skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your calculation doesn't make sense. You assume that the percentage of people below 14 that use the internet is the same as the percentage of people above 14 that do so
Using machine learning for music knowledge discovery
Can you elaborate on this? In my limited experience with React, it takes over your whole application, or at least the whole page. How do you mark areas as "don't touch this"?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yubikey+teardown
I use distillery to build releases, docker to build that + run it, and k8s on a private EC2 based setup for pod deployment.

It works pretty well, and I get to ship artifacts rather than source code.
It's precisely the case where you're not committed to a "team" forever and ever that knowing which party a representative belongs to would be an informative data point. Whether they are doing something notably sensible or dumb.
Those chat services that delete(?) the messages after you hit a limit sound more appealing now.
Nice that your mom got better with her breast cancer. I'm sure you know that a lot of breast cancer "survivors" are victims of an over hyped mammogram screening that calls any lump, no matter how slow growing, "cancer". Whether that's what your mom had or not, it's still scary though. [1]

My mom died of ovarian cancer after living a lifestyle that even you would approve of. Victim shaming pisses me off.

Shaming the victim with this lifestyle bullshit is not productive, and neither is minimizing people who actually search for cures rather than preaching lifestyle.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g366
A 1 year old is unlikely to be included in the internet user count.
But can't you verify a good theory of RPG by creating a novel game that will be much appreciated or fixing some existing games making them more interesting? Like how music theory improved musicians' work and resulted in a better music, musician communication and even got used for creative AIs while music is very subjective too?
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Exactly. So you can have insecure boundary between threads because they share L1 cache. Is my understanding of how meltdown works incorrect?
I understand how it works, and I am comfortable with my criticism of that post. Dismissing criticisms of "what the world is" allows the bad parts to flourish. The status quo does not capes.
Personally I don't find anything with a staggered layout ergonomic. It's better than standard though. I've gone totally ortholinear now. Ergodox at home and Truly Ergonomic at work.
Not quite -- that was me =). The GSOC student (Gabriel Gatu) is incorporating that work along with the incremental Dialyzer from the Elixir-ls project, and taking some of the new Dialyxir errors and morphing them a bit into a task that can be eventually merged back upstream into a more mainline mix task. You can track his progress here [0].

The lion's share of the work is now extracted into Erlex [1] which can be incorporated into other tools as needed.

[0] https://github.com/gabrielgatu/mix-dialyzer

[1] https://hex.pm/packages/erlex
I pay attention to [dead] stories and I am completely outside the YC system and I don't see much evidence of this.

This particular story sounds both political and fake in the sense that I doubt a single murder will take place.
Who does?
Why Major Cryptocurrency Investors Are Betting Heavily Against Ethereum
My experience has been painful at first (~1 week time to get setup), now takes 15 minutes to get a service deployed.

Using Heroku (not good practice and I wouldn't use in prod), it would be really quick.
But how do policy changes result in a 50% increase in total expenses? They can't be hiring that many lawyers.
I'm primarily a JavaScript developer nowadays. I used C back in the 80s and 90s but never really used C++. I decided to start teaching myself C++ a few weeks ago. I've been going through "The C++ Programming Language 4th Edition". It only covers up to C++11 but the first 100 pages or so goes through a quick whirlwind overview of the newer "modern" C++. The rest of the book goes more in depth and is a bit basic for most of the text for experienced programmers. So it has both the too easy and too hard parts but at least you can jump around to get somewhere in between. It's not great but it's the best resource I've found so far. I tried some Udemy courses but a lot of them move too slow and assume no programming experience.
I actually meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17612990 , which mentions http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ as a point of comparison between jQuery and vanilla JS. For some reason I thought that was the top-level article, not the linked tweet.
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Very generous of you. I've loved using it to answer stackexchange answers but don't have enough use myself to justify the membership.
Why not just use the Timex library for now? Then timestamps and timezones are in good shape.

Even as a newbie to the ecosystem it didn't take long to discover that time functionality was lacking in Elixir but the Timex library makes that a solved problem with little effort.

Looking forward to seeing what comes up in the standard library for that in the future.
Hi Jeremy! If anyone has any questions about this work, I'm willing to answer them!
Show me a dropdown menu written in React and I'll show you how you can simplify the code significantly by using jQuery in addition to React.
This slide stood out: https://i.imgur.com/t7DAgJo.jpg

Failure was accepted as a part of the culture. Today it seems the opposite. Any hint of failure and people seem to distance themselves from your future ambitions.

More and more, we seem to be moving toward a world ruled by massive corporations, where small developers have almost no autonomy or freedom, and we're subservient to the concept of intellectual property and non-disclosure. The age of tinkerers building something huge seems to have been a short-lived historical accident.

That's related, because the only way to build something huge is to repeatedly fail at it. And that doesn't seem acceptable today.
I know the authors suggested and found some evidence for novelty being the reason why false news is so compelling, but might it not be that it fits whatever narrative or agenda is being promoted? You can make up whatever false news you want, but you can't make up facts, so false news will always be more likely to fit the narrative.

Another possible reason is that if you tell your friends something is true, and later find out from a more reliable source that you were deceived, you then look gullible believing it in the first place, and even if you don't tell them, you'll feel gullible unless you hang on to your original belief.
San Francisco makes it clear that tech companies aren't welcome here. Will tech companies finally take the hint?
Why would we assume that just because Facebook has a minimum age of 13, there are no 12-year-olds on Facebook? I, personally, would go pretty much the opposite way and assume that if a kid wants to be on Facebook, they will be, completely without regard to an official minimum age, and that therefore the minimum age is absolutely irrelevant to theoretical user count.
Umm...3 out of the 4 pre-2008 companies (Apple excepted) you listed are just as much middle-men as the post-2008 companies...they're middle men between consumers (a.k.a the product) and advertisers (a.k.a the customer). The "cool stuff" you refer to is just a side effect of their rent seeking. Note that they've also displaced the previous generation of rent seekers to varying degrees (print media significantly, TV/radio a bit less significantly). Those three companies have also come with the externalities of significant privacy invasion and helping to undermine our democratic process, so there's that too.

I'm not convinced that the more recent rent-seeking companies are much different than the previous generation. Both were seeking to displace the incumbent rent seekers (Uber == taxis, AirBnB == hotels, Stripe == traditional credit card processors) by finding a more efficient or more modern way of accomplishing the existing use case. The only real difference between them and Google/FB/Twitter is that their products are aimed at consumers instead of advertisers.
> > Look if you wanna play pretend grown up slot machine at least understand what you're getting into.

> I've got over a decade of experience as an accredited investor.

I don't agree with his tone, but you can't blame the perspective on the stock market. When it comes to most people, including professionals, investing in stock is pretty much the same as playing slot machine. Even worse, experience often just makes people blind to that.

This book was quite a revelation to me: http://time.com/money/3604960/daniel-kahneman-thinking-fast-...

Worst case scenario ? Well, should you be amongst the few who actually know what they're doing you should find some satisfaction today in knowing that it's quite a feat :-)
Introducing BigQuery ML: Bringing machine learning closer to your data
Exactly. Facebook suppressing "fake news" is one of the slipperiest of all slopes. People who harass these parents for being supposed "crisis actors" or post any of their personal information should obviously be banned, but, in general, trying to ban ideas doesn't work and will lead to a net worse outcome in the end. Especially on massive common-carrier-esque services like Facebook or reddit.

Conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists are some of the most poisonous things in the modern discourse, but the right answer is not to ban all mention of them. That's how they grow stronger.

An ability to opt-in to a heavily moderated version of their feed seems reasonable, as long as it's opt-in and not opt-out.
Good, I hope this trend of shoving ML into SQL (instead of the other way around) continues. I always thought it was silly that every "data wrangling" system like Pandas and R needed to (poorly) re-invent SQL.
Interesting, thanks very much. I guess "avoids manufacturing controls" is a bit more coherent than "you can buy and sell whatever you want on tribal land" since it's presumably about an agency regulation instead of directly violating a federal law.

Still doesn't sound correct, but then again everything I'm finding about the Inslaw case says it's an absolute maze of craziness, in both the official version and the conspiracies.

Thanks for some fun reading on a weird corner of history!
You may be confusing Elixir and Phoenix. Phoenix is the Rails equivalent in the Elixir ecosystem.
This is on iOS but their app definitely went downhill pretty severely in the past year.

If any sort of bluetooth or background playback is involved, the previous playback position will almost always be lost. Video/audio in a playlist skips and don't play sequentially. Reordering items manually will have their order re-scrambled as soon as you start scrolling the item list in the playlist. Playing an item to completion even in foreground will show a random amount left on this item when you moved onto another item.

It's hard to say Huawei is exclusively to blame when their primary video playing features (including background playback) is already so buggy.
From the article
a)approximately 80% of full-time graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering at U.S. universities are international students.

b)Economists Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber notes “A 1 percentage point increase in the foreign STEM share of a city’s total employment increased the wage growth of native college-educated labor by about 7–8 percentage points and the wage growth of non-college-educated natives by 3–4 percentage points.”
Used to be the case with Google Maps as well, Chrome user agent would get you served with a faster version.

The worst I've seen though isn't by Google themselves. It's user-agent whitelisting on other web sites, that think it's okay to prevent users from using the browser they want because they couldn't spend time testing in the other browsers. Sometimes they even exclude Chromium. For that reason I have an user agent spoofing extension on each of my browsers.
What Happened at Google Cloud Next ‘18: Day 2
They seek to change or undermine regulations in order to provide for their middleman positions.
It depends on what age. If I was 35, I'd say around 6M. If I was 65, I'd be comfortable with about 3M.

If I left CA, these numbers would change quite drastically to 2 M at 35 and 1 M at 65.

these numbers would be total net worth. with a family of about 3.
This blog post from 2 years ago from AWS has Redshift beating BigQuery pretty handily on TPC-H and TPS-DS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google...

Has anything changed on BigQuery since then that would warrant rerunning those benchmarks? If Amazon’s largest cluster outperforms BigQuery then is your decision about which service to use just a cost calculation of dedicated per month for Redshift vs. projected units scanned per month on BigQuery?
Why Multi-Cloud? by mitchellh
Because there is no agreed upon way to properly do it yet. I tried using Elixir 2 years ago in production, and while the language is great, deploying (and runtime configuration) was a nightmare.

It was 2 years ago, I know the community tried to improve things, but it's still not there. I read some excerpt of the upcoming book "Phoenix in Action", and in chapter 1, the author himself mentions "deployment" as a drawback of using Phoenix since it's still painful.
I remember hearing that Google's main critique with yubikeys is that the newer keys' firmware is no longer open source (and thus, no longer independently verifiable). And that was, apparently, a primary motivation for breaking away from Yubico.

I wonder if its firmware will be open source? The marketing page makes no mention of that
I got over mine by repeatedly mentally willing the plane to crash while over the Atlantic during one trip, and watching lots of footage of crashes and people dying in fires. I suppose exposure therapy is the term for this when professionally administered, but I just needed to come to terms with the potential pain and accept my loss of control while in the air.
I don’t think your opinion is that unpopular, I just think it often gets drowned in opinions of those that are louder.

Personally, while I can certainly see why people don’t like to be offended, policing speech is a slippery slope, because there is absolutely nothing objective about what is offensive/hate speech and what is not. There is no perfect solution for it, but I would personally take the freer of the approaches, come at the cost it will.

Side-note: I don’t understand why anyone would downvote this. It’s articulate, thought out, and constructive.
Interesting, thanks. Not knowing Toronto, I didn't know if it described a standard metro area like some cities do. So now we've got three regions on each side, and no sign which of the 9 possible comparisons is being employed?

What a mess.
Thanks for the reply.

It is easy enough to find companies and job listings, but it is completely another matter sending an application blind. What would they think of someone from the US applying for a job, without any context? I am almost 10K km from Munich.

I have no interest in the Netherlands, London, or anywhere else in the north for many reasons. Although southern Spain is far from "home", I would not mind living there. :)
It's not obvious that there actually is a worse outcome. The outcome that we are living with (parents in grief being further harassed by conspiracy theorists) is already pretty bad.

And remember, this is just western fake news. In the east, fake news has resulted in people murdering completely innocent strangers with somber regularity.
I noticed the “credit cards only” sign at Dos Toros for the first time yesterday. One of the things the sign says is cashless allows “more time for coaching” which I hope means training their employees? Coaching seemed like a strange word choice.
I'm not sure how much of it was about the 1 star reviews as much as it was anger at Huawei's "optimization".
I was directly involved in one of those 'incidents' several years back where FB gave our app a special API that others did not have. This was because it was easier for us to build the 'FB experience' for their users, than it was for FB themselves. It was clean, legit, above board and secure.

It's astonishing how different the 'media narrative' is from reality, and it confirms my belief that the press runs on such narratives (i.e. building up, crashing down) because in both directions the truth is inflated for dramatic, i.e. click-bait reasons.

Our large company built a very good FB app that effectively was 'FB' on our platform. It was FB branded - for users, it was effectively the 'real' (and only) FB. Obviously that app had to have special APIs.

Everyone involved from top to bottom was pro. We didn't store data, nor did we want or need to. The way the tech was setup (data goes to app), we didn't really have the option. Users logged into their own accounts and retrieved their data, it's not like we could just access data arbitrarily.

Everything was pro and above bar - and nobody in the equation - a lot of us regular, conscientious people - thought for a second that anything was wrong or irregular in any context.

In fact - the whole situation could be described as: "FB hired 3rd parties to develop some code", which surely they do in some circumstances.

Nobody was harmed in any way, and there really wasn't risk of anyone being harmed.

I understand that with 2018 hindsight, we might look at things a little differently, but in reality, I think we'd have still done it. Perhaps there would have been more checks and assurances (i.e. FB takes ownership of code and actually publishes the app), but in reality it was (and would still be) fine.

As far as the Cambridge story - this is also misleading because the API's that were used there were available to the entire world and everyone knew exactly what they were. Were there tech people screaming foul? The press? Not really, they seemed reasonable, until it seemed that some bad agents were getting a little unscrupulous, and so FB did the right thing and altered the APIs to make them more secure. Security polices change all the time, in this case they tightened up given some field data. That's it.

It's really a story about Cambridge's scammy behaviour, and possibly lies to FB on where that data was, not about FB.

I don't like Facebook, I don't use it, I don't like being 'productized' etc. etc. - but I don't feel that the information in these scenarios has been properly handled by the media.

Because there are legitimate issues with privacy in the new world order in 2018 that are finally coming to bear, and we definitely want to re-evaluate our situation with FB, basically, we go and dig up 'something that happened 10 years ago in which nobody was harmed' to build a 'kind of misleading narrative' around the the 'legitimate issue'.
Is history pointless?
This is fascinating. A few years ago I had a "sudden" musical accomplishment that overlapped with some medical issues. After reading the article, I asked Good Old Dr. Google about my medical condition and the Central Nervous System and... There are some published papers describing some observed links between them.

To be clear, I am in no way, shape or form a savant at anything. Comparing me to these people mentioned would be folly. In my late teens and early twenties, I tried quite a bit to play the guitar and was never very good and I definitely could never sing and strum at the same time. I never touched a guitar again for nearly 20 years until my wife signed me up for a local folk music class. At the very first lesson, I sang and strummed as if it was naturally easy for me, until my fingers were so sore I couldn't make chords anymore. Certainly nobody is going to be paying money to hear me play, but I've received quite a few compliments about how well I do.
> Certainly war hawks might have been happy, but the majority of Americans on both sides of the aisles dislike unnecessary wars.

It doesn’t matter what they like or dislike, it matters who they vote for. For most of the USA’s history, Americans have consistently voted for national candidates who ended up starting or continuing unnecessary war. This is true for both major parties. The country has been involved in voluntary military conflicts for how many years of its history?
Right. By blindly parroting the government's line. By failing to do due diligence, or be skeptical of the sources, etc. Those are all different things than lying. They're lapses in professional care, or shortcomings in ability. Straight up lying could also be involved, sure. But lying isn't necessary for blame to be assigned.
He's a democrat but has worked bipartisan for a long time (rare now).
n uniformly random from what distribution? Or are you taking a limit somewhere?
There's nothing wrong with it, as much as there is nothing wrong with plain Xeon. My thing with them is that they are boring - they look too much like the computer I use to work. In order to be inspiring, you don't need only fast. You need different. POWER is different in the sense it has both the fast cores and threads of a Xeon, but coupled to a different ISA and things like NVLink. Phi is different because of the integrated HBM and the crazy number of threads. Both invite us to build applications differently and that's what makes them exciting.
I would argue, that the entire GCP development model, as the late entrant's to the cloud market, is about making AWS look lame in comparison.
As the now counter-culture movement says: if you're not for free speech you disagree with, you're not for free speech.
Which sounds exactly like 'We won't support that device'. You can work around it, but you're on your own if anything goes wrong.
The quote is from the front page of protonmail.com, and it's been there since 2015. As the only description of encryption on the front page, it gives the unequivocal impression that all email is end-to-end encrypted.

Regarding email between ProtonMail users, Lavabit once claimed "Our team of programmers answered with a system so secure that even our administrators can’t read your e-mail." Which is very similar to your claim, "even we cannot decrypt and read your emails." Lavabit was then asked to give up its TLS key, to evidently allow impersonation and delivery of malicious JavaScript designed to exfiltrate "non-decryptable" data. ProtonMail users are vulnerable to the same attack if anyone in a conversation ever uses the web interface. Or the mobile app, if it's just a web view.

In contrast, native SMTP+IMAP (+-E2E) clients are not typically developed by the email service provider, making orchestrated compromise much more difficult, and users can benefit by performing actual audits themselves because their email client hopefully doesn't fetch malleable remote code at runtime.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20151116024152/https://protonmai...

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130115080859/https://lavabit.c...
How Japan's Visionaries Saw the Future
I did. I love Huawei phone because they do not let programs eat cpu in the background - I like windows phone who did the same

I see the article and the tweet that caused it as a cheap shot against Huawei, motivated by some irrational anger that affects even free software developers.
>It's not obvious that there actually is a worse outcome. The outcome that we are living with (parents in grief being further harassed by conspiracy theorists) is already pretty bad.

Sadly, it can get worse. I could definitely see a world where a zero-tolerance ban on mass-shooting conspiracy theory discussion by Facebook, Twitter, and reddit leads to these parents receiving even more targeted harassment.

>In the east, fake news has resulted in people murdering completely innocent strangers with somber regularity.

Yes, that's where things become more difficult. Any threats and any content that leads to a chance of someone being physically harmed has to be banned, full stop. Obvious hoax stories (not the same as "fake news") should probably also have a prominent Facebook label that it is a hoax. But it's an incredibly nuanced subject.