skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason that us developers keep falling into the same "build first" trap.

Because we're wired the way you describe, unable to even imagine a world where one of those emails would ever get responded to, we miss the sorta obvious fact that, yes, they do work quite nicely.

People wired like normal don't have the same dread of unsolicited contact that we do. And those are the same people who end up as managers, bosses, business owners, etc. People who do the actual software purchasing in the world.

So yes, as impossible as it seems, those mails do work. And we need to send them.

I still find it hard to do. And I'm never anything but amazed when it works.
Same reason why Apple isn't compatible with my bank. Apple wants to lock their NFC chip. And make lots of money with their ridiculous transaction fees in the process obviously.

Dont blame them, but people will choose Android over it.
FYI, if you've built something with howler.js and want to add it to our showcase (https://howlerjs.com/showcase/), simply go to https://github.com/goldfire/howlerjs.com#contributing and open a PR with your site added.
You have to think completely differently from rdbms to use graph well. It's a hard cultural change to make.
>> I have found a little success going to meetups and talking in person to other developers and entrepreneurs...

Perhaps you need to go to meetups with potential customers instead of other developers.
They've been playing a dangerous cat and mouse game the whole time — I'm sure the old tools are not being discarded; just added to.
Communicate in context [video]
You still have to factor in the cost of medications, doctor's visits, etc. etc., which can run pretty high even with a good plan.
funny you should say that because religious institutions have, historically, had a major role in preventing tragedies of commons.
DRL is written in Pascal!
But they prevent competition with their own services in myriad ways already via their review process. Try building your own app store, for example.
Thanks for the heads up! Indeed it's df.loc[1:3] that would return three rows, not straight-up df[1:3] which indeed returns two rows.

Edit: Corrected in the post. Thanks again!
Combining "pay inequality" and "opportunity inequality" makes it more difficult to discuss the issue.

We know already that "pay inequality" is fictitious at this point.

So by elimination, that leaves opportunity - however as anyone who has ever worked in a large company knows, it is very difficult, except in a very regimented corporate culture like the military, to have equivalent opportunity spread around evenly. I somehow think Google has a corporate culture that is not very regimented.
Make sitemap.xml[1] and submit it to Google Webmasters[2], and create a lot of good content, keep site up-to-date and it takes time for search engines to start showing you. And keep an eye on what pages google has indexed[3], and your main page title is wrong, for some reason it says 'Comments'... take a look.

[1] https://www.antheon.ai/sitemap.xml

[2] https://www.google.com/webmasters/

[3] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=Df7aW-H9OIaqswG30...
How Is Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Transforming Enterprises?
Many people here will have a much bigger effect by considering how to tackle environmental concerns in their workplace.

Get into decision-making positions and advocate for energy saving on a corporate scale.
It's a good point, simply solved by people with a bunch of friends needing a reliable POD. I think the point of Solid is that you pay for service, even if it's a small fee. So if you have huge social needs, you might have to pay a bit more for a reliable POD.
The oceans have a mass 1000 times that of the atmosphere. So if they were predicting 2C increase in the heat of the atmosphere wouldn't that be .002 deg Celsius in the ocean? Can you even measure that give the vastness of the ocean?
Yes, we are using this reporting tool frequently. Every single file we ever submitted to Microsoft was confirmed by them as a false positive. The definitions were updated, and it was fine. The AV behavior changed again, once they "tuned" their heuristics and the game repeated itself. The only difference was the type/name of the infection, which was still a confirmed false positive.
How Much Does It Cost to Create a Mobile Application
Netflix and HBO happened.
It’s as much s habit as it is a habit for lions to hunt prey; or pigs. I understand we could choose to go vegetarian, but it’s more than overcoming “habit”. We’re omnivores, by nature, not by habit. My point is that being facile is detrimental to a cause. Yes, with effort we could become all vegetarians, but it’s more than overcoming habit (a habit is leaving the toilet seat up).
It's probably the switching of devices that raises the level of security.
Where is the text? Or is this an advertisement for a book?

Since this might get the right eyeballs here:

1. Does anyone have a good intuitive explanation for the meaning of the transpose operation? It seems to tie into a central symmetry between columns and rows (or equations and variables) that I'm having trouble articulating for myself

2. Why does every linear algebra book have a chapter on norms? It's always so incredibly boring and esoteric and I still haven't hit a situation where it's strictly necessary. The 2-norm seem adequate for most situations and comes out naturally from the least squares problem

PS: Strang is great. Meyer's "Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra" is even better (but more advanced)
> It seems like it is to me, it's just extremely protective of the source code owner's rights.

It is effectively impossible to follow the conditions of the license -- according to the interpretation by Bradley Kuhn and others this would require you to provide the source code for Linux under this license if you run MongoDB on Linux. Linux is GPLv2 and has thousands of copyright owners -- it is not possible for any individual to relicense it to any other license.

If you have an "open source" license (which violates the one of the entries in the OSI definition -- "License Must Not Restrict Other Software") which cannot be followed by anyone then it's obviously not an FOSS software. It doesn't matter that in theory it would be FOSS, what matters is whether it is FOSS in practice.
It is fair blaming C memory model because safer systems programming languages exist since 1961, and C only got where it is thanks for Bell Labs not being able to sell UNIX for the first 10 years of its existence.

Even Multics had less exploits than earlier UNIX versions, as stated on a DoD report about inexistence of memory corruption issues thanks to PL/I.

If you bother to read the early C history document written by Richie, they were aware of such shortcomings and thus lint was born in 1979.

A tool that to this day many devs still ignore.

As for alternative languages I haven't named a single one on this thread. There are plenty to chose from since 1961.
Can you elaborate on age,sex,weight and habits?
How does a theme for a framework make it to the front page?
Creating Models with complex geometries using an IndexFilter in TBTK
Material UI and ReactPWA gives more power to web then imagined
Moka pot, machine, filter or instant – which produces the best coffee?
Death isn't the problem, everything dies. The problem is needless suffering.

Eating meat can actually be a moral act. If the animal you eat lead a better life than it otherwise would have because of the care you provided in raising it, it's a net good. To put this in perspective, imagine you were impoverished and living a miserable existence and someone offered to let you live in comfort and luxury, and promised to take care of your offspring, but in exchange you had to agree to euthanasia at age 30. That might not be attractive to you from a first world perspective, but a lot of people would take that in a heartbeat.
worshipping an arbitrarily contrived measure of password entropy makes for good security theatre, but there's a lot that goes into maintaining anything resembling actual security. How many people use "password generators" and trust that they'll come up with "random" words? What about that old saying about putting eggs in a basket?
Imagine Ford making a car that only accepts fuel bought at a Ford fueling station.

I am sure you can see the advantages?
I think you might be taking the term ‘selling’ too literally - it’s pitching an idea and soliciting feedback. If you’re taking orders for something that doesn’t exist yet, you’ve done it wrong. OTOH, if use the 3/12/24 months it takes to build the product to listen to future customers, you can ship something of value as soon as its ready.
Sears helped make women, immigrants, people of color feel more like Americans
Obligatory remark that "reading" a math textbook, and even moreso a basic one, is an active task; you can get the intuitions from youtube videos of the 3Blue1Brown variety, but to really learn you need to follow the text closely, put question marks on passages you're not 120% comfortable with, do the proofs that are left to the reader and the recommended exercises. If you're super comfortable with the material, you should do the more challenging exercises, usually marked with asterisks.

Basically you need a pencil, a lot of scratch paper and a capable waste basket; or a whiteboard all to yourself (but I get tired from being on my feet for hours on end).

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E: My litmus test is the Gershgorin circle theorem. Every so often I check if I can still prove it, and if I do I try to review the surrounding matrix. I will literally vote against hiring anyone who can't at least handwave why that's true.
You should try Prolog. ;-)
Sounds like DCG's (Domain Clause Grammar) will make your life easier too http://www.amzi.com/manuals/amzi/pro/ref_dcg.htm
This has been blown out of proportion pretty badly. I would agree that Tolkien (even LOTR, and especially some of his other works) is slower reading than The Wheel of Time (I've not read other Jordan). I would attribute this almost entirely to broader differences in literature between their time periods. Writing in the '30s and '40s was just different than it was in the '80s and on.
People upvote it and the algorithm does the rest
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You could always keep who you are anonymous, 'Member of Congress' isn't identifying enough to be damaging.
New details about how Alexa decides which skill will handle a request
I used to sell medium-high end audio visual equipment in Calgary during the height of the oil sands boom. Plenty of money moving around.

I knew customers who built the foundation of their homes around speaker placement, having separate foundations for their towers so that fewer resonant effects from the house would impact the speakers. Haha. Madness is right!

And that $500,000 number is easy when you’re dealing with those circles for sure.
It should also be noted that they require the "Service Source Code" to be provided under the terms of their license. So it's not possible for anyone to follow these restrictions even on a fully free software stack if any part of that stack is copyleft (for instance, Linux).
What the hell? This is completely unacceptable, who voted this in? I'm not so much concerned about this system, which is a complete joke and is never going to work, as much as I am concerned by the fact that some people thought this was acceptable enough to actually deploy.
> One way to allay such concerns is to have a quick prototype

Once you've discovered a need for a potential product, this is the most important bit. You should spend as little time as possible trying to build the MVP.

It's really important to stick to the 'minimum' and not over-engineer it. That means if you have the choice of using ML that will take 6 months to build, or you can build it in a month and then spend 12 hours a day juggling spreadsheets, you should do the later.

Once you get to market, and (hopefully) have real customers paying you, you'll discover much more valuable insights than you ever could just by talking to prospects up front.
I’m in sales, and sometimes I get so excited about a particular technology that I forget this rule too. Can’t imagine how hard it would be for someone who actually built the dang thing!
To make sure that our releases are clean we apply best practices like generating the Windows binaries on Linux servers running Wine. We test the binaries to the last detail with various AV packages. Malware analysis is also incorporated to get to the ground why some AV packages report the binaries as infected but to no avail. The heuristic engines of major AV vendors are tuned very severely, and there is no way of getting around it for us developers.
First, don't get hung up on things that don't matter, and pick the issues you raise. For example, unless a log is going to be client facing, I'd not say anything about the emojis or other slightly unprofessional but non-harmful stuff they might add. Naming projects, if it is again an internal name, it maybe annoying and slightly immature, but as long as it isn't demeaning or adding potentially liability to the company (e.g. insulting/demeaning to a class of people, gender etc) leave it be. Hell, I used to name our servers after Dilbert and Simpsons characters back in the day, and I know many others that did similar things too. We also did characters from comic books etc, just a way to have a little levity to our pressures. Or when you have that one server or software that constantly acts up so you name it some evil villain name, that's just coping with the situation and trying to have a little fun. Squashing that can be very bad for moral, don't be the fun police.

Anti-social behavior is a super broad term and could cover everything from the quiet person happy to just do his/her work but just not wanting to socialize; to someone actively being aggressive and threatening to others (the true anti-social behavior). People over use that term a lot, but taken in context of your post I'd say you aren't talking about quiet people who just want to do their job. In that case I'd still give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to youth until proven otherwise. In other words, they need guidance on the proper methods, processes, structure and what is considered professional and unprofessional, they don't need judgement.

When you do address an issue, don't do it confrontationally (e.g. don't start it with well your wrong stop doing xyz), be informative and give examples of how it could be embarrassing or hurt the company and their reputation. Like let's say logs will be seen by customers or may at some point you can see but maybe they are missing because of experience. Point out that having anything that makes the product look like it doesn't take an issue seriously could be detrimental to the company, and the perception clients will take away from it. Don't make it personal, and don't be judgemental or you'll never make any headway.

You don't need to be "in charge" to lead, you just need to give respect, gain their respect and learn to inform, educate and leave the judgement at the door. I am not saying you are judgemental, don't know you, just that it is one of the most common issues I see with people trying to change a situation or who are becoming leaders.
In such cases shouldn't government step in and nationalise the company? Corporations these days bear too much power.
> Employers have a duty of care to protect employees from harm in the workplace

Yet common bullying and generally abusive workplaces are completely legal in California. You have the right to quit anytime, not much else.
Why should spending your time and effort arguing for higher salary entitle you to a higher salary? Surely, just the opposite.
> I just can't imagine cold-calling/emailing people actually works.

For what it's worth cold calling is a bit different than it used to be—at least in software sales. Today many companies take an account-based approach. This means that there is a good amount of qualification happening before the cold call. Does the account use Salesforce, Gmail, other key integrations? How much ARR are they doing?

If the account is a good match, then the reps will go through the organization on LinkedIn and try and find 3-5 key stakeholders. Who knows about the problems this software solves? Who can be an influencer? A decision maker? Those people are put on a cadence that involves several touch points—emails, calls, social mentions. Stuff like that.

By the time the first cold call is made there is a fair chance that the person on the other end is interested in the solution—or at least in hearing a potential one. Because the research has been done upfront and leads that don't match have been disqualified, this is much more effective than the power dialing.
Exploit the HN ranking algorithm[1]:

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nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1)

(def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
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[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417
If you want to self-host Neo4j in cloud environments, that's doable today in a variety of different ways:

https://neo4j.com/developer/guide-cloud-deployment/

As others pointed out in other threads, this can be done for free for startups of a certain size (https://neo4j.com/startup-program/), and eval licenses are available (https://neo4j.com/lp/enterprise-cloud/?utm_content=aws-marke...)
_The Great War and Modern Memory_ by Paul Fussel is a great book about the changes wrought on society at every level by WWI. Both a work of scholarship and a scream from the heart (Fussel lost his best friend in combat during WWII).

The movie _Gods and Monsters_ makes this connection wrt James Whale, director of _Frankenstein_.
3B1B is by far the best resource on LA anywhere in the Web. I might be chastice for saying it but i will go as far to say that 3B1B is better than MIT's LA.
> I just can't imagine cold-calling/emailing people actually works.

I felt this way for the longest time. I hate cold calls. I hate making them, I hate recieving them. Everyone I've ever talked to claims to hate cold calls. Why do people still do this. Who the hell is buying from cold calls?

So I sat down with a couple of people from a sales team, and just asked them what they did. And apparently, a good chunk of their day is legitimately just cold-calls. (Literally through the phone book, or through LinkedIn, or tradeshow cold-stops, etc). While a cold call almost never translate into an instant sale, we can trace most sales back to a start from a cold call.

They don't sell pecan pies or double glazing either. Enterprise software at price tags over $100k/each, or custom development engagements at $100-300k. And it usually starts with a cold call.

So while it still sounds absolutely insane to me, multiple sales people have told me that cold calls work. And these folks regularly win deals and earn good commissions, so I tend to believe them.
Those are all good, but if instead of asking "how can I reduce my carbon footprint" you ask "what should my carbon footprint be", I think you'll find the answer a bit discouraging. Basically, where I live, just my share of the cost of maintaining basic infrastructure puts me above the limits implied by the Paris accord, nevermind actually moving from place to place, having heating or eating things.

Maybe that's why you don't see too much focus on telling people what their personal goals should be - the situation encourages defeatism if you actually try to find a personal solution to the problem.

What we need is a wartime economy, geared towards surviving climate change. In my view, that could actually be very good for us - western societies haven't had a concrete goal to unify their citizens for as long as I've been around, at least. And this time, the goal wouldn't revolve around killing people!

Now, how do we get started?
"Another stunning but perhaps unsurprising finding was that 63% of the time, men were offered higher salaries than women for the same role at the same company. The report found that companies were offering women between 4% and a whopping 45% less starting pay for the same job. "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyatarr/2018/04/04/by-the-num...

Report referenced:
https://hired.com/wage-inequality-report
Even though it's not really something intellectually appealing, I was not aware of this and glad that I saw it.
Doesnt work on IE11 or Edge

edit:
maybe its company policy:

new Audio() gives Permission denied
One could argue intelligence is pattern recognition. One important aspect of human intelligence is neocortex -- a part of brain -- that exists in all mammals and mammals only. It serves as a pattern recognizer in mammal brains that helps them recognize certain sound, day/night, visual patterns etc...
Prosecution is one method of deterring thieves from robbing my store blind. I have also tried locked doors, security cameras and not leaving the store unattended.

I like your argument that it is cheaper to just let people rob me blind and then burn time and energy catching them, prosecuting time, and hoping for a conviction as a deterrent.

With any luck using your system crime will magically disappear on it’s own.

I am going to put my fingers in my ears now and make noises and ignore the worlds problems. It is certainly easier to not take responsibility. Good advice.
LWN isn't anti-GPL. I don't know what made you think this -- the title is obviously a reference to people thinking the GPL is "scary" and that the SSPL takes the GPL and actually makes it scary.
I think it has a lot to do with how phone and tablet OS's (iOS and Android) deliberately try to hide the notion of paths or even files for that matter.
Rather, I'd say it reinterprets "run the program" to be "have access to the program over the web".

In other words, if I use your website, I should also be able to stand up my own version that uses my own data.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/indulgence

Now days it’s not mainstream, but I suspect a few preachers/televangelist has suggested such things more recently.
This is true in my experience. Even a (materials science) PhD student I'm working with told me he is so "bad with computers" that when someone asked him to open a specific directory, he answered "what is a directory?".

I can only imagine it being much worse for the general population, and this makes me wish I could teach in high schools, even if just a bit. Unfortunately, part-time teachers, or teachers that just come for the odd conference/course on a specific topic seem to mostly be a uni thing, at least where I live.

I was just thinking about this the other day: kids should probably get more exposure to cryptography, maybe even before high school, for the following reasons:
- kids love secret messages
- crypto math is quite basic algebra
- even without the maths, asymmetric crypto and hashes are quite easy to grasp
- maybe it will allow them to better understand security as adults

I would love to see a future where public/private keys can be used as a general authentication mean, without it needing to be too dumbed down, as we can expect people to know the basics. It would also likely lower phishing issues.

I agree that schools are to blame here, even when they try to broaden the scope of their teachings. But I would give teachers some slack, as they were likely not prepared at all on some topics.
So, maybe the solution here is indeed to ask parents to come and teach students some bits of their speciality? It could be done in multiple domains, and I feel like this would be a lot better for kids to be able to relate and project the content their are taught onto a person's job.
Not for the chicken
Good stuff. The native UI for selects is bleeding through in Firefox to note.