skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this was only protectionism and stupidity, but you can bet that big producers have been lobbying for this to get more visibility on their shitty content.

If there's one thing where the German TV industry equals the American one, it's being corrupt pieces of shit.

Source: German who pays about 20€ of media taxes and fees for services I don't need or want, every month.
I'm talking about NPM modules and the build toolchain (which consists of even more NPM modules). This stuff goes stale very quickly (at the 10-year scale). It's good for a project that is kept continuously alive (i.e. when there is a team of developers that is continuously making changes to the project), but not when the project sits on a shelf for 10 years and then needs to be modified.
I also feel like this isn't a good idea but who knows.

In 2009 the Portuguese government introduced a mandatory quota of 25% Portuguese music in all radio stations. It was absolutely terrible at the time as all Portuguese music was invariably shitty. Flash forward 9 years and, in my opinion, things are much better. We still have a bunch of bad music but meanwhile a lot new quality artists appeared and became popular. Maybe it has nothing to do with the quota's but take it as you will.
> Verbose 'variablesToKeepTrackOfPositionInThisLoop' is obviously pointless when 'i' will do

Based on a Fortran convention, IIRC. Within a web setting, "el" and "ev" are extremely conventional.
I wonder if you could use the accelometers for something similar?

Made some practise runs with my iPhone and at least with this screen size the phone is moving when I try to mimick the unlock patterns with thumb.
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Hmm, that is a very interesting finding.
By this logic anything that’s expensive is racist.

Can we please stick to the actual definition of racism and not the new all encompassing one?

> prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
I was at the bottom of Africa last month with unstable internet connection barely faster than dial-up. HN was the only site I could connect before getting timeouts and bs.
I was just reading a history of the Hellenistic world, and something like this seems to have been common in towns in Ptolemaic Egypt, and functioned as the main check on otherwise rapacious taxation.
Because even though he invented a basic steam engine they still didn't have nearly the material science we do. Their engines wasn't able to create and safely contain enough pressure to do anything useful.
Someone should make a site or project to highlight bootstrapped startups.

There are plenty of very successful ones but you just don't hear about them as often.
Is this just confirming that status quo bias exists?
If you send files to a law firm they will print them anyway and bill you an exorbitant amount, like £1/page. So that that was them saying fuck you to the lawyers!
I think people would mostly choose a cheaper shaped connection over a more expensive best effort connection, so I wonder if laws preventing shaping are a good idea.

(Laws requiring clear advertising and disclosure are a great idea...)
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I also agree, under certain conditions. The main ones being that this has to be disclosed front and center when agreeing to sign the contract mentioning the relative priorities that different types of traffic will receive (ex: voice - high, video streaming - medium, web browsing - low) and it should differentiate exclusively based on traffic type, not particular sources (like throttling one streaming service but not another). It should also flag when this is happening and with which type of traffic so a user can clearly determine if the service is fit for use.

Limiting bandwidth based on who pays more is just a new source of revenue disguised as network or congestion management.

Now imagine you're driving down the road and some road authority does congestion management by pulling cars over based on how much money they threw at the toll barrier or by how much their car manufacturer is contributing to the respective authority each year. After all the road has a fixed capacity and almost 0 chances of increasing it.

Any internet throttling rule that can be circumvented by paying for "priority" should be illegal.
This is a weird argument. Lots of people raise big money to start a restaurant. And lots of people don't raise any money to start a SaaS.
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Ask HN: Test uptime for your API / Service? Get notified of 3rd party downtime?
As many others, I was burned by yesterday's Azure outage.

I did not have a public-facing website, but I did have some APIs and services, and services that depended on other (3rd party) services.

I wanted to know how the rest of the HN community is testing your APIs or services for uptime.

Do you have some sort of automated smoke testing on a different platform?

Do you subscribe to some service to know about 3rd party disruptions?
Quoting:

There is a crucial difference between the automobile and aviation industry. Car companies acknowledge the idea of a "one-off event": that some accidents are unavoidable, no matter how much work goes into prevention. In the aviation industry, however, one-off events just don’t exist. Airplane manufacturers treat each crash as potentially preventable and work backward to figure out how it could have been prevented.

A similar divide exists in modern medicine, when it comes to patient harm — especially for patient harm from central line infections. There are hospitals in the United States that view some level of central line infections as a sad but inevitable effect of putting thousands of these tubes into patients’ bodies each year. And then there are other hospitals that see each central line infection as a failure that requires investigation and better preventive techniques in the future.

In other words, there are car crash hospitals and there are plane crash hospitals.

What kind of developer are you: a car crash developer? Or a plane crash developer?
It's modernist design. And it sucks.
Not only films but documentaries or YouTube videos. Seems like a lot of workers in the US are working in such environments.
As someone not from the United States the acronym "AP" really threw me off. Had to look it up. It stands for Advanced Placement and despite its name is an introductory class.
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youtube leaves a lot to be desired from a quality stand point.
It would be useful to calculate the percentage difference between n_group/n_population and n_group_course/n_course. This would essentially calculate a "representivity" score for that course.

So, for example, according to the 2010 US Census, Black or African Americans constitute 12.6% of the population. However, according to [1], they constitute only ~5% of the CS degrees awarded. Therefore the score for CS and Black or African Americans is |12.6 - 5|/12.6 = ~60% underrepresentation.

[1] https://datausa.io/profile/cip/110701/#demographics
> thanks to them we have shorter fiber routes across the atlantic at least.

Can you explain how HFT caused a shorter fiber route across the Atlantic? Is this route open to the non-HFT public?

I read Flash Boys and am aware of a custom fiber link between Weehauken, NJ and Chicago, IL, but I thought they are were moving to microwave. I thought there were some HFT links (fiber or microwave) within Europe.
What precisely is wrong with the web today? In short, it’s a big baby. It has grown old without growing up.

That's exactly what I think about most of the cryptocurrenciy ecosystem today.
Yes! I use Scrivener. It exists because the developer needed a better tool to write novels. I end up too disorganized trying to write with other tools like word processors or flat files.

I managed to write a 25,000 word story in a word processor once, but it was such a jumble that I just closed the file and forgot about writing for a few years. I know now there are ways to organize with folders and spreadsheets, but now I do most of my writing on the phone. Scrivener's binder makes that easy on a small screen.
In what way does this review obfuscate information? I found it lively, descriptive, and detailed with plenty of evidence from the text.
See also:

(lively kernel, amber smalltalk for js) :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915402
Let’s start at the very beginning… 801, ROMP, RT/PC, AIX versions
I mean, it is 4844 nautical miles as the crow flies, but we could make that 4458 nmi (nautical miles) by taking a direct route through the crust.

I have to say I am disappointed/surprised by how limited those savings are.
That really depends. I'm working sometimes on problems that physician researchers have been cranking away on for decades. We want to do better than their state of the art. That's not something you can throw a software engineer at. There is a pretty wide spread of problem difficulty out there.
I was mostly talking about non-academic websites, not just the links, but the content too.
I thought the wealthy were job creators, captains of innovation, stewards of the future...

We'd be better off taxing these folks who can't find anything to invest in and redistributing the funds to the worst-off. The economic activity would inevitably be captured by these same ineffectual investors but at least the material situation of the poorest among us would be slightly better.
It's classist, which is just the modern socially acceptable version. It's saying "We're aware there's a problem with the public school system, but we can't be bothered to do anything to help. We'd rather withdraw our own kids and create another school system with the resources we can then divert from the public school system."
I've never even seen a Snap Spectacle up close, but these seem very stylish, a far cry from the old Google Glasses.

Ok, photos on other sites show a still noticeable camera:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/9/5/17821016/sn...
You may have misunderstood the article and the Lean methodology.

From the article: "Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense."

Side projects, solo entrepreneurship are not mutually exclusive and can actually be complementary. Lean is a methodology to validate demand for a product. Solo entrepreneurs can and do benefit greatly from employing it.
What plugin are you using in firefox?

I have just been using stylus and using dark themes for sites I use often, but would love a more automated approach, especially for sites I don't use that often.
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It essentially means that you have to have a real reason not to have windows, not just "it was slightly cheaper". So new buildings would get them, intentionally windowless spaces (darkrooms, freezers) are allowed for a purpose, and adapted historical buildings are allowed.
I said most people in intelligence or politics in liberal states are good. Not all.

There are hundreds of thousands of people with top secret clearance for fucks sake. They're not all part of some conniving cabal.
I agree. Information Theory is _the_ ur-science. It's the science of matching mathematical models to data, and so it's where inference meets the deduction. Such an important and fascinating subject should be widely taught and appreciated.
Probably the wrong fit if the industry experience isn't right, in which case they would be on a fast-track to a senior dev role in the non machine-learning part of our company.

You're right about "research", although I'd hesitate to use the word hardcore hah. We get tons of candidates with ~2 years of slightly relevant work, but rarely do we get candidates with the exactly right relevant work. The "qualified" candidates I spoke of have ~4 years of slightly relevant work, but there are only a couple of them, and they're either out of our hiring budget or currently working for our team.
Oh they do, but they are expensive and rare. http://www.coelux.com/en/products/index

I have been trying to figure out how to make my own, but it's tricky.
Or you know maybe investors have smartened up and are unwilling to give money to the 20th "Uber for X" idea from some Stanford bros.

Edit: Seems I hurt the feelings of Silicon Valley brogrammers selling their Uber for Dog Grooming with Blockchain AI startups lol.
More than slightly, in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.
What historic wrongs kept these people out of programming?

Last I checked most of programming came from the once persecuted nerd and geeks. Things have changed for sure, but every time I hear this statement with relation to programming I can't help to think about how laffable it is.

For the longest time computers and programming were one of the major places you could go and learn alot and become good at all while being under the cloak of anonymity. Back when this would have made a difference it was almost mandatory to conceal both gender and race because the bandwidth for live streaming video,voice simply was not there. Vast amounts of work and collaboration were done via text interfaces.

This is a narrative I keep seeing with little proof to back it. The lack of the numbers representing a group does not automatically imply discrimination. And if you are going to bring that to the table then you are going to need to show some hard proof that is the defacto reason why any group of people are not represented.

But even if you were right, I am not entirely sure setting merit aside is such a good idea for roles that can mean life or death of others. Do you not want the best heart surgeon working on your heart? Do you not want the best programmer you can get programming robotic arms and the breaking subsystems of the car that is behind you in traffic?

The only sane way to correct historic wrongs is by flooding the lower level education systems with money in poor areas. Programs to help single mothers, access to laptops and the internet. The second you lower the bar you are doing a disservice to society, and to the person you think you are helping.
I disagree that we should trust that their intentions are "for the greater good" or even "somewhat reasonable." Government and law enforcement agencies, from top to bottom, are staffed by individual people. As we have seen time and time again in the corporate sphere, once we get a couple committees in place it becomes easy to let things that bother an individual slide by as responsibility rests on the larger group.

And, of course, once the group has managed to squash the voices of it's individual members it is open to exploitation by external forces, like money from lobbies (designed to sway the group) or bribes to individuals (often in order to get the few who disagree to align with the group).

Some of the people in government and law enforcement want to decrypt data to protect people from threats. Some of these groups are looking at their authority and seeing it erode, they are looking to decrypt data to preserve that authority. As we have seen in practice, others are looking to extend their authority (as in the case of projects like Echelon, etc.) by having real-time access to people's data.

While you might be able to agree with some of these people some of the time, I strongly doubt you can agree with all of them all of the time. And if you find that you cannot agree with all of them all of the time then, in my opinion, they probably should not have the ability to decrypt any of your data.

I think we all would do well to remember that while government and authority love to talk about pornography, child abduction and terrorism the vast majority of people have nothing of the sort on their phones or computers. Protecting the data that everyone has should not be forgotten (financial, private, corporate, etc.)
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I don't have a problem with this. I've been doing the 1-2 year old barely-used used car thing now for a while with no regerts and no major issues.

I can imagine a babied performance car is just as much as a slam dunk. Then that extra $20k can go towards something else.
I’d have a hard time finding a job in ML for $300K but
I’d have an easy time finding a job in PHP contracting for $350K. This is despite having 10 years experience as a ML practitioner.

I quit my last job after bringing in over $100M in profit and only getting a $30K bonus.

Now it would take ~$500K and an ‘eat what you kill model’ for me to consider going back to work.

These days I make my money from licensing ML products which gives me a lot of time to study - which is what I enjoy doing.
I am not saying a full lecture or something.

But maybe a required reading? People are taking it as a survey course, an introduction, so it would be nice to give a little teaser or something of stuff that is to come later on.
There are plenty of classified and military projects that don't go out for tender ( national security over-rides EU tendering regulations ). They are quietly handled by civil servants who operate on career timescales far longer than any Government.
Everything has a context. If your site has:

- minimal functionality
- rarely if ever changes
- is maintained by a very small group (Hacker News)

...then something like the example linked is perfect. Most web app developers don't live in this world. The more common situation is:

- large and/or transient teams
- large quantity of inter-dependent features
- constant changes

...which means that the thing you need to optimize for isn't pretty/fast code. It's clarity and resiliency in the code. Can a junior and senior dev both work on the same code base? Can someone new to the project be effective with minimal ramp up time? Can you work on a feature without accidentally stepping on another persons current task?

Modern web apps are less about being performant and minimal, and more about dealing with the complexities of large software teams
I've watched my wife waffle for ages on decisions she'd clearly already made in her heart of hearts so many times I think you may be on to something.
AP - advanced placement (no idea what that is)
> woahfully

You mean woefully. Although the way you wrote it makes it kind of funny.
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Well, next to math. And logic. And ethics.
Haha, okay. I'll try again:

How do they compare when explicitly turned on?
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That doesn't quite convey the full meaning though. It's meant to be a college level introductory class that high school students who get ahead in other classes are allowed to take. Most AP courses also have the option to take a placement test at the end, and if you do well enough, you can receive college credit from the college or university backing the program.
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A half-decent software engineer can easily and quickly produce a lot of data products.

If you divide the responsibilities of a data scientist into two broad categories:

* Can I get the answer I need/build the product I need?

* What is the question I should be answering? What do I need to build?

Software engineers tend to do quite well at the former, but are not necessarily guaranteed to be successful at the latter.
A proper shebang would work for *nix users (and maybe Windows users as well).

I’d imagine a drop down next to the run button that would list the available languages on the system. The code would need to check for the languages at startup time and store a simple “lang.verson” => “/path/to/exe” map. And then somehow use that when evaluating the code.

This is a cool little project that you have going.
Comments like this reinforce the idea that data science is too broad a term. Everything data-related is thrown into the "data science" bucket.

You describe what I'd call business intelligence or even advanced analytics. SQL jockeys (not a pejorative) really slicing into the data and presenting it in meaningful ways. There's usually exists some science behind these exercises.

Then there's machine learning, which also gets clubbed into the data science camp. Try capturing a convolutional neural network in SQL - you might go bald from pulling your hair out. It's totally not the tool for the job.

While perhaps any half-decent software engineer could maneuver his/her way around the great ML libraries out there to produce a CNN (or something of the like), I would hesitate to give them a project that involves true science (bring out your pitchforks). Experimental design, hypothesis testing, etc. While being a SQL expert could help turnaround time and enable you to test more interesting hypotheses, I wouldn't leave most DBAs to develop and carry out an experiment.

So I guess my point is "data science" is too broad and overused a term to be meaningful.
You get more innovation by having a wider pool of talent to draw from. That likely more than counters reducing the 'quality' of what is at best an introductory course.

It's not about skin color, it's a question of having for example a blind team member causing the team to think about a wider set of issues.
>If you fit that bill you can probably get a role paying $95-120k just about anywhere in the US. You'll wrangle data, make pipelines, build dashboards and occasionally deploy a model or two when the planets align.

If you expect to pay that little to anyone who knows the above to any degree you will have a bad time.

A number of projects I have joined absolutely look like someone treated them as a way to learn the technology before moving onto better paying jobs, leaving the business with a terrible mess that's largely unfixable without a rewrite. You're better off hiring one developer that knows what they are doing at above market rates than three who don't for the same price.
Debug symbols don’t inhibit identical code folding. What you get is one copy of the function and one arbitrary file/line entry which makes it look like your program makes impossible function calls, if you happen to walk the stack. This can easily be seen in a C++ program with lots of Protocol Buffers because protobuf generated code has lots of identical small functions.
> Except that nobody would ever sign up for a cheaper electrical service in exchange for rolling blackouts.

My power company does excatly that: https://www.fpl.com/save/programs/on-call.html
I was going off articles like https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-eu-economy-is-bigger-...

However, when I was just looking it up now to find evidence for you I found various sources saying the US, China, or the EU was the largest so now I am not sure
Yet it still has a massive first mover advantage.