skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that it was ideal that the most experienced person does the bulk of code reviews and clicks the merge button even if that means that they don't write much code themselves. It's a model that, for example, works very for Linux.

I think that there's a lot of value in having somebody who has a picture in their head of the entirety of a system who can spot impedance mismatches across projects and spot germinating code smells before they cause major problems.
> Stuff which modifies them greatly

Like ... food? This is an amino acid, the building block of protein. Many amino acids have pronounced effect in the body or when lacking.

Our bodies are fine-tuned to be somewhat fault-tolerant, but evolution is extraordinarily slow. If our diets diverge over a few hundred years, there haven't been nearly enough evolutionary cycles to compensate for whatever effect that has; particularly if it's minor annoyances like getting jittery with coffee, which was consumed far less as far back as a few hundred years ago.
A variation on this that has 3D graphics, visual effects etc. is https://www.electricVLab.com
I find it both chilling and lovely. Because on one hand, life, endless adventure, full of surprises, insights, new understandings and experiences, feelings, etc. On the other, absolute, fundamental, loneliness (sophistry?) of our own nature - having an individual sense of self but also feeling related to everything we define as not 'I'.

Why this life, why is this the one I have? Where did all of this come from? How did all of this happen?

Life is a waking dream, because we often completely forget that we really just don't know at all why we are here. But we pretend, we forget, we make up stories, we do anything we can do to run away from that question. Why. How did all of this happen? Why does everything happen the way it does? What does that mean, for what I am, all the way at the core?

It's not really nihilism, but it sort of is. It's just, that's the perpetual question that never gets answered directly.

I've thought of myself before as a monad - a being so fundamentally lonely in their own existence that they split themselves up into infinite pieces, just to forget, there's nothing more than what they are. Maybe some buddhist influences, but, we all have our struggles in life. It's not really intended to be sophistry. It just is a very beautiful, but very chilling awareness. What if I go back into what I was when I die?

You could see this as a mental metaphor my mind has arbitrarily made up for all events I've witnessed and been a part of, some sort of perpetual social ostracism I keep walking myself into. But I still think it's more than just that. I loved science growing up. But I can never answer that question - and I know absolutely, that I never will. What happened before 'I exist'?. For any of us. My father often has had a variant of this question, and in the past, it's rubbed people the wrong way because, only a fraction of it gets expressed. We all wear masks. Sometimes there's just a profoundly deep sadness that no one can see.

Chilling, and lovely. In perpetuity.
Because that’s illegal?
>Quantum theorist John Wheeler’s “it from bit” hypothesis anticipated ongoing speculation that consciousness is fundamental to reality

Flagged for pseudoscience.
America has a number of enduring advantages:

1. Its geography means it's impervious to conventional invasions.

2. Its embracing culture will attract more immigrants.

3. It is an offshoot of western civilization and therefore has natural allies in Europe.

China's advantages are:

1. It has a population that is 3-4 times the size of the US.

2. Its economy is still underdeveloped, therefore economic growth is a lot easier.
Depends on how old the account is. 20 years ago the documentation requirements were quite lax. So if the account is really old, they may have to update the documentation.
Caffeine also “treats” things like ADHD, sometimes without someone realizing it. I was told I likely had ADHD as a child that wasn’t ever treated/evaluated (because hippie parents) that carried into adulthood and I have basically been self-medicating with caffeine for the last 10+ years.
Looking at what's contained in black tea, 20 mg, yes. I wonder if this helps explain the popularity of tea and the general idea that drinking tea helps you calm down.
> I've never built something that did not need a relational database to model the domain

Yeah, so perhaps you don't have much experience from outside the relational model. Makes perfect sense to see a single truth then.

> I can't even think of something that could use search that's not relational. Can you?

Not sure how wide a blanket you're throwing by "not relational", but here are a couple examples that might fit: Google's search engine, most filesystems and their files, hierarchical and flat data structures in general, twitter.
>Maybe because many people haven't experienced this?

Oh god I hope not. What better way to create an echo chamber than to silence the voices of everyone who has different experiences than you...
Crowds can't have "wisdom" by nature of the averaging that must occur for binary choices/responses from a crowd.

"Knowledge of the Crowd" is the correct phrase as the storage capacity + experience is greater the larger the crowd.

In other words, you can use a crowd to ask questions that the whole does not need to answer: "Has anyone every done X before?" but you cannot use them to ask questions they all should reply to: "Do you all want to do X?"
Every librarian worth their salt knows that weeding is just as important as selection and acquisition.
The most emotional people in regards to weeding are often people that read too little, but idolize the object of the book.
Data will eventually end up there. Our product and business teams are heavy users of Redshift.

As mentioned in another comment I’ve found having Dynamo snapshots in Athena really useful as an oncall to sanity check snapshots (what was the state of Harry Potter 3 months ago compared to now?) and to answer product questions that can only be answered from the raw production data.
Anecdotally, I noticed a super mild effect. I drink between 8-10 cups of coffee a day and if I hit that upper limit it dulls the anxiety but not in any pronounced way.
I have no clue what you are talking about I'm sorry.
If that bank also has financial ties to the US, as it's through sanctioning the US side of the business that they enforce it.
Although SABRE uses ideas (like networking) from SAGE, the two systems are entirely different. SAGE used the AN/FSQ-7, a monstrous vacuum tube system. SABRE used transistorized IBM 7090 mainframes, a descendant of the 709 mainframe.

You can see parts of the SAGE system at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. An interesting feature of the displays is a "light gun", used by the weapons director to select targets. Also of interest is the cigarette lighter and ashtray built right into the console.
Git LFS 2.5.0 is now available
And BoA sent out random letters asking for highly personal information, without the recipient having any way to know they were legitimate.

Instead BoA should have sent out letters asking the customer to call them, or log into their BoA account.

BoA just locks accounts because it is easier on BoA than the alternative. The consequences for the customer be damned. That's reason #1,000,000 not to work with BoA or Wells Fargo.
Brilliant UI.

What about contrarian nodes though? I insist on meditating and not drinking even though my connections around me do the opposite. It feels almost like a challenge and I wonder if they all joined me if I'd feel less attached to those ideas.
Holy cow, the robots are definitely coming. We really are at the ground floor of a technology that is going to change humanity, I am certain of that. Changes greater than any changes we've seen before.
I find drinking a good cup of tea or other tea-like infusions to be quite relaxing. More so if I get to step it myself. I suspect that there’s a meaningful non-chemical effect, and this study has no ability whatsoever to discern whether L-theanine is involved.
Their Geography is not better either they do not have direct access to Pacific, their energy dependence on ME oil is very evident and of course 17 bordering states with numerous disputes.

If US goes down (that's a big If and very unlikely event) then Pacific will be Japanese playground not Chinas and India will tie-up with the biggest maritime power to check them in India Ocean.

Its really hard to be a super power at least in the near term without being a first grade naval power.

The publication is some times called Washington Compost, a very hard earned nick name for their BS vending!
Common Lisp Recipes by Edi Weitz is the most recent 'bible'. Another excellent book.
I opened my first account with Bank of Scotland ~35 years ago - I don't think I provided any documentation (not sure I had any). However, this was in the days of personal bank managers who actually knew people - my parents had been banking with the same bank for a long time before that.
Thank you! It was an awesome day. We're still cleaning up the house 2 days later...
>> I think therefore that SQL database technologies have to adapt to the serverless paradigm rather than dismissing serverless

> Empty statement that means nothing. SQL/RDBMS is backed by computer science and robust engineering examples that make the world spin. Alternatives are usually full of fanfare and false promises.

Traditional relational databaases have indeed solved many issues that some newer datastores struggle with. But the flip side is that it is non-trivial to design traditional databases that are not Single Points Of Failure.

Storing data is surprizingly hard in a cloud environment, and involves trade-offs. Reaching a comprehensive solution (fast, HA, consistent, easily recoverable, scalable volum, evolvable schemas...) is hard no matter what technology you pick.
OP is implying that this problem exists everywhere. This is simply not the case.
>> US loses its technological advantage and its reserve currency status it is very difficult to know what will happen

Not really... WWIII and likely the end of human civilization will happen.

If the US Falls it is unlikely it will fall silently with out using its massive military to bring down everyone.
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Yes but the limit that I talked about takes into consideration parallel charging. The limit is for each individual cell, so even if each individual cell is charged in parallel it would still take an hour at least to charge

You could charge the lithium batteries faster but that negatively impacts the lifetime of the battery
You don’t find it suspicious that a supposed Ivy League admissions officer doesn’t know how to spell “admissions”?
"Globalist" is a very old antisemitic slur -- see "The International Jew" by Henry Ford.
Ah, just vSphere? That's a hard no from me then.
> I think the context there is "But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue" which isn't looking to criticize him for being Jewish or his work

The “He’s always ben a rat. But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue” bit is clearly intended to both impugn his character and suggest that he is influential because he is Jewish and actively engaged in anti-anti-semitism.

So, yeah, I'm going to say that sending a message that amounts to “He’s a rat, but particularly dangerous because he’s a Jew rat engaged against anti-Semitism” is pretty starkly anti-Semitic.
This just confirms what was obvious from behavior -- namely that Wikileaks is not neutral and has a clear political agenda.
Using Gitlab registry with Google Jib for your java apps
Be sure that I can come up with nitpicking on just about anything that you write, regardless how brilliant you think your piece of code is.

This just costs money, burns people, and results in a bad culture. But I am sure as long as you're not the one who is in the weaker position that's totally ok for you, because you give considerably more fks about yourself than about your company's success.
Ask HN: 55 years old and no experience, am I too old to get a job?
I can program in many languages (ruby, python, lisp, clojure, java (no expert), scala,R, javascript ES6, Haskell (level as in rwh, lysh, I must be the yegge exception), prolog, erlang (no expert in otp), elixir (don't know phoenix), mysql (basic sql queries,normalizacion),ruby sinatra (not rails), and a little django. Linux: (bash programming >> tee grep awk). I have a degree and a PhD in math, also a CS degree (90s, 3 year time,from a European University, my final work was about matroids, Edmond's algorithm for the intersection of matroids implemented in prolog, applications to graph theory, NP-complete problems, and heuristics like in Papadimitriu). I have published some papers in complexity theory, physics and abstract math. I have a good grasp of theoretical and applied statistics. I have some knowledge of machine learning (in decreasing order: books like esl; R, ipython and sklean. Some AI knowledge (like in norvig Modern IA). My hackerrank profile is not bad (solving problem there mostly in Lisp).

But I have no experience working with a team, and is very likely I won't be able to cope with frequents tight deadlines. English is my second language. I enjoy programming and learning new skill by myself and I'm able to learn quickly.

I wonder if, at my age, I will be able to get a job as a programmer or data scientists. Any tips?
> They absolutely should know who their ad platform is, what their policies are, and what is/isn't acceptable for an ad hosted by that platform. If their ad platform falls short, they should shop around for a better alternative.

... Or you could choose a wholesome ad network (if such a thing exists), AND limit what features they can access just in case something goes awry and a malicious ad somehow makes it through.
That’s a wacky position. Ebooks with the exception of reference material are dramatically less accessible and more expensive.

Ebook sales are pretty poor vs paper books overall. They aren’t the future of books, but a niche. Sort of like how VCRs didn’t kill movies, but were a complement.
Women aren't some pokemon you collect by tapping in the right cheat codes. They're career professions who are making the choice of employer based on what they believe is best for their lives. If your company is ~50% women then guess what, all that means is that plenty of women have independently decided that your company seems like a great place to work which seems like a thing to be celebrated.
Sad that this is true, though. It's "dated" not because mp3 format is dated, but because people no longer maintain their own music collection - outsourcing it instead to legit (e.g. Spotify) and illicit (e.g. YouTube) SaaS businesses. Which do not guarantee you that the song you bookmark today will be there the next year (as I myself experienced many times on both Spotify and YouTube) - but I guess songs get missing randomly and slowly enough that people don't notice.
> all uses of implicits reduce the number of characters typed

You're technically correct, the best kind of correct.

There are some magic mechanisms that do become more useful than they are obtuse. For example, OOP's very widely used polymorphism.

I agree that the wildcard import mechanism can be really inscrutable.
> There's a premise here (and in many similar arguments) that the capitalists and their decision-makers (the managers) can only follow financial incentives

No that's just your interpretation.

> there are financial incentives for murder too

Indeed, whici is why the society introduced significant non-financial (and financial) disincentives for murder to counteract them.
I have used many options but for you i would definitely recommend cs-cart. It has good features and easy to use GUI. Take a look at it here https://www.cs-cart.com/compare.html
The problem with this is that the more places that need a photocopy of your government id the more leaks are going to have photo ids in them. In the long run it won't work.
Ask HN: Lint tool for Microsoft Excel?
There are many best practices for building models in Excel, some which should be followed always (e.g. don't use hard-coded numbers in a formula) and some which are less well-accepted (e.g. never use VLOOKUP, and instead use INDEX and MATCH).

There are Python libraries to read/write Excel files, so it wouldn't be too hard to write a lint tool that could be run via the command line (or by uploading the file to a web page) and output recommendations for improvements in specific cells.

Does something like this, or that serves the same purpose, already exist?
I agree that degenerate cases are one of the major problems with trying to move to higher-level editing abstractions (and it's one of the big issues I faced with my own application), but I don't see how it's a problem here.

If it doesn't have a valid AST, then it's not a valid program, either. If you're using a formatting program (like prettier or gofmt) and pass it an invalid program, you're either going to get an error, or undefined behavior. And anyone else opening it in a different editor is going to have their language-mode interpret the invalid program differently than yours, too. Source code tools like structured search won't work predictably, either.

This sounds to me like saying "An XML structure editor? But what if I want to put an invalid XML structure in a file called foo.xml and commit it to the repository?" Or my first boss complaining that visual text editors didn't let you see every byte. Or Mel needing to know drum addresses so he could use them for constants.

As time goes by, we move to higher level abstractions, and (thanks to tools like gofmt) we're already at the point where you probably shouldn't be pushing source code which doesn't even have a valid AST, and expect all your tools to work perfectly. There's plenty of ways to write and commit WIP code without needing an invalid AST on disk.
Putin's Rasputin (2011)
Yes, and Xi Jinping is a good candidate for that leadership. Just because, oh, new leadership.
Show HN: Exposing local servers to the Internet on Android
Mmmhkay, so that's a rehash of good ol' George Berkeley's philosophy, then? That's cute, only coming 300 years later :)
Started closing some of my higher value BoA accounts after they started charging people fees for having a low balance. This is predatory and targeting people who can't afford it.

https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/smart-money/bank-of-america-...

There are much better accounts elsewhere so even if you don't care about how BoA behaves you can get much better deals/service with fewer fees.

This news will push me to close my final credit cards with BoA. No need to rush, it took me 6 months to slowly open alternative accounts before closing the BoA ones. They will slowly loose my business that they could have easily kept for the next 50 years. It wasn't very hard to do, it just takes a little patience.
Yup. That's why.
I spent about 10 years in a niche: maintaining legacy PHP software. I have been down some very deep rabbitholes of PHP black magic. I have written 10+ medium-to-large applications from scratch in PHP, 4 of which are still running in production more than 8 years later.

I feel qualified to say the following:

- Java will not kill your startup. Bad coding MIGHT. But it also might not.

- PHP will not save your startup. Good coding MIGHT. But it also might not.

- You can write good/bad software in Java. I've seen both.

- You can write bad software in PHP. I've never seen good software in PHP (including my own). At this point, it's becoming hard to believe it is possible to write good software in PHP.

Mostly this is a problem with the awful design of the language. Adding better typing is helping, but at that point, why not just use something else?

Also, most arguments in favor of PHP mention its popularity. I suspect that if you removed WordPress, Drupal, etc. from the calculation, you'd see PHP plummet to the bottom. I don't know any young people who learn it anymore, and I haven't met a startup building their product in PHP in many years.
That would be a good solution for the power delivery problem but not the charging problem
Absolute alignment and level of indent dependent code are two separate tasks.

The former is a pre-formatted fixed-width character document that can only be viewed one way.

The latter is a document which is easily processed; editors should show the intended logical representation of the information according to user preferences for conveying such meanings (though for terminal compatibility they often default to either 8 or 4 fixed width spaces in less powerful editors; still the meaning is conveyed clearly).
Getting back into the web dev – overwhelmed by framework choices
Long story short: I'm an experienced developer who's been 'out-of-the-game' for the past 5 years doing things other than web development.

I am making a mobile app and need to make its web-side counter part...but am overwhelmed by the sheer number of web frameworks out there. Is Rails still the king? I see a lot of love for Node.
Also...lots of PHP based stacks out there. Spring boot?

Things I am looking for in a framework:
-authentication plug-in
-basic CRUD
-basic NOSQL
-ability to attache images
-beautification (like Bootstrap...something other than stock controls)
-an active community and/or documentation where I can go for help

Bonus:
I like the idea of single page web-apps like Angular or React. Is there a back-end framework
that works particularly well with these?

Thanks,

PS-yes I've googled this question but honestly it yielded more questions than answers!
async IRC with ring buffers was one of my last school C project. It was really interesting and straightforward, and despite its "obviousness", it still made me understand better some C and unix key principles. I think it's a great idea for discovering a new language.
Is it free yet? ><
Too bad they did not have the colonies to financially support their space ambitions.
The IRS will never call. They will send you a letter via certified mail.

Any story that begins with "someone called claiming to be the IRS" can be cut off at that point and conclusively determined to be a scam.
I serve on the board of an incorporated library and until just recently was the board president.

We have a book sale room that is about 250 square feet of well lit, clean dry space in our basement with an exterior entrance. We make a few hundred bucks a year from selling books from the sale room. A volunteer staffs the book sale room and organizes, shelves and prices the books. Even with the book sale room, which is open anytime the library is open, we have to throw out hundreds of books a year. It's not worth it to give them away. The local thrift shops and good wills mostly don't want more books.

The space would better serve the community if it were made into a maker space or turned into a classroom for special programs. We could make the entire year of book sale revenue with one by donation 4 week class.

One of the biggest tasks our librarians have is culling books. We are small and it does not serve our community if we keep books on the shelves that haven't been checked out in 15 years.
There's a Glenn Greenwald article on the Intercept from just over a week ago saying Assange is about to be kicked out of the embassy and handed over to the UK:

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/ecuador-will-imminently-...

Also, there's been a bunch of stuff about anti-semitism in the UK media recently.

Interesting timing and content for this story.
>They should try to give the books away for free before chucking them out, no?

The local library where I grew up tried this. It also doesn't really solve the problem of too many books. They would first put up surplus/old books for sale for a quarter or less, and twice a year would hold an event where they put the stock outside on tables and people could just take them for free. They were always left with tons of books even after all that.

It's sad to see books destroyed but they literally can't give them all away, and each building only has so much space.