skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve lost all respect for Wikileaks. How about actually leaking documents on day, I dunno, how the Chinese government is trying to brainwash Uighurs and erase their culture and religion? Instead, it’s always the US that’s been the bad guy, and now it’s not even really the government directly. There’s no cultural suppression or a larger public benefit from knowing where amazon data centers are located.

What a joke.
Definitely this. I'm currently carrying a book (as always), and still here I am reading HN. I've long observed this happening, but the novel reading habit is surprisingly hard to re-establish.
I don't get it. NASA should re-vector as an overseeing space administration for US based space projects, and let the commercial sector do the actual building, testing, and flying. Think of all that money saved that can be used for a better purpose elsewhere.
Pray tell, what did Reddit change to make r/all less fun for you? Considering the complete meltdown that occurred when r/fatpeoplehate was banned, I can't imagine much of value was lost.

For those who don't remember the meltdown I'm referring to, for a few days after FPH was banned, its users brigaded every big sub and upvoted photoshopped pictures of Ellen Pao's face on to the body of a morbidly obese person. It was possibly the most childish form of acting out I'd ever seen.
1) It would validate the approach. If somebody is not willing to pay $1 per month, the value of the service for them is obviously too low.

2) it would make abuse much harder: registering 1M fake users becomes costly, and the payment leaves a track to a real credit card.
It seems mad that something like "ingredient parsing" could ever be a business; on the other hand, a decade ago I was sharing a house with a PhD student who was trying to do effectively the same thing with chemistry papers to extract relevant formulae. Worked well for clearly defined things like "1,1,1-trichloroethane", less well for colloquial things like "formaldehyde" or, god help you, "lead".

(Is a "lead researcher" the head of your team, a person researching the properties of the metal Pb, or a researcher made out of that heavy grey metal? This is practically an unsolved computational linguistics problem)
The more interesting part to me: at the +4 C warming, a lot of currently most productive and populous areas in subtropics will become too hot for humans to live. This will lead to deaths, migrations, and, of course, food insecurity.

Also, melting of enough of Antarctic ice may raise the level of oceans so much that protecting coastal cities with dams will become impractical. That is, whole countries, like the Netherlands, currently have a lot of their territory below sea level, and had for centuries. But this only works for a difference of several meters, but is unlikely to work for e.g. 50m.
What about something like s3? Now you can use Athena to query data stored there
In the past 5 years, Amazon's stock has gone up almost 6X. Anyone who got paid in RSUs almost certainly made out well. But, as Amazon points out in their statement, past results are no guarantee for stock performance going forward. I can pay you $500 in cash or I can give you $500 worth of stock (which vests over a period of time). Generally speaking, the cash (which you get right away) should always be valued more since you can spend it as you want, including using it to purchase stock (which these days can be purchased for nominal trading fees).

Furthermore, salary increases are always worth more than equivalent end-of-year cash bonuses, since you lose out on bonuses if you leave your job mid-year.
The article states that almost everyone is doing percentile latencies wrong by averaging on agent level (thus creating nonsensical data) and proposes using the per­cent­age of requests that are over the thresh­old instead, a metric that can be averaged properly.
He additionally suggests to always use actionable dashboards catered to its users (dev/ops/manager).
Technically it's NASA's second moon rocket.

Also the timing here is really lucky. This will get buried under today's aborted launch.
> In my opinion, the most harmful thing you can do, is choosing to do nothing.

I disagree. Millions of Americans and one of two major political parties are actively obstructing action to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Doing nothing is better than doing things to actively hamper positive efforts.
The thing I miss most in R are 64 bit integers. I am aware of the bit64 package, but I would prefer native support.
It's not entirely clear to me why there's less acceleration on the gliding entry. It can't really be that the speed is bled off over a longer distance, right (in other words, I assume that the high-g phases are rather punctual than extended), and intuitively it would seem that, coming in at high speed, "gliding" (ie with lift) would lead to quicker deceleration than just "bleeding off" speed in the ballistic fall, ie higher g. Could you elaborate on the difference between the usual and ballistic mode, and when the high g-load occurs?
We intend to be an open-core company, and monetize support and tools around the product.
"The three people... on the space station, they are basically marooned there."

What? They have their own Soyuz capsule, they have means to return to Earth on a very short notice, why Chris need to call it this?
I think you could get a lot by chopping out R's non-standard evaluation. It's described pretty well here:

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html

Functions in R are not referentially transparent, so replacing an argument with its value is not necessarily the same. That is a clear restriction on optimizations. If you would want to choose a restricted subset of R to speedup, then this would be a good candidate to cut out since the standard place to compile is at the function level (Numba, Cython, and Julia all do it at functions).
https://logz.io/blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/

https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads

Perhaps also consider influxdb
Do Not Pay even creates a script for the plaintiff to read out loud in court.

Why does this feel like it gets DANGEROUSLY close to UPL?
A Field Guide to Potential Securities Violations by Tesla's Foes – In Depth
The telemetry does seem to get "stuck" during the explosion.
This. I consume books endlessly and almost always have... Unless I stop. A few times in my life I've started reading a book and when it didnt hold my interest I stopped picking it up. 3 months to a year later I would come across an interesting book and then it was back to constantly reading.

To help avoid this situation I've made it part of my morning routine to read for 15 minutes every morning (keeps the world/story alive in my head) and if I don't pick up a book for 7 days I move on to another book.

Using this method I'm at 27 books for the year and I've moved on from 2.
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Please do not compare EPITECH or 42 to EPITA they are not the same school at all.
There is student teaching at EPITA (the idea come from here) but it is framed and supervised by the school and others teachers (and it's only for programming project, not CS courses that are taught by researcher or teacher).

> Some may feel that the job market is saturated by programmers looking for a job but the truth is, in France anyway, not much have a good engineering mind. I've worked in big companies, i've worked in small companies and I've talked to a lot a recruiters. They do interview a lot of people, from university, engineering school and other formation structures. Truth is i've seen big and small companies recruting students that had majored in anything but CS, juste because they came from an engineering school or university that was known to produce good engineers

Can you develop this part I'm curious, how do you make the difference between a good engineering mind and a bad one for example ?
Like most great literature, it's an insight into the reader. How you interpret aeneid says more about you than the book. No different from the bible or hamlet.
A list of companies who attended DELTA Summit (in Malta) last week
Gearplug, gearplug.io
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'Why?' Do you only do something for personal benefit or payment? I doubt it and neither do most of the rest of us.

Socialism is where property is communally or governmentally owned and treated as a free resource and the evidence shows us that resources are inevitably overused with little regard for future consequences.

Driving through Romania and other countries in Eastern Europe after 1989 provided ample illustration of the above. The comparison was stark and pitiful.
Ask HN: How to pick between internships?
I'm currently trying to pick between internships. What is a good way to choose? What are the most important things to be thinking about?

I'm mostly deciding between Convoy (a YC company that is growing really fast) and Flatiron Health (got acquired by Roche earlier this year but is an independent subsidiary). The Flatiron internship is in New York, has great perks/training bootcamp, is really generous, and they're working on an important problem. The main thing going for Convoy is they are still private and are growing crazy fast. How important is the growth of a company you are interning at compared to other factors, like having a more established process/location/pay/training programs and focus on internships.

For a little more context, I'm not too concerned with getting a job after the internship and I worked at Intel last summer (so it would be my second internship).

Thanks for your comments!
I’ve experienced this off and on but I disagree with the cause.

The only reason that HN and Reddit interfere with my ability to read books is because they both compete for the same ~100 waking hours each week that I don’t spend at work. If I don’t read any novels for a few months it’s hard to pick one up and actually get through it. If I just finished reading three books in the Dresden Files or Vorkosigan Saga, picking up book #4 is a no-brainer and with Kindle it’s easy to slip into the habit of binge-reading. Like, I’m halfway through the book but if I call in late tomorrow I can probably finish the book tonight. And then a couple months later, if I haven’t been reading books, book #5 can seem like a total chore.
>or some other irrational choice

None of those is an irrational choice.
I'll second sansevierras (also called snake plant or mother in law's tongue). When I started working as a programmer I had one in my office in the back of a windowless office. It was amusing seeing how many people assumed it as a fake plant as they didn't a plant could live back there.

Zamioculcas (or ZZ Plants) are also another very hardy plant that do well in low light and can take a lot of abuse.

There is also Pothos, several types of ferns (Boston being the most aviable in my experience), Spathiphyllum (peace lilly), Dieffenbachia, Monstera, Spiderplant, Rubber plant, weeping fig, fiddle leaf fig. All of these are pretty common and should be relatively easy to find.

If you want some more interesting ones there are Calathea Triostar, Ficus Doescheri & Tradescantia Tricolor which all have a pinklish marbling, & Tradescantia pallida which is a deep purple.
> programming courses is that they tend to have a more-than-normal bimodal distribution of results

There is argument that is not true [1]. However, I agree with your next statement that this isn't so much a 'lack of geek gene', but a lack of catching up. In [2], even something as simple as assignment operations were able to predict success in a CS course.

I'm currently developing my own 'remedial tutorials' and researching the proper order of exercises to give a low-performing student. Similar to your experience, these help those low-performers catch up.

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/papers/2016/icer_2016_bimodal...

[2] http://www.ppig.org/sites/default/files/2014-PPIG-25th-Ahadi...
What are the German arguments against nuclear? They banned it after Fukushima as far as I understand it, despite having totally different geology?
Ex-Amazonian here.

Aside: Despite the company's not-so-good reputation in the media and forums, I enjoyed working there. For the most part I had good managers and coworkers. And once you've been there a while, you can transfer to a team with more interesting work, less on-call support, etc.

Anyway, my wife is a doctor, and she had to move for her residency. Amazon wasn't willing to consider remote work, and I'm not sure I'd want to be the one "remote guy" anyway, so I switched jobs to a 100% remote company. We're hiring, in case others would like to make a similar jump. :)
7 Tips to Reduce Stress at Work (6 Powerful and 1 Super Quirky)
Hello again, HN!

Almost 6 years ago to the day, I received an email from YC about our application being rejected – I still remember that feeling of almost wanting to give up, but also weirdly motivated to keep going and try again. Despite the setback, my brother Sergie and close friend Bryant and I kept working on creating a prototype that people could actually play with – and a few months later we posted our first Show HN about Webflow (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499).

What we showed was very limited and barely worked (you can still see it by following the link above), but thankfully the post took off and over 25,000 people signed up to see our beta in just a few days. We were in awe of the power of HN, and I can honestly say our company wouldn't be here today had it not been for the warm reception and encouragement of this community in that original Show HN post.

Today, we're releasing a brand new CSS playground similar to our first one, this time showing off the amazing power of CSS Grid, which brings a whole new level of power and creativity to the web – especially to those people who struggle with learning to code. It's one small step on our bigger vision to democratize software creation beyond the 0.25% of the world that knows how to code - by offering a visual abstraction over things like CSS Grid, we can actually get more people to understand the principles behind CSS, box model, responsive layout, inheritance, etc. We've also found that tools like this are super useful to backend-focused engineers that don't have much experience in frontend work, at least as a way to ease into frontend.

We'd love to hear any and all feedback! Support for grid autoflow as well as grid template areas is coming in the next few months, but currently manual placement, FR units, and minmax are all supported.

The CSS Grid playground currently works in desktop Chrome/Safari/Brave/Vivaldi, but we're still working on Firefox and tablet support – our apologies if you're seeing an unsupported browser message :\
Distinctly Berkeley Data Science Major Has Wide Appeal
I really like the idea of displaying what percentage is over a certain threshold. at my work, we kinda sorta simulate this by having separate alarms for many percentiles (with increasing thresholds). The approach suggested by the article seems to be quite obviously better tbh.
It seems interesting, but what I have in mind is more high level interface. Like tailing and greping maybe, but for ElasticSearch.

For reference, this is what I've been working on: https://logvue.xonoko.com

I use it everyday, but I don't know if I should use something better that already exist, or if I should really work to make it available for everyone.
But, but its against the law- the guild forbids this.
Their claim is that everyone affected by this is getting a net raise. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Yea, wonder if they felt disappointed or relieved. Regardless, they are part of a very small club of "astronaut's whose rocket broke during launch and are still alive". I wonder who else is in that club?
Gearplug have integrations for Hubspot, Salesforce and many more, it's specialized in CRM, marketing and sales tools integrations.
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Sounds like you're the one cherry picking by focusing on only one part of the link the OP posted.
Things are changing, but some problems remain the same.

Right now, you have a pretty solid logging library in CL that is pretty much the go-to for anything but simplest of needs: log4cl[0]. It's feature-rich, performant, and even integrates with Emacs/SLIME. The README covers a lot of those things... briefly. Good luck figuring out how to e.g. use the (log:config) facility for anything more complicated than changing log levels. As you can see[1], it has a huge docstring describing a lot of things, but the description is shallow. It's like 20% of what is needed to figure out common things like just saving output to a fresh file (without automatic log rotation).

This is IMO a good example of the problem I see in those libraries that are actually solid and done. They miss detailed user-oriented documentation, forcing you to wade through code, which can get pretty complex[2].

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[0] - https://github.com/sharplispers/log4cl

[1] - https://github.com/sharplispers/log4cl/blob/8c42ca6bd07726fc...

[2] - Try to macroexpand a simple call to logger, like (log:warn "Foo" some-object). Performance and power can be nicely wrapped under a clean set of macros, but if you deviate from the intended use case, you'd better have a spare couple of hours for figuring out how things work.
Insert some bullshit about working with Russia, bla, bla, bla, China, Iran, any country the U.S. doesn't like?

If so, I don't think that's it, as much as the DNC would like to detract from conspiring against Sanders. WikiLeaks does have biases, sure, like Assange not liking Clinton, since she called for his droning, however if you actually read more about WikiLeaks than the surface reports, it is simply that they believe in complete transparency of powerful actors to hold them to account. Amazon currently bids for CIA contracts and runs most of the popular internet, so I guess they'd fit that definition.

Remember, Wikileaks was loved by Democrats in the Bush era and hated by Republicans, now it sort of reversed due to Trump. I presume it will switch again in 2020. I just wish people would be a bit more honest about this.
Yes, to be fair, I really only want to comment on the concepts that Ted Nelson wrote about. The concepts are great and I wish they had been baked into the internet as we know it.

I don't think there's much use now (40-ish years later) to attempt actual implementations of Ted Nelson's stuff according to his specifications. So much has changed. Perhaps it would be an interesting curiosity?

It is sad, however, to think about how we imagined cyberspace as a dual plane of existence, how it was going to be a liberating and life-changing experience that makes people better versions of themselves. Only some of that came to be and, increasingly, in cyberspace we're just "product" being handled disinterested "social media" monoliths.
I did not even realize this was possible.
Show HN: Advanced React and GraphQL course
It was true recently enough ago that the people writing Python code professionally were introduced to Python from a scripting entrypoint.

For non-programmers, I think it's definitely still true that "scripting" is their primary use case for Python, and when those non-programmers shift into software development jobs because they have "3 years experience" with Python, they bring all of their bad habits with them.
Depends who is interested. For consumers who like tasty bananas there are plenty that are superior. For growers and distributers who only care about whether a variety grows cheaply and ships in good condition then they're gonna be upset.
Ah that drives me nuts. Its a super common house plant. Its tough as rocks though.
Why isn't anyone but Donald Trump the President of the United States?
have you used pharo ? I quite ~loved the experience, and I wonder if lisp machines were similar in the feeling that you really can mold your system real time. Or if it was different.. (more possibilities, different idioms that changed the perspective)
I have used influxDB. But the problem was the same, maybe even worse. Did you find a solution specific to influxdb ?
I would not be surprised if the astronauts go into a launch fully expecting a malfunction, even though the soyuz hasn't had a failure since 1983 if wikipedia is to be believed.
The important part to me: e.g. "the Greenland ice sheet will end up in the ocean in 50 years, with p < 1e-5".

The less important part for me: "...this will happen because of the human activity that they cannot stop anyway".

So my idea is to prepare for this scenario, because we cannot realistically prevent it. E.g. build dams where it makes sense, evacuate the dangerous areas where protection cannot work, predict in detail what the coastal map is going to look like, try to predict how ocean currents and winds will change, and prepare to that, etc.
Yes, I read about this earlier and along with the support tip was the "and don't touch your PC" tip. So I'm pretty sure they'll advise some undelete tool and until then they don't want deleted data to get overwritten, but no more magical solution than that.
The bonuses were incentivized. It was based on monthly attendance. The stock grant program was not though. You might be confusing them.
There are more than 500 people visited the space. Not many people experienced the rocket failure and lives to tell about it.
How do you know someone doesn't use social media?

Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Why C Function Macros Are Bad
Amazon warehouse workers may earn less because of $15 minimum wage increase
As long as it heals at least a little faster than it naturally weathers this would be amazing for all sorts of things. Imagine if you could just paint steel with a coating that's as durable as hot dip galvanizing.
It sounds like they found the roots of a quadratic to me. It's not like when I was in high school memorizing the quadratic formula that was any more useful than what you described. No one really gets to know math until they've taken Real Analysis.
RStudio is pretty amazing for interactive statistical work. Also, A lot of open source developers tend to ignore Windows, but the less technical users are on Windows, and so proper Windows support is a key win. R's CRAN has a very clean documentation system and the setup for packages ensures that most things work on Windows (Windows CI is required). Also, its non-standard evaluation and associated metaprogramming is very integrated into the language, so you can build very intuitive APIs. Most users wouldn't know how to program what you just did, but that doesn't matter since the workflow for the average R user is "package-user" not "package-developer". So while R does have quite a few downsides, there's a lot that other general-purpose programming languages can pull from it.
Lombok for Java: Reducing the boilerplate code and ceremony
Is it something like this?

For someone who worked at one of these jobs at Amazon for 3 years

Basic wage: X

Bonus Wage: Y

Total: X+Y

Under the new system

Basic Wage: X+Y

Bonus Wage: 0

Total Wage: X+Y

The net effect is zero but principly the value of the bonus has been reduced to nothing, after the loyalty of rhe employee and the benefits that come with that, have already been collected by the employer.

Seems somewhat unfair from that perspective, but they can do what they want I guess.
A wagging finger sticking out of your mobile phone is creepy. Why?
Regarding Dis, we at least have Android and Windows, even if is only an approximation.

But it would have been better if Inferno had better luck, but what to expect when even Plan 9 fans keep forgeting that the OS had a successor.
> Company resources is clear cut, but what is company time for a salaried employee?

Usually salary comes with an expectation of hours per week/month, and usually also comes with a software where you write down your hours, to track overtime, minus time, etc. So all the time you write down in that system, counts as companytime.