skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point I was trying to make is: before I worked in the growth team at several mid-sized startups, I had this naive assumption that tracking data was basically the food for an evil monster.

I had this idea of an evil group of people getting together everyday and looking at this data and somehow using it to puppet my entire online-life.

Sure, this group of people exists at every decent sized online company, and sure they're trying to get you to spend more time and money on their site/app/whatever, and sure this tracking data helps them.

Sure, SOME of these websites are peddling fake news or selling scams or preying on the poor/unfortunate/uneducated/etc. But I think that's the exception, not the norm.

Most successful companies make a product people genuinely like. There are millions of people that would buy and enjoy this product if they knew about it. Most companies are just trying to use this tracking data to get their product in front of as many of those people as they can, and as few people that don't want their product. They're trying to fine-tune their messaging to make sure it appeals to the people that actually like their product. They're trying to use it to figure out how to BETTER make a product people actually want!

Again, if you're saying that increasing our efficiency in sales is a bad thing, you're saying that capitalism is bad. But I've just come to see this data as something that enables product evolution to occur much faster. I see this data as something that's helping the world, mostly, get more of what it wants.

Like everyone says, Capitalism is the worst economic system, except all the others we've tried.
People who hold religious beliefs that people following this code spent hundreds of years trying to stamp out with violence probably have a different context that people to whom it is merely irrelevant.
It's also amazing how the drug wars banished it in traditionally Marijuana countries as well (like India) where it's now going to be an uphill battle to re-legalize it. It all feels so unnecessary.
As a trainer (among other roles) I have an interest in such online browser-based programming sites and have tracked some over time, and blogged about them, including repl.it. In no particular order:

Codingbat, Progress Graphs and Michael Jordan:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/02/codingbat-progress-graph...

Online Python Tutor looks quite interesting:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/03/online-python-tutor-look...

Online turtle graphics in Python from Runestone Interactive:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/02/online-turtle-graphics-i...

glot.io, an open source pastebin with runnable snippets:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/04/glotio-open-source-paste...

repl.it, online REPL for many languages, and empythoned:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/03/replit-online-repl-for-m...

And while I'm at it, a plug for my Python and other training courses (page updated recently):

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/p/training.html
I have always found those cameras in the Walmart self check-out lines extremely sketchy. They DO NOT need to be there.
Inside Europe’s quest to build an unhackable quantum internet
I think this is his whole point, Amazon is not competitive with other retailers. At this point they seem to just be relying on their name and being the first place someone will look. I went a long time with Amazon being the first/only place I looked for stuff, but that started changing 4-5 years ago, and today I almost never buy anything from them.
I suspect this is either a misunderstanding or just copy-pasted from descriptions of a different earlier system.

It doesn't make any sense to have the ground station transmit to figure out its location. To give a baseline, that's how the original analogue COSPAS SARSAT worked last century, using doppler measurements to get a location over time - and its accuracy was appalling, a human operator has to use equipment to narrow down where the signal is, it takes significant time to get a 1 nautical mile search area. Which is much better than "I dunno, in the sea?" for a lost ship or plane, but you're still going to need a serious search-and-rescue operation to find anybody.

A modern digital COSPAS SARSAT system you may have seen if you're a serious hiker or outback flyer just does GPS, it uses GPS to figure out where it is, then sends a digital signal that says "I need help, here are my GPS co-ordinates" hence the slogan "Taking the search out of search and rescue".
Los Angeles Leaders Seek Civic Commitment from Tech Industry
A little easter egg as part of the usual Wikipedia crawl:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA#NERVA_rocket_stage_speci...

NERVA had a greater thrust than the weight of the rocket, so could at least theoretically be turned into a ground launch system (probably after a few more iterations).

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Nuclear ramjets were viable just before they were cancelled out of environmental and nuclear proliferation concerns. I'm fairly certain that a denser working fluid like nitrogen/oxygen creates a higher thrust than hydrogen, at the cost of having a lower specific impulse (ISP). So it should have been straightforward to build a final rocket that could use either. Maybe someone knows for sure?

Even as a tree hugging hippie in spirit, I'm saddened that we have hundreds of nuclear reactors around the world that may very well begin spilling more and more radiation into the oceans and air as our scientific wisdom declines under pressure from (insert dystopian endgame here: late stage capitalism/communism, austerity, fascism, what have you), but don't use nuclear power for scientific pursuits.

Also I'm a bit saddened that we never had nuclear launch systems, because they might have been a stepping stone to a microwave or laser rocket that used power transmitted from a ground station to run as an electric ramjet and transition to hydrogen in the upper atmosphere. To me, that's probably the only feasible way to reduce launch costs to something comparable to a space elevator.
> Is there already a performance advantage with the current WASM implementations for number crunching code compared to writing plain Javascript?

I may be out of date here, but IME neither JavaScript nor WASM is any good for actual "number crunching" (i.e. statistical or scientific code). For that, you want at least a compiler/language that uses the latest SIMD instructions and lets you choose 32- or 64-bit floats. Better still, you want one that automatically parallelizes loops (you may need to align your data), gives you cheap GPU access, and above all is simple enough that you can figure out why the compiler isn't performing the optimizations you expect.

Modern JS engines are pretty good at speeding up the weirdness that is JS, so maybe WASM will only have small benefits, but using either for numerical work would be making your life unnecessarily hard.
Ask HN: Is data science job market getting oversaturated?
In an effort to combat the rise of Amazon retail stores have decided to make going to them a miserable experience. From dumb questions asking if you are a rewards member to personally intrusive questions asking what big plans you have this weekend to this. More and more I dread actually going to a store. Amazon’s cashierless stores use cameras but that cost is compensated by making the shopping experience better.
Could this be used to build ML models themselves?
This SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor
Colorado Total Marijuana Sales:

2014	$683,523,739
2015	$995,591,255
2016	$1,307,203,473
2017	$1,507,702,219
2018*	$1,022,245,511 (Through August 2018)

Source: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/20/theres-no-stopping...

I think it's going to be increasingly difficult for states facing budget shortfalls to ignore this as a potential new source of tax revenue.
Will ERC20 Tokens Be the Reason for the Ethereum Flippening?
Oh cloudflare.. ha.
interrupts are still the main methods. but modenr osses use LAPIC /APIC which is a more modern form of interrupt controller. it has a little more abilities and i think 1 local per cpu or core or w/e. basically interrupts are good, where 'polling' is the legacy method (very legacy :D) of querying hardware untill it's read. via interupts hardware can let the OS know, so it's not wasting cycles waiting for hardware.
I mentioned this today as I am in the market for a new phone.

I am looking to avoid supporting FAANG companies... but netflix isnt quite the same as the rest.
AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story
U.S. Colleges Clash on New Playing Field: Voter Turnout
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Funny enough, I had a $1200 software-defined radio that was destroyed when the micro-USB3 connector ripped off the board, taking a bunch of traces with it. When I ordered the replacement, it came with a full-sized connector on it instead, with mechanical through-hole structural support. Some micro-USB connectors have the through-hole support, but many are pure SMT devices that will happily destroy your board with a sneeze.
"professional behavior" would make sense if both sides are getting paid.

If only the user is getting paid, and he wants support or something else from the FOSS author, why should the FOSS author be held to this "professional behavior" standard?
Thank you! I just wrote this article today about competition with Google Drive and Dropbox.. as I knew those were the biggest competitors and not two I could even beat. But I'm trying to figure out where I can at least have some advantage or even more personalization.

https://hackernoon.com/competing-against-the-giants-as-an-al...
If the US is the largest producer, no matter the currency, wouldn't the US rake in the most cash?? It could be in other currencies which would have to be converted anyway...
am i wrong or is this really an endorsement/marketing campaign rather than some sort of integration.
LOL Remember the 3d UI from jurassic park? "Oh its a linux system!" And then she proceeds to use a 3d RTS-style interface to manage the park :)
Racket has a few big things going for it.

1) It was designed to teach and the "How to Design Programs 2md Edition" is the best book I have ever gone through for programming. (Also the most dense).

2) Racket is usable. I am now using Racket as a first choice. It is a joy to use. I can make my program and make it an executable in one line of code. So simple and its strongest reason to use the language.

3) The mind trust. It has the who's who of the academic Scheme and Lisp world. It is also the most practical. Racket is special because it is so well thought out.

4) It is plain old fun. It reminded me of when I first learned Python but with so much easier ways to share your program.
Farmers is plural - there are many of them and they do not agree. The farmers hiring illegals are not the same ones against building the walls.

I do know a farmer who have stopped offering more wages when they didn't get anyone to agree to work for $25/hr - meanwhile he can find illegals who will work for $15. (Compare to what walMart pays, he isn't trying to hire engineers)
> My personal pet peeves with HN is that there is a vocal minority that is completely dismissive of the entire field of economics.

I am mostly dismissive of a lot of economically-motivated political arguments, because a lot of the time the people advancing such arguments are abusing models that are simply not applicable.

> Obviously, the field has pluses and minuses, but it's nuts there are people that completely think the whole field is useless or harmful.

I'm very critical of the "because economics" when money is involved on one side or the other.

When the opaquely-funded Cato institute's neo-libertarian nonsense is being funnelled through here from one of the two accounts that only serve to post their content, then I'll criticise them and be in a minority.

I also think that people cherry picking arguments based on following microeconomics into a realm it isn't really applicable is responsible for some of the most cruel and savage human behaviour we see today. When supply and demand is applied to public services with no regard for taxation and planning and you have bullshit-economics acting as a mask for racists, I think it's right to call it out in the same way that I would call out someone claiming that migrants breathe too much air.

> Economics didn't become a major academic field studied in every college in the country (world even?) by being a bunk science.

Some critics argue that it got there by supporting those with the money to keep it there. If your field is funded by people who have an interest in the direction and implications of that field of study, we start to see problems. People tend to see this more with the pharmaceutical industry than with economics. Ubiquity is not a very good measure for a sign of its quality.

Nonetheless I am actually quite a fan of Keynes. I found it quite tragic to hear about his heart attacks and lack of recovery that seemed to come at such an unfortunate time.
So proton has bought in-browser apps that cannot be blocked by ad-blockers because they're directly within the browser GUI instead of inside the HTML page.

I really love Mozilla and what they stand for, but for the love of God, sponsored ads within the browser proper don't sound like a good idea. Once you open that path, what's next? Imagine MS Clippy suggesting you drink a red bull because it noticed your typing is becoming slower. Plus all the greenwashing in the public announcement feels dishonest. Let's call this what it is: experimenting with in-app ads as potential revenue stream.
Using JMH with Clojure
The only real difference is that online they can't track your face, and in real life they can't link you to your taste in pornography.

Are you sure?

They can ask for your phone number at purchase or they can use your credit card number to link you to your online profile.
They owned actual slave plantations, too: https://www.jstor.org/stable/981267

We don't often talk about the thousands of years of human rights abuses by monastic orders, but they are pretty horrific. Even in America in living memory, it includes the torture and murder of children and the coverup of those crimes: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orph...
I tried

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

It didn't work :(
There are two different and independent beidou systems. One is passive and cannot track receivers, and the other is similar to a simple satellite internet.
Intellivision plans comeback with a new console called Amico in 2020
Just added multiprocessing to it.
I wish that the QNX OS was open source and free as in beer.

How far away is this from being as usable as I hear QNX is?
NB: I suspect the number you are thinking of is a 2530 digit sequence on a 4-digit lock, not 153 on 5...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence#Uses
The difference is being able to serve some WASM script that interacts with your page without having to send and entire glibc equivalent.

In practice, that means having an standard library on browsers that you can call in a standard idiom.
I also just saw a commercial for a Lincoln...something about the "connected" car of the future. All I can say is that is about 5 years when I am in the market for a new car, I will specifically be looking for a non connected car.
Google Chrome Arm port in works for Snapdragon laptops
You do not appear to be wrong. It appears to be Mozilla selling ProtonVPN services. Advertising them, too, in exchange for a chunk of the monthly fee.
> Free speach is about being able to express your opinions. Fake news are intentionally misleading and hurt other people's well-being.

As fake news is a form of expression, how do you propose to draw a meaningful distinction between protected speech and speech that may hurt the well-being of others? Especially one that does not risk chilling effects or becoming prior restraint, and is thus compatible with freedom of speech.
One might expect that never leaving the WASM context and interoperating with browser APIs, even if defined in JS terms, would not incur JS penalties. Granted it may affect JS argument validation. But this requires representation of those types. For example, if the DOM API allows searching for a selector which is a string, how do you build that string in WASM and how do you pass it? You'd use host refs anyways I would guess, essentially creating a new host "string" which is meaningfully equivalent to creating a JS string.
0range Man BAD.
Usually that's because when claims about discrimination against whites and men are made, there's no evidence that they are actively being discriminated against. Rather, the case is usually that they're not being favored as they were. Which, if you are in the previously favored class, may feel like discrimination, but in reality it's simply giving everyone else a chance as well.
Yup https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1054451469674598400
I will say that most web/iOS/android/similar developers rarely have to do anything more than simple division, multiplication, modulo etc when it comes to math.

Yes, many developers are good at math but I'd say that's mostly correlation, not causation.

NOTE: This is my personal, anecdotal experience.
Myers-Briggs Is Bunk
Happy to have you with us! we share the same dream and imagination
As a VR skeptic, I think his expertise is being wasted in that space.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
I would agree with your assessment for IG founders but perhaps less so with Oculus. For IG founders, after you've vested, you are just working on another photo sharing platform, albeit the largest one in the world. The Oculus founders are in a new product category, bring VR to the world. It's perhaps more glamorous, for lack of a better word.
Save yourself some money and store your personal private repos encrypted on Keybase or a self-hosted solution.
Because flu is painful and takes days out of your life, while the shot is (relatively) painless and takes 15 minutes out of your Walgreens shopping time?

The flu shot cuts down infection probability by 2/3. If a given unvaccinated person gets flu 6 years out of 10, that same person with vaccination would only get sick 2 years out of 10. This is a huge difference.

Whether they used last year's strain or any other method is immaterial so long as it delivers the 2/3 reduction.
Is there an update to this story or is it not true or some other possibility?

https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google...

If you prefer a story not on wired (sometimes it shows a subscription nag for me) -
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...
There are many different weeds, and some look a lot like non-weeds. Weeds of the same species often look different in different area. Companies are working on the problem, but you can't train on weeds in one area and go to the next.
Of course they are. But that is not capitalism. You can't blame the free market for people "furthering their own interests through the means of state power" when the very existence of state power is antithetical to free markets. The "free" in "free market" refers specifically to the absence of legitimized and systematic aggression, of which state power is the foremost example.
https://mobile.twitter.com/benjibobs_/status/940685657604837...

"siteclone - a lightweight and portable python script to clone a web page alongside its resources. Disclaimer: Pretty buggy! github.com/benjibobs/siteclone "
When people started having both standards and options. I can choose between a college frathouse and a productive guild hall: why would I live in a frathouse?
How did you choose your hackernews username?
Either that, or they don't have some of the code anymore. It's changed hands a few times so it's possible that some of it is only available as binary files packed into the ROMs and other places.
In Canada, nothing has really changed. Everyone who smoked pot before still does. Most people who didn't still don't.

We just aren't wasting any more effort policing something no one cares about.
You should check out https://coder.com as well
I wonder what happens if you paint an additional pair of eyes on your cheeks.
The data is still coming in. There was a recent report done by insurance companies that in the states where it's been legalized for recreational use, accident reports are up ~5-6% and everyone's rates in those states are going up to reflect that. http://fortune.com/2018/10/18/legal-marijuana-car-accidents-...
It’s impossible to come up with a doctrine of free speech that allows for person A to say what they want, but does not allow person B to express outrage or opprobrium about what person A just said. It’s also well within person B’s rights of free association to not interact with person A because of what person A said.

Of course a literal mob threatening violence is absolutely suppression of speech, very very few people want that. But people saying that they view you negatively because of what you’ve said is not a mob, and is in fact free speech in its own right.
I am currently leading the on premise hosting of a Gitlab instance and I can say this with ease: I have been spending 1 day of each week for ops work. Let it be helping people, database adjustments, admin stuff, hardware checks, etc.
this is pretty cool. look like its built with swagger-ui, so we can play around with the endpoints a little bit.
Note that unless you're explicitly blocking it — you're giving away much more information when you shop online than with facial recognition in a physical store.

I'm not sure that's true -- cameras can track you around the store, seeing how long you linger at each product display, recording every time you reach out to touch a product. Which seems similar to the information online merchants can collect.

One thing they can collect in the store that they can't as easily track online (unless you're sending product links around) is who you are shopping with -- they can see that you come to the store with your friend, spouse, or children.
By "San Francisco Democrat" do you mean "gay people exist and are fine"? Or "women are an equal part of society"? I'm having trouble unraveling your dogwhistle here.
Username definitely checks out
> Wasm isn't really for pretty apps you can quickly make in Vue.

Why not? Developing pretty apps in Vue (or anything in JS-land) is an horrible experience, why shouldn't we use WASM to port some better environment into there?
I’m not sure your other examples are fair

Osama was a convicted war criminal, and “white people” are demonstrably different from deities
I definitely think you're on to something. I think there are two types of math people among programmers:

* Math heads that make their way into the CS world, and for loops were harder to understand in the beginning, but Set algebra makes sense.

* Programmers by trade that have had to deal with the math side of things that probably learned for loops at age 10, and seeing sigma and epsilon symbols drives them totally nuts.

I'm in the second group and I definitely say I live off content created by people that came into it the same way.

Shorter answer: there are Java people and there are Python people.
Ethercon really is a fantastic connector. I had a client who were working on industrial systems that lived in harsh environments, and recommended it to them. They ignored me on their first model, and used the connector quite successfully on rev 2 after they had a ridiculous number of field failures using normal Ethernet jacks.

My wife does AV production work and loves them too. Plus, in a pinch, you can just use a regular old Walmart Ethernet cable. Really handy to have a fallback (unlike e.g. XLR, where you're trying to find a pro audio shop)
Seems true.

Maybe this will eventually allow me to easily use the vpn in a specific window/tab/container, but what's actually making the biggest difference to me is that a third-party I trust has vouched for ProtonVPN.