skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Golang: the missing requirements for Go2 error handling
I'd like to mention how much truer this is in today's world. Specifically, if you live in an urban city. Today, everyone is constantly bombarded with information from multiple sources that they often forget much about past interactions with people they aren't close with. Even if you are close with someone, they are very much likely to only remember significant memories or memories which you remind them of.
In practice the boundary between both is fuzzy. Processing DB data can and is often done in a row-by-row or cell-by-cell basis. Not all computations are convenient to reduce to relational algebra, at least for most practitioners. We can't all be Sheldons.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books for object-oriented design?
Writing music with my band. It doesn’t matter if it’s for headlining at a club or just jamming in the basement. It’s fulfilling to me.
Bay area communications company owes wages, what are our options?
A Delaware incorporated, California registered communications company recently laid off employees based in California. The notice was served verbally in the middle of the month and the employees ceased work at the end of the month. Wages and payslip was not issued for that month.

Convincement to defer part of compensation has been a common practice for the last 2-3 years. In total, wages and deferred compensation of about usd$300k is owed to current and ex-employees, local and remote (out of country), with claims that the company still owes payroll taxes with no timeline commitment for backpay.

This comes unexpected and last-minute, with zero severance as well. Unlike other founders/companies who keep their runway transparent and assist (ex)employees to move onto other companies, we were expected to either keep working without pay or to leave. Needless to say, those with kids/family would face some tough times with the unexpected situation.

What are our options, for ex-employees both local and remote?
InterPlanetary TensorFlow: A P2P Filesystem for TensorFlow
FanDuel pays New Jersey man in full ($82,000) after pricing error
I'd learned Dvorak using a Kinesis keyboard. I use both Dvorak with the Kinesis and QWERTY with a standard keyboard. The slight difference in profile is enough that I've never had interference, and use both comfortably. That said, it hasn't been an enormous speed increase; I'm roughly equally as quick with either.
Eric Schmidt predicts that Internet will bifurcate between China and USA
4. There are too many people and too few hours in the days to care about them all, so some got optimized out.

This is how I generally feel when meeting people that I'm 90% sure I will never see/interact with again. For the 10%, that I do, I probably come across as uninterested in them or 'aloof', but, meh.
Sorry, I only worked with FMA, with some tangentially related ontologies like CHEBI, and some custom in-house ontologies.
One PR does not a code base ruin. Never block a PR unless it's a customer facing issue. If you're getting into a "thin edge of the wedge" situation, or you are having bad actors on your team, address that issue separately. If you need the leverage of blocking a PR to force the conversation, then you have already lost all hope in that team. Find another place to work (for both groups peace of mind).

Like you said, some people can't comprehend that. However, it's exactly the same "bad actor" situation. If people are executing a denial of service attack on your process in order to get their own way, then you need to address that situation -- outside the context of the PR. If you can't solve the problem, then it's probably time to consider voting with your feet. Working with bullies is never going to be fun.
Ha! Oddly I can't actually get that page to render, I see it paint for a second and then it goes white and tries to load some tracking js forever. But point taken!
New Pressure on Google and YouTube Over Children’s Data
Also, not trying to brag: I've also been told similar things, usually by people that thought less of me (or so I thought, sometimes for years). Typically it's a 'last day' phenomenon. I've had a fair few experiences where I was leaving a place and thought everyone had hated me, but, like you, I was totally wrong.

There is one glaring exception though: my winter coat. It's really the only piece of clothing that I have consistently received unsolicited compliments on. It's an old Swedish army surplus wool first-class greatcoat. As it's army surplus, it comes in nearly every size, so it fits me like a glove, and is fairly cheap[0].

It's a lesson I've tried to learn: dress well. However, in my own 'experiments' only the coat gets the compliments, not nice shoes or shirts or ties. You kinda have to dress 2 levels higher to get noticed enough for others to say anything.

Dunno if that helps at all with this issue.

[0]https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/greatcoat-swedish-airforc... (something like this)
Part of the value in the concept is the simplicity.
I have accidentally read the title of this post half a dozen times, and each and every time I read it as saying "butthole".
Tesla's Model 3 earns a five-star safety rating.
The San Francisco Bookstore Where the Revolution Ends Up
Linus seems to care these days. This does not translate well across different cultures. I've lived in two cultures and still have a hard time practising "not caring" about other people.
What Can You Do with the Web in Your Pocket? (1998) [pdf]
Here's a video of an excellent presentation Lamport gave on "21st-century proofs" last year:

https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture...
The irony of Amazon naming their latest line of Alexa "enabled" products "Amazon [Tap]" is both painful and terrifying...
Fo-shizzle!
Facebook to Give Less Direct Support to Trump in 2020 Campaign
> > A weapon is a weapon even before it is used in anger.

> Only if you use an incredibly loose definition of 'weapon'.

No, by the standard definition. A gun is a weapon even before you shoot someone with it, it doesn't transform from a non-weapon to a weapon when that happens.
Tech’s newest unicorn has employees in 45 countries and zero offices
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Then after that airbnb & uber for your self driving bed.
A lot of areas like real/stochastic analysis are really difficult to map to any formal proving mechanism. Really there are only some areas in abstract algebra where it can be done, and in there you still need some proofs that link a set of real problems to a computable problem and finish with the computation (Groebner basis proofs are one example). But that's rare.
Never a big believer in energy over ultrasound. Maybe for low amounts of power it could work. But so could power beamed over IR lasers into photovoltaic patches. And lasers would work better.
You make an interesting point and I want to acknowledge that, but I disagree and will try to explain why. If you take an ear of corn that belongs to me, I no longer have the corn. This is not true if you perform my song. On the other hand, I'm not sure I have some fundamental right to profit from the corn, just because I own the corn. That seems like a stretch. Similarly it seems to me very entitled to say I have some right to money because somebody else sang my song.

Your analogy gets to a distinction I've seen made between personal property -- something I own and use for myself -- and private property, something I (or a company) own and use in order to make money. As I understand it some on the socialism spectrum deny the fundamental right to own private property in this sense (though not the right to own personal property), so they would use your analogy against you.

You also get at what ownership of physical items means. Corn is easier to justify ownership over because of the effort that went into growing and tending it. A less clear case is picking fruit off a wild tree that happens to grow on someone else's property. Here again I think you would find people arguing the fruit tree belongs to some extent to everybody (e.g. some countries have laws protecting your right to hike through "my" land). So again your analogy can work against your argument, maybe ownership of this corn or fruit tree is not such a natural right either.

In summary, you say "what's lost is opportunities to make a sale" and I would not recognize that as a fundamental right. I would recognize a fundamental right to own a physical item for personal use and not have it taken from you, and I would recognize the right to say or sing whatever you want.
Like most popular reporting on nutrition, this article is a mess. "Well, a little sugar doesn't kill you, and might even do good, so sugar is just fine, except for how it causes problems...." If it's a subject that interests you, I'd recommend reading The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes. https://g.co/kgs/13NUgb
Strictly analogue?

"Strictly analogue" talk for instant photography is needless fetishism.

I've owned a Polaroid SNAP* camera for over two years, and made hundreds of shots with it. It never fails to impress.

The pictures come out right away, and when you tell people "And by the way, it's a sticker, put it on a postcard", their eyes invariably light up.

Yes, it's a digital camera with a thermal printer inside (like one that prints receipts, but in color). No, nobody gives a damn about it being digital, the only thing that matters is that you press a button - a picture comes out. And it doesn't have a screen because it doesn't need one.

For all that, it's half the size and half the cost per print of a Fuji Instax Mini, which means I just throw it in my shoulder bag and forget about it until I need it.

Yes, it can save the JPEG as well. But on my last trip, I didn't put a memory card in. Several people appreciated that when I explained it to them.

In the end, "analogue" is not the thing that people love about instant photography. It's the instant part, (regarding the paper print that comes out), the lack of screens to glare at, maybe the anticipation aspect, and not thinking about pictures going to Facebook right away. For

And - in case of ZINK-based cameras - the fact that they're stickers.

My point is that the Impossible Project, however beloved (and yes, I've shot that as well), is not the future. And I won't speak of the future, but a decent chunk of present instant photography - Polaroid in particular - is digital.

And this digital present is great. Someone should tell the article authors about it.

* Kodak Printomatic is, essentially, the same camera (which I also own), made by the same company, and compatible with Polaroid ZINK paper.
Even worse! There's quite a fair amount of research indicating that the earlier reports of correlations of the plaques and Alzheimer’s is not causative. In addition the older research showing correlation between Alzheimer and amyloid/tau plaques really is coming under more scrutiny (as the PT article points out) as the plaques don't appear to relate to cognitive decline. Though of course, the parent article has some chance of having a correct or partially correct hypothesis as say plaque correlations only appear in a subset of a genetic population and AZ is two distinct disease mechanisms with different etiologies.

It's like the issue with statin's... a decent working hypothesis (but barely flushed out past first year grad school research) gets postulated and scooped up by the media. Then drug companies and publicly funded researchers spend billions research interventionist drugs. Often without due diligence on the fundamental scientific hypothesis -- good luck getting a grant on testing that when they hype cycle is full on. Then you're left with an enormous amount of money spent with debatable long term societal effects [1, 2, 3]. I wonder if SV and VC getting more into medicine if these trends will get better or worse. Though it's still possible that there's no way to discover the longer term effect of cholesterol and statins unless you spend a few billion. But surely, there's got to be better ways.

1: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/828448/statins-w...
2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513492/
3: http://www.statinnation.net/blog/2018/1/8/quzr8nj3k9v23at4fe...
Now I'm wondering if my dog is hearing it, and how annoying it might be.
Oftentimes you can frame it as "try both" successfully. If you have a big decision, think of the smallest, quickest way you could test both of the options and get some visibility on the results. Then do that, pick the one that's working better, and stop doing the alternative. You can at least be open to unexpected successes with this strategy, and protected against unexpected failures.

This also has the advantage of forcing you to think of the smallest, quickest way to test your hypotheses, which has a fair amount of value itself.
What specific range of threats is this supposed to robustly defend against? It's not difficult to imagine significant, inexpensive attacks that it doesn't prevent, just the presence of an audio bug of some kind, for example.

It seems like an "invisible ink" security strategy, which is really not fit for purpose.
Every time I am forced to work with XML, I wonder how differently it would have turned out had 10% of the resources devoted to building increasingly complex and tangled specs had been instead directed towards making tools and documentation which aren’t terrible. Little things like the user-hostile APIs for namespaces, validation, extension, etc. and often horrible error messages, not to mention the lack of updates for common open source libraries like libxml2 really cemented the XML=pain reputation by the time JSON came along.
Two points:

1) Mathematicians write all over the papers and books they read. Electronic versions of this exist (e.g., Xournal, written by a well known mathematician), but they tend not to be as convenient as simply scribbling on paper.

2) Mathematicians digest papers nonlinearly. Digital presentations don't usually lend themselves to flipping back and forth between pages. At times, I suspect mathematicians use papers and books as memory mansions, organizing concepts by relating them to their location in the physical copy.
Ripple Plan to Use XRP Sends Cryptocurrency Soaring
> If "measurement" is an undefined and unscientific term, what is the scientific definition of "branching" in the multiple-words interpretation?

The "Many Worlds Interpretation" is actually something of a misnomer. This is why many people prefer to call it the Everett Interpretation.

It doesn't actually posit many worlds. It posits one very big complex world with very complex superpositions of state. But since your brain ends up in a superposition of states, different facets of this superposition of your brain state perceive this one big complex world, as smaller, simpler "worlds".

And the term for why different pieces of this superposition of states stop having an effect on each other is called "decoherence".

As for how the math works out in terms of probabilities, that is beyond me.

When I studied this, the discussion was usually simplified down to a quantum coin that when flipped would come up heads 1/3 of the time and tails 2/3 of the time.

This only results in two "worlds" though. A heads world and a tails world. So there was an issue that people debated at the time: Why do we perceive the .3333/.66667 probability for these two "worlds", rather than a .5/.5 probability?

I must admit that I am ignorant about the current state of this debate.
There does appear to be a backend, it’s just only used to generate the static files that are eventually served.
I wonder if Google will split in two as well. TFA refers to the internal controversy over their willingness to censor in order to please the Chinese government. Unsurprising, but only time will tell if it will be profitable.
The $64,000 question is: how do you implement the semantic web without changing any HTML or backend code?

Because the web is never going to change to adopt a semantic web standard. What we have now are facsimiles of the semantic web, things like Open Graph (which only provides the gist of page media, if that), proprietary search engine results, and proprietary APIs for walled gardens like Facebook.

It's looking like machine learning is going to provide richer gists and then manually-coded directories will provide user interface controllers for those gists in Alexa and other agents. It's a far cry from a truly semantic web but most people won't know the difference.

This is actually a pretty easy problem to solve, but to do it, we'd be running against the wind of capitalism. The semantic web is running behind the scenes at Google, ad agencies, even the NSA. Except they've built it around people's private data instead of publicly accessible documents.

Just to throw some ideas out there, I would start with the low-lying fruit: we need a fully-indexed document store that doesn't barf on mangled data. We need a compelling reason for people to have public profiles again (or an open and secure web of trust for remote API access). We need annotated public relationship graphs akin to ImageNet or NIST for deriving the most commonly-used semantics (edit: DBpedia is a start). Totally doable, but developers gotta pay rent.
>where he is now

A celebrated 100x programmer at the top of the software engineering hierarchy, whose work helped span a trillion dollar industry?

He might have regretted being so abrasive as of late, but let's not paint things as if he failed to accomplish much because of that. In fact it might have helped solidify a more cautious approach around kernel development and keep possible detractors at bay, in the early days, compared to him being too polite and accommodating.
Which keyboard out of curiosity?
ASCII art library for Python
>I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was challenging your whole comment

I don't, only saying that the bit you're commenting on is wholly irrelevant.
"False. The UNIX epoch is January 1, 1970 in UTC, but is Dec 31, 1969 in Los Angeles."

This isn't specific to Los Angeles, right? It's just referring to the fact that anyone with a negative UTC offset would see an epoch date of Dec 31, 1969 in their local time (I hope).
cmon you know the drill

git clone and move on

especially if something looks hot and obviously won't be up for long. forks won't preserve it
You might hold the opinions of your wife and daughter higher given your point in time, which I'd agree with. However, others opinions of course matter, no they shouldn't totally control how you think about yourself but they certainly do have an impact on how you perceive yourself.

For those that perhaps don't have a wife or daughter, then the opinions of others of course have a higher weighting.
Crystal-like pattern discovered in prime numbers
Well for one thing, with triple-stores it's not uncommon to expose an unsanitized read-only query engine (usually SPARQL), usually harmless because none of the data is secret. That goes out the window if you're actually storing business-sensitive stuff in there.

Aside from that, I guess there's theoretically nothing stopping you from using the triplestore for usernames/passwords (I hope you mean salted passwords) but sheesh, talk about killing a fly with a bazooka.

To be fair to those colleagues, it might have been less about them being clueless, and more about them wanting to offload work to my team, lol.
This is very timely for me — thanks!
See here:
https://youtu.be/j7CK7ultHdo?t=1078
Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments
identical title https://joelkuiper.eu/semantic-web
Yep, you can build [UWP](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/uni...) apps with it, not sure if there's a OS X desktop solution
Similarly, about what people think of you: "Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Baruch
And that's how I write extended quote blocks generally.

Some users don't, there is no one unambiguously correct method, and the 2nd- most common variant I see has several obvious detriments.

The fact that the "show us your code" feature seems to be predominantly used for blockquotes, on a generally technological site, strongly suggests a failure to correctly match user expectations and needs.

Though as metacommentary in infotech, SV, and YC, the message couldn't be clearer.
Not OP, just curious why this is being downvoted? Seems like a legitimate argument, would rather like to see the counterargument of the downvoters.
Often the college will blacklist the high school the student went to and nobody will be able to get in early decision for the next few years
Ok, how do you get XSLT that isn't in the same directory as XML to work in a browser ?
Sure, somebody did something with a poison to get a couple of people sick and dead, for sure. Maybe the intention was to instill fear? To me that is just as plausible as a murder attempt. Also, you'd think that the Russian secret service is not as amateurish as to screw up a job that should be pretty easy for them.

And, well, I'm just not very convinced of the "almost definitely ordered or approved by Putin" part, nor the "Putin and other government officials have spoken at length about killing traitors no matter where they go" piece. I have never seen evidence of the former, and honestly never saw or heard the latter either.
Uber Is in Early Talks to Buy Europe's Deliveroo
>I've learnt that few people like a strange, mostly silent creature being around long. It's very rare that I'm around anyone long enough for me to get past it and actually make a friend.

Well, being a friend is all about communication. If one sits silent, how can the other gauge if they are good friend material?

They could be totally incompatible, a jerk, rude, stupid, etc -- and there's no way to tell otherwise unless they actually engage in speak.

>I read articles that open with "all it takes is a little conversation". Gee thanks. That's the hardest thing I know, and getting harder the further into being an adult I get.

That's the insight though -- the "little" part, i.e. that it shouldn't be viewed as something difficult that one has to get "right".

Just say whatever BS, small talk, etc. Doesn't have to be anything profound or special. It will pick up from there and go on autopilot after a while.
True, but the Pre and the Nexus 5 both did an excellent job. The latter was Qi branded, the former was Palm's proprietary. The N5/Qi was 2013.
If you're asking software-wise, I believe Anders Hoff has his own big suite of Lisp code that he uses for his generative stuff.

Physically, I think he printed that one using an AxiDraw plotter.
Linux kernel's new Code of Conduct
Secrets Management Within AWS ECS
Looks like I have to be "that one", this time:

Given there's a custom Git library in use under the hood, I don't suppose there'll be Mercurial support in the future?
> What specific range of threats is this supposed to robustly defend against?

None. It's kind of like typical residential window locks, it's a mitigation for near-zero-effort casual vandalism.

If you want security, you don't use guest mode.

> It's not difficult to imagine significant, inexpensive attacks that it doesn't prevent, just the presence of an audio bug of some kind, for example.

If your threat model involves people with covert audio bugs and wifi transceivers in your living room, them maliciously streaming stuff to your Chromecast is probably pretty low on the list of things they might use those things to do.