skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it provide data that fits likely consumption needs?

I've seen some APIs which screan "we just mapped the database tables to API calls". This theoretically offers loads of flexibility, but at a cost of performance and ease in the typical case.

Think of the difference between
GET /orderdetails/12345

and

GET /order/1234
GET /customer/2345
GET /product/234
GET /product/345
GET /address/5678
GET /paymentinfo/3456
...
It only works if everyone is obliged to build all their dependencies from source code, hence why Swift is having such hard time coming up with an ABI that could survive language evolution.
Genetic variations across humanity's 'Hybrid Populations'
Bar code component for Vue.js
Ask HN: What to do with the “five year club” at a startup?
We have almost ten people now in our "five year club" in a six years old startup. What should we do for them to show our appreciation?
Oh I see! That would be pretty neat, actually. Is looking up documentation a common feature in IDEs? I've never seen it before.
I learned a number of great courses in MIT OCW and it deserved donation from me. If you guys have enjoyed learning from OCW, we could raise a little fund on the page.
That's only 7 hours. I don't know anyone who only works 9-5. Many either work 8-5 or 9-6.

(Lunches aren't paid, that's a WA State law.)
Another possibility is that the vote need not be finished in a single night.
How would a man feel if a male interview invited them to meet his wife and him, who are into polyamory or what not? I feel like the connotations are clear are inappropriate during an interview.
I would argue that Maker is the most successful project on Ethereum at the moment. It's hardly categorized as a dApp because most people interact only with the DAI stablecoin token and not with an interface. Is already released on mainnet, has a solid roadmap and has no scalability problems.

https://makerdao.com
I want that read/write/space-optimized triangle prominently featured in every languages documentation, filled in with the different data stuctures from that language.

Need quick reads? Use Y. Quick writes? Use X. Etc.
Do you mean 9-6 or 10-7?

I've done a 10-7 shift, it's miserable. Waste half your morning, and half your evening. You have to get ready for work when stores and banks are just opening, and you get home just as those shops are closing.

I prefer 7-4 because it leaves a bit of late afternoon and the whole evening.
> it compels play even when it isn't fun

That's the power of positive and negative reinforcement. They want to shape the behavior of players. They want players logging into the game multiple times a day, every single day.

So they rate limit the player's game with "stamina" or whatever euphemism for a timer they come up with. Player was having fun playing the RPG with friends, only to run out of "stamina"! The choice is to stop and wait for the timer to reset or pay money to reset it. Then the player starts waking up at 3 in the morning because that's when the timer resets.

The simple timer reinforces a schedule and creates the behavior the game developer wants players to have.
Post-communist rather. Romanians also complain a lot, the grass is always greener in the neighbour's lot, if they do associate they'll most likely screw it up as every person pulls in a different direction (for themselves).

It's quite saddening to read CZ has similar issues. We've been in CZ in 2007 and Prague in 2017. I liked Prague a lot in 2007, not so much after ten years.
H2.vc

I believe the next cohort is early next year.
Interesting theories on the EC2/Annapurna situation.

Do GCP, Azure, or any other cloud providers offer 100G networking?
I'm disgusted by these high-powered law firms using thuggish tactics to try to silence critics.

The actions of Boies law firm, as documented in the book, are particularly egregious. Worse still is that Boies himself has a track record of being super tech savvy; he’s litigated against Microsoft and Google. As he was a board member at Theranos, it stretches credulity that he wasn’t more aware of the deception. Paid in equity too, how is that not a conflict of interest? How is it even legal?
Also from Chicago: permanently reversing the flow of the river

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_fl...
I don't see why not: create a process that just spawns a thousand threads that infinitely loop, but uses very little memory.
The timezone does dictate what part of the day we generally call "evening" though.
I agree about watching it at 1.5x speed. Even slightly faster would be nice. Definitely a lot of food for thought. The question & answer near the end was fantastic, I loved hearing the Googlers responding positively and talking about taking action.
How is that even remotely relevant? Number of polling places and effort scales linearly with population size.
There is a limit of you have a Security Group attached with a rule that is -not- 0.0.0.0/0. So for anything that is public / heavy utilized, the recommendation is to open the service up to 0.0.0.0/0.
I feel like this already started happening with discovery/e-discovery? https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2015/11/history-technolog...
Yes, let's base our society on an archaic device that can't even accurately tell the time.
On a related note, I've long been fascinated by how easily we can tell a male from a female, even from a distance. For example, driving around and looking at people walking along the road or following people in the mall, I can tell, with remarkable accuracy, if someone is male or female.

Is it the clothes, or gate, or size? Is it hair style or style of shoes? And at what age does this female/male separation begin. Generally, I can't assess new born people very well but by the age of say 5 years old it becomes much easier.

This software seems to answer some of these questions by doing things like presenting males with stronger jawlines or females with higher cheekbones. Does this same thing happen with other parts of the body (barring the obvious)? I know that females usually have wider hips and as a result walk differently than males. Are there other examples of differences that we intrinsically know but don't consciously realize?

NOTE: I'm speaking in traditional gender roles. Obviously I can't tell if someone is gender dysmorphic from a distance.
Yes, but regular residents of such a building have the same recourse: i.e. none - and there's little to suggest that AirBnB are truly more raucous than not.

For every 'noisey airbnb' you hear about, there are 1000x regular noisy neighours.
This is my plan for when my kids grow older. Linux box. Some basic games.. Python/ruby/lua interpreter, even better games written in those languages.

It will have connection but iptables will block everything. If they ever figure out how to disable that they are ready :) Man pages and other docs will be there for them to enjoy.

I will also buy some printed books for python, shell etc

They gona fucking hate me, but I am not feeding them equivalent of cocaine.
Zoning.
Who says they're looking at these things?

I'm surprised these politicians can hear about the trans-polar shipping route opening up, and still disbelieve.
But simple reality checks reveal that Go is an evolution of C and Rust grow out of frustration with C++.
Yes, --lang= or --std= would do the job. Even crosslinking should be easy since object code is the same.
SK most likely has a national ID that is automatically received by all citizen (same as overwhelming majority of rest of the world). US doesn't.
Overview of Go Type System
div { display:inline-block }

was that really so hard?
10 Free Tools You Need to Make Your Website More Effective
There is a strange bit about being a doctor or lawyer -- you aren't allowed to for a C corp for your own practice. However, if someone else forms the corp and you work for them, then you get all the protections of a C corp, as long as you don't own the majority share.

So one thing they add is legal protection.
In many countries, that is actually a prerogative of Parliament.
Wobbulator: Recreating the Sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with Web Audio
Could this be used for non-intrusive photo anonymization? Just replace faces with randomly-generated-but-plausibly-looking ones.
You might already be aware, but %-formatting with bytes is back as of 3.5.
Soft skills?
It's pretty easy to embed an infix parser in Lisp if that's the only thing standing between you and happiness. e.g.:

http://www.flownet.com/gat/lisp/parcil.lisp

See:

http://www.flownet.com/gat/lisp/djbec.lisp

for some example code that uses this parser. Scroll down about half way and take a look at xpt-add and xpt-double.
Questions for Parents to ask a Tutor
Yikes, am I reading this right? That PostScript here is implied as a good thing? Here is xeyes implemented in PostScript. It was probably better than the X Windows implementation of the era, but compared to JavaScript... I shudder.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.windows.news...
For Italy, it’s actually the opposite: centrally-managed efforts have typically failed, while grassroots-led initiatives are pretty solid. We did get tons of money after the war, but reconstruction was not a coherent effort.
Texas has a long history of problems with Hart eSlate voting machines
> If you write the document with HTML markup you then lose this flexibility.

How so? HTML can be always embedded inside markdown
Women's brain is horizontally wired for multitasking.
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/how-male-female-brains...
Same in France, it's still "Pékin", I suspect Beijing will never take off since it's harder to pronounce.
Indian village where people speak in Sanskrit (2014)
Not afaik - the EU recommended to stop switching at some point, it did not mandate when or how. Spain will switch as usual this weekend.
I think it is ok to contact the authors of a paper if you think they got something wrong or omitted something important.

However, here it was not a scientist calling the authors, but a lawyer calling the general counsel. This is a clear hint that the call was not about correcting an error in the paper, but about bullying them and preventing the public from reading what the authors have to say.
What Can Artificial Intelligence Teach Us About Political Polarization?
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/27/what-is-rust-2018.html
סוויטות בוטיק בחד נס-עדנ'ס בוטיק
That decision comes down to the specifics of the case - which could be turned into parameters.
Amazon’s International Growth Slowed in Q3
There is a link at the top called “past” that does exactly what all these “helpful” posts do. And it’s been there for a long time.
I'm not sure what your point is. If you're aware that an embargo exists, then you're aware that patches are already being worked on. Telling the world that a vulnerability exists in a particular product, without knowing the details, doesn't cause patches to materialize that wouldn't have otherwise (remember, the patches are already in progress), all it does is enable attackers to concentrate on that product.

And yeah, perhaps nation-state actors already know of the flaw (but perhaps not as well, they're not omniscient), but for most people, it's not nation-state actors that are the biggest threat, it's all the other malicious people out there.
Kenya to invest in locally designed and manufactured mobile phones
I thought the youngest generation was pretty quick when it came to figuring out interfaces

Watch kids deal with screens now. They will walk up and put a finger on it and if nothing happens immediately lose interest. They simply don’t do any interface that isn’t exactly like a modern smartphone. Even typing on keyboards.
That still is some memory. Threads don't run without consuming memory and some are prone to memory leaks. But, that's not the point here.
Very useful for a Mom like me having 3 energetic kids. We could now watch movies and play games anywhere especially even not at home. Can't wait to have one.
I'm living in the EU. I go online and read various news items every day.

I'm baffled about the fact I somehow managed to miss that there was an official poll / call for direct citizen feedback on such a topic I personally care about.

I might have bit a bit distracted ... or the whole poll might not have been conducted particularly well.

Overrepresentation of a particular country might be a tell tale sign of local media coverage that was effectively done only in one country.
How come out of 1TB 9GB is 0%?
In your case, don’t wait.
DoT Gives Its Decision: Stop Aadhaar-Based Verification
You mean, like when I was a kid and I did something bad and was suddenly described as “your kid”, but when I did something good and was suddenly described as “my kid”?

Yeah, I don’t think that has ever changed.
Current Diablo is borderline.

Quake and diablo 2 / 3 - no loot boxes.
Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast Postal Surveillance System
I'm sure there is insurance cheaper than 50% of all profit.
I remember when Tunisia went off DST in 2008, phones struggled for a few years after.
Those simple memory tasks may very well be representative for whetever definition of memory you want to use - as long as that definition is close enough to the definition as found in dictionaries etc, and which is the general and established term for what is meant here.

You make it sound like the gist of this article is obvious, in reality it's not, at least not for everyone. And even if it were you need research to actually prove it, that is how science works.

Calling being able to switch tasks fast, and a lot, an otimization is in a lot of cases a bridge too far probably. It's only optimal if you actually need it. While there are enough jobs which rather benefit from detailed attentaion to just one thing, not multiple. And not all people knowingly train themselves to be able to multitask, rather they fall into it because of addictions etc.
Look How Far Precision Medicine Has Come
From the abstract

>Merton jump-diffusion model (1976) which is an exponential Lévy model with finite arrival rate of jumps,

This is funny because my graduate thesis is about models based on Hawkes processes, that is, jump with a path-dependent and self-exciting intensity process. Instead of taking the arrival time of jumps (often the parameter lambda) to be constant, in a Hawkes process a jump increases the probability of another jump (positive feedback), leading to clusters of jumps we often see in crises.

I love how this paper might seem "magic" and voodoo and most importantly "true" to people who don't know much about mathematical finance. The point is that the models here are most likely wrong and have GLARING flaws in them, yet are still used to price REAL things in REAL life. All models are wrong, some are less wrong than others. The point is, how wrong do our models have to be before we get some really bad consequences (2008 financial crisis, anyone?)

P.S. Please rewrite this in LaTeX, posting a 250 page document written in Word makes me 90% less likely to read it (compared to something written in LaTeX)
Ask HN: Is it my handwriting or ML recognition sucks?
I have a galaxy note 9 with, and every handwriting recognition app. I tried is pretty much unusable (inferior to keyboard input by far).
Is it my handwriting or ML still sucks at handwriting recognition?
IMVHO things changes, hopefully for good, so give time and advise far before etc is a needed and good practice but evolution must happen so if someone have problem keeping up with reasonable time it means someone do have a problem, not a thing Go developer can fix or slow evolution because of that.

We all know how bad evolution is in commercial world, force evolution is a need. Software is not a product, can't last forever untouched.
Since this is about vulnerabilities in a third-party dependency (ImageMagick/Ghostscript), the recommendation in the blog post to use the GD library instead (what the image_library 0 setting does) is not very sound, as libgd also had a number of vulnerabilities in the past, albeit less than ImageMagick:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Libgd

A better recommendation is to securely configure ImageMagick, or even better: to use a safer image processing library (e.g libvips or imageflow).

I’ve added some mitigating code and recommendations on how to securely configure ImageMagick to jQuery File Upload, please have a look here:
https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/blob/master/VU...
https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/blob/master/SE...
Efficient and whimsical are not the only adjectives that apply.
I work with marketing agencies which has huge requirement for i18n & translations. I think there is definitely a market out there that would be interested in something like this. I have seen content creators creating different sets of images with translated text(takes many hours to manually do this right now). I am not sure how you are planning to offer this product/service, I would recommend offering it as an API which your clients can call from their applications.
Hurray Agricincome is one
Barbara Streisand effect in play. I never would have thought to be careful about this without this Push to silence criticism.
Surely you can leverage your quality research to find better funding. If anything, situations like this should actually help your career—what better signal you’ve found a good vein of research?
Show HN: Prime – A simple CLI for Pastebin
Anyone who says greenhouse gas concentrations are not going up is not operating in an evidence-based manner.

That being said, the politicians might have been behaving sensibly. I've not been following it as closely as I used to, but there have been some data points suggesting solar/wind energy sources are now starting to cross key thresholds and become cheaper than the traditional fossil fuels. If that is so, the problem will solve itself without the politicians needing to step in and screw up the economy.
That’s not conservation; that’s a large zoo.
I have spent 100's of hours building a simple simulator using Julia recently. I mention this because this is what this view of computing misses; despite having hugely productive tools (compared to the 70's, remember "compile time?") vast reuse (library after library filled with wonderful goodies) and amazing computers (I use an X1 and have access to servers and so on and if I really need it I can use the cloud any time), software is complex and time consuming. That's why programming / developing is a full time job. Everyone else needs to get on with all the other things they've got to do.
Thank you for providing a full explanation; I really should put more effort into explaining the harm I see.
Idea against HN-induced smartphone addiction
Inspired by yesterday's article on smartphone addiction, I would like to
propose one idea and ask for other ideas about making HN in particular, and
the thinkpiece/newspaper WWW in general, more useful to the persons reading
them.

I feel like I spent a large amount of time reading texts on the internet in a
way that didn't serve me, or by extension any community I want to be part of.
I can imagine many people here feel the same. I think I can understand the
reason: The interest of any person writing a text online is not to contribute
to a view of the world that is accurate and useful to the reader, but to make
the text being paid attention and/or money to. This is often accomplished by
making readers outraged about things that don't concern them and that they
won't change anything about.

Of course, making this attempt transparent to the reader would be
counterproductive, so an excuse with some level of subtility will be used (as
an example, "a 20 page slatestarcodex article about studies into in how far
the gender pay gap is caused/not caused by women's choices"). This is adapted
to the target group. But in general, if a professional journalist (or
political advocate) tries to do this against someone with a different career
(like me or you), they can probably win. And unsurprisingly, such a discussion
isn't contained e.g. in New York Times articles about smartphone addiction.

I feel HN (and the WWW in general) is useful to me, but the use is diminished
by articles of this form. I want to ask for ideas helping to change this. One
idea would be the following: A reader on HN can not only upvote articles for
quality, but, if they have a suspicion that the author makes (significant) use
of such a trick, they can upvote for outrageousness as well. Then we could set
to hide articles above a certain outrageousness level. What do you think will happen if such a proposal is implemented?
Just on the tattoos point... tattoos are like starting smoking. Not morally wrong, but they have permanent consequences that children are ill-equipped to judge.

(To be honest, I’d go further and claim that a lot of adults don’t grasp the consequences of tattoos either).
VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’
The price drop in $ per kWh generated by solar, wind and hydroelectric, etc, has nothing to do with the growing concentration of greenhouse gases. You can look at greenhouse gas causing figures such as how many megatonnes of coal are burned each year, how many barrels of oil Canada exports to the USA each year, they're all on a steady climb.

The world has an inexorable thirst for energy. It's great if there are more watt-hours being generated by green sources, but at the same time, there is what seems to be an inexorable growth in pollution causing sources. Example: Look at how many cars are sold each year to the growing middle class in China and India.
the demo runs very choppy and the window is not closable here
Also interesting is his video on the process of using YouTube Premiers with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8UpKEhMQo
There's more money to be made from researching into baldness than curing cancer or dementia. That funding is from government and charity sources combined.

(Long term treatments of course is another thing - that's why we have expensive daily tablets for malaria, but no vaccine. More profitable to charge $1/day than charge $50 for a one-off vaccine)

Pfizer have pulled out of neuroscience research completely, Saracatinib (from AstraZeneca) was a failed cancer drug before someone thought "hey lets try this on dementia"
You forget the third player, fossil energy companies who are keen to protect their business and fight against this change. Politicians don't keep out, they are just as likely to help the old companies.
I don't know a single person that is awake at 6am. Where does this "most people" claim come from?
As outlined in the proposal, you wouldn't miss out on performance improvements since it would still be the same underlying compiler and the version just controls the syntax rules. (And even if that were the case, it's not a very bad worst-case scenario for an abandoned project.)
Twitter didn't act after bomb suspect made threats on its platform
Well, one of the major use cases for the beta channel is for the Rust teams to fix regressions before they hit stable.
Someone hurts my dog, on my property, with no warrant? And they aren't even cops?

They better bring more than 30 people with them is all I'm saying. And some EMT's because I live like an hour from the nearest emergency medical treatment.
Bit confusing as you open the post with "States can choose their timezone"
'happyness' should be 'happiness'
Stockprice Quote. Good luck.
Most git user do not use the distributedness. So maybe Subversion will make a comeback similar to how people now realize that monoliths (instead of Microservices) are often better.

Distributed has disadvantages. For example, Subversion has nicely incrementing revisions like r42, where git has 8ab52fd9ee.

Mercurial is distributed as well.
I don't get the first one but squaring the circle is cool
It’s possible to work 9-5 and still eat lunch.