skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I know that porn streaming videos websites were extremely ~progressists in terms of tech use. Things like youtube got previews years after the fact. But it saddens me twice that only porn websites are doing this u_u;

It does say something about social energy.. (and ~free market in a way). When people just want something, they can happen real fast and real cheap.
Having done both Python and .NET, Im surprised to hear somebody migrate in the opposite direction. Python may have a better history as an open language for web dev, but it feels like .NET has a far brighter future.
There were already multiple articles circulating the Millenials have less sex than their parents.

It may have opened the floodgates for limited few but lowered for everyone else.

You'd find that contemporary online dating is used for everything but hooking up.
Your mistake is that you assume "top x%" equals "college-educated". Education is lower in the list of preferred attributes for women than you think, at least for dating.
This is true of every upstart project, though. LLVM was a risky project at one point. People with high risk tolerance will pave the way, and the rest of us will join in if/when the project seems mature.
Ask HN: What are some books that delve into Hinduism
Hi HN. I am looking for books to read about Hinduism. I am myself a hindu by religion, feel I have not understand the philosophy my religion has to offer. So what books should I read that explains all the knowledge Hinduism has to offer?
The container revolution appears to have come full circle and reinvented static linking.
I moved from Java to Scala this year and I am loving it. What started as a rather basic understanding of FP (from a Haskell course in Uni) has come along leaps and bounds. I now understand what people are talking about when they go into Monads and Applicative Functors, etc. It's brilliant. I wasn't sure on it when I started but FP is something I have really come to love.

I've also played with Go, although while I like some of it I am still not convinced.

Another thing I have started using and really like is DDD and the onion architecture pattern. Its produced some of the nicest code I have seen and has helped make the code base super maintainable, adaptable and clean. Very cool.
I picked up GraphQL this year. It constantly surprises me in the neat ways that it all fits together and makes delivering and fetching data easier. I'm kicking myself both for not learning it sooner and also for not having come up with it myself.
I have never used an online dating app, but I have to imagine that requiring mutual likes based on a public profile eliminates the strategy of guys who have a really good pitch tailored to a specific woman. They have only one public blurb and a picture, so I could imagine it devolving to a filter that only selects for profile pictures in practice.

Not saying that’s not worth the trafeoff though, I don’t have a better idea to fight spam.
All juuls have nicotine, which is decidedly NOT harmless. The best you can claim is that it is less harmful than cigarettes, which is a very very low bar.
Losing your balance and breaking your neck while falling down some stairs is hardly worthy of a darwin award.

About 12,000 people die each year falling down stairs in the US alone.

Going by these numbers the proportionate response would be to spend at least a trillion dollars each year for a war on unsafe stairs.

A war on cancer on the other hand would eat up more than the US's GDP if it was to be in any way propotionate to the cost of lives.

Either would be more effective than the war on terror or the surveillance state at saving lives though.
> ... everything that looks like an attempt to advertise (as opposed to honest suggestions) gets downvoted and/or banned directly.

That is so easy to game for a startup - Post something related, get friends/ pay for upvotes, repeat. What applies to quora's fall also applies to HN. How could HN (or any other niche community for that matter) survive that downward spiral?
Maybe when it pulls a gallery of photos from the API, it injects a few ads. Or the ads could be served by the app itself.
I think it's clearly advertisers, tumblr and reddit are going through a similar cleanup as they mature. You start with free principled user focused values, grow to a critical mass, then disneyfy for that sweet cash. This leaves a vacuum for a new entrant to go through the same process. Maybe that sweet spot between basement project and corporate success is where ultra freedom is destined to remain.

I think this mechanism is the core of why we feel a vague sadness when sites like github get bought by big corps. You tacitly know it's the beginning of the end on some dimension.
I haven’t looked at the algorithm so I can’t comment on your specific question, but I just want to warn you, if the bastardization of wave/particle theory annoys you, you are in for a world of hurt over the next few decades.

I believe the notion of waves and their relationship to observations is the new “megameme” for western intellectualism. The progression as I see it:

Everything (including us) is a clock/machine

Everything (including us) is a computer/information processor

Everything (including us) is a wave/field

This metaphor will get dragged just as hard as the clock and information metaphors got dragged
Which one of those is the right one? Number 5?

It shows 0.48 seconds, and 2 seconds, but https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... shows 13.27. Why isn't that one on the main page?
> I was hoping more for a toolbox like GNU fileutils, not a toolbox with a billion dollar valuation

What do you see as the primary differences between those two projects, or types of projects?
Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams
If what you are doing has defined behavior the compiler will make it work, although more slowly.
Who charges these people with fraud, and why are they not acting?
Oh, did you see 'Fiddler on the Roof'? Singing the 'Tradition song', are we?

I don't recall college being that sort of 'free society'. You learned from subject matter experts, and they indulged no nonsense. For me, my (public college) education was a revelation. I'm in favor of informed opinions, and of giving people the knowledge to protect themselves from exploitation.

My BS tuition was about $500/year. Then the US was -helping- students. Then came Reagan. Now we prey on students, encumbering them with debts they many never pay off. And trade-school curricula.

Making the wrong choices because of manufactured ignorance and consent isn't "freedom", it's the exact opposite. My god, this is Education 101 shit.

It was 'simply the human condition' for a very long time. Back then there was an excuse. Now the excuse is profit-taking. From our grandchildren. They will come to curse us ... if they're allowed to live.
Sure you could. Germany, for example, is a federal republic following the American model. German states arguably have more power than American states, thanks to their representation in the upper house and the ability to independently conduct foreign trade.
Just pointing out that Google's not the sole offender here. Apple is known the be stricter on this
As a relatively younger person, I definitely had a much different impression/expectation of the American political system than what I'm seeing play out.

It seems far more brittle and volatile than I had envisioned it growing up. Now, something sacred like the concept of checks and balances seems a distant ideal at best.

Was the "adult perception" that government is always this chaotic, am I just more perceptive to all the machinations now that I'm older, or are things really "different this time"? I'd imagine the Bush era was also very chaotic.

I guess the lesson learned here is how brittle of a foundation many power structures in the world are built on and how quickly those can shift.
Interesting point. But I believe the problem relies not in the sharing but in our perception of reality based on what others have shared. I understand that it's an inevitable consequence of the first but that has been the case for centuries. The new problem is that this misperceptions are now on a massive and unprecedented scale and our brain is constantly attacked by this misperceptions.
Citation needed? I'd thought that men tended to have higher levels of agreement on what constituted attractiveness, so I'd expect the focus to be more concentrated on the top quantile of women, since more men agree who that is, but I don't have data. Where'd you find that women are more focused on the top quantile of men than vice versa?
Teaching Java (or any other programming language) with Jupyter notebooks
The owner of News International, Fox etc? Yes.
“Hackers” is brilliant. No other book captures so well the iconoclastic adventurer spirit at the heart of the microcomputer revolution from '75 to '85.

Because I and my future boss had just read “Hackers” (in 1986), we spent a job interview exchanging favorite vignettes from the book, which led to my first job in programming. This book changed my life. Thanks, Steven (and Greg)!
Great article/notebook! I just discovered Observable last week. I plan on using it a lot more. I have been a Mathematica user for years because of the notebook interface and curated data. Then came Jupyter notebooks. I still like Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha, and it's interface seems to have stood the test of time, but a collaborative notebook format online with a big community sounds awesome. Great explanation for me of t-SNEs.

EDIT: I just saw the link to Stephen Wolfram's essay "What is a Computational Essay?" on the "Introduction to Notebooks" on Observable. No wonder!
"but I also don't see why censoring and policing nominally adult content should be Google's business"

Google Play is like a shopping mall, a privately owned public space.

There will be standards.

If you put up some questionable ads in your local mall, you'll get asked to have them taken down.

Those spaces are not intellectual zones, or bastions of expression. They are public/common areas and subject to some kind of basic rules of expression.

Your local library has some rules.

So does your school.

So does your University.

There are infinitely url's that you can use to access content according to a different set of norms, you're free to use them at any time.

This thread exhibits one of the failing aspects of intellectual idealism, in that it so often fails to take into consideration the community - you know - 'other people's opinions'.
Your response is deliberately obtuse. If you don't want to engage in conversation with someone, simply don't respond to them.
* AWS (Amazon Web Services)
* Python for Data Science
* Machine Learning with Python
Nothing. I can't remember if I switched our servers completely over to HTTP/2 and H2O server software this year or last. Otherwise, I believe there is nothing new under the sun and it's all just a different way of doing the same thing in an attempt to avoid fundamental software engineering for the masses.

By sticking to the fundamentals, we need nothing from anyone, our software runs everywhere on everything, and it's smaller and faster--and simpler--than everything else.
Opinions are split. Many people have learned it without any previous C or C++ knowledge. Some argue that you can't truly appreciate Rust until you've written them. It can be helpful, but it can also be harmful.
Not really. It'd help speed up the process for some areas, but it's not that significant as rust has other influences and its own unique areas.
Is $86 normal price these days for 1080 Ti ?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/143062782506

Edit: probably a listing on a compromised account.
Arguably? Yes. Provable? No.

Until we know how the system works your ideas are only ideas.

In and adult your precise change might have minimal impact, but what if that sequence is checked during embryo development, and if it’s not present “exactly” as expected the embryo aborts?

How long do you think it will take to figure out that your “precise” change now prevents humans from reproducing?
- Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088590-gene-machine) - by the Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of the ribosome, Venki Ramakrishnan, in the same vein as The Double Helix. Highly recommended.

- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel)

- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077903-creativity-inc) - about Pixar's internal culture

- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-g...)
Pocket knife laws vary pretty widely city to city. Things like legal blade length can vary up to 2"(2-4"). Fixed blades can get you in some really deep trouble unless you're "using it as part of your proffession" or "participating in hunting/fishing activities". Tons of other obscure things that can be selectively enforced at a city level.

I tend to carry one becuase it's a useful tool to have but have to be careful which one I take with me when going on a trip outisde town.
> No girl I know would be interested in that.

Not directly or overtly (indeed, absent any evidence to the contrary, you shouldn't expect them to be!). But it absolutely makes a difference compared to not having these points of interest!

Everyone - men and women - wants to be with someone who could be considered impressive. Overall, these things that "help you with getting a job" are also things you can leverage to tacitly make the case that, yes, you are impressive too-- even if it be only to some tiny niche.
You strongly misunderstand the purpose of HN and the purpose of parent post.

This is not a product being sold. It's a neat fun gadget that was designed purely so parent robertAngst could learn stuff. The gadget is obviously a nonsense device, a Heath Robinson contraption, with no other purpose than to learn stuff while it's being built.

You may want to read these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736880#18738076
Somewhat off topic, but one of my absolute favorite YouTube videos is this https://youtu.be/p7bzE1E5PMY one by Udiprod that shows visualizations of wave function collapse, with bite sized, iterative explanation of all the concepts involved.
Hey Ram
There are many languages that are very popular for prototyping and learning what makes JavaScript the best?
To add: safe Rust prevents all data races, not just thread based ones (this is mostly relevant around iterators and other concurrency-without-parallelism structures, but is relevant more generally as well)
Germany is notoriously slow at adapting "new" things. Think credit cards, internet speed, ...
Few note in today's "electric fever":

- since few (not so few) years all mid-size/large boat thrusters are electric, normally powered by combustible oil generators, they have replaced expensive diesel engines used in the past;

- we know very well how simple and effective an electric engine is, unfortunately we also know how hard is storing electricity.

Long story short IMO all these "battery-based electrical vehicles", ferry, plane etc included are simple stupid engineering games or marketing moves until we found an affordable way to store electricity enough.

Also people should take into account that we use petrol not only as an energy source but also for plastic, witch include nearly anything from electrical insulation to packaging solution and we do not have real/more environmental friendly alternatives for most of these uses. That's of course does not means that we have to keep going with petrol, but means that we need far more research before doing real move.

In the meantime people should consider in terms of pollution how many emissions they can produce building modern, small, insulated homes (reducing both steel usage that it's a real problem today since we are really start to fall short and HVAC/heating power consumption), consider that we can use alcohol and methane for car and small vehicle power in general, they produce both far less pollutants than petrol/diesel fuel.
tl;dr: "They built a bunch of shitcoins and custody service piggybacking on the Bitcoin brand and were surprised that there was no market for them."
Most of the incels discussion gives vibe of people who are completely socially isolated - not even really having friends or other regular social group which I would see as prerequisite to girlfriend. If there is no one the guy can get along with, it is unlikely he will be able to get along with a single girl. Additionally, quite a lot of them gives vibe of someone who is dangerous to be dated, plain as simple.

If this is how they act from not having partner frustration, what they will do when a girl disagree with them over something important, when she has simply bad mood, when there are serious money or sickness problems affecting relationships, when his and her career clash, when they are sleep deprived due to baby etc? Answer: likely badly.

I think he means creepy on scale that Elliot Rogers was creepy. Complaining about not dating hot girl while thinking about her mostly as status item to be admired by other guys. Finding it unfair throwing fit when ugly guy has a girlfriend. while not being able to hold conversation with anyone without becoming agressive for petty reasons. Seeing all the other guys as assholes.

Finding it unfair that nice cloths and money did not magically made him girlfriend. All the while he was talking about how he is supreme gentleman.
Learnt a lot of new things , learnt Elixir/Phoenix, now learning Nodejs with Hapi framework.

While learning Nodejs, realised that JS isn't the first language anyone should consider for back-end, but really amazed by things JS is capable of doing today.

Would highly recommend Elixir/ Phoenix over Rails , Elixir not only has lesser learning overhead it makes alot of things a lot easier. Concurrency and speed of server are major advantages but I like way language operates. It was also my first functional language and it changed my perspective for programming languages.
Is there anyway to do what it does without them? Genuine question, there’s still a lot about Linux system/user space that I’m not up to snuff on yet (part of a team here, and I don’t handle users, mostly tools). I’m trying to compare/contrast the goals of binctr to existing solutions that appear to do the same or similar thing(s) already, so I’m open to learning something new today!

The only new thing I’m seeing from this solution is the ability to create containers as an unprivileged user, which for most scenarios I tend to view as a non-issue. Or am I misunderstanding that?
"Southern Hemisphere" is an irrelevant non-interesting click-baity qualifier here.

"Johnson just set the world-record fastest pitch ever! against an eastern conference team on an odd calendar day during an avocado price crisis"
Why not? It's one of the most widely known languages among developers in many disciplines, which removes a barrier to learning the concepts. Someone who just wants to familiarize themselves with basic implementations could do so in any language if their goal doesn't include shipping production-quality code. There's also the added bonus that the concepts taught here are already covered by courses in other languages, so anyone is free to use those as well.
Learnt Power Query + Data presentation (dashboard) skills in Excel which was fun.
It really, really super isn’t. It’s a Frankenstein mashup of programming insanity that never should have come into being in the first place, much less become the de facto language of the web.
There is a uniquely annoying feeling you get when you see someone powerful being utterly obtuse and wrong in a way that is damaging to others, but can't readily be challenged.

Everything about this story is just so fundamentally wrongheaded. They're enforcing a deeply misguided policy in a way which is both inconsistent and unfair, yet also inept. There's just so much wrong here, it's hard to even know where to start. They're looking for stuff they shouldn't, in the wrong places, and doing a horrible job of it. There's no reason they should be cracking down on the scourge of random cartoon nipples, but even if there were, they should give content providers who are making good faith efforts to flag content the benefit of the doubt, which clearly they did not for ArtStation. Meanwhile they're incorrectly flagging content, but even worse, they're not applying this policy to, you know, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram or, you know, Google themselves. Even if we needed to protect people from occasional nudity (and again, we don't), this isn't even achieving that. It's like deciding you need to do something drastic to prevent yourself from starving, so you set your couch on fire, while having a fridge full of food.

It's all downside; it makes the world a worse place, helps no one, and Google will pay (effectively) no penalty for it.

Merry Christmas to us all.
The US does not have political subdivision at the regional level (except as might be reflected at the state level of political subdivision). For example, New England is not a political subdivision while California might be considered one incidentally.

At the state level, a high speed rail will never benefit most residents. For example, a "northeast corridor" line is great for Philadelphia, Manhattan, and Boston. doesn't do anything for the citizens of Pittsburgh, Albany, and Springfield.
I think it’s messed up as a society that women’s bodies are more taboo than shooting people; people are more squeamish around cartoon pictures of breasts than cartoon pictures of people using rifles, and that’s scary to me.

I think this is just google enforcing US cultural norms, but it would be great if there was some kind of US public framework companies could use instead of having to make these calls on their own.

Disclosure: male google employee in an unrelated part of the company with no insider info. My opinions are my own.
That was my intent.
Here's a great report from the National Academy on progress in quantum computing https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25196/quantum-computing-progress...
> it’s a safe bet that if you’re within city limits

That’s my point - you need to know where the city limits are. In the UK I have no idea where the city limits are, and I suspect there possibly may not be any formal city limits at all.
"PDF collapse" is usually known as "random sampling".

Of course, random sampling can be quite non-trivial. The Lovasz local lemma comes to mind as something that's similar (but more general) to what the algorithm here achieves.

I certainly understand how people can get annoyed by this kind of marketing. Randomized algorithms have a long tradition, including randomized rounding of fractional relaxations which somebody alluded to, and nobody who worked on those felt the need to mislead with quantum allusions.
I learned Unreal Engine for a pet project and Google App Engine. The later (app engine) I more or less was forced to use and had lots of problems with it.
That’s fair. I was drunk when I posted that statement, (Holiday party at coworking facility, woo open bars). Thanks :).
There's another I read about on Boing Boing called Remarkable Paper Tablet and it looks pretty good.
That's amazing :) What do you plan on using ML knowledge? Like does having this skill have a market (for non-PhDs)?
Any projects you're working on?
As some have suggested:

Switch to being a producer, not a consumer. Build something. And do it again, and then again.
Why not? It's extremely popular, fast and portable.
I think those on the market are more pragmatic than that. Obviously most women aren't going to get the top 10% (in terms of serious dating as opposed to hookups) and vice versa. My experience is such that I think at a certain stage in life, if there's enough intersectionality in values and personality, along with sexual interest, people will entertain a date.
Computing and plotting π with a zest of Monte Carlo