skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great. Not all of us can afford to burn $12k. I certainly didn't have a 4.0 GPA, so it ain't like I would've qualified for any scholarships of significant value. I did qualify for FAFSA, and used that for a semester of community college before I started working full-time. Wasn't much, though.

I'm sure Brian Cantrill is some really smart person who will totally blow my socks off with reasons why I'm a worthless piece of shit because I don't have a college degree. Regardless, considering the sheer amount of terrible software written by thoroughly-educated people, and the sheer number of diploma mills out there that'll graduate anyone with a pulse (and even that's optional), it's patently obvious that a degree is - again - not a reliable indicator of competence.
Heh. That works really well in English.

(Wondered if I could use this in Dutch too, but decided against it due to the seminal connotations of ‘kwak’…)
All the comments about JS are, to use Hacker News lingo, “tangential”. As someone who both lifts and enjoys the environment of Hacker News, I would very much appreciate a website outside of Reddit or the more mainstream lifting forums, full of bro-science, anecd(o/a)tal comments and misinformation, where I could discover interesting and factual articles and studies on how to improve my lifting. This would be a benefit to the whole community.
Another comment mentions the lack of support for ctrl+backspace (which prints U+007F in the application instead of deleting an entire word).

https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-...
We need a dossier on the incumbent mayor. Bronco's qualifications won't matter.
Adorbs-as-a-Service: Random Kitten Photos in Under 1ms
The #1 economy on the planet ranks top 10 in internet speed, while most of its top companies are internet companies. Interesting. I never understood how California could get away with such a shitty internet when I lived there. Cable and M-lap ranks the US the top 20. Interesting #2.
To be fair there are SOME tools for reading netCDF files (there is netCDF4 for python for example) but it's not all that great out of the box, you have to write your own method to walk through all variables etc... kind of a pain. ncdump also.
I always appreciate commit messages that are informative and well structured. That said, I'm not a fan of specific formats for commits. The commit messages in a project are where a lot of that project's collective "personality" is stored. If you look through the commits for a project with a "colorful" variety of messages, you'll get a sense not only of the work that was done, but of the people who helped create the project.

Somewhat related: @git_commit_m on twitter has some great (and amusing!) examples of what not to use for commit messages, which are pulled from github's public data set.
That's left as an exercise for the reader.
Spotify has several ways of recommending new music.

Discover Weekly is a brand new playlist of new music that you haven't listened to before.

They have their Daily Mixes which seem to be based on music you listen to regularly, with a few new, but similar, things mixed in.

I have found that it generally recommends the same type of music, so I can feel a little stuck in a few genres, but they just gave me a playlist of new music that's outside the genres I normally listen to.

I've been very happy with Spotify and their music discovery is a reason I don't see myself switching to Apple Music or similar anytime soon.
That's a different Cromwell.
There was a great youtube video of some people visiting the site which I found absolutely riveting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM
This makes me want to get into dress-making.
Viziflu predicts flu peak week
The DO privacy policies and terms of service have some confusing clauses or missing promises. Other than that, DO is really nice to use
I would say that most canonical information is not actually revised very often. Yes, the dashboard facts of a business operations are revised. Your novel in progress is revised. But the distance to the Sun and the chemical formula for water are not revised.

A surprising amount of our everyday writing is comprised of these shared, canonical facts. Walt Disney's birthday will never change, and neither will Apple's market cap for November, 2018. When we write about those facts, we can rely on our own copy of correct, canonical data -- not a link to anything. An ideal research and writing program, as we aim Mimix to be, would also be able to alert you when and if your canonical information changes. In that case, you'll be able to retain and reference both versions in your writing. Most importantly, your future readers will, using the Mimix software, also be able to see where you got your facts. These capabilities simply don't exist in any of today's software.
Best answer I've seen on HN in a month or two, at the very least. In tune with reality. Was going to say something along the lines of "mumble human nature mumble" as a top level comment on this thread, but I think this suffices.

Edit: My comment was about companies like the one in todipa's sibling comment:

>I think what you meant is 1 person company with the owner being the only person working for the company
Also, why even mention startups? Startup is such a buzzword that everyone wants to cash in on.

They could have just simply said “Please feel free to use for personal or commercial use. For full license details see this link: license.txt”
> the ROI on each dollar spent at the IRS is higher than almost anywhere else in government

It only looks that way because you're comparing the revenues and expenses of a profit center. This is like measuring the "ROI" of a company's invoicing department, while disregarding the fact that without the cost centers actually producing goods and services for sale there would be nothing to invoice.

Properly measuring the worth of the department requires looking at the whole system, not just the IRS—and in this case, that includes both the public and private sectors. After all, the government supposedly exists to serve the public, and not for its own benefit. From that point of view, the IRS isn't producing much of anything; it's just moving money from one area of the economy to another. Any argument that this activity results in a positive ROI hinges on whether the areas they're moving money to are more beneficial than the areas they're taking money from. (Many would disagree.)
That's a false equivalency. Banksy wasn't "having himself plastered all over the media" - he didn't do any media buys or pay anyone to promote him.
decorating his refrigerator :D
The radars I used almost 30 years ago on merchant ships certainly had collision alerts! But I was also trained that there had to be at least one person on the watch whose sole job was to look out for other ships.
I see, and I believe your intentions weren't bad. But as some constructive criticism I'd say the optics are not good.

The phrase "brooo" just feels tone-deaf and minimizing here. And unless you are the most charmingly clueless surfer dude on the planet, I don't think it works when the survivor is standing in front of you either.
Write commit messages in the GNU ChangeLog format.

E.g.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=bfc527af1af619742...
Another fun way to suppress office politics is to light proverbial (or literal!) fires that require cooperation to fix.

This obviously has the negative property of not at all feeding and watering anyone involved, which leads to people burning out, quitting, imploding, exploding, etc., but if your sole goal is to squash office politics, continually having your team jump from fire to fire will do the trick!
A browser with several tabs open, some of them being more web applications than pages, can easily reach that limit.

Like it or not, more and more applications are being replaced with web applications, and many of use simply have too many communication channels, and have web apps open for a calendar, slack, email, WhatsApp etc.
Extra:

"The Open Organization Book Series"

https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/book-seri...
Healthcare Stories from the past week
Let's say you're a manager at an index tracking pension fund. You're likely to be holding shares in the index at a proportion similar to the index weightings. And you're likely to hold most of them for the long term as you're required to track the index.

The key phrase is long term. It doesn't really matter to you whether or not a particular share price goes up or down in the short term as you aren't interested in selling.

So what you can do is lend the stock to a shorter. You enter into a contract where you give them X shares of a stock and they're obliged to give you X shares back in a few days regardless of any price move. They're also obliged to pay a fee for the service.

The net effect is that, instead of having X shares, you now have X shares and the fee.

The major risk for you is that they don't give you the shares back. That's why these contracts usually have collateral agreements such that, if they renege, you haven't lost out by much.
Older books, bought secondhand and enjoyed:

Batavia’s Graveyard - A brutal history of a shipwreck and subsequent mutiny that occurred off the coast of Australia in 1629 when Dutch traders were exploring a new route to the East Indies. Much better than expected from the cover.

Gates of Fire - Historical fiction that tells the story of the Spartan 300 and the battle of Thermopylae. Lived up to it’s high recommendation.

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 - still working my way through this detailed tome, but enjoying the style of the author.
Off-topic:

I say "H. N." in my head whenever I see Hacker News as an acronym.

My question is, when you have an acronym that you tend to say the individual letters of, do you change the a/an? For example, this example would be "an aech en inspired ...", where if you read the acronym as "Hacker News", it would be "a Hacker News inspired...".

Another common example is FBI.

It always irks me when I see "a FBI agent", but I'm not sure which is actually correct.
It was the very first thing that popped in to my head. I'm glad they changed it.
I think that's pretty optimistic. Society seems to constantly drone on about "garbage" reality television and yet the networks keep pumping them out at an ever-increasing rate with more ridiculous plots all the time. For every person you hear complain, there are many more behind the scenes that you don't hear from who are the exact demographic that these companies are appealing to.

These companies wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't working.
> How, exactly, are they supposed to know that?

Because situations have more than one possible outcome. Lumping everyone into a single cohort based on a majority rule (e.g. people who buy pregnancy-related products often buy baby-related products later) is a kind of insensitivity that would be frowned on if applied in person.

> The bigger issue here is everyone expecting Facebook to somehow be omnipotent.

I'd argue that Facebook (or its advertising algorithm in this case) is operating _as if it is_ omniscient when really there are lots of shortcomings that can and do cause harm. It should be reigned in instead of forgiven.
My apologies for the confusion ans the fact I wasn't clear enough with what I meant with inspiration. In the sport/ gym world a large majority of the articles are superficial and try to lure you in with click bait titles. For me (with a not as deep knowledge and background in software as the community here which is abundantly clear) I am a long time HN lurker because of the fact it goes against this. Against the instant gratification and towards quality content. Thanks for your feedback!
Instagram is not a person. Don't ask it to be decent.

Those ads are not your friends. Don't expect them to treat you like they care.

You're not sharing your information with a human. You're sharing it with a business who is tuned to maximize profit. The ROI on dealing with still births for advertising is probably negative.

They don't care about you. You've made the decision to let a business deep into your personal life, a space once reserved only for loved ones. These are the consequences.
We need more context. Server configuration should definitely be in code/source control these days. Database changes, well, what kind of changes are you talking about?
HN3: Depends on your use case.
The most important thing for a brand name like this to be is:

1. Simple to remember and easy to pronounce.
2. Unique and stands out from other generic names.
3. Aesthetically sounds/looks good.

Under this criteria: "Google" works. "Bing" works. "DuckDuckGo" does not work.
I still remember when Grafana first come out because of InfluxDB. It's amazing at that time. I try to setup Graphite and eventually found out Grafana+InfluxDB and go w/ it from there.

Grafana move really fast. Very practical. It first if I remember use ElasticSearch/InfluxDB to store its config itself. Then move to its own SQLite. Then MySQL/Postgres. Eventually add alerting. Add multiple data source.

Nowsday my team even use its with SQL for a cheap version of Periscope/Mode.

Then now they figure out this log thing. ElasticSearch is great but try to run it yourself. On a 50 nodes k8s, I bet your first ES config will down after 10mins the first time FluentD come up and send all the log under the sun since the cluster come up

Given that Grafan guys know how to deal with visualization, I trust them to deliver a great experience again for log.

Look at their history, I'm going to bet hard on this.
This is much easier to digest, thank you. What's the significance of computing k^m mod p in this context?
Politics is being given a bad rap but in reality politics is probably one of the best inventions of mankind. It enabled humans to organize large groups to the benefit of all involved.

What you mean with "Office Politics" is dysfunctional politics. They exist everywhere but to a different degree. I would be really scared of a company that claims to have no office politics.
Mimix atoms are based on the actual, typed text -- not the logical values, and changes to that text or its formatting are kept separate from the original text by virtue of the MSL, Mimix Stream Language, which is used to describe them. Although I hate RegEx, I can't see any compelling advantage in the Spor toolkit. In any case, I'm predisposed to use things that folks already know for simplicity and lowering barriers to entry.
thanks for this. People responding here with "just use an ad blocker" ... I have uBlock Origin and it's great but it only goes so far.
Fixed link

http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu/
Anyone wondering what the logo looked like before being updated, see here: https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/a5d1c56ce8755136c5dde02...
I'm genuinely curious what the reaction would be with non-programatic ads that presented similar content. Would it be just as painful if you were watching TV and got an ad for Huggies, or is it because we know the ads are personalized?
I’m no fan of privacy violations, but if everyone uses a little less fuel there are huge gains for our future, regardless of whether the cost savings trickle down to me personally.
I hosted an international Mailman list that blew up on my dialup Linux box in the mid 90s. Every inbound message was expanded to a batch of thirty recipient outbound messages, for a very busy phone line. I also had busy squirrels that every few months would degrade my line, especially in the winter when the phone line boxes offered some warmth.

One night I came home late to find a police car parked outside my house. The officer told me they got a 911 call from my house. They wanted to "look around", to verify that I didn't have some woman locked in my house or anything. Standard procedure, they said. I have no idea how long the police car waited for me to return.

Sure enough, the dial string at the time included embedded 9-1-1 so if just the right digits were dropped, it was a 911 call.
https://adnauseam.io

Here you go!

Google actually banned this from the Chrome store so it must be hurting them.
Remarketing converts multiple times higher than prospecting.

For everyone 1 person annoyed by seeing an ad for a product they bought, 10 others buy.
VHF is no replacement for Colregs - https://www.marinemec.com/news/view,opinion-avoid-using-vhf-...

There have been multiple collisions attributed to two ships talking to each other, not realising that the ship they were looking out the window was not the ship they were talking to.

Additionally, the sirens are pretty loud and the Captain/Navigator's cabins are normally in a position to hear them. Any CO who hears 5 short blasts in the vicinity of their ship is going to sprint for the bridge.

In short, 5 short blasts is what IRPCS tells you to do - so you should do it.
Flutter/README.md at master – flutter/flutter
Thats 100% because of Google Fiber- if you'd come in a couple years before that, the high speed choices were all expensive, bundled, and data capped.
API for converting HTML, Markdown and Office documents to PDF written in Go
Wow, they actually go inside the spacecraft.
I wrote a blog yesterday about the technologies that we consider as the best to build a MVP
https://ideatostartup.org/blog/idea-to-startup/the-best-tech...

If you are into JavaScript, you should also check out : https://2018.stateofjs.com to know which JS technologies in general developers prefer the most.
>Because with two people it's just the two of you together.
>There can be no subgroups.

Groups of one is a thing. The two people can be against each other. Common.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666445
Right now, this is automatically enabled based on whether the application runs in a Flatpak sandbox. I spoke with GTK developers on IRC, and while they want to enable it by default, there are some unresolved issues, summarized in this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9my9fe/qt_file_pic....
HN is "good" (debatable) because it's backed by Y Combinator. The tech involved is the bare minimum needed to solve the problem, and isn't a good model for "how to successfully build and run a community".

Without the support of some of the most powerful people in SV, and the people who follow those people, this site ceases to exist, and quickly.

Replicating HN's simplicity/tech stack is like painting stripes on your Civic because the F1 car you like has them.
Typography is has subjective aspects such as evoking the feeling of a particular aspect of design. Just as old western fonts, Art Deco type, and Baskerville; Optician Sans is a brilliant take on typography. A large number of people have glasses and at one point or another, we’ve carefully studied and read the letters on the eye charts, yet it’s so obscure and not something people think about.

As far as the application is concerned, it can be used for perhaps for a optical company branding? The recognition factor is a huge asset in branding.

Legibility argument falls apart - otherwise we wouldn't have Zapfino and Bodoni. In certain situations, legibility takes a backseat over stylistic intentions. In other cases, yes you're right - I wouldn't want my blood test results to be misread. Another area where fonts can have devastating effects is say for example lack of a slashed 0 in nuclear missile launch codes. But we are in good hands with respect to typography and design for serious things - the Martin Baker EJECT seat handles in fighter jets don't use comic sans and they have bright yellow stripes for super fast visual recognition. :-)
Your solution sounds diplomatic and I applaud you for that. You seem like a kind-hearted person.

That being said, I would never agree with it. Let's not pay companies to solve problems they created in the first place.
I wouldn't enjoy reading anything using the lowercase letters in M. Krzywinski's fonts. (-:

I see that xe went back to the original "e" shape in July 2017.
Ask HN: What are some web sites that list web app/tools?
There used to be lots of sites that would list webmaster freebies and web tools, but they seem to harder to find these days. Anyone got any suggestions?
Damn, since the update the browser SSH is not working anymore in the Google Cloud console with Firefox 64. Had to install Google Chrome to make it work... Let's see where this overcomplicating of the web by Google leads to ;-)
I type out DuckDuckGo once per browser I use, make it the default search engine, and never worry about the length again.

The concern about the branding is understandable, but I haven't typed "Google" or "DuckDuckGo" when I want to use their services in aeons, and I don't even make use of bookmarks.
This is a refreshing take on a shader-sharing platform. My first thought was "Here's another Shadertoy competitor", but this was quashed by two core features that I think are done really well:

- A cleaner / extensive code editor (that also supports JS, woop!)

- Conversion of shader output to GIFs... Even on a laptop with a dedicated GPU, Shadertoy pulls the rug from underneath my system resources

I would like to see a grid-view (unless this already exists and I missed it) of the feed, as I don't think scrolling through a feed of linear, huge one-by-one posts is good for discovery.
nice live stats monitor, can you link a short short postmortem analysis under that, shortly? Thanks!
Could this be related to phasing out lead in gasoline in the 80s?

Interestingly each epoch they look at would have had less exposure than the previous and dementia is going down in each epoch.
If you like HN, why not use it? This purports to be a mirror of the source (I don’t see an original repo): https://github.com/wting/hackernews
And a significant portion of the DOD's budget is spent protecting other countries, many of them even in Europe.
this also happens when renaming files in Explorer. i wonder if they're related

EDIT (i read the article):

> [Notepad] was, by design, little more than a very thin wrapper around a Windows multiline text-editing control.

maybe that's why?
One wonders if the time might come when it won't be. Cache is so important to performance that one can imagine some hardware level compression might actually be faster than uncompressed code and data simply because more stuff can be in the cache.
The key to write a good commit message is to write it for others, not for you. Many time I see commit message is written for the author itself who has all the context around it.

The Go programming language has very good commit messages
They are starting to go away faster as people clean out closets and kill legacy connectivity and branch office servers. Plenty of unknown POTS lines are in old datacenters though!
Like US soccer teams with "United" in their names.
You are assuming they optimize for a singular sale which we all know is not true. They want you to buy all the time.
Fantastic! I already saw some interesting articles. In fact science is greatly needed in this area, where there's less of a scientific focus on a lot of popular media sites on the topic. I end up personally learning a lot more actual SCIENCE from YouTube sites such as FitnessFAQ's and Calisthenics Movement than fitness websites with articles. I've spent ages understanding pathologies I've had, upper trap pain and elbow pain, and recently made some inroads.

Question - where's the comment section? HN's commenting quality and mechanisms are why it's so much above Reddit intellectually.
Why does GitHub require me to login to view this gist?
In this case, though, it's likely the creators would be more than receptive to giving you a legitimate CC-BY license if you ask. They're likely just not familiar with the CC-BY details. Rather than shaming their work for it, let's enjoy it with the understanding that there are humans in the loop with the flexibility to offer bespoke licensing, and licensing will be sorted out if it needs to be.
yes they are... the logo of "OPTICIAN SANS" on the main section at the top is using it.

https://imgur.com/a/hofldwN
Okay, that makes sense and makes me feel better about it. Thanks for responding and clarifying.