skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. As the price goes up, people switch to non-meat protein. Similar to what is hopefully going to happen with fossil fuels and renewable energy.
It looks like this is the third time in two days @ayw has posted this link, each time with a different #hash at the end (to fool HN's anti-duplicate-posting code?).

Genuine question here, is that kind of duplicate posting behavior allowed, or is it just that Scale (which powers this dataset and which from past posting behavior @ayw seems to be connected with) is a YC company?
How real-time data can make your business more efficient
I do not know, do you? I'm guessing that neither of us have observed their election process in person, or are experts in the fairness of their, or any other democratic process. If you are, please school me, I'm a willing student.

I am a US citizen, my birth nation has "elected" two presidents who failed to win the popular vote. 2% of my fellow citizens are unable to vote due to felony convictions. On top of this, the practice known as gerrymandering is essentially carte blanche for a state's ruling power to ensure continuous victories due to the complicated nature of an inconsistent federalist voting system.
I don't disagree. There is good evidence that the FISA system was weaponized against the Trump campaign through Carter Page. That's what the present battle to get sections of the Page FISA warrant declassified is about.
I’d be more interested in knowing if someone had ported the ideas behind react in a cross platform language, rather than shipping a JavaScript engine with all your apps. Or maybe there should a JavaScript virtual machine in the OS itself.
Social Capital Founder Gives His Account of Turmoil at Firm
Just spent 10 minutes with the demo. Here's what it appears to be:

- You create a bunch of static HTML pages with a bunch of tags like: {{field_name type=7_to_choose_from ...opts}}

- Vapid runs a node server that scans all your HTML files and parses out the tags in each html file

- The node server runs a CMS webapp (the "dashboard") that generates field inputs for the parsed tags (text inputs, image selectors, wysiwyg editors, etc... whatever matches your tag type)

- Data you input is persisted in a SQLite DB

- The node server serves up your static HTML pages as if they were any standard template (mustache, etc)

- It runs a watch server, so any changes to your files are auto updated

Onboarding demo seems to run as a 'development' server. Quick perusal of the docs don't describe what the production mode is (probably no watch server?).

That's all as far as I can tell. Seems fine for lightweight pages, as promised.
What are the math prerequisites? Couldn't find anything in about page [0], all it says is:

> We assume that everyone taking this course has at least one year of coding experience.

so, no math background required? Would really appreciate an input from someone who has done the course

[0] - http://course.fast.ai/about.html
Satellite uses giant net to practice capturing space junk
Looks more like an alternative to React Native for Web[1] and React Native Windows[2].

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
Multi-start optimization is the simplest way to deal with the initial guess problem. Is there any heuristic you can use to generate a reasonably-sized set of guesses that is likely to contain at least one guess contained in the region of convergence of the global optimum?

An example of such a heuristic: when fitting a Gaussian mixture model using the E-M algorithm, you can perform K-means clustering with several sets of uniformly sampled random initial cluster centers; then use those cluster centers with the K-means hard correspondence to compute the initial fit of the Gaussians.
A far more generous interpretation would be that Wikipedia and the English internet are very far from comprehensive reports on non-English speaking countries. With a little more effort you could have found many more wrongful convictions in France that were even reported on in English ( http://www.medilljusticeproject.org/wrongful-convictions) and if you searched in French I am sure you would find even more.
Thanks! I've stepped away from initially working on the project in my spare time, but my brother @aacook is still going strong. Will pass your positive vibes along to him.
And if x = 1
Very informative, and I get the point about choice. There is certainly less complaining when customers have choice, which is why 99.999% of restaurants have a multi-meal menu.
Fuzzy Logic [pdf]
> However, if all you're doing is building a 5 page website,

Why not cut to the chase and show the client how to use FTP and a text editor? Why add more complexity beyond that?
That’s the job of (real) journalists. I would imagine the vast majority of content submitted to the Times via these channels never appears in print because it doesn’t pass scrutiny and/or isn’t relevant.
You are you. You are not the name of the organization where you spend your time. If your research is good, it's good whether or not you did it in an academic setting.

The supervision might actually matter. But you might be able to get some. Pick the best of your former professors. Drop them an email, giving your approach. Ask if they see any red flags. If they say yes, listen.
I'm working on a project to get Flutter running on Mac and Windows: https://feather-apps.com

There's also this project which uses Go to run Flutter on Windows and Linux: https://github.com/Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder

Is your Windows implementation publicly available? I'd be curious to check it out.
Well you can blow a freaking crowbar through your brain violently enough that it lands almost a hundred feet behind you and yet the lasting effect might not be much worse than a noticeable change in personality

EDIT

"I first noticed the wound upon the head before I alighted from my carriage, the pulsations of the brain being very distinct. The top of the head appeared somewhat like an inverted funnel, as if some wedge-shaped body had passed from below upward. Mr. Gage, during the time I was examining this wound, was relating the manner in which he was injured to the bystanders. I did not believe Mr. Gage's statement at that time, but thought he was deceived. Mr. Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head. Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain [through the exit hole at the top of the skull], which fell upon the floor" [0]

[0] Harlow, John Martyn (December 13, 1848). Passage of an Iron Rod Through the Head. Boston Medical & Surgical Journal. 39 (20): 389–93 sourced from wikipedia.
Re #4, didn't she also say she left her door unlocked when she went to work that morning and when she came home it was locked, and that Jeff was the only person who locks her door when he's finished his work for her?
Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac
Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data from Gmail Accounts
A quick follow up, would this compete with Flutter? (just saw it linked on HN)

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/
I didn’t say don’t talk to police at all, and there are plenty questions you must answer, especially in a traffic stop context. There no need to ad-lib, though: if you’re pulled over for speeding, you don’t have to give them your whole life story.
No I’ve been behind on my podcasts. But 99pi is in my rotation and I have a long flight ahead of me soon. Thanks!
Weeeeeeelllll, you might say that America is one of a few countries that had overt legal racism recently enough that it's impossible to ignore.
Thx never knew I could use that shortcut there.
The Challenges of Changelogs (2018)
Both metadata and data are checksummed. A unique feature of the filesystem is that it doesn't trust what the storage tells it, it actually verifies it.
Thanks for pointing this out - we'll get these details in the next version of the paper.
It's also widely mocked as a topping many people would find objectionable.
The starting point might be the Cypherpunk's Manifesto: https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
Use multiple panes and/or windows? It's a terminal multiplexer, each panes is a separate terminal, just like tabs.
Ask HN: Get paid to interview/vet candidates
I have a company and trying to interview candidates (Graphic designer role and a sales role) who have been referred to me but these are new roles for our company (no one knows what to ask)? Is there a place I can pay professional people to vet my personal candidates?

Also I have looked into Recruitment agencies but they give me a list of candidates through their own filter that I do not like and they generally cost way too much.
There is a fast JavaScript VM included in Apple's iOS + macOS (JavaScriptCore/Nitro) as well as Windows (Chakra), and they come with a public API.
What's new in Mayan EDMS 3.1
Fast.ai uses HN as their own personal marketing platform
I know that is the meme, but are there any examples of Google dropping enterprise (i.e. paid) offerings? I can think of a few free services that they have dropped, but that's a different story than dropping a commercial service that you're selling to enterprise users.
The need to pay US taxes in USD is not a software problem it’s a risk mitigation problem. If you accept pesos/whatever for your car and the peso crashed you might owe more in taxes than you where paid and even if you do the transaction today you still need to buy some USD with pesos to put aside for taxes.

So, if by ‘some’ you mean multiple trillions of dollars of demand every year then ok. But, that’s rather trivializes what a trillion dollars means.

Which is why I am saying the economy backs the USD not the government.
Everyday crypto (Erlang)
It's fast in the throughput sense. Typing latency is much worse than Terminal.app
Heck there are places that use ClearCase still.

Companies that are at rest tend to stay at rest.
> it's about artists not wanting the negative attention and feeling that high ticket prices attract, and offloading some of the price to a third party (by having them collect additional fees) to manage this.

I'll try to rephrase. This would only work if the artist selling the ticket by themselves could only sell it lower than Ticketmaster. That is, Ticketmaster can extract MORE money out its customers because they hate Ticketmaster.

That is the idea I contest: people pay more on satisfaction, not on dissatisfaction. Yes, the artist save themselves some hassle, but they dont reduce it, they increase it. I would believe Ticketmaster has some leverage we are not considering.

A thought experiment: lets say artists now sell their tickets on platform independent and simultaneous to Ticketmaster, at the same total price. Would people buy on Ticketmaster because they prefer to hate it than to hate the artist?

I doubt so.
Now in Beta: Upload Your Music in Spotify for Artists
Fantastic project!

A fun alternative for the players model that also takes little space is to slice up the model into horizontal layers. See http://www.like100bears.com/writing/2d-3d-in-gamemaker-studi... for example.
I just doubt it's really can be as good as an optical stab in real life.
Sick! I was going to order the gopro 6 yesterday! What a surprise :)
Octopus species are frequently cannibalistic, even while well-fed. How did your uncle manage to keep more than one in a tank?
Couldn't have said it better myself! For more details on requirements as we designed the filesystem and why current filesystems didn't meet our needs, see this blog post: http://www.versity.com/blog/versity-open-sources-scoutfs
Author of the blog post here.

We've generally heard that developers move from Bitbucket to Cloud Source Repositories because they want to use other Google Cloud services and it's simpler for them to manage their source in the same place where they debug, build and deploy that code. Developers often mention that they appreciate the unified identity, IAM permissions, and integrations that Cloud Source Repositories has with Cloud Shell, Cloud Build, Cloud Debugger and others Google Cloud services.

However, developers don't need to move from Bitbucket to take advantage of the utility provided by Cloud Source Repositories. You can mirror any number of your repositories into Cloud Source Repositories and take advantage of the code browser, code search, and various integrations with Google Cloud Platform.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google and am the PM on this product)
Usually good anonymous tips are the sort tell the journalists where to look, who to ask, what questions to ask, etc. Allegations that there's a conspiracy to turn everyone into commies by putting fluoride in the water aren't taken seriously unless they include some way for the journalists to validate the claims (official documentation, for example).
You've got that exactly backwards.

The pursuit of profit, which is the pursuit of greater productivity, is what makes it possible to pay ever increasing amounts of taxes, which provides for a radical improvement in the welfare of people on the planet.

Just ask China. They went from being an anti-profit, anti-market country of near absolute poverty, to a heavily for-profit economy, lifting nearly a billion people out of poverty, and providing for an extraordinary base of increasing savings derived from profit (income beyond expenses). So much for destroying us, humanity has never been better off on average than it is today.

Profit is a store of prior productive action that enables you to make future investments. To curse that is absurdity defined. It's the only reason we're all alive, it's a base requirement of all civilization (unless you like the odds of survival when you're living moment to moment, betting on never falling off the highwire).
Ask HN: Why are iBeacons not popular yet?
I have seen alot of iBeacon companies with cool ideas but never seen one take over. Macy's is still trying to use the ones in their store and RiteAid has one in every store they have. I think bluetooth is better than gps location, saves alot of energy. Heck if PokemonGo used beacons (more logistics i know) maybe it could still be popular than using ur location alway on draining battery.
Some interesting context for this comment:

"Congrats Dropbox"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140

BrandonM: It's funny how often that comment—which I made as a 22-year-old undergrad—resurfaces. Someone even reached out to me 2 weeks ago because they wanted to use it in an article as an example of "the disconnect between the way users and engineers see software"!

I like to think that I've gained a lot of perspective over the last 11 years; it's pretty clear to me that point #1 was short-sighted and exhibited a lot of tunnel vision. Looking back, though, I still think that thread was a reasonable exchange. My 2nd and 3rd points were fair, and I conceded much of point 1 to you after your reply (which was very high quality).

Obviously, we have the benefit of hindsight now in seeing how well you were able to execute. Kudos on that!

Congrats on your success! I wish you nothing but the best going forward!

Zed Shaw's take on the matter.
https://zedshaw.com/2018/03/25/the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/
Even for higher end stuff like aviation there are cost effective alternatives, however the form factor of a Hero secured to a tie down point is pretty great.
There was a thread on reddit.com/r/army about getting diagnosed with Celiac while on active duty. Interesting reading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/9gl5vt/celiac_disease...
I was trying to watch the side-by-side stabilisation video when that dumb modal popped up, I just closed the page.
FARA is about people acting as agents of foreign governments. If it was just an American trying to influence American media on behalf of an American organization, it wouldn't be a big deal unless it involves classified information or other illegalities.

FARA is aimed at preventing clandestine efforts by foreign governments to subvert/compromise our government. Enforcement has been lax to non-existent for a long time, but that has changed in big way in the last few years or so, for reasons that are obvious.
Doh! Thanks for letting us know, will get that fixed. Of course, patches/contributions are always welcome.... :)
Password bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts data at risk
They again are sticking with EIS, and again the demos are of extremely well lit scenes.

EIS solutions don't hold up quite as well in lower light, where OIS absolutely shines. Video, just like photos, has individual frames that have exposure times, and in lower light the longer exposure time == garbage source frames that no amount of EIS can fix. But expect a tonne of extremely well lit examples pretending that it's a cure all.

The best solutions marry EIS and OIS. That's exactly what the iPhone does.
A Ray-Box Intersection Algorithm and Efficient Dynamic Voxel Rendering
I bought a Session 4 as my first GoPro and based on the experience I don't know if I'd buy another GoPro.

The camera can't be used while charging and the battery will die in a matter of days (even with WiFi disabled) so there's no impromptu or spontaneous usage. You have to know in advance that you'll need it and charge it up ahead of time.

The camera frequently overheats and then locks up trying to shut itself down.

The camera is suppose to start recording with a button press and stop recording with another press of the same button. It usually starts recording fine but more often than not when you press the button again to stop the camera will just lockup. If you don't hold the button for 10 seconds to force a hard reset the battery will drain in a matter of minutes.

It's been a really poor user experience considering how nice the hardware itself is and how much they market it as a premium product.
Nah, IBM was still the "Evil Empire" in the first half of the '90s, IIRC. They did things that make Microsoft and Google look like saints.

Microsoft didn't take over the Evil Empire title until the late '90s, IMO.
So according to the article, Apple just following Google, it just doesn't "read" your data but will analyze your metadata and judges you, yay.
this isn't the jury "not following the law". it's called "jury nullification" and it has been a feature of common law for hundreds of years.
No, Hero 6 black can do 4K/60 and 1080/240fps and wifi. It seems this version has better stabilization.
One thing I really miss with diff tools like this, is the ability to review multiple non-consecutive commits on a single branch, without including all commits in-between.

Example, lets say I want to review commit A and D:
HEAD - A - B - C - D - E...

In most diff/review tools, when I select these commits in the GUI, it would show me all changes that have been made in commit A, B, C and D. What I actually want is for the viewer to filter out or atleast distinguish between the changes made in commits I selected, and the commits that are made in-between (in this case, B and C). This could of course lead to conflicts where the commits in-between have modified the same lines of code, but I really don't think this is a problem in 99% of the time.

This would really help the review workflow in scenarios where branching and pull request are not always used.

Too often, I have put down the time to review a single commit, only to find out that the next commit in the same task already fixed the things I noted in the first. reviewing both of them at the same time would save a lot of time.
Wait, so his badge is bad because of his politics? Are we not above that?
How can I not use either Android or iOS? I'm not well versed in data protection policies, but at least in the EU where I live, shouldn't this fall under GDPR? I should be able to opt out of having my personal data to be used by a algorithm to determine my "trust score", whatever that means.
This is really cool but it looks like the constraint solver [1] is not much more complex than the one shown in this web page. I really want a program-driven functional CAD tool like libfive or OpenSCAD, but with powerful 3d constraint solving like, e.g. Solidworks can provide.

[1] https://github.com/libfive/libfive/blob/master/libfive/inclu...
I would imagine that every successful/not-successful startup would post on Show HN. There are entire lists of places to post stuff, and I'm sure Show HN must be in the top 10.
Somebody illustrious and learned once said something to the effect that “if somebody tells you it's raining outside, and somebody else tells you the sun is shining, your job as a journalist isn't to report that some people say one thing whereas others say something else, your job as a journalist is to go look out the window and report what the weather is actually doing”.

What we have now is (mostly) talk-shows roughly passed off as genuine journalism, but really it's pretty obvious that it's the lowest common denominator kind of gossip-spreading.
Pretty sure the target demographic is people, and people find distracting away from the page's core content with pop-ups universally annoying.
Yeah, it'd be interesting to get a definitive answer here...
Anonymous sources that are quoted directly are known to the journalists; their identity is only concealed from readers. This is about anonymously passing information for further investigation.
Seems like an armwrestle workaround the issue. Good it got solved but it's poor managing if a star engineer needs to extort his authority to handle managerial problem... I wonder how much of it was display and how much a necessity.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

Please don't delete and repost the same story; accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges. Deletion is intended for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
Google Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep Moved to GA
We need a list of lists and how you get on them, and off them, then a service for managing them.
You have to account for female specific choices that women make; like parenting. When you account for that along with experience the difference is negligible.

a more readable source: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
You gotta admin those commercials they make are incredible well made and informative.
Good "catch" ;) "throw" in Kit is vestigial; there's no error handling mechanism implemented yet, and I've gone back to the design phase to consider some alternatives.
Ben, would you cite Scala at all as a source for inspiration?
Ask HN: Current main obstacles to modern robotics
What are the current obstacles modern robotics is facing today? Is it the hardware, software, both? Is there not enough funding? Public perception?
Please double-check your math. https://www.google.com/search?q=320%2C000+*+24%2C000+in+word...
> Sometimes we see a lot of news articles and news regarding X, Y, Z topic from anonymous sources, being passed as legit news and reliable, but when you examine the news in more details, nothing that backs up such claims can be found.

Your implication is that because a story contains no named sources, the information is not legitimate, or not reliable. I would submit to you that this is exceedingly rare at a reputable newspaper like the New York Times, and although all newspapers are sometimes mislead by their sources, or otherwise get things wrong, when this happens at a paper like the Times, it is universally followed by a correction.

In other words, the Times is not going to print a story based on anonymous submissions without any further vetting, or investigation. They're going to seek independent corroboration, they're going to involve other experts, and they're going to ask questions of the principals.