skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traversing a few pages when clicking around in your browser makes sense, doing so from a programmatic client when you could literally just store the correct endpoint and perform your call directly is nonsense:

That requires implicit knowledge of the 'correct' endpoint.
If that endpoint changes or anything in between, you'll have to start versioning your API, which basically tells all existing clients: Sorry, you got to update.

Allowing clients to discover resources is a future-proof way to keep your client libraries compatible and evolve your API without versioning.
It is more work for the client and it is not always suitable.
But if you intend to design something future-proof (and we are talking about 10+ years), then REST has already proven to be very successful (your latest browser can still browse a web page from 15 years ago...)
Search and play your favorite tracker tunes online (from modland: s3m, xm, it)
Acrobat Reader is dog slow on...DOS? When is this published? The title should have [year].
Yikes, what a bill. My mother had brain surgery a few years ago and didn’t have to pay for anything besides the insurance she always pay for which amounts to a few hundred euros a year.
You can compare 63.8 to 100... it's lower... :) So the percent should be AT LEAST 1.9 :)
More fundamentally, there's an assumption that more talk = more collaboration.

I've found the opposite tends to be true. Person-to-person talk is inefficient and tends to promote siloing. Email and (well planned) meetings help people stay on the same page, which makes it easier for them to work co-operatively. And it gets you there with less actual time spent communicating.
So to clarify - this sort of political story is okay, but increased white nationalist group activity, Russian interference in 2016 election, and forced separation of migrant families seeking asylum are not? It's a bit hard to figure out the editorial stance on HN lately.

edit: this seems off the front page, which answers my (not hypothetical or sarcastically intended) question.
Andromeda was (obviously loosely) based on that pitch.
Please reconsider your thoughts on this subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching
XML declaration is optional (in 1.0, which everybody uses). My point was not that JSON is longer; JSON is noisier. XML in this example is longer, but easier to read because it has more content and less visual and cognitive overhead to convey the same structure (plus extra: element name). Some structural symbols are necessary, of course; we cannot just write "whitee4blacke5" (we can, in fact, it's parseable), but JSON uses more than XML.

XML element names are not boilerplate, they're type names. Maybe configs do not need types, but who knows; maybe they do. Types are there for a reason. E.g. if users write configs, it would be totally cool to verify they're at least syntactically correct before using them. With JSON there's no standard way to do this; with XML there is. (And users write configs all the time; I, for example, being a user of Make and Apache routinely write Makefiles and .htaccess files.)
TLJ is an objectively bad movie, politics and nostalgia aside. It’s absolutely littered with plot problems.
Open plan offices do have some advantages:

- being able to put more employees in the space AKA being able to scale efficiently as the company grows

- easily able to group related employees together (perhaps on a per project basis)

- ad-hoc collaboration can occur

- easier/cheaper maintenance

How much of these advantages are actually leveraged in practice can vary greatly. (eg: If your company culture is cut throat or demoralised no open plan office is going to foster greater collaboration).

There are of course downsides to the open plan office, which I am confident other people will list on this thread.

edit: formatting
Are you planning to host? I'd be happy to add this as a shortener for my extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-shortener/oodf...

Just need an api to shorten urls
Easier to protect a train line than all the roads in a country (and indeed, they are often protected). No physical trespass required, remote activated.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17539465

direct link to paper: https://people.cs.vt.edu/gangwang/sec18-gps.pdf
I'm not an economist myself but Vitaliks reasoning in regards to valueing cryptos seems unsound:

For example, Ethereum’s transaction fees tend to be about $500,000 a day recently, which is about $180 million a year. If you tried to value the ether market cap as some kind of corporation, then the “P/E ratio” is only somewhere in the low 200s, which is high for a company, but not off-the-charts absurdly high.

Those transaction fees are revenues and NOT earnings. I have no idea how profitable ETH mining is but earnings are going to be significantly less after including operating costs (hardware and energy mostly).
Also being somewhat new and still unproven, I would add a hefty risk premium to the discount factor. All in all I would say that a P/E of 50 would be optimistic and dependant on getting a lot more transaction throughput. Based on that you could argue that ETH is currently overvalued by a factor of maybe 10-30.

There’s also this model of store of value, where people hold it because they expect more people to hold it in the future, and because people keep getting richer and the population keeps growing. As long as prices grow slow enough, it can be stable in the long term.

Duh?! That suspiciouly sounds like the definition of a pyramid scheme?
>"Both LIGO detectors detected and classified it as GW event at the same time as the GRB classification then it was confirmed through VIRGO data and localized."

All I can say is that other source clearly describes that the Fermi team announced detection of a gamma ray burst well beforehand, and that the ligo team treated the situation as exceptional due to that announcement.

>"Gravitational waves are all candidates until they can be confirmed with external sources."

My understanding is that there is expected to be no accompanying external evidence for waves generated by inspiraling black holes.
Who remembers in 2002 when an American citizen was arrested on American soil and transferred to a military prison, where he was held for three and a half years with no trial while the government claimed he had no rights or recourse because they had determined him to be a terrorist?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Padilla_(prisoner)
I was surprised to see a higher deceleration on suborbital flights - is that due to a flatter trajectory for the return from orbit?
> God created man in his own image. Man created AI in his own image.

Man created god(s) in his own image.
Man created AI in his own image.
Same issue applies if you forget your password to any site.
The Last-Modified header says 2006, some of the links date to 1998
It is not really user hostile - but it is developer hostile IMO. The person you replied to did not claim the Firefox Quantum stuff was user hostile either.
it is though. steve jobs treated it and designed it as functional art. unlike most other manufacturers. he did borrow/utilize many ideas from german artists and industrial designers (bauhaus/german modernism/braun design etc.).

so like it or not i would say that iphone is a piece of art that others loved and copied. (which is good and completely natural).
does ILS use GPS?
The hero's journey is the reason I find it so hard to care about anything that happens in Marvel and most fantasy films.
Knowing what comes next (Oh look, here is the part where Thor/Black Panther/Spiderman/etc loses his power) really kills my interest in the plot.
Several years ago, the NY Times had an article by a fellow hired to work for Jeff Koons, who apparently designs but does not produce "his" work, something well known to those who care. The gig ended in failure, when the piece he was working on toppled. Koons apparently held no grudge.

Anyway, you could look it up: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/i-was-jeff-koons...
This is unfortunately the sort of action you are enabling, when you’re building a ML system for drone imagery.
It's in the nature of science that sometimes things that were previously believed to be true turn out to be false. The notion that there are nine planets matched what astronomers knew for many decades but with better measurements turned out be be an unsupportable idea.

For centuries there were just 6 planets. Then people discovered Uranus and there were 7. Then people discovered Ceres and there were 8. Then people discovered lots of other main belt asteroids and there were 7 again. Then Neptune and 8 again. Then Pluto and 9. And now we've found all these other big bodies in the outer system and we decided to demote Pluto rather than add a half dozen new planets, just like we did with Ceres.

I don't think anybody particularly objected to the demotion of Ceres since it hadn't been around that long when it happened. But I can only imagine the furor that must have arisen when people tried to claim that Uranus was a planet despite the number of planets being fixed since the time of Homer. Well, Ok, there was the bit when they turned Earth into a planet and we all know about the people like Giordano Bruno literally burned at the stake over that.

So this demotion of Pluto is just another event in the long, long history of scientists revising what counts as a planet. I understand that it's uncomfortable to have to unlearn things you learned as a kid but science is all about changing our view of the world.
It's a widely used standard: The more people who can open and use PDF files, the more people who will prefer to create and distribute PDF files. Whether the PDF format is better or worse than the alternatives doesn't factor into people's decision to use it.
> “If you have to ask, you can't afford it.”

Unless we're discussing medical care as a luxury good-- and if that's the way that we really want to approach this, okay, let's just be honest about that-- this is incorrect. In my experience, med professionals have made assumptions about what I could and couldn't afford based on their mental databases of flawed correlations. Things they thought I probably couldn't pay for, not only could I have if necessary, but didn't need to because my insurance was willing to cover it any way.

I'm not going to address the rest of what you've written because, quite frankly, I have a difficult time believing that you are being serious, for a number of reasons. If I'm mistaken, then I thank you for sharing an interesting thought pattern and apologize in advance.
I read the whole thing without noticing that

try harder
Airports use ILS with their own guiding antenna arrays and their own frequencies. At least this particular airport should.
I think the idea is that as long as you can make the case for classifying them as an 'enemy combatant in an active war zone' it doesn't matter that they were a US citizen.

I'm not saying I agree with this -- I'm just trying to respond to your question.
You may run into a wall there though, depending on the goals of the founders/bosses. If their goal is to deliver a minimum viable product in as little time as possible, it may well be that any plea for code standards and well-written code will be ignored in favour of your colleague's cowboy coding.

This is a good time to find about where the company stands on this point, because nothing is more soul draining than working on someone else's unmaintainable code mess.

If it is just you versus him (i.e., no colleagues who share your view), then you are in for a tough challenge.
I've seen that one, it's really good :-)
The music industry seems to have a pretty good solution for this.

The performer gets a cut. The lyrics writer gets a cut. The melody writer gets a cut.

I'm sure something similar could work.

I'm also recovering from just finding out that the process I thought happened behind artwork was largely false, and has more in common with renaissance painting businesses than the title artists work.
The Joss Whedon inspired comedy is great for many of us. I loved Taika Waititi's take on Thor, especially compared to the first one, as did most other people. And it's sitting on 7.9 on IMDB, which is pretty much a resounding "Wow". If you loved Thor Ragnarok, watch Hunt for the Wilderpeople, it's a real indie gem and you can play spot the Ragnarok actors.

Also Chris Hemsworth's comic timing is great, he was a real highlight in Ghostbusters too. It reminds me of Ryan Gosling in the Nice Guys, a rare surprise that an actor can do comedy too that you weren't expecting.

As for Marvel baddies, yes, I generally agree with you. Their best baddies have been in the TV shows, namely Wilson Fisk's Kingpin and David Tennant's Kilgrave.
Your comment is incredibly insensitive and flippant.

We can do better when we try to understand someone else's perspective--get into their narrative instead of 5 second superficial scanning and immediately turn off.
Except rail lines aren’t protected, and couldn’t feasibly be protected. An autonomous car could easily be protected from this simply by using local sensors for collision avoidance, which I think is the norm, as opposed to what this headline misleadingly (heh) suggests.

Edit: Relevant XKCD. Causing crashes isn’t hard period. https://m.xkcd.com/1958/
As a non-US citizen, I find it a terrible thought that somehow it should be morally better (or more legal) to kill non-US citizens than US citizens.

The only concern should be whether they are proven to be dangerous terrorists, not what their nationality is. If it's okay to kill a dangerous Afghan terrorist in a war zone in Afghanistan, then it's also okay to kill a dangerous American terrorist in a war zone in Afghanistan. Outside of war zones, I don't see any excuse for killing anyone, unless in self defense.

I am still not sure about what to think of the whole drone war. I see how it saves hundreds of thousands of lives, compared to bringing in ground troops, but it sure feels wrong and dystopian.
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Stopped reading after I saw the chart drew lines to extrapolate from extremes relatively close to the mean hours of sleep, and accounted not for such things as degrees of standard deviation, rather (mis)leading to the conclusion that these happiness results were dependent entirely on the one measured variable and not that other factors would contribute to outliers.
Your anecdotal evidence, and analysis, are flawed, though I lack the terminology to adequately improve them.
Will someone please translate my hunch to appropriate statistical tools? I would like to replicate this data collection in my own life and learn something of value from it.
My comment may find itself below a vast wall of anecdotal text, however, I’m hopeful, HN.
>No, they just require you to have an iPhone or LTE iPad. Then it's one click away without any dongles or wires.

Which is the same as an embedded modem. I know the US a third-world country when it comes to mobile networks, but why Apple assumes this is the case in other countries -- I don't get it.
>Did the media write about email being used negatively when it was taking off?

When email was taking off, the media was still making vast amounts of money from print editions.

Now that this part of the industry is rapidly dying, it has pivoted to outrage-driven ad-clicks for revenue and their content has tailored itself appropriately.
Agreed, I've read you get about 4g peak deceleration going down stairs. But people seem to survive that process on a regular basis. So a temporary 10g is not a problem, and the effects of gravity loads on the human body are well studied and understood by military and aerospace organizations.
> This might be blessing in disguise for Palau

With a average income around $10,000 and such a reliance on tourism I can not this as a blessing?

Even the richest countries in the world value tourism, I've yet to see any country not want tourists, they bring in money, it's the health of your nation. (NK for instance loves tourists, they do however make it expensive since they need to keep them in line)

You could try for a theoretical math equation how reducing lower paying tourists for might bring in higher paying ones, but I very much doubt it would ever work out in practice.

Palau would have to be pretty racist not to value the Chinese tourism market.
Thanks, missed the previous post.
This is not an accurate representation of the article.
Perhaps you should slink back to Fox News or something, friend.
This post - and every technical post on the internet - needs a date stamp.

Please never blog or post anything without putting a date on it.
Well, you missed a gripping account of the struggles of the judicial system to bring rule-of-law accountability to a secret executive war fighting department.
It's more legal because they're not US citizens. There's no normative logic to it.
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>Jesus, this paper is so biased it's palpable

Absolutely, but I don't think any media entity is portraying itself as unbiased these days?

Regardless, their desperate banner ads begging for $1 warms me inside.
How many lives does it save compared to not bringing in any troops?

Why does killing have to be the answer?
> Sounds a lot like academia really and the open secret in many fields that the graduate "coauthors" were really the ones who did the work and the "main author" was the do nothing but compensated and credited more professor

People say this a lot but I don't see it at all. The graduate students go first on the paper author list, and the professor goes last.

The graduate students wouldn't want to be listed last, because at their stage of their career they want to be seen as doing the work, and the professors wouldn't want to be listed first, because at their stage of their career they want to be seen as supervising not doing the actual work.

The system seems really clear to me, and you can give your 'credit' (what that is that you really mean, since it's a bit abstract) to whichever of those people you want.

Or you could see the research as the collaborative process that it is and credit everyone!
It's an assertion without evidence.

You claim there's no reason to think we won't reach that level of technology. What's the basis for that claim?

> just some solar panels floating in space an attached to something useful (e.g. our communications satellites)

You realize that a lot of our communications satellites already have solar panels attached to them, right?

And you do realize that a Dyson anything is an engineering project that far exceeds anything we have yet attempted. If your plan begins with strip mining a planet 48 million miles away with an army of self-replicating robots, you've obviously skipped a few steps of the process.

Using "science-y" words to describe your pipe dream doesn't make it any less of a fantasy.

I mean, we're still wondering if we can make a car drive itself reliably. That we may not be able to overcome some very basic limitations. And all of a sudden we get to assume we can build a probe that can travel to Mercury, mine it, process the raw material into something useful, assemble those materials into more probes, panels and habitats, then place those bits into orbit around the Sun in a way that it won't get smashed by other satellites, fly off, or get pulled in.

Reducing those concerns to "nuh uh" isn't doing you any favors. You're simply refusing to engage. You're asking skeptics to prove that we will never reach that level of technology rather than answer the question of why do you think we will. You're the one with the actual claim here, back it up.
Yeah, that could be the case yes.
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Even (suspected!) terrorists have rights. It's easy to think about the drone war: It's plain wrong. Sending guided missiles into other people's airspace is an act of war, and killing people without even so much as a sham trial is murder.

The more of this stuff we collectively condone the more the Bin Laden's of this world are winning. That's the real tragedy, that after 9/11 the West lost its moral compass.
It's at least partly a commentary on black box machine learning, so I can see the additional relevance. But really that's a stretch, and I think all of the above are relevant for "hackers" as long as they don't flood the front page.
PDF is good for creating documents which are decently accurate at preserving the form of the content, both in print and on paper, while being accessible on a wide range of platforms.

Sure, there are formats better for print presentation. There are also formats that are better at on-screen presentation. But PDF offers a decent tradeoff and can be opened, dare I say, on any device.

The article is being simplistic. It completely fails to address the main advantage of PDF, which is access on all platforms.
The same old story with anything called "architecture patterns", you can look at them from different angles and each time you will have a new interpretation.
Is the OSCP respected?
My take on it is that it is the artist that brings the idea and make it come to light, they do this by letting other people do the work but they are still the visionaries and in charge of the execution of art.

Good examples of ideas and execution is plentyfull in both software and art, just because you get both of them right doesn't mean you will succeed.
Archive.org has the first snapshot of the page in 1997
What's the benefit of PDF forms over HTML forms? Other than being able to share the "digital" and dead-tree designs, which may be an advantage for someone, but not for the person filling it in.
This is a very interesting notion, could you elaborate why convexity would be a candidate? Convexity defining a class is clear, but as a proxy for interpretability I have not heard this before. I would assume this would need some measure of degree of convexity - different than strong > strict > convex
Whoops, I misremembered my age in 2012 when calculating that. Their birthday yesterday would, in fact, make at most a 7 year age difference. Maybe gp simply misremembered too ;)
I remember learning some unexpected facts at a Rodin exhibit several years ago. For sculptures that will be cast in metal or similar materials there is a set number of castings, I think it was 5, that can be made from a single mold and all be considered original. These castings can be made at any time, even after the artists death. This means you can have a sculptor die and still have original works being produced for several years.
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A quick look online showed me that there are 2 kinds of gangrene (which I didn't know until today).

One kind is caused by alcohol abuse, tobacco use and diabetes, (or frostbite, trauma, etc..) all treatable with life style changes (according to healthcare in other countries, not in necessarily in the US)

The other kind is "caused by infection", so you seem to be misunderstanding what gangrene is. It's a symptom/end result from something else.

It seems once it's gets to gangrene the flesh is already dead, so removal is the only option, not antibiotics. It's too late for that.
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Really? $10 won't buy you much in terms of steel. You'd probably need a lot more than just a crowbar. I'm not saying trains are invulnerable to debris on the tracks, just that they are designed to handle small stuff on the tracks.
Larry Page is quietly amassing a ‘flying car’ empire
So there’s basically three different definitions of art:

- A work of art, i.e. an artifact

- The skill used to create something

- Something original that changes another person

When we talk about an artist we’re usually talking about the last definition. So technical skill might be required, but the person with the technical skill isn’t necessarily the artist.

E.g. before Jeff Koons went into art he was one of the most talented commodity salespeople of all time. That skill is really the basis of his art, not polishing the metal or whatever.