skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found a python2/3 bindings library on the github -- https://github.com/coleifer/unqlite-python

It's based on cython apparently, might dust off pybindgen and see if I can do better...
Ask HN: Strengths and weaknesses of Duckduckgo?
How does DDG compare to google in terms of search results?
The Ultimate List of WordPress and Remote Job Sites
SOD – An Embedded Computer Vision Library
> hopefully enough software engineers will be ready with the background understanding and a working mental model for the underpinning architectural paradigm shift

Good luck with that. This seems like a mess of buzzwords. GraphBLAS, Redis, RedisGraph, paradigm shift, exascale. I have no idea what it is supposed to accomplish, let alone what the advantage is.

Is this just some sort of reinvention of linear algebra mixed with a DAG?

Why did someone write an entire paper about counting triangles?
World's Most Popular Weed Killer Linked to Decline of Honey Bees
THanks - I was interested in this story - and found this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/19/nyregion/a-smuggling-oper...
Suspended by Twitter for tweeting feminist academic research
The industrial guys are likely using some sort of broad pesticide, so they don’t have to specifically target the silk on each ear. There are special tractors with really high clearance and sprayer arms that are often used.

https://goo.gl/images/9ozRxC
Depends on where/how that data is distributed. A big focus with technologies like IPFS is to have data be local and to not upload it anywhere. OR, to encrypt data within a small, private swarm where not everyone can access it.

This is important, because getting rid of a content-addressable strategy doesn't actually protect your data. In practice, running application logic locally and having small private swarms is better for privacy than what we have on the web right now.

So say you're hosting your own data at a traditional URL and on IPFS. Well, if someone wants to save your data, they can do it with the same ease on both. They just download your stuff and save it. If you take your data down from IPFS and from the traditional URL before someone saves it, then your data is safe. So, again, same situation.

What IPFS says is, "if someone re-hosts your data, can we cryptographically prove that it's the same data? And can we refer to the data by that signature rather than whatever the host is this week?" So, if your data goes down but someone else found it and rehosted it, stuff like URLs would still work (although in practice, the URL you'd use would be a pointer to the most recent version of your site, so even that isn't necessarily typical).

This is a minor loss to data ownership because you can't literally invalidate a URL if other people are willing to host it. But that's the only thing you've lost. Under the web as it exists today, someone can still take all of your images and rehost them on Reddit or something. If you think it's easy to prevent that, go let the MPAA know what your strategy is so they can end piracy forever.

So the problem with IPFS/DAT isn't fundamentally any different, it just means that URLs break less often, there are fewer Man-in-the-Middle attacks on your website, and there are fewer download links that lie about their payloads.
Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem
The Russian government is a mafia, we just call them oligarchs. If one gets a little uppity he gets whacked. The leader is worth 50 billion dollars. It's the sopranos on steroids and has nuclear weapons.
Agreed, my time spent learning Linux/unix has reaped rich dividends. A textbook on operating systems offers only an abstract intro to the concepts. Wading hip deep into a high powered open unix in which you configure and build your own kernels, filesystems, networks, and program both high and low level services — as Linux allows — greatly empowers the curious admin or developer, and offers insights into computer infratructure that far exceeds mere coursework or certifications.
Ok, so how do you define "failure" when you say it's failing?
does light have any other intrinsic properties besides spectrum/wavelengths and intensity (EDIT: properties that vary based on the light source alone)? It doesn't matter if it came from a backlight or reflection, the electromagnetic waves are still electromagnetic waves. If the color spectrum is unpleasant, it's possible to use Night Shift or other features to shift the spectrum. If the intensity is unpleasant, just turn down the brightness.
I am pretty sure System.Type is partially implemented via unsafe code. The wrapper is managed, but so is the Swift's.

I'd be interested in an overview article about Mirror's features to compare. This article only talks about values. Does it include/support function info? Inheritance? Can it be used to generate code like Reflection.Emit?
12 Startups in 12 Months
US military can drop few nukes and end a war even faster. The weak joint is not a military. The weak point is cohort of bribed journalists, which write everything Russia want for small amount of money. When USA bomb civilians, bribed journalist will make woes. When Russia bomb civilians, bribed journalist will be silent or supportive. Why not to support state, which pays your bills?
That's just a function of monitor brightness, it has no connection to whether the light was reflected or not.

If a monitor has bad contrast and you turn up the brightness, that's not the fault of the light source. That monitor still won't even come close to the amount of blue light that a blue sky emits, even at maximum brightness.

Personally, I think all monitors made in the last 10 years should be as legible at low brightness as a piece of paper is in an equally poorly lit room.
> As Plomin writes: “We now know that DNA differences are the major systematic source of psychological differences between us. Environmental effects are important but what we have learned in recent years is that they are mostly random – unsystematic and unstable – which means that we cannot do much about them.”

I'm not sure what to read in the implied statement that we can do something about genes
I'm going to try to comment like this, here goes...

Why do you think 4 years are better spent paying to cobble together scripts for unnecessary assignments the way a can't-hack-it-outside-academia teacher wants who is not incentivized to do the best and is out of touch with real-world development instead of spending those years surrounded by experienced and like-minded peers in an environment that focuses on making tangible accomplishments and making money?

I hope it's clear how ridiculous discussing things this way is. There are benefits on both sides, and a reasonable person would respect that.
I don’t know about Monsanto, but I have knowledge of the social media policies of both Apple and MS and you couldn’t be more wrong. Don’t mistake personal bias/company pride for an organized sock puppet campaign.

MS allows its employees to comment on matters in a personal capacity with a disclaimer indicating such.

Apple employees are not supposed to comment at all, and can be terminated for doing so.

Both explicity forbid shilling, and there is no encouragement by the company to do anything like what you’re describing. This should be obvious if one considers how many lawyers they employ whose sole job it is to prevent them from being sued, charged, or investigated.

I know folks at both companies, and while everyone is unique, I noticed that many have a lot of pride in their employer, have a strong dislike for competitors, and would likely engage in expressing their disagreement voluntarily.
> a tool to use phones to find WiFi signals.

> Does it find phones ... This was never about finding better WiFi. We were always finding phones. Phones carried by people. Remember I said I was working for a Department of Defense contractor? The DoD is the military. I was building a tool for the military to find people based on where their phones where, and shoot them.

I got distracted by this utter failure to define the objectives and requirements of the project. If you want to find phones, don't start by using phones to find wifi routers.

But yeah, if you work for the DoD, you should probably be ok with the stuff you are working on being used to kill people. It's a big part of what they do.
> I can't just make myself blind and claim that DDG is anywhere near to Google when it comes to accuracy or sophistication.

You don't have to, that's what !g is for. I start all my searched at DDG, and if I'm not seeing the results I want, I use !g. Somewhere around 80%-90% never require a redirect to Google for additional results, and that's a a number I can live with.
Wow interesting Wikipedia read on him too, you’re right that’s probabaly a billion in today’s dollars tooo.
WRT your claim that Kavanaugh somehow will not contribute to the prohibition (or extreme restriction) of abortions:

- Kavanaugh was nominated after private meetings with a president who promised to put anti-abortion judges on the court.

- The president himself is not an expert on jurisprudence and selected Kavanaugh from a list of anti-abortion judges provided to him by the Federalist Society, which vets judges with respect to the likelihood of their restricting abortion access.

- There is a lot of wiggle room within the phrase "I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully", enough to permit a decision that would allow states to effectively outlaw abortion. He could technically not be lying in that specific statement, yet still prohibit or largely restrict access to abortions.

There is no good faith reason to believe that Kavanaugh's nomination is not a threat to abortion access in America.
Google has no business keeping a record of each and every one of your searches, tied to your account, but they do it anyway, and they are increasing the tracking by combining the gmail and browser login.

You may start searching for divorce lawyers at some point, and your spouse might stumble upon that.

These search histories could also be obtained with a subpoena, for reasons totally unrelated to you.

Chrome can no longer be safely used to login to google sites. Just because you don't care about privacy now doesn't mean that you won't later.
That Rust and C use different data structure is not a thesis in the article, it is used as a fact in an explanation. To support this fact the author explain how intrusive data structure are easier in C thanks to a lack of static ownership (for the same reason they are way harder in Rust).

To demonstrate the claim that C and Rust have different idiomatic data structures you need to rewrite software from C to Rust and to Rust from C and see what is hard and what is less hard.
Are you running a server on your mac? If not, then who do you want to allow remotely connecting to your mac? Connections established/initiated by your machine still go through when you enable that setting.
I mean.. if it's really that bad you can always walk back and forth in the pool. I really do that sometimes.
Buck's is a pretty nice place and the food is actually quite good. Far better than SF's deal making hotspot, the Creamery, where parking is also hard to find.
"Fighting fair."

It's a term I heard a Minister tell the bride and groom during his speech at their wedding. He talked about how you're going to fight with your spouse, but the challenge is to fight fair. Hear the other person. Try to see their perspective with sympathy, if not empathy. Avoid trying to "win" fights, that's never the point.

I talked about this with my then girlfriend. She was a vicious fighter. I was too. We knew each other's weak spots and knew exactly what to say. But we spent a few years slowly getting better. And now our fights are almost always about a rational disagreement on perspective. They get heated. We get emotional. Because we both really care. But we fight fair now, and that means our fights are productive and usually rather short. For me it means forcing myself to stop the argument for a moment, truly process and soak in everything she's said, try to understand why she feels that way, and see if maybe she's got a point. On more than one occasion, we'll be a few minutes into a yelling match and one of us will just abruptly say, "oh my god you're right..."

It's easily the most powerful skill I've developed in my adult life.

I've been married to her for 2 years now. I've got 78 more years to go with her and I feel more confident every day that we're going to make it.
This is true, but most spam email is automated.

You're still correct though, your solution is more secure (and also what I use). It's always possible the form you submit automatically strips the +whatever from your email silently. I believe facebook does this (at least when checking to see if the email you're using has already been registered).
Yes, you will want to research "program induction" and "program synthesis". For a review of recent work in both, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02353

For program synthesis applied to the "Atari" deep learning benchmark check out https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05695
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/
It'll be nice when browsing without a license is punishable the same way driving without a license is. People will finally be held accountable for the things they say and do online.
Why not block all incoming connections except on those ports?
This portion of the US public remain silent when millions of civilians were killed. So it's not a strong moral principle but just a preference.

— Hey, you! Don't kill civilians!
— Okey.

— Hey, you! Don't kill civilians!
— Идите на х!
— Okey
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Nothing faster than poking bytes into memory mapped character video on a TRS-80 at over a million cycles per second. Rendering html text not so fast!
Note that draught beer has to be sold in pints, so it remains "steadfastly" that way because it's illegal to do anything else. Poor evidence in my view for any theory that this might be somehow the people's choice.

(Bottled beer is almost always 500ml. Newcastle Brown Ale is one of the few exceptions.)
While I agree that a certain base level of income is necessary to have decent life, it becomes a lot less important after that's reached. And that level for me mostly includes enough money for food, accommodation (, and healthcare if you're in the US) and some extras like going out or traveling once in a while. In Europe this is pretty easy to achieve in a technical field. Beyond that, I feel like more money doesn't add much to my happiness. Saying that this is one's most important asset sounds like one should spend most of one's life on maximizing income, which I think is indeed a bit sad.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810764
The mammalian visual system has been the predominant model system used in developmental neurobiology research for the past fiftyish years. It's generally known at this point that visual circuits pattern themselves according to input, and that visual systems fed from a constrained input domain lose the ability to meaningfully represent real-world input. We also know that computer displays show a very restricted subset of perceptual info, and also don't relate to other sensory modalities (like proprioception of head/eye movements to look at peripheral objects) which are important for maintaining an integrated environmental map. So, it's more reasonable to assume that looking at monitors is harmful than helpful, especially at a young age (or following a stroke, taking certain HDAC6 inhibitors or other things that increase "neural plasticity"). The common knowledge of developmental neurobiology has advanced to the point where the claim "closer to natural ISN'T better for normal development" is one which requires proof.

Now, does this have any meaningful bearing on e-ink displays? The contrast ratio is closer to stuff you get in the natural world, but apart from that it's still a monitor.
I view a lot of these cons as pluses.

In college organic chem classes we had a component of work that was online.

The main benefit was that it gave instant feedback and explanations, much better than the cycle of turning in physical work to get it back 2 weeks later and never look at it again.

I would rather have the better product at a higher cost than a free textbook and 1980s style grading.

If you want open textbooks to succeed there also have to be open resources. It's not just less work for teachers, in many cases it's higher quality as well.

On top of the digital stuff, which we used to solidify concepts, we had more involved psets which were turned in on paper. I thought it worked pretty well.

So, while people on HN like to complain and say controversial things like 'the almighty dollar hath wreaked havok once more, gather hither with pitchforks', I have had no issues with this.
Maybe just setting Windows into one of it’s High Contrast Settings would help[0]. I’m sure MacOS offers a similar feature.

[0]http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=windows+10+high+contrast
Calendars for Humans – How to Undo the All-Day Cram [video]
Okay, I will try.

कुत्र = where (?)

पठसि = studying. When you want to use "studying" with "you"; with "I" it would have been "pathaami" (पठामि) iirc.

संस्कृतम् = Sanskrit

So, it should roughly read "Where are (you) studying Sanskrit?"
I always wondering how the US managed to tame the Mafia in the early 20s to late 70s. Is there something the Mexican government can mimic or is there something either political or cultural that prevents this?
"I recommend rolling your own email server"

This is actively harmful advice. Do not roll your own email. Use a well-known provider with a solid security track record.
Regarding that add-on, I've become a huge fan of this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

The concept is: create additional Named containers, and assign domains to always load in X named container
Whenever I need an online course I found myself always checking out udemy.

For academic courses you have edx, coursera etc, so what is making udacity stand-out of the rest?
Probabilistic Circuits: A New Synthesis of Logic and Machine Learning [pdf]
> DESTROY ... and I can't f demolish it to a pile of sand by my liking, than that's a scam, I don't really own it

There are other definitions of ownership more akin to stewardship. Some circumstances recognise others interests and therefore limit rights and elevate responsibilities.

This, arguably, sensible.
Apple sued by ex-engineer over Find My iPhone patent credit, stock revocation
Use Publii (https://getpublii.com) to easily create a static site on your computer and Netlify (https://www.netlify.com) for hosting. All free and fast to setup.
" After the Soviet Union fell, it didn’t seem like that in Eastern Europe" it was pretty bad after USSR collapsed there were organized crime groups with membership in high thousands. Some of the richest oligarchs in Ukraine and Russia came from those groups including Rinat Akhmetov in Ukraine and a good number of people from putin's inner circle.
Why is it clear that it will always work? It would be a proof if that part was written down. Since we all already know that the angles add up to 180, it might just be the intuition taught to us by another proof of the statement leaking backwards into the implicit step in this attempt at proving the statement. The part that's left off (the proof that it always works) is actually the bigger part of the contraption.
The chart should either have a title with "Number of Direct Queries" and Y-axis numbers such as "20M", or keep the title "Direct Queries in Millions" and have Y-axis numbers simply be "20".
Looks good except that the previous release was made in 2015.7, that's a long long time
My personal mail solution is composed of:

- a good taxonomy on a maildir in my home and on my IMAP (thanks mbsync+cron+a small script to watch inbox with IMAP Idle)

- a good automatic filtering/refiling (imapfilter, for now)

- a good spam blocker (spamassassin)

- a good MUA which support both physical taxonomy and a search-based one

The workflow it's roughly simple: I have some saved search in notmuch-emacs mostly 'unread', 'important', 'inbox', 'live', 'todo'. When I have little or no time I look only at unread+important, when I have time I go through the rest of unread. Live stuff are thing in progress that I have to watch but no action or todo, todo are...todo's...
Ask HN: What would you do with €25K?
I recently inherited around €25K. What should I do with it?

Some background about me. Age: late 30s, single, male, living in Eastern Europe, engineer by training, currently in talks for a new job. Decent living conditions in a mid-size town, having my own apartment. No mortgage, no loans, no savings, no hobbies or special interests, no pets, no car, no addictions.

All suggestions are welcome.
There are indeed huge individual differences, I don't drink a lot, if I force myself to drink more I ended up spending a lot of time eliminating.

Also note that your diet makes a huge difference, the veggies and fruits you eat, the more water you put in your body without drinking.
Clockless Spintronic Logic: A Robust and Ultra-Low Power Computing Paradigm [pdf]
“I came here with a simple dream...a dream of killing all humans.”
That doesn't always mean bad things. Especially for a stable python library. But the JavaScript part could be a bit dusty.

I wish it was easier to find the signal on, "is this project abandonned?" "Does it still work?"
I see new commits tho..
Midori looked really interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
I often feel an urge to go for an SLR. For me the biggest draw, to be honest, is the optical viewfinder.

What do you think about modifying photos a lot after taking them? What are your views on photographs that are just those moments locked in time forever and otherwise when you try and modify them (esp. in the age of social media).
OK, that crontab one is pretty great.
Perhaps because hypermedia has yet to be proven useful?

(Arguments and counterexamples welcome, I've been looking for them for years).
Fair point. I just added it. I noticed they don't have a Jive Search !bang ;).
why does it have to be dimmer than ambient?
I feel the exact same way about writing. How much human suffering has been caused by people's ability to just read and write down anything whenever they want? There is zero accountability! Heck, nowadays, I can even make graphics on a computer and then walk into Staples and print them out on official-looking, high quality paper. And they even have the gall let me pay anonymously in cash!

In the good old days, only the Church could publish books, so everything that was written down was thoughtful and true.
basic economics. it helps if you have a great teacher.

it tells you how the world works. basically when i started high school i was a communist. if i had gone on with that worldview i would have found things very difficult, like why this person has x and other person has y. doing stuff like calculating the market price of a good kinda helps with that. and understanding the economy and what people do in business helped me understand things better. It gave me a healthy dose of cynicism and a better idea of what behavior can be productive and what things are ultimately admirable sentiments that lead to nothing. in terms of practicality i use some of these ideas to adjust the price of the rooms i let out. no doubt being able to keep them filled without being unnecessarily cheap is profitable.