skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How valid are the statistics, or rather the conclusions, for some of the (maybe unspoken) claims on some charts? Take the last one, "How many deaths does it take for a disaster in different continents to receive newscoverage?". This suggests that disasters in Europe get reported on much sooner than those in Asia in Africe; which I believe, I'm just wondering to what extent we can conclude that from this data. But it also (maybe only in my perception?) seems to make a moral judgement on that - that that is unfair, biased, discrimination, or just overall morally objectionable. Many comments in this thread seem to focus on that point, or just take it as a given.

The op says for this specific chart 'Note: This data is controlled for several factors, including the number killed and affected, country, year, month, and type of disaster.'. There are no famines in Europe (ok maybe depending on definitions and time period, there were some in the 60's and 70's in former communist countries?), which make the largest number of casualties by far. So how is it 'controlled for' by disaster type? When you look at 'data' for that chart, it doesn't even mention 'disaster type' under 'controlled for'! So what is it?

Furthermore, this chart suggests that every disaster in Europe with at least 1 casualty is reported on. That seems, let's say, rather unlikely. So is this data normalized with Europe as the base? (I'll admit that I only skimmed the actual paper). But that would be weird - what is the point of this graph? What could it show, and what does it show?

Look I'm not saying these people (i.e., the authors of the original paper) deliberately misrepresented anything, or that they set out to prove a point. It just looks more like a 'hey we have a cool idea for what we can do with data, let's make regression models, it'll be fun (and probably at least somewhat informative to others as well)' than some fundamental inquiry into the morality of news reporting. And that's fine - much (dare I say most) published papers have 'only' that level of depth; I've done it myself. But my problem is the big jump from numerical relations between some 'data' and broader conclusions (not by the authors, usually, but by people reporting on it, like the OP).

In this case, the numbers support the intuitions most people would have. I'm not even doubting the results, or the overall trend or bias. What I'm wondering is to what extent we can claim that this sort of analysis actually 'proves' those intuitions. Are so-so analyses, and hand-wavy generalizations made from them, better than having none at all? I used to think 'math is factual and any data that is not completely bogus is better than none at all', but nowadays, I'm not so sure any more.
Top 5 Games Using GPS Coordinates
> I was surprised to hear only ~1500 were ever built

Compare with the never gets any respect 737, at over 10,000 units built.
Yeah, youtube red/music key has been "coming soon" to some European countries for years already (though it was initially available for play music subscribers for a few months during some limited release/pilot).
Agree with your points regarding comments and multi-line strings; don't like optional commas, though.

With respect to your "lack is strength" argument, I can't help but find this unconvincing. We all know JSON is derived from JavaScript object/array literal syntax; your argument is akin to retro-fitting the requirements for service payload serialization to the suboptimal de-facto situation with JSON.
Staying awake.
There's nothing wrong with telling people to be careful, however it is important that you give them a full picture of what went wrong with you so they can avoid it. Otherwise you're just appropriating a past experience to further an agenda.
It's good to see people working on stuff, this type of inclusive development really makes me excited!
Ah interesting question.

This thread implies that there can be a war between apps fighting for control

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Media-keys-....

I've never really used the media keys, so have no idea how it really works in practice. Might have a play when I get home later.
Tesla confirms autopilot involved in Utah crash but seeks to blame driver
I'm probably biased as I work on the admin interface day-to-day but technology-wise it's been great.

Upgrades are painless, typically requiring around an hour at most. If there are bigger framework changes we can usually upgrade immediately then clean up deprecations later as necessary but even then the work is normally minimal. When there are more stylistic changes that touch many files it's usually very quick work thanks to the codemods that are released alongside. All of this despite huge and continuous under-the-hood improvements in Ember since we've been using it.

Compared to what I've seen in other frameworks I think we've benefitted a lot in being able to spend pretty much zero time bike shedding which libraries will make up our core framework. We also save a lot of time not needing to upgrade disparate parts of a custom framework built of 3rd party libraries that aren't necessarily in sync with each other. The Ember addon ecosystem has also been stellar, with common solutions rallied around by the community such that they are usually as stable as core and kept up-to-date with the latest idioms without breaking backwards compatibility.

In conclusion Ember has allowed us to focus almost entirely on product rather than framework. It stays out of the way and provides very clear happy paths for typical workflows whilst allowing us to break out of those where needed without sacrificing any tooling or upgradability.

As for the downsides I think the biggest has been the limited pool of contributors. A lot of react bandwagon jumping has happened since we started with Ember and it's interesting when talking to other developers outside of the Ember ecosystem because there's a lot of historical and outdated views about what Ember is and isn't. The Ember core team and community is working hard to improve Ember's marketing message to counter that but it's tough to break through when the framework's core selling point is consistency through hype cycles.
can't tell if sarcasm

o_O
I think the media key interuption dispatching is handled by the OS and not the apps
The Popular Creation Story of Astronomy Is Wrong
I'm not sure you looked that hard...
If your DBMS is so poorly written that record fragmentation is an issue then you need to change the DBMS. Since most (>99%) of the database design and implementation work that I have been involved since the mid-80's was business related and for a variety of different industries, I didn't find table separation to be a problem. The appropriate designs led to faster applications.

I have also worked for companies that didn't use relational database theory for their products and they had far more issues. In a couple, I was able to hive off the database designs from the main systems and got the applications to actually work and work properly.
You could add "(done!)" after those, perhaps in a different color.
A clean password generator
I have a window sitting next to my Linux and I use it about twice a year, it's no maintenance at all (less than a VM I would say)
They started well before then, with the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. 36 years after the Meiji restoration, they took on Russia and won.

Not that military prowess should necessarily be the metric of civilisation, but Japan was/is a damned impressive culture by that metric, as well as many others.
Ask HN: If there's no corruption, why can't inflation tax replace all other?
Exactly!

And even weirder I can now choose which to hear! I went back to the original recording off twitter or wherever and I can now force myself to hear either at that pitch.

Before I couldn't hear Yanny at ALL.

Very very cool.
But what you're saying is that eventually you'll make money on every transaction which just goes along with the comment made before. The joke is really about goods where you can't lower the cost or increase the price enough to make the economics work.

> The fist copy of Microsoft Windows might cost 1 billion dollars to produce, while every next copy is essentially free

You'd have to split R&D costs by the units sold here. If you spend 1B and sell 1000 copies a price of 100$ per copy won't help you.
NYC announces plans to test algorithms for bias
YouTube Red is the stupidest thing ever. It advertises as "youtube without ads", but the majority of ad content is embedded into the videos by the creators in the form of often undisclosed product placement.
Have you just called all the (millions) of religions people insane?
This is an example contract proposal.

Contractors must login to place a bid on this contract with their public key.

Real contracts on the application have very thorough proposals.

This is just a proof of concept.
Personally I recommend adding domain expiry checks to your monitoring system. Same with SSL certificate expiry.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
> other places have people who seem happier.

Happines they measure is more accurately described as "life satisfaction". There is also large differences in how different cultures express happiness. In the Nordics there is
cultural tendency to downplay positive emotions and not express them publicly.

Money and Happiness
Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610362671

Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren't Happy about. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/finland-is...

>If happiness is the prevalence of positive emotions (let alone the displaying of them), Finland is not the happiest country. If happiness is the absence of depression, Finland is not the happiest country. But if happiness is about a quiet satisfaction with one’s life conditions, then Finland, along with other Nordic countries, might very well be the best place to live.

As a Finn, I find that I'm happiest when I scowl in the rain.
Their music apps were already confusing and now more so. On iOS you had YouTube for videos and YT Music for Music (that also shows videos) for 10 a month. So now you can also pay 10 a month to get YT Red but without any videos? Why not just have an option in settings to hide videos in YT Music. Since then you could watch them when battery life. I personally love YT Music/Red or whatever they are calling it but the branding of the services seems all over the map.
It's called the Swiss Cheese Model and doesn't only apply to aviation accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
> This is a huge “fuck you developers” from Twitter.

Well, they are doing it again. If developers didn't learn anything from the previous time why should we care?
In my experience, 124kbps.
Is that the christmas week dipping every year?
I used puppet -- unhappily -- for a while before discovering SaltStack.

Salt, like Ansible, is a response to the Puppet/Chef hegemony -- ruby and DSL's and tacked-together bits that are a nightmare to install and upgrade in themselves).

I'd suggest Salt did some things much cleaner than Ansible, and while it can be an orchestrator, and deployment system, it also excels as a configuration management system ... but I think typically people are talking about configuration management systems that are tightly coupled with more formal change management systems (of which I've found pretty much none that work well).
my first thought was about the same; "shouldn't have stopped there".

and really, their experience fundamentally sounds like a good thing. a new way of looking at, or experiencing the world was opened to them. yeah, it can be frightening, and that's why you need to put more work in, to accommodate it in your life.
But with this you can't share memory directly between fibers right?
It also has to do with how similar the victims are to you. So, European victims are nearly as noteworthy as American victims. See the last graph in the article.
> "I want the latest toys"

Fortunately now a lot of linux software is being released as distro-independent packages like AppImage, Flatpak, or Snap. And they contain the particular library versions. So that allows you to have your base OS be something stable while still being able to use the latest version of a particular program.
Not everyone uses Mac & some people prefer to have better looking screenshots from their Windows PCs or Linux Distros :)
Google Photos for Desktop
Really great move by Microsoft. People often worry for things like IE support but people with disabilities often falls between the chairs.
well, technically the only thing stopping the medical world from calling a very religious person delusional, is the fact that religious people are specifically exempt from receiving that diagnosis, for no medical reason whatsoever.
Not sure. Placing the role under marketing from the outset doesn't seem (to me) like setting things up for success though.
I wonder if any Uber staff will resign in protest. I wonder if customers and drivers in countries not entire aligned with US imperialism will vote with their feet too.
It's a demo. Crafted to show off the best side they possibly could. Who knows how well it actually works in practice when google isn't cherry picking the best results to show.
A few weeks ago I had a pre-roll ad for YouTube Red. Being in the UK I assumed this meant it was finally launching here but when I followed-up it was still the original set of countries.

I don't understand the roadblock. They already have license to show the videos, just give me them without ads!
An 800-year-old label may rewrite the history of a Java Sea shipwreck
I guess giant TV advertising budgets are sticky and they're trying to figure out how to shift them to YouTube?
How GDPR Impacts Mobile App Development
How can you talk about these things with such a high degree of certainty?

I've read different theories about dog domestication. All of them have some strong and some weak points. All of them don't have enough evidence to be taken as the only source of truth.
Artificial Intelligence Will Relieve Skills Shortages, If We Could Find
If your gut feeling was accurate, no one would be on vaccines and we'd all have smallpox, we'd only invest in feel-good companies that have no chance at profit, and communications systems (which entirely depend on statistics) just wouldn't work.

What's your point?
I was thinking the same, but I think it's mainly for prototyping. You have a design that will eventually end up inside a window frame, and you want to show how it might look, before it's actually implemented. I hope that's the purpose.
Where to See Silicon Valley (2010) update request
> I really think that Hunter S Thompson was right: it's all bullshit. You're not connecting to another plane of existence or getting in touch with your ancestors. You're just fucked on drugs.

I think it depends how you go into it.

20 years ago I did magic mushrooms for fun. I did some more recently to give up smoking.

With a more mature outlook you can gain some real insights into yourself and the nature of your consciousness during a trip. Or you can listen to some music and have some fun. I ended up starting to meditate as a side effect.

(You mention that you took a "plethora of other substances", that probably doesn't help you gain insights into yourself.)

Sam Harris has some very interesting stuff to say about non religious spirituality (and the overlaps between meditation and psychedelics).
Express Gateway v1.9.1 released
Guessing this refers to http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8640985.html : multiple co-axial rotors spinning in the same direction sounds a bit odd but evidently does something clever with wakes to increase lift / reduce noise.
This has been my guide for the last two weeks. I'm craving some recent knowledge. Apple Park for example.
Transform Swagger/OpenAPI/AsyncAPI docs to beautiful HTML pages
just wanted to say that i don't understand why you are getting downvoted for this. i found your original comment, and especially the blog excerpt quite reasonable.
Creativity seems to stem from being outside of the "mainstream" mindset, of going down paths not taken and trying unconventional strategies. Most of the time these don't work out putting an emphasis on the tried and true, but when it does it get labeled as a spark of genius, of creativity. I think it takes a certain type of person to continually beat down these paths and blaze unconventional trails and may be a mark of a 'mad' man/woman, but it may just take those kinds of people to not try and conform with conventional wisdom.
A green tick or similar alongside each item (in addition to the strikethrough, I think) would probably convey positivity less ambiguously. (FWIW, I understood it to mean 'feature has been implemented', but that's clearly not everyone's experience!)
I don't generally, but I've been hacking away at the infrastructure for high frequency trading crypto currencies for a while.

I originally just wanted to do arbitrage trading, so I built a simple tool to find opportunities using pre-existing services.

But as I slowly learned more about it, I had to expand it into monitoring the exchanges in real time with orderbooks and past trades to get around annoying false positives in my original system.

It's pretty interesting, but I haven't had the time to work on it recently. Plus the increased efficiency of the markets has made arbitrage trading a lot less desirable in 2018.

I would be happy to discuss it with like minded people.
There are always holes in the market and Google is always writing Apps to fill those holes. This is an effort to achieve maximum market penetration and their go to strategy these past few years has been to try a more diverse approach so that they can fill all the holes with their own Apps and Services.

Why do you think I'm being sarcastic?
"When I said we may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less, I meant the substrate, the basic substratum under
all else, of our metaprograms is our programs. All we are as humans is what is builtin and what has been acquired,
and what we make of both of these. So we are one more result of the program substrate-the selfmetaprogrammer.

As out of several hundreds of thousands of the substrate programs comes an adaptable changing set of thousands of metaprograms, so out of the metaprograms as substrate comes something else-the controller, the steersman, the programmer in the biocomputer, the selfmetaprogrammer. In a well organized biocomputer, there is at least one such critical control metaprogram labeled I for acting on other metaprograms and labeled me when acted upon by other metaprograms. I say at least one advisedly. Most of us have several controllers, selves, selfmetaprograms which divide control among them, either in time parallel or in time series in sequences of control. As I will give in detail later, one path for selfdevelopment is to centralize control of one's biocomputer in one selfmetaprogrammer, making the others into conscious executives subordinate to the single administrator, the single superconscient selfmetaprogrammer. With appropriate methods, this centralizing of control, the elementary unification operation, is a realizable state for many, if not all biocomputers."

--John C Lilly
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780015308735-es.jpg
I need to set ack frequency to never or inifiny (say 1000+) packets per ack. so these are not usable for me.

TCP_QUICKACK seems to be a boolean (basically 1 or 2 packets per ack)

DelayedAckFrequency goes from 10 to 600 but it's millisecs!?

You don't think acks. have an impact on congestion?
I think they should stop to pack more and more type-featzres in each release. I know you do not need them all, but still if you use typescript you should be aware of all features, which become more overwhelming with each new release. I think many features should be made optional / unlockable like babel does that in their .babelrc
> There isn’t really a need to tune a kernel for performance

Maybe, but knowing SElinux, kernel namespaces and syscalls for Docker seccomp profiles are crucial for security, and security is the Next Big Thing.

Sad you are getting into management. Lets push to undo that notion that manager is worth more salary than lead engineer. I'm pushing :D
Is "null" really the problem, or is not knowing the state of something the problem? I agree that it would be better for the world if we always knew what a "thing" was or referenced, but more often than not, we don't. Having a construct that expresses this uncertainty nicely models our own uncertainty.
It isn't for a typical user (although they probably won't care, even if they should). It would be nice if browser developers started thinking about this if — as I hope — more functionality gets pushed to the client-side, like this.
Stopping adding costs is effectively increasing margins.
Strange, it works on desktop Firefox and Android Chrome.
Good point. I wonder if Google will start banning that to make YouTube Red/Premium more attractive.
> Your work may actually kill people when used as intended.

Are you intentionally being completely oblivious to the fact that many people believe this consequence to be a good thing for them and humanity as a whole? I don't want to get into the debate about whether this belief is true or not; I'm just curious as to why HN commenters so often pretend that people with different political beliefs don't exist at all, or are only pretending to have these beliefs out of some other, hidden, true reasons.

Even if you don't agree with some political stance, it's just strange to convince yourself that nobody sincerely believes it.
If someone isn't carbon neutral, they are in essence poisoning future generations.
I remember reading a semi-biography of an old school doctor that went to med school in the 1930's.

Mentioned being a lowly resident late at night sitting next to a deathly ill patient with pneumonia trying to match antiserum to whatever bug the poor sap had. Nothing, nothing nothing, and then a match. Injecting the patent with the correct antiserum felt like magic.

Or the they would die anyways. Rarely they would go into shock and die.

Can imagine early antibiotics was so much easier. (big hammer)
SElinux, kernel namespaces and syscalls for Docker seccomp profiles.

Docker is not production ready yet.
But not to meltdown and AMD did not try to spin it as "everbody is just as vulnerable as us, move along" like Intel did.

Irrespective of how serious you consider these vulnerabilities, the way Intel handled them can very well be a "final straw".
The text to the right paragraph is mad and bad. Don't want to read a text like that.
Data Normalization in Front End Apps Using Normalizr and JSON API Normalizer
Reinvestment is only good when there are profitable investments to be made. AWS already dominates its market; maybe investing more wouldn't help it make any more money, in which case it would be better to start paying dividends.
Most Forth compilers, for that matter.
OpenBSD pledge
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Amazon: Glimpses of Shoeless Joe?
If Solar and Wind Hit 50% of Generation, Wholesale Energy Prices Could Fall 25%a
Sorry, not all of us are native English speakers. At least we try...

You should checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/, they are pretty selective about nationality. Might be something for you.
Have you thought about integrating with Sharex?
Ask HN: Does Advice as a Service exist, via micro-transactions?
Living abroad and moving countries with a certain frequency, I've always run into moments when I wished I could 'poll a [insert nationality]' via crowdsourcing, or get advice very quickly on something that would otherwise be easy to answer for a local. Emphasis on 'very quickly', ie, within 60 seconds in most cases.

But the use case for such a service can cover all types of situations, not just mine. To keep things economically interesting for the person answering, the fee could be something like 50 cents or $1 per question (as opposed to a few cents per action, like most micro-transaction services I've seen).
Ah, that would be Google Pay and Google Pay Send.