?

Crossing into incivility like this isn't ok on HN and will eventually get you banned, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this. Please don't do political flamewars on HN either.
Do you care to elaborate? The Wikipedia page on Free Trade literally lays out the Free Trade vs Protectionist dichotomy and explains that governments often adopt policies to protect local economies, workers, agendas, etc. in a Free Trade market... It sounds like you're arguing that Free Trade is just better hands down because some other smart people said so. My point (which you have not addressed) was that there are ethical and social components beyond the pure economics of the situation that weigh in (the exact weight being very much the topic of the OP) despite the fact that contemporary economists argue in favor of Free Trade.
Today I learned that you can type content into a new file with `cat`. So far I only used it for printing and concatenating files.
US Army 476,000 regulars, North Korea 1.1M. So yes, twice as big in terms of people.
I love Tokyo's chaotic street layout. It yields great opportunities for exploring. And since so much of the city is reachable without a car, it's the next door neighbor to user-friendly.

I have a map/guidebook from the early 80's that explains how the system works in great detail, and once you understand it, it becomes easier and easier. You also learn instinctively which addresses are near each other.

The book stated that unlike in some cities with chaotic street schemes (I'm looking at you, London), Tokyo's wasn't organic. It was done on purpose to confuse potential invaders.

I don't know if it's true, but that thought has always stuck with me.
> apparently the F35 contract went to Lockheed Martin instead of to Boeing because the specs of both proposal were nearly identical but the LM one looked much better

People love to repeat this, but it's wrong. Yes the Boeing plane was ugly with the large air scoop, but it also was a great plane whereas the Lockheed Martin plane was a terrific plane. At the time of selection, the Boeing plane could not VTOL with all the bodywork in place (landing gear doors for instance) yes the LM plane had just completed a vertical landing after a supersonic flight. Also, not since the age of propellers had Boeing designed a combat aircraft, whereas Lockheed did the SR71, U2, F117, and a host of other innovative aircraft.

The one thing that the Boeing aircraft had going for it was the single-piece wing. The JSF competition was primarily to design an affordable plane, and the Boeing probably would have been much less expensive to build and qualify.
You crossed into incivility repeatedly in this flamewar, and here you cross into outright bannable offense. Could you please not do this when commenting here? If someone else is completely wrong, and you react like this, all you do is make them seem more credible, and discredit what you know.

What would work much better is to wait until you can comment neutrally, and then comment neutrally with information we can all learn from.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm very confused and interested. What do you mean by that?
> Then why aren't these professors getting paid a lot more to continue teaching?

Because the majority of money that a professor controls mostly comes from grants. And you have to fight for grants from an ever shrinking base.

Why fight for grants when you can get paid a dramatically higher salary and can focus on research instead of fundraising?

Until academia figures out how to fix its funding model, this is the new normal--any hot tech area is going to result in a brain drain.
Returns to education over the past half-century have beaten the US stock market
Most interfaces created through web technology would be incredibly hard and slow to do using pyside/pyqt. We take for granted the non-blocking aspect of javasript where in python in order to make a slick interface would require to deal with threads/GIL in a much slower interpreted language compared with javascript running on V8.

Qt (Qt Desktop) bindings for python are welcome. But, it's not a suitable for a viable replacement for electron. Maybe Qt Quick, but even qt quick has some decisions that can make incredibly uncomfortable to use in large applications.
This is another comment that crossed into incivility. If you want to keep posting to HN, we need you to follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
For those who were wondering about the "massive damage" (taken from the posted link):

* Hyperparathyroidism (which could be caused by a
parathyroid tumor) causes dangerously high
calcium levels [1]

* As a countermeasure, the body effectively
lowers vitamin D (vitamin D facilitates
calcium absorption)

An ignorant doctor may miss the high calcium levels, seeing only low vitamin D, and put you on vitamin D supplements, which will raise your calcium levels again, thus eliminating the body's defenses against hyperparathyroidism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercalcaemia#Signs_and_sympt...