skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess:

* Telegram's large groups/channels make collaboration easier and more of a threat.

* WhatsApp users who are are all identifiable to the Russian state via their phone numbers; Telegram allows users to interact anonymously.

* Telegram is more widely-used in Russia.

* Telegram is Russian, so could be more susceptible to political pressure from the Russian authorities.
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Oh dear. Very sorry. Now fixed. Thanks.
I know - thanks, it wasn't a serious statement.

Look at someone speaking about cancer over there: the guy's clearly missing the point that if you're rich and you die from cancer - then you're probably still going to be better off than if you're poor and die from cancer.
Are you trying to say that my startup that creates deep learning solutions in blokchain for internet of self-driving things might not be successful?
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The more testosterone a man has, the less likely he is to hang around to help bring up baby

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2167977...
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Thank you for this link. :)
> But promotion is one of the incentives to be best

Is that because many organizations tie together the concepts of higher pay/benefits and moving up in the managerial hierarchy?

Considering there is evidence that the Peter principle holds to a certain extent, that has always seemed odd to me. A person being best at one job is not a strong indicator that they'd be best at another. Personally, I have no desire to be promoted into roles that don't suit me.
If a rich person's got cancer - he'll be able to pay off his dying and live in acceptable conditions before he passes.

While someone poor would probably end up being unable to pay for his painkillers and dying while praying to his relatives so that someone killed him not to endure his death.

So no, rich people do have a better ability to hedge their risks.
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Python3: Pandas ans Seaborn?

I have very quick flows for data processing: load data, make long form, add meta data as categories, plot many things with seaborn one-liners. I use Jupyter lab and treat it Like a full lab notebook, including headers, introduction, conclusion, discussion. Works very wel for me.
Well, the "=" operator is eas to type since it's on pretty much every keyboard and probably has been for ever. And it's faster than typing a two-symbol operator like := or <- so.

If you want "=" to (more or less) mean what it used to mean "long before computer programming", try Prolog.

?- a = a.
true.

?- a = b.
false.

?- A = a.
A = a.

?- A = a, A = b.
false.

?- A = a, A = B.
A = B, B = a.

?- A == B.
false.

?- A = B, A == B.
A = B.

Nice? Most programmers would pull their hair from the root at all this :)

(hint: "=" is not assignment, neither is it equality and "==" is just a stricter version thereof).
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Ask HN: What are some resume/portfolio style webpages you like?
I am starting to think more and more that I should maintain my resume on the web rather than with desktop publishing tools, simply because of its dynamic nature. However, I'm also a firm believer that when choosing a medium, you should take full advantage of it and not just translate things over with no consideration for the differences. In other words, what neat things can you do with an HTML resume that you can't with a PDF?

Things I have thought of:

- Update it frequently
- Conveniently link to projects
- Make it small-screen responsive
- Serve plaintext when curling it
- Provide details on demand

Things you lose:

- Control over typography
- Ensuring it fits neatly on a printed page

Any more tips for inspiration?
> Tonsillectomy is indicated When young children have had >7 episodes in one year or >5 episodes in either of the last 2 years, or quinsys, or obstructive sleep apnoea.

But it used to be a lot more common. It used to happen after the first or second episode.
I went to a predominately White/Asian high school in a wealthy, high-performing school district where the criteria for entrance was having the money to live in that district. I subsequently attended Harvard as an Asian male and I felt that my experience was richer for having a wide diversity of classmates. Personally, I am on the side of affirmative action, but I know there are many valid opinions on this matter, depending on people's different value systems and experiences.
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- Control over typography - Ensuring it fits neatly on a printed page

CSS gives you a huge amount of control over both of these things.
Gulag system tortured political dissidents, who could or could not have been rich or privileged.

Those who were privileged in the Soviet Union have always had a better hand. Don't have a job? Here's a job for you. Your brother's got cancer? We'll find the best doctors for him. Can't find a TV set for your nice flat? Here's a guy you could call. Your idiot child has been speeding and killed someone walking down the street? Well, we may speak to those policemen so that his life would not be destroyed by such a small mistake.

I understand why you picked on the phrase "white and privileged", but it has nothing to do with the substance of my statements.
I’m not betting on anything now we’ve entered the math.random timeline.

Out of interest what are you expecting to see?
> The fix is for virus scanners to operate at user permission level when restoring the file.

"user permission" as such doesn't exist, it is always a specific user. Which user should the restore function run as?
There is no easy solution to this, as the restore must be able to restore the file to locations like the windows directory as well as directories that only specific user have access to, like a home folder on a file server.
I am incredibly certain that a privileged person can afford to have a better treatment than a poor person. Which is literally what "hedging your risks" means.
My son had adenoids removed last year because his hearing was VERY bad because of some kind of mucus blockage. Doctors explained to us that he would hear perfectly without the adenoids, because inner ear measurements were very good.

So during the OP they cut away the adenoids, and made a hole into each eardrum, so fluids could exit. After the OP his hearing was so good that he told us not to scream at him when we barely whispered - for 2 weeks. As soon as the holes in the eardrums healed up, the blockage developed again and his hearing was exactly the same as before the OP.

We tried alternative treatments for a year, strange juices with corticosteroids and stuff (which worked well for his hearing, but he couldn't really sleep while on them), near-infrared radiation through the nose (our favorite so far, but does not work that well because adenoids are too far in)... so he's soon have his second OP where they will likely remove adenoids again (they regrow sometimes) and insert little tubes into his eardrums such that fluids can regularly exit the ears.

Distant relatives of mine have the same issue, but worse (delayed speech development due to near-deafness), and for them the OP worked for 1,5 years and now its positive effects are going away; perhaps requiring another OP.

I'm not thrilled about all this.

BTW here is advice a very expensive doc gave me regarding hearing and speech development: If your kid understands what you are saying while you whisper from a distance of ~1 meter, then her speech development should not be negatively affected, or not that much.
"based on tech" as opposed to based on belief?
> Are there any example projects using this?

The only project I know is gittorrent (https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gitto...), but it hasn't gone anywhere.
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"we are talking about performance" - Well, I was not. My comment was not about performance.
Yes - pay/benefits are mostly related to hierarchy unless someone is a tech star mostly.

And even if not - the folks higher in the chain also get to decide what gets to be worked on.
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It is my impression that most of the tracking happens through "tracking pixels" or 1x1 images, usually with 0 alpha so they're transparent... and cookies.
Most people are probably not incentivized by promotions that give them a completely different task they might not even be good at, but by the increase in salary and status.

You can certainly have the latter kind without promoting e.g. the best programmers into mediocre managers.

The paper's suggestion to promote randomly or the worst is a bit silly. It only appears better than the alternative because they assume that there is no information about someone's competence at anything except their current job, and promoting someone is equivalent to firing them in favor of a fresh hire in their model.
I am very happy about the professionalism and the humanity of Italian doctors and the Italian national healthcare service.

Of course there are problems, waiting lists, lack of funding. But damn, it's good and (mostly) free. I feel lucky.

Perhaps there are regional differences, but in my city, it's really good.
As you've said in today's world it is difficult to operate a 'free' web-service without ads and ad-tracking, and I always thought since I am using their service I could give my data for ads since their business depends on it. But after thorough research about tracking I agree with you that these decisions must be informed and if this is not acceptable, either I should be denied service or the business model should be changed (after enough users like you and now I chose not to be tracked, I believe it will change)
> I’ve always been extremely sceptical of “its vestigial” or “that body part is bad for you”. I mean, surely if either were true, selection would have done away with it.

That's not necessarily true - if something is vestigial it is no longer affected by positive selection pressures; it won't be selected against until it is harmful. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigiality
> The new world seems to be about how much you consume, and not the what or the why of the consumption.

Also see the usage of the word "content creator" without a hint of sarcasm.
This is nice .. but it could be nicer with (pun intended) use of the context manager protocols, a few less empty lines and a bit of minor refactoring for readability.

Is execution_loop really meant to start and end holding the GIL?
What is the enjoyment factor then? If you literally just 'vanish' so to speak.
Actually, this has been pretty much a non-issue for us in production over the last 5 years. As the reference JS client library works offline first, it'll just sync data whenever the remote becomes available again. In fact, that's a nice bonus for offline-first web apps in general, not just with remoteStorage.
This is the actual research: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03208

At the very least, the title of this post should have "makes a prediction" rather than "predicts". The future has not happened yet. Once it does, we will know whether this particular prediction was correct.

That is, we are going to have a single data point in the ability of the authors' technique in predicting this stuff.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297264
If you're looking for Nock but not just node, try Mockttp: https://github.com/pimterry/mockttp.

It lets you create & configure mock HTTP servers for JS testing, but with one API that works out of the box in Node and in browsers. This avoids the record/replay model too, so you can still take the TDD approach and define your API behaviour in the test itself.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of Mockttp)
The original blog can be found here:
https://sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/06/pentesters-windows-n...

The author of the above blog copy & pasted the full article, explicitly removed the author names and references to the original source. That's pretty disappointing.
Do you drop tracking cookies or scripts that fingerprint the users visiting your site? No? Well by resisting the push to TLS, you're allowing ISPs and who knows who else to inject that content into the sessions of your users.
No, it's not the same. The MLK equivalent of what's being discussed is introducing him as "Martin Luther King, a minister from Georgia...". It's using a very plain language to introduce someone quite exceptional.
Eh, that has always been the case for windows vs linux, that you don't have to compile anything yourself because there is always an installer that will deploy precompiled binaries for whatever you want to install (except for when there isn't, because nobody has compiled it for windows, at which point you're in deeper shit) (or except when something installs itself but doesn't update your envars, so you have to do it yourself, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole "installer" thing).
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I would love to hear feedback about my app and get suggestions to where I could take it.

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Thanks
Has anyone on HN bought and/or sold a house on OpenDoor? Do you have thoughts on the experience? (And if you've also bought/sold through the traditional route, how does OpenDoor stack up?)
I used an old Android phone with Linux Deploy to run Node with MongoDB around 3 years ago. Now Termux allows to do basically the same.
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Maybe that is true. But many people have become fed up with points 1 and 2 you mention, and other socially deplorable behaviors that are prevalent in popular social media networks.

Also since the FB/CA scandal and the continuous cycle of bad press about FB, the awareness of privacy issues and data harvesting practices and consequences has risen significantly among the wider public.

This has led to significant growth in their user base, just like it has with Mastodon (which is more of a Twitter alternative).

According to BBC News today they have about 2 million active users, which is not much compared to FB and the likes. But it may be close to a threshold where the network effect kicks in.

And both their business model (paid services) and their use case is different. It is for people that are interested mainly in social communications among a circle of close friends / relatives.

It may be enough to guarantee slow, but steady growth with long-term viability (but not in the big-shot kind of ways that we nowadays define as 'success')
Could you show a screenshot?
They still are big on backwards compatibility
Musk has improved the process and the speed a lot. You should watch his recent interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofRm13SbP5g
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Building rockets wasn’t new, landing rockets wasn’t new, grid fins weren’t new. But now we have an 80% reusable orbital launch system and he’s working hard on the other 20%.

Likewise with the Boring Company. Of course they still need to prove themselves, but the factors that work in their favour in tunnel construction are the same ones that favoured SpaceX.

ULA and the established rocket manufacturers made big profits off the fact that launching rockets is stupidly expensive. That meant their profit margins ended up being stupidly large quantities of money. Musk’s contention on big tunnelling projects is that big construction companies have similar incentives not to reduce the costs of tunnelling. However Musk as an outsider is free to innovate and develop the engineering and technology because he doesn’t have big fat profits he’s already tied to.
I use my RS accounts for exactly this, in combination with Huginn for example. It's super simple, because you just PUT or GET, with the bearer token for one segment (called "category" in RS) in the Authorization header. And you can also PUT things in the special /public category, so they're world-readable. Example: when I check in on Swarm, Huginn uploads the entire check-in data to my RS for archiving, as well as updates a public RS document with my current location, which my website then shows publicly: https://sebastian.kip.pe
Note that 95% of people browsing with IPv6 are probably using SLAAC with privacy extensions, so all your devices IPs should be frequently changing (at least every day, but you can lower the timeout). Only the subnet would stay the same, similar to a NAT’ed IP.
The cooler is designed to be used by the medical personnel doing the injection, so you can't guarantee it any more or less than with regular ice coolers, and if you can't trust the rest of the supply chain or the personnel you're fucked either way, you're no more fucked with TFA's cooler than with the current supply chain.

There ain't much cause for counterfeiting though, vaccines are cheap to produce, widely available and annoying to conserve, there's little incentive to counterfeit them or sit on a batch of vaccine waiting for the prices to rise to fence it.
My mother had to have her gallbladder taken out ... maybe 6 months ago. IIRC she was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis at that time too. If she'd been taking better care of herself, she might not have deteriorated to the point that gallbladder removal was necessary. Hindsight being 20/20, the signs of a developing gallbladder condition were all there... (Adult children generally have very little ability to influence their parents' habits.)

> 'Doctors/The medical-industrial complex is with-holding the cure for cancer, because if they fix it they don't make any money'.

Progressive cancer doctors are coming around to the idea that Otto Warburg (who theorized that cancer is a metabolic condition, rather than genetic in origin) might've been on the right track: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-a...

> But slinging mud on my profession I can not sit idly by and abide.

My goal is to help the profession clean up. Sometimes doctors do good work, but frequently the evidence to support an intervention never actually existed: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...
How is it the reason to stick to Windows when MacOS has had Office for quite a while?

I think it's just people are used to the OS itself. I've seen people stick to Windows just because even in small companies.
(Not Ben, but - ) outside of academia, the main thing that seems to encourage people to do supervised ML is that it's the only thing that seems to work. I haven't really heard of any success stories with using unsupervised techniques for most common ML applications.
Pitch is stabilized by the tail. When the nose points down, air hits the top of the tail and pushes the tail down, bringing the nose up. And when the nose is pointing up, air hitting the bottom of the tail pushes the tail up.

The V shape thing you mentioned for hang gliders is also true for most light planes. It’s a self stabilizing thing. I think what prevents th oscillation is that as it comes to level, the amount of upward force from the other wing equalizes.
"In the same vein, a stunning proportion of partners at VC firms graduated from a handful of tony universities, as if the seal on a person’s diploma were what indicated investing abilities. (Granted, the incidence of leveraged social connections and postgraduate degrees may amplify that trend.)"

Or it could be that these "tony schools" are primarily designed to select for hyper-ambitious people with high IQs. Crazy, I know.
Wow that is ridiculous. I thought Netflix owned most of their content and wouldn't need to kowtow to ridiculous DRM demands like this? Or is this their own doing?
For me it's the combination of uBlock origin [1], uBlock Extra [2], and Decentraleyes [3].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-extr...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/decentraleyes/ldpo...
I would like to see an analysis of startups that passed two years of age. That sounds to me like enough time to learn how it feels and learn and experience most of the issues in running a small business, and not enough time that it's "wasted".

If it turns out that 70% of 3 or 4 year old startups fail, then I'd say it's a seriously bad tradeoff.
Just handwaving here, but taking the best developer out of a team (to put them elsewhere) also makes the team's overall performance go down.
Ace Stream works really well for watching live broadcasts.
On demand video would be more difficult though since not everyone is watching the same content at the same time.
It's highly dependent on the environment.

In sub-saharan africa it's mostly logistics, in western countries it's cultural (anti-vaxxers), in some other countries it's political e.g. fear of western interventionism and harm under guise of humanitarianism… sadly justified: the CIA organised fake vaccination campaigns in Pakistan to pinpoint OBL, and while officially that program was shut down who'd trust these claims?
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Never knew that, thanks.
My son had his tonsils taken our in a private UK hospital 6 years ago (my job at the time had private health care) and the total bill the insurer paid was rather less than £3.

So the idea that consultants were getting £3K for individual private operations in the 1980s seems unlikely - and as far as I know that's definitely not how they are paid for NHS work.
Plus storage might not be fast enough to store raw video in realtime. And you'd kill it much sooner with all the writing (larger raw files + reencoded files).
It's the same logic behind the medias fawning admiration of Boring Co's putting a roofers torch in a nerf-gun housing. Which is to say, none, there is no logic, it's pure unalloyed hype and worship.
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This is great! Thanks for sharing. Would be awesome if your license filter had a "not for commercial use" vs. "for commercial use" or similar.
vim ported to iOS
I will start using IDEs again once they get instant, mouse-free, java-crawltime-env free and get easily extensible like most modern editors are.
The main difference is that the app developer/provider doesn't have to see, secure, or pay for storing user data. Users themselves are in full control of their data, and they can permit any app to access segments of it. Check out this comparison on the RS website: https://remotestorage.io/#explainer-unhosted
They would certainly be fit to have a drink again -- and they do just that all over the world.

It's a AA/12-step inspired prejudice that you're "always recovering" and that having the occasional drink will be fatal to regress into alcoholism. What we call an Americanism.

There are tons of people who once were alcoholics, quitted, and can enjoy a beer or glass or wine or two now and again, without becoming alcoholics again, and being able to go for weeks or months without drinking (just like any regular non-alcoholic person). It's a matter of character and willpower and life's circumstances, not some physical law or physiological necessity.
Well, QUIC already has traction on desktops, as Chrome supports it?

The bigger problem I see is whether websites will deploy it ...
I had my tonsils removed at age 24 after horrible problems with tonsilitis and tonsil stones.

Wish I'd had the ghastly things removed much earlier - my son had his out at 12.

Never had any problems afterwords - indeed only times I suffered from any allergies were before I had them removed but I suspect that is coincidence.