skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that easy to access isn't always the best. A great example of this is mugshots, which are open data, but there are now websites that automatically scrape and index people's mugshots and use SEO to rank highly on searches. They then blackmail the person to have it removed.

As long as the data is accessible and reasonable easy to get, where journalists and data scientists who really care about the data can get it, then I think we're in a good place.
Not too much with linear but usually 10th or 11th grade math will introduce matrix multiplication.
I just started it too :)
Not going to look at that schedule! I don't want to be even sadder I don't attend. I'm sure my friends will tell me their favourites to watch later.
Four Home Truths About the Struggle to Build a Sustainable Economy
Which of course is what every state actor will have done as soon as it was released. Which points to this being a reorganisation or representation rather than an edit. If it were an edit then the rational way to do it is silently with a document collection update designed to hide the changes from detection via metadata. So, you accept that the other state actors out there have what you leaked in error, but you hope that they haven't noticed, and you remove the possibility that someone will alert them to the information independently.
I know; I know; it's just so horrible that women had children. Now they don't have to! Hurray!! Women are "free at last"! /sarcasm

Sure, no doubt in the past most mothers told their daughters that they needed a man to support them and, thus, should get married. Then wonder of wonders (more sarcasm) babies came. Then nearly always she was highly devoted to her babies. Success! Family formation! Darwin was pleased!!!

The article was partly about sex: Okay, when I was in high school, the girls knew in strong, stark terms that dating, marriage, sex, physical love making, sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and motherhood were almost certainly the main theme of the rest of their lives -- no doubt. So, I can guarantee you that a LOT of girls from age 12 to marriage before age 20 thought about sex a LOT, often to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

In that situation, lots of good family formation happened, and the women didn't have to think strongly, positively, and effectively about family formation. The men didn't have to think strongly, etc. about family formation either, but IMHO what's changed is the thinking of the women and not that of the men.

Much of what's changed is that now lots of girls, no doubt from kindergarten on, are told that they can and should have careers and not be dependent on a man. So, the girls no longer believe that they should try hard to be married and, thus, think about school and careers often to the exclusion of dating, sex, etc.

But for a good life, family formation remains central. For some good explanations of just why and that haven't changed, see E. Fromm, The Art of Loving, heavily about psychological aspects. Fromm's key point: Being alone is no way to have a good life. Instead, don't want to be alone and want caring, bonding, as in the example in the OP about her bringing soup when he has the flu.

IMHO, Darwin is on the case and as usual, with a LOT of experience, will find a solution.

In more detail, and from the OP and many more sources, the birth rate now is so low we're rapidly going extinct, literally. Necessarily what will be left are the men and women, from whatever influences and means, are good at family formation. Maybe the influences will not be the same as in the baby boom after WWII and in the 1950s, but there will necessarily be different and effective influences and means.

There really are men and women who want to emphasize family formation, and they now are very much in line to be the strong limbs on the tree and nearly the only such limbs.

In this way, in the US and the more advanced countries, we're talking some astoundingly rapid and massive pruning of the gene pool of the tree and, thus, some of the fastest change in the gene pool of any species in all of natural history. And it is right in front of us.

Or, a birth rate significantly lower than 2.1 per woman, as now, has some no less than monumental effects in just a few generations, i.e., less than 100 years.

Or, the strong limbs on the tree will necessarily be thinking and acting differently than now (or as in the OP), differently and effectively enough to do well at family formation. You can bet on it.
Feel free to contact! I'll be running the Arch Linux meetup.

If you enjoy meeting people, I recommend attending whiskyleaks :)

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:W...
>nobody who worked on those felt the need to mislead with quantum allusions.

It may not be fair to the author to allege that they "felt a need to mislead." They might have just been a coder who thought it would be a cool name.
(2012) – Epic 20,000 Dice Roll Randomness Test
My guess would be because they have more at stake with each release?
I don't do TDD because for the types of code I generally write, it is much easier to test the general cases back running the code directly. It's not that I don't have tests in mind when writing the code, it's that the tests I am working against are behavior driven, so it is easiest to just perform the actions myself and see where it falls down. Particularly in UI code, TDD seems to lead to code that is "technically correct", but produces a UI that is an absolute pain in the ass to do anything with.

Tests have their place, but the proper time in the dev process to write them is very much a personal preference thing and nothing more.
To be fair the "result"-part in "something you thought was an Option[T] result turned out to be really a T" makes it sound like you were speaking of the return-type to me as well. I appreciate the elboration though!
I started to work with FreeBSD, BHyve and ZFS as a hobby.
I making great use of VueJS for front end projects.
I started learning Haskell and Go and I continue learning both language, specially Haskell that as steeper learning curve.

I still use and like Python (mostly with Django) and C on ESP32/AVR/STM32.

In 2019 I'm going to have a look to Elm 0.19.
Interesting that this entire domain is blocked as malicious by my ad blocker.
Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
At peak times in Hong Kong's subway, it pains me to see one side of the escalator basically empty. Normally I walk up, so that should make things faster for me, except it's impossible to get to the escalator for the queue of people. If people just used both sides it would be faster - for everyone.
>"The Dutch children are an odd example here, because they themselves experienced hunger in the womb. That their bodies remember this isn't surprising at all."

Good point, there's an ocean of difference between experiencing hunger in the womb, and being well nourished in a womb belonging to a woman who was once malnourished.

I don't have that study available to me at the moment to check, but I wonder what they say about children born from those same mothers years after the famine was over. Surely they looked at that too, since if the same signal was present that would certainly enhance their findings. If the study doesn't mention those later children at all, that would suggest to me they're guilty of p-hacking.
Facebook shelved a feature intended to promote civil political discourse
Sorry.. my mistake I meant to write The Fifth Season. I probably won't read the rest of the trilogy. I've edited my original post.
Great advise, I am guilty of taking sides/playing hero without knowing the details is important.
Yeah... the problem is that SO is becoming the only place where people hang out, and it's really difficult to find active programming forums nowadays. Except, as you say, SO is not a forum, it's a QA site. Which means there is no place left for discussions. While I certainly use SO a lot to find those small bits of missing knowledge, I think it has made search for help (in specific cases) actually much harder.
I thought there would be a flood of projects analysing the data when it came out, but it seems like the idea everyone applauded but not much came out of it. Steve Ballmer's http://usafacts.org seems like the first real attempt though.
Mostly DSP stuff this past year and a bit of Verilog. Building SDRs which have a lot of capabilities to pre-process the data in big FPGAs.
> "Southern Hemisphere" is an irrelevant non-interesting click-baity qualifier here.

So? Why do we care? Why should everyone have to read your pointless comment about that?
“The Southern hemisphere represents around 800,000,000 people. This hemisphere represents only 10-12% of the total global population of 6.88 billion people.”

“Land areas are distributed predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere (68%) relative to the Southern Hemisphere (32%) as divided by the equator.”
They can also do what facebook does and just save everything you enter into a text box via ajax, whether you end up actually submitting it or not. /s
Poke most devs and you will find that the sysadmin stuff unnerves them. Talk to a sysadmin about their programming skills and they will start to twitch. The lesser known is always more intimidating and fascinating than what we already know.

There are good, bad, exceptional penetration testers and Azure architects. You are young and already being endorsed for your workmanship. If you interview without telling lies and get the job then go for it.
You can add one via the original customization options if I'm not mistaken.
They were repeatedly banned by reddit for idolizing Eliot Rodgers and talking about murdering people. All it takes to be violent is a gun and hate, and they’re full of hate.
It's not that .Net Core itself is unstable or anything, it's just that the ecosystem of packages and libraries is fairly immature, and there is still a lot of mismatches in support and dependencies.

For example, if you use core, you can't use entity framework 6, you have to use EF core, which has most features and if you are building a new app you'll probably find a way to do most things you want, but if you are porting something you might struggle. And that means you can't use anything that is built on EF 6 either. The dependacy chains seem to be muddled. One library will seem to be fine on core, but one of it's dependencies will only work on the full .net fx.

Another problem I hit was with doing some dynamic code generation. Roslyn is supported, but code dom isn't. That would be fine if I was starting from scratch, but I had a bunch of useful existing that that all depended on code dom that would have been a lot of extra effort if I couldn't reuse.

I would say if you are starting a new project and it's a fairly standard website you'll almost certainly be fine. But be ready for a lot of pain if you have any code to port.
I wager my "fullscreen on a particular mac" signal is less unique than the "tor browser bundle size but not coming from a tor exit node" signal. Because what browser other than the tor browser uses that geometry? And how many people using that geometry aren't coming through a known tor exit node? I wager the haystack you'd be putting yourself in by doing this is vanishingly small.
my experience is the exact opposite. ui code is where tdd shines the most because your spec is almost always 'when a user presses this button/fills this form/navigates to this page of the app do this thing'. there's zero uncertainty in the expected behavior so you can start out by writing exactly that test
I get to the subway via one of the long and steep escalators mentioned in the article. I'd say about 30-35% of people walk down and 10-15% walk up. I walk up and down.

Few general remarks:

1. If people have lots of luggage or aren't comfortable using the escalator, they can take the elevator (and they do).

2. Saying that standing would prevent accidents is like saying banning cars would prevent accidents - not a particularly helpful observation. Humans are only willing to minimize risk up to a point.

3. The more complicated argument in the article is that standing would increase capacity. I don't know - I avoid rush hour, but the escalators seem empty enough so that I can walk up/down unobstructed. It's hard for me to see how I'm negatively affecting capacity. In cases where the escalator is packed, I'll stand rather than being pushy, but that never happens during the week.
Art 2.7 released
Dammit. One more year not going to the congress. :-(
I hope to go someday, and get a copy of "Das Haker Bibel" as well.
I agree that the Federal government trumps the State government, but I'm not sure that I envision it as "bounds defined by" and more as whenever the random walk of the Federal government intersects with a more local one, the Fed wins.

Even that isn't always true. In many notable cases (marijuana, gay marriage, segregation) states openly defied the federal government and the federal government let things stand because it would cost too much to intervene to get the states to obey the federal government.
No. Foreign encodings are internally converted to utf-8 via the Encoding library and IO layers.
The string library is only done for latin-1 and utf-8.

The only trouble is that you have to remember the original encoding, if you need that information. It's stored nowhere.
E.g. to write to a file in the original encoding you have to open it with the correct IO layer. perl6 got that fixed.
Fascinating. Chrome on an iPad killed all the annoyances a few milliseconds after they started and redirected to a harmless page with a picture of a cat (like the original but without anything interactive).
It makes me think "AppVeyor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppVeyor

Looks like it's a placeholder.
https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/20
Mind the training set... "genuine people" can be quite awful: "kill your foster parents"
It's one of my long-time goals to read this book. I read the first few chapters and it was amazing, but sadly life intervened and I couldn't continue.

I'm curious - did you read it on its own, or did you read some kind of resource along with it? I've seen recommendations to read it alongside websites/books that help understand it.
Interestingly there are only 6 known primes of the form 2^n+1. Other than "2" these are all Fermat primes of the form 2^(2^n)+1 and so there is only a single known case n is prime - the case of n=2.

https://oeis.org/A092506
https://oeis.org/A019434
They're not the same though. Even though Americans consider their state identities to be strong and unique, if you look at how states are generally organized in the old world, its generally by ethnicity, language or some other very strong form of strong shared identity. So while a person from California and Texas might be very different, the difference is likely much smaller than b/w a French person and a German person (although of course this varies).

There is also the very strong belief in, and the common acceptance of, American identity as being the more defining identity, whereas not so much in the EU.
Will this ultimately lower the revenue from sponsored content if so many people are tripping over themselves to pay companies to post their content?
> When most people start as programmers, they write a big 1000 line file that should completely solve the problem. Then they run it, realize it was very wrong, and spend hours debugging it.

No, I start line by line, and tend to be thorough. When I start out there is zero complexity, everything I add to it I don't add blindly, with a "rough idea" of what it does. I know exactly what it does. I know where user input and other code ends, and my code begins, at the least, and how I normalize things that cross the threshold.

Yes, I'm talking about a solo dev making little things for their own needs, sure. I have the luxury of being as thorough and slow as I want, too.

It's not lazyness, the idea of tests actually excited me when I first heard about it. But for example, when I write a particle system, how would I test that? Do I test all combinations of parameters and then compare them with images, which takes a million years? How do I generate the images, with another particle system? How do I test that, in turn? It really does strike me as a "now you have two problems" kind of deal in that situation. In others, the code is just too trivial and unchanging to write a test.

What's a "real" application that has good and complete tests? Something like the GIMP, or Blender, or an audio editor, or a complex game? I wouldn't know where to look, and the tests I saw when browsing random github repos often seemed too simple to be useful, often just covering some "token input".

But what if your "escape string" function has a bug that kicks in at exactly 15 characters? What if your "get user ID from username" has a bug that ONLY happens when the string "whoops" is in the username? Fuzz everything? Who really does that for applications without serious security implications?
* Senlin Ascends, by Josiah Bancroft. It was fantastic, a steampunk world with a little bit of everything, and a protagonist that starts off as a git, but by the end transforms into a likeable hero, without losing track of who he was. I highly recommend it.
Exactly, we're a bunch of sparsely populated and isolated countries. That's why we talk about North and South being different.
If you don't understand the problem you're trying to solve well enough to write tests, you shouldn't start coding.

Sometimes there are problems that are only really possible to appreciate after one starts coding. In many instances, I've found that attempting to build a prototype is the best way to understand the problem. In those instances, TDD is a huge mistake. It ties you to architectural decisions that you know you're going to change when you better understand the problem.

Contrast Ron Jeffries' attempt to build a sudoku solver using TDD with Peter Norvig's attempt [1].

[1]: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
I was in Tokyo a couple years ago and was incredibly impressed with how everyone acted on their subway and the escalators there. Incredible amount of people being in sync. No way that's comparable to London which is what half the article talks about.

I really dislike these types of articles that try to use stats for reasoning. They claim that between 2013 and 2014, so over 365 days, there were 1475 total accidents, 880 from being "improper"? What qualifies as an accident? And what's improper? If there are that many issues? Why not only make stairs? (They have those too). Another "study" is listed saying that in London, "reduced congestion by 30 percent" whatever that means. And another reasoning I disagree wit (one that can't be proven let's be honest) is that this will stop people from being jerks on the escalators. I'm pretty sure that this would annoy more people if they're unable to get by.

The only possibly reasoning is that for super long escalators, very few people walk, so half the capacity is being used.

I'll give JR East credit. If they think double side standing should be the way to go, trying it out for a month and seeing how it goes is a great way of handling it, instead of forcing it from now on and having too much confidence in success as is mostly the case in these social change campaigns.

One more thing, why is the url's slug pretty much completely different? What was the article about before? And by the way, in Tokyo, walkers go up the right side, standers are on the left. You can even see that in the picture at the top of the page. Pretty sure if you're writing about escalators in Tokyo you should mention that.
I've always been fascinated with the paths and lives of hustlers and con men, people who (try to) make a living misleading others about their success and credentials. Obviously this is as old as humanity itself, and it always makes for a good story. Social engineering is fascinating.

Anybody remember good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r... from the dark ages of the Internet?
It's the method LG have decided on for all their cable networks, and according to this presentation from earlier this month, it's still the plan (and let's face it, if they changed to dual stack now it would take them another 4+ years to get it rolled out ... snails have NOTHING on the LG network operations team): https://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LG-Virgin...
No. I expect a certain competence when using a computer. If this level of competence is not enough to even install a piece of software and configure the most basic settings, then this person should not own a PC, yet use one.

It's amazing that when it comes to computers, it is somehow acceptable to be dumb. It's acceptable to not learn new stuff. It's acceptable to not read in order to understand stuff. As can be read in the comments here.
What this article misses, and what JR East won't tell you, is that having people walking on escalators reduces their operable life span without maintenance; and thus increases the costs of running a train station. (JR East posts profits every quarter despite their escalator maintenance)

This is napkin math, but: Wikipedia says Japan's train ridership was 7.58 billion in 2014. Compared to 880 injuries, that's roughly a 1 in 1 million chance.
What Svelte Really Is
Haha, this is great. It’s a race to the bottom because most influencers aren’t providing anything unique: One is as good as another for the number of people they reach.
There is no safe dose of heroin.

It doesn't matter how pure it is if you can buy enough to kill an elephant at they grocery store.
People have been saying that for a long time now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485

I wrote a longish thing about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

It's great that you're here to learn. You could help with the quality of HN by upvoting the stories that help you do that, and flagging the ones that are off topic.
No but I uninstalled the app in 2016 and stop posting. I only use it as White Pages now
he says it needs work on his blog, he also had a raspberryPI version of it but abandoned it: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/922527687763140608

the concept itself isn't too hard to replicate though. _MG_ did one. picture: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/954945977286193152
my point was that the safety argument is specious, not to argue about what was more likely to be implemented. getting hurt on an escalator is just not a real problem, and the safety bugaboo is used as a way to regulate other people's behavior needlessly.

we don't need more silly regulations like this when things like distracted driving and air pollution are real problems that kill thousands of people.
I decided to focus purely on frontend and the JavaScript world this year. I wanted a full set of skills to be build any web-based app.

- react, redux, typescript, canvas, webgl, webanimations, audio api, nodejs, firebase, SQL server, postgresql, scraping, mongodb, rails, nextjs, vuejs, and a few other js in libraries. Custom WordPress theme development and basic php. Design tools like figma and affinity designer.

React took me a few months to get comfortable with though, mostly as I was learning on my own.

I learned how to play musical instruments and did a few talks at my local meetups, and participated in a few hackathons. I got better at delegating tasks with better project requirements

I want to learn machine learning, text classification and image processing next year though, along with some core CS classes I want to know about. And more math
Well, I learned ruby (just because I had to use it at work) and Typescript. Typescript has been quite a great improvement for my web dev skills. I come from a C++ background and with Typescript I feel way more at home than with pure javascript.

I also learned React, React Native, and Angular 7.