skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I understand it's fraught and as I've just amply demonstrated, someone is always going to whine about something. It's just weird to see you all line up one after the other and and robotically announce your affiliation in the format typically used for unexpected-conflict-of-interest when it's actually important, not a conflict and you're trying to be helpful.

That and I enjoy the largely futile but infinitely noble fight against various HN-mandated atrocities against basic English style and I want you to be free.
Preparing cybersecurity now for a quantum world [pdf]
As much of a chuckle as I got from this article... It's actually not hard.
Disclosure: I work on Astronomer.io, an open source Airflow platform and SaaS, and also contribute to Airflow.

IMO the pros / cons are really relative to what you're comparing it to and what your workflow needs are.

We've written some guides on "Airflow vs ___" [1] (currently AWS Glue and Oozie). Feel free to email me (in profile) if you'd like to see a comparison to something else.

I like these two posts on Airflow vs Luigi, Pinball, Azkaban, etc [2][3].

[1]: https://www.astronomer.io/guides/

[2]: http://bytepawn.com/luigi-airflow-pinball.html

[3]: https://robinhood.engineering/why-robinhood-uses-airflow-aed...
Sure. But they are still at best delivering "the most enjoyable experience where the enjoyment is bounded by the content that Netflix can afford to license."

A user can hit those constraints when they search for something that exists but is not available on Netflix.

That point becomes noteworthy when that same content (or portions of it) are available elsewhere on the net. In my experience this is typically through:

a) downloading a torrent of the content that is missing from Netflix

b) watching all or some portion of that content on Youtube
This one?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/conferencecall.biz/audio/78.mp3
> Trump won because of Facebook. I don't know why these guys are complaining.

You tar with rather a broad brush. Is it really so inconceivable that there are conservatives who disapprove of Trump and the far-right? Is it really so inconceivable that there are long-time liberals who don't agree with significant aspects of current liberalism?

Modern liberals should be wary of a hardline "us-vs-them" mindset lest they come to discover that there are more of "them" than there are of "us".
I assume someones clicked the [FLAG] button too many times. There's no requirement or dialog that asks why a flag is placed.

I've seen this type of license abuse before. I think it was some windows joystick remapping software that forbid Israel from using it. But to see "Social Justice Cause of the Week" hosted in a licensing document tells me very strongly that this software is pure amateur hour and to steer anyone around me away.

Stallman puts it best in his essay here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

" There would be programs banned for use in meat processing, programs banned only for pigs, programs banned only for cows, and programs limited to kosher foods. Someone who hates spinach might write a program allowing use for processing any vegetable except spinach, while a Popeye fan might allow use only for spinach. There would be music programs allowed only for rap music, and others allowed only for classical music. " - RMS
Url changed from https://twitter.com/IOpipes/status/1034846728216825856, which points to this.
Activist investor pushes Tesla Apple and others to disclose employment practices
From a legal perspective the idea of blocking companies from using open source code seems pretty interesting. It says 'subsidiary thereof', but aren't there fancier relationships between related business entities that can be abused? Furthermore, is specifying 'Microsoft Corporation' even valid? MS operates all over the world and is registered all over the place. By specifying 'Microsoft Corporation' alone, what does this designate legally?
As George Carlin pointed out[1], it's the context of the use of language that determines whether it's good or bad. So machine learning just sucks at determining context. Trying to get people to stop being offended by the utterance of arbitrary sounds probably will never happen, but at least we can make computers less stupid.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvdXxhLPa8 (trigger warning: comedy)
How is this not a copyright violation? If I had contributed under the old license, they cannot relicense my contribution under a substantially different license without my consent.
Hello... Hello...
That's a nice write up :) Language plays a big role in helping people out of their holes. Check out Marshall Rosenberg's Non-violent Communication and then think about how you could rewrite the same comment. It will push you to get past just expressing the problem well.
We know how to make Helium using fusion, so we'll never "run out". However we'll definitely run out of Helium that is cheap enough to fill your hard disk with.
When I turn my computer off and on again, I don't lose all my files.
Why does that matter? Look at my profile, you can figure out who I am instantly.
Perhaps you're failing to properly appreciate how wonderful the status quo actually is because you're comparing it to a fantasy instead of plausible alternatives.

I don't know your specific politics but I bet you don't constantly find ways to inject it into every conversation and every relationship.
Helium is also used in liquid fueled rockets to pressurize tanks and some pneumatics. I can't image how much we sent to space in the Apollo era alone.
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Five seconds in Google Maps:

Islamic Sharia Council
34 Francis Rd, London E10 6PW, UK
+44 20 8558 0581
https://goo.gl/maps/uVXqgkMMTYx
Steps to Autonomy
When Science Was Big (2017)
That's a good point--I used to keep tests outside the package, but it seems like some projects make good use of having people who open issues run the unit tests beforehand.
Thanks for sharing. Personally, I think BEAKL looks very good:

Firstly, I found that keeping the up/down & left/right keys beneath the index and middle fingers was very comfortable to use with the RSTHD layout[0]. It follows then that I probably will enjoy how BEAKL places it's nav keys. Perhaps I will like it even more, because the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys are also very important to me too - keys which seem to be positioned very ergonomically with BEAKL.

Secondly, RSTHD attempts to better organize the upper numrow by putting the most used numbers closer to the middle and index fingers. This BEAKL layout doesn't quite do that, but it nearly eliminates the numrow, which is one thing I actually like about the Technomancy's Atreus [1].

Thirdly, because of my experiences with the Atreus, now I'm a fan of mods on the thumb cluster. The designers of BEAKL also seem to be fans of it. To realize this benefit, I would have to find a variant of an ergo keyboard [2], rather than an ortholinear keyboard [3] suitable for it.

These days I use Dvorak most of the time. It is the first keyboard layout that I intentionally tried to learn without printed legends on my keycaps, so it now comes most naturally to me while typing. With QWERTY, I have developed over a long time a habit of looking at the keyboard sometimes, so I have difficulty typing as efficiently with it. Luckily Windows 10 and GNOME on Linux both allow easy switching of keyboard layouts (Win+Space) so it's not difficult for me to use these on a number of computers both at home and at work.

I am curious about trying BEAKL so will put it on my list of things to do. For now, I feel that it would be most important to learn the Steno layout for typing 200+ WPM via Plover [4]. Perhaps a BEAKL keyboard with a Plover function layer might be ideal.

[0] https://xsznix.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsth...

[1] https://atreus.technomancy.us/

[2] https://deskthority.net/wiki/ErgoDox

[3] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Staggering#Matrix_layout

[4] https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/
You'd have to carve it fairly deep into the rock.
It's complex because if a single corporation has a monopoly on all the news, a single company can filter all speech. There are alternatives currently but it doesn't make it less of a monopoly.
Can‘t find the JavaScript connection. Guess you‘re simply trying a little too hard trolling around.

Edit: To all the Nulls, thanks for the downvotes.
We did that when Bill Clinton ordered that the National Helium Reserve be sold off. The "Helium Privatization Act", as it was called, was disastrous. The price dropped precipitiously, and in turn every third-tier college bought their high-field NMR. A boon for Bruker and Varian, less so for science.
mann.. completely relate to this.

my understanding is that trying to buck the trend will still keep my attention on the trend I'm trying to buck. As when riding a motorcycle, keep your attention on the place you're trying to move to rather than the one you're trying to avoid.

so instead my focus should be on things that truly move me.

good luck on this journey, I definitely feel ya.

edit: for me, making the world better (however minutely), and community are important. I now stop & help/talk with homeless people and also started this site: https://www.spane.org
The original 1969 paper by McCarthy and Hayes defining frame is here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcchay69.pdf

In this sense, a frame describes the state of a system in time, like (metaphorically) a film frame. Dennett also uses frames in this sense. (But see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/ which incidentally doesn't cite Minsky.)

Minsky's 1974 paper doesn't cite McCarthy and Hayes, and he seems to be using frame in a different and more general sense, as a structure for holding data. Whether he had the frame problem in the back of his mind I don't know, but he doesn't address it directly in his paper and I can't find any evidence it was his intention.

In any case, frames in the Minsky sense have been used successfully in other systems, such as AM and Eurisko, as well as EMYCIN, and also in the Semantic Web.
>The appropriate entity to police children's behavior is the parent.

I believe this assumes that the generation of the parent understands the psychological warfare being waged on them and their children. Not everyone can recognize an attacker until it is too late.

Whether the attacker is a family member that is also a sexual predator, or a team of psychoanalysts at Facebook, the damage is done all too often before anyone recognizes it.
Ask HN: What buzzwords or expressions do you dislike the most?
I always hear people say “I’ll talk to you offline” during meetings, but logically it never made sense to me.
MDMA quickly loses its effect, though. I've done it twice in a month before and even then the second time wasn't that great. I'll only experience full waves once a month at most. And you can't just take more next time. It doesn't work. It will just give you a suicide tuesday.
Asbestos in a Crayon, Benzene in a Marker: A School Supply Study’s Toxic Results
Evidence that the sea level is rising? Or that the cause is anthropogenic climate change?
No one is saying that. In fact I very specifically used the words empower and curtail.
"One of the problems is that our helium supply comes as a byproduct of the oil and gas industry so as we switch to renewable energy sources the yearly supply will diminish even as demand increases."

Unlikely. It is not a byproduct of the oil industry. It is very specifically a byproduct of the gas industry. NG is the least carbon intensive fossil fuel so it's likely to lag. Further, you can separate and reinject.
I used to know a guy whose name (really) was Michael Hunt.
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

- Jazz didn't begin to die on Kind of Blue. That was a popular, well selling jazz record. Rather than setting Jazz on a path to irrelevance, Kind of Blue reinvigorated the genre and inspired an abundance of accessible and innovative material in the years following its release.

- Alice Coltrane is not the "Yoko Ono" of Jazz. She made a lot of good records. And Yoko Ono isn't bad for that matter. I like her solo music better than John's.

- Many people besides music critics and academics enjoy Coltrane's late period. Some of us like abrasive, chaotic music.
This is really cool, nice work!

I tried 'horse' (https://picular.co/horse) and I got some interesting results, some sky and grassy colours as well. Where do you get the photos from, and will searches give the same results every time or do they vary?
We're using fixed wireless. Advances in that technology have made high speed broadband feasible in areas with high wireless interference like LA. We believe wireless is the best path for what we're doing. It doesn't require interfacing with existing infrastructure anywhere but at the towers/APs, it deploys and redeploys quickly, and can provide competitive speeds and beyond.

More importantly, it gives us the freedom of building our own infrastructure, since access to public infrastructure is prohibitively expensive--by design, it seems.
> A muslim coworker told me that "jihad" being synonymous with "holy war" is pretty much just a western thing, it could also be referring to an internal struggle, so it's similar to christians naming a child "Chastity".

Which actually explains a lot about the infamous quote, "The main character, Spongebob, lives inside a giant pineapple. How do you think he acquired that house? Through jihad."
Was it Leonard Nimoy?
How is 1) more broadly applicable? Nobody wants to pay money for anything. Perhaps you could say _would_ pay money for if they had to. Even still, the world of internet users has been trained to get a lot of great valuable things for free (Google, facebook and virtually every other consumer service) so their willingness to pay is skewed heavily towards free
And I'm sure people criticize twitter on twitter all the time (likewise for youtube).

I think the licensing change was foolish, and I wouldn't hold it against MS if they decided to kick the Lerna project off of Github because of this. Hypocrisy (if that is even what this is) is not the worst aspect of this change. What's wrong here is that this kind of licensing (if it became widespread) would result in a legal minefield that would destroy the open source ecosystem.
Yes, this is why Founders at Work is such a great book: it's full of interviews and case studies, and the reader is free to interpret the stories and learn their own lessons.
Thanks for the constructive comment, I'll keep it in mind.
Native Americans have the fun problem of taking a lot of grief (and some Facebook deletions[3]) for last names like "Yellow Bird", "Good Iron", "Walking Eagle", and "Has No Horses". In fact, I was a little disappointed with a thread on this and some of the logic[1][2].

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364933

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367657

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025246
Solving the Cold-Start Problem in Energy Timeseries (ML Competition)
Secure Your ASP.NET Webforms App with OpenID Connect
And if we set x=[0], then x==x is true and x!=x is also true...

And []+[] = ""
And []+{} = [object Object]
And {}+[] = 0
And {}+{} = NaN
Excited to share the latest DrivenData competition, which features a tricky data problem of bootstrapping a good prediction off of limited data in a cold-start scenario.

Should be an interesting challenge, with a unique structure and uncommon dataset!
it brings on the ability to see yourself and your actions with compassion and forgiveness that is not present in baseline consciousness

Didn't use MDMA but this was a core part of my treatment for PTSD (combat related). We (semi-religious therapist and I) dove deep into triggering feelings and memories and connected with them and I was basically able to forgive myself and others. Changed my life.
I've seen this before and still can't figure out if it's an ad or a Godspeed You Black Emperor song.
Uh oh. A closed source browser plugin "offered by 2fb.me"

Posted to HN for the 7th time.

No indication why the author made this. No link to their profile as a developer or anything. Suspicious.

I would never hand over control of my browser to a third party unless they have a very strong history of trustworthiness.

If this is genuine, a self contained bookmarklet would be a better solution. Then people could look at the code (probably a small oneliner) and see it does what it says it does.
Obligatory link to Bobby Tables, for those who have been living under a rock:

https://xkcd.com/327/
So it lasted 3 days?

https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/betterslack

From that post:

> I may build an Electron app that patches the Electron app… so far, that’s what makes the most sense to me. But we’ll see.

Even if this was against the ToS, could it be stopped? I didn't know one Electron app could target the other.
[full disclosure, Airflow committer here]
I've never heard of "HP Operation Orchestration", but that looks like a drag and drop enterprise tool from a different Windows-GUI era. Airflow is very different, it's workflows defined as code which is a totally different paradigm. The Airflow community believes that when workflows are defined as code, it's easier to collaborate, test, evolve and maintain them. Though maybe the HP tool exposes an API?

To address some of your comments:

- About stability, I'm not sure what version you've used, or which executor you were using, but if stability was a concern I don't think we'd have such a large and thriving community. Nothing is perfect, but clearly it's working well for hundreds of companies.

- About stopping jobs, if the task instance state is altered or cleared (through the web ui or CLI), the task will exit and the failure will be handled. Earlier versions (maybe 1-2 years back?) did not always do that properly.

- About Python: Python 3.7 was released late June 2018, and I think there are PRs addressing the `async` issue already. We fully support 2.7 to 3.6, and 3.7 very soon. You need to give software a chance and a bit of time to adapt to new standards. I wonder which % of pypi packages support 3.7 at this point, or how many have 3.7 in their build matrix, but my guess is that it's very low.

- XCOMs are fine in many cases, though if you're not passing data or metadata from a task to another that doesn't mean that there's no context that exist for the execution of the task. We recommend having determinisc context and data locations (meaning the same task instance would always target the same partition or data location).

- Dynamic: the talk linked to above clarifies what kind of dynamism Airflow supports. It's very common to build DAGs dynamically, though the shape of the DAG cannot shape at runtime. Conceptually an Airflow DAG is a proper directed acyclic graph, not a DAG factory or many DAGs at once. Note that you can still write dynamic DAG factories if you want to create DAGs that change based on input.

- No optimization: the contract is simple, Airflow executes the tasks you define. While you can do data-processing work in Python inside an Airflow task (data flow), we recommend to use Airflow to orchestrate more specialized systems like Spark/Hadoop/Flink/BigQuery/Presto to do the actual data processing. Airflow is first and foremost an orchestrator.

- DAG parsing timeouts are configurable. DAG creation times for large DAGs have been improved in the past versions. But clearly it's easier for humans to reason about smaller DAGs. DAGs with thousands of tasks aren't ideal but they are manageable.

One thing to keep in mind is that thriving open source software evolves quickly, and Airflow gets 100+ commits monthly, and has dozens of engineers from many organizations working on it full time. From what I can see it's clearly the most active project in this space.
Assume the Worst: Enumerating AWS Roles Through ‘AssumeRole’
Ivy League is a specific name for north eastern universities in a 'sports league'

I would consider stanford a top tier school... but ivy league appears to have a specific definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#Members
of course, because you then look at the gender before hiring someone and that's discrimination.

however, it is not discrimination if someone is against favouring a certain gender in hiring to achieve a gender balanced workforce. that's just his opinion and should be able to say it without repercussions.
>it uses a license that Stallman does not endorse.

This is false. Stallman does in fact endorse the MIT license under limited circumstances:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License

"This is a fine license for a small program."
The video titled 'don´t talk to the police' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE is a very serious message from a lawyer and a cop not to say a single word since it will be used against you.
The same is true for Musk and twitter.
>So, who are you quoting when you use the phrase 'record breaking drought'

Quoting the article on which this comment is being made.
No there's really only one kind of helium, with varying levels of purity. Even balloon helium is usually almost 100% pure. Helium is never extracted from the air; there isn't enough of it there to be practical. We get it as a byproduct of natural gas extraction.
Man, people love making those damn lists.
One question that chart brings to mind though is what is the loss/recapture/reuse rate for those various uses? Many clearly involve atmospheric venting so they're just a loss, but I'd imagine cryogenics at least must often have at least the potential for reuse of parts of it.

Party balloons are a 100% loss though, so even if they're only a lesser fraction of that 13% "Other" category (7%? 4%?) every bit that goes there ends up vented so I could see that adding up over time vs others.

Ideally proper pricing would help take care of this but that's pretty hard for something like helium.
Also: two letter surnames

You wouldn't think a lot of sites check for a minimum name length, but they do.
I had an actual comp sci textbook in college written by Harold Beaver.
> At the dawn of August 7, we saw large black spheres coming and going with great speed and precipitation before the sun and chattered as if they led a fight. Many of them were fiery red and, soon crumbled and then extinguished.
I guess whether you think jazz is dead is partly dependent on how far you're willing to stretch what you count as jazz--which, I suppose, is the problem--jazz has become so diffuse. A lot of the more recent stuff I listen to is on John Zorn's Tzadik label, which leans toward the avant-garde and 'radical jewish culture' thing. So it's already pretty tangential, jazz-wise.

But I still remember the first time I listened to a Coltrane album, I think it was Live at the Village Vanguard, and it was like a third eye opening in my head.
From what I remember reading, the problem points are really the Arctic and the Antarctic. If they melt, hello Waterworld.

For example, the ice cover in Greenland is melting at a record rate. If it goes completely, this alone would raise the sea level with something like 7 m (23 ft).

If everything goes, it will be something like a 65 m (213 ft) sea level rise.

Now, given the sluggishness of action-taking in this matter, some of the ice cover will almost certainly melt before anything gets done.

The end result will probably be much more than a few feet, but less than the maximum, so let's guess 30 m (100 ft).

Now, I suppose some self-correcting actions are automatically taken when enough people get displaced and pour to dry areas: traffic ceases in the coastal cities, air traffic to these areas will cease as well, factories will stop, and so on.

But still... given +30 m, have you already checked where the current coastline would be where you live?