skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a workaround, but I think the real problem, as you mention, is search engines using time spent on page as a proxy metric for "this page is useful", which in many situations just isn't the case.
Windows VMs are a hassle to setup, install, manage licenses, expiration of such etc..
Designing Data Objects in C# and F#
It's unprofessional to write a blog post about your account getting deleted without notice? Mailchimp is a business, and the relationship between a person and a business is not friendship. When they shut down an account without notice blogging about it (in a non-accusatory manner no less) is completely reasonable. This isn't a smear job.

Talking in public about the manner in which businesses conduct themselves is a good thing. It benefits businesses with good customer service and hurts those with bad service. More transparency is good for consumers and for businesses alike.
Any blog IMO should have a minimalist design. You want to draw attention to the content and present it as plainly and with as little visual clutter as possible.

Some people want to use their blog as a kind of interactive CV but that should be treated as a separate project, as it will just introduce more clutter.
I don't use Chrome but FF lets you block requests to allow notifications. Its in settings>privacy&security>permissions.
> Trusting Bing, Yandex and Baidu for politically sensitive topics? Are you being sarcastic?

“The central television’s family name is the party” - a real actual quote from an actual "media" organization:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/19/xi-jinping-tou...
I have a problem with FB's two-faced bullshit, over multiple years, of lying through its teeth to the krill and selling them out with glee on the quiet. It is just who they are. This is why I blackhole their IP space.

It is always a mistake, or really we were doing this less-awful sounding thing, it is complicated. And then it comes out that, yet again, it was actually worse that it seemed.

Sometimes people change. In this case, it is pretty clear that Zuckerberg still thinks people who trust him are dumb fucks.
The legislation already exists. The laws that the government agency is usually in violation of in these sorts of situations became effective on June 21 1788.

The actual changes come from some judge who's had a bad day telling the prosecution "no, screw you, the officer's actions were in violation of the defendant's Nth amendment rights, you have no case when you act like this" and then that percolating up through the various appellate courts.
>>Not even Java, with all its commercial might, ever achieved that - it barely got a REPL last year, which Python has had for what, 20 years now?

Java has had Eclipse right from when users needed it for prime time.

And yes, Python's repl is barely a REPL. You are better of writing code and running it. Its not exactly Lisp experience.
Random searches should be the norm. Same for tax evasion, for example.
Politics in organisations is pretty grim. But, what would you have as an alternative? Decisions need to be made. Disagreements need to be resolved. Ad hoc resolutions to problems doesn't scale with increasing team size. Neither does anarchy.

I don't think many people relish the idea of imposing such bureaucracy upon themselves and their fellow developers. However, when you have a sizeable organisation, there needs to be transparency and accountability so that the developers as a whole can see that proposed directions are properly discussed and agreed upon, without ideas being unfairly dismissed or accepted without due criticism. Hierarchies are intrinsic to the ordering of our society and our functioning as a species. They will crop up inevitably, so a formalising of this is a better alternative to an unaccountable hidden hierarchy which would come into being in its absence.

As for voting, voting prevents obvious domination of the decision making process by individuals, allowing all participants to have an equal and democratic say in decisions. “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others”, as Churchill said. It's not perfect, but until we can do better, it's the least bad way of doing things.

This is why BDFLs are rare in projects. Like Tito and Yugoslavia, or the Kims in North Korea, it only works while the strong minded influence of the leader is tolerated by those who are subject to their whims. For a technical project, the leader must be consistently technically adept, and maintain the goodwill of the contributors, or be replaced or burnt out with exhaustion. Can you see an obvious replacement dictator for Guido, or Linus? Me neither. Bureaucracy allows an organisation to outlast an individual by providing a structure for the replacement of leadership over time.
Not the first time this happened. Company needs to get sued a few times to learn its lesson. Just what needs to happen to PayPal as well.
Fair point. Though I suspect many more warning signs would have come up given billing is involved.
US Surgeon General Declares E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth [pdf]
The Role of the Adversary Model in Applied Security Research
The article is weird. Cafés did great things for classic liberalism. Just consider Café Pilvax in Pest (now part of Budapest) in Hungary, which was basically the epicentre of the Hungarian revolution in 1848 and where the people who wrote the 12 Points regularly met.

But those were classic liberals and nationalists. Their 12 Points dealt with political questions, not social questions.

The revolutions from the 1770s to around 1850 were political revolutions, and dealt with the political question, usually lead by classic liberal thinkers. The social question lingered in the shadows, like 1796's Conspiracy of Equals, but it wasn't until the Paris Commune that this problem really sprung out into the open as a question the needed to be answered.

The Russian Revolution is a social revolution moreso than a political one. And definitely conducted by socialists, not liberals. So the choice of 'liberalism' in the article is weird.
Neat! I agree, and although it may not be clear what all of this means to everyone, this is the beginning of how "blockchain" (I use the word loosely) is going to prove its value. At Mainframe, we're working on something similar, called "Noted", and we offer some of the same guarantees but take it one step further: we rely on no centralized infrastructure at all, not even DNS. Congrats on getting this released!
If someone in their 20s doesn't know much about ethics, then we're doing something wrong, as a society.
There could also be some selection bias here. I always wonder how many other attempts at public shaming never make it anywhere.

I've been locked out of my Amazon and AWS account for more than two weeks despite numerous phone calls to Amazon support and desperate pleading on social media. "We are still looking into this matter for you." I could post some nasty blog post but I have really little faith it would get me anywhere.
I couldn't care less about this festival. Let them do what they want to do.

Anyway, from what i understood, "cis-men" was allowed, they needed to be due to construction, technicians etc, but they where "held" in what by the organizeres was called a "man-pen".
Sure there is, you can paste a satellite photo of the ground where you shot the photo from ;-)
Insane is an overstatement, don't you think?

Let's not nitpick vocabulary and miss the point. If Clinton won the election using Facebook's data, Republicans (who see democrats as deceitful) would be outraged at that deception leading to an election win. So the idea that this is a Democrat-driven manufactured partisan outrage is misleading -- it is outrage based on the perceived unfairness of using deceit to win elections.

You don't need to read between the lines to see Republicans as deceitful. Trump (and pretty much his whole campaign team apparently) have been lying nearly constantly for the last two years. That's why it's their brand: the deceitful in a very public way. You don't have to read between the lines. It's written right on the lines. If you're instead looking for the truth to be dictated by their website or something, I don't know what to tell you.
Prague was 3 hours per dataset. I was there for 3 days in the cold and rain, shooting multiple datasets, from 8am to 4pm last year in November.
Didn't know that! Great advice, I think that the origin of this might be in the fact that longer content is generally more researched and thus ranks better
It's been two days since this was written. Presumably the nuclear option of posting it to HN was deferred to give Mailchimp the opportunity to fix things.

Edit: Also, considering the author's fame, I expect public shaming on HN will work quite nicely.
s!Linux!Ubuntu

FWIW: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cuda/
I can ask users for a one-time charge to sign up on the app. Also, maybe I can add some "pro" features which I am unsure of, at the moment. Not really sure to be honest, let's see.
I was around since the Battle of Hastings actually, so it's not a typo.

Thank you for noticing ;)
Starting early, I used to start the day around 10. For two months now I get up around 6am and have focus time between 7-10am. Works great
well, I usually do something alike, though just by changing the environment variable: HOME=$HOME/tmp myprogram. Symlinking the .Xauthority file (if using X) works quite well.

I actually always run that way most applications that do not fully adhere to the XDG base dir specification.
Over Explained – JavaScript and v8
I would need to see a citation for this. I work with digital marketing folks a lot, who are well-versed in things like SEO, and the general trend seems is toward shorter and more frequent content. That's not to say that I don't write a longer piece when the content warrants it, but for written articles/blogs/etc. 800-1000 words seems to be fairly common. Certainly there's also something of a trend from giveaway long books to 25-50 page ones.
Can confirm! London City, as I said, is a hair nicer but that's primarily because it's a business airport which generally caters for a small number of flights (compared to Heathrow or Gatwick).
I love the quote the title is based on, and the fact that the title is based on it.

https://archive.org/details/whatnotprophetic00macauoft/page/...
Steve Klabnik on Clojure’s stability
I have several ideas:

* Secure Scuttlebut, with clients that are getting more and more user friendly, i.e. mobile https://www.manyver.se/

* looking into individual community discourse servers, i.e. I would really like to be more active in purescript, or shutup and sitdown communities

* for personal communication, I moght be trying to get more of my ingroup on threema. It is reasonably secure messenger, and you need to buy it to use it, and I would like to support that :)
> conducted by socialists, not liberals

A~=B
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The article, in typical New Yorker form, is impenetrable. I admit I did not read very far into it.

I think they kinda conflate the two, even though classical liberalism is directly at odds with socialism[0].

[0]: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6a4cad6a3a0759ac3f25472...
To people mentioning public shaming. I had a mailing list with them removed with all contacts lost and account banned without even notifying me. Customer support indeed responded, but with something like your account was banned because you are involved into cryptocurrencies (i had hashcash.io - no selling or buying of crypto is even close) and we completely wiped all your data.

Only after a hint about possible public shaming, someone sent me data dump with all the emails and names. So they lied in the first response (all data is wiped and unrecoverable) and only responded to a threat.

Since then I am using Mautic and own SMTP server.
DSLs always seem like terrible relationships. Fun and exciting at first but soon she's telling you what to wear, what to say, who you can hang out with, etc. Oh sure, you can "Do what you want", and "It's fine." But you know she will punish you for it later when you least expect it. You would break it off but now you have so much invested she is integrated into your life. Maybe she will mellow out if you "put a ring on it" and buy a support package...
They are very different. Three Body trilogy keeps humanity as-is, time morphs the society and culture, but humanity more or less the same regardless. In that regard, I think Blindsight is better at exploiting the internal conflict within the humanity.

But the Three Body trilogy has many advantages over Blindsight in terms of time (it literally takes you on a journey from 1950s to the end of universe); dimensions (very concept that I haven't seen anywhere else); society (very acute transitions).

But really, they are both good. I also recommend Bobiverse series. Though it's not as good, sorry Dennis, but it's very enjoyable, every software engineer's wet dream that is. Haha.
I agree Tech companies are getting more and more away from the customer[1], due to policies that are non-disclosed. BUT in your case - give it some time. This is premature. [1]https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/who-...
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iTunes Case: Technological Innovation
Is this the write-up of his talks?

I remember this one, from the Uphill Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdol03pcvMA
I may be late to realize this but Python is becoming a mandatory language to master for DevOps people.

I guess it's time to learn ...
Are you in any way affiliated directly or indirectly with MailChimp ? Reason for my concern is that this is not a exemplary practice to do victim bashing either. Even if OP is "free" customer , He has some right to complaint. Companies usually don't provide "free" tier by goodness of there heart and have legitimate business plan to do so.
It's alive and well in the engineering community in Cambridge, UK.

E.g.: A "couple of nice little tricks involved" in making something work probably means you should ring up some patent lawyers.
The Russian Revolution is certainly not a social revolution but an economic one. They went from have a dictator to having a dictator just under a slightly different economic system. They continue to have a Tsar to this day.
Training Software Engineers Using OSS: The Students' Perspective [pdf]
I've been using it for almost 3 years at home with domoticz, NAS, OpenVPN gateway for all clients at home, QoS and bandwidth splitter.
Maybe not a month, but many have done it for a month to get that dream job at google, the possibility is there and that could be the competition you are calibrated against.

Ya, I think we are sometimes actually better off with the generic brain twister questions because the more specialized questions are harder evaluate. Like, my idea of writing a code editor might be completely different from yours because I’ve dealt with different requirements. And if the interviewer is junior enough (or not versed in the specialty), they might not be ready to have a serious discussion about trade offs and design spaces.
Semmle’s Insights Signal a Gestalt Shift in Security
ERC721 is the future of collectibles IMO. Great job getting this built. Have you posted on Ethereum-related Reddit forums? You could try /r/ethdev
Landing pages in a nutshell: remove objections.

Typical objections (as noted by many people here):

- I don't know what this is

- Is it relevant to me?

- How is this going to help me?

- Who else uses this thing?

- Why should I use this over the competition?

- How much time will it take for me to get set up?
> The infiltration of the ivy league by the CIA

What does this even mean? I can't imagine many more wasteful uses of government revenue than approaching dull undergraduates and coercing them into starting clandestine programs that prey on their peers.
I've gotten searched every single time I've went to Canada.

The last time they searched my car, stripped searched me, threw all my stuff on the ground, and after finding nothing told me to "pick up my garbage."

The bright side is, I was only held for 5 hours that time, but I did have a gun pointed at me. The first time was 9 hours, so maybe next time it will only be 3 hours.

Some people are just pathetic humans who get off on being above anyone else.

/I never had anything illegal any of those times and tried to be very respectful. I worked with law enforcement for many years, and know the type of people that they can deal with.

Also, everyone involved was white, so at least there wasn't racism...? I don't know, it's all dumb. None of my complaints went anywhere, and last time I called they said I "had nothing on file anywhere."
Turris supports ipv6 out of box, unless I misunderstood your comment?
To be clear, "turn-by-turn navigation" was an example of a query that happens on a fairly static graph: the road network. If the driver misses the turn, that just triggers another query on a static graph. I was not talking about needing to incorporate changes in connectivity, or in edge weights (due to e.g. road closures, or traffic updates).

Regarding "if you have even the slightest amount of time", no I don't think that's accurate. It's a trade-off between "offline" and "online" computation (sorry those words are so loaded, but they are often used in research on planning algorithms).

You could conceivably solve the All-Pairs Shortest Path for the road network offline, and then when you received a query online, you would be able to answer "immediately" by look-up table.

You could do nothing offline, and just run A* when you get a query. You won't be leveraging anything from the fact that the road network is fairly static.

Those are two endpoints of the trade-off spectrum, and approaches like contraction hierarchy lie in between.

Saying "contraction hierarchies supersedes A*" is kind of like saying "database indexing supersedes grep". If you're only going to grep a document once, it is not worth it to build an index. An index usually only helps if you will do multiple queries on the data.
Google also blocked Windows Phone from Google maps.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-...
> Shuttle was used for recovery only four times. It would have been cheaper to ditch all those satellites and build and send new ones compared to recovering them.

I didn't say it was a valuable use case, nor did I say you were recovering your own satellites.

> ICBM's do it better.

ICBM's follow a predictable ballistic trajectory and are more vulnerable to countermeasures. Again, this might not be a good use case, but it is one.

In the words of cosmonaut Oleg Kotov: "We had no civilian tasks for Buran and the military ones were no longer needed. It was originally designed as a military system for weapon delivery, maybe even nuclear weapons. The American shuttle also has military uses....A shuttle is particularly useful for this because it can change its orbit and trajectory – so an attack from it is almost impossible to protect against." Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20664-cosmonaut-sovie...
I thought that was the English Garden wave! Very cool.
One well researched article is better than a lot of mediocre content

I remember similar advice on patio11 (Patrick McKenzie) blog that i really took to heart. something along the lines of "it's better to have a few laser polished articles, than a ton of content". so to this date i start writing posts and quit half way through to keep only my favorite ideas up there..

there is another camp i.e. Seth Godin who write a short post every day, and that could work too perhaps. but i think most people would be better off with the advice in OPs post
Six Months Later: Performance of a neural network for melanoma recognition
Yep, Elixir is great.

And it's fairly trivial to set up autoscaling distributed Elixir on Google's Kubernetes offering.
I consider this a good lesson never compromising yoru morals. Once you do it, it can always come back and bite you in the ass.

I mean most of these deals happened 5+ years ago. And FB's stock is paying the price for it now.

So message to employees:

There are employee's who have received their entire 4 year grant fully vested now who weren't around when any of this happened. What your employer does, even if its not related to you, even if you weren't around for it, can still bite you in the ass.

They are paying the price in terms of the lowered share price and may have had nothing to do with any of this.

As another example banks are still paying fines related to 2008 that affect the current year's bonus pool.

The thing that bothers me the most about this is that rank and file Facebook employees wrote code to allow all of these companies access to users chat messages, personal data, etc. and they never said no.
I guess for 1.5 billion daily active users “trust destroyed” doesn’t mean what it used to.
If it's actually dice-roll random, I can see that working pretty well. It's actually fairly common to use "random coin-flip" type machines in retail -- you do random bag-checks of staff, and they push the button on the machine. Either "search" or "no search" lights up.

The probability is set according to the risk factor of the store, anywhere between "nobody gets searched, this is just to scare you" and "everyone gets searched, no buts".

In my experience, it usually gets set to about 15% probability. Just enough that a few people get searched every week, not enough that everyone has to stay behind for an hour waiting for bag searches.
If you think the instigators of the Russian Revolution were also liberals, you are surely mistaken. They didn't care about the political question. Issues like representative government, suffrage and free speech were secondary issues to the real issues: How to protect the workers.

The design of the Soviet Union was a regime that would be owned and run by the workers (that's not how it ended up in practice, but that was the theory). They were not liberals, and scuffed at the idea of liberalism, blaming the liberal revolutions of the past century merely for handing the power from aristocrats to capitalists, but the worker remained oppressed.
Can confirm.

Heathrow terminal 4 staff is one of the rudest I have encountered. They have not been rude to me personally but every time I have been through that terminal I have seen staff being rude and racist to travellers. I have seen folks being physically pushed around to form queues, to make them hurry. This is not a one time experience. Dont recall if they were British Airways staff or airport staff.
The approach we're taking at Mainframe is to create a new "baby OS" that provides a sandbox for dApps to live in. This way, the OS acts as intermediary on permissions to access any resource that would contradict the user's will. For example, accessing a URL, signing data with a private key, or making a payment would all involve an OS-level permission. (For now, mainframeOS is part desktop app and part decentralized infrastructure. The user experience of the desktop app is similar to a browser, but cannot access DNS without explicit permission, and relies on decentralized infrastructure only, which provides privacy and security guarantees that today's browsers can't. Someday it will grow up into a real OS layer.)
Assuming the author is truthful, then I'd say Mailchimps actions are a lot more questionable. Shutting the account down without a warning? Making it impossible for him to see his mailing list even if the ban was deserved? I don't know about you but I'd never want to use a mailing service if I knew that I at any time could lose access to the mailing list I had spent months/years building up..
I guarantee you when the first millennial takes a real shot at becoming president, someone at FB and other data companies will leak all of their private messages since they were teenagers. So much of our data is out there and it’s never going away.
I think we hugged it to death based on the 404... :(
Going to Canada or coming back from Canada?

I’ve never experienced that either way across the Vancouver area border crossings.