skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious did Spectrum send you a letter after the acquisition explaining that your service was being halved? Did the price go down with it or are you just paying more for less? This is the first I have heard of this.
I would love the ability to bookmark an entire site. Does this allow full spidering?
Log-out all your accounts from google, then the account you use the log-in first will be the account that gets logged in by default.
I really want sleeper buses in Europe like there are sleeper trains.
A More Efficient Way to Turn Sunlight into Fuel
You may have stuck to novels then, Fredric Brown was a big name in SF short stories. Most anthologies of the time have at least one of his stories.
He was one of my favorites as a kid, for his humor and his mastery of the very short format (which is in an art in itself).
People who enjoyed this might enjoy Rafael Rozendal's Abstract Browsing - http://www.abstractbrowsing.net/
An article about Murray Leinster came up on HN a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17882571), which, sadly, passed everyone by. Another great author who deserves rediscovery.
Why do you think this is about cost? The article says ”I've not had any network attached storage at home, because it's offgrid”, so I think it’s about preventing the house from powering down.
My grandfather, a chemistry professor, used to lend out his basement to any of his grad students who had no place to stay. His experience was entirely positive! They were nice people, and it was good to have a new friend in the house.

Students living with professors isn't necessarily a terrible idea.
Firefox has had profiles since at least 0.8, released in 2004, when it was renamed from Firebird, more than four and a half years prior to Google Chrome's release. This code, however, was inherited from Netscape Communicator 4, released more than a decade before Google Chrome. Hell, Netscape 4 predates Google!

However, since the profile code is so old, it is not accessible from the main interface; it must be accessed via a command line flag. Chrome learned from this mistake and exposed it in the graphical interface.

It is utterly false however to say that Firefox does not support profiles.
In mathematics, assuming 'void' is the empty set, the function void -> a exists, but is kind of trivial because it never returns anything, however functions a -> void can't exist because they'd have to return an element of void, which don't exist, the one exception being the function void -> void. Denoting A -> B as B^A this translates to:

a^0 = 1
0^a = 0
0^0 = 1

The fact that there's precisely 1 function void -> a is considered rather special in category theory, and means that 'void' is the so called 'initial object' for the category (which is automatically unique up to isomorphism).
That's not really that big of a blow. Unless I'm greatly misunderstanding their business, in which case I'd appreciate it if you enlightened me.
Pinning down just one would be nearly impossible, but I can tell you a small group that I consider indispensable.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank. This is a MUST read. If you read nothing else, make it this book. Note that there is a 2nd Edition, which changes the title to "The Startup Owner's Manual". There is a lot of overlap in the content, but enough difference to justify reading both, IMO. I would start with the older one.

The Discipline of Market Leaders - Fred Wiersema, Michael Treacy - another crucially important book IMO. Does a great job of explaining how there are many different vectors along which you can compete, and explains how choosing which vector you're going to compete on is fundamental to defining your business and market.

The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki. Lots of good basics on startups

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin. - Title says it all.

It's Not The Big That Eat The Small, It's The Fast That Eat The Slow - Jason Jennings

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Jack Trout and Al Ries

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind - Al Ries, Jack Trout, Philip Kotler

Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore

Mastering The Complex Sale - Jeff Thull - lays out an approach to selling that I believe is one of the best out there for enterprise / B2B. May not be as relevant for B2C or other approaches.

Exceptional Selling - Jeff Thull - more on Thull's selling approach.

The Prime Solution - Jeff Thull - and yet more still on Thull's selling approach.

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton Christensen

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

How To Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard. - Maybe one of the most important books I've ever read. The ideas in this book can apply in many domains, related to startups or otherwise. I can't recommend this one highly enough.

Repositioning: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change and Crisis - Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne

Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company’s Future - Patricia Seybold
Here's a quick little script I put together that should do the trick. It's idempotent, so it won't do anything if there are no updates. I did use `jq` for convenience though.

#!/bin/sh

curvers=
if command -V rg > /dev/null 2>&1; then
curvers="$(rg -V | cut -d' ' -f2)"
fi
latesturl="https://api.github.com/repos/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/latest"
latestvers="$(curl -s "$latesturl" | jq -r .tag_name)"
if [ "$curvers" = "$latestvers" ]; then
echo "ripgrep is up to date"
exit 0
fi

name="ripgrep_${latestvers}_amd64.deb"
url="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/$latestvers/$name"
(cd /tmp && curl -LO "$url" && sudo dpkg -i "$name")
echo "ripgrep updated from $curvers to $latestvers"
Not if you get english-only movies in TV since childhood.
The mood detection may as well be RNG.

I have an even better way to identify who is an expert on HN. Say "It's silly that X still isn't a thing." If X is a thing, you'll get ten people telling you why you're wrong within ten minutes. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941772

You'll have to trade some karma for the answer though.
Yup, I know. Actually, the official regexp implementation in rust (underlying ripgrep) is written by him, too.
The phrasing of "citation needed" was very much not the point here. It wasn't even an actual quote for us to debate its rudeness or politeness. If you read my original response, I merely used it as a terse placeholder representing the reaction in the top comment, which is the topic I was actually addressing. The point was that a lack of sources does not grant the reader an automatic license to dismiss and/or disparage the text without further investigation.
There's an xkcd (sorry, but I promise it's relevant) that graphs something similar to this[0] but using 'number of years from the time the story was written' as the second axis. If you look at it you can see a line indicating 'stories set in 2015' at the top of the graph - it would be interesting to plot a series of these isochronology lines and compare the stories that lie on them, although for SF you probably need more detail at the top right...

0. https://xkcd.com/1491/
Yep. It's the first book I'd recommend to a technical founder without a business background. It's an amazingly useful book, even if the formatting / etc. leave a little something to be desired.
The Leadership Style of Each MBTI Type – Astroligion.com
Absolutely, the difference is obvious between the two. I have colleagues who've moved from the South up here who think I'm crazy when I'm talking about it but I should probably mention that the main reason is that I want to try something different from the Northern European culture that I'm so used to, and I want to move somewhere that is closer to the emerging markets when it comes to economic and cultural ties, and Spain is very close to Latin America in that regard. Sweden has a growing populism because we're a very saturated market, sort of becoming like Japan, and I just want to experience something different. I'm not expecting the same social safety net or pay check, or the same culture when it comes to hierarchy and work-life balance. And if it doesn't work out and I miss Sweden too much I'll go back.
>"And it comes amid news that the company’s former chairman and president, Richard Sackler, has patented a new drug to help wean addicts from opioids"

For those who aren't familiar with Richard Sackler or the Sackler family. I highly recommend this piece:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
You do know that Google is first and foremost an advertising company, right?

One should expect this kind of fuckery when using software and services controlled by such an entity.

There are alternatives, use and/or support them.
They're source-based, but that still requires that the caller (calling into a package that's using generated code for generics) use the exact same transpiration tech to generate its own code; if it doesn't, it can only interface with the concrete instances of the generic types (e.g. Set_int or whatever).
ungoogled-chromium is what I use

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
I hear that. At this point, I've saved up enough cash to FIRE, now I just need the guts to leave. In the meantime, I keep padding my investment accounts...
> mild sociopathy would probably be beneficial, but that's somewhat of a tautology

Correct. Then why are people acting in contradiction to a tautology? Are they blind? Plagued by cognitive dissonance? Brainwashed? What gives?

> It's definitely better for society as a whole

And this would be relevant if humans were, say, communally telepathic, such that anyone and everyone actually experienced the point-of-view of "society as a whole".

But, since this is the real world, and we are humans not ants? That point-of-view is little more than an artifice or a shorthand; and the only eyes we see through, the only footsteps we make, the only muscles we command, the only pain we feel ... are all eachwise our own.

So helping "society as a whole" doesn't matter except to the extent that it helps oneself.

(That said, I do sometimes find it entertaining to consider, elsewhere, for discussion's sake, this artificial point-of-view.)

> It would be like calling a charitable donation self-sabotaging since you end up with less money for yourself. True, but misses the point.

True indeed, and I see no other point to miss.

Not even our government's "tax deductions" (which should really be called "deductions from taxable income") are enough to sway this assessment.

> an argument for that label besides the assertion that sociopathy is deemed beneficial to a sociopath

"Sociopathy is beneficial to a sociopath, therefore it is in any- and every-one's interest to be a sociopath, at any cost less than the benefit provided by sociopathy." is the elementary reasoning that basic mathematical intuition sends into my head.
Yeah, it makes sense now. Thanks.
I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview:

Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on that claim. Is that true in your opinion?

A: No. [...]

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/an-interview-with-vivaldis...
One of the things I suppose I still couldn't get used to was just how BSD-ish[0] tools differ from GNU tools. One of the things that drove me mad was having forgotten a switch and having to move back to the beginning of the line to add it again. Perhaps it was just me learning to be sloppy with GNU userland but it was hard and it'd always be a fresh breath of air to use Linux again.

Moreover, when things break, it's easy to fix. When things break on Mac, it's a black box. Trying to find help online is also equally frustrating. Getting help for linux issues is usually easy and informative, for example, forum posts and answers on stackoverflow-likes are detailed and generally explanatory, in which it seems like the intent is for both the askee and answerer are looking for "why" and not just "what". MacOS answers are always "copy and paste this" and half of them are obviously just plug and play or have bits that have accrued like gibberish extras in a game of telephone. Even blogposts are like this!

[0] I assume it's BSD-ish, but I wouldn't know because I've never used it. Moreover, openssh's tools act like this which catch me from time to time.
LinkedIn Ads: Why are the available audiences so small?
I remember someone tearing down fake beats and finding more expensive drivers in them than in the original thing beats are garbage.
`Void` being the uninhabited type, in the light of the Curry-Howard isomorphism stands for a false proposition.

`a -> Void` get interpreted as "not a" or "from a follows contradiction" or equivalently "a is uninhabited". Combinatorially it's `0 ^ a` which for non-empty a is zero but is equal to 1 when a is empty (0^0=1). In other words there are no functions of type `a -> Void` for non-empty a and there's exactly one such function for uninhabited a (id :: Void -> Void).

`Void -> a` is interpreted "from falsehood, anything (follows)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion. Combinatorially a^0 = 1 for all a so there's exactly one such function. An easy way to define it is by induction on Void (which has no cases and you're done).
What does it tell us that the Python op-ed hunting hack got the least amount of HN votes compared to the two R submissions?
But they are shown a painting which is pretty obviously just whatever the person creating it wanted it to be, nobody would ever accept it as a perfect record of reality. I don't understand how photography comes into things?
Everyday I daydream about escaping the daily grind. I know the problem is really me and how I respond to stress. Basically whenever I work an issue I feel inadequate. I think someone else would have found a solution quicker or a better solution. I procrastinate and then rush to get something done and then beat myself up. I don't cope well with all the corporate b.s and religious wars over agile etc. Does anyone have any tips on coping with the stress of daily life as a developer ?
IRONY: Obama Slams Trump for Politicizing DOJ (VIDEO)
See what I did few years ago: http://www.gioblu.com/GiO/web/kipplr/editor
This feels like that apocryphal NASA story except it ends "and the Russians fitted hammocks".

(Two attachment points you could probably protect with something structurally like bike shocks, self stabilizing laterally, costs tuppence ha'penny.)
Its still not great, I've found no way to convert DocX into a sane intermediate format so I've ended up writing a few specialised parsers that can make fairly decent sense of a few small cases like tables of contents, tables and lists.

My table parser still isn't perfect, its had a few documents thrown at it with merged cells that look just fine in Word, but don't have the colspan attributes I'm expecting.

Its still significantly reducing the workload of our content guy, he just has to double check how its displaying.

I've largely tried to avoid styling extraction but I did have a quick go, tables do contain properties for background colours and border tinting but the values don't seem to match what is being displayed within word. I think DocX has an equivalent of a stylesheet kicking around somewhere which may contain more accurate styling info but my work hasn't required that I look into it yet.
I don't. Would you teach me daddy?
According to the article, publication was approved by Editor-In-Chief Mark Steinberger, who founded the magazine 25 years ago.

The members of the editorial board did not just threaten resignation, but (according to the article) threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
Seconded. Especially because it's a very candid engineer's account of a fundamentally creative endeavour.
OK, dumb question, because there have been a LOT of these types of stories lately:

Why does it matter (beside to the implementor, or for pedagogy) what language a CLI tool is implemented in?
Is this really a surprise? The Trump administration's Justice Department is too busy trying to get voter registration records from NC to investigate voter fraud. They don't have time or interest in things like this.
This is a modern thing too: current SF also has long-time authors that are completely neglected, who are on a par with the great authors of the past. Case in point: Linda Nagata (https://mythicisland.com), who started in the 80s, but has yet to win a Hugo Award. Her most recent (and arguably finest) novel, 'The Last Good Man', wasn't even nominated.

While she's probably best known for her rolicking military SF 'Red' series, her other novels are astonishingly mature and prescient.
7 Things Elementary OS Does Terribly Wrong in 2018
You can run multiple profiles at once in Firefox. I've been doing this for the better part of two decades with Mozilla browsers. You just need to add the no-remote option to your launcher.
The classifications are not consistent and often don't mean anything. For example, the Niro is not classified as an SUV by the CAFE standards the OP is talking about. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety also calls it a small car and a 4 door wagon (https://m.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/kia/niro-hybrid-4-...)
This is perfect, thank you! I didn't know that there was a GH API endpoint to give you latest release names, that's pretty neat.
I dont really understand the map is there further material that comes with it - a talk or slides?
My profession, law, is the same way. A lot of people come in and quit early to pursue other fields. I think that's the case with a lot of glamour jobs or jobs that promise large pay. A lot of people get into it for the promise of money and a good job. They later realize that that the actual work isn't for them and pursue something else.

Law doesn't always pay well and requires a lot of passion to stick through and deal with all the crap you have to put up with in practice. I imagine programming is the same way.

I do a bit of programming as a hobby,, there's no better feeling than when you build something that works. But the frustration of getting there can be tough. I can only imagine how much harder it would be with deadlines and project management issues to deal with.

Though, I think working for a big law firm or bad is just miserable, and I can't imagine any amount of passion making it bearable. So perhaps a matrix of what you end up doing and your internal passion for the subject is what keeps people from burning out and hating their jobs.
If you haven't seen this movie, it's a fun movie. Of course there are going to be some stretches here and there, but it's a tech thriller, not a documentary on open source software. At the very least, it stayed far far away from immersive GUIs and implausible computer behaviors.
Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
Do you mean "opaque"? "Transparent" usually means that someone is forthcoming, but I don't see your sentiment reflected in the article.
What was Campbell’s explanation if I may ask?

Being a big fan of Aldous Huxley I was pretty astonished but none the less entertained by his apparent believe in the supernatural which might have been due to him having lost most of his eyesight when he was in his teens.

In case you are interested, there is a lecture where he talks about this stuff over at the psychedelic salon:

https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-578-1-enemies-of-freedo...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bates_eye_method#Aldous_Huxley
Everybody – WebGL Instancing Stress Test
> Titan is not a gamble. It's a hobby. And from the eyes of a Trillion Dollar Company, it's not even an expensive one.

Gambling billions of dollars is gambling billions of dollars even when you have a trillion. And everything is tiny compared to their capitalization. They could buy General Motors and burn it to the ground for ~4% of their market cap. That doesn't make it a good idea.

The question isn't what percent of their company size it is, it's whether it's a cost effective use of shareholder money. And best case vs. worst case doesn't tell you anything until you consider the probability of each.
I wonder if there could be a way to prevent this by e.g. paying a bunch of random people to rewrite parts of the text in their “own” style (with a review to ensure the meaning isn’t lost).
Burntsushi mentions in the readme that it is often the case that people receive large csv files needing analysis but he also mentions that valid criticisms of the tool are that you could use an SQL database. Why can't you use a database in some scenarios? And when blazing in memory speed is useful, why can't you use something like this: https://github.com/jtablesaw/tablesaw

Is XSV faster? Is it the command line convenience (although surely it was not that convenient to write a new tool to do it)

Genuinely curious and I do not mean to belittle the project as it looks well implemented and useful nonetheless.
I fundamentally attribute the high price of drugs to the high cost of developing drugs, not to IP granting monopolies.

I agree with you more on this than I disagree. Biology is hard. It is getting harder to find new pharmaceutical interventions that treat currently untreatable conditions, or that are enough better than old ones to repay developing them.

I don't think that government involvement can change the shape of the cost curve for new drug development. I think that government involvement may be able to reduce costs of completing drug development, essentially because it doesn't need profit on top of R&D costs. (Not reducing the big-O cost of drug development, but improving constant factors, if you'll permit the mixed metaphor.)

You seem to think that the costs of reproducing private development infrastructure would be prohibitive, and that no private company will let the government pay for use of its infrastructure toward the development of drugs that are born patent-free. You may be right about the costs of infrastructure. As for the latter, a government agency could offer quite a bit of money to become that partner with institutional knowledge and existing infrastructure. (If you think that private drug companies are in a prisoner's dilemma regarding cooperation with a government looking to undermine their long term profitability, you might substitute "defector" for "partner.")

This has to be my last post of the day but I've enjoyed your responses and perspective.
Separately he gives good evidence of what an A-hole and tyrant Steve Jobs was. Most won't talk about it out of politeness or concerns for their network. Having worked for a psycho at one time, you know how others shade their language when discussing. Very entertaining!
Rust and Go are languages with ecosystems, in which writing everything in a cross-platform way is the default. They also compile to a single statically linked binary.

You don't need an additional runtime + load of dependencies like node or python.

They are lightweight and fast to start up as opposed to the jvm.
Yeah so a linguist already looked at this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-linguist-helped-catch-the...

>
“What’s been done so far is not scientific and simply silly,” he said.

People. Don't get too drunk on your own kool-aid. Do I need to write an op ed that there are adults in the room :P ?
Firefox Quantum is really, really good. I was a Chrome user for years but now use Firefox at home and work.

A+++ would recommend.
> it's not clear what they're adding that Waymo or Telsa or Uber doesn't already have.

It’s not clear what they’re adding that BlackBerry and Nokia or Motorola doesn’t already have..

— something we could have said just before iPhone arrived.
Well I had to go look up myself out of curiosity

"youtube, everything, video, times, data, issues, software, experience, companies, point"

Its not entirely wrong, but I don't know what "point", or "everything" means honestly