skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve seen lots of people who struggle to find the perfect balance between low-level visualization kernel (like d3), or black-box configurable charts (HighCharts, FusionCharts)

This is the biggest pain point for me with most current solutions. Either development time is super fast (e.g., tableau, periscope) but going beyond 80% is difficult, or development time is much longer (e.g., d3 or apis thereof) but you get full customization and getting to 100% is straightforward. For me, there is certainly a need to develop an 80% solution fast, but I also am always wanting to then redo the whole thing with lower level solution. I would prefer that I can piggy back off the 80% solution to 100% in the same software. That's a huge win for me. Thanks for providing a solution to this end, will definitely play around with this.
@noio yes, indeed there are similarities with Walkaway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel)

We will avoid the war. ;-)
I don't think this matches observational evidence. On the contrary, people building free services do that to maximize growth, which maximizes VC money, which gives them more resources to add features & support... until the service implodes or gets acquihired, that is.
A computer program isn't a person. IANAL and don't know about precedent, but as with many things in law, this probably needs to be fought about in court before it's really clear.
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>> "I haven’t been on FB, Insta, Twitter in years, or Reddit in months and I don’t even think about those things anymore."

The terms used to talk about those things today might have their origins on social media, but the issues existed before someone coined a term. You might want to re-evaluate your associations if no one talks about sexual assault and harassment or the over-policing of black people.
Well... Facebook is worth ~$15bn and Google is worth ~$740bn. I'm sure Google could scrounge up 2% of it's overall worth to buy-out Facebook... but then, Google already know everything about you, so for them, Facebooks data is worthless.
> that STEM has become more prestigious, which draws men, which forces out women.

Is it competition that is forcing women out, or men ?

> as the prestige of formerly female-dominated careers rises, they become more attractive to men, to the point where men dominate them

What do you mean by dominated, is it the number of people, or is it something else ?

Are you trying to say that once a career path becomes female dominated, men should stay out ?
What does Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network mean for you?
great reply, thanks for taking the effort.

I hope to never work for other people again, but if I did, Stripe would be on top of the list of companies I'd apply to (despite their use of Ruby ;-) ). The CEO seems to have his head screwed on straight, and all employees I interact with seem very competent and pleasant.

This is a great answer, and I particularly appreciate the "bad differences".
TL;DR: We're all f*cked.

I did enjoy the paragraph focusing on the true victims of climate change -- non-Manhattanite New Yorkers.
If you're interested in this stuff, you might also like Raph Levien's writing on it:

- https://medium.com/@raphlinus/towards-a-unified-theory-of-op...

- https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/blob/e8065a3993b80af0...
Depends.

I actually started writing a similar project on the side for HN only, just because I hope getting notifications for a bunch of topics will reduce the amount of time spent refreshing the frontpage here. This translates to life satisfaction and sometimes real money (procrastination is a bitch when you're freelancing). I'm going to test this particular project now, instead of finishing my own, and if it works well enough (over the next couple days/weeks), I am going to pay it $10/month.
Based on the reviews, I'm not convinced this app is ready for prime time. https://fnd.io/#/us/ios-universal-app/1427999657-donotpay-by...
That's why Microsoft made sure that Windows Update always runs in the background and never reboots during a presentation. Oh wait..
Google Appeals $5B EU Fine in Android Case
An introduction to Cherry MX mechanical switches
How does this work on a single-CPU system? Wouldn’t the various idle checks and governor calls keep the CPU always busy? Or is there some way to turn off something so these instructions don’t mark the CPU as “active”?
Go forth, and make your company more secure
Trying to solve the problem of getting fit keen to see what people think
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You don't have to, just click "the email" which is a hyperlink to the archives:

https://mailchi.mp/872ceee548ec/its-loaf-time

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=14538d8f8591165977...
> Honestly, idk if you can make any “claims”

Well, the results are reproducible, and the constraints of the model are clearly defined in the code.

So you might not be able to generalize claims, but in some sense it is also better than many papers out there because you can be more precise about discussing flaws in the model than with empirical data.
Fundamentally, churchill and hitler were the same ideologically. The only difference is that one was on our side and won and the other was on the german side and lost.

Churchill was a fan of gassing people long before hitler. He was a fan of death camps long before hitler. It just goes to show you that winners get to write the histories.

"I hate the Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

Swap Indians for Jews and you have hitler.

"In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal."

Churchill intentionally starved millions of indians to death.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...

If you look at the photos of what churchill and the british did to indians during ww2, they look exactly like holocaust photos.

And you'll notice one thing churchill genocide apologists and holocaust deniers have in common. They both put the blame on the genocide of indians and jews on the axis. Holocaust deniers claim that jews died because the soviets and americans bombed railroad supply lines to the death camps. Churchill apologists blame the japanese for beating britain in burma.

They conveniently ignore the fact that neither churchill or hitler cared about the well being of the jews or indians and even celebrated the mass starvation.

The sad truth of history is that had the nazis won ww2, Hitler would be praised as the "Great Lion" by historians. Go look at the horrific bengali holocaust photos to see if you think churchill deserves any praise.
> HN tends to want to avoid political flamewars. Articles about China tend to devolve into political flamewars. If HN has an algorithm that spots flamewars (and I think they do), that could explain some of the behavior you're seeing.

I don't think that explains it either. On most of the stories I'm talking about (including this one), there are little to no comments before the story is down-weighted. There's no flamewar for an algorithm to spot.

It really feels like topic-based censorship, and likely manual since it seems reactive to popularity.
Looks like all the giants, including FB and Google, are focused only on growth, at the end each decision is measured by how many new users it will acquire, no matter the content. Shame.
The next best option is to open source it or package it in a way you can run it at home forever. I actually have a very similar NodeJS scrip that does the exact same thing on my GitHub for 100% free. It uses Amazon AWS SNS to send the notification emails or text messages. Only supports Reddit ATM.

https://github.com/VictorioBerra/reddit-aws-notifier
Patreon is nominally about donations, but depending on your level of support, you get different "rewards" for your money. I believe that they were originally for just providing swag - Send a creator a few bucks, and they'll send you a few stickers, send them a bunch and they'll send you an autographed piece. But many Patreon pages offer real features at certain tiers: real products as rewards, exclusive access to materials, or, in this case, exclusive functions from the service.

> Power User

> $7 or more per month ∙ 0 of 25 patrons

> As a Power User, you'll get access to exclusive features such as the ability to monitor for common keywords and a higher daily hit limit. I'm actively working on adding new features too.

It's like a subscription, but with slightly less of a service guarantee. It's just a convenient way to get paid. The page does say "The service is completely free. There is no artificially low usage limit, and there is no up-sell." and he could do a better job of monetizing it by, say, limiting each account to 50 free notifications and requiring registration of a new account after that or offering an up-sell to a $1 paid tier.

If you want to let some people use it casually for free, it's really hard to charge others who would be willing to pay more.
How come WikiLeaks is distributing this? I don't see any meaningful connection to government transparency or even corporate transparency... this has nothing to do with abuse of power, it is completely normal and rightful for a company to keep its infrastructure locations secret. Some of this could be found through public records, etc. and that fine to post, but internal operating procedures are not.

Sure, it's fun to look at. But the only people who will really benefit from this being leaked are AWS competitors and malicious actors intending to disrupt international communications.
article/non-video version of the same(?) content: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59d8v5/i-bullshitted-my-w...
There is also the xtensor initiative which aims to provide a unified backend for array / statistical computations in C++ and then makes it pretty easy to create bindings to all the data science languages (R, Julia and of course Python). Usually, going to C++ provides a pretty sizeable speedup.

https://github.com/QuantStack/xtensor-r
https://github.com/QuantStack/xtensor

Disclaimer: I'm one of the core devs.
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I can measure the size of a football field in inches, but it doesn't mean the measure is useful.
It is, because their relationship with outside world is purely libertarian – and outside world IS a country of millions of people.
The canonical shebang line to do this is '/usr/bin/tcc -r' - the Tiny C Compiler in "run" mode.
Some of these are behind paywalls, and the rest are more "meta-studies" as opposed to showing some methodology that arrived at a conclusion.
Jaron supports premium payment for articles. I don’t know why so many hacker news readers both are illogically irate about paywalls and also irate about data collection. The irony is almost overwhelming.
Generally it’s more efficient to help the poor by giving them money, not by distorting prices. Prices are information guiding a giant distributed system; you don’t lie to your OS kernel and expect your programs to run as well.

Making energy prices include externalities would encourage the improvements you listed.
What is wrong with developers and why Simple Analytics is my first success
I think the bigger problem in the US would be how to deal with free-speech issues. It either has to be moderated (sorry, no free speech here!) or it will be overrun by trolls, spammers, and other evils.
Can download the binary Moz-distributed FF and unpack it wherever, then run $wherever/firefox. I think currently needs PulseAudio if you want audio, so that might limit what distro one can use. There can also be some traps with missing libraries, so very stripped down distro might be unusable. Otherwise, just check Moz website for updates every couple months?
> There's just a big library and documentation problem. You can find a library for anything these days, but quite often it's only half-done, and you need to write the other half yourself.

I'm sad to see this is still the case. When I got into Lisp (Common Lisp) ten years ago, one of the first thing I did was ask what logging library I should use by default. Almost all the answers I got were variations of, "In Lisp, it's so easy to write your own, you shouldn't bother looking for one by someone else." One kind person gave me an FTP url to a tar file on a server at MIT and warned me that it might not work because he thought the person it belonged to might be retired or dead. And then he told me, "You'll see when you look at the code, it's so easy, you might as well write your own." Very frustrating. Every time I see an article like this, I hope things have changed, but at this point I wonder if Lisp is in a sense too good to ever be done right, like the kid who is so bright in school that he never learns how to do anything difficult. But now I'm getting flashbacks to all the speculation and armchair psychoanalysis we used to do about why the Common Lisp community was the way it, and that never did any good.
I used to watch "Nathan for you" which is the somewhat comedic version of the business hacking theme. The difference is that the main protagonist did not always succeed. But when he got lucky and it worked, it was funny as shit.

My favorite episode is the best buy tv episode.
Great! Now I'll know where to go when I need to restart my EC2 instance.
WikiLeaks may not have the mission statement you think it does.
You don't have to even have to deftype it -- there's a built in boolean type: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/t_ban.htm
I think I misplaced my post, the intent was to respond to someone arguing that automation would help the wealthy quell the poor. Any comments I make about robots apply to machinery in general.

To your question, it is easier to break a tank than to operate one. Anti-tank weapons are cheaper than tanks, and range down to well-timed Molotov cocktails [0].

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-Molotov-cocktail-destroy-a-t...
Whatever it is, it's not very good. It always seemed a very pale imitation of the Odyssey to me. If I'm reading semi-mythical Roman history, I'd rather tackle Livy. Or better yet Sallust or Appian.
('Infer' is a perfectly good verb; you don't have to make one out of 'inference'. But sometimes it's easy to disremembrance things like that on HN.)
There’s only 8 params for the biped walker, compared to thousands of params for the policy network. In this case it should be possible to scale to the thousands of environment parameters. For instance if we want to learn the material configuration of each voxel of a soft body robot assembled from thousands of voxels.
If you run a federated server, not all contacts might use the same server. With end-to-end encryption that doesn't really matter.

EDIT: Moreover, trust is not binary. So while your family might trust you, maybe your dad doesn't want you to be able to read everything he writes your mom or so (you get the idea).
I agree with the author that SSGs are tools written by developers for their own use. But what's great about the file-based, command-line-driven interface is that it's possible to hook the input side up to some more machinery if you want a GUI CMS.

I work for Forestry.io, and our product is a CMS that aims to ease the pain of non-developers managing content for static sites. We are committed to bridging the gap between copywriters and developers. I am a big believer in the potential for static sites to transform the web, but I realize there is a lot of ground left to cover.
It is somewhat humorous you would assume a determined attacker would be apprehended, or dissuaded by jail time. Poor threat modeling. It's difficult enough to defend against wild backhoes.
yes we have also noticed that and fixing that.
Yes, I favor the Cripps Pink apples.
Apple buys part of chipmaker Dialog for $300M
Wikipedia has and spends a lot of money though. 250+ employees, $50+ million yearly expenses, $10+ million yearly profits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...
Thank you for the intoli link. It was a good read, plus I learned about Aho–Corasick algorithm
Yes, that's a good example
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Why Venture-Backed Companies Struggle with Content Marketing
Windows 10 October cumulative update is causing BSOD on some HP computers
Does Jack Dorsey write his own 30 page reports? Sounds like something he’d have his assistant do.
Russians have discovered a brilliant work around for paying the defendant's fees when you file frivolous law suits.

First pick a country with a working rule of law. The US or UK are good choices, people there respect the law.

Now, make somebody up. This person needn't really exist, but they should be plausible enough for the foreign court to believe by default that they do, call them, say, Sergei Petrov. See, that's a Russian name, so why not. Sergei Petrov from, say, Moscow.

Now, hire expensive lawyers in the target country to sue the individual whose life you want to ruin. Tell them that lucky Sergei Petrov has a patron, who must remain anonymous but has given him money to sue the defendant because of how outrageous whatever it is they did was. Alas Sergei communicates only through typed letters and muffled telephone calls.

The lawyers will inform their court that Sergei can't travel, but they'll present his case anyway. The court will agree to hear the case.

The defendant spends lots of money on their lawyers. They win easily since Sergei's case is complete bunk.

The court says "Hey, this was frivolous crap, Sergei owes the defendant money!". Alas your lawyers will inform the court that Sergei has mysteriously vanished, as has the money of his anonymous sponsor. Oh dear.

Now, to be fair this costs the Russians lots of money - fancy foreign lawyers are expensive, and of course they tacitly know this is a scam so they'll charge plenty to help facilitate it. But the defendant is left out of pocket and stressed. So it's effective for annoying people.
This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.
In my experience, it's very real. Years of social media pushed me out of the habit of reading real books. Two problems - first, social media started filling the time I might spend knocking off a chapter in a book. Second, it got me used to the fortune-cookie size of writing, making it hard to switch gears to reading big ideas developed over many pages.

Earlier this year, I quit my core social media (FB, Twitter), and focused on reading real books, which was wonderful. I got in the habit of putting books that could be read in small doses on my phone's Kindle app for small breaks like walking or bathroom breaks.

Then I let myself have FB and Twitter on the phone again, because I "needed" them for something or other, and I was right back to the Likes addiction and wasting time. Then one day I realized I hadn't read a book all day, I was just checking FB. So the apps are removed from the phone again.

But yeah, reading books - especially difficult books - is such a different experience from social media, that reading social media actively interferes with at least my own ability to read them. Then again, I have a taste for pretty heavy books.
It's an interesting field that could potentially be huge. I'm working for a startup in that space, so maybe I'm biased but food tech really has a chance to change society. Exciting to be a part of it.
This is what you get when you adopt the "let users do the qa/testing/beta-testing for us for free". The whole attitude behind Windows 10 "continuous updates" instead of actual releases that are actually alpha-tested and beta-tested by actual hired testers on multiple machines is disgusting and offensive to the user! An operating system needs to be a boring "rock-solid foundation", it doesn't need frequent updates and experimentation, that's what apps are for.

Use Linux or buy a Mac. Microsoft always is and always will be horrible to end-users. They maybe cool in the enterprise sphere, and when it comes to open-source, and when it comes to developer tools and languages (I use lots of MS stuff... but run then on a Linux system!), but they don't care about regular end users since most of them "can't cast a vote" in deciding the system they use and where money goes to.
Reddit is a site that I feel absolutely no guilt about visiting with an ad-blocker running.
Wait, how long does it take to 'heal'? Didn't see that in the article, and it's pretty crucial with regards as to how useful this can be.
> “My grafted, spasmodic, online style, while appropriate for much of my day’s ordinary reading, had been transferred indiscriminately to all of my reading, rending my former immersion in more difficult texts less and less satisfying,” she writes. Wolf soon tried again, forcing herself to start with 20-minute intervals, and managed to recover her “former reading self.”

Translation: I stopped reading novels and then found it difficult to start again.

The problem isn’t the fluff we read online. The problem is that when you go long periods without reading novels, it’s harder to pick up a novel and enjoy it. Reading fluff online doesn’t make you stop reading novels, though, any more than watching TV makes you stop reading novels. It’s entirely possible to do both, with the caveat that everyone’s time is limited. But there’s nothing about browsing online that intrinsically makes it hard to read novels.