skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what Paul Graham calls the Python Paradox; namely that in 2004, when Python jobs were relatively more rare, you could find smarter Python engineers than Java engineers for any given project.

"[I]f a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job."

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Search keywords are a commodity. Allowing anyone to peek under the hood is going to lead to bad actors mass scraping and gaming, even if the search result signals you're sharing are aggregated.
You can also see your historial posting position: https://hnify.com/leaderboard.html#em-bee
This is Gold. Who needs plot?
Most of those are covered by what I wrote. I said they’re ranges of 0-1 symbols.
V8's API is also highly unstable.
Firefox Coming to the Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Devices Ecosystem
You are being obtuse. There really is no comparison between Vim and Emacs.

Vim is just an editor.

Emacs is an environment, a Lisp Machine. I'm running a web browser, mail client, irc client, news client, twitter client, RSS reader and aggregator, file manager, music player, ebook reader on Emacs. 24/7. At the same time. These are all applications written in Emacs Lisp. Do people use Vim in this way? No.

Look at some Symbolics Genera videos on Youtube. Emacs is the closest (but still inferior) application we have to that.
As an Australian citizen who has spent many years in the US, I can say that this law is in line with the main ideology of the Australian government: extreme parentalism.
You run a red light: fine for $450 in the mail. No court date, no arguments. You exceed the speed limit by 5km/h: $200 fine in the mail. No arguments. It is brutal but it's hard to deny that it works. Australia has some of the lowest per capital road deaths in the OECD.
The problem is that the government wants to regulate the internet the say way they regulate road traffic. You can read up all the idiotic attempts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral....
I wonder if this means Australia will have the ability to ban apps like Telegram from the app store?
"Do you mean to disparage the many scientists who research the causes of past climate change, and who hypothesize that the current changes are, like all past changes, caused by other factors than the man-made, industrial-age rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide?"

There are no such scientists, let alone "many". And it doesn't matter what people "hypothesize".

I know the names of the handful of "lukewarm" climate scientists who don't hold the consensus position; none of them take the position that you put forth, and I can be certain that you can't name any of these "many" scientists.
If we were truly concerned, we should work on eliminating water vapor, since that accounts for much more of the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide.

Or, pump out even more carbon dioxide to increase the warming and water vapor, and hence increase cloud cover to cool the earth.
Reading this made me think of how iOS and macOS are evolving - the UIKit and iOS apps on Mac.

Strategy feels similar - make things compatible enough and force apps to adapt somewhat. Of course this is a gross oversimplification, but who knows.
First months are fine (given, of course, someone can take care of the baby while you work!).

Once the baby starts understanding more about the world, he will not be able to understand why daddy is locked in that room. He knows you're there, he wants to play with you. He doesn't understand the concept of work. He will bang the door very frequently. They love doing it while you're on phone meetings because they can hear your voice, so they remember you and go banging the door right when your microphone is open. They also learn to open doors pretty quickly when it interests them.

If you're working close to where there's a person taking care of the baby and the person is not his mom or someone you absolutely trust 100%, every time the baby makes a single noise your primate brain will focus on it. Maybe a cougar caught him! I had my mother-in-law taking care of him during the mornings, and although I trusted her, I knew she did not have the reflexes to properly ensure he wouldn't get hurt while he was learning to walk properly (~1 year). He would occasionally fall and hurt himself and cry. Absolutely EVERY SINGLE noise he made (even when it was not falling) would completely put me in "alert mode" and I would focus on him, not my work. I could only be able to better focus on work once my wife arrived home and started taking care of him. But it was still not 100% attention on work: I would still hear all his sounds.

The fact that my mother-in-law was taking care of him while I was at home working meant I had a lot of interactions with her. And let me say that: it felt like I was married with her, and not with my wife. The big problem is that I really would never ever marry someone like her! This was a major source of stress. And she did a lot of thing I didn't agree she should, and my wife didn't have the balls to challenge her because she was already helping us so much, so this ensured everybody felt uncomfortable (although, of course, I am thankful she indeed helped us so much).

In the end my wife quit her job and now I'm working in the office. This is not only because of the reasons above, there are other external reasons. While I'm at the office I can fully focus on work while knowing that my wife is doing everything she can to take care of him. And I won't hear noises that my primate brain will interpret as "your son is dying". Still, I attend early morning meetings from home and he occasionally visits the office while he shouldn't (the office door can't be locked, it's a rented house and I can't change it).

On the other hand, he cries every single day that I'm abandoning him while I'm going to work and it doesn't matter how many times I try to explain it, he doesn't understand why I won't play with him all day like his cool mom does.

No matter what you do, you're wrong.
I agree with most of the things you've said. But here's the thing: Even if you are able to write native apps in Objective C, Swift, and Java, React Native still saves you an enormous amount of time. And you don't have to do everything in JavaScript.

I'm a web developer who got into native iOS development, and then I built an app with React Native. I was blown away by how much easier it is to build a cross-platform iOS and Android app. But I think it's also a much better choice even if you're just building an iOS app.

But you can't be afraid of writing your own native libraries in multiple languages, or fixing bugs in open source projects. I built a write-once-deploy-anywhere app that runs on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Desktop, and the web (with react-native-web). It was a pretty magical experience and I would do it again. There were lots of challenges and bugs to figure out, but I enjoyed it much more than working in XCode with Swift and UIKit.

I'll definitely be using React Native for any mobile apps in the future, even if I'm just targeting a single platform (e.g. ARKit on iOS). I just love building the UI with React and managing state with Redux.

It could be a lot better, though. There's just not enough people working on it, and GitHub issues can go unresolved for months or years. And it hasn't been very easy to upgrade to newer versions. But on the whole, React Native is awesome.
You can't do anything individually, other than vote for people who represent your point of view. The sorts of things that would make a difference, such as international agreements on CO2, can only be enacted by governments.

You can drive an EV, or stop eating beef, or pay the renewable-energy rate on your electric bill, and feel good about it if you want, but it won't make a bit of difference on a global scale.
Yeah, I don't like monoculture.

Even if Edge did run on Linux and were open source . . .

. . . and I'm just being honest here, and I'm probably not alone . . .

I just don't trust Microsoft.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they've truly changed. I'm not trying to imply anything about Microsoft, but merely express my own internal feeling about them. I doubt I am alone.

This is not to imply that I trust Google either.
what happens to 10 million bangladeshi children when they go from having two or three rice crops a year to one or two?
How about something like:

/.well-known/delete-account
/.well-known/request-user-data

This would also be nice as we wouldn't need things like https://justdelete.me
As an Australian citizen who has spent many years in the US, I can say that this law is in line with the main ideology of the Australian government: extreme parentalism. You run a red light: fine for $450 in the mail. No court date, no arguments. You exceed the speed limit by 5km/h: $200 fine in the mail. No arguments. It is brutal but it's hard to deny that it works. Australia has some of the lowest per capital road deaths in the OECD. The problem is that the government wants to regulate the internet the say way they regulate road traffic. You can read up all the idiotic attempts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral... I wonder if this means Australia will have the ability to ban apps like Telegram from the app store?
It's about $2000 to $4000 for a non-hospital midwife with an assistant, toward the higher end of that range for at-home and toward the lower end for the midwife's office.
Would you be willing to play Russian Roulette with a revolver with four bullets in the chambers just because there's uncertainty about whether the gun would go off when you pulled the trigger? Yes, there's a chance that climate change is going to no big deal. The most likely future occurrence is that things go the way the sober scientists at the IPCC give in their median prediction - a disaster but an eminently manageable disaster. The bit threat is that uncertainty goes both ways and climate change could very well end up being much worse than our median estimates. That's what keeps me up at night instead of urging more efforts go towards mitigation.
I'm curious what your takeaway from the discussion the spawned from your comment. You asked why racism was talked about so much - do you feel you understand it now?
Why millions Brits'mphones were knackered: expired Ericsson software certificate
How unusual is a confidential S-1?
It's currently on the bottom of page 2.
Microsoft is always free to fork Chromium.

Given how nodejs is still not fragmented (remember io.js), and things are getting along well, I am positive it can be done.

Microsoft has really shown it can do Open Source well and is willing to let go of its ego if it means more developers/users on their platform.

Also Google makes a shit ton of money off chromium through the search bar. Edge is chromium + bing bar.

If Edge doesn’t do stupid shit like log you in the browser, blast ads in your face, I am very willing to consider another browser.

Chromium won. It has the largest market share. V8 powers both chromium and nodejs. Google showed Microsoft that Open Source can be insanely profitable if there is a money making engine complementary to it.

Microsoft’s money makers are Azure, Office, Bing and surface devices. Open source software brings them a ton of good will and new users.
C# 6 Draft Spec Reading [video]
An interesting take on how “feminine voice” assistants can hardwire sexism
The news of his death kind of shocked me in that I had just stayed a few months earlier in the hotel[0] he died in... News article was a photo of the hotel and I was all recalling the great memories of the trip, until read the headline! :( Brutal!

Apparently it was his favorite hotel, which didn't surprise me to hear. If you ever get the chance, trust his (and my) judgement and at least visit the town of Kayserberg, France!

[0] https://www.lechambard.fr/en/
>"I do disagree with the assertion that I often see, and remains a widespread misconception among scientists, that MOND does not do a good job of explaining cosmic phenomena. I’ve been through all that, and it is simply incorrect to say dark matter is always better outside of galaxies. Sure, it has shortcomings, but often dark matter only appears to be better because it declines to make a comparably testable prediction. Clusters of galaxies are a great example: MOND is off by a factor of 2 in mass (20% in velocity). Dark matter makes no prediction. Anything over the luminous mass is OK. The rest is dark. It doesn’t matter if that’s a factor of 2 or 5 (the modern value) or 6 (the cosmic value) or ~100 (Zwicky’s value). Being a factor of 2 off only sounds bad because there is a definite prediction! With dark matter we don’t care what that factor is because we have no prediction – at least, not one that can not be fudged."

Here in a recent comment he addresses the "galaxy cluster" issue:
https://tritonstation.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/hypothesis-te...
The Government simply defines systemic weakness to be something that doesn’t happen when Apple is coerced to introduce an easily exploitable hole in their security for all products.

I wish I was being facetious.
This really bad and may cause the US / China trade deal to fall apart. Also what if China starts arresting US executives visiting China?
The smartest thing Tesla ever did was finance battery manufacturing using luxury vehicle margins (stoking demand with a sexy, desirable brand), and have those customers (including myself) finance the depreciation and capital carrying costs of those battery sleds

Panasonic and Samsung make Tesla's battery cells; Tesla simply assembles them together. For now they're the big kahuna because they've locked up output through contracts but when they don't control the primary input to their "biggest product" they're at the mercy of their suppliers and the market.
Apache Omid selected as transaction management provider for Apache Phoenix
Not true. Me and my family are on Xiaomis, they're on a different level.

I have a company-issued S8 and an iPhone, and I wouldn't trade them for my Xiaomi.

Best part is, they cost less than half of an equivalent iPhone, have better battery and amazing performance.

I used to buy Samsungs (and Nokias earlier before they suicided).

I have an iPad and it's a great piece of hardware, but I don't stand the Apple ecosystem (iTunes in particular is a piece of crap).

Currently waiting for the Pocophone F1 to be distributed by the local carrier. Another slam dunk by Xiaomi.
Your logic makes no sense. You left out the part where bourdain abandoned his nine year old daughter. Mental illness is not an excuse to abandon children. Bourdain deserves more than contempt —- he deserves vilification.

If he’d had zero kids, I’d sympathize and say RIP, what a tragedy.

But he DID have a kid. A kid he abandoned. Bourdain is not just mean for that decision — he’s borderline evil.
The have still room to grow, diversification also.
I think that something like

select * from the_table
offset rand(select count(*) from the_table)
limit 1;

would do the trick with least bias, though not necessarily very fast.
Cutting off API access is destroying value to preserve market power. Quite analogous to what Standard Oil did with their railways.
It's apparently because of an HTTP-based home automation protocol:

http://www.bacnet.org/

http://www.bacnet.org/Addenda/Add-135-2012am-ppr3-draft-17_c...
And then BlackBerry or Microsoft CE ends up launching the mobile revolution. Oh dear.
Children in the countryside have access to social media, too, so blaming it on that seems disingenuous, while ignoring the massive cultural shifts occurring in the EU.
Buy up the cheap land that will become the next water front property.
The problem with many discussions around global warming is not scientific, but cultural. Advocates of change often take a sanctimonious attitude toward anyone expressing the slightest doubt.

Have a look at the episodes of the Netflix series "Bill Nye Saves the World" on climate change. If you can watch without cringing, congratulations. I can't. Or take this interview Nye did with Tucker Carlsen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5L2q6hfWo

Nye, and those who share his intolerant attitude toward justified skepticism do their cause more harm than good.

Every hypothesis should be questioned. The more sweeping the claims, the more pointed the questioning should be. Science is not immune to groupthink. The problem is magnified when a scientific hypothesis takes on a political dimension.

Take this quote from the article:

Climate has always been changing, but humans are now the
principal drive for climate change, overwhelming natural climate variability.

I challenge any reader of the article to find a clear, logical, undeniable chain of evidence from hypothesis to the conclusion that humans are responsible for rising planet temperatures.
Hacking Image Resizing
For Single Tab instances, Chrome and Safari still wins. For multiple Tabs, Firefox wins hands down.

But the majority of users rarely open more than a few.

Firefox will need to continue iterate, until it is as fast or even faster in every corner.
God bless you.
adding the edition 2015 key will harm your ability to compile on older rusts, as they don’t understand the edition key. Just leaving it off as the default is better.
Google's guidance for this stuff was always in the form of "don't leave a trail", not "don't do it in the first place".

Sketchy stuff comes up on a list? "Let's take it offline", not "no, stop this now".

That kind of thing. It was systemic.
Go is a language designed to take CS college graduates to productive engineers at Google with as little fuss as possible. Considering it was designed for an organization in the scope of Google, it's less likely to be the best option for something like a startup, small business, or even a medium size business.
>The State regulates and issues currency, _always have_ always will.

This is false, and "people behind Bitcoin" can teach you more about this: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
Who cares what Bill Nye says or thinks.
Snapchat vs. Facebook and the Essence of Competitive Strategy
Yes. To paraphrase Ray Noorda, it'd still be dead, but it would have been a much more interesting death.
Was skimming through the report[1] and they mention “coefficient ranking” (email starting on page 49). Did some Googling and couldn’t find anything. Anyone has a brief explanation of this?

[1] https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...
Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds
I think many people signal that they are against global warming, but very few are ready to give up any thing. Many people I know just think not using polyethylene is the only required thing(which emits less CO2 than reusable bag, even counting reusing), or at most using bicycles for intracity travel. I think here is few of the (hard)things you can do which actually does effect according to my research:

- Don't travel on planes(And definitely don't be like Leonardo Dicaprio using private planes after giving speech on climate change)

- Don't eat beef/pork

- Don't use AC or use it minimally

- Same with hot water

- Don't have lawn in your house
Why don't Samsung and Panasonic compete in this battery/energy storage market? Serious question.
>work 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off

I haven't been in the oil business for a very long time but that was a very common pattern for offshore drilling rigs and the like. The interval of weeks varied from 1 to 4 as I recall generally based on how remote the location was.
Sure, good point. I’d argue this isn’t exactly black and white but you won’t find me defending web sockets for many applications at all anyway.
If global warming activists have few or no children, doesn't that mean only global warming apathetics will remain?
A salted presimised hash, of roughly the same sort we'd use today except that salt was only 12 bits (which seemed reasonable if your Unix systems have 500 users but not if your social network site has 500 million users) and the loop just runs the DES S-Boxes a bunch of times with no way to tune how many.

By the 1990s Unix systems were mostly using PHK's version which had a larger salt and ran MD5 a configurable amount of times instead of DES some fixed number of times.
Visited a local recycling facility. The costliest part is sorting+separating all the different materials. The costs for that alone literally dwarf every other stage of the recycling process, and it's not one that can be easily automated.

If you have a mass quantity of the same type of good, you can avoid most of these costs.
That is evidence that it's easy to get past an untrained dog. It's not evidence that it's easier to get past an untrained dog than a locked door.
Protobuf specification explicitly states that protobuf compatible implementation must support values outside of the enum range, to be forward compatible with future updates to .proto files.
I'd wager that a latency of a couple hours is unacceptable for almost all TTS use cases.

Moreover, the current generation of TTS is pretty good and a lot of research is being done to improve it. You'd have a very finite amount of time to build your service and get users before the big players have got TTS that has caught up and doesn't have an enormous latency/require paying human wages.
Not since android.. 6? It defaults to the chrome browser. You can choose the other chrome browsers too (beta dev canary if installed, via the developer settings) and the web view might actually also be chrome. WebKit on android is from ages ago.
Facebook defends Mark Zuckerberg's exposed emails
Book Review: Java by Comparison
Australians did not give up guns in citizen hands. And per capita, we have more guns than our military.
Help me understand why the consumer protection is not used here?

In order to do card payments the merchant (IGG) need to be able to refund. It they cannot, the acquirer must do so. Anyways, one of the purposes of Visa and MasterCard is protection from these scams. If you don't get 100% of what you bought, you can get refunded by the card issuer, which will collect acquirer/merchant.
>Also what if China starts arresting US executives visiting China?...

I think it's pretty safe to say that this will not be a "what if?". Probably more of a "when".
From the official blog post:

“Allo will continue to work through March 2019 and until then, you’ll be able to export all of your existing conversation history from the app—here are instructions on how to do so.”

That’s not terrible, but the bar is very low for this kind of thing. It’s hardly seamless.
Both of these are still just very roundabout ways of telling yourself you're awesome because of whatever mildly unusual thing you think you might be doing.
Comparing AlphaZero to AlphaGo Lee seems problematic. I don't think transitivity holds in this case, i.e. AlphaZero can beat AlphaGo Lee almost surely, and AlphaGo Lee can beat Lee Sedol almost surely, but it could be possible that AlphaZero is not able to beat Lee Sedol at all. This is because the state spaces reached in computer-computer games are probably very different from the state space reached in human-computer games. I could be wrong, but at the very least this should be discussed by Deepmind.
Blind is a cesspool of racism, sexism, and general stupidity. Best and brightest indeed.
My bad, I thought 2/10 had inverted earlier this week. Maybe it was just for a short time during the day. Still, they are very close right now.
Panasonic's solar roofing products from its joint venture with Tesla in NY are already being mostly sold to Tesla's competitors...
So much truth in this post.
Science has very few recognizable public faces. Nye, and Niel Tyson are two of them.

When these people say something about science, for better or worse, they speaks for science in many people's minds.