skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to pursue this as the evening hours work great for a single mom, but the Saturday requirement for the PT program makes it not possible for me. :(
Thanks! I definitely will show that in the future, posting here to HN is the first step in collecting that data. :)

I did the same thing a long time ago for English vocabulary scores per country:

http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2011-09-10-Results-by-country
Sometimes even 0.1 is not equal to 0.1.
There is also the question of how many people who have a tech addiction really care. Some people like staring at constant news feeds of garbage as opposed to leaving their couch and interacting with the world. Just like some people like smoking, and similarly there will always be companies more than happy to profit from your addiction.
A similar story published by a friend of mine recently - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/style/modern-love-how-i-m...
Is that 60k a year just housing and food or guards and administration too? I'd hope there were more guards and security measures in place for prisoners than for college kids.
Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
I like where his heart is. The article is a bit hard to follow. He mixes broad stats with his own situation and I'm often not sure if he is referring to USA or bay area. I think with another edit, and to tighten prose up a bit, it could be a great post.
I just got started using the mailchiml api for a custom sign up form. It took about 5 minutes.
I like that the "Game mode" makes the AMD CPU's perform worse in game benchmarks...
> essentially LARPing adulthood by following social pressures blindly

I see this over and over. One example I think of is the stag do - it used to be a few jars in the pub, but now it has to be some kind of ridiculous Vegas blowout wasting a month or two's salary, simply because that's become the done thing. People are utter sheep.
Have a look at Feedly. I, too, loved Reader. Feedly filled the void for me :).
Yes, I'm sure you are correct. Saying a country is a "friend" is a poor metaphor, in the world of realpolitik. But Varoufakis certainly appeared to view China as a helpful partner, whatever state interests were advanced on the Chinese side. Of course even "charity" in the form of direct aid is never without strings of dependency, other geopolitical aspects.
Unpopular opinion: it also benefits the human reader to have the significant distinguishing parts of the function name at the beginning, instead of after a bunch of foreplay.

As to this particular function name, you're in MP3 land, so MDCT means Modified Discrete Cosine Transform. The "i" is probably "inverse." "L3" is probably "Layer 3" since we're talking about MPEG Layer 3. I had to look up "gr" since it seems specific to the encoding, but it seems to refer to "granule" which is a basic unit of the MP3 data stream (that's also clear from the context, since many functions operate on a gr_info structure). A comment on the gr_info structure might have helped there, but there's nothing wrong with consistently using a shorthand that is used in the underlying spec. In context, it's not actually a bad function name.
Agreed. Games aren't the only thing people do with lots of cores / HEDT. Give me a 128 core machine and I'll happily keep them busy all day with work. No need for a heater either.
This is an old story, but I can't help but think it is somehow relevant:

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/12/the-bloomberg-m...

In light of the above, something smells.
I didn't mean to imply that it was a PS creation, or that it was impossible to change, only that it's how PS handles tab completion, and that I dislike it.

Being able to change defaults is nice, but the power of PS or bash is that they are ubiquitous. So anything that has to change defaults to be usable makes it kind of pointless in a lot of ways (at least to me). Because if I need to change defaults on every system i'm on, then why not just use that time to install a different shell? (which is pretty much what I end up doing on windows machines)
Internet Shaming and Online Mobs
It's hard to deal with addiction when the opposition has armies of psychologists working together to make the experiences you have online as addictive as possible.
A) PowerShell was inspired by OpenVMS DCL.
B) OpenVMS on x86 is due to be released in 2019 (it's in private beta right now).
Mine crashed just before showing the results, but reloading worked.

> Amazing knowledge! You know 7,200 out of the top 10,000 items.
> This means you know more than 98% of Americans aged 18+

I guess it helped that I'm Indian and could get some of the Bollywood stuff off the bat!
cluster-autoscaler can mange the machines easily, the point is kubernetes is an abstraction layer, using this level of abstraction is upto the user itself. Should i keep going down with container or using the node itself is the question, in production environment it makes all the sense to use something which has the potential to scale infinitely, but for hobby projects mental overhead doesn't justify using k8
Fortnite squads have 5 lessons for agile teams
I don't know, so please correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't DNS record creation now handled automatically, and in the background, with the standard one-stop-shop site systems like Wix, Weebly, and SquareSpace?

If so, and they decided to further support integration with senders like MailChimp by auto-creating subdomains as needed, and it worked perfectly, that would make it all easier. But anything less than perfect, and users (ie small business owners) would be hopelessly lost.
The Torture of Customer Experience Journey Mapping
Not even the same. The VW coverup was to coverup a specific, fraudulent behavior by the company in an attempt to commit fraud.

The Apple situation is basically a reporter with no named sources saying that Apple itself was fooled by outside sources. There's a HUGE difference between willful fraud (VW) and corporate embarrassment (Apple IF it was true).
There's inherent baseline - things you've learned and can use culturally at no cost, as you're drawing on _ideas_ - and then there's economic baseline, which is drawn from the larger culture and economy around the commune. Basically, it's not as isolated or insulated as it might purport itself to be.
It is most from a respect to your pears that will respect the NDA, if you release early then the others lose the views and they can't respond until the embargo is over.
Soviets did back leftist movements across western Europe, and CIA backed dissent in eastern Europe. And each were trying to eliminate other's pawns in the game. So what? This never starts in vacuum, no protest movement gains momentum in a happy population.
VCs invest to make money, and I just can't see what the revenue model would be. There's no ad revenue to be had in convincing people to stop looking at their phones.

Get people to pay for an app? Any price other than free means crossing a pretty major psychological barrier.
Yes but that isn’t a problem because you will still be protected from all the things that rust is trying to protect you from.
Often people do leave, for a variety of reasons, many of which I’d categorize as a combination of “tired of the young messy loud communards” and “East Wind deliberately has very limited filters on membership, and I’m tired of dealing with the mentally ill/people’s alcohol abuse”.

Many of the older folks who leave go to Twin Oaks, which is much more restrictive and thus tends to have less drama.

But many people have chosen to live out their golden years at East Wind. It’s a great place to get lots of youthful energy, and avoid the isolation of modern American culture.
I didn't get any request for ZIP code. Just an optional request for age, gender, and nationality.
Google drops $10B bid for Pentagon contract
A bunch of others and myself contribute to this project! Let us know if there's any questions
I know it can feel that way but I promise you it's not. :)

I'd like to do a blog post showing which cultural interests have the most geographic variation in the US together with maps (and which areas of the US are "most culturally distinctive"), and asking for zip codes is just an easier UX than asking for cities or counties. And all survey questions are optional to answer.

(To sibling commenter: zip code only appears if you select United States as nationality.)
How come the article that has "market opportunity" in the title doesn't use the term "marketing" even once? Shouldn't that be the central theme of this - how do you sell this to people?
*enterprise
> the whole point of Rust is effortless correctness and safety.

Rust has never been about proving correctness. Yes, correctness is a goal, but it is subservient to other goals, depending on details.

Furthermore, it's not clear that this can really be implemented in a reasonable way, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18175838

> it seems sometimes that Rust management would rather focus on cool new language enhancements

In this comment, you're complaining that we haven't implemented a "cool new language enhancement." This is at odds with your desire stated here.
> I miss finding the unexpected

You could try Reddit
It was a bailout of large banks by stealth, much like what happened in Ireland.

Timoty Geithner apocryphally refused to even countenance burning any bondholders in Ireland (or anywhere really) out of the risk of contagion. Now, Ireland has the 3rd highest debt per capita in the world, just after Japan and the US. Note that Japan and the US can print currency, while Ireland cannot.

tl;dr totally a bailout by stealth.

The worst part was that it created this horrible dynamic between different European countries, when really we should just have been blaming the banks.
Site was a bit slow to load (anywhere from 4-15 seconds between pages), but this is pretty cool. Good work.
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Same for C++. Generally the problem is when you have multiple ways to do things, you have groups that use multiple ways to do things, and then you have to understand and maintain multiple ways that things were done.
Troubleshoot a DMVPN phase 3 architecture
It's not just tracability and security that's the issue, though. It's an issue of reproducibility. When I give you a notebook, how do you 'run' it to verify my calculations? You can't just press "run", because I might have executed the cells out of order, or deleted cells which later cells depended on. Version control doesn't solve this problem. Good practice might solve it, but it turns out that researchers are stunningly bad at following a strict top-to-bottom execution of notebooks. And who can blame them? The non-linearity of notebooks is one of their features. But when it comes to reproducibility and just the basic mechanics of sharing code, we definitely need a better solution.
Yeah, sure. And the fact that Bulgaria with Hungary cannot have their gas pipeline (South Stream), but Germany can (Nord Stream 2), is just another piece of fake news. Right?

It is certainly not about who will control the trade, everything is just coincidence. Sure thing.
Having worked on a product for 3 years that attempts to target this market I can tell you the sad reality, is that nobody really cares. Sure, there are clickbait headlines and companies/parents will feign interest, but when it comes to actually paying for a product or making any tangible change to usage habits, our numbers prove that nobody even tries.

For full disclosure our product turns the Internet off until they complete goals like studying, completing quizzes, commiting to GitHub, etc.

Our first launch was a DNS only solution which we assumed lacked usage because people had to change their DNS address to one we spun up for them. It lacked usage and we assumed it was because it was "too technical" for parents.

Next we create an iOS app that worked out of the box as a VPN without any setup. We don't even ask the users to register in any way or pay anything.

Lastly we created a Chrome extension because it's the easiest way for tons of kids with Chromebooks to use.

Long story short, after multiple re-launches and trying to get feedback the overall result is that it's an almost impossible task to get parents or kids to change their habits, even if they "want" to. They will make up excuses and quit nearly instantly.
I find the Geico ad to be an interesting addition. Seems rather out of place, regardless of the fact that they are a subsidiary of BH.
Google announces Pixel Slate tablet
Low-Tech Magazine's new website is solar-powered--goes offline in cloudy weather
William Nordhaus and why he won the Nobel Prize in economics
I'm no expert on the gritty details of the German system (who would have thought health care could be that complicated, right?) but as German resident I have some insights. Everybody who knows better, please correct me.

In Germany everybody who is employed in way that pays social insurance is also health insured, you cannot opt out of it. In that system, in addition to taxes, social security and unemployment insurance, you pay a certain percentage of your gross salary to get health insurance. This percentage varies by your choosen provider. Your employer is paying the same amount (more or less, not sure if the employer amount is fixed). You can opt out of the public system above a certain salary and pick private insurance, prices vary greatly.

Unemployed people are insured by the state, I guess using taxes or social security or unemployement budgets, I have no idea. You have to be registered as unemployed to be covered. If you do not register you have the choice of being insured with a family member (public health care) or voluntarily (private or via the public system). You are obliged to be insured oine way or the other.

Exceptions are soldiers (some kind of in-service system with cost reimbursement, don't ask for the details), public servants (something similar in a lot of cases, again, please don't insist on details), certain professions (doctors, pharmacists, artists,lawyers) with their own insurance solutions. You are screwed as a afreelancer, your only solution is a private insurance that can get quite expensiver.

TL/Dr: You are always insured one way or the other. It is not paid for by taxes.
Agreed. Nobody ever says "my life was so fulfilling before I got addicted to X"
Twin Oaks does this quite a bit, East Wind didn’t so much, historically, mainly because Missouri is much more stingy than Virginia.

The FEC’s self-insurance fund generally covers major medical expenses, but communities are expected to get the best deal they can for medical expenses, which includes exploring self-insured discounts and public assistance where available.
Why Paul Romer Won the Nobel Prize in Economics
Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to decentralize the web
Larry used to do consulting engagements in Boulder, and I had the honor of meeting him several times. Larger then life person but in just how he carried himself - he was quiet and unassuming, but still got people to work well together. I was always impressed with how he worked with Tom Christiansen, given the two of them seemed as different as you could be.

Perl never made the javascript transition, but I think you call tell a lot about a programmer by the look in their eyes when you say perl. If the eye twinkles with delight at perl's simplicity, and then the expression is occasionally replaced by a murderous look of rage when you have to maintain a 5k line script, you can tell that the programmer is a great programmer and has a tale or two to inform more junior members of our profession.
Most of his discussion is about education which isn't necessity - and he ignores the subsidies, quoting sticker prices like most people don't get significant discounts

Also, looking at average cost is misleading because that includes purchases by people who gladly pay higher amounts because they can afford it. You want to look at the cheapest "reasonable-quality" cost to determine what's "affordable", not average.
Well my point is that it could be corporate embarrassment AND willful fraud to cover up the corporate embarrassment. They have a huge incentive to lie, because even if they were truthful from the beginning and this did happen... it would be very bad for them.

I also think this goes far beyond "embarrassment" — this is something that could potentially destroy Apple's supply chain.
Here is why more people will use Blockchain-based payment platforms over banks
> And then for the rest of the year spend all my after-school time trying to build rather poor impressions of those arcade games on my home computer, not unlike a cargo-cult worshipper on a post-WWII pacific island trying to build a US military radio station from wooden sticks.

Hahaha, this matches my own experience exactly :) Playing the likes of Dragon Ninja / Bad Dudes and then trying to reproduce them on the Spectrum. The few arcade games that did have Spectrum versions were disappointing - thinking of Green Beret for example.

Best memory might be finding a POKE for infinite lives in Commando, playing it for 3 days straight until level 70-something (the levels just looped every 5 or 10 stages, I think?), and ending up with a burned CRT. I'll never know whether the infinite lives POKE also made the game loop, or the developers never thought of including an ending in the Spectrum port.
Inside Apple’s War on iPhone Fraud in China
Tuna – a simple streaming ETL for machine learning features
Hello everyone,

I'm currently participating in the "PLAsTiCC Astronomical Classification" Kaggle competition. The dataset is rather large (~5M rows) so I decided to write a simple tool to compute aggregate features online. I got really inspired and tidied things up over the weekend. Maybe this can be of interest to some of you.

PS: I'm aware that there are other similar projects out there such as Spark Streaming, but they all feel too bloated and difficult to grok.
New Magecart Hack Detected at Shopper Approved
I was just thinking about Perl and how they dropped the ball. I'm sure Perl powers way more things than we want to admit - but its sadly not the first language that comes to mind when you want to write a quick script...
I live in a dysfunctional world in which having a smartphone is really useful. I don't think that's going to change any time soon.

So the least I can do is instruct my smartphone to limit my usage of certain things which I find reduce my quality of life but are very distracting.
You forget that a typical Python Jupyter notebook will import a dozen Python packages.

Versioning that it's still a major problem in the ecosystem.
Garmin's Navionics exposed data belonging to thousands of customers
The first one seems to change it how I want, but the second doesn't. And it doesn't stick around after closing the powershell prompt.

And while I'm sure there's a way to make it persist, a shell's power is in it's ubiquity. If i have to change settings on every machine I work with, i'm probably going to want to use that time to install a different shell.

I know that's an attitude that is pretty impossible for any new shell to solve for, but it's the truth. I'm not choosing the most powerful or "best" shell, i'm choosing the one that gets in my way the least. And for me, that's bash in 99% of cases. And until another comes along that really improves discoverability and makes it easy to learn and adjust to, i'm not going to switch.

I have a ton of knowledge built up over the years about bash and I'm not in a position where I'd be able to dump it all and painfully try to learn everything new from scratch by reading manuals, trying out syntaxes, searching around for if what I want to do is possible, figuring out the "right" way to do things, and more.

Even if it is better in the end, if I can't get over the initial hump, it's not very useful to me. Maybe this is just me getting old...
You can totally hide a slot that is already open. A normal frame has some layering going on in the back anyways:

https://www.universityproducts.com/pub/media/wysiwyg/how-to-...

All it would take is a slot in the frame back and a bit more sturdy backing paper covering it. The backing paper that has to be not fixed on the bottom edge.
> Never repeating

Meaning "non-periodic." Repetitions can occur as many times as one wishes, e.g.

0.1230123001230001230000123...

is irrational.
>I use Python and it's OK, but I find a lot of the breathless hype around it as a language a little baffling as there are more than an average number of stupidities in there.

There's fewer stupidities than languages like javascript or perl and it ends up being more practical than languages like haskell or ocaml.

One of it's unappreciated facets is that it's good at language interop. Instead of trying to be all things to all people (e.g. like go) it just makes it easy to interop with C where you need speed and focuses on being a good high level language.

I think the surprise surrounding its popularity is indicative of the fact that few people really understand what makes a great language.
Maybe a randomized sparse zeroing ?
I am disapointed that much of the Culture is actually Pop culture, as so few items are relating to people or event before the '80s.
As a 33 yo person, I recall the general knowledge quizzes I went through as a teenager (french school). Most of it was about literature and science, and it would end with just a few questions about contemporary stuff.
> Good job! You know 2,950 out of the top 10,000 items.
> This means you know more than 36% of Americans aged 18+:

Not too bad, seeing as there's never been a time of my life that I ever cared about pop culture.

I just reran the test having ticked none of the boxes and still entering the same data at the end, and it gave me a 0% score, so at least the test is "real". I was skeptical that the tick boxes were just a red herring.
looks like the main contradictions are in terms of the scope of the google project (300 employees, full time), the amount the project has been developed already (a very substantial amount), and the awareness of political issues as demonstrated by the leading google employees on the project (more than enough to know they're doing the wrong thing).

it also appears as though they are fully conscious of the prospect of social censure:

>We are working with you to make sure your careers are not affected by this.

so, they know they're clandestinely doing immoral things. but google corporate is determined to protect the minions from the consequences of being identified as an aid to totalitarianism.

given that we don't have a list of the google employees working on dragonfly, i think he's just succeeded in tainting the reputation of 100% of googlers and former googlers.

any one of them could have been working to keep the chinese oppressed via censorship by knowingly joining a new project designed explicitly to do so.
Gemalto reports 4.6B record breaches in the first half of 2018
Daytona USA used the Sega Model 2 arcade hardware while Daytona 2 used the Model 3. None used the Naomi(a beefed up Dreamcast of sorts modified for arcade use).
Multiple machines could have been networked together I dont know how the older model boards did it but the Naomi used standard R45 network port(at least for Netboot) and it was standard TCP IP stuff.