skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good comment.

Post-completion depression is a recognised syndrome in the arts. One psychological explanation is that constant pressure to complete maintains a core state of focus and emotional arousal.

When the pressure disappears so does the arousal, and sometimes a sense of purpose and direction disappears with it. You knew what you were doing and why you needed to get up in the morning, and then you don’t any more. It’s a bit like losing a job.

It’s also temporary. A good prosaic but effective antidote is a vacation and/or a change of scene. If that’s not practical just after shipping - it often isn’t - at least clear a couple of weeks later, book a break, and take at least a weekend off to do something fun in the short term.
"Slavery with extra steps."
A few thoughts:

- It rubs me the wrong way to call it an "exploit" when 51% attacks are a core part of the way blockchains function.

- I'm surprised that the price for bitcoin gold isn't tanking. That's a sign that the crypto marketplace really isn't healthy right now, imo

- Conversely I'm surprised that this isn't causing a spike in coins that are more robust in regards to 51% attacks, like BTC and BURST (because they're both the majority coin in the realm of the resources they require)
Do you have the name of the media you are referring to? Thanks!
According to this press release [1], this was Initiated by Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge

[1] http://standards.ieee.org/news/2018/p7011_p7012.html
> If I hire an electrician to do wiring at home

The difference is licensed electrician is trained and qualified to wire a home safely. That's a requirement because home owners are typically dingbats.

Tesla is a manufacturing corporation. The responsibility flows the other way.
They can chew gum and walk at the same time? Like keeping their $20bn/yr Mac lineup current while running an iPhone business?
It easy to judge when you don’t know what else is going on in people’s lives... some parents are the sole carers of their kids and spend 16 hours a day looking after them. The park may be the only time in the day they get some downtime when the kids are occupied running around
Privacy Shield Ombudsperson
Weirdly enough I am an European citizen, haven't received the mail and the service is working.

Not complaining, I prefer it this way. Hope you will sort the issues quickly.
Uber to open Advanced Technologies Center in Paris focused on flying taxis
The 22 year old website runs fine with this new change.

We're talking about MooTools, the library hardly anybody uses today and to 5 significant figures nobody will use 15 years from now. (It's 11 years old today).

The important point is that this will teach new libraries not to make the same mistake as this old one. That is, if you're going to add things to the standard library, first check to ensure you're not clobbering anything that gets added later.
Fleeing from psychopaths in an abandoned mall – Verdict tries immersive theatre
Are you hard-banning or is it possible to use it over VPN or in some other way? Asking for a friend!
Maybe The Verge should sweep around its own door: https://imgur.com/a/0r28SZb
A Chinese Go teach phrase for kids: "Gold Corner, Silver Side, Grass (paper) Belly (mid)"

- A corner is the best place
- Side comes second
- Carnage in the middle
Depends on the child. But I find there’s ample “bored” time when both hands are occupied carry kids around for hours to help them sleep... you grab the phone sometimes to relax when you can but it’s not like their isn’t a lot of bored time too.
Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find
I still use Foobar2000 on Windows (cmus on Linux), but i wonder why everyone want a Custom UI (Skins) in media player, Is it an old WinAmp feature everyone is nostalgic for ?
You might want to try Ruby for some of those things you reached to Python for. It takes direct inspiration from Perl and does a lot of those things better, IMO.

Nokogiri is hands-down the best tool for dealing with XML that there is.

I have much the same experience with Python and anything significant developed in Python here ends up getting rewritten in Go.
Hashcash. The idea is used in Bitcoin as Proof of Work.
Actual quote of the GDPR:
(171) Directive 95/46/EC should be repealed by this Regulation. Processing already under way on the date of application of this Regulation should be brought into conformity with this Regulation within the period of two years after which this Regulation enters into force. [...]

I can't say for sure what's the scope, but I stand by my point that PART of it have a delay to get into conformity.
Uhm, unfortunately not that I can find. It was the result of work from the collective Nicoletta Bourbaki, one of the many names rotating around the Wu-Ming group of Italian intellectuals. The most relevant posts on the subject (ITA) are here: [1], [2], [3].

There is a Tumblr [4] supposedly dedicated to collating non-Italian resources on Wu-Ming itself, but I don't know how often it is actually updated.

[1] https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/2014/11/wikipedia-e-la...

[2] https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/2014/05/fasci-di-luce-...

[3] https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/2017/02/la-strategia-d...

[4] http://wumingfoundation.tumblr.com/
as one who took a pay cut to work on a place like you describe: this is not 100% good solid advice, although i'm sure it comes from good intentions.

it might work for the OP, but then, these places are usually PLAGUED by political maneuverings and restrictions that end up ruining most of the work done by the workers 'on the trenches'.
The effects of social recommendations on network diversity
I understand there are a few valid reasons not to use Kotlin, but this article is blown up with a lot of trash arguments.

> ... so you need to scroll

Maybe you should indent your functions properly?

> How much time do you need to find the return type of this method?

0 seconds. It's literally right below...

> Simply, the neat syntax for collection literals is what you expect from a modern programming language, especially if it’s created from scratch.

Then don't compare statically typed languages with Python or JavaScript

> First, you need to type and read this noisy colon between names and types

How much time do you spend on typing and reading semicolons?

> Back to C++ syntax? For me it’s confusing.

Are you only able to write Java? Is it really that hard for a veteran to switch between languages?
I think you may have misread his comment :)

> can't be any less efficient than that

"can't be more inefficient than that"
Most modern distributions write their tools in Python instead of Perl. Proof: the really long transition process Fedora (and therefore RHEL), Debian and Ubuntu went through to migrate from Python 2 to 3. They could have done it faster if not for their system tools written in Python 2.

In the web space, Python is not huge, but it definitely supplanted the niche Perl used to have. No one I know writes web stuff in Perl anymore.
Well then the buyer and seller would race to gain 51% of mining power (as its free) which will make it more expensive because of the constant biding war.
I don't care whether you are writing it for money, open source, or simply to make the world a better place. If the purpose of your work involves other people appreciating it, you won't know what they will and will not appreciate it until you put it in front of other people and get feedback about it.
> All of these things are—at least in my opinion—unalloyed goods.

Sure, many of these things are nice, but phrasing them as "unalloyed goods" I think it extremely one-sided and comes only from a techno-centric perspective. You don't have to be a Luddite to actually consider downsides of the things you mentioned and upsides of their alternatives.

• ride-sharing apps

Call a Taxi, ride a bike, get a ride from a friend, walk. How is a ride sharing app an unalloyed good on a glorious day for a bike ride?

• WordLens (and its incarnation in Google Translate)

Effort put into foreign languages "the hard way"--study, recall, practice--actually strengthens your mental capacity, rather than being spoonfed answers by an AR system automatically that never leaves space for you to grow, never challenges, and instead treats you like a complete know-nothing, which you will remain if you fully rely on it. Learn some language! It's fun!

• password managers and TOTP 2FA (and mobile cryptocurrency wallets, if you like)

I am not sure how a password manager is an unalloyed good? It allows you to have more accounts and more passwords and not remember anything, but it presents a security risk...

• podcasts

Radio. Books. Talking to people.

• maps with buildings and travel-times on them, and solid public-transit routing models

Learning the streets, navigation skills, learning how to read a bus timetable, asking people, talking to people on the subway--asking for directions!!!?

• competent voice-recognition (and thus the leaps-and-bounds-better accessibility for blind users we have today)

People are pretty good voice recognizers. Who do you want to talk to and what for?

• the eBook ecosystem

You got me there. Books are heavy.

• DSLR-quality phone cameras

• VoIP apps (and thus, the commoditization of cellular providers)

I dunno. People pretend like phones didn't exist before mobile phones. There used to be such a thing as payphones on many street corners, if you really really needed to call from somewhere. Hotel lobbies, bars, your friend's house, etc.

• streaming video-service mobile apps (and thus, demand for 4G cellular infrastructure)

For what really? I mean, so you can ignore everything else around you? I don't get it. Why do you just assume this is so much better than the real world? It just isn't!
Blazing fast tests in Django
Apple provides similar tooling for businesses [0].

[0]: https://mapsconnect.apple.com
>Because sometimes you want a new feature but the current API does not support it. So you break it and make a new one, keeping the old intact.

This is how things should work. But other than impossible to remove proponents of hardcore live versioning, there are even more proponents of "Keeping 20 years old websites intact without changing a single line of code." So a valid JS 1.0 must still also be a totally valid ECMAScript 2017.

Those believe that it is somehow physically possible to engineer the language parser that it use some extremely sophisticated lexic tools to guess what version of JS something the code refers, those also are the proponents of "lets guess the api version by counting the number of arguments, and if we need a new one, we just add one more"

This is bad.

Why such people can't be taken down from standard committees? One of reason that people close to web standards making process don't want to discuss is that "tech/corporate strategists" at top dotcoms misguidedly believe that by making web standards an impossibly complex to implement thing, they can prevent appearance of newcomers to the browser market, thus making browsers a moat for competitors to drown in.

As Joseph Stalin said - "In a democratic society, the people who rule are not the ones who vote, but ones who count those votes." Those corporate appointees surely share this ideology - Ones who control the Internet business are not companies who run websites, but ones who write browsers to browse them: want to kill an advertising supported website? Put them into Google's secret bad websites list; want to displace a credit card processing competitor? Ban him from using the credit card API to which the browser is locked; want to kill a legal video streaming website? Deny him rights to DRM extensions in the browsers; and like this for all and everything.
My father 88 years old is very conservative and anti-technical, he even doesn't use mobile phone, never got on the internet or e-mail (unlike my Mom).
After seeing my Google Home Mini demonstration his reaction was - Can I also get one?
> Ordinarily, the blockchain would resolve this by including only the first transaction in the block, but the attacker was able to reverse transactions since they had majority control of the network.

Not a very precise explanation, just checking, what exactly does this mean?

I always thought the way a 51% double-spend attack worked was by broadcasting a transaction for human consumption (eg, I'll give you Y coins for Z dollars), then secretly mining your own blockchain for the N successive chains following it. After the humans have completed the human-level transactions after waiting the standard N successive blocks with no transaction conflicts, you release your own secret blockchain fork back into the public with data that contradicts the current popular one and instruct your network to ignore the competing publicly-acceptable chain. The new private one wins so long as it is equally as long as the public one which it should be because you have more compute power than the rest of the public.

Is that basically what happened here?
Oracle nemesis MariaDB tries to lure enterprise folk with TX 3.0
Well, as The Verge says in the article: 'While we don’t know exactly what’s holding up Instapaper'

I'm naturally curious as to what's holding up Instapaper.

As you say, your Privacy Policy is very good, other than the disclaimer that says 'we may pass your personal data to others - who knows what they do with it eh?'. I imagine that this is the issue which is holding you up.
Mostly ProgMetal/Djent. Some artists inspire me a lot while coding:

- Plini
- Intervals
- David Maxim Micic
- Arch Echo
- Animals as Leaders
- Polyphia
- Scale the Summit
- Angel Vivaldi
- ... etc – a.k.a. their related artists

There's also this album I used to listen to while reading Blood Meridian and nowadays while coding:

- Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method by Earth

Hope they inspire you too ;-)
The AI in Civ 5 was its biggest failing.

It's not like the AIin Civ 4 was so much better, but it handled the game mechanics better. The change to 1 Unit Per Tile in Civ 5 and 6 basically brought to the forefront the weakness of the AI in Civ, because in 5 and 6 the enemy AI can't place military units worth a damn.

They can't take cities properly because they spend turns just moving siege units around aimlessly. They are easy to kite because they have no concept of effective unit placement.

You can win military victories in 5 and 6 against much stronger opponents and on harder difficulties because the AI just cannot cope with the 1UPT mechanics in any meaningful way.

I've had entire games as well where the AI just never built naval or aerial units at all. All I needed to do in that situation was be England and build some ships and I'd basically won.

This was on the difficulty one notch below Deity as well.

Civ 4 is still the pinnacle of the series, not because it has better AI, but because that AI can simply deal better with the mechanics in the game. Stacks of units, while having their own problems, at least allowed the enemy Civs to pose a challenge.
Because the American legal system is insane.
It might be a good idea to investigate from the point of view of engineers, what this guy [1] wrote some 15 years ago:

[0] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6706/AIM-2002...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wisdom
Which explains why most of us are surprised/shocked that AlphaGo developed a winning strategy in favouring battling in the middle.
To be clear, the story here is that a couple of consumer groups have written the FTC to complain about Tesla. That might be enough to get something started, but public complaints != formal investigation. That said, the FTC did successfully order VW to pay $1.2 billion for its diesel shenanigans:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/05/feder...

I get that people respect and are excited by Musk's vision and work, nevermind the cars, but I feel even Tesla fans should be able to agree that the current Autopilot homepage, which is going to be the main info source for Autopilot for anyone not in possession of the owner's manual.

Someone at Tesla made the deliberate decision to have the page's headline and very first words be, "Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars", followed by a paragraph of text about full-self driving, followed by order buttons for Model S/Model X.

The next thing on that page is a video. It's the first and only video on the Autopilot page, and it is a 2016 self-driving demo, that Tesla has (as far as we know) not been able to push to production nor do extensive testing (assuming they test in California, which requires a mileage report).

When you buy a Tesla, aren't the purchase options for Autopilot and (future) full-self driving separate options, at a cost of $5000 and $3000, respectively? Yes, buying AP is required to buy FSD. But my point is that Autopilot exists as its own separate feature completely independent of FSD.

So to belabor the obvious, why is the only visual demo on Tesla Autopilot a 2016 alpha demo of full self driving? On Youtube I can find plenty of amateur demos of the AP features. What possible reason is there for not creating separate pages for Autopilot and FSD, other than to have consumers conflate the two systems?
Hardly anyone has mentioned that there are plenty of families that do, or did, the same thing with the television. Endless vaguely engaging wallpaper.

One of the subplots of Fahrenheit 451 (published 1953) is that houses would get wraparound screens with a virtual Family on them that people would engage with more than the real family.
Very cool, I will test it thought the week and see if I can notice any effects

I like this idea better than those extensions that just block websites altogether, those do not work for me cause I just disable them when I want to go "mindless browsing"
Last-minute frenzy of GDPR emails unleashes 'torrent' of spam
> What should I be doing?

Leave the kid to take a shit and go do your own thing; kids don't need to be watched 24/7.

The OP is a bit ironic too, given how kids will also gladly spend most of their waking hours watching e.g. youtube videos and such.
If the car will be self driving, I wonder if it would be less scary if you sit backwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC9m45AIsGY

"Why would people voluntarily bug their own house??"
I recently had a sort of "contest" with someone for parsing the output of a tool. I had to parse some text output into a tree structure.

The other person wrote it in awk, quite quickly. After writing my own version in Python (my version was waaaay over-engineered), I decided to blatantly rip-off the awk solution and re-implement it in Python.

It was almost as simple and as short.

Awk is much more compact as a language, but also way more limited. And it still has its quirks and a certain volume of information you have to gather. I'd say it's more worthwhile to learn Python instead, because you'll be able to use it for other purposes.
They say Ashwagandha and many other natural remedies help boost immune system.
> The big difference I see now days comes down to how quickly the data is updated.

To be fair to Apple, tehy are very responsive if you report. I quite often use the in-Map tool for reporting a problem with a location and these days get a 'Its been fixed' within a few days or a week.
Yes, it works. Eat a salad, rice, beans, fish, and vegies once a day and you're good. I'm fasting 18hrs/day and I lose fat + gain muscles. Also, I save lots of time which I can put into work since I don't spend my time on preparing/cooking meals that much.
why would that be a hard problem? Shouldn't it be easy for the radar to detect if there are stopped obstacles ahead?

I am not familiar with AP tech. So would appreciate if someone can explain why it's hard to detect stopped objects using radar.
What if the government took back the land.. i.e. all land is owned by the government and all resources under the land. Then everyone pays land use 'tax' that covers everything, those who own buildings on land pay the tax, those who rent could be charged some to offset the tax. Also putting a max limit on CEO pay wouldn't hurt 200x employee average, everything over that including bonuses is taxed at 100%. -- There are ways to pay for everything -- look at how taxes for the top 10% have dropped since FDR's day - it used to be 90% now it's like 40'ish but CEO pay has skyrocketed to as much as 5000x the average worker.
Generate a library (data-table) with angular-cli
U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
The 'sharent' trap – should ​you ever put your ​children on social media?
they are saying the contractor should not have accepted the offer, since they cannot fullfill what is asked of them without cutting safety.
I assume no living Hakka experienced the Punti-Hakka Clan Wars of 1855-1867.

Being defined by the turmoil your ancestors experienced is the same thing as being defined as part of a certain ethnic group.
I think my tendency to reach for grep/sed/awk might be the thing that led me away from software development full-time and into the ops world.

Too many times I encountered 200+ line Python scripts that I could replace with an Awk one-liner and a cron job.

My lazy habit in my Ruby work eventually became to parse JSON/XML/whatever into usable text, shelling out to sed/awk and working with the results. This would not only save me LoC, but was less error-prone.
I see a lot of negative comments on these electron threads (rightfully so, especially if one cares about resources / performance). Question is: what other frameworks would you recommend for developing cross-platform desktop apps ?
I think that it had less to do with apple and more to do with steve jobs. I can't think of any product from Apple after Steve Jobs died, that had any mass market effect. Either with new product or evolution of the existing product. They are still riding the Steve Jobs high.
I really find it hard to believe that sitting on the cash or spending it on stock buy back is the best use of that massive massive cash pile.

Spend some on moon shots, making OS X dominant, start a cloud hosting company, consumer cloud
Something history will say and Apple lost their lead because they did nothing with their cash, just like we have hind sight stories about Sony, Kodak, IBM, AT&T/bell and that rail road company
I hated perl in the mid-90's, and stuck with grep/awk/sed intead, because it was a little more documented-structured.

Meanwhile, if you randomly mashed on your keyboard, it would output a perl script.

I jumped to Python as soon as I found out about it in the late 90's, because it was exactly what I was looking for in self-documenting structuring. It was great for creating parsers with state-machines. I was also the user of my scripts, and I didn't want to have to relearn what I coded a year or so earlier. Python let me pick that up, and to a lesser extent, awk. State machine programming was really self-documenting in Python.
The GDPR was adopted in 2016. The two year grace period in your quote ends on the 25th.
If the scenario you laid out actually pans out it would be very good for Bitcoin, because there is a lot of free energy in the world but it is highly distributed.

The dominant form of mining would be utility companies and individuals redirecting excess electricity generated from their renewable electric power generators, during off-peak hours and spikes in generation, to mining, and the constituents would be both numerous and globally distributed, owing to the wide geography areas across which renewable energy resources are found.
*Needs an actual driver outside of test conditions.
People said the same thing about $1,000 when it reached $35. in about 6 months, bitcoin will be 10 years, so considering that it went from $0 to $20,000 in those 10 years, so as my statement say, it's not without reason to expect it to reach $70,000 in the next 5 years.

People like to compare bitcoin to gold, which has an estimated current market cap of $6,000,000,000,000. Will gold ever generate more value than Google or several Big Energy companies combined with more than a factor 10? Or does it hold value simply because it's rare?