skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it seems that the author has no clue about the distros at all. This is basically a bunch of "wikipedia" descriptions, some of them are even false. For example Arch Linux only supports x64 (i686 was dropped in 11.2017).
I don't imagine the creators of the bot accounts were too upset by Twitter eventually banning millions of their creations. Now they get to sell millions of additional accounts to the same people all over again.

It doesn't take any fancy machine learning to figure out what is happening.
It's not even relevant because electricity is not an ISP and an ISP is not a social network, and net neutrality doesn't exist. And power companies can cut your power!
I think "whack-a-mole" might best describe the proclivity for regulation to fix unintended side-effects of previous regulation, causing more unintended side-effects. Or maybe "the cure is worse than the disease?"

Being on a very small governmental body, I witnessed first-hand the tendency to want to "do something" when confronted with a potential problem - And it did come to pass several times that we enacted policy that later seemed to have made the original situation worse or caused another flare-up in issues that had not existed before.

My experience is it can be very difficult to enact good public policy... And frequently an efficient (unfettered) capitalist market will come up with a solution more elegant than what we could contemplate.

I am left thinking this is a basic truism...
Google restricts access to the search results carousel to AMP. If they did it in a neutral manner by measuring performance almost all of the criticism would evaporate.
The author seem to be implying conversion loss from pre/post which may be affected from many factors including seasonality - I’m wondering why didn’t he do an A/B for a radical design like that?
It is my understanding that Pocket by default phones home with the articles recommended to you as well as your interaction with them on the new tab page.
Given that these recommendations are generated using your local browsing history they leak info. Based on your recommended articles they can determine what subset of the daily site set matches with your browsing history.

A more focused attack could purposely poison the daily site set with obscure bad site(s); any users that receive these recommendation should have some browsing history intersection with the bad sites.
Wouldn't it be pointless to make something that nobody buy?
It doesn't punish anyone. This is entirely a anti-racial-equality talking point with no basis in fact.
This is insanely helpful. As employee #1 at a startup, should I get my 83b up front or in ~1 year when my first quarter of stock has vested?
Are Your Windows Forms and WPF Applications Ready for .NET Core 3.0?
This is an area where Amazon/AWS/Sumerian are going to shine.

I can see a world where retailers on Amazon.com are incentivized or forced to submit 3D models of their products along when creating a for sale posting.

Consumers will put on their AR glasses, or use WebVR to to visualize the item before they purchase.

Amazon will have the gatekeeping power to force vendors to use a certain standard 3D modeling process, or have an in-house team receive the products and use photogrammetry/CAD modeling.

How much value/productivity will this generate - separate question but one worth asking.
Not sure "this always happens so get used to it / stop complaining / don't be surprised" does anything other the blame the person getting harassed.

The argument is indeed dangerously close to "you dressed immodestly so you deserve it".

It's only missing the deserve sentiment, but is still roughly, "X always happens when you do Y, so it's your fault that X happens if you keep doing Y"
The Lounge: A modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
Already existed for years at Daqri with pretty robust support, implementation capabilities and proof points in industry. Uptake is lackluster and sales cycles are long.

https://daqri.com/

https://shop.daqri.com/
They weren't at a disadvantage outside the US, that is the whole point. Apple's effective tax rate on profits in the EU, before the EC ruled otherwise, was less than 0.05% between 2011 and 2014. Money which they are using to compete in the rest of the world. For example from Apple's SEC Form 10-K, 2017:

"[...] undistributed foreign earnings, a substantial portion of which was generated by subsidiaries organized in Ireland, for which no U.S. taxes are provided when such earnings are intended to be indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S."

http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=320193-17-7...
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm
I'm not sure, but it seems like the site/service this article is referencing is for either coders, or people who need coders, but either way is targeting a more-technical / business-oriented audience.

What is the overlap on the Venn diagram between "people who like to use AMP" and "people who are technical enough to need this service"? My first instinct would be that it's low.
I don't know where it would be in mine-able format. There is this for instance: https://www.smcvt.edu/on-campus/offices-and-services/institu....
We're talking about bail here. Your comment assumes prosecutors must hold the accused in jail until trial. If the prosecutor is worried about paying out wrongful imprisonment compensation, just don't hold them in jail for 6 months while their trial is waiting (by setting bail low enough for them to pay it).

Right now the equation for deciding whether to hold someone in jail is entirely weighted to indiscriminately holding them for an indefinite amount of time. Why? Because it has zero impact on the state. The state finds it a little more convenient to hold them until trial (risk of runaway etc) so they do it for any minuscule reason while the life of the accused is thoroughly fucked.

Wrongful imprisonment compensation re-balances that equation. Now when setting bail instead of only considering runaway risk, they also have to consider the strength of the evidence and severity of the crime and balance it against the risk of losing the case and having to pay out compensation. This is still a little weighted towards the state but is much less one-sided than the current system.
It’s tough. At the same time, I think website content should matter over style.
It reminds me my own library IvanK.js , for which I created several interesting graphics demos :) http://lib.ivank.net/?p=demos
How a Neural Network Compares Brain MRIs in a Flash
Magic Leaps AR is like amazon was ten years ago. Its hemorrhaging money left, right and center, and it offers something no other is offering right now.

The chance, to be there, have a foot in the door, when this thing explodes and wraps the whole world in a new layer of devices.

And these devices have the chance to replace everything- you can see and must not touch to function. Want a comprehensive list - look around you.

PC-Screens, TV-Screens, Room-Decorations, Pets, Inflated-Ego-Expression - and all of this, in just one room. This can reform public spaces, city's will have themes on a daily basis- yesterday was Venetian carnival, today its inception town.

And the best of it all- none of these goods will require a environmental footprint to manufacture- trade will have a huge chunk taken out- and moved into a steam-like ecosystem. Who's entrance fee- will look like peanuts to the revenue gained.
> “You can integrate Nim code into your Python codebase just as readily as any other compiled language, including Cython. Cython produces shared libraries conforming to Python C-API, and you can do the same in Nim.”

You can’t integrate as easily as with Cython at all (for instance any Python file is immediately already a valid Cython file). To boot, you don’t have to generate Python C-API code with Cython, you can just produce pure C shared object files and interactvwith it via cffi or ctypes if you want, or even just write an entire program in C with Cython and not have any CPython execution model anywhere in it.

The bigger benefit though is that you can target optimizations to specific subsets of code by creating both the CPython api for them and the underlying C implementation in one place, with just one kind of syntax.

> “Having very similar, but different in surprising ways, language for extensions may be actually more of a problem then what developer familiarity might buy you.”

I don’t understand this. Cython is a superset of Python. It’s not “different in surprising ways” because if you write Python it’s literally not different.

It has extra features you optionally can use, but that’s in no sense “different in surprising ways.” If a feature surprised you, it would be because you did not understand its usage, and not because it was a tricky, different way to achieve the same effect as something in pure Python (because to do that, you’d just write Python).

In terms of “better facilities” I am hesitant to engage because it seems like your mind is made up that e.g. Cython is “mish mash” and I highly doubt you would genuinely consider the significant design flaws of Nim (and in general I hate how religious about Nim these discussions always seem to be on HN), but one particular issue is the nasty Sum Type syntax in Nim with a companion enum for value constructors. Compared with fused types in Cython (which auto-generate the whole multiple dispatch apparatus and don’t need pattern matching), I’d prefer taking Cython as a way to make performant and polymorphic type safe code in Python any day.
The entire thesis is that they're starting from harder place, without necessarily having a superior talent distribution. Therefore, it's not unexpected they'd have a longer mean time to peak performance (which is what studies show).

The same is true, by the way, of folks with extremely religious anti-science backgrounds (like me!).

Either way, graduation standards don't change.
Very nice job on this. Will use for a noise points visualizer. Well done.
"eventually, the water sources will become so salty that they can not be used for desalination any more"

Where do you think the water will go? I mean, if it doesn't end up in the ground, or the ocean...
I’ve found that I’m at least more willing to make quick typo fixes and deploy them when I just have to make the change locally and do a single push. This is especially true (for me) when there is some additional web content that is not generated by mkdocs.
Social Media Startup Uses New AI to Schedule Posts
That's exactly what we're looking for!
You should really be careful about c preprocessor macros when you do things like this with .c files. You should always undefine any macros defined in a file which are not properly namespaced(as much as C allows for pseudo namespacing).
Things get added to AWS all of the time, but if are using the same set of services, training is a one time thing. Amazon doesn’t just pull the rug out from under you.
The cure for the confused talk of accents being "dull", "grating", "neutral", "jarring", "ugly", "guttural", etc. is to observe that dialects have these associations merely because of the social statuses of the people who speak them. In other words, the linguistic qualities of the dialect itself do not play any role in determining how the dialect will be viewed by others. It's a bundle of *isms wearing a linguistic fedora.
plus that's tax-free cash!
This confuses admission standards (which are arbitrary) with graduation standards (which are also transparent and subject to regulation and practical workforce critique).
Long story short: security is hard.

Launching these new unmodified Second Generation runtimes required us to develop new security and isolation technology (based on gVisor [1]). This allows us to securely run arbitrary code on shared data centers with isolation guarantees. This took us significantly longer than expected. The good news is, now that we have this new stack in place, we should be able to deliver runtime updates significantly faster.

[1] https://github.com/google/gvisor
That's really interesting. I wonder if @yegg knows about this. Might be another nice marketing topic he can explore.
> in some states

Look, power companies can cut power. Sure there are rules, but the point still stands that they can do it. But it's not even relevant because getting your power cut can affect your ability to remain alive.

Not posting on Facebook is not going to kill anyone.
$2k seems unreasonable and I'm having trouble thinking of reasons why that is.
It sounds like a good compromise would be to allow people to check out with a credit card/paypal and have an instant conversion to BTC behind the scenes, maybe with a 2% fee or something.
Another way to see this problem is: you have too much energy at the wrong time of day. This is a fundamental problem with unmitigated installation of green technologies without grid level storage mechanisms. The green plants are losing money while this is happening.

Solar/wind energy aren't delivering enough power in non-peak operation to shutdown other traditional sources. It is just the coal/traditional power industry optimizing for total profit...
I believe the title should be updated to say 3.7 as the article title does. The .7 is pretty significant to those who would be interested in this.
That's true. But you only need to re-format the events you care about from that dependency.
Whence does this idea spring, that prosecutors are "under pressure"? I can't think of a single more conspicuously impune position in our society. There are lots of ethical prosecutors, but there are also lots of prosecutors who have destroyed innocent lives for their personal political gain. Maybe the latter group have to hang their heads in private prosecutor meetings, but from the public's perspective they are treated the same as the ethical prosecutors.
Probably because Affirmative Action doesn't have direct influence on rejections, only admissions.

But if you think publicly funded colleges should have 100% transparent admission standards, I'm behind you all the way. They should!
Can Lightfield be done without glasses eventually? Every popular depiction of AR in sci-fi is glasses-free, because wearing glasses everytime you want to do AR is a nuisance and impractical. For example, the interactive and holographic models in The Expanse series. If Magic Leap is paving the way for that technology, then I hope they stay on their course despite the criticisms toward their first product.
Alternate theory: increased traffic congestion leads to lower speeds resulting in fewer pedestrian deaths
Equality-enhancing mortgages WERE subprime mortgages. Congress pushed the banks into doing them in the early 2000s to extend credit to marginalized populations!

oh man, here we go again! I wonder if Y Combinator will fund my Collateralized Equality Enhanced Swap
So you can write "let x:const = 5"? if "const" is a type.
Ask HN: Any animators wants to swap explainer video for website?
I was looking for someone to do an explainer video for my website, but couldn't find a good one in my price range. Most freelancers online seems to be using the same animation template to create cheap explainer videos. So I was wondering if there are any good animators that wants to do a swap. In exchange for an explainer video, I will create a website for you hosted on GCloud using Kubernetes. I am looking for someone with experience and passion for their work. I will spend as much time on the website as you do on the explainer video. I am NOT, however, going to build your startup for you. I am thinking of someone that wants a portfolio or a blogging website to host their content. Fyi, a website will costs around a $100 to keep a server up on GCloud, so don't expect keeping the servers up will be free. If any animations are interested, you can contact me at ij99e3p@ahk.jp (throwaway email). Thanks.
That's totally orthogonal to the article though, I've seen this sort of behavior from viewers in streams where the streamer didn't even have a face cam.
I think this is a good thing. Only the strongest content will push through.

Before, if someone signed you, you were pretty much guaranteed some form of success.

I don't think that virality being required is a problem, all the songs I still listen from 20 years ago, and which are still played, I loved the first second I've heard and I would have shared them back then.
You forgot a third thing : the absolute total lack of originality in any kind of music aimed at the general audience, from folk to pop to rap or even techno. It's just complete garbage and the good things are just copies of what was done 30 years ago.

If you keep giving people the thing they've already heard and known, because you're afraid you'll make less download if you try something new, then you'll reach "local optimimum" in all genres.

Soon it will be all computer generated, and what we call "music composer" will finally be left to the people actually trying to compose something original. You know, like real artists.
The (datastore) client libraries take up the http request quota and the build-in mechanism of the Standard Environment is not. Google recommends going forward with client libraries everywhere in the documentation but what's the solution on the introduced request limitation which isn't mentioned anywhere? (Or is this finally fixed in the meanwhile?)
A more important difference is that affirmative action is generally used to favor under-represented demographics (or equivalently, to disfavor over-represented demographics). In this case it looks like they disfavored women while they were already under-represented! I'm not quite sure of this but that's what another article [1] suggests:

In 2010, before the measure was allegedly introduced, female student participation was about 40%.

The newspaper reported that after the two-round application process earlier this year, only 30 female applicants were accepted to study, versus 141 men.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45108272
If you're the kind of person who wants this, you may also be interested in my RSS feed of good HN commenters: http://hnblogs.thume.net/
There is one radical viewpoint that I believe holds for the law and computer security practices: if it is abusable it is fundamentally flawed. To give a deliberately extreme example imagine a law that gave the accusser fifty percent of the assets of a terrorist and the prosecutor the other fifty percent with no downsides for a false accusation. Fundamentally there is no way that said law wouldn't be abused for profit and make a complete hash out of justice.
Can you A/B test a site like that? I don't really know how AMP works (so I may be way off base), but from a user standpoint, since you don't seem to actually go to the page, just to Google's AMP version, I'd imagine there's no way to control whether the user is getting an AMP version or not in an A/B way. It seems like you're either AMP enabled (and the user gets AMP) or you're not (and they get the normal page).
Looks really cool! Though a simpler solution for most people will probably be OpenBSD's CARP protocol to share a single virtual IP between multiple boxes (with for example relayd). ECMP routing can get complex fast.
AMP simply goes too far for me. Google Search already decides which sites we see. Now they want to control what we see on those sites too? Nu-uh.
Functional programming!

Functional programming languages have several classic features that are now gradually adopted by none FP languages.

Lambda expressions [1] is one such feature originating from FP languages such as Standard ML (1984) or Haskell (1990) that is now implemented in C#3.0 (2007), C++11 (2011), Java8 (2014) and even JavaScript (ECMAScript 6, 2015).

Pattern matching [2] is another feature that is now^2015 implemented in C#7.0. My bet is that Java and other will follow in the next versions.

Here is a list of FP features. Some of which are already adopted by none FP languages: Lambda expressions, Higher order functions, Pattern matching, Currying, List comprehension, Lazy evaluation, Type classes, Monads, No side effects, Tail recursion, Generalized algebraic datatypes, Type polymorphism, Higher kinded types, First class citicens, Immutable variables.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching
I had a thought the other day:

Is there a mobile browser that tracks bandwidth used, and can tell me how much money I'm spending on bandwidth per domain?

I'd like to know which sites are parsimonious about page size. Then I'll limit my mobile browsing to those and ditch the ones that don't care.
I really can't believe how stupid people can be to say "const" is a type. Even if Klabnik will say it into my face it will not be true, I don't care about the book he wrote.
XY treatments should just go into the comments IMO. They are always relevant to the question (even if you know you want Y -- remember that SO is not just about giving you an answer but also about building a knowledge base), but they never even try to answer the question asked.
Yes I hold them to a higher standard and Mozilla is their own worst enemy. Off the top of my head I can think of

> german cliqz partnership/expirement

> Mr. Robot ad forced extension install

> Forcing Pocket into base Firefox

> Naive reassurances of Cloudflare's, an American company, privacy policy for DNS-Over-HTTPS

> Google Analytics on mozilla pages (can't run extensions on these domains)

>Obtuse refusal to change Screenshots UI elements to be less confusing (increase chance for user to upload to mozilla's cloud)

> Today's experiment of recreating Stumbleupon in the core browser including sharing your entire browser history with a third party
Deep learning to predict the lab-of-origin of engineered DNA [pdf]
That may imply Python 3 earlier than 3.7 was on GAE, which is not the case.
No, it isn't. It's easier to get away with cheating on your taxes if you're paid in cash, but cash is still taxable income. And if they do catch you, you can go to prison (as Robert Manafort is currently learning the hard way).
One of the issues here is affordable housing.

If the cost of housing were accessible to the common person without a loan then there would be no need to push the banks to extend who they loan to.

It's one of the criticisms of the Affordable Care Act - it's really the Mandated Insurance Act. If the cost of healthcare were such that insurance was not needed for people to access it then there would be no need to mandate that people have insurance.
You forget that "the good things from 30 years ago" were also called garbage when they appeared (mostly by parents).

It's the never ending story, old people calling youngsters music garbage.
1. What about posts and submission that never hit the front page? Statistically, most don't.

2. Are we sure that the downvotes were organic? Are we sure it wasn't an algorithmic attempt to fight vote brigading?
C++ is not pure OOP. you can write functional stuff quite well. the more recent C++ standard you are willing/are able to adopt the better it gets ;) C++17 is quite awesome.
Beyond fiction
Are there any billing changes for apps previously running within the free tier in standard environment?
Music throughout the centuries has always been subsidized by benefactors.

It wasn't until 19th century that the breadth of career options opened up for Musicians.

The struggle for "Pop" artists is that the definition of Pop changes every 5 years... and even then, Artists underestimate just how much promotion goes into driving streaming traffic.

But career options for scoring video games, multimedia, EDM, DJ, live bands, and teaching have never been better.
> Accountability for your opinions in that case just mean getting mocked by other people

Yup! That's one of the good ways of holding people accountable.
Not all parts of your app need to scale in the way you are talking about, that's the key thing FaaS detractors miss.