skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Deleting the app" from your mobile is like an overweight person hiding the cookies or a cigarette smoker hiding their cigarettes - it's at least a conscious decision to make better choices, however everyone knows it won't work until you actually stop the behavior.

I disagree. A cookie jar doesn't encourage you to make bad choices by nagging you to eat another cookie if you haven't had one in while. Facebook will try to grab your attention any way it can to get you to make the bad choice to open up their app another time. A practical and effective way to escape those attempts is to delete their software from your devices.
If you have an account, you can use the old version of reddit by default by unselecting "Use the redesign as my default experience"
This is terrible advice for something serving broadly to consumers.

Fasthttp is great if you can limit your interactions to a minor testable subset of calls but otherwise its not suitable.
How AI Is Making Waves in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
There is a good Planet Money episode about New Jersey's overhaul of the bail system: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/29/643072388/epis...
It's not an instant change but there's been continuous improvement since they met. This just happened for instance:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/09/north-korea-leaves-missiles-...

Not giving him credit for improving this relationship is dishonest.
No, I've only written a piece on how I came to decide upon its design. https://www.kickscondor.com/ticker-tape-parade

I'm not sure how I would talk about the CSS and JavaScript - which was the most work. I will think about 'if'/'how' I can describe that. I really appreciate the encouragement. Please send me a link to your blog, if you have one. I am collecting links to personal blogs. See you around, kingnight.
I post this too often, but its very applicable here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...
To elaborate a bit:

Nominal statistics take into account the current exchange rate, while PPP ignores exchange rates and instead normalizes it in terms of things like Big Macs (albeit expressed in dollar terms instead). PPP is essentially an adjustment for cost of living, and so it generally makes more sense to use PPP when you're referring to per capita statistics (since you're generally trying for a sense of cost living anyways). Conversely, for comparing the size of economies or trade, you want to use nominal, as trade is conducted in nominal terms. There are reasons to go the other way, but these choices should be your first inclinations.
Have a CS academic background but work as a quant in finance.
I work for a news company right now. Or rather, the parent company of a local news, similar to Gannett (the company that was mentioned in the article).

I've found that we have a lot of freedom, and we've recently deployed a redesigned website that we're happy with. There's definitely been a lot of frustration from arguing with all the different departments: advertising, circulation, editorial / the newsroom, but the most frustrating aspect by far has been the technical debt we still have yet to address properly.

Software that was purchased by our company several years ago for managing subscribers and their subscriptions is abysmal. It's used far beyond its scope, where generic "notes" fields are used to store critical information. For example, these systems are for print subscriptions only, so they amortize billing, and there's no email address field. We've shoehorned online subscription functionality by including email addresses in the notes field. There's no API or any sort of way to truly interact with these "systems" either, so customers are just flat-out unable to manage their own account without some middle-man manually entering form-submitted data.

Truthfully I feel that even with our redesigned website (which has gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews), we still suffer from an awful online presence. What sort of subscription service exists these days that doesn't even let you change your address without calling? It's pretty sad.
You're right, it was a big win. For the Koreans, finally having gotten the international recognition they wanted for three generations.
New stuff from WWDC 2018: Ordered list of new features in new iOS/macOS and SDKs
Podcrypt: automatic, fair, peer-to-peer podcast donations with Ether
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The search for alien life needs a new space telescope, astronomers say
There's always another downturn "coming soon" (depending on your definition of soon).
What are the actual complaints with the new design? I've been using it on and off and I can't say I've noticed any major issues. Though I'll admit most of my browsing is one on the mobile app these days.
Can Blockchain and Smart Contracts Protect Copyright?
Interesting there are many many.

Does pmWiki count? Files are stored as plain text, though it does go through the php on rendering?

A few months ago I saw a recommendation n LinkedIn to use it for a personal-wiki, just storing notes and remembering things. I have found it to be really fast (1G DO node) and super easy to get going and keep doing including from multiple devices - as long as they've got a web browser they're good to go.
Knowing "why" is exteremely helpful in many cases. But let's not forget that, on the other hand, memorization plays a huge part in learning, and not only in mathematics. Learning "why" multiplication works will not help you to retain the multiplication table in your head. (Also, in many cases the answer to a question "why" you might get will be plain wrong - sometimes because the correct answer is too complicated, sometimes for other reasons.)
Yeah you might have to double punctuate after the subdomain, BUT it still makes it clear what domain you are on.

https://com/google/www//maps/hawaii

And its not like the browser couldnt render it both ways, either on click or hover.
I framed it as 3 different, possibly unrelated causes that could be contributing. We'll just chalk this up to "communicating on the internet can be hard" and say it was a misunderstanding.
Uhm, no - asking students to prove theorems and lemmas and answer all the "whys", instead of just applying a set of problem solving rules was one of the main reasons why the high school I went to was so good at math education. Our physics teacher constantly told us not to memorize the formulas, but to understand the logic behind them so we could just figure them out if we needed them. It's a better way to learn math and physics indeed, but a good teacher can do it too.
Signal released APK, instead of going to F-Droid (2017)
A practical and effective way to escape those attempts is to delete <strike>their software from your devices</strike> your account.

There's also an argument to be made, that cookie makers want you to keep eating cookies, just like Facebook wants you to keep "sharing". Facebook has an advantage (living on a device you obsess over), however those cookies you hid on top of your refrigerator ... are they whispering to me?
And they got that recognition not through threats or displays of might but by opening up diplomacy and talking to the US and China. North and South Korea are actually talking about a united country and all of the neighboring countries see this as a positive step.

It may not mean much to westerners (although it should, nuclear non-proliferation is a big deal), but large portions of the world see this as a good thing.
If you're talking about one of the few US cities like New York where the vast majority of people use public transportation, then that's why it's not going to match other people's experiences where public transportation is mainly used by people who have no other option.
But for how long?
Wasn't it just a year ago when people were making big claims about Intel using its "manufacturing edge" to compete against ARM and whatnot, and about them making other companies' chips and stealing customers from TSMC and the others?
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They said "sodium has the chemical symbol Na" which is completely true, if intuitive.
You want to write a simple static website. Now you have to choose between 100 generators. Your life has become a little bit worse.

Personally I rolled my own, but I can't say I would necessarily recommend it. But in less than 300 lines of JS it can generate by site from Markdown, with index pages and RSS, as well as watch in the background for changed files and update them live. It was a fun and useful learning experience though.
React 16.5.0
Enrichment Service, aka surveillance capitalism center
I don’t see how. You miss with cubesats it still ends up being a complete fucking disaster.

The point is that this all has to be done correctly and carefully. I see a very cavalier attitude about it because of SV startup culture and the expectation that getting things wrong is okay in the name of progress.

I’ll admit I was more directly thinking about stupid publicity stunts like Tesla Roadsters in space, but the gravity of the situation doesn’t really change because a mistake is slightly less of a disaster than an apocalyptic one.
If they have the ability to spy on every single communication, the chances of pulling off a leak are much, much lower. Wikileaks is still alive and running today because of encryption. Once this changes, we won't have transparent societies for anyone but the holders of the keys ..
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If you are only applying to jobs that you find through company websites, then I am not surprised by the lack of success in getting responses. I'd suggest trying to go through your network (hopefully you've built up professional relationships along the way) and find a job that hasn't been posted to the internet. I think you'll be more successful if you can get someone to recommend you for a job at their employer.
I use a precipitation radar app that tells me with fair amount of accuracy whether/how heavily it's going to rain 15-90 minutes from now. It often does matter what part of the city you're on. Since we bike everywhere to get around, it's kind of nice to get an idea whether waiting another 10 minutes to leave avoids the heaviest part of a shower, or better just bite the bullet because it's only getting worse in the next hour.

Although now that I think of it, I have its location locked to my home address because I didn't feel like being tracked :) It generally works well enough within ~3km or so, and I compensate the hit in accuracy by looking at the sky and drops/splashes in puddles/windows/cars (it's much harder to judge the intensity of rain by trying to spot droplets in mid-air).

I don't need the longer term forecast quite as much to have an app for it, for that I just use a bookmark to my local news weather page.
> Beyond that, in my experience a big problem with modern architectures is that it's very much non-trivial to figure out what's the fastest way to implement an algorithm. You have to consider which CPU model you're using, the cache architecture, RAM speed

Indeed, we need better abstractions, like cache-oblivious data structures.
Sounds like the sort of thing GDPR's regulations of automated decision making is intended to deal with: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Specifically, even if you're allowed by Article 22 to perform automated decision-making (and decisions on bail that are mandated by law, as in the case at hand, would be allowed) must still:

* provide meaningful information about the logic involved in the decision-making process, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences for the individual;

* use appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures;

ensure that individuals can:

* obtain human intervention;

* express their point of view; and

* obtain an explanation of the decision and challenge it;
I think it's more than as you go smaller the mass reduces faster than the drag, thus resulting in a higher amount of drag per unit of mass.
A little over a year ago I was the victim of some crimes including:

-kidnapping with a deadly weapon

-assault with a deadly weapon/firearm

-car jacking with a deadly weapon

The defendant has bonded out twice in the case. The first time there was only a charge of grand theft of my car, and bond was revoked after the investigation and the other more serious charges were filed. Thereafter, the defendant bonded out again after all the charges were filed, and posted $300,000+ bond. As the victim (and a lawyer) I knew the defendant would be granted bond (although I believed the defendant was both a flight risk and danger to the community and bond should have been denied), so I requested gps tracking. Less than a week later the defendant was rearrested for violating the terms of bond...all based on the gps tracking.

I’m not sure I trust an algorithm to determine if someone is a flight risk or danger to the community. Historically, the cash bond was like the carrot and stick to making sure a released defendant showed up to court. I think technology, like the gps tracker, can probably replace cash bond in almost all cases.
But you get more visitors with "CIA code" in the title...
The FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
The fight over that isn't over yet. https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/11/03/canadas-top-cour...
I have really, really enjoyed building my personal site (https://hotair.tech) in Gatsbyjs. I am not sure of how steep the learning curve is as I started using it w/ the intent to learn React and GraphQL. It strikes a good balance of being both a productive framework and letting you use the full features of GraphQL and React.

I much prefer it over my previous experience w/ Jekyll.
Voting structure has nothing to do with raising money. Investors have leverage over terms when company is in trouble and finding it hard to raise money. They can include terms that can limit CEO power or change his/her behavior. Typical way they might do this is by demanding board seats and taking control over hiring of CxOs. Voting structure can become more or less irrelevant when you are in desperate need to raise money.
They have convictions, too. The more salient differentiator is probably extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivations, i.e. the need for a church to be a place to show off or enforce virtues
> zero-gravity

There's a common misconception that LEO has zero gravity. You're barely off the ground so to speak and gravity is almost the same as on the surface. The difference is that you're constantly falling so you experience weightlessness.

So you are experiencing zero-g, not 0 gravity. You'd be hard pressed to go anywhere with an absence of gravity acting in that spot.

This being said the question is if the quality increase justifies the price (even for a hypothetical future mass implementation). Plenty of products get incremental upgrades, it doesn't have to be a massive jump. Again, if you can justify the cost.
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Switching from Vim to Neovim
The experiments on teaching sign language to chimpanzees actually suggests the opposite, because it shows that, even if you take the physical inability issue off the table, the chimpanzees do not make much use of their language skills - they do not enter into extended conversations with their handlers or one another. The evidence that they 'truly' (perhaps we should ask 'how deeply') understand language is controversial, especially given the recent evidence as to the extent that computer programs can give the superficial impression of having more understanding than a more thorough study of their abilities reveals.

It is sometimes argued that we do not know enough about their motivations to make that call, but it is hard to imagine there being no situations in which they would find language useful, and even harder to imagine not being able to devise experimental situations in which a greater use of language would be the only way to achieve goals they manifestly desire. Ultimately, the argument about different motives is one about different mental capabilities, anyway.

Personally, I think it probable that species other than Homo Sapiens made good use of language, but we seem to be the only one around at the moment.
Winklevoss Brothers Launch Ethereum Token Backed by U.S. Dollars
What prevents China from similarly demanding Apple to de-list apps from non-Chinese app stores that mention Tiananmen Square?
I think Austin would consider the "I take it that I'm sitting before a desk" in the second sentence of this article to smuggle in the offending suggestion right at the start. We say "I take it" when we have a general working assumption about things, likely based on second-hand evidence, and on topics about which we are not ourselves experts. On the Austinian view, scepticial doubts tend to rely on intimations like this one: that sitting right in front of something and looking at it is somehow just like hearing about something and then building out some unreflective inferences. And then no doubt it is hard to certify the chain of evidence. But why start there?

Anyway Austin is great, and funny too.
Hi OP, seems nice but "Get my profile" seems to attempt to load but never gets done. Github username: franciscop. Slashdot effect? My profile is weird? Been coding for ~8 years OSS in Github and I've got a quite public profile [1], so I might have quite a bit of data there.

[1] http://git-awards.com/users/franciscop
M0, the sort of money that gets printed, is quite small compared to more inclusive money aggregates like M3 and is downright tiny compared to the overall capital supply of the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
It's all but guaranteed that if Reddit removes old Reddit and forces new Reddit on everyone third party web clients with ads that generate money for someone else will pop up and fill the gap.
Snapchat Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan Resigns
No, it's a separate project that got ActivityPub support this year.
Possibly. On the other hand using master/stand-by instead of master/slave is almost no effort so you might as well.
While working on udacity classes, I found vscode python jupyter plugin very helpful. Having a nice editor makes you so much more productive.

I wrote a little python pip module to help me convert between .ipynb and .py.

https://github.com/nojvek/vscode-ipynb-py-converter

Made a world of difference.
Yeah, private tutoring is the best. The custom, just-in-time curriculum that a tutor can prepare is the most efficient way to learn. I think equally important is the transmission of a relaxed, exploratory attitude towards the STEM subjects. When a learner sees their teacher take on positive attitudes towards complexity, they too develop this attitude and can go on to solve problems on their own.

Unfortunately, this transfer of attitude works in the negative direction too. If the teacher is out of their comfort zone (e.g. parent touching math for the first time in 20 years), then the learner might pick up on the anxiety and start to consider the subject to be unpleasant or hard---if your parent was stressing out about helping you with algebra, then algebra must be a thing of formidable complexity!

As another example, you can think of a teacher bored with the subject (e.g. prof who is teaching this course for the 17th time this semester) who will then transmit "this is stupid shit you have to know, because you're forced to take this course" attitude and students will pick up on this too...

Luckily these days there are really good resources (youtube, free books, interactive demos) so hopefully we'll have more STEM people in the future. We won't make 100% of the population into STEM-experts, but it's not unrealistic to hope that everyone can become at least STEM-literate. I'd like to believe that I contribute to this with my books. This one in particular would be good for adult readers who want to rekindle their relationship with the subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/099200103X/noBSmath
Ok, the North-Koreans shot ICBMs how often across Japan? On trjectories that showed to everyone that they can reach the US mainland? With nukes? Ok, by that regard the whole cold war, including the Cuban Missile Crisis was profound Display of pacifism by everyone involved.

Not saying that easing tensions isn't a good Thing. But Trump doesn't deserve any credit for it besides giving away a lot in Exchange for a poor PR stunt.
The GOP lead that hard line against Russia (remember when that was a common criticism about Obama’s?) until Trump reversed that at the convention and it wasn’t much later before someone was printing those “better Russian than a Democrat” t-shirts.

This is going to be a big deal for many years: until now U.S. foreign policy was based on the assumption that we took agreements seriously. The casual attacks on long-time allies are going to take generations to undo.
> This entire electric car revolution wouldn't have happened for another 10-20 years if not for Tesla and Elon.

I don't buy this. There hasn't even been an electric car revolution yet in my opinion, and when there is it will be because of plug in hybrids slowly extending their all electric range over time as electric car charging infrastructure improves.

Toyota and Chevy deserve far more credit for the Prius and the Volt than Tesla does for their cars, although I will admit that the Tesla roadster was part of what motivated Chevy to make the Volt.
The Julia compiler is a little bit different in the sense that it actually compiles ahead of time (it is not a tracing JIT). This takes place just before a method (with known runtime types for the arguments) is executed for the first time. So performance is predictable but on the other hand there is a risk of over specializations.
We would - of course - need to keep these same astronomers around and employed until the new telescope was designed, launched, and operational.
I built syncthingfuse to do partial syncs. Currently unmaintained, though.

https://github.com/burkemw3/syncthingfuse
This is already more popular than I thought, the queue of profile requests (and AWS SQS) contains already more than 10 users, at this point any new user user coming will have the sensation that nothing happens when they want to get a profile.

I didn't expect to reach this point so fast (thanks!). I'll work on improving this right after this wave of new users. For now, just making sure that you all get your profile.
Was the defendant rearrested by police or by bail agents?
There's a generation of American businessmen that should take this advice.
Certainly necessary, but very far from sufficient. But even that isn't quite accurate. Every one of my published papers has some kind of error in it. When something is sufficiently interesting and complex, this is essentially inevitable given how the human mind works. Hence the late Voevodksy's attempt to come up with a framework for making such ideas machine checkable.
British Airways: Customer data theft
Yes, that's exactly what popped into my head. It is just at the right level for explaining subjects for someone who isn't a specialist.

This is what we're talking about for those not familiar:
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html
Expect 10-20k visits if it rides the front page of HN, with anywhere between 100-2000 users creating their profile.
Memorizing multiplication tables is over rated. Seeing connections between those early multiples up to 12 is more interesting. Can be helpful I suppose in factorization.

Maybe I just don't trust my memory (as in how am I sure that 7*8 is 56) and why I despise rote memorization and rather retain memory from use and practice.

Regardless a good example of something to remember in math is the quadratic formula
Still enjoyable to derive and 'see' why it works but also just used so much. That said, I wouldn't encourage memorizing it without first understanding it.
Also any ASD demo. They tend to stray away from the general "demo-esthetic" even when it come to the music.

"Lifeforce" was fantastic and really stand out from any other demo, event to this day.

"For your love" use the same kind of particles extravaganza that Fairlight popularized, but really has it's own esthetic.