skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree... going to be limited and annoying without at least the stems.

I quite liked this demo, which shows a bit more potential for placement :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_vVU43Kz_w
If you want something more powerful than Markdown, have a look into Org mode (https://orgmode.org/). It works great if you use Emacs (or variants such as SpaceMacs), and you can read/write the files in any text editor similar to Markdown.

You can write ToDos, Documentation etc. or you can even setup the whole GTD workflow to suit you.

I think Github can show org mode files as README files as well, but please someone correct me If I'm wrong.
I'm reminded of the (possibly apocryphal) stories of criminals who underwent various procedures to remove their fingerprints - methodical scarring, acid burns, skin grafts from elsewhere on the body, etc: even the procedures that worked didn't actually help them evade identification, because the marks left by their now-printless fingertips were even more distinctive than before.
I've always been suspicious that you could roll your own aws if the volume justified the effort. Feels like this may have the unintended side effect of inspiring clever CIOs to consider doing this without Amazon.
Inside most companies there is pressure to get a few patents.

At promotion time, people will ask 'if you've been researching $thing for 3 months, why haven't you patented anything yet?'.
Having worked on that field a long time ago, there is absolutely no way the binaural effect can work well for everybody on every kind of headphone.

The way the fake front / back / top / under positioning is done is by simulating frequency alteration depending on sound origin (for example, your ear geometry filters higher frequencies this way when they come from the front, and this other way when they come from the back).

The problem is that not only your whole body is sensitive to sound waves, but also every person's body is different. If you want a good effect, you need to calibrate the frequency alteration to work with your body, using your sound equipment.
Any Googler who is willing to comment on this here ?
I think the idea is that tickets are tied to a real person's identity (via their passport number), you can't sell to somebody else, who might be a threat, because the airline won't let them on. Compare to, say, a car, where no one verifies that you aren't selling your car to someone without a license (or that intends to commit a terror attack, say).
The older I get the more I appreciate the power of comments and readmes.
Updated? That's a design error right there.

"Nope, can't give you the records of Jane Doe from 2005, you are in our system as Jane Smith. You had a different name then? Doesn't compute!" In other words, the old name needs to be kept, the new one is not a fix from an erroneous state: it used to be correct then, the new one is correct now, and you still need to match on both.

Why? Because changes never propagate instantly, if they propagate at all: I still get mail addressed to my mother (who hasn't lived here for decades), addressed to her previous name (another decade on top of that), into my mailbox, even though no trace of any of those names remains. As far as the post office goes, "XY Street 123, box 45" is still the residence of Mrs Foo. (That's actually a counterexample, yeah)
Ever considered the idea that boiling down people to archetypes might be a core reason you'd need to consult something like this in the first place?
How about building up? There's a huge lack of any sizable flat developments in Dublin, it's all housing sprawl out into Meath and Kildare.

It's a fine place to visit but no way I'd live there (again). Traffic woes, housing woes etc. I dunno how the Dubs do it tbh.
France to retire 14 nuclear reactors while Japan restarts 5 of its reactors
No. But if you are writing software that can't be maintained in production by the team that's doing the maintenance, then you a falling short in a massive part of your job.

There are lots of reasons to have difficulty working with DevOps people, but you really do have to work it out in order to provide the kind of value that your company needs. I have met people that just don't care about that. They are only interested in a fairly selfish pursuit of what they find compelling in programming. I guess one could portray that as being a "diva", but I think it's a lot more complex than that. In any case, there really isn't any room for that kind of thing if the teams wants to be successful. I've worked with people like that before and as the project inevitably dies, they are the first to blame other people. Which is sad because they are often very skillful and will have no trouble finding another group to help crash.
SEC fails to prove Blockvest ICO tokens are securities
arteries like 280, 101 in the SF bay area... are perennially clogged

This is unnaturally aggravated by two lanes being "carpool lanes", mostly full of solo drivers.

Go back to 4 all-purpose lanes and 1 true carpool lane (2+ licensed drivers) and throughput would be way better.
I’m British.

All our ID cards are optional.

We don’t have “legal names”, just names we happen to be using. If I want to change my name to “Mr Yellow-Rat Foxysquirrel Fairydiddle” for pint of beer, I can. I have no desire to do so, but I can: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/760106/posts

I have bank cards with and without my middle initial. Cards aren’t long enough for all my full names. My dad’s were even longer.
> I wonder wether Scala has inerited special handling for the (not special, but specially handled) string type

Scala uses Java's String exactly, but does define a few extra methods using its extension method functionality (called implicit class in Scala)

Templates like s"This is a string with a $variable", are part of the language, but `s` is a stdlib feature.

xxx"First $a $b Second"

will be translated by the compiler to

new StringContext(Array("First ", " ", " Second")).xxx(a, b)

The standard library defines `StringContext.s`, but there's no restriction. Several SQL Libraries for example define `StringContext.sql`, to allow you to safely and type-checked embed SQL queries directly inside the code.
yes!!! people don't realize that volunteers review the addons and that sometimes they make mistakes. They start acting as if Mozilla sent an internal memo to kill something when it is usually not the case.
Genuine question... Does it support the size of a typical (for data, ml, image proc, etc) Python dependency bundle?
believe the speeds we manage

Given that's the stretch where that guy autopiloted himself into a barrier at 70+, we believe.
> binaural audio

By far the best use of binaural audio I've heard is the simulated voice-hearing of psychosis that Ninja Theory used in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

[trigger warning re: psychosis, other mental health issues for all of Hellblade]

The very impressive - and disturbing - opening of the game (headphones required): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-SRoil79g0

Dev diary about designing and implementing the voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQ2Jm2dgXk&t=0s&list=PLbpkF...
I'd be surprised if it was the only thing they used, to be fair. But there is fairly obviously some IP-specificity going on.
I know how it works in Europe, I'm European. Why should it work like we want it to all around the world? Haven't we exported enough of our culture? USA is a different place, let it be.
Stalin brought back the orthodox church after Lenin got rid of it. When Stalin died, Khruschev cracked down on the church again.
Twitter clone with reactxp and faker
computer science is math
I was not in a aware state of mind when writing this reply, obviously if Asana was pulling in $1b+ a year in revenue they'd be valued at an order of magnitude more than $1.5b.

Their revenue would probably still be pretty good since they have 50k+ organizations paying $20+ per user per month [0].

[0] https://blog.asana.com/2018/09/asana-company-updates-2018/
Monster Hunter Worlds Winter Star Fest Can Now Be Accessed on All Platforms
My ex is known by three first names and two last names. Two of those combinations are in use on valid passports, issued before and after we were married respectively, by different countries. Neither of those two combinations are the ones she is known as, and she usually would not use either in a situation where she is not required to use the government recognised version of her name.

So, yes, it's dumb as hell to assume you can link two records relating to the same person by name. But it's also dumb as hell to assume the name on any one given id is the only valid official name. It's not even safe to assume it's the only valid official name recognised by a single government - often someone changing their name will for a long time have valid government id documents with different names, for example.
eastbound bridge traffic being wide open in the mornings

The fact that it's the toll "free" direction is also a factor.
Are there any benchmarks that show how fast this db is?
Brawndo, the thirst mutilator. It’s got electrolytes!
Looks like it

https://objectbox.io/faq/

" We will open source more components later, but first we need to figure out some things with ObjectBox. Please give us time on this. We’re currently putting all our efforts in advancing the product. Please contact us if you have questions about this (email contact [at] objectbox.io.). Thank you."
Why don't developers seem to care about good documentation?
It seems that most techies out there are absolutely fine with systems that lack documentation.

If you point out a severe lack of documentation to the average developer, they might agree with your observation, only to shrug it off, as if this isn't a big deal to them.

I almost get the impression that they like the lack of documentation, because they get to explore and mess around.

The reason I say this is that poorly documented libraries and frameworks that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole are used in a ton of projects out there. People choose to use them, while completely neglecting to quality check the documentation.

I don't like to explore and mess around. I want to get the job done. Having to struggle to figure out how a system works makes me frustrated, and I don't enjoy it at all. Actually taking pleasure from this strikes me as a form of masochism.

Why would a technical manager choose to use such a system to begin with? The only two reasons I can think of is that they simply don't care about documentation, and that they're going for job security or vendor lock-in: I know this obscure system and now you can't get rid of me.

What are your thoughts?
Sheryl Sandberg asked if George Soros was shorting FBK stock
Instagram now lets you send Stories only to ‘close friends’
More so than ‘8D’ I wish more music was recorded in 5.1; I realize the vast majority of people doesn’t have a 5.1 setup so its probably not worth the money and mixing effort (minimal by the way, instruments and voices are already recorded individually).

If you do have 5.1 and an Apple TV hooked up, search for ‘surround speaker check’ in the App Store and play the 5.1 test. You’ll be amazed how nice 5.1 music sounds.
There's a video embedded at the bottom, "Electronic Popables by Jie Qi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-6wMlaVTc
That places you downstream of all Facebook traffic.
$750 Apple product. That’s like saying all Android phones are $1249 because you can spend that much on a Samsung: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-note/galaxy-...

Actually, if you don’t mind going back a couple of generations (and considering that typically Apple gives 5 years support compared to a typical 2-3 for Android manufacturers that’s not awful) then you can happily get an iPhone with a pretty competitive CPU for $450: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7
If anyone is interested in installing this extension, I uploaded the .xpi file and instructions to install it in an issue on the git repo a few days ago [https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues...]

Hopefully the maintainer puts the .xpi file somewhere it can be accessed.

edit: someone has replied in the bottom of the git issue thread with a direct install link. use that instead
The deployment package size limit seems to be 250MB: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html
The same thing, in Firefox on Linux.

Disabling uBlock origin didn't help, neither did disabling DuckDuckGo privacy extensions.
Elastic Beanstalk meanwhile is still on Python 3.4
I've taken quite a few online courses, but none better than JS30 from WesBos. Really good stuff - a set of 30 videos where you create 30 small JavaScript projects. Great for people already familiar with JS and trying to get more comfortable!

I've converted all 30 videos into blog format (with live code samples) here https://www.discoverdev.io/blog/series/js30/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service

> The origins of the British civil service are better known. During the eighteenth century a number of Englishmen wrote in praise of the Chinese examination system, some of them going so far as to urge the adoption for England of something similar. The first concrete step in this direction was taken by the British East India Company in 1806.

> Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that "the long duration of the Chinese empire is solely and altogether owing to the good government which consists in the advancement of men of talent and merit only," and that the British must reform their civil service by making the institution meritocratic.

> Influenced by the Chinese imperial examinations, the Northcote–Trevelyan Report of 1854 made four principal recommendations: that recruitment should be on the basis of merit determined through competitive examination, that candidates should have a solid general education to enable inter-departmental transfers, that recruits should be graded into a hierarchy and that promotion should be through achievement, rather than "preferment, patronage or purchase"
Yes, I am a native English speaker (British on my mother's side, education), but I'm also a native Italian speaker (father's side, raised in Italy).

My concern was primarily directed at the fact that it's strange to indicate that one is learning a language to participate in a market which is a subset of all social interactions.
It’s Official: Ohio Is First State to Accept Crypto for Tax Payments
"It’s official: Ohio is First State to Accept Crypto for Tax Payments"
If you are in the United States, it will interest you to know that the U.S. state of Ohio has set a new crypto record. Indeed, Ohio announced that it will start collecting taxes in cryptocurrency. @bittpress.com/ohio-accept-crypto-tax-payments/
You cannot recognize any of those roles in your company? Really? I find this article hilarious because some of those archtypes are sitting next to me.
How to Install Miui 10 on Xiaomi Phones Using Recovery and Fastboot Methods
> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed

I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extension, I just wanted to have some visual indication of which Firefox windows belong to which profile). I was surprised to find out that even just a header .png in a theme can't be loaded locally but must be on-line and vetted by Mozilla. Utter craziness.
Awesome. Any repo you'd like to share?
Is this a joke? This just pans the audio from left to right. People are (choosing my words carefully) easy to please these days.
Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
Our problem is that we have a team of data scientists who are familiar with Python, plus a decent set of custom tools written in it, so changing languages isn't an option
And I think your example of the plane is where this technique is applicable. In a cinema for example, imagine yourself watching a horror movie and you can hear the evil demon sneak up behind your back. shivers. In a concert setting however, the source of the sound is (usually) static, while I might move my head slightly from time to time and pick up the sound from different angles. If that could be simulated using headphones, that would be pretty cool! But again, I fail to see what purpose it would serve in a normal stereo setting where the sound is produced the same way, from stationary speakers. Then of course there are other factors like the venue layout, design and material. As well as speaker placement, mixing of the sound and even the crowd itself. Which all contributes to the sound and the "feeling" of listening to the music.
It's a jungle out there, one of the hard realizations of getting older. Can try not to play along, but then you'll just be more screwed. :/
REST and long-running jobs (2014)
It doesn't (shouldn't?) be technically impressive, it really isn't about the tech.

The news of course benefited from the "blockchain hype" but if the outcome proved to be as expected, real people got real help and the tech did the job just fine, then aren't we bikeshedding by arguing it?
There's some general info here, including a comparison to SQLite: https://objectbox.io/dev-get-started/

For Android, there's even a repository to test it yourself: https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-performance
Nice move
Exhaustive? Ha, this doesn't even scratch the surface! How about "There is a set of strings that never refers to a real person, so treat 'Christopher Null' as test data." https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ (Also, talk about timing: "'Abcde' is not a real name, either" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46393501 )
IANAL, but 35 U.S. Code § 115 requires that "each individual who is the inventor or a joint inventor of a claimed invention in an application for patent shall execute an oath or declaration" that they believe "himself or herself to be the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application," and acknowledging "that any willful false statement made in such declaration or statement is punishable under section 1001 of title 18 by fine or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both."

So... How is this not literally a crime?
Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500M guests
And entry errors, and matching errors, and misassigned records, and yeah, let's just have [Jedi handwave] a perfect identification system. Hey look, no more problems!
Unfortunately, I feel that the only ones who will "care" about it "again" are the only ones who care currently. There's a reason people don't have Hi-Fi setups anymore; they're completely unnecessary and a waste of time/money/space when >80% of the population will tell you they can't hear a difference between the EarPods that came with their phone, and a $10,000 top-of-the-line stereo hooked up to $2000 monitors.

Anecdote time; friends of mine own(ed) a niche A/V store, their grandparents opened the store in the early '60s and their primary focus was to carry, sell, service, and most importantly demo everything from a $50 loudspeaker to the $10,000+ amp. Back then, every product was completely different from the next. A $50 amp and a $500 amp was like the difference between a CRT TV and a 4K OLED TV, same with speakers. About 25 years ago when their parents took over, it was already becoming evident (mainly with everything going digital) that the difference between a $50 amp and a $500 amp wasn't nearly as pronounced as it was 50 years ago. 5 years ago the business pivoted away from A/V, because nobody is going to spend $500 on an amp or receiver when they can pick up a $30 soundbar at Walmart and get 95% of the quality/experience. I've seen it myself; the family is still a bunch of die-hard audiophiles where money is absolutely not an object when it comes to audio, to the point they built a home theater and spent $30,000 on a custom-built 11.2-channel tube-based Atmos receiver, >$2500 per speaker (that's right, nearly $30,000 in speakers), and around $10,000 for each subwoofer. While most of our friend group will tell you it's unquestionably the greatest sounding thing on the planet, there's still a few who'll put in their dollar-store earbuds, load up a 360p song on YouTube, and tell you completely straight-faced it sounds no different.
Glenn Greenwald would say the NYT has had several big lies and omissions, should a news org be held to a high bar perhaps?
I think the problem with these manufactured "spatial" videos is that because there's no spatial information in the original track, they're pretty much forced to swing it around your head to demonstrate how "cool" it is. If they'd separated the various instruments and laid them out like a real, intimate gig, that would be impressive.
> Almost any economy where buying is expensive, renting works out cheaper.

Cheaper than buying. In the short term, maybe.

You make property ownership look like slavery while renters seem to be just enjoying the ride.

If it is so hard and unrewarding to build rental properties it seems landlords are just addicted to losing money.
If it was a job, it’s usually work for hire and not owned by him but by the company he was working for.
What is considered responsible AI?
Maybe things are different in the US (where maybe peoples personalities are extra rigid because self image and the concept of identity is so amplified), but the people I tend to interact with are usually much more subtle than this, and can easily shift from looking or acting like one archetype to another with a little empathetic communication, without me having to characterize them into a framwork, as an obstacle I need to systematically figure out a way around.
Marriott Says Starwood Hacked; Could Be Biggest Since Yahoo
I have a deployed lambda with your usual stack ( numpy sklearn scipy)
The suggestion that Apollo astronauts were burned up on the launch pad might have something to do with weed (or whiskey) is really just too much.
The a to Z Guide to Angular Lifecycle
Although this is really cool, there are still gaps in the Ionic system which are more important to address, such as Native Debugging, and would ultimately bring more value IMO.
Difficult people can potentially be far worse than having no one in their position. They may cast a cloud over every team meeting with a bad attitude. They can be a troll under the bridge, standing in the way of movement with excuses and a million reasons why it can't be done. Everyone on the team may end up walking on eggshells around that person, and end up doing everything they can to avoid interacting with them. It makes everyone else's job twice as hard.
engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes!

but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.
Rust 2018 has breaking changes, and their mechanism for dealing with it is incredible.
Data Breach Compilation: November 2018
What he's saying could be true but misleading.

Avoiding privacy and security review for a product is quite typical pre-launch. All that's important is it gets and passes the review on or before launch day. This product hasn't yet launched, so avoiding or delaying the review makes sense.

It makes even more sense here when the privacy landscape is quickly changing - something that would have been considered acceptable in the past is no longer considered fine.
What's the backend like ?
Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so.

They'd best gain the ability, then, or fade into irrelevance and die.

And honestly, we're talking about serving a few images from their own webserver. It's not rocket science.
Why must it be online? Can't you package it with the theme? (I have no experience creating themes, but I can package images with an extension. I only have to upload it for Mozilla to sign them, but after that I can download the signed package and load that locally.)