skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but unlikely. These are not particularly large or popular courses (15/70 people was common). It's not a tactic that would work for everyone, but it would potentially useful if you're a good student, but at a borderline grade.

The reason I liked it was because I hated having to cram for easy subjects because the class average would be so high. I would rather put the same amount of effort in to learn concepts (and have to remember less in the exam) than rote facts.
This was a cool project - I'm impressed. Just wanted to point out that http://topicbox.com offers similar functionality. Topicbox won't interface with Slack but rather replaces it. Run by the folks who do Fastmail, it's a modification/upgrade of old mailing list functionality. If you can get your team to use it, you can do most of what you did with Slack over an email interface that also offers perpetual archiving. I checked it out as a solution for archiving important project emails late-arrival employees would need to read to understand a project. Topicbox and this are slightly different, but both solve the high-bandwidth/low-availability problem in a way.

These products that require always-on internet connectivity on robust connections really tire me out.
China is going cashless -mobile payments are increasingly the norm. There are two main ways to pay with your phone wechat pay and Alipay(run by ant financial).

It will potentially handle a huge percentage of ALL payments in a country as big as china.Maybe 150bn isn't such a crazy valuation
Yeah I notice the sleepiness as well. It might actually be a good way to read a few pages before going to sleep.
In my experience frequently not. I couldn’t highlight text in terminals sometimes.

And the | key isn’t functional without a systemd patch.
The site’s ‘marketing’ material is worth the click!
It's no longer expensive. And it has benefits.

>A report by McKinsey and Co presented at the recent Australian Energy Week conference claims that Tesla's 100 MW / 129 MWh battery has now reduced grid service costs by 90%, taking over a 55% share of state's Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCAS).

[0] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/south-australias-grid-servi...

>But the levelized costs of renewables, distributed energy resources (DER) and battery storage “have fallen precipitously" RMI notes. Combined into "clean energy portfolios," these resources can "provide the same services as power plants, often at net cost savings.”

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/end-of-the-gas-rush-renewab...

>Solar-plus-storage projects could be competitive without any federal tax incentives in California by 2020, Paul Denholm, senior energy analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), told Utility Dive. Denholm added that the time is not far off when these project pairings will be competitive with gas-fired peaking plants in other locations such as the Southwest.

>"Solar-plus-storage could be competitive in a sizeable fraction of the United States, but it is hard to say exactly when, mostly because of fluctuations in the cost of natural gas," Denholm said.

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/competitive-solar-plus-stor...
Of course, pointers and FFI to Assembly aren't something magical about C.
Not much yet tbh, but it's on the list.
Why would a company with such massive revenue need to bring in so much external capital? Wouldn't the current stakeholders be better off keeping more of the pie?
It depends on the frequency, higher frequencies gets affected more by water and like.

Best one i have heard of was a wet dog acting as a very good wifi signal blocker.
Setting aside the author's clear but oblivious bias in the English speakers "war", he documents a fascinating problem: how do we globally integrate societies that have very starkly different reactions to specific topics, ideas, etc? We aren't even good at answering these questions within the same culture (liberty vs discrimination, public safety vs 2nd amendment, 'Red' vs 'Blue', and so on).

Given the internet's existence, the lowering barriers to trade, immigration, and travel, Pandora's box isn't going to be closed here- we need to figure out how to approach the topic of cross-cultural disagreement on moral quandaries. And it's not fair to just say "Our culture is right and theirs is wrong". That just demeans them and silences the minority.

My favorite example: I go to a small men's barber shop usually staffed by two or three male barbers. A woman enters saying "I want a man's haircut". All three barbers are devout Muslims who cannot touch a woman, by their religious beliefs. Yet the customer has a right to be served even though she is female. This isn't hypothetical, it really happened. They sorted it out amicably, but this sure could have gone to court- where a decision would probably be made that makes a lot of people angry.

In the case of "ロリコン and 児童ポルノ", can Western culture even perceive that a difference might exist? Or are we bound by laws that grew out of our cultural view that the two are both the same horrible concept?
There's a similar point made in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: http://www.mishkan.com/car.html The interpretation of mundane documents as some kind of esoteric mystery.

Our brains are really, really good at taking some sparse information and pattern-matching it up to a complex interpretation. And then convincing ourselves that the interpretation is the only one possible.
Adapting a business to technological limitations has always been the case. Entire industries are shaped by technology. That you are unaware of it is probably because you are a fish unaware of water.
That's funny. Plenty of "real jobs" like welding require ear plugs.
Great work! (And hey I'm biased; I have contributed to this project)

It's clear this project has some overlap with the sort of problems that make many people reach for rxjs. What would make you use this project in place of rxjs in those situations?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17450603
This law is unconstitutional very likely. As being relatively new, it hasn't been challenged yet. Afaik several organizations have already set up a complaint with the German constitutional court (Bundesverfassungsgericht).
Cyclists Accuse Fire Department of Bullying and Intimidation
My issues have been related to difficult builds at times and hard to fix performance problems but my use case demands better performance with videos in a feed streaming as you scroll down when viewed. I would say react native is not bad when you keep things light and simple but go native when you have critical performance. you'll find that instagram uses rn in certain parts like that, definitely not on their feed and on their filters or AI related filters.
Extreme Heat Event in Northern Siberia and the Coastal Arctic Ocean This Week
You probably signed a contract somewhere allowing location trackers to use your data. Buried somewhere in the terms of service.
Markets stay synchronized via continuous arbitrage. US equity trading centers in New York while options trading centers in Chicago. Slowing the data transmission to the Cboe data center in New Jersey slows its transmission to Chicago, and thus provides increased opportunity for HFT traders to earn money. If you value fairness, this is a bad thing.
Got a link that confirms this? All I find online is this Polish story.

If true, that would be pretty ironic (an ecologic charity making storks endangered by tracking them).
Thinking of bookmarks and then thinking of history, what I really want is a personal search engine that only searches things you've browsed. Where was that article I read on $subject? I recall the snippet $snippet. Where is that funny picture I saw a few months ago about the old man? It would be perfect in this chat.

A good personal search engine might
further alleviate the need for bookmarks.
Especially at a place like Apple. Depressing to see them, of all companies, moving toward more open workspaces.
Facebook Says Saavn, Airtel Among Companies That Got Special Access to User Data
If you are directly or indirectly paid by a company, then it is unlikely that you have sufficient amount of operational information at home to warrant searching your home.

Worse, if you suspect that somebody's role is related to fund raising then it very unlikely that that person has detailed operational information.

To the extent that the police is aware that riseup is a US-based organisation, then any kind of forced cooperation the German police would get from the people outside the US would unlikely to have any effect, because a US-based organisation is likely to only respond to requests from a US police organisation.

So this kind of action can only be explained by criminal carelessness or a goal to intimidate.
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I'm excited to see what decentralized technologies like Augur and Gnosis do to disrupt some of these conversations. The question raised in the article about "who adjudicates data disputes" is one of the main features of Augur with it's decentralized oracles. Also if people can anonymously use a decentralized system to change the odds, it decreases the value of data from these paid sources.
You have to edit the registry for windows update to completely stop from working. Did that to an computer with an old program that just have to work. Previously an windows update killed the program. Google!
These Capacitors Are a Cheap Gimmick
Through the Looking Glass at Concordia University
A blockchain for trading in AI derived weather pattern futures?
> voicemail could be an opt out thing

You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of silence, to put off all but the most committed.
I found training on not backtracking and understanding eye movements allowed me to understand better ...

What did you train in regards to backtracking & eye movement? It seems vaguely familiar to how I read (backtracking over paragraphs pretty frequently) -- is there some reading I can do on this?
Too late (patenting that gravity idea, that is) - John D. Kraus suggested precisely that in an appendix to his magnificent book on all things antennas, aptly named 'Antennas'.

I do believe he concluded it was not the most practical of communication schemes, though. :)

(Edit - corrected name of author; I had originally called the poor guy Erwin Klaus)
> Java and C# weren´t even a thing.

Was the interview in 2009, or not? That was the Java 6 era.

I'm still trying to make sense of "destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art" given that we now have modern Java and C#.
As a technical writer, I think it’s important to understand speed reading and design for it when writing docs. I’m not saying that all developers are formalled trained in and intentionally doing speed reading, but when you think about your own “information foraging” habits when browsing docs in order to get something done, you’ll find that your habits probably resemble speed reading a lot more than slow reading. At least in the initial phase, when you’re hunting for relevant information.

In general, I’d say that speed reading is handy when you’re hunting for relevant information, and slow reading could be handy once you’re reasonably sure that you’ve found it. But up until that point, slow reading would be a waste of time (I.e. spending too much time on irrelevant information).
Nice, good for hobby stuff. I think google lets you do ~120 searches a day before it throttles you, or forces captchas.
The wax in the article is green (and called so by the author), but that wikipedia page states that Cosmoline is always brown in color. So it doesn't seem very likely, even though it seems to be the proper context (naval hardware).
Do you really believe Python is less warty than JavaScript?

A lot of the same numeric tower decision exist. There's a big schism between List Comprehensions and not, there's no simple way to ship closures around, and Python's concurrent I/O story is a sizzling hot mess.

JavaScript has plenty of problems. So does Python. So why does Python maintain everyone else is stupid for embracing programming constructs that have been deployed successfully since the 60's?
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The only reasonable approach is to adjust your reading speed based on the topic you're reading. Is it interesting or relevant? Read slower. Is it dense and complex? Read slower.

Are you just scanning or reading for hobby/light interest, maybe hoping to encounter something interesting? Read a bit faster and slow down when needed.

I find that there are so many weird misconceptions about "how you are supposed to read a book". Just read however you like, reading comprehension and regulating your speed based on the content is a skill, something you might want to practice. But you definitely don't have to speed-read or slow-read everything once you've learned how to do that.
yes, you're right. However, the slack RTM API can still support IRC clients (with a little more work - need to setup the IRC server, like [1]). The API is like a superset that way.

[1] https://github.com/insomniacslk/irc-slack
How are Panopticlick and Evercookie doing these days?
Can you give more detail please?
Ask HN: Is there a de facto standard data warehouse architecture used for BI?
So I finally took the time to learn `async await` the other day. Holy cow does it clean up my promises. One thing that burned me bad though was that without a `try` anywhere, my 100 line async function failed silently. I think because its transpiling to promises and nothing was handling a failed returned promise. Really really frustrating.

Anywho, I appreciate that there's lots of more complex things one wants to do with async iteration. But I often see these complex examples that use all kinds of neat features that I probably don't need to be bothered with. I don't want to set up pipes and such, I just want to give a collection, a function, and get the result in an async function. I want this:

let result = await map(collection, expensiveFunction);

How would this be done with Axax?

And I guess the point of my feedback: you chums are experts with this stuff. You wrote the library. Don't forget the "step stool" examples to help newbies get into the library, too!
I'm not talking about smaller centralised services, but rather distributed peer-to-peer systems, using IPFS for instance. Use of such systems has fallen out of fashion largely because of the rise of centralised alternatives (e.g. you can listen to music for free on Youtube nowadays). I think the tide could reverse if the law harms the centralised services.
Reminds me of how compact motors and wireless telegraphs were combined so that small, fast, motorboats could meet cargo vessels outside New York and telegraph back their cargo to some trader on Wall Street...
The link:

http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/q-how-can-i-di...
Payment processing doesn't go through the k8s infrastructure, they said. And lots of it still uses Tel/dedicated network lines already, especially in places like malls (where lots of restaurants probably are).
Ant Financial has been involved in some very dodgy crowd funding schemes (though it is definitely the least dodgy of the bunch), the government has a right to be weary of them.
Sure! There are several different ways to define them, but fundamentally tensors ar geometric objects that define linear relationships with respect to particular vector spaces. They are often defined somewhat loosly by their behaviour under transformations.

In context we often refer to scalars, vectors,matrices as order/rank 0,1,2 tensors (higher order tensors don’t have the same sort of common shorthand). This works fine when you have the context of the underlying vector space, and nderstand the “rules”. Physicists do this a lot, and they often love shortcuts :)

However, there is a growing use/abuse of the terminology (see machine learning) to just mean n-dimensional arrays. The analogy is drawn that a matrix is a 2d version but you can have 3D, 4d, etc. While it’s true that a NxN matrix can represent a tensor (given the context as previously) that misses most of the structure... as such, it’s an unfortunate use of the name.
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Sounds like a perfect opportunity to sell index futures. Refractive index, that is. ;-)
France: Illegal migrant sneaks into hospital and sexually assaults elderly women
I wonder whether React Native was just a little too late to arrive. As someone with a majority JS background I could never quite get into Objective C (I never tried that much to be fair, just hobbyist stuff) but took to Swift immediately. There were enough rough edges around RN when I played with it that I preferred simply working with Swift directly.

The one exception to this is cross-platform stuff. I wish Swift could compile to be used on Android easily, but alas.
I could find nothing on Erwin Klaus or his book Antennas. Can you point a guy in a direction?
>The new analysis is consistent with team's original conclusion, that molecular oxygen is most likely primordial.

This does not prove that theory wrong. On the surface of an earthlike planet there would be plenty of reactive material to turn in to oxides. On the surface of the comet, that wouldn't necessarily be the case.
It is a very good remark to correlate John's comment about upstream/downstream information exchange and NDN. NDN can do that indeed.
Have a look at this way to get NDN-like networks using IPv6
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-muscariello-intarea-h...
https://wiki.fd.io/view/cicn
I would enjoy philosophy books as Jordan Peterson outlined this [1], Friedrich Nietzsche's books are very dense and slower reading may be useful for this. I think that books that have different definitions due to time periods need this approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOw0eJ84d8 - 45 minutes on a single paragraph of Nietzsche's Beyond Good & Evil
One small place I worked made walls out of pairs of tall bookcases. The "cubicles" were along the perimeter of a large room, separated by the pairs of bookcases. Each cubicle was bounded by sets of bookcases and one wall, with one side open to the center of the room.

A little more spending would have obtained traditional cubicle walls to close off the open side, but it worked pretty well in practice.

On the other side of the room were a whiteboard and a conference table, and lunch was typically eaten at that conference table.

That said there were only like 5 desks in that room, and I'm not sure how well it would scale.
I’ll wager the web, and especially handheld devices, are destroying people’s reading comprehension. I find myself skipping through text, looking for that kernel. I always print out technical articles. The printed page is a cue to slow down.
Something like a full site cache combined with a full text search through said cache?
broadcast video is delayed by 10 seconds. Apparently, that's enough to make the non-delayed stream extra valuable.
Funny enough, we told our kids, in order to block youtube&co, that internet comes once a year, with Santa. :) Not knowing, we put their tables in flight mode. Now they are waiting for Christmas :))).
I speed read things that can be speed read. I did speed read this article, about 12-15 seconds, and nothing would have been lost on a re-read, which I did. Within this, some sentences were a bit too engaging which was annoying.

I don't normally choose to read like this, but it's a quick way to find something to stick and pause on. The only thing that made me stick and pause was the use of italics. The typography of the blog and line spacing is super comfortable, a sure assistance to speed reading.

A novel, creative writing, a requirements document, analysis paper, no. Because every word has to have been carefully chosen. I enjoy that coz it's not writing for information distribution for the sake of it.
That RFC is like meeting at a Pink Floyd's concert. You meet three generations! And it's not done yet!
Having taken a speed reading course and read guides on it, I’ve akways felt like the main goal was to retrain your mind to process info non-verbally. Once comfortable with that skill, it could be applied to whatever you want. In the extreme case, judging from anecdotes of John Von Neumann, I can only assume he was able to process math reading this way. https://www.quora.com/What-interesting-facts-should-everyone...
Sony posts whole movie on YouTube in trailer's place
To clarify, the position is in Newcastle, Edinburgh or Remote within the UK.
> it doesn't mean that the independent judiciary is just the same.

Try to tell this a Bavarian pothead.
Need a general spam filtering solution (open source preferred)
What's needed:

A self hosted black box spam filtering solution that I can expose as a rest service.
My definition of spam includes abusive and promotional content for now.

What I've found:

1. Implementations and plug n play solutions for SMTP servers targeted for e-mail spam. (Apache spamAssasin for instance)

2. Submissions to online competitions for instance https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1229597/Detecting-Spam-with-Azure-Machine-Learning.

2. A lot of beginner projects implementing xyz classification algos.

I am looking for a pre-exisiting solution (a well trained model maybe), preferrably open source.
As it stands, I believe you own copyright for that data. You've gathered it, composed it and published it. That's what's copyrighted.

Somebody else could independently gather that data, produce alternative, even identical results and their work would be copyright.

I am not a lawyer but that's how I understand it.
The ability to move closures and to rely on simple lambda applications rather than ad hoc hierarchies or more complex annotations that map over the same decorator patterns anyways.

That's the big irony. Python embraces some of the most complex, detail oriented aspects of function-first programming with decorators, but then throws away most of the payoff. It's like eating the peel of a banana and refusing to eat the interior.
Show HN: Release Bell – Release notifications for your starred GitHub projects
Yes, that is the problem I'm trying to articulate. Of course you ask a ton of engineers and you get engineering solutions. =)

What I want is a holistic solution. "I have money and I have data that I want taken care of. I don't want to do much work and I don't want to think about it more than once a year or two."
Wants to go Yachting at Oracle's HQ!
Slack is going the platform route. They have a huge amount to lose disabling API access. Add-ons and interconnectivity are what make Slack so popular. Without all the integration Slack becomes much less attractive.
What Programming Language Is Alibaba Built In?
I’m dyslexic. I’ve had the benefit of a great education and my reading has gotten a lot better over the years. Of course, when I couldn’t read at all, I didn’t enjoy it. But between 4th and 7th grade, when I could read, but only slowly, I practically inhaled books. After that, I learned to read faster, which was great for the demands of high school classes but, I have realized more recently, killed my love of reading. I think returning to the way I used to read, where I labored over every word, may help me regain it.
Hi HN,

At Cloudron.io, we track the releases of hundreds of apps on GitHub. We used to use a service called sibbell.com for this but they shutdown recently. We wrote Release Bell as an alternative.

Essentially, it monitors all your starred GitHub projects and sends you an email notification when a new release is available.

The project is self-hosted, so (obviously) we packaged it for Cloudron. You can install Release Bell on your Cloudron or take a look at the demo instance - https://demo.releasebell.com (username: releasebell password: releasebell) The app does not have any special demo mode to protect the settings, I will try to reset it if needed. Also given the purpose of the app to simply send notifications, we kept the UI minimal.
I'm not sure that explains Apple moving away from offices.