skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouln't like if someone scraped my web site, and put it in a iPhone app. Why not just open the links in a web browser !?
I started playing the piano when I was 8 years old and I’ve been playing regularly for the last 25 years. Here are some things that helped me:

- As others have mentioned (and you’ve said you have), find a good teacher. Apps, etc., can be helpful supplements but nothing beats having a real person sit next to you and give you feedback.

- As with a teacher, nothing beats consistent and quality practice time. The more time you spend in front of the piano the more comfortable you’ll be playing. Also: Don’t use those stickers you can buy that show the notes and letters of the keys. They’ll become a crutch and make it more difficult to read music in the long run.

- Ear training and sight reading are very useful tools, as well, and really are vital for most people to become competent musicians. There are many apps and programs out there to learn these two skills.

- This probably seems obvious, but listen to music from many different genres and time periods. I naturally learn by ear and listening to a piece before I sit down to learn/play it helps tremendously.

- Lastly, make sure this is something fun for you and your kids. I’ve tried to learn a few instruments and I was miserable with some of them but stuck with it anyway. It made my playing sloppy and honestly pretty terrible. Spend some time at the piano just messing around and enjoy the process of learning.

Don’t expect yourself to be the next Rachmaninov in a year. I’ve been playing for many years now and I’m still learning and fixing things. There are many pieces out there that I just physically can’t play. So keep the pressure off and enjoy. :)

Some specific recommendations:

- The Suzuki Piano Method (book)

- Alfred’s Basic Piano Library (books)

- EarMaster (ear training app)

- Tenuto (theory app, learn notes, intervals, chords, etc, from https://www.musictheory.net/)

- The Virtuoso Pianist by Hanon (This is a book to learn dexterity and finger independence. It’s somewhat advanced, but you can tackle it slowly and gradually increase your speed as you get better.)
I've seen flower company billboards all over SF. Surprisingly it has to work as I've heard from my friends that there is buzz about them.
Much of the article is about soldiers recruited from colonized populations and transported to Europe, and the effects on the atmosphere in Europe.

In fact, it argues that the tension between blocs in Europe was exacerbated by their differential success in colonialism.
It would seem to be odd for a mark owner to sue after specifically putting out a favicon, which is intended to be used to visually ID that site in a sea of tabs/links.
What are you refering to? HN guidelines?

I was just trying to be funny as well as point out the obvious reason why Apple won't care about him :)
true, that's also why it's kind of refreshing to see a big one stepping back and questioning what they're doing.
I'd assume other reviewers were involved once he challenged the results.
WeWork raises $3B from SoftBank
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As I read the FAQ, the actual font files are aggressively cached.
It's only the CSS files that links to the font files that aren't cached forever.

Probably to allow for updates and estimate popularity, with low overhead assuming CSS files are small.
This tax break could be worth up to nearly $1B for Amazon
"Casey, just appointed C.I.A. chief, told me he was going to challenge Baker to a polygraph test to show who was lying. Figuring my old pal Casey was the culprit, I wondered why he would take the gamble. He reminded me he was an old O.S.S. spymaster, and that by using dodges like a sphincter-muscle trick and a Valium pill, he could defeat any polygraph operator. Baker wisely did not take Casey up on the challenge."

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/opinion/lying-lie-detecto...
Have you tried the Logitech M500? It's by far the most comfortable of dozens of high-end mice I've tried, it's cheap, and it's still produced.
"nuclear power is the safest on earth"

(cf forbes article which show death/kwh is even lower than wind / water energy)
The scientific consensus once was that there was nothing more elementary than protons and neutrons. Also that light traveled through ether... To fault someone for being skeptical of scientific consensus seems to be ignorant of humanity’s history of ignorance.
Obviously science is an essential tool for human progress but it is not a finder of objective truths.
Smartphones creating a mentally fragile generation
Apple told you what to do:

> Require users to customize their news sources upon launching your app

Make it a setting. Anyone who is going to use your app is qualified to paste a URL into a text field (or click a radio button indicating they want to use news.yc vs old.xy)
I was in Tawau a few years back and bused to Semporna. Generally when traveling within a new country I'm fascinated by the surrounding sights, and keep my eyes locked out the window. I got bored on this drive because it was oil palms as far as the eye could see. It was like corn fields in Nebraska.
Define: "properly trained".

With humans, we generally know the bounds for unexpected behavior. We understand tiredness, confusion, fear, distraction, suicidal thoughts and other factors. We also know how to screen people to minimize those bounds.

With ML stacks, we have no good grasp on bounds. They usually work, for some definition of working, up until they don't - and when they fail, it's in some absurd (therefore hard to predict) way.
Flipkart and Walmart Statement on Binny Bansal
How is that "antropomorphic" ?
> Using your example let's say that no other company can sell diapers online. That means for consumers that either don't want to or can't buy from Amazon, they are materially hurt from the lack of competition.

If a group of consumers can't or don't want to shop at Amazon, then they've just created a niche in the market (be it due to geography or anti-Amazon sentiment), that would create a demand for a diaper store that would serve those customers, because, by definition, they have just outcompeted Amazon by being more available or appealing to the consumers.

> The only possible argument here is that it's possible to have a singular organization that provides everything better than a diverse competitive market could. Neither history nor theory supports this thesis and the secondary effect on economies and political power compounds the downsides.

I believe history shows that as long as said singular organization it keeps providing everything, it will prevail (in everything). The moment it stops, it collapses and new players come in its place. This is, of course, as long as state doesn't decide to bail it out like it historically did in several heavily regulated industries, which are hard to enter partially because of said regulations. Consumers are rarely hurt in the process, as long as you let the big company take the fall, and let the new better companies grow its place once it stops delivering. If you regulate something like Search, to Google it's just extra operational costs, but as a side effect, Google becomes too big to fall, because no one else can really step in its boots anymore and enter the market.
In emissions terms I understand that nuclear power is far from 'low carbon', once you include the emissions involved in construction and fuel generation.

I think a lot of greens are wary of nuclear power as they see it as a front for nuclear weapons (don't forget the 'peace' in Greenpeace's name!).

Environmentalists generally advocate decentralised solutions that give people autonomy (e.g. rooftop solar). Nuclear power is basically the opposite of that.
DoBox – Portable Wireless Dock for Apple iOS Devices
Why do you need an app to view a web site? Surely you've heard of the web browser?
I think s/he is saying - Rule 1: be wealthy, Rule 2: be an important app developer
My website scored a 46 as well. It's just a couple HTML pages with a single stylesheet but Google really wants me to configure it so you can read my internet webpage outside of the internet.

I think I'm gonna add an explanation for what CTRL+S does instead.
No, lucozade put it well: Being virtuous is unrelated to saying you are. That does not mean that saying you're virtuous means you are not. Simply that there is no causal connection.
This is as good a place as any to ask- what's the easiest way to get a POSSE setup?
Something like 80% of the Fortune 500 already run SAP.
I suspect posts on medium get up voted more in hacker news but I don't have data to back this claim.
Why Consumers Will Love the Decentralized Web
I'm not trying to change anyone else's opinion on alcohol. I'm just trying to make my own internal opinions consistent.

I viewed the parents post as to avoid "I'm the only smart one in the group, and everyone else is wrong." Which I agree is a good attitude to avoid. In a group setting, it is much too easy to let our ego get in the way of evidence.
This is a thing that people actually do? Who are these people, and what other interesting things do they do?

I have never gone to medium.com directly, I have only ever wound up there through an article being crossposted on this site, Twitter, FB, or the rare case that one of my email newsletters links to something on there.
If you ever actually read the articles published from these media accounts, you'll easily see how "Not ridiculous" the claim is. (Of course there're plenty good ones, I'm not blaming all news media accounts, but there're way too many harmful ones)

The problem of these media in China is not exactly the same as the those on Facebook, but it's way more common and cause lots of harm - e.g. a large portion of these articles are influencing people to buy / not buy certain product in a very problematic way.

There is no reason these news media accounts should not be regulated. e.g. You should not publish fake news intentionally misleading the public. (Otherwise why not just let Russians publish whatever ads they want to influence American election whichever way they want?) In western news reports, this is of course "controlling what can be reported and what cannot", and they won't tell you the full story. I just wanted to point out, a large part of this is actually fighting a real problem for the good.
This is a shame, I'm sorry to hear.

I loved this app for a long time because it was the only one (that I found) that would cache comment threads on the device - this meant I could read comments on the subway and/or without access to the internet.

A few months ago the app was rewritten in Swift and lost my most treasured feature, not that it matters anymore.

Thanks for the years of connectivity-anxiety free comment reading!

Edit: If you do get passed this (I really hope you do) please consider adding an option that would fetch and save comments on the device. I'll pay for it.
Paper seems to miss to me the obvious approach of not only reverse lookups on the target IP but the last few hops in the trace route to the IP
Yes, this a thousand times. One example, Dan Luu [1] gets this absolutely right. His blog would probably look similar on Lynx, or any text-only browser, yet is better than 99.99% of stuff "out there".

[1] https://danluu.com/
Glen Weyl's presentation at Devcon iv – Decentralisation against isolation
You Call Yoself a Hacker? Every Network's Limits Any Digital Marketer Shuld Know
I hate modern web. Every site nowdays filled with bright/flashing/wobbling/jumping buttons, modal windows, pinned bars covering 1/3 of the content (or 2/3 on my phone in landscape mode) and asking me to install Yet Another Special App to view site. But I already have app for viewing sites - damn web browser. Browser can even open different pages in different tabs. Or even different sites in different tabs, unbelievable!

(Will it ever end?)
Of course that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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> If you can't explain the model, it means you don't know the assumptions that went into the model's output

This is true, but there are many, many kinds of models that have basically zero explanatory power but have higher predictive capabilities than models that are easier to explain. They have been around a long time and are used for many different practical applications.

Unfortunately, the draw of that seemingly infallible super-high-predictive capability will almost certainly be heavily involved in financial markets before long. I have no problem if some people want to risk a bunch of money in a hedge fund that uses neural net models or whatever else, but having enough money controlled by these models could pose a serious systemic risk.
Actually I did ask them, they (unsurprisingly) didn't have anything like that.
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L.A. loses bid for Amazon HQ2. Here’s why some experts are relieved
Yeah, the risks seem to be overblown, mostly acute lung issues if you inhale a ton of it, metal fume fever may be a possibility but seems very rare if only soldering. In a quick search I see no reports of significant long-term issues like cancer as some are suggesting.
This comment is not satire, I'm being brutally honest: I don't believe everything for the right reasons.

I believe in global warming, but not because of research papers or books I've read on climate change. I've clicked on research papers but I often find the scientific terminology and information in them overwhelming. I think, "It looks like they know what they're talking about." Sometimes I don't even click. I look around at people commenting on it, and if an articulate person makes a case one way or another, it influences my beliefs.

I know this is wrong but frankly it would be impossible to be educated enough on all these matters to justify having an opinion. Imagine if everyone who felt strongly about global warming had read and understood at least one research paper on it. That would mean half my friends, family, and coworkers have read and understood a research paper. I'll take the under...

What makes matters worse is being around people socially who have strong opinions. Not having one can make you look boring or dimwitted. If the conversation wanders into an area in which you do have an opinion--based on facts and research--citing those facts can feel like reading off box score statistics at a Yankees-Red Sox game. No one gets excited!

That makes me cynical. I think, people just want to feel strongly about something, kind of like they want to have a baseball team. It binds them together. I guess that's fine, I just wish we treated it more like sports and less like religion.
http://medium.com/joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c7c...
I just use Hugo for my personal blog.

I use medium to post snippets to help attract traffic.
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It's using the official Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), not scraping web sites.
Theres a bit more context here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7696021.stm

Germany was starving by the end, and what we would now call combined arms, was now taking over from the static trench warfare. So they were losing land. I don't think there was a serious risk of them fighting on.
I just realized that you are the creator of the extension "Make Medium Readable Again" and would like to thank you so much for doing just that!
Even the Hangouts client opens links which people send me in its own internal browser— a behaviour I actually don't care for, since I'd prefer it spawned tabs in the regular Safari app. But it's exactly the same thing this guy is getting in trouble for.
ha. OK, how about a PoD service that does hardcover books, at any price!
I can't find the exact quote, but something Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) wrote once always stuck with me: "I've never seen anybody change their behavior due to a well-reasoned argument. I have seen people change their behavior to avoid ridicule."
Aside: Is there a reasonable way to get any non-American/non-English news in the news app?

I find it a bit mindblowing that "Discover Channels" and the topics list are all in English and for a country I don't live in. For example, there's an option to add every BBC subcategory except BBC Mundo (i.e. Latin America).
Anti-vaxxers tend to be described as middle/upper-class liberals. GMO/Organic trends do also tend to be similar groups
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The proper way to think of Medium is as "Long Form Twitter" - that it's not where you should primarily post your long treatise about XYZ, but that it's a secondary platform for promoting it, interacting with the audience there, etc.

OPs article describes the first landing UX - which is definitely bad, but not what a habitual Medium reader sees.

I wrote this much bigger posts about it here [1], but the TL;DR is that you should post on your own site and use Medium's hidden "Import" tool to bring your content into their platform:

https://medium.com/p/import

This preserves the SEO of your original article because it adds a rel canonical tag.

1 - https://sendcheckit.com/blog/why-you-should-put-your-content...
This topic comes up fairly often. I think about it a lot - as a Medium user and as a person who has managed multiple wordpress blogs.

##Here's my thoughts on why Medium is so popular:

1. It's easy. We are all techies here. We often underestimate the weight of this.

2. It looks better than your average blog theme. (With 0 effort)

3. It promises the opportunity to access a larger audience. (Even if it does not deliver on that promise)

4. It provides an endorphin rush though likes/claps and the analytics/view counts.

##What the average blogger doesn't care about:

1. Effort Overhead. Managing a web server, buying a domain, configuring a wordpress blog, updating wordpress, choosing a theme, deleting spam comments etc.

2. Content ownership. Most people don't think about it that much.

3. RSS feeds. I'm willing to bet >80% of bloggers have no idea that people still use RSS (or even what it is at this stage)

------

I don't think Medium is perfect, but I also don't think any of the alternatives are good enough either.
Because political questions don't have scientific solutions.

Pro-life supporters aren't co-opting science when they claim a fetus is a human being, they are undermining a possible objection: obviously everyone recognizes that killing a 1 year old is not ok, regardless how the mother feels about it, so why is it ok to kill a fetus? What's the relevant distinction between the two cases?

In a former time people didn't have a good understanding of human development, so you might claim the fetus wasn't really human until it was born. Scientifically that doesn't hold up.

But you might still be ok with abortion on other grounds. Perhaps a rationale based on capabilities or intelligence, etc.

You can levy science to support a premise in an argument, but science can't decide the policy. That comes down to values, trade-offs, philosophy and ideology.

Climate change is a great example. What everyone talks about is a belief in a one sentence description of an idea. But the actual detailed contours of that belief, and the scientific arguments that led to its conclusion... who has those?

Climate isn't exactly easy to understand, even for an expert, and people have other priorities about things they care about.

For a Republican its mostly going to come down to trust in government, and its that ideology which drives the conclusion.

Anyway I don't think scientific shibboleths are all that valuable. I'd much rather people actually understand this stuff, but the truth is its asking too much. People live busy lives and not everyone can be a scientist.
I would put it to you that trying to lose weight via diet tips etc is far harder than hiking through beautiful scenery, which is something that many people yearn to one day do 'when they get time off work' - but then maybe I am the kind of person that enjoys hiking and that colurs my opinion.
Well, remember, if the mainstream media isn't reporting on a particular conspiracy theory, that's evidence that it IS happening. Otherwise why would they be afraid to report it?
In the West meanwhile, most internet firms have permitted the Southern Poverty Law Center, a private, partisan organization to define "hate" online, and to help purge it.

Be careful, you could end up raising the ire of a lawyer at the SPLC, like the British (Muslim) academic who was researching radicalization of youth in his own culture [0]

Oddly enough in most of the US now, allowing private organizations to squelch legit free expression is considered a progressive victory.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/maajid-...
Dev.to has been gaining popularity.
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"Favorable" is a bit of a values judgment; I'd say "attractive".
That company did not raze hectacres of forest. They paid another company in their supply chain to do it.

IMO, this is exactly what illogical manufactured outrage looks like. We can place blame anywhere down the line: workers in Indonesia who personally work to produce palm oil; the company that hires those works; Mondelez for buying the palm oil; customers for eating Cadbury eggs. I'm being told to hold Mondelez morally responsible for the situation when they are not. They certainly have the most power to stop doing what they're doing. That doesn't stop another company from buying palm oil.

Ultimately, the Indonesian people need to care enough about their orangutans to protect them. Or everyone needs to stop buying palm oil.
This is a good one. Goes up to (Youtube quality) 4K as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjs6fnpPWy4
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent Ending World War I
This does not make any sense to me and neither did OP's comment about NN's approximating the posterior. In fact, if p were the solution then that would simply be the maximum likelihood estimate, which would not include the p(theta), or the prior, and hence would not be Bayesian.
Changing one's mind about that would mean to no longer find that terrifying, not it no longer being being the case.
Come on man, 100% of your posts is shilling for Publii.
Yes, but, it helps to picture oneself in the third person. In this case one pictures oneself as a 100% busy CPU, and that may help.

It's a well known trick to picture oneself agonizing over something and becoming aware that you "are not the agonizing" but it is something separate from you. It will make you feel more tranquil.
God forbid politics actually be discussed!
Judge orders Amazon to hand over Echo recordings from home in murder case
According to the creator's blog, he intends to complete a whole suite of products that all work together.

As of now, normal people will have difficulty understanding how Read.as, Write.as, Snap.as all work together.

Looking forward to when I can get a full Facebook replacement for like $3/month subscription.
Ask HN: Forged Documents
Hi Hacker News. When I was at a very well renowned financial software company, my former team lead had forged documents and stole knowledge to protect his reputation and then kicked me out of the company.

What does one do? Does one optimize search engine rankings to point to his wrongdoing? How do you handle a cease-and-desist from a lawyer that accepts forged documents?
I agree with you about lazy loading. It's just dumb. How is it better to give me a scaffold of a page before the content? The page may look nice but is unusable until the content has loaded. Why not just give me everything when it's ready?

I've gotten into trouble for saying this before but things like recommending lazy loading is an example of Google imposing their wishes on the web and making it worse in the process.
I can second this. I grew up with Wallace and Gromit (Canadian, here), and I've always loved their work.