skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a student, doing lots of late nights, the shipping forecast helped lull me off to sleep. It's rhythmic, without being too repetitive.

It's an aural duvet that makes you feel safe and conformable. Not just because of the way it sounds, but also the fact that you know there are lots of people doing all the work needed to bring us the forecast and help keep mariners safe.

Even though I now live in Ireland, I still tune in to BBC Radio 4 on long wave every now and again to hear it. It's a unique and wonderful thing which I fear won't be around in a decade or two.
It's not my advice, I know that for many many people it does not work. I'm just saying that's how I understand it and for me it does work. It is hard to imagine it is fundamentally impossible for most, but it might well be.
How well does fossil work with binary files?
Discussion (16 hrs ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610516
Unfortunately many cheap GPS chips use the (incorrect) or definition, not and. It was a pain to find one that works above 59000ft but very slow speed for a weather balloon project some years ago.
Githooks: auto-install client-side hooks inside the repos
No. It is pretty widely accepted that America (i.e. US) is dependent on the global economy.
All of those need to publish papers with each other to qualify, probably. Maybe we can find another measure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
I can point directly to a close friend who'd died of a particulaar forrm of cancer in the 1980s.

There's been no effective advance in therapy since then.

There hadn't been any since the late 1950s.

Some conditions are simply resistant to improved theerapies.

(CRISPR or similar direct genetic editing might break the logjam. But it's been a long time. And my friend remains very dead.)

Rather than high-tech aadvances, increased and consistently available medical care and public health measures would be vastly more effective. And always have been.
Interesting. The forecast overlaps with the Swedish one, which starts in the west with South Utsire, Fisher and German Bight and then continues into the Baltic Sea counter-clockwise. I recall Dogger is mentioned sometimes but could not hear it today. Example: https://sverigesradio.se/topsy/ljudfil/srse/6575657.mp3
Their ad platform doesn't play nicely with ad blockers. Maybe that's the cause of your issues?
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> Ultimately, I haven't actually used jQuery for anything serious in half a decade, and somehow I manage.

I don't understand that sentiment ... Of course you can "manage" without JQuery. JQuery itself doesn't use JQuery (D'oh) and somehow it can do all these things, so it is possible. The point of JQuery is that I don't have to think about the various (slightly) incompatible implementations of <whatever> in each browser version, but can just use one lib call and be done with it.

JQuery to me is like using a car instead of running to another city. Yes, I could run, but why would I do that ..?
Not every processing of personal information requires consent.

To display you a webpage I need to process your IP address, this doesn't require any consent as it is necessary to operate the webpage at all.

Similarly a cookie that tracks the contents of a shopping bag does not immediately require consent.

If you ask a customer for a physical address during the checkout you don't need consent either.

You need consent if you want to process this data for anything but the immediately necessary purposes, ie analyzing unanonymized IPs or the contents of shopping bags or using shopping bag cookies to track visitors.
Is there a video available for session IO244?
WhatsApp might not be your best choice if you're trying to avoid Facebook.
Ahh yes -- some of our dependencies are huge compiled C++ projects that need some customization.

We're starting to use multi stage builds here and there. Seems like an essential building block.

The main pain point seems to be knowing when an image needs to be rebuilt and to ensure any dependent images also get rebuilt.
Gygax and Arneson are quite like synonyms for D&D.
1) Do you have a mailing list to let me know when you do support Gmail?

2) I notice you've chosen 7 days as the length of the free trial. Why that rather than the 21ish days it takes to form a habit?

3) For your annual subscription plan, how do you avoid the user's credit card being expired by the 4th time you try to charge it?
For a spotify replacement also checkout funkwhale:

https://funkwhale.audio/

https://funkwhale.eliotberriot.com/

https://fediverse.network/funkwhale
> Reading his website makes him seem less like a master of anything serious and more a master at self aggrandizing douche baggery.

Sounds like 90% of the "business" books I've read
so still slower than older 2.6GHz i7
Indeed, an advanced static compiler could provide assurance against certain types of errors. Generally, I think compilers should do as much work as possible, because people are slow and prone to error.

Having said that, I know of no language that offers concurrency via the actor model – which is easy to reason about – fault tolerance, advanced static typing and distribution out of the box, all at the same time.

Thus, I'm wiling to forgo the static typing, in favor of all other features.; no to mention other cool Elixir/Erlang features such as live runtime introspection and tracing, hot code reloading, the OTP, excellent multicore support, and soft-realtime capabilities due to preemptive scheduling and per process garbage collection.

And btw, people have written large systems in languages less stricter than Elixir – e.g. Python, Ruby, etc - thus I think large codebases in Elixir should be fine.
Comparison of Top 6 Python NLP Libraries
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Twitter begins locking accounts that impersonate celebs
> How much of this should be blamed on Google?

All of it and even more. The Google Play search is abysmal, there is no way to filter out applications that require many strange permissions. Now all applications require any permission they can think of and ad networks are happy with that.
are you aware of dialyzer?
Cell towers could do all those things you suggest. They don't though. They just use a GPS receiver. They have an internal TXCO (Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator) or similar, but they drift eventually. 3G and earlier tech was actually more resilient. It could use GPS for more accurate timing, but didn't require it.
I now several people that don't have the income or credit score to get the account or even able to afford the $5 deposit just like that.
> 1) PDF -> HTML improves accessibility.

Out of curiosity: Does that include PDF/A or is that one okay for accessibility?
New versions will always come out, but it's not my job to test all of them. I'd rather consciously decide when I can afford to pay off the debt.
> Fomenting racial strife and spreading pernicious rumors is just the start of it.

Not trying to justify Facebook's behaviour here but are you familiar with the tabloid press? Facebook certainly didn't invent this concept.
> Live host migrations and BEAM sometimes are not friends. Two weeks ago, we discovered a defect in GCP live migrations that would cause a 80-90% performance degradation on one of our services during source-brownout migration phase.

I thought that GCP live migrations were completely transparent for the kernel and the processes running in the VM. I'd be happy to read a bit more about the defect that made BEAM unhappy.
That approach might help in some circumstances, but it has been tried in some areas in Australia with alcohol, with the effect of pushing up the prices like a black market and people consuming the alcohol quickly as to not get caught with it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-08/100-dollars-for-a-bag-...
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Thanks :)
Well at least your trolls are paid. A lot of our trolls seem to be volunteers.
If GP is correct re failure propagation then this is monadic composition vs. OOP object chaining.
"This post is only about IPv4 because I’ve still never used IPv6."

IPv6 almost seems to be the networking equivalent of DAB radio at this point. A once futuristic tech that grew old in the tooth waiting for its moment.

At least IPv6 is getting developed and it's is easier to update than DAB, so one can hope that one day in the far future it becomes usable to people like me.
Thanks! I would be great if you wrote an article on these with more details, as it would be really helpful to both Elixir and Erlang communities.
I guess it's more about being able to use your laptop in a bright environment.
If the rumor [0] that Intel's first 10nm server chip will only release mid 2020 is true, then AMD's shares will probably skyrocket again if they truly can release their Zen 2 server CPU mid 2019 (on 7nm which is comparable to Intel's 10nm).

[0] https://twitter.com/david_schor/status/1022142835989118977
This is coercive and is as such already pretty legally shaky. It would probably fly in the US, but that's not the only place they operate.
Ask HN: Recommended reading for an enthusiastic CEO wanting to learn about tech?
My CEO is super supporting of the tech change we have to do in my org, but (by his own admission) doesn't get tech. I'm thinking concepts like bike shedding, technical debt, or yak shaving, but more of their digestible or even - dare I say it - strategic equivalents.

They want to know enough to understand our direction, but certainly not so much to be deciding.

Go!
It'd be interesting to see a Neural TM that can increase its Kolmogorov complexity.
These all have hidden affiliate-tagged links to Amazon India.
Yeah actually I stead of so much focus on frameworks it's better to focus on better polyfill implementations. It's only a temporary issue in many cases but the larger web does move slowly and then stardards like web components sometimes take a deacde or more to be fully baked. Wasm based polyfill would enable more browser maker innovation and competition without leading to slow and bloared pages for all but one device.
Why Mined Coins Are the Only True Consensus Coins?
This is great, I'm not sure why this has been down voted. Due to the way Elixir works you simply don't have the same concerns about the wrong thing being passed as in other languages - pattern matching and guards don't replace a type system but provide some good protections when used correctly.

Add in dialyzer and you have something that gives you the flexibility loose typing and a fair amount of the guarantees of a more formal type system.

And with Elixir you have a way of starting processes again should you still crash with an error.

Never mind that microservices and cross node messaging are built in as standard, as well as confidence in being able to scale your system with things like Flow or OTP.

I'm surprised not to see more traction (especially in startups) and I love a project this complex only has 16 bugs on github!
For most purposes, IPv6 works the same as v4 (only it has bigger addresses: 128-bit instead of 32-bit). Everything in the blog post works identically if you just swap in IPv6 addresses :)
The convoluted control of the German army helped in no small part. Rommel was hamstrung and prevented from acting. Hitler’s paranoia effectively blocked any real decision making and this was crucial for the Allies in the vulnerable early stages.

https://www.historyonthenet.com/axis-commanders-and-leaders-...
My attention span was already weak before social networks. Could it be that they helped me train it to resist cheap tricks?
How well supported is Elixir (and Phoenix) on Windows? I've experimented with it on Windows, and it generally seems to work, but I'm curious if people are actually using it in production on Windows.

I personally wouldn't choose Windows, but there are areas where that is a hard requirement.
Yeah but you’re in a polar region that by definition receives less solar energy... how are we going to power it? Radioisotopes near the only local location of extraterrestrial life?
> Really Bad Reasons to Use Global Variables
> "I don't want to pass it around all the time."

This is not a bad reason at all. I think this is the best and most used reason. And no alternative is provided in TFA.
I know we've been over this on HN many times but "free speech" is more about freedom of the press than freedom to be a dick to other people or break the law. The banned subreddits I know of were either hate groups or pedophilia.
If you are making a breaking change to a public interface you maintain, wouldn't you want to know how that interface is being used first, before justifying such a major breaking change? Not just change it for the sake of your own libraries internal convenience and hope that users of the library adopt. Since you know how the api is supposed to be used and all its best practices, understanding how to change the parts of the 16 projects using it should be quite easy, you shouldn't have to dig into the domain knowledge for all those projects.
> So, if you have the money to pay the fine without breaking a sweat, you just ignore the rule.

Not just that, but if you can't or won't pay the fine, what happens? You end up imprisoned just as if the penalty had been to throw you in jail all along.
Probably the volunteer ones are the most realistic and dangerous.
How certain are you that they're actually volunteers?

Astroturf seems to be a lot more lifelike these days.
Hunger and access to water are political problems not scientific ones.
I don't really understand the american need for a credit card.

In germany, I pay almost everything either in cash or via bank transfer, usually pull. I got a prepaid card a while ago, mostly to pay for american services (seriously, I only ever pay to american corporations with it). My debit card (EC card) is almost universal and directly connected to the bank account, no credit needed.

CC is barely supported, EC is a lot better in terms of coverage. Even then I usually apologize when using the card for anything below 100€ or so at my local supermarket.

I don't see much reason to go CC or EC fully, I always keep some cash in my wallet, not too much but enough to hold me over for a week. If I need more I go to the Bank's ATM and get more. Easy.

Cash-free payment would also be fairly illegal, a business must accept cash payments (though a limit of 50 coins is there, notes are unrestricted) for any purchase in person (online businesses don't have to IIRC).
This reminds me of the books that claim to be able to make you a millionaire. how? By selling a book claiming to make you a millionaire.
well when you have a PE ratio of 33 anything but forward progress is bad.
Sure but what if I don't live in the corporatist dystopia that is the USA?
FYI, BBC Radio 4 is available on the BBC IPlayer Radio app. That might be more convenient than longwave.

The BBC doesn't geoblock its radio shows, unlike the TV programmes, which can only be viewed from a UK IP address.
Ya ya thanks John. Real subtle.
It's interesting that the ads target elderly people. It takes a relatively smaller number of elder customers to get at least partial DNA sequences for a larger swath of the population.

My personal conspiracy theory is all these biometric recognition (such as face) and DNA sequencing services are serving to compile a vast human identification database. With all the Intagraming, live streaming, voice listeners, etc. it becomes much easier to have mass surveillance. Someone is wanted by the FBI? Well, maybe he'll show up in a friend's daughter's Instagram selfie, or random tourist snapping pix, or Alexa listening into his friend's home. No more need for painstaking installation of covert surveillance to get the perp. Furthermore, with access and analysis of someone's online posts, this opens up the possibility to detect future crime. I bet there is big government money now for startups that can correlate a person across all these data sources.

Plus, this doesn't have to be in the government's hands. Dark web sellers have access to all this and more with all the data breaches. Such data can be used to compile lucrative targets for blackmailing or kidnapping, along with a pattern of life to make them easy to pick up.
One thing I have been wondering - how will they monetize WhatsApp?
Oh, but we already do have that, over there: https://jquery.com/

What's with the trend "jQ is old, old is bad! We need something that does the same thing, and most importantly is not named jQuery"?
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Except to say that there were "instances of Facebook releasing data" makes it sound you misunderstand the technical details of what happened, and if so, why would that be? Because despite the media writing half a forest worth on the subject, actually information that would help us understand what took place was exceedingly rare.
I feel this time it really is different. Firstly, there were the anti-competitive practices by Intel (which saw them fined). There are a few other factors as well. The fact that these CPUs really are something special. As they manage to reach the same base clock speeds as Intel - or near enough - you're going to be getting up to 64 cores/128 threads (compared with 24/48 if you used Intel stuff) in a server for about half, or even less, of what the equivalent Intel CPUs would cost.

Another big thing, i feel, these days is people are able to A. communicate this better, and B. call Intel on their bullshit. I've seen a LOT more hype, understanding, and word of mouth via forums etc. than around the 2000s when the stock was last high. Granted there is a bit of a hype at the moment around crypto currency, I genuinely can't see why anyone will be picking Intel over AMD in the future... and that's the crux of why I don't think the stocks going to crash.

Now, Intel's CEO got fired, they also poached one of the top AMD engineers. But these guys move slowly. So i guess we will see.
Facebook's free food banned as Silicon Valley restaurants hit back
Finding Medicines for Rare Diseases with AI
"I have zero concern about how big or crazy component code is until it's so huge it impacts page size." Me and my mobile browser would like to have a few words with you. Not everything that can execute JS is a supercomputer...performance still matters.
Can't read the article yet (server is overloaded?), but I just came across a great video by MindSmash that addresses this subject very well. "There are no beautiful surfaces without terrible depths." - Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhZuBhX6Fw
I've purchased a handful of Dante Labs 30x WGS kits on Amazon over the last couple of days. You didn't hear it from me, but the kits are still on sale on Amazon for $349...

... And an additional secret $100 discount during checkout.

This is $250 WGS at 30x coverage. It should be front-page news.
Yes, that was the point. What did you think I thought Sizzle was?
I haven't combed the entire thread, so I can't speak for everyone, but I'd like to address some of your points more generally.

Before I begin: thanks for the calm and reasoned discourse - I've found it difficult to have open discussions like these with Brexit supporters, mostly because I don't know many.

Firstly, I think many making these arguments aren't suggesting the vote should be ignored, simply that it resulted in a bad choice being made. Criticising the result of a vote isn't an attack on democracy in itself; for example, I disagree with the result of the Alternative Vote referendum, which would have actually made our electoral system more democratic.

"Arguments that since the vote, Leavers have died while Remainers have come of age." - again, I don't think this invalidates the vote; it's just an observation about demographics. It's also worth noting that it's not anti-democratic to suggest holding another vote when either the demographics or the facts/information at-hand has changed.

"That the margins were too close and this somehow invalidates the vote." - curiously, referendums that decide on whether to change something almost always require a 60% majority vote for change in order to succeed. This was the case with the Alternative Vote referendum (where it didn't matter), but strangely not with the Brexit referendum (where it did). The reason for this is to partly account for the large number of people who don't vote; most of these are assumed to be happy with the status quo.

"That the public is not qualified to vote on this question." - it's kind of a given that the public wasn't qualified to vote on this; just as we're not qualified to vote on most matters of parliament. We have a "Parliamentary Democracy", which means we elect representatives to vote on issues on our behalf. The concept being that, since it's their full-time job, they have ample time to research the issues and to better understand them than we can. It's perplexing to many that an issue as complicated as Brexit was put to the public when so many MPs are unable to fully understand it.

Also, the Brexit referendum is not legally binding. The government had the opportunity to ensure that it was, but decided against it. Technically speaking, the government/parliament are free to completely ignore the result. The reason they don't isn't that it'd be illegal, but that it would be political suicide, due to the demographic nature of the Leave vote.

"That the result is invalidated by outside meddling." - there's a fair bit of anger at how corrupt the Leave campaign was: from blatantly misrepresenting the truth to breaking electoral law on spending limits. They did this because they knew they could get away with it: once the vote was over, the organisation would no longer exist, and there would be no-one to punish. Sure, you can level some fines against a few individuals, but most of their behaviour will go unpunished. The only thing anyone can think of that would discourage this behaviour in the future is to re-run the referendum, but even then, it's not a perfect solution. Their deeds cannot be undone.
We do. It's called Piper:
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
How do you make Flash files in 2018? I don't see export as Flash in any of the programs I use, I am sure other programs have them though. Maybe the option needs to be purged from the toolchain as well as the browser.
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