skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting effect I have noted for me when doing research is that even if it only takes one extra click or changing one parameter to generate a plot, or run some extra analysis, I will only do it selectively and start rationalising it to myself that I know when a certain plot or analysis will help and when it won't.

This becomes especially egregious over month to year long experiments where I run the same experiment every day on end.

There was really no reason not to auto generate every possible plot, every possible analysis every time (and I cannot use ipython notebooks or things like that because it's many distributed things chained together with lots of scheduling).

The productivity gains have been enormous and are hard to overstate. I don't dread any experiment any more because even in a large complicated distributed setup, everything from initialising kerberos tickets to tons of config files, restarting services, running multiple experiments dependent on each other, and generating plots and summaries and committing them to a repo is one command. Anything that's analysed once is evaluated always.

I now almost look forward to setting up new experiments because of the pleasure I get from just chaining together calls from my control utilities.

All I have to do is pull on my laptop and I download a filter with all results pre-generated paper ready. I think a lot of people do this in experiments where everything is on a single machine, but I haven't seen it as excessive from other phd students doing complicated distributed stuff. There is always a lot of manual command line args passing, manually changing some config while instead of just creating dedicated scripts, etc.
and Austin has more and more CA residents, they're immediately trying to make Austin a city just like where they departed, so they can move elsewhere in the future for further damages, it's epidemic.
I suppose division used to grant some folks power or followers is more profitable.

I wish we saw similar movements to bring people together that seem as effective.

I think at one point simply being able to communicate would do the good thing, I'm not sure that is the case... :(
Yeah, I'm with you there. Like at the end of the day, I don't want to work for a company that treats a client's site with such gross negligence. The client was trusting us to manage the site responsibly and we would have been majorly violating that trust with those actions. To me, it felt like an ethical issue, I wasn't even thinking of legal ramifications (which I imagine there are some). I was very young then.

Nowadays I'm in the medical field. If you let standards slip to "get shit done fast," you can kill someone.
We could discuss the possible workarounds for this, but let's not forget that in terms of privacy, Youtube has its own by-design flaws as well. The company gathers much precise data about viewers than Peertube does.
Forgotten anarchist Simón Radowitzky’s life retold in graphic novel (2016)
When you know that society is a tinderbox where spreading rumors can get people killed, it might not be your fault, but it seems like a good idea to think twice before deploying a super-efficient rumor-spreading machine?

I'm not saying that there's any easy answer, but the idea that we should think ahead about the consequences of what we do and at least try to mitigate any harms doesn't seem so outlandish.
Thing about cults...(my opinion) it either works (crossfit etc) or is a lot of fun (church/sex cults) :P
Yea hangry is a legit word in dictionary
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hangry

But I was concerned that eliminating a natural feeling will also eliminate benefits associated with both for mind and body.

I grew up poor in third world country and eating constantly was not a thing and being hungry was as natural as being sweaty. In rich countries you never get practice dealing with hunger, you never get a chance to make peace with in recognize it as a valid feeling. People never leave house without a snack in their bag.
Would a VPN help in that regard?
You can still just configure and use Hibernate or JDBC directly. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also possible to add your own custom implementation with different methods on the repository. It’s by far the most flexible and extensible framework I have worked with.
Luck in Games (Richard Garfield, Creator of Magic the Gathering)
> "Educating the world" should come before "connecting the world".

That's a scary thought in several ways. At the very least it's a chicken-and-egg conundrum. Also, it robs large groups of responsible people from beneficial communication tools because of how it's used by others. It often occurs with progress and advancement though, those that have it often only see the negative side of sharing. The positive side rarely gets coverage.
Not all functions can be approximated by polynomials.
By that logic, China which pays tariffs on some goods it sells in the US should be able to vote in US elections?

I'm not saying there aren't issues, but it is not anywhere close to a black and white one.
> "Populations are remarkably easy to predict."

Could you break that down a little further?
Fucking roll-eyes. A clickbait title combined with a hysteric article that didn't even bother and read the decision it's quoting.
With gmail you can only auto-forward mail to mailboxes which you can prove you own / have access to (by responding to an email challenge generated by google, sent to that mailbox). This meant that I couldn't automatically forward receipts / invoices from e.g. Airbnb, Digital Ocean, Microsoft etc., to Expensify. So I have a cron job that logs into my gmail account every night at 2am, scans for new mail matching certain criteria, and manually forwards it to Expensify's mailbox.

Now I don't have to remember to forward mail to Expensify every time I book an airbnb for business travel, or pay my monthly O365 subscription.

It works great, except for when a company decides to change the format of their emails and I have to update my script to use a new search pattern.
Sure, or Tor. Anything that hides your IP.
What about business implications of chiplets ?

Does it mean it would be easier for companies to cooperate, so in one chip you'll get best parts from the leaders ? or does IP already solves that ?
Thank you. I was also considering the 433 MHz way and now that I think about it even bought a sonoff bridge :)

I will spend more time on that during summer when the kids are away
> I was a PulseAudio early adopter and like it better than raw ALSA since it covers more use cases like Bluetooth and provides some extra features.

The last time I had Bluetooth audio actually work, it was before it needed to be routed through pulse. Alsa applications played Bluetooth audio just fine. Then at some dist-upgrade it pulled in a new bluez and that no longer worked, and I literally could not get it working through pulse.

I actually have this experience 100% of the time with pulse: introduce pulse and everything breaks. When things talk to lower level pieces it works fine.

By the way, alsa itself is a little bit of a case study in confusion between api and implementation... My freebsd machines are using the oss audio API with none of the problems that plagued oss on Linux in the 90s.
I've been using it for a couple of days, and I've gotta say I'm impressed at the high quality of the service, and the integration with Activity Feeds (e.g. Mastodon) elsewhere.
Am I wrong to assume that most of HN is the disagreeable giver type?

I’m assuming that agreeable people tend not to seek out information outside of their bounds, and takers would be on some crypto trading forum or something.
Further tightening the near-monopoly those companies have over the processing of legally required tax filings. They're the only real winners here. If is not possible for a small business owner or individual to realistically handle their own tax filings, the onus is on the government to address the complexity of their tax laws and regulations.
> Yeah, the last time hardware audio decoders were relevant was like... back in the Nokia N-Gage days.

I guess it's irrelevant you feel overwhelmed by how long your phone can go on a charge. Plus, low-power/low-CPU requirements are an order of magnitude more critical in devices like smartwatches.
See also https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/685 for discussion on implementing webtorrent over i2p
I grew up when the first math circle in San Diego was being launched. Richard R. was an amazing teacher.. helped me qual for USAMO twice when I otherwise would have never had a chance.. that too when my calc bc teacher couldn’t solve many of the usamo probs himself even my linear alg Prof at the local jc couldn’t crack many of the problems.. what a great resource for kids.. recommend it to anyone whose kid has an inclination to maths
A day in the life of a Kabul emergency room
I just looked at the paper you linked to, and I can't get past the introduction - the idea is pretty mind-blowing! Have to read the whole thing now...
Run any PyQt5 program in Emacs
I don't really know where to start after reading this - it reads like a collection of poorly-informed reasons that the author dislikes relational databases - almost all of which are entirely orthogonal to the concepts of relational algebra or modern database management systems.

For example, SQL injection can hardly be considered a problem with database systems alone - and the problem with using code injection as an example of how RDBMS are "so bad" is that code injection isn't inherent to databases - it's to do with executing unsanitised user input (which is a problem that should be handled in the software accepting user input).

Doing a little bit more digging, it appears that the author is peddling his own technology (the "contextual database") which is presumably the solution all these problems... but the product's website has such a scarcity of technical information that it appears to be almost entirely useless.

Smells like snake oil to me.
If you're a podcaster, another benefit of AAC over MP3 is that VBR is not an issue.
I can't afford Intel's high-end stuff. That's why I'm looking at AMD.
The question is, if you wanted to start a cheaper, good-enough battery company, even cheaper than AmazonBasics, could you sell and compete on Amazon? Or would they still outposition you by hand holding customers directly to theirs?

I'm fairly sure it's the latter.
It was a desire to have trade secrets kept from other departments in the same organisation. My superiors realised that a lot of our worth was just the things we knew and that if I just wrote it down it would make us kind of pointless. They didn't really understand that I consider myself a bit more than a meat-based knowledge repository.
You want people who can "disagree without being disagreeable"
Apple, batteries, and customer service
Except a lot of local sellers lost the fight to the big chains and then the big online retailers a long time ago. There's maybe one local photo place in the Boston area who could compete with B&H and they're inconvenient enough I haven't been there in years.

B&H probably will be hurt by this a bit. Compliance probably won't be a big deal and they beat out Amazon for a lot of specialty equipment. But they also sell a lot of DSLRs and the like too. They just basically lost their price advantage of Amazon for many items. (And, for those of us with Amazon credit cards, Amazon will mostly be cheaper once these rules go in place.)
Most of my hard work is done walking around the block or in a line at starbucks. Sitting at the desk things won't come into focus, and if they did someone would interrupt me.
I don't think that your hypothesis can be proved, unless the givers here can be just agreeable enough to reach some form of consensus about your assumption.
You may not need them, but often enough you will have to pay the duty and VAT before the customs release your package, thus erasing the price difference. As for the warranty, customers usually do need it.
Evidence of Ancient Solar Storms in Tree Rings Could Pinpoint Historical Events
Then all you are left with is shit.
Thanks, yeah but it's hard to find these answers at the project site as well.

The privacy problem wasn't my concern. But rather a bloated javascript client as well as the issue of accidentally seeding on a mobile connection wasting bandwidth and battery life. I see tons of potential issues but no possible gains at all when server bandwidth is not an issue.
"Disagreeable givers, on the other hand, can be a pain in the ass, but valuable to an organization, Grant says."

The problem is this person doesn't exist. Most people that are constantly disagreeable are just bluster and talk and don't get anything done. Occasionally disagreeable is useful, though.
Show HN: Vim-zen – Barebones vim plugin manager w/ multithreading.
Is this really even worth saying? Saying you're being pedantic doesn't cover it.
I agree the idea has problems. But I also would like to see democratic countries band closer together, and use their economic and military power to protect democracy and human rights.

We opened our markets to many unfree countries on the idea that when they became richer, they would become democratic. We were wrong on that. Instead these countries sell to us to make themselves as dictators richer, and use our money to suppress their people, and in the name of free trade, we sell them the weapons and technology to do it. And when they become rich enough, they use their new found influence to attack democracy in other countries.

Free trade with the west should be the reward for being democratic, free, and a protector of human rights of your citizens.

Afterall it is our freedom that made us rich... we shouldn't allow dictators to benefit from it. Dictatorship is poverty. They are linked together. And without western money, they would be forced to live in the squalor they have created for themselves.

Sadly our addiction to fossil fuels is probably the biggest impediment to this. Until thats solved, we'll continue to fund some of the worst human rights abusers in exchange for oil.
I wear expensive clothing (without any visible branding) because I'm paying a company that pays fair wages to their workers and are working on reducing environmental footprint. Now that company isn't on Amazon, and I don't have a problem with Amazon selling their own brands, but if they end up making it more difficult for smaller companies to thrive, I consider it a negative.
The naive conclusion is to avoid learning in any form in order to keep all the synapses in optimal state. Rather disappointing.
The article presents no evidence that Facebook ended Free Basics because of media pressure.

The likely reason is commercial. Many of those areas now have better internet and phone penetration, so there is less to gain for Facebook.
>It's difficult for me to accept the article's insinuation that in such an environment, Facebook must somehow do more to counteract the undercurrents of society.

Your conclusion is fairly bizarre given the explanation preceding it. If a country is "a sharply divided tinderbox with many prejudices and preconceptions, and some people will latch onto a rumour that in their mind provides the necessary justification to commit violence and murder against another ethnicity", isn't that all the more reason for entities like Facebook to take extreme care in how they disseminate information? If you're entering an area filled with flammable material, you should be doubly cautious about starting a fire.
Just want to say I really enjoyed your chapter on “Visuals and Blocked Languages”.

My career got started programming Flash. Mostly because I loved the visuals and wanted to code it. Even though there is scratch, and other block based languages it seems text is still the king.

Text as you’ve identified is not the most new comer friendly.

I still think the holy grail of visual programming is still to come. Most of coding is describing abstract syntax trees. A nice visual tree/graph manipulation editor has yet to be invented. Being able to have a hybrid text and visual seems like a good place to be.

I’ve spent many years thinking and obsessed about this concept. Especially around the ideas of code completion/intellisense.

What are your opinions on how kids in a decade will code?
Copy an old one.
"Should come before" implied shifting priorities: I didn't suggest to rob somebody of beneficial tools but to provide at least basic training before giving access to a potentially dangerous technology.
I am not any kind of hacker or even a terrible programmer. Just a noob. I am mostly a lurker here. I am not influenced by HN.

But I still don't understand how hacking is such a serious crime to be punished by death sentence.

In fact, there are very very few crimes which deserve death penalty.
A lot of people are asking why how is this different from vim-plug. Well, I never came around to use features offered by vim-plug other than install, update & remove. So I wrote this nifty yet functional plugin manager with multithreading support for vim8/nvim.
On studying the joint cost and schedule analysis document highlighted in the article. It is evident why NASA has problems. The estimation of cost and schedule delay distributions is subjective and not Bayesian. This leads to outcomes severely influenced by optimism bias.i work on similar problems for an energy company and it's clear that Bayesian methods with broad based machine learning models can rectify a lot of these issues
> they don’t gain as much now

This is what I'm thinking, too. They've already gotten what they wanted - market penetration for little cost. They get a few million "low-hanging fruit" users hooked on their product, then shift their spending somewhere else when costs increase.

I think media pressure is part of it, but only because media pressure can lead the local government kicking them out of the market entirely, especially in countries with internet censorship.
I think you're probably right, yeah. The typical internet commenter will be very quick to tell you you're wrong, but they'll make every effort to tell you why.
There's already been an example of this with the AMD + Intel combination sold by Intel in the Hades Canyon NUC. It's an Intel CPU and an AMD GPU in a single package on some sort of interposer.

The more common approach is via SOCs though.
My cousin has this with her husband. They're likely the best couple I have ever seen. Not a single fight, ever, afaik (from what her sister told me). They're best friends. Two great kids, wealthy and successful, and overall they just have a ton of fun together living and enjoying life.
I would postulate that is the definition if immaturity, or at least short-sightedness. Sooner or later people start looking for ways that both can win, in the short term and in the long term. Sometimes that means giving up something you want now for something you want even more later. It takes time to see that though, which is why it’s rare to see in very young people. (I don’t know you personally, so this isn’t directed at you, just a counter argument).
I've been tinkering more or less full time for half a decade. There are lots of pleasant, inexpensive places to live around the world where you can live well for 1000 USD/month (or less). To name a couple, Diamantina, Brazil, or Kiev, Ukraine. Better to speak Portuguese or Russian/Ukrainian though.
Here is the paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6395/1349
You just took his time by having to explain.
They didn't go into Myanmar to make money. That's absurd. The country barely has an economy much less a meaningful online ad market.

They went into Myanmar to capture market share. That's paid for by their extraordinarily rich US ad market, as is the case in countless other commercially worthless markets (which may or may not one day be valuable). Every market they ignore, no matter how small or poor, produces a potential social competitor or hands the market to a competitor.

The notion they were chasing riches (in Myanmar!) is just a convenient emotional blanket that makes everyone feel better about the Facebook global social network agenda. The fact is, they never have to care about markets like Myanmar financially, it's entirely meaningless and probably always will be to their financials.
Weirdly enough, "getting shit done fast" were the exact words used in the meeting where it was explained why my contract wouldn't be renewed.

Like I said, the feeling was mutual. Every company and person can decide how deeply they're willing to cut corners. My speed-quality equilibrium and this company's speed-quality equilibrium did not match.

(But seriously can I get a show of hands on HN as to how many devs would be willing to accept FTPing non-versioned code changes to a live, high-traffic website as a standard of practice? I don't think my speed-quality equilibrium is extreme by any means.)
Plex has a weird centralization of accounts that frankly disgusts me. In combination of a closed source solution makes it even worse. I chose Emby instead. But both Emby and Plex (as well as nextcloud) are poor youtube alternatives in my eyes - at least for the scenario I'm thinking of.

Neither (correct me if I'm wrong) allows for comments for instance, and have a cumbersome interface for youtube-like watching and discovering.
Scooters are safe, fun and clean yet controversial
Tencent drums up an audience for its mobile esports game in the west
How is this related to "Hacker News"? Are we slowly becoming "The Middle Class Life Advice Club"?
Rediscovering Semantic Segmentation
Technically it's to provide an opt-out switch in the interface. It's being developped and will land in the stable.
Writing code to run in parallel across a large number of small "chips" is probably the future of programming. In this sense, new programming languages like Julia might prove useful?
Right. Shipping beta software/hardware to meet timelines and fixing later with a firmware upgrade (or, a for-pay upgrade...) isn't an option for them.
> However, there are a lot of people especially kids who form their beliefs based on what is popular in these platforms from adults.

Correct. And all this action does is let Facebook remove their name from the whole mess. What I wonder is, will anyone in western media care anymore once we can't involve ourselves in the story. There's local genocides going on all over the world that have nothing to do with tech's current favorite clickbait punching bag. I'm sure we could invoke past colonialism or some such to prove again how we are culpable for all the worlds ills. But lets just face it, people suck.

Now excuse me while I go watch some inspirational TNG Picard speeches about evolved humanity. Only another 45 years until warp drive is invented and world peace rapidly ensues!
Exposing your IP address to the public is much more risky than exposing it to Google.
I have a feeling that no one cares about these "canonical ML datasets" in 2018. If this paper was published back in 1998, it might have had generated more interest. Today we have a whole range of "canonical" DL datasets for every important application (image classification, object detection, speech recognition, NLP, games, etc).

I might be wrong. How are their results relevant today?
You can also deactivate WebRTC and get a direct HTTP streaming fallback.
I don't, other than attempting to use a general minimization package, which I would expect not to work so well without hand tuning of initial guesses.

I think gsl and chebfun (matlab, unfortunately) can do regression in one dimension but I don't think it can in 2 or 3d (much less general high dimensions).