skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out Bunch (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bunch-group-video-chat-games...). Been working on this for ~6 months. We def have some issues but we believe they are fixable, overall have been pretty happy with RN
This is working against the fundamental theorem of machine learning "there is no free lunch". (i.e. there is no "one for all" solution in ml)

There is no explanation about why it worked. With that understanding it is very easy to generate a synthetic counter example where it does not work.
I'm not sure I understand the use case for this. Shouldn't you already have control over what browser features your site uses?
This is unfortunately not reliable. The only way to completely stop Windows 10 and certain other recent MS products from updating (for bandwidth cost or not-wanting-to-reboot-right-now reasons) is to not let the machine connect to the Internet at all which probably makes it useless for many situations.

You could try running a server version of Windows instead, but you might find yourself unsupported in other ways (some hardware drivers, some software deliberately refusing to run or accidentally doing so due to using a broken compatibility check) in that case. The license will also cost a chunk more currency.
Yeah, it's kind of weird. All you are doing is reporting the "market data" faster than the official feed.
I think the features mentioned (getters, proxies, et al) are great features for certain projects in any language. Of course they are also usable for evil shit (evil being everything in the spectrum of misguided to malicious).

I'm not even trying to defend javascript, just that saying "you can run sudo rm -rf / in your shell" doesn't mean the shell is "evil".
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How to grow into technical lead role?
Dear all,

I will be starting a new role next month and I have the ambition to grow into a technical lead role. I have little over three years experience now and I consider myself as a mid level software engineer (definitely not senior yet). What are the skills you believe that a good technical lead should have and any tips on how one can obtain these skills? Since I will be joining a new team/company, do you also have tips how can I get up to speed with the projects as quick as possible?
Looks good! Unfortunately the problem with the self-hosted apps is lack of maintenance, so after a couple of years, when the author doesn't push any updates to it you will be forced to move on to an alternative. And at that point you will lose all your data (in this case, gists) and links, let alone time.
The word "rapid" on that phrase was an entirely different meaning from when it's used to describe the rate of change of cryptocoins demand.

A large market is a more stable market. Crypto may get large at some point (I don't see why they would, but I don't see everything), but today they are nothing. Thus, preaching that people massively want them is nonsense.
A good way to visualize factorial growth
I don't know, corruption and prostitution is pretty easy to find in SEA and China, even in SG, but it's not that way in East Asia in my experience.

Even in Hong Kong I find you're likely to run into people who say something like: "Mainlanders just want to be successful through making some deals with their friends, we aren't like that."
They're way ahead of you. As such you're not entitled to use their service.

Remember when Spotify sought a blank cheque to do what they wanted with your personal data?
Make sure to post it to HN so we can criticize your work into the ground ;)
Love urban mysteries like this.

In London we had the Hellraiser bus shelter. A few years ago a VHS of Hellraiser appeared on the roof of a bus shelter on Old Kent Road.

It sat there for a few years until suddenly a second copy appeared. Then another. Sometimes they all disappeared, only to return stronger and more numerous than ever.

We have such sights to show you...
If you are counting the elections that you have participated in you'd probably have a few dollars.
> One of the biggest problems is that it's really hard to tell how such a system arrives at a decision. The human brain itself is not based on formalism, and we find formal thinking to be very challenging

So far, "neural networks" in AI is a fancy name for what is nothing more than a giant equation system with many parameters. It's not even close to a biological, actual self-organizing, neural networks. It's closer to a weather model prediction.

The human brain is not based on formalisms, so let's create an AI that helps the human brain's weakness. Maybe we shouldn't try to replicate the human brain capacities, but rather create a new "form of life" complementing our biological skills.

So far, theorem provers, with expert systems, are the only works I'm aware of about systematically explaining reasoning and decisions.
I like this quote, but if libraries were hash tables with O(1) lookup time a large messy one is better.

Sometimes the way thoughts pop into my head I think brains are more like hash tables than arrays.

Of course, extreme over simplification :D
Given the current political climate at the federal level, how could this succeed?
Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" is probably the oldest complete novel known. It is from the second century, so much older than the novels you mention. And it is still read - at least I read it a few years ago in translation and found it hilarious and fascinating.
That's my understanding too. Speed reading is not just about reader faster, but reading more comfortably, avoiding tiring out the eyes by using them more effectively, thereby aiding both comprehension and retention.
Well there's also watermarking for images too right? The idea is that you embed a subtle pattern to the data which only becomes apparent when you apply a particular filter. This apparently operates in such a way as not to compromise the visible image so presumably sports data could be jimmied similarly.
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I don't believe in happy relationships based on lies. The deception will always affect the relationship.

- If someone wants to believe the lies, then in order to avoid discovering the truth, they will keep the relationship intentionally superficial.

- If someone doesn't want to believe the lies, they will discover the truth sooner or later and they will just be acting through life.
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A Reddit thread this week said if you put your finger over a leak in an oil line the pressure will drive it through your skin and they basically have to do surgery to scrape the pockets away from your bones.
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I think it quite unlikely that police will come to your home and drop 26 thousand bombs. Just based on my own personal experience, tho.
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How much of this is already satisfied by ES2018 async iterstors? Either way it's nice to see it already exist in a pure format.
I can't see putting cosmoline on the outside of a box. It'd be really messy for quite a while.

A fast-drying sealing wax sounds more likely. Especially since the gears themselves don't seem to be loaded up with cosmoline.
Assuming he could speed read math, was a genius because he could speed read math or could he speed read math because he was a genius
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Maybe the "habitual" is the diferentiator? I am not really sure what does the word mean in this context and how it would differentiate from non-habitual use.
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> The load time when entering into the React Native portion of the app was longer than we would have liked. It often did not feel like a seamless transition.

That is a "real issue." Frame it however you want, React Native is a compromise. Performance is a huge deal to users. It's not hard to tell when you're running one of these "one size fits all" apps.
Good luck if you ever decide to unsubscribe.
Great! I'd love to hear your thoughts on https://crushentropy.com/ (something I made for myself for this purpose)

If you'd like to chat more, please email me. My email is in my profile.
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It's pretty common for an "inferior" technology (at least in a certain niche) to win out when there's a monstrous industrial economy of scale behind it and the "superior" alternative isn't produced in much volume.

A very clear example is big complicated general purpose CPUs like Xeon and Ryzen. These chips have all kinds of subsystems and a lot of legacy cruft. A custom chip with a different custom tuned set of performance trade-offs could be better for virtually any well-defined application, but the cost of designing, optimizing, retooling, and producing such a chip would be vastly higher than just buying the off the shelf general purpose chips. Intel and AMD have already invested billions in producing these chips cheaply in enormous quantities.

Li-Ion batteries have endless applications from electronics and cars to grid power, so Li-Ion is going to get the R&D, industrial, and supply chain optimization. Alternatives with fewer niches will not.
Saved me some time reading, thanks (also, Betteridge's Law)...

Guess it's the same for IE - i've had a few issues with executables that probably don't see many downloads...

...no, i don't use it voluntarily - but sometimes have to at work...
Which, if true, only further proves my point, which is that to "not care" is to be fine with the way things currently are—abortion being legal.
> I will tell you this for sure - if they don't make money, they'll disappear.

Perfect, it would be about time. Most internet "journalism" is hyper-optimized to incite outrage and disagreement so people can "engage with the content". Facts and critical thinking be damned in the process. Countless articles have been linked on HN that prove this, including testimony from former media workers and bosses.

And... maybe natural selection is finally starting to work. Why stop it?

> So get out your wallet and pay for the new sites that you value

Those I value don't bug me for subscriptions and don't whitelist Google's crawler to create the illusion that their content is free. So I am good, thank you.

> and enough with the smarmy snark poking at companies that need to pay peoples salaries.

No. I will ridicule them while I draw breath. And maybe these people should find actual productive jobs, there are enough enthusiasts working for free and reporting stuff around the world already. I don't get paid to tell people at parties which tech I believe is exciting or that two cops in my neighborhood have beaten a 16-year old girl senseless for reasons unknown. I have a job and the rest is just me talking voluntarily in front of people because I felt like it. Maybe it should be exactly the same with these people you are talking about.

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And finally, "the truth" in journalism does not exist for a long time now or it gets silenced with two shots in the head labelled as "suicide" (this is not an exaggerated joke, it's a documented case and you can easily look it up).
They are wrong, or at least they are right only in an extremely narrow context. The data, as recorded, is subject to copyright. But the facts behind that data is not. The league can copyright it's realtime news feed, which includes things like scores. But those scores are not copyrightable alone. People watching the game are allowed to tell other people the score.

Now if the game is truly rigged (ie pro wrestling) then the "score" is part of a prewritten script. That's different. But even there, fair use is a thing. One cannot stop someone from paraphrasing the plot of a script, such as in a review. So while experts like Rodenberg may be correct, they are correct in such a narrow way that it doesn't matter.
I did not downvote any of your posts. All I did was to ask questions to your claims.

And who did CCC say is a Nazi just for sharing non-radical ideas with conservative parties?
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A friend of mine is working on something like you described: https://blog.webmemex.org/
It an oss personal browsable history.
Firefox isn’t necessarily scanning the files for viruses, they’re often just using databases that list domains suspected of hosting malware.

IIRC, Chrome does the same thing too. I think it's not much of an issue for Firefox to flag stuffs downloaded from suspected URLs as a malware since it's not uncommon to have one's system infected from those sites' content. Firefox is just trying it's best to prohibit any sort of system infection through itself.
Few things are as pleasurable as slowly savoring the text imprinted on a paper or an e-book reader, especially fiction that engrossed you.

I always make sure to leave some relaxing music on before diving into my favorite piece of text/book. Practicing 'mindful reading' has greatly enhanced my reading experience and it goes hand-in-hand with slow reading. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/well/mind/how-to-be-mindf...
Later, DHL was formed to fly bills of lading by commercial flights from the West coast ports to Hawaii ahead of the ships arriving. So by the time they arrived the cargo could be offloaded without delay.
In my book, flagging as malware something that is not malware is lying, or at least a false positive.

So, spoiler: it's a bit more nuanced than "yes" or "no".
I'm too used to modern languages. These days, it's rare for a language to have proper pointers.
I think you are right. This seems very probable. Thank you for posting your thoughts on this, I wouldn't have made the same connection by myself.
... so, materially yes? As a user, I don't care that they have an excuse, I care that they said "this file is a virus" when the file was not a virus.
To start, please read this excellent article.

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
The answer for this type of edge case configuration in Windows is usually "use Linux".
> After 30 years of throwing money at it.

Which high-level language used to roundly outperform C, then?

C used to be far slower than assembly, sure. That's not the point.
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Don't forget that in some countries, the stork's ID card is required to activate the SIM card before use.
I think the line is sightly fussier in the United States.
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...

>Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor

I am not a lawyer, but given that language it gives the impression that even art may fall under the scope of U.S. law.
Am I correct? Possibly not, however that ambiguity will cause many to avoid crossing the implied law to ensure they don't break the actual law.
Then (as the article suggests) Firefox should actually tell the user that it is the site that is untrusted and not the file, and allow the user to save it so that they can actually scan it themselves.
> we put their tables in flight mode

Returned to the upright position and locked for landing?
"An automobile is a piece of machinery, a program is some kind of mathematical expression"
If I build a mechanical computer to output the digits of PI is that a piece of machinery, a program or a mathematical expression?
Eh, too much energy required for gravitational waves. But I think that particle accelerators and giant neutrino detectors have been at least half seriously considered. I think that, although the impulse pretty much travel at c and can tunnel though anything, the lenght sampling period of the impulse required to distinguish it from noise would defeat the latency advantage.
> Firefox is just trying it's best to prohibit any sort of system infection through itself.

In that case I would change the wording from "contains malware" to "may contain malware".

Also, they're prohibiting nothing. They still give you the option to open the file (which, as explained by the article, opens a whole different, albeit small, can of worms)
I recently stumbled across just such a false positive, in the NextCloud showcase, no less. Not much they can do about it, as far as anyone can tell.

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/9916
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while; a nice well thought out interface for async iterators that is simple to integrate into any given event system. I quite like the `fromEvent` function and `Subject` class: they should make it really easy to achieve what I’ve been after, without me writing yet another set of boilerplate interfaces around a stream!
> I walk into the shop, I see some newspapers with headlines on them, I decide to buy the paper, or I don't.
If I don't I'm not 'stealing' anything.

Are you doing this on an industrial scale and building a large ad-supported business from it. More importantly, are you standing outside the shop saying 'don;t go in there, old chum - I can tell you what's going on'.
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>HFT traders to earn money. If you value fairness, this is a bad thing.

fairness for whom? hfts compete with other hfts not retail investors.
This is more or less what RxJS calls an Observable (except with nicer syntax). Here's a very nice table that makes the lack of this feature in ESnext seem like a strange omission:

https://danreynolds.ca/images/tech/push-pull.png

Asynchronous iterators / observables are so much more useful that synchronous iterators that they should've added that to the standard first.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if ESnext allowed you to write event loops that maintain state with block scope variables instead of all the hacks we have to resort to now?

EDIT: RxJS is mentioned in the README. What I like about this is that it doesn't try to implement the kitchen sink and is a fairly atomic dependency. Now if we could just get to where we don't need transpilers anymore, that would be nice.
I guess fromEvent and the Subject class aren’t, and being able to know that any Subject can be operated on with this admittedly nice function set without issues is a boon above and beyond ES2018 async iterators, I feel
Hey, I'm one of the engineers on Gurn! So we do have sharing actually, we have lists to collect keywords (sort of like a bucket) and you can invite others to these lists either via their email or username.

We're also working on Organisations at the moment which will make this even easier and allow you to group together users and lists under one roof. Checkout this link for some more info on list roles https://gurn.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/360000...
Could this have something to do with the time in it was first published (namely in the 40's)? What is obvious now may not have been obvious then.
This is how every other browser does it too. I'd be more alarmed if my browser had an inbuilt antivirus.
OP here. I mirror all my data to Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage too. Or rather, Perkeep (https://perkeep.org) does this for me.
>The best way to stop bad ideas spreading from bad people to the lumpen proletariant is moderation by better people, who can use a variety of speech-limiting tools to ensure the best ideas win.

I take two issues with this: it's a very greatly simplified version of the real story, and the idea that the "safe speech" people wish to use legal means doesn't really hold very strongly; the idea is not framed within the liberal framework, the idea of rights doesn't apply here, it's something deeper than that.

Secondly, why did you specficially refer to the lumpenproletariat rather than the proletariat?

I also think that your generalisations are pretty poor; you lump a whole anthropology and sociology and psychology into two groups and act as if they are mutually exclusive and in total opposition; the truth is that authors everywhere hold very seprate views on these topics, including those of human nature. What precisely makes you categorise the idea of "there will always be poor people" necessarily in with "free speech advocates"? How do you know this is a valid dividing line to draw?

The fact you cited Sowell, and your general tone about the "safe speech side" (again, I hate the fact that this dichotomy is being made on totally false grounds) suggests that you have quite a bias. The dispute is in terms of various perspectives spanning various fields, you may even go one step up from your description to get to the very idea of politics, the very idea of epistemology even.

I'm interested in what reading you've done from people on the "safe speech side" in particular; are you familiar with the works of the Frankfurt School of critical theory?
It should be about facilitating a sustainable long-term balance.

In your analogy, Google is the owner of the paint factory, yes? If not, why not?
The drawback of hash tables is that they're bad for inexact matching. Likewise, when I go to the library, I usually go to the section I'm interested in and let my eyes wander. So something that pseudorandomly organizes books but lets you find them by exact title quickly is not so good.
Could be worse. I probably wouldn't be doing this in, say, Hawaii.
How rapidly are cashless transactions spreading in China? When I was there back in 2011-2012 everything was exclusively cash-only. I'd be interested to learn the rate of change in recent years.
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Spot on, they should fire their mobile devs and hire more Full Stack JavaScript DevOps ninjas. Those guys do it all, resource allocation baby!
On an aside, my friend is a full time sports better who has an extremely high ROI during football season on one of those Fantasy sites. He has difficulty making any money on other sports. I wonder why.
Hey, I'm one of the engineer's on gurn. This is true and it works really well, the main focus of gurn is that it allows you to collaborate and share these keywords / bookmarks with others. We're also on Firefox and Chrome, and soon Edge making it easy to hop browsers (great for front-end developers).
Because unlike storage, the energy density of a battery only increases very slowly if at all. So it becomes not a trade in price, but a trade in size.
React team here. I think this is largely true. We’re already working on tackling a lot of these rough edges; see a recent post I made to learn more:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/stat...
Yes, I apologise for not actually clarifying the words in the script, it seemed obvious to me for some strange reason :)
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The project is open source and the Github is here https://github.com/danmacnish/cartoonify

I wonder if it would be feasible to port it to Android using Kivy or similar. I really want this on my phone.
Calling every conservative or even people who share some conservative ideas Nazis is an entry requirement for the Antifa. The talks I mentioned, which you'll easily find on Google, are painting the same picture.

Don't bother replying. I'll repost this, because I want the CCC's political affliction to be more visible. It's important to understand the context of their post.
If you are proving the wrong statement, then you simply didn't state the initial problem correctly, it has nothing to do with a bug in your proof. It's like saying there is a bug in your implementation of a sort function, while we initially asked you to implement a max function. Even if your sort function is correctly implemented, it's still a "bug" to the person who asked you to implement a max function.
I agree with most of what you're saying here, but this didn't resonate with my experience:

> basically unsearchable after a few days

Recently, a coworker asked me for more context about a pull request I had authored 14 months ago. Within minutes I was able to search Slack for relevant discussions, stakeholders, and reasoning.